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What Lessons Can Canada Learn?

What are the two most valuable lessons from cultural isolation during the Edo period and rapid adaptation during the Meiji period for current Canadian policy makers on foreign and domestic issues?


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Title: Canada 2050
Host: Canadian Geographic
Description: This website contains a report outlining the challenges that Canada will face in the 21st century.
Navigation Tips: Scroll down to view complete text. Mouse over and click on a heading in the menu bar at the top of the screen or click on a topic in the left-hand-side menu to access additional information. Alternatively, click on the left and right arrows on the right-hand side of the screen to access specific sections of the report.
URL: http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/atlas/themes.aspx?id=canada2050
&sub=canada2050_introduction_introduction&lang=En#

 

Title: Environment
Host: Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development
Description: This website contains information about a variety of environmental topics including air, land, water, climate change and waste.
Navigation Tips: Scroll down to view environmental topics and click on a heading or the subcategories below it to access information. Or, click on the topics in the menu bar at the top of the screen to access information and additional related links.
URL: http://aep.alberta.ca/

 

Title:

Hot Commodity:Exporting Fresh Water

Host:

Time Inc.
Description:

This website contains an August 2001 Time Magazine article by Stephen Handelman. The author of the article examines the issue of whether Canada should export and sell its fresh water.
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http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1000535,00.html

 

Title: The Pembina Institute
Host: The Pembina Institute
Description: This website contains information from the Pembina Institute, an independent not-for-profit environmental policy research and education organization based in Alberta. Areas of research include energy, climate change, sustainability and environmental issues.
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URL: http://www.pembina.org/index.php

 

Title: Solutions Are In Our Nature
Host: David Suzuki Foundation
Description: This website contains information about the David Suzuki Foundation which works through science and education in such areas as solving global warming, protecting human health, conserving our oceans, promoting global conservation and building a sustainable economy.
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URL: http://www.davidsuzuki.org/

 

Title: Free Trade
Host: Historica Canada
Description:

This website contains an article in the The Canadian Encyclopedia about the history of the free trade agreement between Canada and the United States.

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Title: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Host: Canadian Centres for Teaching Peace
Description: This website contains the text to Robert Fulgham's poem "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten."
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URL: http://www.peace.ca/kindergarten.htm

 

Title: Canada e-Book: The People
Host: Statistics Canada
Description: This website is part of Canada e-Book and contains a report on how immigration is changing the ethno-cultural composition of Canadian society.
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 Scroll down to view complete text and advance to the next page by clicking on the page arrows at the bottom of the screen. Click on categories in the left-hand-side menu to reveal a list of subtopics. Select a subtopic to access information. Mouse over the icons near the top of the screen and in the middle of the screen to access additional resources, such as tables, charts, supplemental texts, photographs and audio clips.
URL: http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/statcan/canada_e-book-ef/05-01-21/142.206.72.67/02/02_000_e.htm
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