Department of Canadian Heritage

Spectacle and the Universal: ISIL’s Impact on Canadian Constructions of Heritage and Islam Context and Research Question: In August 2015, after capturing the ancient Roman site of Palmyra, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) spectacularly exploded the remains of the Temple of Bel and the Temple of Baalshamin. They immediately spread the images of their destruction online by creating videos and news reports. ISIL’s acts of destruction mark the largest-scale mass destruction of antiquities

The Canadian television series Due South will be subjected to a textual analysis with the goal of figuring out if this show represents Canada and Canadian aspects. Due South is a crime series created by Paul Haggis and produced by Alliance Communications. The show follows the adventures of an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and his partner from the Chicago Police Department. The show falls under the genre of both comedy and drama. The character Benton Fraser (played by Paul Gross), who

The 1971 Multiculturalism Act and Its Impact on Canadian Diversity On October 8, 1971, Canada became one of the first countries in the world to announce a federal policy for multiculturalism. In a historic statement to the House of Commons, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau introduced the policy in an attempt to respect the cultural diversity of all individuals and recognize the cultural contributions of the diverse ethnic groups in Canada. This policy set the stage for many governments around the world

discussed in class, some of the functions in the Council’s guideline can be separated to be mandates for setting up separate department in a government (of any level), such as heritage preservation, cultural administrative body and a separate granting agency, such as in Canada, on the federal level of arts and culture, there are Department of Canadian Heritage, Ministry of Canadian Heritage, and the a separate arts granting body, the Canada Council for the Arts. The Taiwanese Council for Cultural Affairs

Act of 1876 gave the Canadian government, under prime minster John A. Macdonald, full control over the nation’s Aboriginal people. The government used this power to establish boarding schools for Aboriginal children. An estimated 144 residential schools operated at different times between the late 1800s and 1996 throughout Canada. These schools were established with the purpose to enhance assimilation of Aboriginal children into the Canadian culture of British and French heritage. However, despite these

“The Charter is widely admired, and so are the decisions of the Canadian court,” says Peter Hogg, one of Canada’s leading authority on Canadian constitutional law. “And one reason is that Canada is not the United States (“Ibbitson, 2012”).” Hogg’s words depict the lack of respect our neighbour fails to receive their citizens in regards to their rights and freedoms. Relative to the section of the Charter where it lists out Canadian citizens’ equality rights, Canada ensures that everyone is “treated

influence Canadian law, politics, culture and social living within Canada accordance to their beliefs. Firstly taking into account the effect of Muslim immigrants within Canada. Muslims within Canada have influenced the legal system within Canada based on Sharia(Muslim) law. So now nobody can deny that Muslim immigrants have played a critical role in transforming the Canadian law according to their spiritual beliefs. After all, it is ethically as well culturally wrong and biased towards the Canadian people

immigrants to Canada maintain and celebrate their heritage, creating a national mosaic, while newcomers to the United States must abandon all cultural baggage and adapt into the homogenous Americans. This image as Canadians are grossly simplistic. In addition, government who supported multiculturalism in Canada was a recent phenomenon. Until it became official in 1971 due to the National policy. Many Canadians, such as the Native and French-Canadian, often had an expectation to assimilate themselves

with sustainable aspects of resource development. Economic benefits gained from the seal hunt include an increase in trading relationships for Canada and the stimulation of the provincial economy of Newfoundland and Labrador. As reported by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, the total landed value of the seal harvest for 2006 was $34.3 million dollars (“Market” 1). This figure represents a historic high, when market prices per pelt were favourable. Regardless, the money brought in from seal

that accommodating distinct cultures within a country has a lot of shortcomings. Multiculturalism in Canada was once a fluffy policy, but today it is an industry. If permitted, this industry will eradicate the very meaning of what it means to be a Canadian, as there