According to The Canadian Dictionary of ASL there are five broad regions of ASL variation in Canada, the Pacific, Prairie, Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic regions.

According to the Fraser Institute, Alberta has very high levels of economic freedom and rates Alberta as the most free economy in Canada, and second most free economy amongst U. S. states and Canadian provinces.

According to the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world's largest companies in 2008, Canada had 69 companies in the list, ranking 5th next to France.

According to the Census of Canada, the population of Cape Breton Island in 2011 was 135, 974, a 4. 4 % decline from 142, 298 in 2006, and a 14. 1 % decline from 158, 260 in 1996.

According to historian Christopher Moore, coalition governments in Canada became much less possible in 1919 when the leaders of parties were no longer chosen by elected MPs, but instead began to be chosen by party members.

According to the laws of Canada, a Canadian whisky must be mashed, distilled and aged in Canada.

According to the 2012 Academic Ranking of World Universities rankings, the university ranked 201-300 in the world and 8-17th in Canada.

According to a survey conducted by The Scientist magazine, Dal was named the best non-commercial scientific institute in which to work in Canada.

According to a decision by The Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany of September 21, 2001, in the version from May 15, 2008, this also applies to PhDs that were awarded in Australia, Israel, Japan, or Canada.

According to the Language Portal of Canada, " this fairly new tradition has gained in popularity in France, Great Britain, Jamaica and Brazil ", although this information has not been confirmed with authoritative sources from these countries.

According to Agassiz the provinces that the different races were created in included Western American Temperate ( the indigenous peoples west of the Rockies ); Eastern American Temperate ( east of the Rockies ); Tropical Asiatic ( south of the Himalayas ); Temperate Asiatic ( east of the Urals and north of the Himalayas ); South American Temperate ( South America ); New Holland ( Australia ); Arctic ( Alaska and Arctic Canada ); Cape of Good Hope ( South Africa ); and American Tropical ( Central America and the West Indies ).

According to Environment Canada, Manitoba ranked first for clearest skies year round, and ranked second for clearest skies in the summer and for sunniest province in the winter and spring.

According to the Pagan Federation of Canada: ' Over the last few decades, many people have thought that the emphasis on male / female polarity in Wicca excludes homosexuals '.

According to tradition, the bitter taste of antimalarial quinine tonic led British colonials in India to mix it with gin, thus creating the gin and tonic cocktail, which is still popular today in many parts of the world, especially the UK, United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

According to Canadian Lawyer Magazine, the law school ranks among the top five in Canada.

According to U. S. News & World Report, the University of Manitoba is among the top 20 universities in Canada and top 400 universities in the world as of 2009.

According to the Guinness World Records, the largest lobster was caught in Nova Scotia, Canada, and weighed.

According to author Ginger Strand, the Horseshoe Falls is now entirely in Canada.

According to Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, the Métis were historically the children of French fur traders and Nehiyaw women or, from unions of English or Scottish traders and northern Dene women ( Anglo-Métis ).

According to the Sagas, the first European to see Canada was Bjarni Herjólfsson, who was blown off course en route from Iceland to Greenland in the summer of 985 or 986 CE.

According to the Canadian Royal Heritage Trust, Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn — due to his having lived in Canada between 1791 and 1800, and fathering Queen Victoria — is the " ancestor of the modern Canadian Royal Family.

According to Granatstein, this meant that Canada was not able to live up to its post-Cold War military commitments.

According to the 2011 Academic Ranking of World Universities ( ARWU ) rankings, the university ranked 151-200 in the world and 7-8 in Canada.

According to the British North America Act, 1867, the Governor General of Canada may veto a bill by refusing Royal Assent.

According to the National Statistical Service, Armenia's trade deficit in 2006 was $ 1. 2 billion with growth in exports being largely flat.

According to the 2006 population estimate, the village has a population of 1, 680.

* According to a 2006 survey of 1, 500 adults by Satio, a third of Belarusians use the Internet — 38 % of the urban population and 16 % of the rural population.

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics the median wage for commercial and print models was only $ 11. 22 per hour in 2006.

According to The Hollywood Reporter < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s annual Star Salary Top 10, she was tied for eighth place on the top ten list of actresses ' salaries, commanding 10 to 12 million dollars per movie for 2006.

According to the Scientology journal The Auditor, the total number of " Clears " as of May 2006 stands at 50, 311.

According to results released in January 2006, the constitution was approved by 84 % of voters.

According to the Australian government's June 2006 publication of prison statistics, Aborigines make up 24 % of the overall prison population in Australia.

According to former DARPA Director Tony Tether and W. B. Bonvillian (“ Power Play ,” W. B. Bonvillian, The American Interest, Volume II, p 39, November – December 2006 ), DARPA's key characteristics to be replicated to reproduce DARPA's success are:

* According to an IDC paper sponsored by EMC Corporation, 161 exabytes of data were created in 2006, " 3 million times the amount of information contained in all the books ever written ," with the number expected to hit 988 exabytes in 2010.

According to a UN report in 2007, Afghanistan has received over $ 3. 3 billion from its expatriate community in 2006.

According to a World Bank report in 2006, " In Haiti, the process of business regulations is complex and customs procedures are lengthy.

According to British war cabinet minutes released in 2006, Winston Churchill advocated Himmler's assassination.

According to a 2006 report by rival Fatah party, Hamas had smuggled between several hundred and 1, 300 tons of advanced rockets, along with other weaponry, into Gaza.

According to a survey released by the " Beirut Center for Research and Information " on July 26 during the 2006 Lebanon War, 87 percent of Lebanese support Hezbollah's " retaliatory attacks on northern Israel ", a rise of 29 percentage points from a similar poll conducted in February.

According to the 2006 census, Lesotho has a total population of 1, 872, 721.

According to statistics obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, the average commuter on the Metropolitan line in 2006 wasted three days, 10 hours and 25 minutes due to delays.

According to several linguists, neurocognitive research has confirmed many standards of language learning, such as: " learning engages the entire person ( cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains ), the human brain seeks patterns in its searching for meaning, emotions affect all aspects of learning, retention and recall, past experience always affects new learning, the brain's working memory has a limited capacity, lecture usually results in the lowest degree of retention, rehearsal is essential for retention, practice does not make perfect, and each brain is unique " ( Sousa, 2006, p. 274 ).

According to the official Bulgarian sources, in the period between 2000 to 2006 some 30 000 Macedonian citizens applied for Bulgarian citizenship, attracted by the Bulgaria's recent positive development and the opportunity to get European Union passports after Bulgaria joined EU on the beginning of 2007.

According to Memphis, Tennessee's The Commercial Appeal newspaper, one manatee was spotted in the Wolf River harbor near the Mississippi River in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, on October 23, 2006, though it was later found dead ten miles downriver in McKellar Lake.

According to Autodata, in 2006 Chrysler, Honda, and Toyota comprised 72 % of the United States minivan market.

According to the U. S. National Center for Health Statistics, as well as a 2006 series in the Charleston ( West Virginia ) Gazette, medical examiners listed methadone as contributing to 3, 849 deaths in 2004.

According to Spitzer, “ He ( Abu Daoud ) didn't pay the price for what he did .” In 2006 during the release of Steven Spielberg's film, Munich, Der Spiegel interviewed Abu Daoud regarding the Munich massacre.

According to Semico, over four billion 8-bit microcontrollers were sold in 2006.