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Canada and the World Backgrounder
A bimonthly magazine that provides background information on current events. Written specifically for high school students, as well as teachers and librarians. Individual issues are devoted to one political or social issue, which is considered both as an international issue and in terms of Canadian policy.
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December 01, 2006
Harmless custom or threat? A lot has been made of Muslim women coverin...
December 01, 2006
Underclass: even in countries that traditionally have welcomed immigra...
December 01, 2006
An identity of many: it was in the 1960s that the Canadian government ...
December 01, 2006
Through the back door: Canada is such a wonderful country in which to ...
December 01, 2006
Citizenship light: Canadians seem less than enthusiastic about dischar...
December 01, 2006
Best of both worlds: Canada allows its immigrants to have dual citizen...
December 01, 2006
Group identity: unless you are born in Canada, becoming a Canadian cit...
December 01, 2006
What a strange country.(CITIZENSHIP--INTRODUCTION)(Canadian)(Brief art...
December 01, 2006
Uh oh! "... this House recognizes that the Quebecois form a nation wit...
December 01, 2006
Anti-social behaviour.(CORPORATIONS--INTRODUCTION)
October 01, 2006
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October 01, 2006
What's for dinner? The food industry displays the best and worst of co...
October 01, 2006
Generous inclinations: while some executives are being handcuffed and ...
October 01, 2006
Motown misery: the world's biggest car maker, General Motors, is sick-...
October 01, 2006
Earning kudos: some companies do everything and more to ensure the saf...
October 01, 2006
Earning distrust: overstated profit and revenue, understated debt, acc...
October 01, 2006
Who pays the piper: given the scandals that have taken place in recent...
October 01, 2006
The path of Allah: perhaps, few concepts are more misunderstood in the...
September 01, 2006
Internal conflict: the delegates at the Organization of the Islamic Co...
September 01, 2006
Corruption of the faith: many people over the ages have used various r...
September 01, 2006
The radical philosopher: being a suicide bomber is a career choice mos...
September 01, 2006
Playing for both teams: base camp for the clash between extremist Musl...
September 01, 2006
Under a cloud: everywhere in the Western world Muslims are under suspi...
September 01, 2006
Seeking some middle ground: can Muslims and non-Muslims live peacefull...
September 01, 2006
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September 01, 2006
Marching together: after many years of keeping a distance between Cana...
May 01, 2006
The business of war: Canada has a sizeable arms industry that is joine...
May 01, 2006
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May 01, 2006
Why are we there? With almost no public debate, Canada has deployed th...
May 01, 2006
The use of resources: a teacher of our acquaintance once asked: "Would...
May 01, 2006
Is peacekeeping a relic? Once known as peacekeepers, Canada's military...
May 01, 2006
Harrumph.(REGIONALISM--INTRODUCTION)(interprovincial political relatio...
December 01, 2005
Shared government: federalism is a method of governing seen as providi...
December 01, 2005
Ready for another round? Relatively quiet for almost a decade, the iss...
December 01, 2005
Flexible federalism.(REGIONALISM--DECENTRALIZATION)
December 01, 2005
Balancing the riches: equalization is one of four major federal transf...
December 01, 2005
Wealth management: some observers say Alberta has so much money from i...
December 01, 2005
Losing ground: Ontario is the only province in Canada never to have re...
December 01, 2005
Powerless and penniless: more than 80 percent of Canadians live in cit...
December 01, 2005
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December 01, 2005
Politics meets science: in November 2005, a gathering in Montreal will...
October 01, 2005
Heating up.(KYOTO PROTOCOL--GREENHOUSE EFFECT)
October 01, 2005
A stepping stone: the Kyoto Protocol may not hold all the answers to r...
October 01, 2005
A foot in the door: even those who support the Kyoto Protocol recogniz...
October 01, 2005
Swimming against the current: some skeptics think Kyoto is a scheme to...
October 01, 2005
A work in progress: Canada agreed to join the Kyoto Protocol process i...
October 01, 2005
The party's over: geophysicist M. King Hubbert predicted in 1956 that ...
October 01, 2005
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October 01, 2005
Ubermensch and Vulcans.(UNITED NATIONS--INTRODUCTION)(master and slave...
September 01, 2005
A difficult birth: after five years of the most destructive war in his...
September 01, 2005
With friends like this ... the administration of U.S. President George...
September 01, 2005
The blue berets: sometimes the United Nations peacekeeping efforts pre...
September 01, 2005
Disaster in Darfur: the United Nations has been unable to prevent the ...
September 01, 2005
Tarnishing the reputation: unfortunately, UN employees too often fail ...
September 01, 2005
Convicts running the jail: to understand the problems plaguing the Uni...
September 01, 2005
A welcome sight: it is in dealing with humanitarian issues, both chron...
September 01, 2005
Change 101: Secretary-General Kofi Annan is proposing complete reform ...
September 01, 2005
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September 01, 2005
The debate continues: in most countries, utilities such as electricity...
May 01, 2005
Defending the defenceless.(human rights)
May 01, 2005
Taking back democracy.(ANTI-GLOBALIZATION)
May 01, 2005
The greater good.(middle class people in the society)
May 01, 2005
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May 01, 2005
Under the weather: politicians say they are fixing our ailing health-c...
May 01, 2005
The pendulum swings: in Canada, the popularity of government-funded so...
May 01, 2005
Against injustice.(INTRODUCTION)
May 01, 2005
Bread and circuses? Almost 2,000 years ago, the Roman poet Juvenal coi...
May 01, 2005
Aiming higher: across Canada, about 1.1 million full-time students wer...
May 01, 2005
Nature's friends.(THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT)
May 01, 2005
Minding our future: Canada's largely informal child-care system falls ...
May 01, 2005
Detached, disinterested, and disengaged.(POLITICS)(Governments (politi...
May 01, 2005
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March 01, 2005
A call to action.(Introduction)(Nelson Mandela gives a speech about a ...
March 01, 2005
Promises, promises.(Official Development Aid)(Finding solutions for th...
March 01, 2005
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