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| | Separatism and Western Canadian Culture |
 | | It is a subject some hesitate to confront for fear of being labelled a "bigot," but the fact remains that the federal government’s policies of compulsory bilingualism at once superimpose upon Western Canada an unnatural cultural framework, and rob Westerners of the resources that would have gone to build the natural culture of Western Canada. | | | This culture is based in our history as an oppressed people, and finds its roots in our strong, democratic ideology of populism, a political culture perspective not shared by Central Canadian imperialists. | | | Yet we have had to endure Central Canada’s racist policy of official bilingualism, as opposed to voluntary multilingualism with one official language of the majority. |
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| | Quebec : Political culture:Quebec |
| | Their activities culminated in events referred to as the October Crisis when the British Trade commissioner to Canada was kidnapped along with Pierre Laporte, a provincial minister and Vice-Premier, who was murdered a few days later. | | | Quebec is located in eastern Canada, bordered by Ontario and Hudson Bay to the west, Atlantic Canada to the east, the U.S. Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York States) to the south, and the Arctic Ocean to the north. | | | Quebec (pronounced "kwə-BECK" or "keh-BECK"; French: le Québec) is a Canadian province with a population of 7,410,504 (Statistics Canada, 2001), primarily speakers of the French language making up the bulk of the Francophone population in North America. |
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| | Quebec : Political culture of Quebec |
| | Political deadlocks led to talks of a confederation, which in turn led to the creation of the Dominion of Canada with New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in 1867. | | | Their activities culminated in events referred to as the October Crisis when the British Trade commissioner to Canada was kidnapped along with Pierre Laporte, a provincial minister and Vice-Premier, who was murdered a few days later. | | | 60% of the Quebec electorate voted against it. |
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| | Jews in Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This caused quite a commotion among the Protestant population of Upper and Lower Canada, and Ezekiel was expelled from the legislature. | | | The earliest documentation of Jews in Canada are British Army records from the French and Indian Wars (North American portion of the Seven Years' War). | | | Today the Jewish culture in Canada is maintained by both practising Jews and those who chose not to practice the religion. |
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| | Why Study French |
| | Exports to Canada alone in that year were greater than the combined exports to all countries south of the United States. | | | French is one of the languages spoken in the US: 1.9 million Americans speak French in the home. | | | French thought played a dominant role among the founders of the United States in the 18th century, and it continues to shape America today through the influence of such intellectual currents as post-structuralism and post-modernism. |
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http://www.fll.vt.edu/French/whyfrench.html
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| | Directory - Regional: North America: Canada: Society and Culture: Religion: Judaism |
| | National Council of Jewish Women of Canada · cached · A volunteer organization which, in the spirit of Judaism, is dedicated to the furthering of human welfare in the Jewish communities - locally, nationally and internationally. | | | Jewish Canada · cached · North American Jewish web guide to locate friends, family, places of worship, educational establishments, where to eat and where to party. | | | Hadassah-WIZO Organization of Canada · cached · An association of Canadian women dedicated to the support of health, social welfare and educational programs in Israel, and to the enrichment of Jewish life in Canada. |
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http://www.incywincy.com/default?p=467194
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| | The Link Sharing Arab culture through stories |
| | The Canadian Arab community is one of the fastest-growing ethnic communities in Canada, according to the Canadian Arab Federation, a national non-profit organization founded in 1967. | | | The festival brings to light that while the Arab world is a staple of the daily newscast and political discussions, there is little to no mainstream media coverage of Arabic culture, festival performer Randah Taher said. | | | They didn't represent the entire spectrum of Arabic culture," she said, noting that there are 22 formally recognized Arab countries in the world, spanning Africa and the Middle East, each with its own unique culture and history. |
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| | Quebec South |
| | After all, in Canada they were also ruled by a English-speaking government that recognized some of their rights, but relegated French language and culture to secondary status. | | | Ducharme was a Franco-American journalist, descended from immigrants from Canada, who set out in the 1940s to document the history of French-Canadians in New England. | | | French-Canadians in the U.S. "The Americans may say with truth," Canadian social critic Gordon Smith observed a century ago, "that if they do not annex Canada they are annexing the Canadians." In the last three decades of the nineteenth century, English- and French-speaking Canadians went south to the United States in unprecedented numbers. |
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| | Religion in Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Canada has a wide mix of religions, but it has no official religion, and support for religious pluralism is an important part of Canada's political culture. | | | Canada is a Commonwealth realm in which the head of state is shared with 15 other countries, including the United Kingdom. | | | The largest groups are found in Western Canada, particularly in Alberta, southern Manitoba and the southern interior and Fraser Valley region of British Columbia. |
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| | Canada Federal Register Notice, 1997 |
