Word: canadians
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...brink of dissolution. Unlike the United States, Canada's union of provinces has never been challenged by an attempted secession. But Rene Levesque, the new premier of Quebec, has called for the future separation of Quebec from the rest of Canada, thus casting doubts on the future of Canadian unity...
...casual observer of Canadian affairs is probably unaware of the cultural differences that exist between the French-Canadian and his English-speaking counterpart. Sociologists generally trace current social problems to historical origins; and Canada's problem is no exception. Until the defeat of French soldiers by the British on the Plains of Abraham in 1759 the French played the major role in developing the territory now known as Canada. In the tradition of British colonialism, the vanquished French were allowed to exist alongside their conquerors, maintaining their own language, religion, and culture. As a result Canada became a cultural mosaic...
...western Canada by thousands of miles of land and by the Rocky Mountains. When this feeling of isolation is compounded by a feeling of cultural dissimilarity, the people soon lose their sense of a common national identity. Unfortunately, more than three-fourths of Canada's 6 million French-Canadians live in Quebec where they outnumber English Canadians 3 to 1; the remaining French-Canadian population lives mostly in the adjoining provinces of Ontario and New Brunswick. Canadians west of Ontario have thus had little chance to shake hands with a French-Canadian, even, though French-Canadians constitute more than...
Although most Canadians still consider their mosaic experiment successful, English-French differences have spawned inevitable problems, some of which may cause the dissolution of the 110-year-old Canadian nation...
Although the 21 U.S. and three Canadian schools had 2,112 first-year positions available last fall, up 8% from 1975, the ranks of would-be vets are growing even faster. While medical schools take about one in three applicants, the acceptance ratio at vet schools is about one in seven-and in many cases even lower. Alabama's Tuskegee Institute is currently screening 1,100 applicants for 50 openings in its veterinary program. Cornell has some 850 applicants for the 80 first-year places available in its vet school. At Washington State University's College of Veterinary...