In order to understand Canada as a nation, one has to trace Britain's colonial history, the mapping of "Canada," and the making of it as a British nation, for as Jane M. Jacobs notes, space exists within the context of imperialism and is "formed out of the cohabitation of variously empowered people and the meanings they ascribed to localities and places" (Jacobs, 1996, p. 5). The Canadian nation has actively built a history that begins with discovery, as if it were a land of empty wilderness before British arrival. The colonial project was to create and solidify a "history of whiteness" in Canada in order to legitimize colonial rule. Nativist discourses were drawn on to create the idea of a native Anglo-Canadian people, and to "naturalize British ideas about law, the state and religion"...
... to its doors and was regarded as a "dumping ground" for the mentally ill in Toronto. A second ... refers to this logic as die Berlin Wall syndrome: when a built structure becomes a monument associa...
... hoarders, 330 people with Diogenes syndrome who live in absolute squalor, and close to 600 peo... are on the hook for any hauling and dumping fees to clear out their homes, forcing some social...
... diseases, including epizootic ulcerative syndrome (EUS) which can be transmitted to native fish popu... exotic fish were introduced through the dumping of bait pails. Surveys indicate that almost 50% of...
The 1991 Gulf War and Sanctions Refusing any possible negotiations or diplomatic settlement, the Anglo-American response to Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait was a bombing campaign.1 Subsequent declassified documents reveal that in US-led campaign, its forces deliberately destroyed Iraq's water treatment capacity, knew the necessary chemicals were blocked by sanctions, and fully understood the implications for Iraqis.2 The Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) identified Iraq's water treatment systems as vulnerable because of their reliance on foreign materials already blocked by sanctions. Further US intelligence documents, observing the degradation of Iraq's water supply under the bombing continued, noted the particular impact on children.5 Within months of the war, the UN s...
..., whose symptoms were dubbed "the Gulf Syndrome". The subject in the media is almost a taboo. John... re-consider his\her suspicions of who is dumping the innocent bodies of children, women and the eld...
... Embryo Mortality, Edema, and Deformities Syndrome (GLEMEDS) in Colonial Fish-eating Birds: Similarit...-matter, on the basis that the Ocean Dumping Control Act, S.C. 1974-75-76, c. 55, distinguished...
... and processing (e.g., the use and dumping of hazardous chemicals), and from efforts to curta... the spread of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS),. Recognizing also that illicit trafficking...
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