| | Such import restrictions will also apply to underwater archaeological material found at historic shipwrecks and other underwater historic sites in the inland waters of Canada as well as the Canadian territorial waters of the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic Oceans, and the Great Lakes. | | | (7) Underwater archaeological material, that the cultural patrimony of Canada is in jeopardy from the pillage of underwater archaeological material found (at historic shipwrecks and other underwater historic sites) in the inland waters of Canada as well as the Canadian territorial waters of the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic Oceans, and the Great Lakes. | | | Archaeological artifact means an object made or worked by a person or persons and associated with historic or prehistoric cultures that is of cultural significance and at least 250 years old and normally discovered as a result of scientific excavation, clandestine or accidental digging, or exploration on land or under water. |
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http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/usia/E-USIA/education/culprop/ca97fr01.html
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| | Scientific American: A Culture of Death |
| | With a tarnished reputation in Canada, Ogden went to the University of Exeter in England in 1995, where he resumed his studies of assisted death in AIDS patients--with assurances that the university would stand behind him and his research subjects. | | | So for three years he interviewed nearly 100 physicians and nonmedical death providers in the U.K., the U.S., Canada and the Netherlands--the last is one of only three countries where national law allows doctors to assist in dying. | | | He successfully argued that his research passed Canada's Wigmore criteria, a set of common law privileges that excused him from disclosing his confidential sources. |
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http://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=0009B981-48C5-1289-837D83414B7FFE9F
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| | The American Enterprise: Culture Wars |
| | This fear of too much American culture is particularly pronounced in Canada, a strong INCP supporter. | | | As one former Canadian prime minister put it, "images of America are so [globally] pervasive...that it is almost as if instead of the world immigrating to America, America has immigrated to the world, allowing people to aspire to be Americans even in their distant cultures." | | | Many foreign governments have long feared the allure of American pop culture and have even taken measures to "protect" their consumers from it. |
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http://www.taemag.com/issues/articleID.17968/article_detail.asp
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| | QUEBEC SOVEREIGNTY MOVEMENT FACTS AND INFORMATION |
| | Quebec sovereigntists are generally not in opposition to federalism as a concept, but are opposed to the present federal system of Canada and do not believe it can be reformed in a way that could answer what they see as the legitimate wish of Quebecers to govern themselves freely. | | | Quebec federalist nationalists think that the Quebec people should be recognized as a ''de facto'' nation by the federal government of Canada and initiate the constitutional reforms that presuppose such a recognition. | | | A lot of French political parties feel it would be hypocritical if they officially supported Quebec nationalism, but continued to reject Corsican, Breton, and Basque nationalisms. |
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http://www.palfacts.com/Quebec_sovereignty_movement
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| | INDIAN HISTORY |
| | The framework of the Dakota Sioux beliefs and form of government appears to have been almost universal from Canada to the Yucatan. | | | The Nez Perce culture, that included a belief in God, is believed to have originated north of the mouth of the Columbia River where they began working their way upstream. | | | 200 B.C. The Chavin culture in Peru is replaced by the Nazca and Moche cultures that lasted to 600 A.D. The Moche culture is believed to have practiced human sacrifice, built pyramids and irrigation canals. |
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| | Rebellion of 1837-39 in Canada (upper Canada) |
| | I don't think you can say that they were a minority because these rebellions lead to the creation of the present federation. | | | Kevin Harrington, president of ACV/CFA, informed me at NAVA 32 that it is a wide-spread mistake that the Upper Canada Reformist flag is all blue, coming from the fact that the flag kept in a museum is ripped and some people wrongly assumed that the lower half of the flag was all blue. | | | In Upper Canada, at least, it was the Radicals and not the Reformers who were behind the violence in 1837, and they never amounted to more than about a thousand people within a population of about a half-million. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Judaism |
| | Judaism, religious culture of the Jews (also known as the people of Israel); one of the world’s oldest continuing religious traditions. | | | This perspective intensifies the problem of theodicy (God’s justice) in Judaism, because the historical experience of both individuals and the Jewish people has frequently been one of suffering. | | | In the late 1990s the total world Jewish population was 14.1 million, of whom 5.9 million lived in the United States, 4.6 million in Israel, and 700,000 each in France and Russia, the four largest centers of Jewish settlement. |
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| | Cyndi's List - Ships & Passenger Lists |
| | For anyone interested in the genealogy, culture, and historical contribution of people who immigrated from Ireland to Canada. | | | Dedicated to Atlantic Canada fishermen and mariners lost at sea, their families and survivors. | | | The crash of the shipbuilding industry in Ostrobothnia, Finland in the late 19th century was one of the main causes of the subsequent mass emigration to North America. |
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http://www.cyndislist.com/ships.htm
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| | globalEDGE (TM) international business resource desk - Reference: Culture |
| | Culture Briefings provides information on the customs, culture, traditions and ways of life of people in various countries worldwide. | | | The culture section provides articles about Belgian people, culture, food and drink, and some famous Belgians. | | | The Czech Culture page of Bohemica.com provides input on the following topics: cultural values, life in Czech, history, art, geography, renting apartments, starting a business, and finding jobs. |
