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Animal Cruelty

Animal cruelty is when a person fails to take care of an animal they neglect or mistreat their own pet or another animal there are different forms of animal cruelty intentional and neglect

Intentional is when you intentionally neglect or mistreat an animal this includes harmful acts

Not feedign your animal and generaly not takinmg care of the animal

Neglect is when you don't realize you are mistreating your this can happen when you leave your pets at home while you go away multiple

Times in a row and leave them at home alone and don't have anyone to take care of them ( feeding them giving them water in some cases depending on the animal bring the outside to run around or go for walks)  and love/play with them he statistics that I found out  state that in animal cruelty

70.1 % involve dogs and 20.9 % other animals in the 20.( percent most are cats

Animal abuse has been a big thing for me.

I think that factory farming is a huge topic that no one talks about. I believe that this should either be illegal or there should be a different way to do this there are many topics like dog fighting, horse racing, cockfighting and more

I have taken action in this a few years ago

I became part of a non profit organization

Where we rescue animals in need

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Impaired driving means operating a vehicle (including cars, trucks, boats, snowmobiles and off-road vehicles) while under the influence of alcohol or drugs. This is an extremely dangerous act of reckless behaviour that puts not only the drivers life at risk, but as well as other people on the roads. Impaired driving is a crime under the Criminal Code of Canada and the consequences are very serious. If your Blood Alcohol Concentration, or BAC, is 0.08% you will experience the consequences that come with breaking this act of the criminal code. You could get your license taken away, have your vehicle impounded, need to attend a treatment class (non negotiable, this is a must have in order to get your license back), you could even do jail time depending on how horrific the crash and end up with a criminal record. Ontario is a leader in combating impaired driving through some of the toughest laws and programs in North America. This is so that driving impaired can be decreased and many more lives can be saved. This awful crime is 100% preventable and is based purely on a person's decision making. Raising as much awareness as possible will help to completely wiping out the crime all together.

https://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2016/03/29/marco-muzzo-sentencing.html

On January 6, 2016 A drunk driver was driving home from his bachelor party and hit another car. In the car that was hit, there were three kids and one adult. They all died from this accident, which left their mother and father childless by killing all three of their children as well as killing the mothers father. The drunk drivers name is Marco Muzzo. Marco Muzzo plead guilty to the four counts of drinking and driving causing murder on February 4th, 2016 and will spend ten years in jail. At first felt that his $25 million bail was unfair to him. This article raises his opinion on the accident that has happened. He says that he feels “troubled” and that he will live with this horrific event for the rest of his life. This means that he realizes a mother will never see any of her children or her father again, and bother her mother and grandmother (the children's great grandmother) were left incredibly injured due to his own crime. As I had stated previously, any form of impaired driving does in fact fall under the Criminal Code of Canada. This means that he did in fact commit a crime which then killed four people. However, Muzzo is eligible to apply for full parole after serving a quarter of his sentence, or three years, and can apply to day parole six months after. He will have served two and half years in prison by the time he is allowed to do this. Muzzo is also banned from driving for twelve years. The public's reaction to Marco Muzzo’s penalty was very negative and they do not feel justice is truly served for the victims family. It is no where near the maximum impaired driving punishment which is life in prison. Although this article does in fact state that from a legal perspective, that this is one of the highest sentences for this type of crime in Canadian history and maybe even the the most firm punishment for an individual with no prior criminal record and who pleaded guilty. While there is not an exact range for impaired driving causing death, many people that are accused for the crime that have no criminal record, normally on receive five to eight years in prison. Higher courts have been upholding harder sentences as the problem of impaired driving, and have given trial judges a much wider flexibility in how they reach their penalties. Drinking and driving laws and awareness have been around for all of Marco Muzzo’s life. More than 30 years ago, the Court of Appeal for Ontario openly announced that members of the public who use transit to travel should never have to be in fear of meeting a driver on the roadways whose faculties are impaired by substances such as alcohol. Even though his morals fled his mind when proceeded to get behind the wheel drive as he was three times over the legal limit, the public will continue to make sure that this awful crime will be stopped and the correct morals will be put into the heads of young drivers.

