Chapter 2 Questions
+ Voices from the Story and Referenced Resources
Think about it
- This lesson was jam packed! There was a lot to take in. Deep breath.
- Are there any unanswered questions or areas that require further investigation based on the story?
- Can you apply the information from the story to real-life situations or other contexts?
- Can you give an example of a misunderstanding or misinterpretation that could occur when important context is missing?
- How does context help us better understand a situation?
- How can cultural knowledge help improve our understanding of differing societal values and conflicts in our world today?
- Should ecological context be weighed alongside cultural context when investigating complex issues?
- Should we have more empathy for different contexts and perspectives?
- What is ideology and why is it important to understand?
- Do you think ideology is changing? Do you think we need to redefine the political spectrum?
- What was the most surprising thing you learned?
- What is a political ideology, and why do you think it matters in a democracy?
- What issues do you think are most important when deciding who to vote for (e.g., economy, environment, education, healthcare)? Why?
- How might your background, experiences, or community influence your political beliefs?
- Do you think political labels like “left” and “right” are helpful or limiting? Why?
- How can understanding the social and economic context of a community or region allow us to solve complex problems?
- Reflect on a time when hearing a different context made you rethink a situation or perspective.
- Reflect on a situation where you felt your viewpoint was not heard. How did it make you feel?
- How does listening to diverse perspectives contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of complex topics or current events?
Reflection Activity
- Option One: Write a self-reflection on the story. Did you enjoy it? What did you learn? How did it make you feel and think?
- Option Two: Design a poster that celebrates the most interesting fact you learned in this story.
- Option Three: Find three websites or articles that relate to themes presented in this story. Explain why you selected them.
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Referenced Resources
- Mountain pine tree that feeds grizzlies threatened due to climate change, beetles, fungus, officials say
- Cod Moratorium of 1992
- BC salmon fishery on verge of commercial collapse
- Running on Empty: The BC Forestry Crash
- Sovereignty bills are symbols of discontent in today's Canada
- Quebec and the right to be different
- Ottawa's "just transition" needs to be challenged for encouraging fantasy around oil and gas
- Don’t ‘bothsides’ the just transition
- Arrests continue as the old-growth protest near Fairy Creek moves into another year
- Federal government steps into Greenbelt debate, launching study that could delay some development
- Nova Scotia pitches something 'better than a carbon tax' to Ottawa
- Shame on the federal government,' N.S. premier says of clean fuel rules
- Houston continues fight with Feds over carbon tax, runs ad campaign
- N.S. moves step closer to protecting 20% of its land and water by 2030
- Nova Scotia announces 17 new, expanded protected areas, and 10 more to come
- New report says federal carbon levy expected to cost most Nova Scotians more
- Nova Scotia gets 14 new nature reserves, wilderness areas, including area in Sackville
- Ottawa's carbon tax will hit Nova Scotia hard
- How B.C. brought in Canada's 1st carbon tax and avoided economic disaster
- B.C. gets a C grade in protecting land and oceans: report
- B.C. holding out on federal conservation targets and large-scale protected areas
- The environment is the top issue for Ontario voters, but are candidates taking it seriously enough?
- Environment is top election issue for Metro Vancouver residents: survey
- Canadians unified on forest protection although wildfire cause divisive: poll
- Survey supports outdoor group's call for additional B.C. Parks funding
- Don’t forget about rural Canadians when crafting environmental plans
- The rural-urban split matters more than you think
- Algonquin Logging Museum
- 10 Key Facts on Canada’s Natural Resources
- Acts administered by Environment and Climate Change Canada
- Visible Forest Stages
- Like it or not, building houses on the Greenbelt is necessary
- Logging Algonquin Park is just one example how Ontario is failing to protect nature
- After almost 3 decades, cod are still not back off N.L. Scientists worry it may never happen
- DFO shuts most B.C. fisheries in desperate effort to save salmon
- Ghost town no more: How tourism revived a once-decimated Newfoundland fishing community
- Grasslands National Park
- From cowboys to tourists: How the Grasslands kept Val Marie alive
- Sovereignty act shows Ottawa that Alberta will continue to fight for its rights
- 'We are not backing down': Premier Moe says legislation on parental rights coming this fall
- Danielle Smith wants vaccine status to be a human right. Expect a petri dish of problems
- Declaration Act Action Plan
- Quebec English speakers brace as major provisions of language law come into effect
- Geez, everyone likes parks, concludes $150,000 Parks Canada survey
- Bear watching more profitable than bear hunting, says study
- Banff Rules and Regulations
- Canada's National Parks Are Colonial Crime Scenes
- B.C. national park faces opposition as debate continues over land protection
- Ranchers frustrated with 'unchecked growth' of grizzly bear population
- Rise in Grizzly-Bear Deaths Has Some Environmentalists Worried
- What's Wrong with Putting a Price on Nature?
