How Air India 182 Has Changed Canadian History

The Halifax explosion holds significant importance in Canadian history as it is not only marked as one of the worst tragedies but also played a crucial role in shaping disaster response among Canadians

Greatly valued in the west, Canada is proud to have a set of rights and freedoms granted to every one of its citizens. Under the Canadian Charter Rights and Freedoms, it dictates what the state’s citizens are entitled to, which can involve the right to expression and the right to equality. Of course, there are reasonable limitations to these rights, such as restricting what sort of speech is free, but since the September 9, 2011 attack in New York City (hereby referenced as 9/11), the Canadian government has been passing legislature that has been cracking down hard on these rights. These legislatures, such as Bill C-36, has been created specifically to fight off terrorism, but this fight has been done almost blindly and in a rash manner. Cases

Lockerbie Crash Wednesday, December 21, 1988, was known as “The Night of Horror”, which was a day that affected hundreds of families and friends forever. On the evening right before Christmas, a plane filled with two hundred and seventy people, many being American college students flying home for Christmas to visit their families, was brought down by a bomb inside the plane. The bomb was in a suitcase loaded on the plane, which was believed to be placed there by terrorists. When the plane was brought down, it did a profusion of damage to Lockerbie, Scotland, a slim population of four thousand people.

Canadian/American relations have always been much like that of a brother and his younger sister. They are dependent on one another, and their bond is built off of friendship and trust. When battles occur, they ride in together, and when one is in need, support is given. In 1917, the Halifax Explosion devastated a section of Nova Scotia, and the size of the accident destroyed a large amount of both people and homes. The medicinal and reparation costs were more than the surrounding cities could afford.

The Oklahoma City bombing took place on April 19, 1995. There were hundreds of victims and hundreds of family and friends of those victims. Even though this event happened nearly 20 years ago, it still reminds me of service, honor, and kindness, the foundation of the American standard. Right after the incident, police rushed to the scene and started to rescue the people that were trapped or injured.

The Toronto 18 case also known as “The Battle of Toronto” that was named by the terrorist group back in the year 2005. The ringleader Zakaira Amara of the Toronto 18 case confessed it as the mimic to the 9/11. That group’s main task included crippling the economy and unleashing mass carnage, terror and destruction in downtown Toronto. The method being used included a number trucks loaded with tones of fertilizer bomb material and detonating them at the Canadian broadcasting center, the Canadian parliament building, the Canadian security intelligence services building and the parliamentary peace tower to take hostage of the building and ending up with the beheading of the Canadian ministers and including the Canadian prime minister at that time.

Was the enactment of the War Measures Act during the October Crisis Justified? When one thinks of a terrorist attack, Canada is not usually the first one to come to mind. Canada is usually regarded as a very peaceful country. But Canada was not always peaceful internally; in fact it had raging internal battles with the French wanting independence.

  At first, no one had a clue about what had caused the crash, but later found that it must have been a suitcase bomb on the plane.  This was figured out because the debris was spread out like it would be from an explosion.  There were also other hints that signaled

Terrorism is a problem were facing worldwide especially in Turkey causing fear, affecting human peace, and danger. Terrorism means a group of people who attack another country cause of their laws, religion or disagreement. In Turkey, a terrorist attack was taken place in late June causing many injured individuals and deaths. This occurred at the international airport called Istanbul Ataturk caused by a group of terrorism.

So instead he decided to take a different plane that was slightly older. Even though they planned everything about this flight. He looked where the best place to stop for fuel was, emergency airport in case something went wrong, the exact route they were going to take and the exact weight of every little thing that wasn’t strapped down in the airplane. He even had to ditch somethings because they would have been over weight. These items included things like the fire extinguishers.

The pilot of the accident Piper PA-32R-300 airplane, age 60, was a credited Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) private pilot certificate (August, 2001) holder. At 11:40 am he contacted the air traffic control tower to request a departure clearance from Teterboro Airport (TEB), New Jersey. The controller provided the pilot with taxi instructions and inquired what route he planned to take to Ocean City, which the pilot replied after a short exchange that he would go down the Hudson River. Having chosen this route, the pilot had to contact the controllers at Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) for permission to climb into “Class B airspace,” after the flight was transferred from TEB to EWR. Afterwards TEB controller cleared him for takeoff,

Canada then participated in the operation. Since the Second World War, Canada has been seen as a bystander in different situations and conflicts that are created every now and then. However, Canada in this war against terrorism shows a great supplier and

Topic sentence for background information from 1990-2001 12,000,000 permanent legal immigrants entered the US (Bankston, 639) making the threat of muslims killing Americans way more difficult to put an end to in the future The first ever hijacking was in Peru in 1931 (Hijacking, n.p.) and the first US Hijacking was on May 1, 1961 was a florida-bound plane taken to Cuba (Hijacking, n.p.) The government ignored warnings, Al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden, had made a statement on the subject of using aircraft in an attack againstt the US(Langley, 69) Another attack on the twin towers before 9/11 occurred on 2/26/1993 when a bomb was placed in the back of a van and driven to the base of the Twin Towers and exploded, about 6 people were killed, but

Aris 1 Unclear Bombs Should Be Banned Francis Timosawa was a 15-year-old boy that lived in the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On the morning of August 1945, a single plane flew over his city and he watched as an object fell from the plane. Suddenly, the sky turned brighter than the sun, and he could no longer think, see, hear or breath. That day, Timosawa’s city was completely destroyed by an atomic bomb thrown by the United States of America.

In 1970, a bomb was blasted in plane and all the 36 individuals passed away, the further mishaps occurred in 1975, 1976 and 1978 wherein lots of people missed their lives. The 2 lethal mishaps happened in 1987 eliminating the lives of nearly 65 travelers. The explosion of power boiler in the year 1990 wiped out 8 from 113 travelers while the explosion of a tiny bomb in airplane in 1994 killed off one of the 287