Understanding the Seismic Shifts in Canada's Youths

Understanding the seismic shifts in that are shaking Canada’s youths
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Report summary
The article describes major issues affecting the Canadian youths. The first theme revolves
around the diverse nature of Canadian population where around 16% of youth belong to a
minority group (O’Rourke, 2012). Furthermore, the youth are leaving to major cities to seek
education and employment opportunities. It is interesting to note that the education level has
increased over the last ten years between 2000 and 2010 that is evident by increased enrollment
rate in tertiary institutions and secondary schools. However, the youths from rural and low-
income communities have high rate of school drop outs compared to those from urban centers.
The high school dropouts have low chances of being employed and those lucky to be employed
record low quality job performance (O’Rourke, 2012).
The article further highlights various barriers to further education that are majorly poor
family backgrounds and high cost of post-secondary education. This has created huge debt loads
for the students forcing them to stop after attaining secondary education thus creating huge
disparity in income compared to the university graduates. According to report, the youth
unemployment doubles the national average forcing some graduates to move into low-skill jobs.
The poverty also remains high among the Canadian youths (33.3%) that is associated with poor
health status since high-income youths reported low levels of diabetes and asthma (O’Rourke,
2012).
The report further highlights negative effects of technology among youths including
cyberbullying, increased inactivity and stress causing increased cases of obesity. Though
smoking rates have dropped among Canadian youths, those from low income families have
higher smoking habits compared to their counterparts from highest income families.
Furthermore, the youths especially girls are at high risk of experiencing emotional distress

causing high medical expenditure in Canada. However, there were some positive finding from
the reports including decreased crime activities among youths.
Credibility and trustworthiness
The report is credible and thus the information provided can be consumed by the
audiences. Accessing credibility of information is important in research due to increased source
thus one has to determine the sources that can be trusted. In order to evaluate credibility of this
report one has to check the sources of data contained in the report. With this regard the report has
used credible sources comprising mostly the scholarly works that have been published in the
referred journals. The author used high quality resources to support his arguments regarding
Canadian youth problems thus enhancing the credibility and trustworthiness of the report.
Critical information contained in the report has been cited well and the reference list provided at
the end of the document. Furthermore, the objective and the tone of the language used in writing
the report is impartial thus raising its credibility. Consequently, the report has been written by a
scholar who is expert the youth sociology. The document is also free of grammar and spelling
errors.
Intersectionality
There is interconnection among the social categorization like class, gender and race as
they apply to the youths. The role of race and gender was eminent from in this report. The
findings concerning various attributes and problems facing the youths were compared for the
different races. The report compared unemployment rates among countries such as France,
Sweden, Ireland, Italy, UK, Poland and South Africa; these countries represent different races.
The race also played significant role in the phenomena studied and it was reported that that the