* 1924 – Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2011 )

* 1922 – Pierre Gauvreau, Canadian painter ( d. 2011 )

* 2011 – Jean Gratton, Canadian bishop ( b. 1924 )

* 1926 – Keith Davey was a Canadian politician, Senator, and campaign organizer ( d. 2011 )

* 2011 – Pierre Gauvreau, Canadian painter ( b. 1922 )

Following the performances of the Canadian, American and Argentine teams at the 2011 Rugby World Cup, some commentators have suggested the Lions conduct a shortened tour the Americas in the future.

: Commercial estates filed by Canadian trustees in 2011 4775 estates, 3643 bankruptcies and 1132 Division 1 proposals.

In May 2011, in response to the increase presence of Over-the-Top ( OTT ) programming, the CRTC put a call out to the public to provide input on the impact OTT programming is having on Canadian content and existing broadcasting subscriptions through satellite and cable.

In October 2011, the Canadian Federal Government licensed the CANDU design to Candu Energy ( a wholly owned subsidiary of SNC-Lavalin ), which also acquired the former reactor development and marketing division of AECL at that time.

Several programs from the university placed in the 2011 Corporate Knights rankings, which measures how well Canadian universities integrate sustainability into their curriculum.

Canadian Ambassador William Crosbie makes remarks during the opening of the refurbished Turquoise Mountain Foundation in Kabul on May 9, 2011.

* 1927 – Robert Kroetsch, Canadian author ( d. 2011 )

* 1976 – Wade Belak, Canadian ice hockey player ( d. 2011 )

* 1951 – Rick Martin, Canadian ice hockey player ( d. 2011 )

* 1950 – Jack Layton, Canadian politician ( d. 2011 )

* King ( 2011 TV series ), a Canadian police drama

* 2011: Born Free Tour: Canadian Leg

A Labour Day tradition in Atlantic Canada is the Wharf Rat Rally in Digby, Nova Scotia, while the rest of Canada watches the Labour Day Classic, a Canadian Football League event where rivals like Calgary Stampeders and Edmonton Eskimos, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Toronto Argonauts ( except in 2011, due to a scheduling conflict ), and Saskatchewan Roughriders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers play on Labour Day weekend.

Lemmy Kilmister during Motörhead's 2011 The Wörld is Yours TourIn 1975 Lemmy was fired from Hawkwind after he was arrested at the Canadian border in Windsor, Ontario, across the river from Detroit, Michigan on drug possession charges ; he spent five days in jail.

* 1977 – Bad News Brown, Canadian rapper, singer, harmonica player, and actor ( d. 2011 )

* 1940 – Eddy Palchak, Canadian ice hockey trainer and equipment manager ( d. 2011 )

* 2011 – Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist ( b. 1924 )

* 1920 – Olive Dickason, Canadian historian ( d. 2011 )

* 1921 – Pierrette Alarie, Canadian operatic soprano ( d. 2011 )

In another study of ancient DNA published by the same authors in 2011, both the control and coding regions of mitochondrial DNA ( mtDNA ) recovered from Jomon skeletons excavated from the northernmost island of Japan, Hokkaido, were analyzed in detail, and 54 mtDNAs were confidently assigned to relevant haplogroups.

According to a study in 2011, Napoleon Bonaparte, and therefore all the Bonaparte ( males only ), belonged to haplogroup E1b1b1c1 * ( E-M34 *).

For example, the study found that people who believe Osama Bin Laden was captured alive by Americans are likely to also believe that Bin Laden was actually killed prior to the 2011 raid.

A 2011 study found that highly Machiavellian people are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories, since they themselves would be more willing to engage in a conspiracy when placed in the same situation as the alleged conspirators.

Couscous was elected as the third favorite dish of French people in 2011 in a study by TNS Sofres for magazine Vie Pratique Gourmand and the first in East of France.

A 2011 study by Walk Score ranked Chicago the fourth most walkable of fifty largest cities in the United States.

A study published in 2011 by the U. S. Department of Education found that " From 2000 to 2008, the percentage of undergraduates enrolled in at least one distance education class expanded from 8 percent to 20 percent, and the percentage enrolled in a distance education degree program increased from 2 percent to 4 percent.

A 2011 published study documented the first metal-free electrocatalyst using relatively inexpensive doped carbon nanotubes that are less than 1 % the cost of platinum and are of equal or superior performance.

Eppig, Fincher, and Thornhill ( 2011 ) in a similar study instead looking at different US states found that in states with higher prevalence of infectious diseases had lower average IQ.

In August 2011, two of three subjects of a pilot study were confirmed to have been cured from chronic lymphocytic leukemia ( CLL ).

* Smith, Gary Scott, Heaven in the American Imagination ( Oxford University Press ; 2011 ) 339 pages ; draws on art, music, folklore, sermons, literature, psychology, and other realms in a study of how Americans since the Puritans have imagined heaven.

A NASA multi-center Technology Applications Assessment Team led from the Johnson Spaceflight Center, has as of January 2011 described " Nautilus-X ", a concept study for a multi-mission space exploration vehicle useful for missions beyond low earth orbit ( LEO ), of up to 24 months duration for a crew of up to six.

In 2011 Thure E. Cerling of the University of Utah and colleagues, published a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of their work with the carbon in the enamel of 24 teeth from 22 Paranthropus individuals who lived in East Africa between 1. 4 million and 1. 9 million years ago.

According to a Stockholm University study in 2011, these pilgrims visit the Holy Land to touch and see physical manifestations of their faith, confirm their beliefs in the holy context with collective excitation, and connect personally to the Holy Land.

A 2011 study found that the TP53 proline mutation did have a profound effect on pancreatic cancer risk among males.

A 2011 study found that TP53 codon 72 polymorphism was associated with an increased risk of lung cancer.

A 2011 study of a Brazilian birth cohort found an association between the non mutant arginine TP53 and individuals without a family history of cancer.

Another 2011 study found that the p53 homozygous ( Pro / Pro ) genotype was associated with a significantly increased risk for renal cell carcinoma.

The relationships of these families were uncertain until 2011, when they were resolved in a molecular phylogenetic study based on two nuclear genes and ten chloroplast genes.

In another study, published in 2011, Jason E. Lewis and colleagues re-measured the cranial volumes of the skulls in Morton's collection, and re-examined the respective statistical analyses by Morton and by Gould, concluding that, contrary to Gould's analysis, Morton did not falsify craniometric research results to support his racial and social prejudices, and that the " Caucasians " possessed the greatest average cranial volume in the sample.

Clinical trials are currently underway in Antwerp, Belgium using VNS for the treatment of tonal tinnitus after a breakthrough study published in early 2011 by researchers at the University of Texas-Dallas showed successful tinnitus suppression in rats when tones were paired with brief pulses of stimulation of the vagus nerve.

In July 2011, a centre for the study of classical Kannada was established under the aegis of Central Institute of Indian Languages ( CIIL ) at Mysore to facilitate research related to the language.

Blood samples taken in 1971 and 2008 from Easter Islanders without any European or other external descent were analysed in a 2011 study, which concluded that the evidence supported some aspects of Heyerdahl's hypothesis.

However, a 2011 study ( AIM-HIGH ) was halted early because patients showed no decrease in cardiovascular events, but did experience an increase in the risk of stroke.