The Effects Of Climate Change On Canada's National Parks

The impact of colonization on First Nations peoples in Canada is unsurpassable, regarding every aspect of Aboriginal life and well-being. Throughout Canadian history, the government has been aiming to assimilate and annihilate Aboriginal people by way of racist policies, ethnocentric institutions, discriminatory laws and destructive capitalist behaviours. Because of this, Aboriginal people have suffered many losses, both physically and culturally. One of the main perpetrators of enacting this loss is the education system. The education system in Canada has and continues to threaten the relationship First Nations peoples have with the land. The connection First Nations peoples have with the land is crucial to their cultures, traditions, ceremonies and beliefs. Colonization and colonialism jeopardize this relationship and that is what this essay will address.

Over the past decades, Aboriginal people (the original people or indigenous occupants of a particular country), have been oppressed by the Canadian society and continue to live under racism resulting in gender/ class oppression. The history of Colonialism, and Capitalism has played a significant role in the construction and impact of how Aborignal people are treated and viewed presently in the Canadian society. The struggles, injustices, prejudice, and discrimination that have plagued Aboriginal peoples for more than three centuries are still grim realities today. The failures of Canada's racist policies toward Aboriginal peoples are reflected in the high levels of unemployment and poor education.

Aboriginal youth living on reservations today, are living with the controls and limitations that may be detrimental for their further or current success in education, as in a comparison to the rest of Canadian youth who have access to a wide array of resources provided to them. This may include more teachers, which have a higher standards of testing, “the teachers who are trained exclusively in provincially accredited teachers colleges aren’t trained properly…to teach in our schools and our kids have been suffering for way too long as a result” (Barrera, J. ATPN National News, para. 21). There seems to be multiple sub-categories that Aboriginal youth within Canada today are confronted with; isolation, depression, suicide, racism, bulling, hate crimes, poverty, substance abuse, crime, and mistrust of the education system due to colonialism, lack of a support systems and a lack of confidence to further their education with the absence of empowerment in their current environment. This is a systemic cycle that has certainly not been resolved and continues to be a hardship for the First Nations society. Considering these multifaceted elements that add to First Nations adolescent barriers of the non-equal educational opportunities or privileges as other adolescents in Canada. Therefore what are the next steps to prevail for the Aboriginal peoples, is there anything that can be held accountable or done?

We once lived in a world lush and plentiful where we enjoyed all the natural resources peacefully. However at the beginning of the industrial revolution more people moved to the cities therefore increasing their dependency load. Fastforward to today and the world has seen a drastic change in the loss of natural resources as well as a number of health related illnesses like asthma. This is mainly due to the effects from carbon pollution, greenhouse gases and global warming. Canada as a country is thought of as environmentally aware and progressive. Actually has many issues regarding this topic and if it is not taken care of it will affect the future of the nation. I care about this topic because it has to

Climate change will have a direct impact in the future of the park. Summer heat levels will become a norm that could be damaging to the Yellowstone environment. “All of natuires resources can be leveled with the astronomical amount of heat that will be produced based on climate change. the first evaluation of how climate change will affect the greater Yellowstone ecosystem, is a joint project of the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization, a nonprofit that advocates for carbon emission reductions by drawing attention to the likely consequences of climate change, and the Greater

The reading of “Defending the Land: Sovereignty and Forest life in James Bay Cree Society” by Ronald Niezan is a great reading. Mr. Niezan illustrates how Cree people live and what they still currently do to protect their land and religion. This book also allows us to understand that people will try to take what they can’t have because that’s exactly what Canada’s government tries to accomplish with new construction projects and other

The GTA is located in the southern Ontario potion of the Deciduous Forest Biome. The Deciduous Forest Biome extends across Ontario and into the Maritime provinces (Course Manual 19). In the portion of the biome where the GTA is located, the temperature ranges from -12 degrees celcius to over 20 degrees celcuis (Course Manual 19). Its recieves an average of 250 centimetres of snow and 75 centimetres of rain per year (Course Manual 21). The GTA recieves a broad spectrum of weather with multiple winter storms and summer heat spells common throughout the year. Due to the ideal growing season and abundant nutrients, the Deciduous Forest Biome is home to a number of diverse plant and animal species. Unfortunatly, due to large populations and human influences, the biomes forests are threatened with never ending agricultural development and urban expansion. High population rates also impact waste disposal, healthy drinking water, pollution and overfishing (Course Manual 23). In fact, this compact area of the Deciduous Forest Biome has the largest negative impact on climate change in all of

