Other telephone companies, many of which were publicly owned, were regulated by provincial authorities until court rulings during the 1990s affirmed federal jurisdiction over the sector, which also included some fifty small independent incumbents, most of them in Ontario and Quebec.

The general formula is set out in section 38 ( 1 ), known as the " 7 / 50 formula ", requires: ( a ) assent from both the House of Commons and the Senate ; ( b ) the approval of two-thirds of the provincial legislatures ( at least seven provinces ) representing at least 50 % of the population ( effectively, this would include at least Quebec or Ontario, as they are the most populous provinces ).

Producers in Ontario or Québec may follow either federal or provincial grading guidelines.

As in the US, the initial roadside accommodations were primitive tourist camps, with over a hundred campgrounds listed in Ontario alone on one 1930 provincial road map.

He consolidated and expanded Ontario's educational and provincial institutions, created districts in Northern Ontario, and fought to ensure that those parts of Northwestern Ontario not historically part of Upper Canada ( the vast areas north and west of the Lake Superior-Hudson Bay watershed, known as the District of Keewatin ) would become part of Ontario, a victory embodied in the Canada ( Ontario Boundary ) Act, 1889.

* Perth — Middlesex, a former former federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario

* Perth — Wellington ( provincial electoral district ), a provincial electoral district in Ontario

For example, in Ontario a survey taken throughout the province might use a larger sampling fraction in the less populated north, since the disparity in population between north and south is so great that a sampling fraction based on the provincial sample as a whole might result in the collection of only a handful of data from the north.

In 2003, following an international human rights ruling, the provincial Conservative government gradually introduced a tax credit over 5 years, ( when it would have been fully implemented it would have been worth up to 50 % of tuition to a maximum of $ 3, 500 at any independent school in Ontario ) in order to meet the human rights norms and expand funded choice to all interested parents.

The political independence of suburban municipalities from the nearby city is a sensitive political issue, since provincial governments have the power to rewrite municipal boundaries at will, and they have often dictated mergers without input from residents ( recently in Nova Scotia in 1996, Ontario in 1997 and Quebec in 2002 ).

The provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland & Labrador, and Ontario have harmonized their provincial sales taxes with the GST — Harmonized Sales Tax, and thus is a full VAT.

Two Canadian provincial governments, Ontario and Quebec, introduced measures in 2008 that would protect at least half of their northern boreal forest.

While it is a popular belief that it is illegal to pick the common Trillium grandiflorum ( white trillium ) in Ontario, in reality they are only protected in provincial parks and land owned by conservation authorities.

The 1960s saw the emergence of renewed political organizations. The Lake Nipigon Metis Association was the first in Ontario spawning a series of community groups and a major provincial political Association of some 100, 000 members.

The Métis National Council is composed of five provincial Métis organizations, Ontario having the fewest number of votes.

Generally, it is only appropriate to use the term " judge " when speaking of an anonymous or general position, such as " the trial judge ," or when referring to a member of an inferior or provincial court such as the Ontario Court of Justice.

In Canada, the strongest provincial Green Parties are the Green Party of British Columbia and the Green Party of Ontario though they are yet to win any seats in a provincial legislature.

Alberta, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec and Saskatchewan are the Canadian provinces with provincial licensing bodies ; in these provinces, it is illegal to practice the profession of Respiratory Care without first being licensed as a full or practicing member with the provincial licensing body.

The federal Progressive Conservatives under Joe Clark refused to participate in these talks, but there was strong support from many provincial Tories, especially in Ontario and Alberta.

For example, Andrea Horwath's win in an Ontario provincial by-election in 2004 allowed the Ontario NDP to regain official party status with important results in terms of parliamentary privileges and funding.

In the Canadian province of Ontario, John Tory, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario ran in a 2009 by-election in Haliburton — Kawartha Lakes — Brock, after he convinced one of his caucus members to step down, in hopes of re-entering the Ontario legislature.

On January 31, 2010, Chiarelli was acclaimed as the Ontario Liberal Party candidate in the by-election to succeed Jim Watson ( who became Mayor of Ottawa ) in Ottawa West – Nepean.

After Rae won the party leadership, there was a delay of several months before he was able to contest a by-election to enter the Ontario legislature.

Eves had been widely expected to resign his seat in the provincial legislature during the 2004 Christmas holidays in order to allow Tory an opportunity to enter the Ontario legislature through a by-election.

On October 22, 2006, Elizabeth May announced she would run in the federal by-election to be held on November 27, 2006, in London North Centre, Ontario.

The first by-election in the 38th Legislative Assembly of Ontario, was in the riding of Hamilton East, caused by the untimely death of the riding's MPP, Dominic Agostino, on 24 March 2004.

In 2001, he unsuccessfully sought the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party provincial nomination in the riding of Parry Sound – Muskoka for a by-election to replace retiring MPP Ernie Eves.

* October 24-Beniah Bowman bad luck the first deputy working to take back by-election of Manitoulin in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

The seat in the Ontario provincial parliament is currently held by New Democrat Peter Tabuns, elected in the March 30 2006 by-election and then re-elected in the 2007 general election.

Davis was also present for Tory's first session in the Ontario legislature, following the latter's victory in a 2005 by-election.

Mackenzie King himself was defeated in his Saskatchewan riding but was returned in an Ontario by-election within months.

* Allan Studholme was elected the first Labour Member of the Legislative Assembly ( MLA ) in the Ontario legislature in a 1906 by-election in Hamilton East.