- Put a price on nature? We must stop this neoliberal road to ruin
- The Coming of Knowledge-Based Business
- The objectives of the Global Innovation Clusters
- Clusters and the New Economics of Competition
- Quebec Press Council rules debate moderator Shachi Kurl was biased in question on Bills 21 and 96
- Why 6 in 10 Canadians feel the country is divided
- Replacing the pan-Canadian consensus
- The environment is Canada's biggest wedge issue
- The anatomy of social media's mad-making machine
- Technology and Tyranny: Social Media and the End of the Liberal World Order
- This is what's wrong with Canada's Left
- This is what's wrong with Canada's Right
- Liberal Party of Canada
- Conservative Party of Canada
- Welfare State
- Socialism
- Communist System
- Communism's anti-democratic spectre is threatening Europe
- Communism: the theory and some of the countries that practice it
- The power of red
- Cuba
- Are you a social conservative? You might be surprised
- Faith Based Traditionalists
- What is fascism?
- Fascism, Vulnerability, and the Escape from Freedom
- What to Know About the Origins of Fascism's Brutal Ideology
- Who's drawn to fascism? Postwar study of authoritarianism makes a comeback
- The fascist authoritarian model of illiberal democracy
- How Did Adolf Hitler Happen?
- How Mussolini led Italy to fascism—and why his legacy looms today
- We Should Say It. Russia Is Fascist.
- Russia
- The Political Compass
- Political Compass - The Decision Lab
- What the world values, in one chart
- The fight over liberty is far from over
- Why Leftists Go Right
- Canadian Civil Liberties Association
- Libertarianism
- Canada needs sustained economic growth, not income redistribution
- Guns, drugs, hookers, and freedom: meet the political party formerly banned by Elections Canada
- Why There's a Left-Right Divide among Libertarians
- Libertarians believe that the War on Drugs is ineffective, unfair, and immoral. We advocate ending it.
- Libertarians Have Long Led the Way on Marriage
- A brief history of globalization
- The Globalization of Markets
- WTO members embark on sixth “Fish Week” ahead of Senior Officials Meeting
- Toronto Stock Exchange
- Superpowers Are Forsaking Free Trade
- Globalism is dead. Long live globalization
- Annual Meeting of the Global Future Councils
- Protests surround WTO summit
- In Seattle's WTO protests, the seeds of today's anti-globalist nationalism
- Populist, anti-elite and nativist views linked to globally widespread broken-system sentiment
- Freedom, not Fear; Truckers, Not Trudeau: Why Right-Wing Populism is Going Mainstream in Canada
- Conservative Party Populism: The Rise of Pierre Poilievre
- Rage against the elite: A primer on populism in Canada
- Defund the CBC and end media bailout
- To be more successful, the NDP can reclaim its heritage of left-wing populism
- Canada's Unions Launch “A Future That Works” Campaign
- “Workers are worth it”: CUPE Ontario launches campaign for better wages for frontline public sector workers
- Not all conservatives are sold on capitalist excess
- Fighting the Establishment: The Role of Anti-Elitism in Contemporary Populism
- Right Here, Right Now by Stephen J. Harper
- If Trump and Sanders Are Both Populists, What Does Populist Mean?
- Donald Trump doesn't have proper conservative values
- Donald Trump isn’t a conservative, he’s a big-spending nationalist
- How Trump Has Redefined Conservatism
- Donald Trump, the Perfect Populist
- Trump, Bolsonaro, Meloni and the New Wave of Populism
- George W. Bush Is Too Liberal for the Republican Party
- Was George W. Bush a Conservative or a Moderate?
- President George W. Bush on Compassionate Conservatism
- Bush takes veiled jab at Trump, defends globalization
- Bush Says Republican Party Is Isolationist and Protectionist
- Patriots vs globalists replaces the left-right divide
- How did Democrats become the defenders of trade?
