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Non-Recognition of Credentials: A Barrier to the Successful Economic Integration of Canadian Immigrants

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Introduction Globalization is a societal process of ongoing interconnected economic, cultural, social, and political changes. This globalization project mobilizes people of different backgrounds or demographics across national borders by transferring goods and services, technology and information, skills and knowledge, and the flow of investments. In addition, it allows cultural fusion from various regions of the … Continue reading Non-Recognition of Credentials: A Barrier to the Successful Economic Integration of Canadian Immigrants

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Exclusion in Healthcare, Education, and Governance: Racializing and Positioning Indigenous Peoples at the Margins of Canadian Society

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The assimilation project of the European settlers left a most excruciating legacy among Indigenous peoples in Canada. The afflictions brought by the residential schools reverberate from generation to generation of Indigenous peoples, exacerbated by discoveries of unmarked graves of children participants in various regions of the country. Such an event ruined the fabric of the … Continue reading Exclusion in Healthcare, Education, and Governance: Racializing and Positioning Indigenous Peoples at the Margins of Canadian Society

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Marx’s Concept of Commodities Revisited

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In socio-economic activities, commodities play an essential role in shaping and affecting social processes. This paper will discuss Karl Marx's concepts of "commodities," which will focus on its values, labour embodiment, and the extent to social relations. Entities or commodities are items or articles external to humans, satisfy their needs and wants. When we talk … Continue reading Marx’s Concept of Commodities Revisited

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A Tale of Womanhood

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     The documentary discusses the essentialist view of gender and its power, which poses the distinction and disparity between men and women. Essentialism elucidates the facets of human behaviour and identity as part of its essentiality (Jackson and Rahman, 2010, p. 16-17). The film "Period. End of Sentence" reflectively exposes this disparity in human behaviour … Continue reading A Tale of Womanhood