Room 611: Monday, February 28. 2022

Today's schedule is ABCD

A Block Legal Studies - I'll have you work on the following questions:

1. What are some of the current barriers to equality facing women?
2. What is pay equity?
3. How are different jobs compared under pay equity?
4. What is employment equity?
5. What groups are protected under employment equity laws?

*warning there is potty mouth in the following videos so please be aware and watch with care

To help check out, Supreme Court orders female firefighter rehired

From the Canadian Human Rights Reporter:

The Supreme Court of Canada held that the Government of British Columbia's aerobic standard used to test the fitness of forest firefighters discriminated on the basis of sex, and further that the Government failed to show that the discriminatory standard is justified as a bona fide occupational requirement ("BFOR").

Canadian Labour Relations: Gender Discrimination in the Workplace

Human Rights in British Columbia: Sex Discrimination and Sexual Harassment

Most B.C. women have experienced gender discrimination: Poll

HUMAN RIGHTS CODE [RSBC 1996] CHAPTER 210

Justice Education Society Legal Rights in BC Human Rights

Human Rights in British Columbia: What you need to know

After a bit, we'll talk about the methods of enforcing rights guaranteed under the Charter (section 52 of the Constitution Act and Section 24 of the Charter). We'll look at the differences between "strike down", "read down" and "read in".

"Striking Down" involves a finding of invalidity of the entire provision or law in question
In some cases, the inconsistency between a law and the Constitution arises from what the statute wrongly excludes or omits. In such cases, the remedy of “Reading In” may be available which means that the validity of the legislation can be achieved through the “insertion of a handful of words, without more”
“Reading Down” describes the remedy at a conceptual level. Reading down involves shrinking the reach of a statute to remove its unconstitutional applications or effects without regard to the explicit statutory language that would be required to achieve that result

B Block Criminology - Today, we are in the library / learning commons, and your journal / blog entry is to answer the following:

What are the short and long term impacts on victims of Crime? Use both Harper from the Law & Order episode you watched on Friday and Chapter 3 pages 54-7 in CRIM textbook to help.

Next, I'd like you to find an article (news story) about a victim of crime and for that you should outline the impacts of the crime on them. Finally, using the two stories (one fictional and one real) explain what we should do to mitigate (soften the impact) the impacts of crime on victims (be realistic).

Don't forget to find stories on crime in Canada check out: CANOE CNews Crime site...or the Toronto Star Crime site...or Global News Crime site...or the Huffington Post Canada Crime site...or the Vancouver Sun Crime Blog

C Block Human Geography - Today we'll look at the Key Issue "Why Does Development Vary among Countries"? To do this we'll look at the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI). The HDI is a composite index measuring average achievement in three basic dimensions of human development:

a long and healthy life,
knowledge and
a decent standard of living

Earth’s nearly 200 countries can be classified according to their level of development, which is the process of improving the material conditions of people through diffusion of knowledge and technology. This is not necessarily about what makes people happy (The World Happiness Report) The development process is continuous, involving never-ending actions to constantly improve the health and prosperity of the people. Every place lies at some point along a continuum of development.

What pattern do you recognize in the map of LDC's below?

Given what you just learned about demography...why do you think this pattern exists?

You'll have two really big thinking questions to work on for me connected to this topic:

If you were to create an index of development, what indicators would you use, and why (look at the UN HDI Indicators for Canada in the week 7 booklet)? How would you weigh each indicator? Could your index be used around the world, or would it be mostly relevant to our society?
The HDI is used to measure development at a whole-country level. Is it adequate to measure development within a country? Why or why not? (Another way of thinking about this: Are there minority groups that may be “glossed over” by the HDI?

D Block Physical Geography - Today you'll need to define anticline & syncline, and work on questions 4 - 5 from page 412 in your Geosystems text. To help, we'll watch a bit of Geologic Journey to understand the Wrangellia Terrane (focusing on the Mg rich Karmutsen Formation that formed on the ocean basin 230 mya and arrived on the west coast of Vancouver Island and Haida Gwaii about 100 mya) along with folding (the Rockies). The Canadian Shield, also called the Laurentian Plateau is a large area of exposed Precambrian igneous and high-grade metamorphic rocks (geological shield) that forms the ancient geological core of the North American continent (the North American Craton or Laurentia). Some of the rocks in the Canadian Shield are over 3.96 billion years old, and Laurentia has been together in its present form for the last billion years.
FMI:
Behind the Canadian Shield
Geological History of Canada
Sweet!