https://globalnews.ca/news/3970226/madd-canada-fredericton/

Representatives from MADD Canada go across Canada and speak to grades 8-12 the dangers of impaired driving, why it is a threat to not only your life but to other people’s lives as well, and how you can avoid it altogether. This news article is the MADD representatives speaking at just one of the many schools they travel to. They bring a short film with them that is 45 minutes long about a scenario that leads to impaired driving and the horrific outcome of it. The film also includes the stories from real life victims and how this crime negatively impacted their life whether it was because the lost a child, a friend, a parent, a sibling, or anyone else who was deeply important to them. With each MADD Canada presentation, they always raise the topic and awareness that just because you’re young and freedom and adrenaline floods your mind does not mean that you are invincible. Many young people believe that this situation will never happen to them, until it unfortunately does. This heartbreaking short film and real life stories brings in a huge wave of sadness and empathy towards victims. This helps students to truly realize how important it is to just find another safe way home rather than getting in a car with someone who is impaired or getting behind the wheel yourself when you know it’s not a good idea. MADD has now also brought the drug marijuana into their short film presentations. They thought that because the legalization of marijuana is pending right now in Canada which made them believe that it is a good idea to include this type of impairment in their video presentation. It’s not always just alcohol that causes these accidents, drugs are one of the many other sources of the problem. A lot of youth believe that drinking alcohol are the only things used that lead to driving impaired accidents, so they believe that having a few puffs of marijuana and then getting behind the wheel is fine because drugs are never involved in the topic of impaired driving. MADD tries to enforce the morals of impaired driving into the minds of youth so that the problem can be stopped by the time the next generation is driving, impaired driving will no longer be the number one leading cause of deaths between 16-30 year olds. Having these perspectives brought to the minds of young people are incredibly important and will be beneficial in the long run.

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They are creating many help lines and places to go for help when struggling with mental illness. Many schools in today's age are starting to spread the and increase the knowledge of mental illness and having good mental health

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I chose to research gun control as my social issue because of the large amount of school shooting that have been taking place in the States this year and in the past. The availability and access to guns in the U.S. is causing deaths everyday and after watching Emma Gonzalez's powerful speech about the Parkland, Florida shooting I thought I'd like to look into why it is only America that has this extreme gun problem. After searching through the Taking It Global website I realized it isn't an issue that has been talked about on TIG but if you type in gun control on google you get 887 000 results in a matter of seconds. Since I couldn't find anything about gun control on TIG I found 2 facts on the Eastview databases about the social issue. First, almost 40 000 people are killed with guns in the States per year and second, by March 18 of this year, almost 700 American students were shot and killed in 2018. Overall I think gun control is a really important social issue that needs to be addressed world wide because in the U.S. firearms are taking the lives of men, women and children everyday.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/02/22/emma-gonzalez-dana-loesch-full-parkland-town-hall.cnn

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=emma+gonzalez+youtube&view=detail&mid=ED2457F6928D8728999AED2457F6928D8728999A&FORM=VIRE

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‘Child Labour’ is often defined as work that deprives children of their childhood. It deprives them of the opportunity to attend school. Child Labour mostly happens in third world countries and is taken advantage of by first world companies and organizations. Some organizations believe that Child Labour takes place when; it violates the nations minimum age law, Threats leading to children's physical, mental, and emotional well-being.  Involvement of intolerable abuse, such as child slavery, child trafficking, debt bondage, forced labour, or illicit activities, and prevention of children from going to school

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There is a myth among many developed countries that slavery has been left in the past. In truth, there are more people being trafficked today than during the African Slave Trade. Human trafficking is commonly described at the modern day version of the slave trade. Every single day human beings are lured into trafficking majority of whom are women. According to the Government of Canada, Human trafficking involves the recruitment, transportation, harbouring and/ or exercising control, direction or influence over the movements of a person in order to exploit that person, typically through sexual exploitation or forced labour. Canada may have less trafficking than a stereotypical country like India or Mexico, but it still exists and happens in our own City of Barrie. According to the Global Slave Index, they have reasons to believe that 45.8 million people are enslaved today in over 167 countries. Human Trafficking is a $32 billion dollar industry and the world's second largest criminal industry stated by UNICEF USA.

