In Canada, a variety of conservative governments have been progressive conservative, with Canada's major conservative movement being officially named the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1942 to 2003.

Howe, when major Maritime shipyards and factories, as well as Canada's largest steel mill, located in Cape Breton Island, fared poorly.

Described on the provincial vehicle-licence plate as Canada's Ocean Playground, the sea is a major influence on Nova Scotia's climate.

King — and Canada — were largely ignored by Winston Churchill, despite Canada's major role in supplying food, raw materials, munitions and money to the hard-pressed British economy, training airmen for the Commonwealth, guarding the western half of the North Atlantic Ocean against German U-boats, and providing combat troops for the invasions of Italy, France and Germany in 1943-45.

It is grown in nearly every major wine producing country among a diverse spectrum of climates from Canada's Okanagan Valley to Lebanon's Beqaa Valley.

This grew Canwest's footprint to the major centres in seven of Canada's ten provinces.

Almost all of Canada's major daily newspapers are broadsheets.

Edmonton has become one of Canada's major educational centres, with more than 60, 000 full time postsecondary students spread over several institutions and campuses ( total enrollment among the schools is over 170, 000, which includes students enrolled in multiple institutions ).

Its precise position in the political spectrum — especially in relation to one of its principal competitors, The Globe and Mail — is at times disputed but the Star is generally considered to be the most leftwing of Canada's major papers.

* Toronto-Dominion Bank, one of Canada's major banking corporations, owner of the TD. com domain, or its TD Bank, N. A.

In addition to preserving Canadiana, DP Canada is notable because it is the first major effort to take advantage of Canada's copyright laws which may allow more works to be preserved.

* Deh Cho Bridge: First major bridge in Canada's Northwest Territories, 1100 metres across the ice-choked Mackenzie River.

The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan illustrated that the Commonwealth still had some military meaning during the Second World War and was one of Canada's major contributions to the early war effort.

In May 2005 the NDP supported the Liberal budget in exchange for major amendments, in what was promoted as Canada's " First NDP budget ".

Later, a highway was built through Kenora in 1932, becoming part of Canada's first coast-to-coast highway in 1943, and then part of the Trans-Canada Highway, placing the community on both of Canada's major transcontinental transportation routes.

In 1907 Carter organized Canada's first major exhibition of pictorial photography at Montreal's Art Association.

It noted that the National Energy Program of the 1980s, introduced by a federal Liberal government, involved major government intervention into Canada's energy markets to regulate prices, resulting in economic losses to Alberta and benefits to Eastern Canada.

The last 15 years in the WHL have been marked by another period of expansion and the return of the league to Western Canada's major cities.

Lester Pearson, during his term as Prime Minister, obtained passage of many of Canada's major social programs, including universal health care, the Canada Pension Plan and Canada Student Loans.

Though Pelee Island Winery and Hillebrand were Canada's first commercial icewine producers, starting production in 1983, Inniskillin Wines is considered the most widely known Canadian icewine producer as the first Canadian winery to win a major international award, the Grand Prix d ’ Honneur at 1991 Vinexpo in France, with their 1989 Vidal Icewine ( which was technically an illegal import into the EU ), placing Canadian icewines on the world stage.

His speeches often referred to Canada's potential to lead the world in agricultural research and development, and one of his major projects while viceroy was to establish experimental farms, including the Crown's central one in Ottawa.

Canada's northernmost major railhead is located at the town of Hay River, on the south shore of Great Slave Lake.

The area was prospected in the 1950s and 1960s by Al Kulan, credited with discovering several significant deposits of lead and zinc ore and playing a major role in the discovery of the Faro Mine, which became Canada's largest lead-zinc mine.

This type of farmer-labour co-operation became common throughout Western Canada, leading to the creation of the short-lived Progressive Party of Canada in the 1920s, and the more durable Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( Farmer-Labour-Socialist ) in Calgary, Alberta, in 1935, precursor to Canada's modern-day social democratic party, the New Democratic Party.

