Canada, a G7 nation, boasts one of the world’s largest economies, rating 11th on the earth by GDP. The nation’s focus lately on resource extraction has had each its good points and dangerous; good, as a result of excessive energy and commodity costs saved Canada’s economy humming through the financial downturn of latest years; bad, because resource extraction brings with it environmental controversy, such as the one surrounding the Keystone XL Pipeline. How Canada resolves these tensions, and builds an economy for the 21st century, is among the central questions going through the nation.
Black Africa is seemed on as a area that’s inert, brutal, uncivilized — in a word, savage. There, all day lengthy it’s possible you’ll hear unpleasant remarks about veiled women, polygamy and the supposed disdain the Arabs have for the feminine sex. All such remarks are reminiscent in their aggressiveness of those which are so usually …