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Au cours de la 40e election generale, le 14 octobre 2008, la participation electorale au niveau national est tombee au plus bas niveau jamais enregist...
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On June 16, 2005, Stephen Harper, then leader of the Official Opposition announced creation of the Youth Conservative caucus composed of members age f...
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The development of the tool kit for Aboriginal people, designed for our needs and with our interests in mind, will be very useful to us," said Hans Matthews, president of CAMA. "Research CAMA conducted last year demonstrated a genuine need for this kind of product.
The tool kit will include information on the mining industry and on how Aboriginal communities can get involved in the industry at all stages of development, from exploration through to reclamation of decommissioned mines. It will also provide information about Aboriginal communities and businesses that have already successfully entered the sector, complete with success stories and contact information.
"Mining and exploration often takes place on Aboriginal traditional lands," [Gordon Peeling] said. "Aboriginal people incre...
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Originally published in The 2011 Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada
Cultural similarities and integration of the US...
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If you choose to hold over in the city in which you played the previous season, depending upon your familiarity with and accessibility to the fans, you will no doubt have a number of opportunities to participate in what we deem to be "player appearances.
In all the years I have played pro football, I have gotten some pretty unusual requests and been part of some even stranger appearances. People I have never met before have asked me to help them move (just the heavy items for which I am well suited), others to counsel and discipline their children or relatives, some to sign their body parts so they can get a tattoo over the signature, never-ending requests for wedding social prizes and participation, invitations to high school graduations, and to attend bar mitzvahs or birthday parties...
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La diminution recente de la participation electorale aux elections federales canadiennes est preoccupante. Aux elections de 1993, la participation ele...
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For those facing financial, timetable, supervision or philosophical problems with their children's activities, there are many easy-to-do, low-cost routes they can take to keep their kids stimulated and active. Check out the walk that you are going to take beforehand and then make a list of things that you want the kids to identify, like a scavenger hunt or a game of I-Spy. * Set up an Olympic course in your backyard, for a day or longer, and challenge your kids to toss water balloons, do the egg-on-spoon run, blow bubbles, juggle, hula hoop, cartwheel or do the limbo, with small prizes to the competitors. * Have a jigsaw puzzle or board game night.
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Ethnic minorities in the United States and Canada, many of whom are newly naturalized, display low rates of political participation. I argue that these low rates of participation indicate a sense of exclusion from the polity they have joined. Previous explanations for low rates of participation material, contextual and institutional - all reflect a concern with exclusion. We have reason to focus directly zon the concept of belonging as a way to encourage newcomers to participate in politics. I suggest four policy proposals that focus on erasing this sense of exclusion, and thus on generating a sense of belonging, among newcomers to Canada and the United States. These policies, I hope, will encourage political participation among newcomers.
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This paper analyzes the influence of child health and maternal physical and mental health on female labor force participation after childbirth in Germany. Our analysis is based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study, which enables us to measure child health based on the occurrence of severe health problems including mental and physical disabilities, hospitalizations, and preterm births. Since child health is measured in SOEP at a very young age, we can rule out the reverse effects of maternal employment on child health that appeared in US studies. We investigate the influence of these indicators on various aspects of female labor force participation after childbirth within a two-year time period, including continuous labor force participation in the year of childbirth...