... majority of police officers in Canada are Male "54,280 " (2009 Statcan), there are about "12,805 " (2009 Statcan) female officers. The number of female officers in Canada may seem small but it is increasing according to the following sources: "There were about 8,300 female officers in Canada in ... has been looked at as a "steady increase " (2010 Statcan). With that said even though the number of male police officers is greater than the number of female officers today, in the near future the two numbers will be similar and equal. According to Statistics Canada (2011), there are about "15...

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... poem takes the notion of perfection and equality to the extreme. In the poem Auden uses sarcasm to express an obsessive and mindless state that only knows its citizens by numbers and letters, and evaluates their worth with statistics. The ideal citizen is supposed to be "One against whom there was no official complaint [and] in everything he did he served ... time period that "The Unknown Citizen" was written, in the late 1930's, Americans were issued Social Security cards (similar to Canadian Social Insurance Numbers), each with a personalized number. The government continues to only k...

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... Island joining, as well as BC eventually joining Canada. It also had a great impact on the Chinese population who began immigrating to BC in large numbers. In the late 1850's, when Billy Barker and others found gold in the Caribou Region, it sparked a huge influx of people to the area who ... were in search of gold. The Governor decided to build the Caribou Road into the area for a number of reasons; to promote settlement and economic development and to insure that the tax revenue from the mining operations were collected for the colony. Unfortunately the ... helped build the economy in ...

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Social Inequality in Canada Although Canada is one of the richest countries in the world, a number of its people sleep in the streets, dig through garbage cans to find food, and carry all that they own ... sample that fortify the fact that Canada still suffers from the looming consequences of social inequality. While Canada does have its share of homeless people, its number of poor is quite staggering. According to the National Council of Welfare, about one of six Canadians are considered poor (Question 93). The poor are ... Canadian families (949, 000 families) and 36.5 percent of unattached...

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... outside our home in case of a sudden emergency, like a fire or outside our neighborhood in case we cannot return home. Everyone in the family knows our home address and phone numbers. We asked my wife's sister, Rachael, who lived in Dallas to be our family contact. We asked that every family member call Rachael and tell her where he or she ... is in case of disaster or emergency. It was easy for us, as both of our children knew their Aunt Rachael's phone numbers by heart. We also discussed what to do in case of an evacuation and we have a plan on how to take care of our pets. In additio...

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... pesticides to eliminate the caterpillars such as diazinon, malathion or sevin. Spraying doesn't control the overall population of caterpillars, but it does reduce their numbers and makes them less of a nuisance to humans in certain areas. But pesticides are not the answer. They can harm animals and other insects ... trees and shrubs, and stay throughout the winter. Since each egg mass contains up to several hundred caterpillars, you can significantly reduce the number of caterpillars that may hatch the following spring by removing egg masses before they hatch. This method is very effec...

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... for 12% of society but they count for half of 1600 people arrested in a year. More than half the inmates at the Manitoba jail are Aboriginal (Covert Racism behind Increased Numbers of Aboriginals and Other Visible Minorities in Prisons, Watchdog says." National Post. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Jan. 2014). Aboriginals accused are more likely to be denied bail. Lawyers spend less time with ... taps and drugs and alcohol are prevalent in these areas. There are also a lack of jobs in the areas the aboriginal people live in. This all contributes to the large numbers of first nations people in Canadi...

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... rates in the US and Canada are due to the bursting of the internet bubble in 2000, and the decline of small farms in both nations. These numbers alone however do not paint an accurate picture of the standard of living in the US and Canada. In order to get a better idea we must first ... and the Gini index was 31.5. (CIA) Although the poor in Canada make a little bit larger a percentage of the income than those in the US, these numbers show that in both countries there is still a large gap between the poor and the rich sectors of society, with most of the wealth in both nations being ... ...

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... minimal difference for the million people can't be seen because of the large scale that is being used and therefore creating an almost near perfect linear model. If you plug numbers in to my equation y = 590000(x) + 30230000 you will get a prediction for the population amount for that current year. For Example to find the 7th Year from 1999 or in this ... graphed this line using the best fit method, meaning that not all points were put into consideration, making it not an exact line and therefore you will receive an inexact number. The number will be close to the given amount if and onl...

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... adamant that guns must be controlled much more strongly than they are today, or even banned altogether. As well, high-profile crimes such as school shootings and the tragically large numbers of gun deaths among minority youth have raised many people's awareness about guns and sparked renewed debate about gun control. Strident speeches and press releases from organizations on both sides ... make matters worse, the United States has the highest gun-murder and hate crime rates of any other high-income nation. Now it is clear that guns kill alarmingly high numbers of Americans, yet they con...

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... the compensation for public expenses. The economic problems generated by these generous welfare states are many. For Europe the problem is the same. That is the cost of assisting increasing numbers of unemployed requires more public expenditures. So, common sense tells me that in the future new jobs will continue to be generated in Europe by the production new products, but ... ...

