|
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.
Total result: 436 articles |
 Page 2 of 6 
|
Ranking the rich.(Commitment to Development Index)
March 01, 2005
Assessing global threats.(Copenhagen Consensus Project)
March 01, 2005
The problem of inequality: some people argue that the most successful ...
March 01, 2005
Deciding where poverty starts: as with many countries, there is no off...
March 01, 2005
Putting a face on poverty: many think it's a disgrace that there shoul...
March 01, 2005
Worlds apart.(POVERTY--DIVISION)(Gap between poor and rich)
March 01, 2005
Cutting services not poverty.(POVERTY--WELFARE)
March 01, 2005
Poor families equal poor children: given the extent of poverty in Cana...
March 01, 2005
Looking after everyone: social policy in Scandinavian countries, in pa...
March 01, 2005
Setting targets.(Millennium Development Goals)(Global poverty and soci...
March 01, 2005
A rigged game.(World Trade)
March 01, 2005
Relief in sight?(Debt)
March 01, 2005
A tough choice.(The Next 10 Plus)
January 01, 2005
Chilling news: the world's oceans store heat, fresh water, salt, and c...
January 01, 2005
A new perspective.(Management of the world's oceans)
January 01, 2005
Quote ...(oceans and marine environment)
January 01, 2005
Land of lakes.(Introduction)
January 01, 2005
Lake-making.(Formation)
January 01, 2005
Bulk-water exports.(Lake Superior)
January 01, 2005
Destructive invaders.(Lake Huron.)
January 01, 2005
Arctic giant.(Great Bear Lake)
January 01, 2005
The deep one.(Great Slave Lake)
January 01, 2005
Making a comeback.(Lake Erie)
January 01, 2005
Run-off receptacle.(Lake Winnipeg)
January 01, 2005
Don't go fish.(Lake Ontario)
January 01, 2005
Wasted wetlands.(Like Athabasca)
January 01, 2005
Fishing paradise.(Reindeer Lake)(Brief Article)
January 01, 2005
Flooded homeland.(Smallwood Reservoir)
January 01, 2005
Tsunami: on boxing day 2004, nature reminded us of its awesome power.(...
January 01, 2005
The water planet: earth is the only planet that we know about with suc...
January 01, 2005
Sea sickness: global warming, pollution, and other human activities ar...
January 01, 2005
The end of the line.(depletion of world fisheries due to over-fishing)
January 01, 2005
Perils at sea: according to The Navy League of Canada, one third of Ca...
January 01, 2005
Carrying capacity: "private sector economists expect real GDP growth i...
December 01, 2004
Six billion and counting: it took all of recorded history until 1804 f...
December 01, 2004
Doctor doom: more than 200 years ago, Thomas Malthus wrote an essay in...
December 01, 2004
Ten years later: the 1994 United Nations International Conference on P...
December 01, 2004
Putting the brakes on reproduction.(Population--China)
December 01, 2004
Living on the edge: as the world's population grows people are pushed ...
December 01, 2004
Baby bust: one of the main reasons birth rates are down in Canada is t...
December 01, 2004
Quote ... unquote.
December 01, 2004
The census.
December 01, 2004
Our people--the national mood.
December 01, 2004
Our families--traditional.
December 01, 2004
Our communities--definition.
December 01, 2004
Our country--the economy.
December 01, 2004
Wasting Time.(Work-Productivity)
October 01, 2004
Time to call it a day: labour market changes during the 1990s have res...
October 01, 2004
Taking a bullet for the Boss: employers in a tight spot financially ar...
October 01, 2004
Going underground: there is a huge informal, or underground, economy a...
October 01, 2004
Wanted: skilled workers: Canada is about to become desperately short o...
October 01, 2004
Quote ... unquote.
October 01, 2004
A brief history of work.(Work-Introduction)
October 01, 2004
Low wages for profit.(Work-Outsourcing)
October 01, 2004
Jobs from hell: most companies treat their employees reasonably well, ...
October 01, 2004
Worker safety net: because of the scumbags who run a few bad businesse...
October 01, 2004
People and politics: a lot of people are unhappy with the U.S. these d...
September 01, 2004
The best democracy money can buy: the U.S. electoral system is like no...
September 01, 2004
The (not so) almighty dollar: the U.S. economy is by far the world's b...
September 01, 2004
Survival of the richest: under the Bush administration, Social Darwini...
September 01, 2004
The lone ranger: George W. Bush's use of raw military power has create...
September 01, 2004
Iraq: the wrong war: the front cover of the 29 May 2004 issue of The E...
September 01, 2004
Inside fortress North America: a huge challenge for Canada is maintain...
September 01, 2004
Two views: many observers have noted that it's hard to find two neighb...
September 01, 2004
Quote ... unquote.
September 01, 2004
Friends and foes: sometimes, we've been at war with one another. At ot...
September 01, 2004
Ka-Ching: no two nations have such close or broad trade relations as C...
September 01, 2004
Overtaxed and underfunded: Canada used to have model cities, but fundi...
May 01, 2004
Doughnut cities: everybody connected with urban planning has known for...
May 01, 2004
Stopping the rot: a sure sign that a community is in decline is loss o...
May 01, 2004
Preservation struggle: some of Canada's small communities are doing ju...
May 01, 2004
Urban clusters: new waves of immigration have transformed the face of ...
May 01, 2004
People over cars.(car-free city areas)
May 01, 2004
Private enclaves.(planned communities)
May 01, 2004
Another extreme.(cruise ships)
May 01, 2004
|
