Trump: a name or a term?

Dictionaries will have a hard time

Rahman Mohamed 

Everyone thought Bush would go down in history in the dumbest President of the United States of America.  It seems as if they misunderestimated the power of the future. For today USA is ruled by Donald Trump.

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Elbows Up

A rallying cry from sports that Canadians use

Rahman Mohamed

Sports are a strong part of culture and society today. They are a part of culture – how a group of people identify themselves, and society – how people relate to each other. Sports can be part of national culture and society – how a country identifies itself and how people relate. Although they are part of the same continent, Canada, USA, and Mexico have different national sports. Canada has used it’s national sport – the cultural sport that people of the country identify with and the societal sport, the sport people use to relate to each other. Recently it’s been used to develop a national rallying cry.

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The Freedom to Complain

A Freedom in Canada not ingrained in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Rahman Mohamed

It’s common knowledge among Canadians that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the right to vote to Canadians 18+.  Since the ‘Persons Case’ in 1929 when women were declared ‘persons’, they were granted the right to vote too! Few Canadians are aware that not taking advantage of the Right to Vote takes away the Freedom to Complain about the Government.

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