Drew ran again for the Conservative leadership in 1938, this time successfully and entered the Legislative Assembly of Ontario through a 1939 by-election as the Member of Provincial Parliament for Simcoe East.

The son of former Premier of Ontario Harry Nixon, he was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in a 1962 by-election following his father's death.

In 1861, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada for North Ontario ; he was defeated in 1863 but was elected in an 1864 by-election when the incumbent, William McDougall, was forced to run for reelection after he was named to the executive council.

A civil litigation lawyer based in Windsor, Ontario, Comartin enjoyed strong support from local union members when he ran for a seat in the House of Commons, but narrowly lost in the 1997 general election and in a 1999 by-election.

He won the seat in the 2000 election, becoming the first federal NDP candidate to win a seat in Ontario in ten years ( Mike Breaugh of Oshawa had been the last to win in a 1990 by-election ).

In response, Turner repeatedly offered to run in a by-election in his constituency of Halton, Ontario, should David Emerson and Wajid Khan ( floor-crossing members in the Conservative caucus, each former Liberals ) also run in by-elections in their constituencies held at the same time.

On December 7, 2004, the Ontario Liberal Party announced that it would run a candidate against Tory in a by-election.

Hoskins was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in a by-election on September 17, 2009, representing St. Paul's as a member of the Ontario Liberal Party.

Karen Alexandria Kain, CC ( born March 28, 1951 in Hamilton, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ballet dancer, and currently the Artistic Director of the National Ballet of Canada.

The organization became international on 12 March 1920, when the first club in Canada was established in Windsor, Ontario.

* March 16 – The largest flood in the history of Brampton, Ontario, occurs.

* March 27 – The Lake Ontario Shore Railroad Company is organized in Oswego, New York.

* March 30 – The first operational subway line in Canada opens in Toronto, Ontario.

On March 31, 2011 Priszm, owner of Taco Bell ( Canada ), went into bankruptcy protection in Ontario and British Columbia.

On March 17, 2010 Phil Stooke, a professor at the University of Western Ontario announced that he had located Lunokhod 2's final resting place in photographs made by the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ( LRO ).

The Vagabond Repertory Theatre Company was formed in March 2009, and currently resides and performs in Kingston, Ontario.

The County was not fully organized so it remained under the supervision of Ontario County until it achieved full organization and separation during March 1803.

On March 18, 1796, of Ontario County was partitioned to form Steuben County.

On March 30, 1802, Ontario County lost of land through the partition of Genesee County, including the present Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Niagara, Orleans and Wyoming Counties and parts of Livingston and Monroe Counties.

A coveted trainee slot with the Canadian Intelligence Corps saw Berton, now a Captain, trained to act as an Intelligence Officer ( IO ), and after a stint as an instructor at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario, he finally went overseas in March 1945.

The first set of concerns were rendered moot when the specifications were introduced in March 1983 in the " Functional Requirements for Microcomputers for Educational Use in Ontario Schools -- Stage I.

DHL selected the March airport over San Bernardino International Airport and LA / Ontario International Airport.

The former Munnsville depot of the defunct ( March 29, 1957 ) New York, Ontario & Western Railway is now a private residence, occupied by noted NYO & W historian and author John Taibi.

On March 16, 1649, an Iroquois war party of about 1000 burned the Huron mission villages of St. Ignace and St. Louis in present-day Simcoe County Ontario, killing about 300 people.

In March 2011, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty announced the allocation of $ 12. 4 billion of future expansion of the Toronto subway and RT, part of which will cover the expense of rebuilding the Scarborough RT to use modern light rail cars.

* March 3 – Eric Burdon & The Animals refuse to perform a show in Ottawa, Ontario, unless they are paid in advance.

* March 18 – California Jam II is held at the Ontario Motor Speedway in California.

Chivian arranged for Burke to be signed to Singular Records, a Philadelphia-based label that was owned by WPEN disc jockey Edwin L. " Larry " Brown ( born September 10, 1921 in New York City ; died March 24, 2005 ), and vocal coach Arthur " Artie " Singer ( born February 1, 1919 in Toronto, Ontario ; died May 2, 2008 in Pennsylvania ), who had a distribution deal with Chess Records.

On March 19, 1994, the largest omelette ( 128. 5 m² ; 1, 383 ft² ) in the world at the time was made with 160, 000 eggs in Yokohama, Japan, but it was subsequently overtaken by an omelette made by the Lung Association in Brockville Memorial Centre, Ontario, Canada on May 11, 2002 — it weighed 2. 95 tonnes ( 2, 950 kg ).

The university was founded on 7 March 1878 by Bishop Isaac Hellmuth ( 1817 – 1901 ) of the Anglican Diocese of Huron as " The Western University of London Ontario.

In March 1994, Bob Rae's Ontario NDP government paid off all outstanding debts from the government treasury and sold the stadium for the massively discounted price of $ 151 million to a private consortium ( including Labatt's parent company – Interbrew ).

The town was also the site of the March 10, 1989 crash of Air Ontario Flight 1363, which killed 24 people and led to the Moshansky Inquiry on airline safety.

Davidson Black, FRS ( born July 25, 1884, Toronto, Ontario, Canada died March 15, 1934, Beijing, China ) was a Canadian paleoanthropologist, best known for his naming of Sinanthropus pekinensis ( now Homo erectus pekinensis ).