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| The process by which the world's citizens are becoming increasingly connected to and dependent on one another. |
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| A graphic diagram that shows relationships and examples. |
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Economic Globalization
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| The process of expanding world trading networks. |
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| One company hiring another company to fulfill certain tasks in production. |
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| A corporation that operates in two or more countries. |
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| A person who buys goods or services for personal use. |
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| The basic physical systems of a community, including roads,utlities, water, sewage, and so on. |
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| Camadian Council for International Co-operation. |
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| The different ways of delivering mass communication, such as newspapers, radio, and television. |
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Social Globalization
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| The process by which people's lifestyles spread over global networks. |
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Political Globalization
Chapter 1 |
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| The process by which political decisions and actions are becoming increasingly international. |
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| North American Free Trade Agreement |
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| Clothing, jewellery, and other forms of body decoration. |
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| Ideas,practices, beliefs, knowledge, and customs that are passed down through a family, group, culture or religion. |
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| Am inclination that makes it difficult to judge fairly. |
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Individual Identity
Chapter 2 |
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| The group of characteristics and values people use to define themselves as individuals. |
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Collective Identity
Chapter 2 |
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| The common characteristics and values used to define a group. |
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Linguistic Identity
Chapter 2 |
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| The collective identity of a people who speak the same language. |
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| Francophone descendent of the colonists of New France living anywhere in North America, including the West. |
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| Member of a First Nations, Metis, Inuit, or Indigenous community who is respected for his or her knowledge, wisdom, or experience. |
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| People who inspire us in such a way that we try to live and act like they do. |
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| An incurable disease, transmitted through bodily fluids, that destroys a person's immune system. |
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| The final stage of HIV, in which the human immune system collapses, placing people at greater risk of infection by life-threatening diseases. |
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| A person whose first language is French. |
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| A person whose first language is English. |
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Multiculturalism
Chapter 2 |
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| A policy that supports respect for a diversity of languages, beliefs, traditions, values, religions, and other aspects of culture. |
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Communications Technologies
Chapter 3 |
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| The processes, tools, and techniques used to transmit data or information from one person or device to another. |
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Transnational Media Company
Chapter 2 |
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| A company that operates media outlets in many countries. |
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Universalization of Popular Culture
Chapter 2 |
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| The spread of one popular culture around the world. |
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| A person or figure whose image is known to millions of people. |
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Gross National Product (GNP)
Chapter 2 |
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| The total income from goods and services produced in a country in a year. |
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Media Convergence
Chapter 2 |
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| Control of a large amount of the world's media by a few transnational companies. |
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| Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. |
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| A slang short form for "Canadian content". |
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| Canadian Audio Visual Certification Office. |
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| The mixing of identities and cultures in new and different ways. |
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| Something that is made from mixed elements. |
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Interdisciplinary art
Chapter 3 |
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| Different art forms and media mixed in new ways. |
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Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Chapter 3 |
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| GDP divided by population. |
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Minority Cultural Group
Chapter 3 |
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| A cultural group (a group of people with common age, ethnicity, language, or gender) that is smaller than majority cultural groups. |
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Cultural Diversity
Chapter 3 |
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| The variety of human cultures in a specific region or in the world as a whole. |
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| The movement of people from one region or country to another. |
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| A change in an individual or a group that results from contact with another group. |
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| The process by which so many people move into rural areas close to existing cities that these areas become urban. |
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Industrial Revolution
Chapter 5 |
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| The rapid transition from an agriculture based economy to a manufacturing based economy, which began in Great Britain in the 19th century and spread to other countries, including Canada. |
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| A large, busy city, especially the main city of a country or region. |
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| An urban centre with a population of 10 million or more. |
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Hyphenated Canadian
Chapter 5 |
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| A Person who identifies his or her ethnic origin as Canadian along with the ethnic origin of his or her ancestors. |
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| Francophone descendant of the early French colonists in Atlantic Canada. |
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| A positive, assertive action. |
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Cultural Revitalization
