Children

Biologically, a child (plural children) is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty, or between the developmental period of infancy and puberty. The legal definition of child generally refers to a minor, otherwise known as a person younger than the age of majority. Children generally have fewer rights and less responsibility than adults. They are classed as unable to make serious decisions, and legally must be under the care of their parents or another responsible caregiver. Child may also describe a relationship with a parent (such as sons and daughters of any age) or, metaphorically, an authority …

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CSA: Canadian Standards Association · 17 May 2024

As we continue to grow and expand, we will strengthen the environmental lens we apply to the design and development of our operations with a focus on minimizing our use …

Program. Applications are accepted from dependent children CSA Academy of active CSA Group employees who


Invasive Species Council of BC · 16 May 2024 English

ISCBC coordinates the charity and non-profit society making a difference Indigenous Invasive Species Network to support in the lives of people across British Columbia by communication and knowledge exchange on …

from one’s ancestors, but borrows it from one’s children. Relationship to the Land Plants and animals are


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 May 2024 English

The Briscoe-MacDougall family retire to their lakeside cabin each summer. This annual vacation is at time to unwind and refresh, a time to relax away from the hustle and bustle …

Mike were married—minded the children from afar. All six of the children between the families, speeding speeding headlong toward teenagehood, adulthood. The children, as always, spent much of their time down at Benjamin, and Celeste—loved the waters. The children had all come through the winter with growth spurts one who shared her brother’s name. None of her children had seen him. Clare was concerned. Was Michael enough. How moments touch us, Clare thought. The children should be back soon. She looked out the window


UBC: UBC Press · 15 May 2024 English

Land and the Liberal Project is an excellent and much-needed accounting of colonialism during the period surrounding Confederation. It challenges nationalistic narratives regarding the formation of Canada.

our duty to our- selves, our obligation to our children” (Constitutional Conferences Secretariat 1992 the role of protecting and schooling Indigenous children, with the stated intent of enhan- cing their moral Indigenous adults and the schooling of Indigenous children, it destroyed certain ways of being and knowing of a residential school system for Indigenous children. These were designed to present the Dominion rationality, industriousness, and progress in Indigenous children. Chapter 5 looks at the Indigenous contestation


UBC: UBC Press · 15 May 2024 English

Canada and Colonialism presents the history Canadians must reckon with before decolonization is possible, from the nation’s establishment as a settler colony to the discriminatory legacies still at work in …

the residen- tial school system for Indigenous children in Canada, observed that “the men and women who can live in India only as birds of passage ... Children may be born in India without detriment; if sent Canada, to be “a white man’s coun- try,” where children could be freely reared “to form a native European and referred to Africans as degraded, “brutish children.”55 Te dispossession of Indigenous peoples in


UBC: UBC Press · 15 May 2024 English

The old neo-liberal economic theory that deregulation will solve the problem of unaffordable housing is being contradicted by reality, with ugly consequences for social cohesion, mental health, urban vitality, and …

six years on average (Stahl 2020), having fewer children on average, at 1.7 per female and trending down


CHB: Coach House Books · 14 May 2024 English

CBC BOOKS: 2024 SPRING FICTION PREVIEW A queer writer travelling through India can't escape the regrets of his past, nor the impending ruin of his present. "I am leaving for …

see walking with their two blond and beautiful children – runs over in alarm to check on me. I tell her determines to believe me and goes back to her children, the beautiful husband perhaps away at work. washed my body clean of the body paint. What children know: there is something holy in every object will be served. I watch the children in the swimming pool. The children are going into the pool with anonymous. All the lights come back on. The children are quiet. Everyone eats. Comforting sound of


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 May 2024 English

What the World Might Look Like examines the way resilience stories have come to dominate the settler-colonial imagination and explores alternative approaches to resilience writing that instead offer decolonial models …

dining room table, I offer thanks and love to my children, Bridgy, Tom, and James, for turning out so thoughtful psychosocial resilience research focused on children exposed to risks such as parental mental illness which34 What the World Might Look Like children (some children, anyway) were allowed to roam free in nature dominant resilience narratives that figure Black children as alternately too resilient (read: powerful responded with a resounding “Yes!” Unlike the children of yesteryear, who reportedly ran around outside


AUP: Athabasca University Press · 14 May 2024 English

In every sphere of life, division and intolerance has polarized communities and entire nations. The learned construction of the Other—an evil “enemy” against whom both physical and discursive violence is …

freedom was considered a “basic principle for all children of Adam— or, as is occasionally added: as far etiquette; (4) display proper comportment; (5) hug children; (6) respect elders; (7) receive items with two


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 May 2024 English

Every lover of music finds themselves, at privileged moments, in ecstasy – certain that what they are hearing has captured, somehow, an incontrovertible truth. Bach’s Architecture of Gratitude explores this …

says the names of the individuals, very many children always stand, constantly responding, Kyrie eleison Kingdoms.”10 Acknowledging the plain where the children of30 The Mass as Aesthetic Object Israel wept


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