- Why Democrats Are Becoming the Party of the 1 Percent
- Are Canadian Conservatives actually conservative?
- What do the policies Poilievre's party passed say about the Conservatives' future?
- The conservative consensus is over. The consequences for the Canadian Right will be profound
- Poilievre's populism appeals because elites abandoned the working class
- Pierre Poilievre and the anti-elite populism that won the day
- Pierre Poilievre is popular among union members. What’s it really all about?
- Pierre Poilievre wants to steal the labour vote. NDP insiders say they have a plan to stop him
- NDP must focus on its labour union roots to take on the Tories, says new party leader Marit Stiles
- Province gives workers right to refuse dangerous tasks as part of labour law overhaul
- Official Home Page of the NDP Socialist Caucus
- NDP remains committed to democratic socialism, despite claims to the contrary
- Pierre Poilievre's horseshoe strategy
- How globalism went from Right to Left
- Canada's NDP
- The NDP supports workers – and CUPE supports the NDP
- Ontario Federation of Labour endorses NDP and Jagmeet Singh
- Industry in uproar over BC's deferral of old-growth harvesting
- What does the NDP stand for?
- What's in the NDP's Green New Democratic Deal
- NDP resolutions present opportunity to build a socialist Canada
- The NDP turns 60: It’s never truly been the political arm of organized labour
- NDP does some soul-searching on the role of labour in the party
- CCF Premier Tommy Douglas changed the face of his adopted country
- Behind the scenes with Jagmeet Singh, the left's greatest showman
- Town and country: NDP saw success in cities, but failures in rural B.C. were costly
- Another Environmentalist Joins the NDP
- Why It's Hard for BC's NDP to Be Greener
- Fairy Creek blockades a political 'embarrassment' for Horgan government: critics
- Rachel Notley’s Support for Pipelines Could Cost the NDP the Election
- Why some environmentalists are turning away from the BC NDP
- Has the NDP lost labour's love?
- Green Party of Canada
- Telling the NDP and Greens apart: Here are five, sometimes surprising, ways the parties are different
- Does Canada still need a Green Party?
- As NDP and Greens do battle, Jagmeet Singh breathes new life into Quebec sovereignty issue
- Why the Green Party fails to attract climate-concerned voters
- Not left, not right, but forward
- Is there any room for Blue Liberals in Justin Trudeau's party?
- The Liberals: The strange death of the political centre
- What happened to the mushy middle in Canadian politics?
- Canada has changed. The Liberal party has, too
- Liberal Party of Canada no longer a liberal party
- Here's how Canada changed under Justin Trudeau
- Canada Lurches to the Left
- Canada has shifted to the left
- Below the national numbers, big Liberal advantage
- All-time low share of popular vote is enough for Liberals to win power
- Canada: Data Analytics in Canadian Elections
- The Ruthless Math of Political Campaigns: Is Big Data Bad for Democracy?
- Our winner-take-all system turns too many voters into losers and leaders into gamblers
- The broken triumph of Justin Trudeau
- Liberals courting progressive voters in bid to steal NDP support
- Trudeau makes pitch to Tory voters in areas held by rivals
- Stephen Harper defends populism, takes aim at 'liberal elites' at Conservative gathering
- Pierre Poilievre is a 21st century populist who thinks his moment has arrived
- Why the Right Turned Left
- Canada's Role on the Global Stage
- Trudeau's a globalist who supports 'The Great Reset'
- Rightward shift may cost Canada's divided Conservatives
- Canadians say country split between ordinary folks and elites. But what is an elite?
- Election 2019: Once all but dead, Bloc Québécois is back on its feet
- How do we explain the return of the Bloc Québécois?
- Bloc Québécois surge puts nationalism back on the federal agenda
- The Reawakening of Quebec's Nationalism
- 'Multiculturalism in Canada clashes with Quebecois values'
- Law Requiring French in Quebec Becomes Stricter
- What the spectre of Alberta separatism means for Canada
- In Quebec, the Independence Movement Gives Way to a New Nationalism
- After the referendum, Quebec nationalism turned inward
- FIRST READING: Is Alberta the new Quebec?