Chapter 4 |
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| An effort to restore new life to a culture. |
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| A standard by which something is judged. |
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| The process by which cultures become more alike in terms of values, attitudes, beliefs, customs, language, and traditions. |
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| The process by which a minority culture adopts a dominant culture and is absorbed into it. It often involves the loss of language. |
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French Immersion School
Chapter 4 |
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| A school designed to teach French to students whose first language is not French; a large part of the curriculum is taught in French. |
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Francophone School
Chapter 4 |
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| A school that is designed to educate Francophone students in their own language in a Francophone environment and to affirm their identity. |
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| Putting a group of people in a lower or powerless position within society. |
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| Nunavik Arctic Survival Training Centre |
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| Making adjustments or reaching compromises to allow for differences. |
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| Providing equal opportunity for participation of different groups in society. |
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S.W.O.T. Analysis
Chapter 6 |
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| An analysis technique for evaluating a plan of action. S.W.O.T. stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. |
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| The first language a person learns at home in childhood. |
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Indigenous Cultures
Chapter 6 |
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| The cultures of the original inhabitants of a particular geographic area. |
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| Describes something, such as a species of animal, a language, or a people, that no longer exists in the world. |
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Cultural Legislation
Chapter 6 |
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| Government laws to regulate aspects of Canadian culture. |
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| Assembly of First Nations |
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Cultural Contact
Chapter 7 |
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| The interaction of two or more independent cultures - often refers to the first meeting. |
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| A philosophy of life and way of seeing the world. |
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| Having to do with archaeology, the study and analysis of human history and prehistory through the examination of physical remains. |
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| Government in which power is held by the people under a system of free elections. |
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| A system of basic principles by which a country is ruled. |
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| Having to do with people from another country settling in and governing another land and its people. |
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| A person who studies humans, their societies, and customs. |
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| The act of completely destroying a people or thing. |
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| The belief that European concerns, cultures, and values are superior to those of others. |
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International Trade
Chapter 8 |
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| The exchange of raw materials, goods, and services among distant groups of people. |
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Historical Fiction
Chapter 8 |
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| Stories set in a specific time and place in history, sometimes using historical characters. |
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| A Eurocentric economic policy whereby European monarchs increased their wealth through international trade. |
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| Occurred in the past when a monarch granted one individual or a single company the sole right to gather and trade in a particular good. Today, these exist when a business has no competition in a market, such as when a product or service is controlled by one company. |
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| An economic system based on free markets, private ownership of business and industry, and the profit motive. |
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| An economy in which government does not interfere in business activities; supply and demand are not regulated, or are regulated with only minor restrictions. |
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Industrialization
Chapter 8 |
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| The shift of a country's major economic activity from agriculture to manufacturing. |
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| A person who sets up or finances a new business or industry to make a profit. |
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| International Labour Organization |
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| The policy of one country extending political, economic, or military control over another. |
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| Unprocessed natural resources such as logs and iron ore. |
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| A place, generally another country, where one can buy and sell raw materials or manufactured goods. |
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| A territory claimed and ruled by another country; in many instances, people travelled from the ruling country to create settlements in colonies. |
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| An area that ruled itself but was guided by another, more powerful, country. |
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Sphere of Influence
Chapter 9 |
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| A region in which an outside country influences or controls political or economic event for its own gain; this may have an impact on the culture of the region. |
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Company Land Grant
Chapter 9 |
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| A region granted to a company for economic gain. |
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An area of land that is legally owned by the federal government but is set aside for the use of a specific
First Nations Group. |
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Residential School
Chapter 10 |
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| A boarding school set up for the purpose of educating and assimilating Aboriginal children. |
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| An act passed by the Canadian government in 1876 and amended(changed) several times since, which makes "Indians, and the lands reserved for the Indians" the responsibility of the government. |
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| A group of citizens that band together to bring an issue or demand to the government and push for change; well-known lobby groups include Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Greenpeace. |
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Royal Commission
Chapter 10 |
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| A committee appinted by the federal government to investigate and write a report about a specific topic. |
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Statement of Reconciliation
Chapter 10 |
