The “Sons of Freedom” are a small radical group that diverged from a religious sect known as the Doukhobors. This zealous and revivalist subsect evolved from the Doukhobors only to gain the government’s attention for their extremely radical acts. They have initiated bombings, arson, nudist parades, and hunger strikes, all in protest to the land ownership and registration laws of Canada. Such obscene and violent demonstrations have caused a great deal of conflict between the Sons of Freedom and
In Canada’s democratic government, voting is a powerful way for citizens to communicate their values. The leader who is chosen reflects the power of the Canadians’ values. Thus, to the government, every vote matters, assuring Canadians that their opinions matter. Today, Canada recognizes voting as a fundamental right for all of their citizens. The Canadian Charter of Rights effectively protects this right of all Canadians, even minorities, through section 3. “Every citizen of Canada has the right
farm. While many of immigrants came from traditional sources like Great Britain and the United States, this policy opened the door for others, and it was in this period that Canada saw a large arrival of Eastern Europeans, including Ukrainians, Doukhobors and other groups from the Austrian and Russian Empires.
Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer that wrote mostly wrote short stories, and novels and near the future wrote plays and essays. Tolstoy is mostly known for his novel war and peace and Anna Karenina. These two books were considered two of the greatest novels of all time in the realistic fiction genre. People did not only consider Tolstoy's novels as the greatest of all time but considered him as the greatest novelist of all time. Tolstoy is known for his paradoxical and complicated persona and also
INTRODUCTION During the early 1870, the Canada Confederation expanded east and west which included the joining of the province Manitoba in 1870 and British Columbia in 1871. During 1870 and before 1930 the white settlers, the new comers and the Natives people in the western Canada underwent many changes with regard to their social structure and ethnicity. It highlights the various factors such as the growth and development of the workforce, struggles in maintaining cultural heritage and social awareness
the prevailing social, economic, and political attitudes of the time. For example, the Immigration Act of 1919, which established policies to prevent some groups from entering the nation, institutionalized this prejudice. Communists, Mennonites, Doukhobors, and other religiously affiliated groups were among these excluded groups. In addition, people of Austrian, Hungarian, and Turkish descent, as well as those whose nations had fought against Canada in the First World War, were prohibited from entering
Machiavelli And as I speak here of mixed bodies, such as republics or religious sects, I say that those changes are beneficial that bring them back to their original principles. And those are the best-constituted bodies, and have the longest existence, which possess the intrinsic means of frequently renewing themselves, or such as obtain this renovation in consequence of some extrinsic accidents. And it is a truth clearer than light that, without such renovation, these bodies cannot