Grade 10 Civics: Citizen’s Handbook

 

 

Examples of Civic Issues

 

Aboriginal / Native issues

Assisted suicide / Euthanasia

Canadian pension plan

Child labour

Childcare

Citizenship test / Canadian values

Civil rights

Corporate tax

Disabled access

Economic growth

Economic stimulus

Eldercare

Electoral reform

Employment insurance

Environmental regulation

Environmental regulations on businesses

Fair trade

Felony voting rights

Fracking

Free trade

Gender workplace diversity

Government spending

Gun control

Healthcare

Healthcare funding

Healthcare privatization

Homelessness and affordable housing

Immigration

Income splitting

Income tax

LGBTQ rights

Logging old growth forests

Long form census

Marijuana legalization

Military spending

National debt

Oil pipelines (Keystone, Northern Gateway)

Parole

Postsecondary education (university tuition)

Poverty

Privacy in the information age

Public transportation

Quebec sovereignty

Racism

Renewable energy

Senate reform

Syrian refugees

Temporary foreign workers

Unemployment and underemployment

Urban sprawl

Waste management (Garbage disposal and recycling)

Welfare

Whistleblowers

 

 

 

Recommended Sources of Information


Gale Cengage Learning Infotrac

Large selection of databases, ebooks, movies and more provided to all YRDSB High Schools. See the library circulation desk for a password. You can access this resource at school or anywhere you have access to the Internet.

 

CBC news

 

Canadian and international headlines, articles, wireless services, e-mail digests, and live internet radio.

 

Global news

 

Breaking national news and current national news.

 

Huffington Post Canada

 

Canadian edition of the internet newspaper:  get the latest Canadian and world news covering politics, business, lifestyle and the viral web