British Columbia Youth Parliament

The Woods There’s been stories floating around regarding the forest lining the edge of town. Some folk around here think that there’s animals and creatures beyond imagination past the treeline, others think that’s a bunch of bologna. One night, about twenty years ago, a young boy ran away from home and fled to the forest. Forty eight hours later the police declare him missing, and for three weeks police, detectives, and civilian volunteers were searching for the boy. And so the weeks turned into

Have you ever gone out into the wild camping with some friends or even your family? If you have chances are you felt like you and your companions were founding a new city or civilization of some sort. It probably was exciting and fun to go through and think about how you could survive for much longer than you had to in those elements. It probably also was really cool to just live in the wild and feel as if you were away from everyone else, as if you were surviving on your own. More than likely if

broken in 1996 with the passing of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.[1] Contents HistoryEdit Until 1908 the use of narcotics, opiates especially, in Canada was unregulated.[2] From the 1850s onwards, Chinese immigrants came to British Columbia in droves, establishing opium dens in their isolated communities. Canadian employers saw the Chinese immigrants as a source of cheap labour, and the government viewed opium consumption as another way to gain revenue, imposing a tax on opium factories

For education, he followed his father’s footsteps by attending the elite College Jean-de-Brebeuf and McGill University for higher education. On 1994, he earned his literature bachelor’s degree and completed an education degree at University of British Columbia in 1998. In the same year, Michel, his youngest brother died in an avalanche accident. Due to this, Trudeau started to promote avalanche safety. From 1999 to 2002 Trudeau worked as a teacher who taught a variety of subjects at Sir Winston Churchill

only in 2010 that a class action suit was brought to the courts in Ontario and 2011 from survivors in British Columbia. Restitution for this is far from over. According to John Beaucage the former Grand Chief of the Union of Ontario Indians, we have now entered a new stage in the assimilation of aboriginals called the “Millennium Scoop”. In his report commissioned by the Ministry Children and Youth Services he states “Although Aboriginal people make up about 2 per cent of the province’s population

still progress to be made. Even though the current parliament is around 25% female, countries such as Cuba, Sweden, and Bolivia are champion examples of diverse participation in politics, as their governments inspire female leadership with close to, and over 50% females in government since their last elections. Canada's policies of multiculturalism have led to increased representation by Canadians from visible minorities. It was only in 1971, that Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau

achieving full independence from the British. It was important for the growth of Canadian nationalism and pride. Alberta's "Famous Five" were a group of accomplished Canadian women involved in the Persons Case of 1927. At the time, The Constitution stated what requirements had to be met for a person to be delegated into the Canadian Senate, and other government jobs. For years, it had been a given that by a "person" they meant a man. The five women challenged Parliament and asked them whether or not

With his announcement on August 2, 2015 Prime Minister Stephen Harper set in motion a 78-day election campaign, one of the longest and quite possibly the most expensive in Canadian history (Maloney, 2015). The structural constraints posed by the first-past-the-post electoral system, and the institutional constraints of the parliamentary system and campaign spending legislation were all potentially beneficial to Harper and the Conservative Party, but his underestimation of strategic voting and the

Previous studies of the realities faced by the systematically disadvantaged Aboriginal peoples of Canada have emphasized the crippling impact of non- Aboriginal ignorance of these facts, making addressing these conditions of life for Aboriginals impossible (Schaefli 2012, p. 1) and easily maintained through colonialization. As discussed in this course, colonialization and systematic discrimination against Aboriginal peoples has resulted in their overrepresentation in Canadian incarceration institutions

The Sale of Indian Textiles in Canada Canada, with its economic and political stability offers a variety of business opportunities. With such a large population of immigrants, Canada is known for its acceptance of diverse cultures. English and French are Canada's official languages and there are many other languages spoken freely by diverse racial groups on Canadian soil. Many different religions are also practiced freely and peacefully in Canada. India has a population of 986.6 million people