Climatic changes are expected to change species distributions, phenologies, interspecific interactions, community composition, and ecosystem function (Schneider & Root 2002). Many of these impacts have already been observed (Parmesan 2006). In California’s San Joaquin Valley, temperatures are projected to be warmer in both winter and summer, with a mean annual increase of 1.4–2.0°C by 2070 (PRBO Conservation Science 2011). Additionally, precipitation is projected to decrease (-9% to -30%), although there is a high degree of uncertainty surrounding the magnitude of the precipitation changes (PRBO Conservation Science 2011). Summer heat waves are projected to become longer and hotter, and droughts more severe (Garfin et al. 2012).

While there are many support programs available to deal with these issues, the system has been aptly described as "complicated" and difficult to navigate by Aboriginals in discussion with the city of Edmonton (Four Winds and Associates 7, citation 2). Therefore, 'solving' poverty requires the creation of more centralized and comprehensive social programs to assist people in poverty in Edmonton today. The discrimination issue is challenging to solve, as stereotypes tend to persist for a long time. It could be influenced, but not entirely removed, using educational programs to educate the public against the negative stereotypes of Aboriginals in Edmonton. Unfortunately there is no easy fix to the devaluation of immigrant credentials, though reducing the costs needed to take qualification exams might be a start.

Topic #3 Thesis Statement: In the book The Ragged Company by Richard Wagamese, Amelia One-Sky’s life was ultimately shaped through the entanglements of discrimination of the aboriginal people and poor childhood development which lead her to a life of homelessness. Introduction: With the economic and social deprivation of substandard housing (p.149) One For The Dead had lost her parents at a very young age, this then leads her and her brothers to residential schools where she loses her younger brother, Harley. The mingling of events eventually pulls Amelia One Sky and the rest of her brothers into socially inflicted traumas of residential schools, causing her to hear “Voices of the dead” (p.12) and her brothers rebelling with “rage and resentment”

The Attawaspiskat Cree and Ojibwa are a first nations group living in parts of Canada, mainly northern Ontario. The main languages spoken by these first nation groups are Mushkegowuk Cree and Ojibway. I will compare and contrast the experience of the Attawapiskat Cree to Ojibwa in relation to the Canadian Government. This will include analyzing the treaties introduced by the government towards the Cree and the Ojibwa: in particular, treaty 9 will be discussed. In addition, to these treaties the government has divided the first nation community into two different groups: status-Indians and non-status Indians. Within these two groups further division has been accomplished by the allocation of lands know as reserves to status-Indians and

A comparison of native students and their non-native peers quickly brings one to the realization that native students are not experiencing a comparable degree of education success in Canadian schools. It is vital that native Canadians address this issue thoroughly, to insure that the nation is no longer faced with a semi-literate, unemployable population, requiring financial support. In order to fully address native educational underachievement it is important to examine the historical causes of the problem, the issues we are faced with today, as well as, identifying possible viable solutions.

The issue is the startling climate changes that have and undoubtedly continue to occur in Northern Canada. Climate changes are known as weather conditions such as temperature, winds, precipitation, and others that have been affected over a period of time (GOC, n.d.). The concern with this is that the earth’s climate has a balance between energy that is received and energy that being dispatched. The intent is to maintain regulated temperatures; instead the issue that has occurred is disturbances between these two balances (GOC, n.d.). Changes in the climate affects the air temperature and precipitation, the cryosphere, freshwater resources, and ocean climate (Bush, Loder, James, Mortsch, & Cohen, 2014).There are however

The academic journal, profession publication, and newspaper article I have chosen to review each address the need to improve Aboriginal post-secondary opportunities in Canada. In order to advance Canadian society, Aboriginal people must have access to post-secondary programs that foster and accept the unique worldview of Indigenous people. It is also

The Canadian Centre for Policy is a think tank policy institute providing social, economic, environmental policy advice to current situations and problems faced by Canada. The Income Gap between Aboriginal People and the Rest of Canada is a study by Wilson and Macdonald critiquing the common notions of thought, such as level of education, which cause economic gaps between Aboriginals and the rest of Canadian Society. References used by the authors comes from 1996, 2001, and 2006’s Canada Census (Daniel and Macdonald 2010:3). The main focus of the study surrounds the differences between Aboriginals and non-aboriginals, but the article does includes some extensive analysis about First Nations reserves. One of the leading points in Wilson and