A trade war that lasted for decades and involved Europe, the United States, South American nations and the World Trade Organization and that revolved around the pricing of a delicious fruit you see regularly in Canmore grocery stores.
What is The Banana Wars
100
The idea that the world is made up of people who are fortunate to have access to technology and those who are at a disadvantage because they have far less access to technology.
What is The Digital Divide
100
A common practice by European countries beginning around 1492, where countries would take over control of foreign lands and indigenous people and use their resources to make their home country more wealthy.
What is Colonialism
100
A term describing how many resources a person or a country uses up. It is a term that can describe the load people impose on nature.
What is an Ecological Footprint
200
A person who considers themselves to be a 'Quebecer', speaks the French language and identifies with the culture of Quebec.
What is a Francaphone
200
The practice of moving jobs (often in the manufacturing sector) to countries where wages are cheaper.
What is outsourcing
200
This is an important mineral and a component found in every cell phone. The mining of this mineral is dangerous and has led to armed conflict between warlords.
What is Coltan
200
is the name given to meeting in Berlin where European nations divided up an entire continent in order to colonize it in "peaceful" way.
What is The Scramble for Africa
200
A group of people living in Colombia who have chosen to keep outsiders from impacting their society. They consider themselves protectors of the planet and live very close to nature.
What is The Kogi People
300
A First Nations group in Alberta who had their oil resources and lumber sold to foreign corporations without their consent.
What is the Lubicon Cree
300
Large companies that operate in more than one country around the world.
What is a multinational corporation
300
A television network dedicated to broadcasting news and content that is, 'by, for and about Aboriginal Peoples'.
What is Aboriginal People's Television Network (APTN)
300
A famous trade route that was responsible for the exchange of goods from Eastern Asia to Europe.
What is the Silk Road
300
A practice of dissembling these large vessels and recycling the parts that are still useful. It causes a great deal of pollution and is dangerous for the workers.
What is Ship breaking
400
A word that wont be found in dictionaries but that is commonly used to describe the blending of the global and the local.
What is Glocal
400
A tax that Canada adds to items that have been manufactured outside of our country but that is being sold in Canada in competition with Canadian goods.
What is a Tariff
400
An NGO that is focused on providing laptops at a very low price to children living in countries where access to technology is very limited.
What is One Laptop Per Child
400
A conflict that began when German colonizers favored one ethnic group over another.
What is The Rwandan Genocide
400
Development that meets people's needs in the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.
What is Sustainable development
500
A distinct aboriginal nation of people that were "created" when European fur traders married First Nations women.
What is the Metis people
500
The idea that everyone would experience more prosperity as well as political and social freedom if there was less government control of the global markets.
What are "Free Markets"
500
When there are increasingly more media sources that are owned by only a few large media corporations.
What is Media Concentration
500
A system of trade that was commonly embraced by European countries from the 1500's to the 1900's and that required colonies to only purchase goods and sell resources to their 'Mother' country. This system required that governments were heavily involved in trade and the economy.
What is Mercantilism
500
A mathematical calculation based on the value of the products and services a country generates and that is often used to try to quantify a country's prosperity.