Feelings Before Facts
We learn lessons throughout life. This is also applicable to countries and entire civilizations. With a perfect understanding of the present, one may possess the ability to predict the future. But we also forget....
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Our Society is Changing
The far right and left are rising. There is evermore civil unrest. What are the consequences of climate change? Who is the real enemy? In order to understand this, we must understand our society...
UPC Press Release
Who Are We? We are the United Party of Canada. It is our mission to unite Canada under a common set of beliefs and goals which will drive us as a nation to do...
Why Democracy?
Canada is a democracy, like many other nations in the world. It is often referred to as first past the post which, works like this; in a riding you have multiple parties. Whichever of...
Why We Should Ban Lobbying
Canada is a democracy like many other nations in the world. In Canada’s democracy people elect candidates who represent their ridings in the House of Commons as MPs. They’re the ones who debate and...
World War One and the Trench Periscope
In this project we answered the driving question; “How might we use artifacts and film to show the significance of WW 1?” We did this by first doing a lot of research and lessons...
NATIONALISM – To Unite and Divide
Nationalism is a concept defined as, “the love for ones nation to the detriment of others”. Although the first part of this isn’t inherently bad the second part is. Nationalism has prompted many events, especially...
Industry as it Was Never Seen Before
This project was about the first Industrial Revolution. For all intents and purposes of this blog post, I will be referring to it as the “Industrial Revolution”. Throughout the Industrial Revolution many things happened....
Viva la Revolution!
A revolution (from the Latin revolutio, “a turn around”) is a fundamental change in political power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time when the population rises up...
Running a remake
This project started right when we first went into the PLP classroom. We sat down with our assigned groups and started to work. It started like any other project, asking questions, and getting those...