- Federalism and Decentralization in Canada
- List of areas the Alberta government accuses Ottawa of overreaching
- Studies find French language is on the decline in Quebec
- Québec’s vision: a form of federalism that recognizes collective diversity
- More Alberta less Ottawa
- Sovereignty bills are symbols of discontent in today's Canada
- Danielle Smith unveils sovereignty act in attempt to shield Alberta from federal laws
- Alberta Sovereignty within a United Canada Act
- 'Bill 21 is a pedestal on which we must build': Quebec nationalists mull what comes next
- Bill 21, An Act respecting the laicity of the State
- Quebec passes bill banning public servants from wearing religious symbols
- Premier Smith says Alberta preparing Sovereignty Act motion over federal emissions plans
- Alberta faces off against Ottawa this week in Supreme Court over 'no more pipelines' law
- Standing up to Ottawa: Western alienation shifts into Prairie constitutional challenges
- Defending Albertans from Ottawa Overreach
- Of course Alberta is getting fleeced by Ottawa, just not in the way you think
- Don’t worry, Alberta isn’t defying Canada’s constitution. It’s just rewriting it
- Alberta should become a nation within a nation
- The Québec Nation and Québec's Distinctive Character
- House passes motion recognizing Quebecois as nation
- Statement by the Prime Minister to the House of Commons
- Think recognizing the ‘Quebec nation’ is harmless? In fact, the implications for unity are profound
- Why Quebec's Bill 96 is good for national unity
- ‘Quebec nationalism has been reborn’: An exclusive interview with leading Francophone intellectual Mathieu Bock-Côté
- Bill 21: Premier Legault tells federal leaders to butt out
- How secularism became Quebec’s religion: The distinct path to Bill 21
- Quebec premier slams multiculturalism as a threat to its culture
- Legault says he's against multiculturalism because 'it's important to have culture where we integrate'
- Legault defends Bill 21: 'Think of what's best for our children'
- Quebec and the right to be different
- Policy on Quebec Affirmation
- House passes motion recognizing Quebecois as nation
- What is Take Back Alberta? What you need to know about 'pro-freedom' conservative group
- Anger, anxiety and the 'deep story' behind Wexit
- After a Hard-Right Turn, Alberta’s Conservatives Retain Power
- For Smith, COVID, rights of unvaccinated very much on UCP radar
- New Alberta premier says unvaccinated 'most discriminated against group' after swearing-in
- Smith says Alberta continues to be open for business
- Smith needs constitutional change to protect Albertans from future tax hikes
- Alberta will not recognize federal net-zero mandates
- Federal climate policy poses 'existential' threat to Alberta
- An introduction to the new Quebec nationalism and the tricks it plays on federal leaders
- Quebec makes symbolic amendment to Canada's Constitution
- Quebec's election and the reluctant nationalism of the left
- Quebec wants to tax people unvaccinated against COVID-19. Can the province do that?
- Legault defends tuition hike for out-of-province students as means to protect French
- Alberta and Quebec have little chance of pipeline compromise
- Quebec doesn't want another pipeline, François Legault tells Jason Kenney
- ‘We are not at war with Alberta’: Quebec stands firm against pipeline
- Quebecers criticize 'dirty' Alberta oil but buy more gasoline, SUVs: report
- Alberta And Quebec Are About To Enter A Full-Blown Trade War And It’s The Most Un-Canadian Thing Ever
- Alberta's nationalists have a strange love affair with Quebec
- Quebec joins carbon tax fight to 'protect provincial jurisdiction'
- Montreal's Bottom-up Social Democracy
- Quebec's Greek-like welfare state: paid for by the West and Ontario
- With sovereignty off the table, Quebec Liberals struggling to connect with voters
- With Quebec Liberals on the ropes, liberalism in the province is at a crossroads
- Quebec nationalism push poses election challenge for Justin Trudeau
- For a progressive province, Quebec can be rather conservative
- Quebec's new political divide
- Parti Quebecois
- How the CAQ changed the game on Québécois nationalism
- Le complexe hydroélectrique de la Romaine inauguré en grand
- A look at every Alberta election since the province was created in 1905
- The rise of western alienation ... again: When it comes to anger in the west, history keeps repeating itself
- What Makes the Prairie Provinces Different?
