Laws in Canada

We first examined this presentation on Types of Laws in Canada.

And then we had a look at this assignment on Criminal and Civil Laws in Canada.

Charter of Rights and Freedoms

We spent Thursday and Friday on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

First was the Charter Assignment.

Then the Charter Case Studies.

Your Rights and Responsibilities as a Canadian

We went through this presentation today on the Rights and Responsibilities that you have as a Canadian citizen.

Your Rights and Responsibilities as an Intelligent Citizen

Here is a short biopic of Nelson Mandela and his struggle for human dignity and human rights for all South Africans.



"I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." - Nelson Mandela, Statement to the Supreme Court of Pretoria, April 20, 1964

Here's today's presentation on Your Rights and Responsibilities.

NIMBY - Final Project for Government and Citizenship

Today and tomorrow we are in the Library Lab to complete your work on the NIMBY Project (Not in My Backyard).

NIMBY Project.

When you're done remember to change the share setting to "Anyone with the link can access" before sending me the link to your project to   kovichm@hdsb.ca

Levels of Canadian Government

We spent some time working on the Levels of Government in Canada - all of that information is on this presentation:

Branches of Government

Here's a list of the levels of Government and Their Powers.

We did Cornell Notes on this information and this time they were marked.  Here's the rubric for that:

Cornell Notes Rubric

And here is the Flow Chart of Levels and Powers of Government.  You can download it if you like as it's a pdf and your machine might not display it correctly.

Canada's Political Structure

You will be taking notes in a new way today - Cornell Notes.  Here's a funny little video on the topic of Cornell Notes - this method of taking notes is, in fact, the most effective way to take good notes and then study from them afterwards.

Today we'll look at the Structure of the Government in Canada and how it got that way.

Here's  link to the Google Presentation - Structure of the Canadian Government.