Download or read book Bario Leblieux written by Dustin Milligan and published by DC Canada Education Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-25T00:00:00Z with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bario’s Family is French Canadian. In the hockey-loving blueberry patch of Oxford, most of the blueberries speak English. While the rest of his hockey team is excited about making it to the Stemley Cup finals, Bario has the blues. He is worried that he is slowly losing his ability to speak French. How can Bario protect his language and culture in Oxford? This story helps children to understand the right to minority language education, which is guaranteed by section 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Download or read book Bario Leblieux written by Dustin Milligan and published by . This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Two Two Eyed Potatoes written by Dustin Milligan and published by DC Canada Education Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-25T00:00:00Z with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a small warehouse, the potatoes are gearing up for the Potato Blossom Festival. The “Best Friends Rule ” prohibits Taylor and Jordan from being best friends. The Potato Blossom Ball is approaching and Taylor wants to take Jordan. Will the other potatoes open their hearts and allow the friendship to blossom? This story seeks to teach children about the right to equal treatment and freedom from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, which is guaranteed by section 15(1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Download or read book Little Courthouse on the Prairie written by Dustin Milligan and published by DC Canada Education Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-25T00:00:00Z with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just outside of Winnipeg, the bison play all kinds of sports on the prairie fields. But one day, Sheriff Buffy decides to take over all the fields so that the bison can only play hoofball! She tells Emma, a young hoofball player, that hoofball players are superior to all the other players. First, Sheriff Buffy goes after the field hockey players and takes over their fields. Emma and the other bison are too scared to speak up. Then Sherriff Buffy goes after the lacrosse players, and then the soccer players. Will Emma or any of the bison muster the courage to speak up before she comes for them? This story seeks to teach children about the right to liberty, which is guaranteed by section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Download or read book An Unusual Thrill on Parliament Hill written by Dustin Milligan and published by DC Canada Education Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-25T00:00:00Z with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A raccoon named Olivia travels all the way to Ottawa, along with a group of young Canadians, to tour Parliament Hill. Things get out of control along the way. With a pounding headache, Olivia tries to get away. She stumbles upon a secret room where she finds Sir John Owl MacDonald, John Beefendbaker and Hare Trudeau eating poutine. She ends up learning the most important lesson of all. This story seeks to teach children there are limits to their rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Download or read book The Case of the Missing Montreal Bagel written by Dustin Milligan and published by DC Canada Education Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-26T00:00:00Z with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Castor family runs a successful bagel shop in Montreal. One morning, a mysterious bagel without a hole is pulled from the oven and becomes a national sensation! Then one morning, the bagel goes missing. Someone stole it! The city is turned upside down in the Castor Cops’ efforts to locate the bagel and find the thief. The beavers of Montreal, who are being searched with no respect for their privacy, are outraged! This story seeks to teach children about the right to be free from “unreasonable” search and seizure, which is guaranteed by section 8 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. This section provides that: Everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure.
Download or read book A Large Jaw in Moose Jaw written by Dustin Milligan and published by DC Canada Education Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-26T14:26:00Z with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The passionate and musical moose Noah is not allowed to participate in Moose Jaw Idol – all because his jaw is too big! Driven by the inspiring music and careers of Canadian music stars such as Alanis Moosette, Noah is compelled to share his story with the townsfolk. Will the Moose Jaw Theatre finally allow him to participate? This story seeks to teach children about the right to equal treatment and freedom from discrimination on the basis of disability. Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on... mental or physical disability.
