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    the videos on Geoff Canada, I was greatly astonished not only by the amount of passion Canada showed towards fulfilling his goal of providing underprivileged children with a quality education, but the level of discipline he took towards achieving it. This is so as Canada displays a strong level of servant leadership by treating each of his students with an equal sense of dignity regardless of their past and views them as an opportunity for greater success. In addition, Canada keeps his ultimate goal

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    Social Studies Essay Three Great Characteristics of Canada Canada’s countless characteristics undoubtedly makes it one of the most amazing countries in the world. With three territories and ten provinces, our home and native land is home to over thirty five million people from an endless amount of backgrounds and nationalities. Canada is widely seen as a painfully polite country, a place with a terribly cold climate and meticulously clean cities. These stereotypes might hold some truth, but realistically

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    museum called The Connecticut Trolley Museum in East Windsor, CT, I quickly became affiliated. I can remember running a car down the 3 mile line for the first time like it was yesterday. It was car #2600, she was built in 1929 and ran in Montreal, Canada until we acquired her in 1959 and she runs as smoothly as she did in her heyday. After lowering her front windows to let in a crisp, fall, evening breeze, and receiving an approving nod from my instructor, I signaled two bells, brought her into her

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    skills they are lacking and successfully reintegrate back into their community with ongoing support. There is further need for this program in all correctional institutions, as it is the first and only prison-based therapeutic community of its kind in Canada. (BC Ministry of Justice). Canada’s justice system is set up to teach inmates to re-offend; incarcerated inmates learn how to survive in prison, which only perpetuates the behavior that put them in jail, and then sent back to the community with even

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    Canadian Tire History

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    2014 Canadian Tire Canadian Tire was first started in 1922, my brothers AJ and JW Billes in a Toronto garage bought for $1800. A brief example of the chains endurance through time, is when they had tried to open their own chain of gas stations in Canada back in the 1950’s. When oil companies had cut off their supply, Canadian Tire bought sixty million gallons of gas from the USSR during the peak of the Cold War. Another issue was during the 90’s when internal affairs between head office and dealers

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    2.4. Fleet age: Air Canada has fleet of close to 400 Air crafts. It is very crucial for Air lines to maintain the new version of air crafts in its fleet. Air Canada currently has fleet of 787 -Dreamliner, and many long range latest A330, B777 flights to serve long range destinations. Air Canada also has purchased latest Boeing 737 Max, the latest short haul flight from Boeing and has placed orders for B787 ( latest generation of Long haul aircraft from Boeing). Maintaining the average age of fleet

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    A compulsory voting system similar to the one used in Australia is not a system Canada should implement. Compulsory voting in the context of a democratic society can be a misleading term (Lever, 2010). Canada practices the secret ballot process in voting, and so it is impossible to verify if someone has cast a legally valid ballot. If countries have a singular goal of simply increasing voter turnout, compulsory voting could remedy this problem and it should be more accurately defined as being compulsory

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    population. There are approximately 235,000 people, in Canada a year, who identify as homeless or acknowledged their position in life as homeless. 35,000 people, in Canada, are homeless on any given night. This statistic is not just of white, men, (which seem to be the overrepresented image in media) but rather is made up of people from every ethnicity, age group, gender, background, and sexual orientation. With upwards of 6-7% of the population of Canada having to live in homelessness a year, you would

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    upgrading plant equipment and added Cry Baby Chews, Naughty or Nice Pops, and Andes Creme de Menthe Trees to its product line. Special promotions aimed at the company’s high volume customers also boosted sales. Tootsie Roll’s clever Advertising and Public Relations techniques evolve. In addition to television, the company recognizes the growing importance of digital marketing and thus increased its internet presence in 2013. The Mr. Owl character and his famous “How Many Licks” commercial are now

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    your family and friends, sounds almost too good to be true, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently found this out first hand. After returning from his luxurious holiday on Aga Khan’s private Bahamas island in January 2017, the media outlets were booming with many articles criticizing his actions and divulging the public with the Conflict of Interest Act. One passage in particular had many people in a frenzy, “Rule 12 in the Act states, “No minister of the Crown, minister of state or parliamentary

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