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| An official acknowledgement of wrongs committed against Aboriginal peoples, and a pledge to address those wrongs. |
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Self-Government
Chapter 10 |
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| Aboriginal people gaining control over key elements in their own communities, such as the courts and education. |
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Bretton Woods Agreement
Chapter 11 |
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| An agreement signed by the Allied countries in 1944 that established a number of financial institutions and a system of rules and regulations to promote international trade in the global economy. |
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| A financial institution, with headquarters in the U.S., that provides loans to member countries in financial difficulty. |
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| International Monetary Fund |
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| The price at which one country's currency can be purchased with another country's currency. |
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| Heavily Indebted Poor Country |
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Trade Liberalization
Chapter 11 |
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| The process of reducing barriers to trade. |
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| Trade between countries with relatively few restrictions. |
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| A group of countries working together to give one another better trading terms. |
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| A tax on imported goods or services meant to reduce competition with domestic goods or services. |
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Group of 8 (G8)
Chapter 11 |
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| An informal group of the eight more developed countries with the strongest economies, whose leaders meet annually to discuss global issues. |
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| Free Trade Area of the Americas |
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Anti-Globalization
Chapter 11 |
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| A term used to describe individuals and groups who protest against global trade agreements, which, they claim, only help more developed countries get richer at the expense of less developed countries. |
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| General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
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| The name of the single European currency that went into circulation on Jan. 1, 2002. |
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| Transnational Corporation |
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| GDP divided by population. |
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| Direct financial help, such as loans or lower taxes, that the government provides to an industry. |
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| Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation |
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Containerization
Chapter 12 |
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| A shipping method in which large amounts of goods are packaged into large containers for efficient transport and handling. |
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| A company that is owned and controlled by a large corporation. |
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| International Chamber of Commerce |
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| The opening of an industry to more competition by removing government regulations originally put in place to limit competition. |
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| The sale of government-owned industries and services to private businesses. |
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Crown Corporation
Chapter 13 |
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| A government-owned business created to provide essential products and services to people. |
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| Alberta Government Telephones |
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| Alberta Energy And Utilities Board |
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Economic Nationalism
Chapter 13 |
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| The belief that a country's economy should belong to the people of the country and not be controlled by foreign companies. |
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| Foreign Investment Review Agency |
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Knowledge Economy
Chapter 13 |
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| Industries that use knowledge to produce economic benefits. |
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Factors of Production
Chapter 13 |
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| Resources such as land, labour, and capital that are used to produce goods and services (capital in the sense refers to machinery, factories, warehouses, and equipment.) |
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| A workplace characterized by low wages and poor working conditions, often found in less developed countries that sell goods to TNCs. |
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| A preoccupation with buying goods and services. |
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| Moral principles or values. |
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| A suggestion that certain things are true or will happen as a result of something else. |
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| The technique of digging up land completely, as when mining oil sands. |
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| Lands consisting of partly rotted vegetation, such as swamps. |
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| Restored to a productive state. |
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Sustainable Development
Chapter 14 |
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| Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. |
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| Cutting down all the trees in an area. |
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Selective Cutting
Chapter 14 |
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| Logging for specific trees without clearing the whole area. |
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Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)
Chapter 14 |
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| An area of sea around a country's shorline from which the country has the exclusive right to extract natural resources. |
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| Removal of salt from seawater, converting it to fresh water. |
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Ecological Ethics
Chapter 15 |
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| Thinking about the environment from an ecological rather than a human standpoint. |
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| Responsible management and use of land and resources so that future generations will enjoy healthy environments. |
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| Environmental protection Agency |
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Sustainable Development
Chapter 15 |
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| Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. |
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Definition
| The watering of large crops. |
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| The washing away of soil. |
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| Large-scale agricultural business. |
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| Capable of supporting agriculture. |
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Standard of Living
Chapter 16 |