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... home with both parents present. Retired Edmonton Police Service Superintendent Chris Braiden, notes that in the thirty year period in which violent youth crime rose by 300% in the U.S., the number of single parent families rose by 300% and the divorce rate doubled, the same as it did in Canada. Seventy percent of juvenile offenders in the U.S. jails grew up without ... responsible children. It takes the physical and emotional strength of Hercules to do it and I have great respect for mothers who have succeeded. My own mother did it. But the numbers show that lack of fathers contribute g...

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... was so dangerouse, nobody did. Asbestos is cheaply manufactured and is a great way of insolating building, boats, hazard suits, and many other things. Canada had a great idea with that little number. Though asbestos is great, it's not the only resource besides comedians that Canada has. Canada also has coal, iron ore, nickel, and potash. The abundant amounts of these resources in ... Canada are what helped it economically develope into the nation that it is today. The reason Canada can afford to distribute such great numbers of its resources is because it has a rather low population for...

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... , participation increased and it was recognized as an effective weapon of attack against slavery. Though scholars estimate that the South lost 100,000 slaves between 1810 and 1850, the total number of runaways aided to freedom will never be known because of the movement's secrecy and because agents usually hid or destroyed their personal journals to protect themselves and the runaways ... runaways across the Ohio River). Levi Coffin was often called the president of the Underground Railroad. Most runaways were men whose ages ranged from sixteen to thirty-five years. The numbers of women ...

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... of products offered. For example, if a bicycle company where limited to just its domestic market, it wouldn't have many options. It could chose to either produce smaller quantities of a certain number of models, or larger quantities of just one model. However, free trade would literally open up the entire world to this bicycle company. The company would be able to make ... more models because they could all be produced in large numbers. Also, international markets can offer larger incentives for firms to invest in. Free trade also brings about improvement because, maybe Canada isn't mak...

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... of condom distribution in schools. Although many people insist that providing condoms to students encourages sexual activity, a number of studies have established that providing condoms in schools increases condom use among students who are already sexually active while it has no effect on the numbers of students engaging in sexual intercourse (Schuster 1998). Comprehensive sexuality education is the other approach to sexuality ... ...

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... of 15, which restricts or damages their physical, emotional, intellectual, social, or spiritual growth as children. Child labor first started being noticed in the 18th century because of the increasing number of immigrants and industrial companies. Children started working as young as the age of 6 and 7 to collect money for the household. For every age there was a different job. The boys ... of the explosions of the armament. These children were also considered as child soldiers. The past was very hard to survive, but yet until today, child labor lives on. The numbers aren"t that high, ...

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... abolishing the liberal party's gun registry policy. In addition approximately 4% is either undecided or has no opinion on the issue. Moving on to the second part of the study the numbers were rather surprising. Although a majority of Canadians are opposed to the liberal's gun registry policy it had almost no effect on the party's stranglehold of the country's political support. Based ... with did confirm that the process of asking to speak with the individual with the closest birthday was their usual method of selection. The representative also added that the phone numbers were randomly...

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... that they need to survive. The United States" plan was recognized by the amount of expenditures that they had from 1931 to 1939, the numbers were always higher than the amount of revenue that the nation had. The numbers varied from 3,577,437 to as high as 8,841,224. These funds were used for work relief of the unemployed. The United States ... ...

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... desperate for food ended up consuming the spoiled potatoes only to develop and spread horrible diseases. The absence of food and increased death forced individuals to leave Ireland in large numbers for some place which offered more suitable living conditions. Many people believe that the time "when the Irish came to Canada" was during the time of the Irish Famine in ... ...

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... bears. Less than thirty years ago, there was 7 million square kilometers (2.5 million square miles) of ice at the end of each summer. Today's levels are down about 40% from those numbers. A research scientist with the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado stated that "Seven million square kilometers roughly corresponds to an area of the lower 48 United States ... ...

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... species cannot tolerate high levels of acid in their water habitats, although some have a higher tolerance than others. (Figure 1.7) As the acid levels rise in rivers, lakes and streams, the numbers and types of plants and animals that live there decrease. It only takes one eliminated species to affect the entire food chain and soon all life in that system will ... ...

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... to further adapt to their new surroundings. At the rate at which the climate is warming, they simply cannot make these phenotypical and morphological changes fast enough and eventually perish. Numbers of Monarch butterflies are currently declining in North America in trends that concur with what climate models predict. Agriculture and plant species will also be greatly impacted by global climate ... ...

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... about the world, they become more likely to go to a place where life will be better. Transportation is much easier than ever before as well, and statistics show that immigrant numbers are higher than ever, due to global migration ( in 1996, 42 percent of the population of Toronto and 35 percent of the population of Vancouver were immigrants). These factors have ... ...

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... and the inhospitable drought was all the Canadians were able to handle but there was more. Along with the drought came the swarms of grasshoppers. They ravaged crops in record numbers as they swept across the provinces destroying crop after crop. It is hard to imagine the insects in such a biblical proportion but as one farmer put it, it was more ... ...

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