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My Opinion
I took an interest in this topic in grade 6 when my summer school teacher related math equations to world issues. If it had not been for her, I do not know if I would have learned about this topic until my later years of high school. I believe that this topic is a dirty secret in many industries and many companies get away with it because the amount of money this industry makes for countries cannot compete with other opportunities. Modern Day Slavery is happening everywhere are we are not educated enough to know that it is even happening.

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Health care in developing countries is almost non-existent. When access to health care is delayed or declined the people their condition obviously worsens. If you look at the statistics it's obvious that developing countries have worse health care because the life expectancy in these counties are a lot lower (almost half). There has been some changes in the last couple years. For example Doctors Without Borders who help people threatened by violence, neglect, natural disasters, epidemics and health emergencies. This is a good start but i believe it's still not enough. We need to look into further solutions to this issue.
Johnny Marais

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By Cole Campitelli

The Oceans account for up to 85% of the world's oxygen, but with 5 trillion (5 000 000 000 000) pieces of plastic floating around in our much needed resource... The Phytoplankton that create oxygen are dying at a substantial rate.
The oceans concentrate all the garbage into 5 gigantic garbage patches, each one bigger, or even double the size of Texas!
This issue has been kept hidden for so long by cruise ship companies who claim these patches don't exist, and land based activities from North America and Asia who's government's claim they don't have a part in the ever growing garbage patches.
Luckily, 2 years ago, a non for profit organization based out of the Netherlands has started experimenting with ways of cleaning up our precious oceans.

https://oceanconservancy.org/trash-free-seas/

Go see how a single straw will change your life.  It changed mine

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.tigweb.org/action-tools/projects/download/31011/ICC_Peru_Report%2520001.pdf&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwi4sevw19DaAhWoxYMKHQrPDjAQFggGMAE&client=internal-uds-cse&cx=004073601099872294307:adtnplnpuam&usg=AOvVaw0EcxQQG2AMYAtkvTdxeDMm

(GO TO PAGE 4 to see how much plastic Peru collected off their beaches in 2011.  The numbers are unbelievable)

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The Ocean Cleanup is a non-profit organization developing advanced technologies to rid the oceans of plastic. We aim to remove 90% of the floating plastic with the help of ocean cleanup systems and river interception technologies.

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2010 was the warmest year since modern temperature recording began over 160 years ago. This is likely due to our increasing reliance and use of fossil fuels.
So, many people are reducing their use of plastic to prevent pollution i.e. simply not using plastic straws anymore. Additionally, Canada has offered tax benefits for those opting to choose more green appliances and vehicles such as electric cars.
Global Warming is no longer a debate, 97% of researchers believe that it is occurring at an alarming rate.
Kezia McConnell

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5 Human Impacts on the Environment: Crash Course Ecology #10

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Children's rights are the human rights of children with particular attention to the rights of special protection and care afforded to minors.  The world has made significant progress for child survival and children's rights. For example, fewer children now die before their fifth birthdays and more girls are in school than ever before. However, despite this progress, data show us that far too many children are left behind. This marginalization is hidden by statistical averages, which show overall improvement but mask disparities within nations. Children left behind become ‘invisible.’

In 1990, 90 million children who would have died before reaching the age of 5  because of the child mortality rates if it had stuck at their level of child poverty there was, instead, they lived. Due to the progress in delivering immunizations, health, and water and sanitation services.
Improvements in nutrition have led to a 37 per cent drop in stunting since 1990.
Primary school enrollment has increased, even in the least developed countries: Whereas in 1990 only 53 in 100 children in those countries were in school, by 2011 the number had improved to 81 in 100.

https://www.unicef.ca/en/children%E2%80%99s-rights

Jessica Carter

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UNCRC United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child - introduction video

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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child is an international agreement that protects the human rights of children under the age of 18. This short film that shows how the power of words can make a big difference when changing attitudes towards the UNCRC.