Download or read book A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Lobster written by Dustin Milligan and published by DC Canada Education Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-26T00:00:00Z with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aliya is an avid painter who loves expressing her creativity through art. Shediac, New Brunswick, is overrun by the Lob-Mob, crabby gang that has a rule of silence imposed on everyone in the town. It is up to Aliya to use her talents as a visual artist to challenge the Lob-Mob and restore the town’s freedom. This story seeks to teach children about the freedom of expression. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms... (b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication...(— Section 2(b), the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms)
Download or read book Anne of Green Tomatoes written by Dustin Milligan and published by DC Canada Education Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-26T00:00:00Z with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the vines of Leamington, ON, lives Anne, a green tomato. Every day at the market, the red tomatoes are set out on display. When there is a shortage of red tomatoes, the veggislature orders that green tomatoes be painted red to fill the basket at the market. Anne must learn to outsmart the veggislature or be caught and painted for the market. This story seeks to teach children about the right to security of the person, which is guaranteed by section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice.
Download or read book The Golden Hook written by Dustin Milligan and published by DC Canada Education Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-26T00:00:00Z with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In St. John’s Harbour, Aatma the cod is banished from his school for wearing a golden hook. This accessory holds significant symbolic value to followers of Newfinism, Aatma’s religion. For the other fish in the harbour, hooks are a symbol of danger. Should Aatma be able to wear his hook to school? This story seeks to teach children about the freedom of religion, which is guaranteed by section 2(a) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Download or read book The Plight Beneath the Northern Light written by Dustin Milligan and published by DC Canada Education Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-26T00:00:00Z with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an oil deposit is found in a town on Hudson Bay, the mayor sees his chance to get rich. He becomes consumed with greed, ignoring the voices of his community. In an effort to continue the advancement of the oil project, he imposes the ‘Two-Bears Rule’. This rule prevents the bears from meeting to protest the oil project. Through creative problem solving, the characters must find a way to meet and band together. This story seeks to teach children about the freedoms of assembly and association. Freedom of association provides individuals with the right to establish, to belong to, and to maintain an organization. Freedom of assembly is closely linked to freedom of association and provides individuals with the right to meet as members of a group or organization.
Download or read book One Story a Day written by Leonard Judge and published by DC Canada Education Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-15T18:23:00Z with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Story a Day for is a series of 365 stories in 12 books that touch on a wide variety of topics intended for slightly older children than the Early Readers set. The stories, written by Canadian authors, are inspired by life lessons, fables from around the world, nature, science, and history. The series is designed to foster children's total development—linguistic, intellectual, social, and cultural—through the joy of reading.
Download or read book Alexander the Grape written by Dustin Milligan and published by . This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Logic Land written by Yasmina Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Last Days in Africville written by Dorothy Perkyns and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short-listed for the 2004 CLA Book of the Year for Children Award, for the 2005 Diamond Willow Award and for the 2005 Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award On the shores of Bedford Basin in Halifax, 12-year-old Selina Palmer is growing up in the community of Africville in the 1960s. Struggling with what it means to be the only black student in her Grade 6 class, Selina takes comfort in the fact that every day she goes home to a loving and vibrant neighbourhood, where friends and family accept her as she is. But ugly rumours are starting to surface about the fate of Africville...
Download or read book Secret Signs written by Jacqueline Guest and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Depression, Henry Dafoe makes his way across the prairies, guided only by an old hobo and a series of secret signs.
Download or read book Crossing to Freedom written by Virginia Frances Schwartz and published by Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring tale of fugitive slave who finds freedom in Canada, but still struggles to find a real home. Eleven-year-old Solomon is a fugitive slave on a dangerous journey north to Canada, and to freedom. His young life has seen many losses: his mother was sold in a slave auction when he was a baby; his father escaped from the plantation and hasn't been seen in five years; and now his grandfather, who has been injured during the last leg of their journey to freedom, and is forced to stay behind.Solomon continues with their group leader, but his feelings of loss and isolation haunt him, as he attempts to forge a new home in Canada. It soon becomes apparent that racial prejudices know no borders, and while Solomon works hard and begins to experience some newfound freedoms, he faces discrimination and segregation and lives with the ongoing fear of being caught by slavecatchers and dragged back to the South. With all of these barriers facing him, Solomon must find the strength — the same strength that brought him north, the same strength that gives him hope of finding his father — to persevere and understand the true meaning of freedom.
