They are increasing food security, securing the future of children and creating sustainable economic growth. ... Canada has a strong record of helping increase global food security through providing immediate food to hundreds of starving people and contributes in creating sustainable agriculture growth in developing countries. ... The truth is developing countries don`t have the money to focus on education or health care. ... The biggest argument Canadians have against foreign aid is the money put into the program. ... Though Canadians feel that foreign aid is not needed, polls show that 61% o...

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However, in Canada today, civil (government) service payrolls continue to rise beyond any private sector jobs, many public services suffer due to budget cuts and the military is so under funded that any money spent on it now is a waste. ... Firstly, one of the key factors in the irresponsibility of the state when it comes to distributing funds is the recent increase of government payrolls. Since November 1998, the federal government has increased its employ by 24% to 234 570 workers (Dabrowski, 1). ... Inherently, the current government is wasting the tax payer's money on pay increases...

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Value of Manufactured Output - US$/person/year Since the beginning of this century the quantitative approach to the study of economic growth and development got an important stimulus from the increased availability of official statistics on income, output and expenditure. ... For example, putting money in the bank and expecting to increase your money over time with interest. ...

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Expanding the pipeline will allow Canada to keep the money spent on imports where it can help to create jobs and grow the economy. ... Energy East could lead to reductions in access to Western gas for Ontario and Quebec, which could highly increase costs and cause many shortages. ... Increasing the amount of pipelines allows the product to flow and helps increase the expansion of oil extraction and the burning of fossil fuels causing soil-pollution. In order to keep global temperatures and avoid disastrous climate change the extraction of oil must be moderated to keep the ground at a two-deg...

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The countries, which receive foreign aid, are not just getting free money, there is a debt connected, it known as " The Debt Trap". A developing country that receives help often must pay back an amount of interest on money that they borrowed, even if it is in large amount. ... People are often left homeless, their money supply shortened and deeper into a state of making it more difficult to meet their basic needs of living. ... Money being spent to meet the crisis situations hasn't helped the developing countries to reach a greater economic stability at all. ... Usually this suggests inc...

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Prison sentences have increased drastically with the new MMS laws, and therefore the cost that has to be paid to incarcerate offenders increases. ... This accounts for the rise in cost for court security, longer hearings, jurors, increasing defense costs, larger jail population that leads to overcrowding in Canadian prisons, etc. ... Mandatory minimum sentences have been found to increase recidivism rates, much to the dismay of its overall purpose: to reduce reoffending. Crutcher (2001) found that when comparing the offending rates specifically to alcohol related accidents, after the MMS'...

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As a result, man has increased wealth, comfort, freedom and life expectancy. ... Since globalization is constantly increasing large-scale production and industry in favour of the United States, it is clear why Locke would argue that American culture, and all that goes along with it, is factually "the best". ... The report suggests that the fundamental course of action is to spend more money on America's military . ... However, due to budget cut backs, less money has found its way to military and defense, and as a result, the military has come to a bad state. ... This shows that in order t...

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Losses can result from absenteeism, lower productivity, increased health-care costs, poor orale, and employee turnover. ... Nowdays, the EEOC and court has helped many cases of sexual harassment to be won, even though it seems this kind of harassment number's are increasing especially within companies and the amount of money lost is also increasing to about $6.7 million annually in losses paid out. ... Thus for companies the stakes have increased dramatically. ...

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It is true that the 90s coincide with weak growth, high rates of unemployment and the decrease of the "pouvoir d'achat- and even an increase of the gap between rich and poor but we can't prove that the inequalities are due to globalisation. ... But even if that is true, when the incomes of the very poor first start growing at a faster rate than rich countries' incomes, the absolute (dollar) increases in incomes of the poor will still be smaller for many years than the absolute increases for the rich, even though the relative gap is closing. ... The increase of liberalisation, d...

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That is not what is changing though, punishments are now moving towards a more meaningful and constructive solution to a problem which can and will be fixed with rehabilitation and alternative programs, which are in all likely hood to benefit the community, versus an incredibly expensive hard punishable sentence which you must out live only to be released more knowledgeable in crime to re-offend again, as jail promotes criminal activity, and we are using tax payers money to promote criminal activity. ... Recently more and more inmates have been volunteering to learn, paying back for their ...

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On the side of the advantages, it could be remarked that a deep exploitation of the Arctic Region could primarily generate a rise of about "16% in the global GDP" (IPPC, 2012, p.66) as well as a significant increase in employment levels for Arctic natives and foreign professionals. This might create opportunities for areas such as the Danish province of Greenland that with an income increase of this magnitude could easily achieve independence.  Moreover, It has been demonstrated by the European Space Agency (2012) that an emerging mineral project of this magnitude could vertiginousl...

