Canada

Canada
Capital: Ottawa Total area: 9,984,670 sq k Population: 34,030,589 (July 2011 est.) Languages: English (official) 58.8%, French (official) 21.6%, other 19.6% (2006 Census)





**Task 2 Location and Climate**


=**Climate of Ottawa**= Climate of Ottawa

= Task 4 population/size/shape/and life expectancy: =

Midyear population: 33,760,000

Total fertility: 1.6

Life expectancy: 81



TASK 5: WHAT IS IT LIKE TO LIVE HERE?
=Residential school pain eased by teen's funeral=

Hundreds of other families hoping for the return of lost children
===This year shows that ordinary Canadians can help to heal the wounds from residential schools. The funeral was for Charlie Hunter, a teenager who died nearly 40 years ago while attending residential school.=== ===He was buried in Moose Factory, hundreds of kilometres away from his home and family in Peawanuk, Ont. For decades his parents pressed the federal government to bring Charlie’s body home, but nothing happened.===

===Finally, Charlie’s youngest sister, Joyce Hunter, went public with her desire to hold a proper funeral for the brother who died before she was born. She said it was an important gift for her aging father.=== ===A Facebook page was created and the National Residential School Survivors Association began collecting the thousands of dollars in donations needed to transport Charlie’s body to Peawanuk and pay for the funeral. On Aug 17, the family and most of the small community gathered in Peawanuk’s tipi-shaped church to say goodbye.===

===Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) estimates at least a thousand other families are in the same situation as the Hunters, longing to reunite with children lost to the residential school system.=== ===But the survivors association worries it's not the focus of the TRC’s efforts. Mike Cachagee is the executive director of the non-profit group, based in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. He says the TRC has put the issue of missing children in a silo as a research project.===

===The NDP’s Charlie Angus attended Charlie’s funeral as the MP for the area. He said the government’s failure to help the Hunter family shows the Conservatives don’t understand the universal desire to ease the pain caused by residential schools.=== ===“Canadians want to be reconciled. They don’t know the full extent of what’s been done to these communities but they want some kind of healing. So a story like Charlie Hunter helps people to say maybe I can participate in a small way and maybe we can move on.”===


 * __TERRORISM AND SAFETY:__ ** Global Incident Map. Canada is safe. According to the Global Incident Map, there no terrorism in Canada.

**TASK 6: ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES**
66.4
 * What is the EPI score given to your country?**

46
 * How does this compare with other countries?**

Air pollution, fisheries, marine protection, and global warming
 * Which environmental issues are the biggest concern for your country?**

Summary: Global warming in Canda affects not only plants or animals, but also humans. Some problems are: the disappearence of sea ice, causing decrease of the Artic animal population, leading to difficulties of survival for the indigenous people of the Iunits; threat to health of all Canadians because of the frequent heat waves, causing more diseases and deaths; loss of homes of costal communities because of rising sea levels due to melting of sea ice; and threat to quality of everyday life due to deteriorating quality of water and food because of the increasing heat. Title of Article: Climate Change - Impact on Canada Publication: WWF Canada Author: Joshua Laughren Date Published: (?) URL: []

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**TASK 7: EDUCATION**
What percentage of the GDP is spent on education? 4.9% of GDP (2007) How does this compare with the rest of the world? Canada is in the 64th place. What percentage of the population is literate? 99%

Is there a major difference in rates of literacy between male and female? no obvious difference How many years is a person expected to attend school? about 17 years

Is there a difference between between males and females? no difference at all.

**TASK 8 - GENDER EQUALITY**


The Global Gender Gap Overall Score: .7372 Economic Participation and Opportunity: .7768 Educational Attainment: .9977 Health and Survival: .9784 Political Empowerment: .1959

The Gender Equality Index from Social Watch.



The Global Gender Gap

Overall Score: .7372

Economic Participation and Opportunity: .7768

Educational Attainment: .9977

Health and Survival: .9784

Political Empowerment: .1959

The Maternal Mortality Rate for Canada is 12 deaths/100,000 live baby's compared to the rest of the world: 139 Infant mortality rate:

**4.92 deaths/1,000 live births**
country comparison to the world: 183