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| Level of material comfort as measured by the goods, services, and luxuries available to an individual, community, or nation. |
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Quality of Life
Chapter 16 |
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| The degree of enjoyment and satisfaction experienced in everyday life that includes standard of living as well as non-material things, such as political and religious freedom, health care, and the environment. |
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| Canadian International Development Agency |
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Intergovernmental Organization (IGO)
Chapter 16 |
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| An international institution made up of independent countries working cooperatively for a common purpose. |
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Non-governmental Organization (NGO)
Chapter 16 |
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| A private charitable organization that provides international aid or relief, promotes economic equality, protects the environment, or promotes community development. |
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| Organization of African Unity |
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Grassroots Organization
Chapter 16 |
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| A community-based organization working on local projects. |
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| To give somebody authority or confidence. |
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| Applicable to all persons or things in the world. |
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| To confirm ar accept an agreement by formal consent. |
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| The mass extermination of human beings. |
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| A religious group, banned by the Chinese government, that combines traditional Chinese exercises and meditation with Buddhist teachings. |
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Prisoner of Conscience
Chapter 17 |
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| A person imprisoned by a state for holding political or religious beliefs the state does not tolerate. |
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| Enforcing strict obedience to authority as opposed to encouraging individual freedom. |
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| United Nations Children's Fund |
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| Describes something that exists as a possibility, an unproven idea or theory. |
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| A citizen who is not a member of a country's military force. |
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| A person who flees his or her home by escaping to another country. |
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| Internally displaced person. |
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Grassroots Organization
Chapter 18 |
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| A community-based organization working on local projects. |
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| Active support for a cause or position. |
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| A person who leaves his or her family and country to find work. |
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Definition
| A person who sets up or finances a new business or industry to make a profit. |
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Transnational Community
Chapter 19 |
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| A cultural community that maintains political, social, cultural, and economic links between its homeland and its adopted land. |
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Genetically Modified (GM)
Chapter 19 |
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| Describes an organism that has been changed through manipulation of its genetic material. |
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BSE (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy)
Chapter 19 |
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| Also called mad cow disease; a disease that affects the central nervous system of cattle and has been know to spread to humans. |
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Green Revolution
Chapter 19 |
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| Period during the 1960s and 1970s when many traditional farming practices were replaced by technologies that increased agricultural production in countries around the world. |
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Definition
| An epidemic occuring over a large geographic area that affects vast numbers of people and challenges both society and the economy. |
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Civic Responsibilities
Chapter 20 |
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| Duties toward one's community. |
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| Canadian Council for International Co-operation |
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| Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development |
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| Federation of Canadian Municipalities |
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| A task, often assigned by law. |
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Responsible Citizen
Chapter 21 |
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| A member of society who accepts and embraces a duty or obligation to that society. |
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Global Citizenship
Chapter 21 |
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| The quality of being an aware, contributing member of society, especially in regard to global issues. |
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Definition
| An organized campaign in which consumers refuse to purchase goods or services from a business or country because they disagree with its policies. |
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| An organized campaign in which consumers purposely purchase from a company to show that they agree with its corporate policies. |
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| A written request signed by many people appealing to an authority or government for change. |
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| Consistent with agreed principles of moral conduct. |
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| The belief that MY culture is BETTER than another person’s culture. |
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Inappropriately applying
our concepts and beliefs
to explain
another group’s practices |
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| An ancient but extensive interconnected network of trade routes that tied the Mediterranean region (Europe & Africa)with the Far East (China) , historically used by silk traders. |
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| The business of capturing, transporting and selling slaves esp. the bringing of black Africans to America in the 16th to 19th centuries. |
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the use or manipulation of another person for one's own advantage
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| The dominant groups of South American First Nations peoples who established an empire in South America prior to the Spanish conquest. |
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| Having a reason or explanation to defend your stance. |
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| An extinct First Nations Canadian people formerly living in Newfoundland |
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| Large group of Canadian First Nations peopels who lived across the southern regions of Alberta, Saskatchewan & Manitoba who relied primarily on the buffalo for their livelihood. |
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| Group of 6 First Nations peoples living in the Great Lakes area of Canada, most noted for their cooperation and confederacy. |
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