Today's schedule is BADC
B Block Legal Studies - Today we'll review the Provincial Superior court room, focusing on courtroom organization and then we'll discuss the roles and responsibilities of the judge, the crown prosecutor, defense counsel, the court clerk, court recorder, and sheriff. From the Canadian Department of Justice:
For help on these people's roles check out Courts of BC Intro to Supreme Court and the Criminal Process Overview along with the Courts of BC Intro to Provincial Court or the BC Provincial Court types of Criminal Cases
From yesterday, You'll need to work on questions 2 & 4 from page 200; questions 1 & 2 from page 207; and questions 2, 3, & 4 from page 211 of the All About Law textbook.
A Block Criminology - Remember, not all business is bad but we do need to understand the "corporate view" of white collar criminal activity. What is it that makes a successful business person and what kind of ethical behaviour is valued by corporate culture? To that end,
"What is "Churning"?
What is "Short and Distort"?
What is "Market Manipulation"?
And a Canadian case study...Bre-X Minerals Ltd. was a Canadian gold mining company that infamously defrauded investors by falsifying gold samples and misstating its available gold reserves. Read more about the story at Investopedia or at Business Insider or from the Calgary Herald. The story was actually turned into the 2016 movie Gold
And...
What is the "Profit Motive"
From the Harvard Business Review How to Scandal-Proof Your Company and What I’ve Learned About White-Collar Crime From GL Analytics Do Scandals & Fraud Come From Poor Culture?
And an interesting podcast Capitalisn’t: When the Profit Motive Kills
So, some people use Enterprise / Business to con people, or the company, out of cash. You'll have four questions to answer for me:
1. What’s the psychology behind the con and what can we learn from it? (check out The 7 Psychological Principles of Scams: Protect Yourself by Learning the Techniques)
2. How does a con man identify a mark? (check out Maria Konnikova on How we Get Conned and her interview below)
3. What are the nine phases of a long-con game? (check out The 9 Stages of the Big Con and the 4 Phases of Small Value Fraud)
4. What is the one fact that instantly makes you harder to con? (check out Protect yourself from scams and fraud)
D Block Physical Geography - Today we'll focus on coastal processes and land forms. We will look at how water erodes, shapes, and creates coastal landscapes by focusing on long shore current & drift.
We'll analyze the differences between an erosional coastline
and a depositional coastline
We'll try to make sense of the hazards of living along depositional coastlines (think Cape Hatteras, North Carolina). Some facts:
University of Regina Geomorphology Class notes
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Geomorphology from space site
USGS Coastal & Marine Geology program
NOAA: What Threats do Coastal Communities Face?
AGI Interactive Map of Coastal Hazards
There's a great article on the dangers of people moving to coastlines at National Geographic
There's a great web page on the Graveyard of the Atlantic: Sable Island Nova Scotia. Check out more on Sable Island here
You can also find some very good before-after photos of the destruction caused to coastal land forms and human infrastructure by Hurricane Sandy at ABC News.
and a depositional coastline
We'll try to make sense of the hazards of living along depositional coastlines (think Cape Hatteras, North Carolina). Some facts:
- More than 155 million people (53 percent of the population) reside in U.S. coastal counties comprising less than 11 percent of the land area of the lower 48 states.
- Roughly 1,500 homes are lost to erosion each year.
- Nearly 180 million people visit the U.S. coast every year, and coastal states account for 85 percent of U.S. tourism revenues. The tourism industry is the nation’s largest employer and second largest contributor to gross domestic product.
- 71 percent of annual U.S. disaster losses are the result of coastal storms.
- Close to 350,000 homes and buildings are located within 150 meters of the ocean. Within 60 years, one out of every four of those structures will be destroyed.
University of Regina Geomorphology Class notes
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Geomorphology from space site
USGS Coastal & Marine Geology program
NOAA: What Threats do Coastal Communities Face?
AGI Interactive Map of Coastal Hazards
There's a great article on the dangers of people moving to coastlines at National Geographic
These megacities are most at risk from rising sea levels, according to the UN secretary-general
Why so many people have moved to Florida – and into harm’s way
Why so many people have moved to Florida – and into harm’s way
There's a great web page on the Graveyard of the Atlantic: Sable Island Nova Scotia. Check out more on Sable Island here
You can also find some very good before-after photos of the destruction caused to coastal land forms and human infrastructure by Hurricane Sandy at ABC News.
Also FYI...how does an electricity generation plant utilize the tides to produce electricity? Are there any sites in North America? Where are they?" check out the following...
C Block Human Geography - Today we look at the Key Question: Where Are Languages Distributed? Ethnologue estimates that the world has an estimated 7,102 languages...11 of which are spoken by at least 100 million people each (including English with the others being German, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Bengali, Hindi, Japanese, Lahnda, and Mandarin).
In Canada more than 200 languages were reported in the 2021 Canadian Census of Population as a home language or mother tongue (a mother tongue is the language first learned at home in childhood and still understood). Quite obviously as a mother tongue, English (20,107,200 speakers) and French (7,189,245 speakers) are the most widely spoken languages however Mandarin (679,255), Punjabi (666,585), Yue/Cantonese (553,380), Spanish (538,870), Arabic (508,410), and Tagalog/Filipino (461,150) are also widely spoken.
More than 70 distinct Indigenous languages are currently spoken by First Nations people, Métis and Inuit in Canada and all Indigenous languages spoken in Canada are considered at risk, being classified as either vulnerable, definitely endangered, severely endangered or critically endangered. According to the 2021 Census, 148,895 people reported an Aboriginal mother tongue and just 85,835 people reported speaking an Aboriginal language most often or regularly at home (Language families include but are not limited to Algonquian, Inuit, Athapaskan, Salish, Tsimshian, Wakashan, Kutenai, Haida and Michif).
There were 180,085 First Nations people in British Columbia in 2021, of whom 14,595 could speak an Indigenous language well enough to conduct a conversation, down 7.1% from 2016. Over half (58.1%) of the First Nations people who speak an Indigenous language in British Columbia learned it as a second language later in life, up from 52.1% in 2016.
And for the 28,420 people who live in the City of Courtenay
You'll need to look at language families from pages 146-149 of the Cultural Landscape book in order to fill in a chart for me.
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