Word: canadianism
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...would like to see more worker education, job training, and job creation. One scholar at a Canadian think tank devoted to welfare issues characterizes Messinger's focus as a "human resources" approach rather than a welfare approach. Such a tack is "preferable," writes the scholar, "especially because it promotes, not destroys human dignity and well-being...
...evidence of the supposed 200 million ounces of gold at Busang. Trading in Bre-X on the Toronto Stock Exchange, NASDAQ and other markets has been suspended indefinitely. TIME's Toronto bureau chief Andrew Purvis calls the damning report "the final chapter of an extraordinary tale." Stock in the Canadian mining company had soared from pennies a share in 1993 to over $200 last year after the company reported it was sitting on one of the biggest gold fields ever discovered. Rumors first began to swirl on March 17 of this year, when a senior company geologist fell from...
Breton says that he is encouraging students to make their own comparisons. Students have selected final paper topics based on their own areas of interest, working on issues as diverse as Canadian and American attitudes towards fame, literary interpretation, and health care...
...more substantive part of the course involves comparing Canadian and American cultures on four basic dimensions," Breton says. Students study how both countries approach the relationship between individuals and collectivities, the question of diversity, inequalities and the conception of authority...
...eight Canadian students also say that the course provides "good Canada bonding time." Breton says that "the course may have also provided an occasion for these students to learn more about their own society...