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| | Tajikistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Bukharan Jews had lived in Tajikistan since the 2nd century BC, but today only several hundred, mostly poor and elderly, remain; most of the other Jews fled to Israel or sought and usually obtained asylum in the USA, and possibly Canada. | | | The culture of Tajikistan was originally shared with that of Uzbekistan, but during Communist rule, the cultural fabric of the region was disrupted by the Soviet leadership imposing artificial boundaries and the notion of nation-state - alien to the region - on the area. | | | Historically, a lot of Tajik culture ties it to the Persian past of the region, and Persian writers, scientists and poets such as Ibn Sina, Firdausi, Rudaki, and Omar Khayyám are especially revered. |
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| | Complete Bibliography : German-Canadian Studies |
| | The Trans-Canada Alliance of German Canadians: a Study in Culture. | | | Liddell, Peter G. Germans on Canada's Pacific Slopes: a Brief Survey of German Discovery, Settlement and Culture in British Columbia, 1778 to the Present. | | | Helleiner, Frederick M. Cultural dimensions of Canada's geography: proceedings of the German-Canadian symposium, August 28-September 11, 1983. |
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| | Canada and the World Backgrounder: Judaism |
| | Judaism, the religious culture the Jews, is one of the world's oldest religious traditions. | | | Conservative Judaism is less strict in its interpretation of the Torah. | | | This conflicts with conservative Christians for whom belief is of primary importance and actions tend to be secondary. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3695/is_199912/ai_n8866682
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| | Cuba History & Cuba Culture iExplore.com |
| | The agricultural component of Cuba’s economy is dominated by sugar, of which it is one of the world’s largest exporters. | | | After their withdrawal in 1901, the USA maintained effective political and economic control of the island, while Cuba was governed by a series of corrupt dictators such as Fulgencio Batista and Carlos Pro Socarrás. | | | As with the political structure in Cuba, most observers are awaiting what form of government emerges after Castro to determine which direction the economy will take. |
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| | Journal of Canadian Studies: Challenging times: the women's movement in Canada & the United States // Review |
| | Women in Quebec, she notes, were more of a political constituency than women in the rest of Canada, and had been more successful in getting their issues onto the agenda: | | | As she puts it, the national character of organizations such as the Federation des femmes du Quebec "...arises from their overall cultural identity, in spite of a territorial regionalization which reflects nothing but the historical erosion of French Canada outside the provincial constituency of Quebec" (114). | | | The truly valuable aspects of this collection for Canadian readers are the few articles which document the development of the Canadian women's movement as integrally related to Canadian political culture, together with those that clear the way for recent challenges to monolithic conceptions of feminism. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3683/is_199401/ai_n8725597
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| | thule canada |
| | One of the mysteries of the Thule occupation of arctic Canada involves their relationships with the Dorset people... | | | archaeological sites of the Thule people of Canada contain the ruins of... | | | the extremely rapid expansion of the Thule people across Arctic Canada and to Greenland cannot be accurately... |
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| | Culture of Quebec - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The culture of Quebec is connected to the strong cultural currents of the rest of Canada, United States, France, and Britain all at the same time. | | | Quebec's rich heritage of culture and history can be explored through a network of museums, which include the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, the Musée de la civilisation and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. | | | Simply put, Quebec was one of the world's Catholic strongholds. |
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| | Sons of Norway - Norwegian Culture - Related Web Sites |
| | Maintained at the University of Oslo, this is an on-line bibliography of documents printed between 1825 and 1930, concerning Norwegian emigrants to the US and Canada. | | | The Norwegian-American Historical Association was organized October 6, 1925, by a group of far-sighted Norwegian Americans who sought to establish a national center for the collection and preservation of historical material. | | | The material is organized according to the office of responsibility not by topic. |
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| | Feedback |
| | Canada after all is a nation of immigrants, just as the United States is. Canada has no deep-rooted culture that reaches back ten thousand years. | | | While you would simplistically characterize (as Trudeau did) the United States as an elephant, and Canada as a mouse, I think a more accurate description would be to say that Canada is a small group of mice and the United States is a much larger group of mice. | | | I suppose I could have looked up figures and pointed to the fact that X amount of the original population of Canada can find their roots in what is now the United States, etc... |
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| | Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2001536534 |
| | Canada’s Jews are an extremely diverse and often fractious group, yet that diversity is their strength and the key to their vitality. | | | Despite their troubled history, Canada’s Jews have done more than prevail; they are on their way to becoming the world’s second-most important Diaspora community, and enjoy a quality of life unmatched since the Golden Age of Spain. | | | Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Jews Canada Social conditions, Judaism Canada |
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