- Disenfranchisement and disappointment: Idea of western Canadian separation has deep roots in Prairies
- Albertans growing alienated from their own leaders, too
- Danielle Smith and the Alberta Version of Tactical Populism
- ‘The West was already in’: Mulroney defends his legacy as PM
- Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole has a problem — and it’s Alberta
- Social Credit may be dead. Long live Social Credit!
- Social Credit Party of Canada
- The Reform Party is formed
- anadian Reform Conservative Alliance
- Thirty years after birth of the Reform Party, its legacy lives in Conservative leadership results
- Populism in Alberta
- Western Canada: First, it was the ‘firewall letter’. Twenty years later, the Buffalo Declaration tries to encapsulate Alberta’s grievances
- The Mulroney years: Transformation and tumult
- Progressive Conservative Party
- Thirty years ago on June 25, Kim Campbell became Canada’s first, and still only, woman prime minister
- Stockwell Day:The Alliance, Harper, and the future
- Flashback Friday: On this day in 2003, PCs and Alliance united as Conservatives
- How MacKay helped Harper take over Progressive Conservative Party in 2003
- Harper and MacKay announce deal to unite the right
- Orchard launches blistering attack against Tory, Alliance merger
- Red Tories: another species at risk?
- Last-Chance Charest: Can Moderate Tories Take Back the Conservative Party?
- From Centre Ice Conservatives to Canadian Future, a new federal party takes shape
- Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole’s ideology shift was not enough to surpass Liberals
- Canada needs to brace itself for the next chapter of far-right extremism
- Moving from fringe to 4th place, PPC complicates the Conservatives' path to power
- Conservatives dominate prairies again but appear likely to yield some ground
- The PPC got more than 800,000 votes, and that should worry all of us
- The People’s Party is far outside the mainstream of Canadian politics, but it deserves representation
- People's Party of Canada
- Why Bernier's PPC polls higher in Alberta than anywhere else
- What does Sask.'s political history tell us about the growing popularity of the People's Party of Canada?
- Canada needs an invigorated political middle—Too bad our centrists are so boring
- Poilievre: too right; Trudeau: too left
- State of the Nations: Is there room for political compromise in Canada? Even on this, Canadians are evenly split
- Two new solitudes — rural and urban — now define the Canadian political landscape
- Is centrism doomed in Canada?
- Nature Labs: Political Parties
- Global Democracy Weakens in 2022
- Threats To Democracy Rise In A Third Of Countries
- There Are No Rules
- How to Understand the Global Spread of Political Polarization
- Revealed: the rise and rise of populist rhetoric
- The Rise of Global Populism
- Canada's angry, divisive politics are as old as Canada itself
- Do Canadians deserve their reputation for being nice?
- Why virtue signaling isn't the same as virtue
- Divergent bilingualism, linguistic anxieties, and Bill 96
- Trans Mountain pipeline: Some of the main arguments for and against it
- Province holding feedback sessions on Bighorn proposal
- Bighorn rally Thursday in Red Deer
- Under pressure: Canadians are losing trust in their governments, adding stress to our public institutions
- Canadians' trust in the news media hits a new low
- Trust in government is recovering but a new “generational trust gap” is emerging
- Millennials don't trust anyone. That's a big deal.
- Millenials and Gen Z have lost trust and loyalty with business
- Millennials aren't apathetic – they just don't trust politicians
- Global Democracy Weakens in 2022
- Threats To Democracy Rise In A Third Of Countries
- There Are No Rules
- How to Understand the Global Spread of Political Polarization
- Revealed: the rise and rise of populist rhetoric
- The Rise of Global Populism
- Canada's angry, divisive politics are as old as Canada itself
- Do Canadians deserve their reputation for being nice?
- Why virtue signaling isn't the same as virtue
- Divergent bilingualism, linguistic anxieties, and Bill 96
- Trans Mountain pipeline: Some of the main arguments for and against it
- Province holding feedback sessions on Bighorn proposal
- Bighorn rally Thursday in Red Deer
- Under pressure: Canadians are losing trust in their governments, adding stress to our public institutions
- Canadians' trust in the news media hits a new low
- Trust in government is recovering but a new “generational trust gap” is emerging
- Millennials don't trust anyone. That's a big deal.
- Millenials and Gen Z have lost trust and loyalty with business
- Millennials aren't apathetic – they just don't trust politicians
- Phew!
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