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In a letter written by Emily Murphy, famously known as a Canadian woman's rights activist, to the Magistrate she described the Chinese as drug peddlers whose "habit forming drugs are destroying and enslaving a steadily increasing number of our people." In her letter, Murphy explicitly associates the Chinese with opium claiming, "they waste up their good money for smoking opiums and so let their families, such as their father, mother, sisters, and young brothers starving at China. ... This head tax aggressively increased over the years to $100 in 1900 to $500 in 1903. ... This p...

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Therefore, the reason for nonexistence of beds is because the hospitals are just not using their money wisely. ... This means that patient wait times will now increase since every patient has to wait till a bed is available to them. ... Thirdly, shortages of staff is also another reason of wait times increasing in emergency departments. ... I say this because due to the shortages of beds and not having enough staffs working, it is very evident that wait times will increase. ...

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In spite of three decades of struggling for equality, this ratio has been increase by only 72.5 per cent, which indicates a 0.67 per cent increase in each year (Shannon and Kidd 2001). ... However, interruption for maternity or child care critically damages women's human capital because not only its duration is longer than any other kinds of interruption but also capital in the form of parenting skills presumably increase during that absence but this may not also be helpful in job situation (ibid.). ... Although the number of people who understand the importance of gender equality in do...

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A country with a strong economy provides the population with more income which can be used to buy more material possessions which increases happiness of the people living there. ... The job salary in Mexico is not competitive, and workers there usually work more hours for less money. ... Student in Canada also worry to increase their technical skill by participating in volunteer activities, doing unpaid co-op in a company, or joying group to help the community (Maioni, Antonia). ...

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The soldiers were paid their first wages before departure and went wild spending money like they were millionaires "drinking champagne and relaxing in expensive hotels. ... At the same time, English Canadians believed that if dominions were expected to increase their contributions to Imperial defense in the interests of a common Imperial military system, then it followed that Canada should have a voice in that Imperial policy. ... As tensions increased in Europe, the opposition, mobilized by the known imperialist Sir George Foster, advocated support for the Royal Navy. ...

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In this phase the industry of society has grown to a point where technology is ever increasing because of the need for companies to compete with each other to appeal to the consumer. ... The second major advantage is that because the employer pays less money to its laborers for this manufacturing it is able to keep production cost down and make the item more affordable to the consumer. Another argument, presented by Anthony Giddens, is that modernization has allowed us to exponentially increase the rate at which we advance our technologies. ...

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As a result it can be said that television has a great impact on lives through educational programming that increase knowledge. ... Getting entertainment from television benefits the viewer by saving money from unplanned expenses and the cost of traveling. ...

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Mental retardation or physical or developmental disabilities can also increase stress of parenting and risk of abuse. ... In Canada, parents shoulder most of childcare demands by themselves, increasing risk of stress and abuse. Family Structure refers to certain family types who have increased risk of child abuse and neglect. Single parents are more likely to abuse their children than married parents partly because single parent families earn less money increasing risk of abuse. ... The power imbalance between the child and the abuser often increases the burden of disclosure. ...

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Humanity has evolved in a male-centered, patriarchal society. Historically, men were always the main suppliers of food and money. Women were the ones who had a duty to look after the home and raise the children. Women were financially dependent on men and lost their financial support as a consequenc...

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The Stanley Cup The Stanley cup is not just the most identifiable trophy in North America but it is also the best know cultural artifact in Canadian society. Both the rich have coveted the cup and famous as well it has been admired by the likes of the garbage man next door. The cup transcends ...

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A recent study by Statistic Canada shows "that Canada has suffered over the last decade a net and increasing loss of skilled workers to the United States in several economically important occupations"" (Hodgson and Schellenberger 1). ... A study produce by Statistic Canada indicated that Canada has an "estimated shortage of 20,000 computer programmers, parallel by an estimate of 190,000 vacancies in the information technology sector in the United States"" (Drew et al. 9) Issues: The Cause of Brain Drain A recent study done by Personnel Systems, a Canadian consulting firm that specializes in h...

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With increasing numbers of youth playing soccer, football and other sports the demand for baseball is on the decline and of course hockey towering over them all as most that live in Canada are either a fan of hockey or play it or have once played it in their life time. ... Now people had to pay extra money or go out of their way to watch their favorite non hockey team and this just made it even more unappealing to the fans. ...

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When Canadian economy shifted to a service sector and increased ties with other multi-nationals, they realized the importance of employees who could interact with their customers in as many different languages as possible for the wage of just one. ... This is when it hurts the local population the worst, as they then have no other clear way to go to and the money and time they spent in learning those language skills is all down the drains for them. ...

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Nonetheless, tremendous public debt had forced Britain to increase the revenue by expanding the taxation in its colonies. ... Exports from Quebec had always suffered from the competition of the Thirteen Colonies, and the colonists continuously paid the habitants paper money, worthless to them, for supplies seized from their farms.vii In general, they did not support the rebellion because the Protestants in the Thirteen Colonies, who were their commercial rivals and hereditary enemies, were leading it. ... Without question, the increased taxation had exacerbated tensions, yet the peace in Quebe...

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