On January 1st 1994 the Free Trade Agreement was expanded and built upon to produce the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), This agreement will continue to change the life of many people until January 1st 2008. ... In the area of the economy, imports/exports, and businesses The North American Free Trade Agreement had and still has a significant impact on Canada since 1988. The North American Free Trade had several impacts in the economy, of Canada, The United States of America, and Mexico. ... Canada wanted to gain access for Canadian goods, service and capital to Mexico, as wel...

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The importance of this issue is that not all North Americans are necessarily supportive of strict gun control as being a feasible alternative to controlling urban violence. ... Is it our right to bear arms as North Americans? ... Part II: Review of the Literature A) Summary In a paper which looked at gun control and firearms violence in North America, Robert J. Mundt, of the University of North Carolina, points out that "Crime in America is popularly perceived [in Canada] as something to be expected in a society which has less respect for the rule of law than does ...

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The North America Continent was not the main battlefield of the Seven Years' War, yet the aftermath of the war had significantly altered the situation in the British colonies on the continent. When the war was finally brought to an end, the French Colonial Empire had ceded Quebec, the former New France, to Britain; so the British Empire finally established its hegemony in North America. ... Regardless of the close ties of people and culture with Britain, the colonists started the American Revolutionary War. ... An all-out independent war spreading over the entire North American Continent ...

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MEASURING SOCIALISM IN NORTH AMERICA: A COMPARISON BETWEEN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Which of the two countries is more socialist, Canada or the United States of America? ... Since none of the two North American countries that will be featured in this paper can accurately compare to the above description, the paper will simply attempt to determine which of the two has a higher degree of socialism when matched against each other following a certain set of criteria. ... The research question is therefore: is Canada truly more socialist than the United Sta...

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(Annual Report, 1) The goal of The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was to eliminate all tariffs between the two countries over a ten-year period commencing on January 1, 1989 (Annual Report, 1). ... Bringing Chile into NAFTA would be part of the integration of South America into the North American economic policies. ... With these methods adopted by Canadian industry, Canada's competitiveness in the North American market has increased as well as it's competitiveness on a global level. ... The North American Free Trade Agreement, and the huge improvement towards impo...

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In the early 1600's, British, French, Spanish, Dutch and Swedish settlements dotted the east coast of North America. ... Although victory went to the rebels this was the start of a free nation for the Blacks because all the British forces and Black loyalists had to flee north to Canada. ... In the year 1812, nearly 2000 blacks came to Nova Scotia after the war between the Americans and the British because once again the British promised freedom to all American Blacks who fought against the Americans. ... The largest rural black community in Alberta was Amber Valley, which is 275km north...

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THE SUPREME COURT OF CANADA AND THE `LEGAL AND POLITICAL STRUGGLE' OVER INDIGENOUS RIGHTS[*] ABSTRACT/RESUME Many Indian leaders have recognized that the Supreme Court of Canada has changed direction very significantly on issues of treaty and aboriginal rights. As a result, Indian ...

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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. ... The idea of Mass culture is generally associated with the low because it is a market generated culture surviving only because of profit margins in big business as we have seen with companies such as the American powerhouse companies Nike and Coke. ...

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By portraying it as nothing less than a Russian Revolution transplanted to North American soil they did succeed in swaying public opinion to their side until the investigation of the strike. The most vigorous anti-union efforts in Canada were made by "the managers of American owned branch plants" (Thompson, & Seager, 1985, p. 140). ...

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On Murphy's first day at court Eardley Jackson, a lawyer, confronted Murphy's authority and stated that women were not considered "persons- in the British North American (BNA) Act. ... Their petition asked for an answer to the following question: "Does the word person in Section 24 of the British North American Act, 1867, include female persons?...

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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 consequence of separation, divorce and/or death. Over the last century, Canadian women have increasingly participated in paid employment; however, women continue to struggle for equal opportunities such as job advancement and pay equality. ...

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The relationship had now also become a paternalistic one with legal justification in the British North American Act 1867, which took away "their independent status and made them wards of the Federal Government." ...

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Until this time, Canada's constitution, the British North America Act, had remained a legislative act of the British Parliament which had passed the necessary laws for Canada to be constituted as a country in 1867 (MLA accessed 13th September 2003). ...

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By patronizing the Constitution Act, it meant that the government of Canada would no longer have to go through the formality of asking Westminster to make changes in the British North America Act (BNA Act) for them (Internet 4). ...

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In a country as vast and as culturally diverse as Canada, many different political opinions may be found stretched across the country. From the affluent neighborhoods of West Vancouver to the small fishing towns located on the East Coast of Newfoundland, political opinions and affiliations range from the left wing to the right wing. To represent these varying political views, Canada has four official national political parties to choose from the Liberals (who are currently in power), the Progressive Conservatives, the New Democrats, and the Reform Party. What is particularly in...

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The American market was a birthplace of many new and highly successful high-tech companies, especially ones that were located in Silicon Valley, San Jose (U.S.), and many of them offered new employees highly attractive financial incentives to lure them to their organization. ... Since, companies in the U.S. are laying off most of their workforce they are probably retaining only their highest skilled employees and may not be looking North of the border for any new talent until ther...

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