Canadian Government policies such as ; publicly funded health care, higher and more progressive taxation, outlawing capital punishment, strong efforts to eliminate poverty, an emphasis on cultural diversity, and most recently legalizing same-sex marriage – are social indicators of Canada's political and cultural values.

With remaining revenues, St-Laurent oversaw the expansion of Canada's social programs, including establishment of the Canada Council to support the arts, and the gradual expansion of social welfare programs such as family allowances, old age pensions, government funding of university and post-secondary education and an early form of Medicare termed Hospital Insurance at the time, that lay the groundwork for Tommy Douglas ' healthcare system in Saskatchewan and Pearson's nationwide universal healthcare in the late 1960s.

Workers ' compensation was Canada's first social program to be introduced as it was favoured by both workers ' groups and employers hoping to avoid lawsuits.

The Liberal Party under Jean Chrétien campaigned on promising to continue to cut the federal deficit to allow the creation of a budget surplus and then to spend one half of the surplus on repaying Canada's national debt as well as cutting taxes while the other half of the surplus would be used to increase funding to social programs such as health care, taking action to assist Canadian children living in poverty, and to promote job creation.

The second president of the Toronto association was T. Phillips Thompson, a central figure in the city's labour and social reform movements during the 1880s and 1890s and arguably Canada's foremost late nineteenth-century labour intellectual.

Regent Park is Canada's oldest and largest social housing project ; built in the late 1940s.

Accordingly, following the collapse of the conference proposals in 1946, in 1947, the social democratic premier of Saskatchewan, Tommy Douglas of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ), decided to go it alone, and established Canada's first publicly-funded hospital insurance plan.

They also raised concerns about how Canada's social programs and other trade agreements such as the Auto Pact would be affected.

The Canadian Auto Workers ( CAW ; formally the National Automobile, Aerospace, Transportation and General Workers Union of Canada ) is one of Canada's largest and highest profile social unions.

Called NIRV Center, it was conceived at the 1986 " Fate of the Earth Conference " by a group of Toronto environmentalists, and was Canada's first non-profit computer network serving non-profit and social change organisations ;

He favours strengthening Canada's military and encouraging investment, while maintaining a strong social safety net.

Canada's largest non-profit recognition program, the Donner Canadian Foundation Awards for Excellence in the Delivery of Social Services < ref name = donner >< Donner Canadian Foundation Awards recognize non-profit social service agencies that, despite budget limitations, excel in terms of management and service delivery.

Founded in 1865, and located near the Parliament Buildings, it is the meeting place both of Canada's political elite, and the city of Ottawa ’ s social and business elite.

However, following changes to Canada's National Housing Act housing act in 1996 to give the CMHC " more flexibility ", it was able to directly fund social housing and its role in supporting new and existing affordable housing diminished.

On November 10, 2006, Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed Chernushenko to Canada's National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, a non-partisan panel that advises the federal government on environmental policy, and works to promote the integrated pursuit of excellence in environmental, social and economic practices in Canada ’ s public, private and civil society sectors.

Darcy was firmly committed to the union's involvement in broader social issues, and under her tenure CUPE strongly attacked the invasion of Iraq, condemned Canada's involvement in ballistic missile defense, and spoke out loudly in favour of same-sex marriage.

Vellacott wrote an editorial piece in early 1998 describing Watkinson as a " social engineer " promoting an " extremist agenda ", and accusing Canada's " unelected judges " of " judicial imperialism " in their interpretations of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

In 1993 the federal government announced that all of Canada's social programs would be reviewed with sweeping and significant changes likely to come which prompted several student unions not affiliated with the CFS to try to organize efforts to lobby the federal government on education issues.

In his debut speech to the legislature, he said that his political philosophy was partly influenced by leaders of Canada's social democratic movement, as well as his own Mennonite upbringing.

He adhered to a strict interpretation of the British North America Act, was against women voting, disliked social innovations, and believed Canada's future was as a subordinate nation in the British Empire.

The riding contains notable areas such as Rosedale ( one of Canada's wealthiest enclaves ), Regent Park ( Canada's first and largest social housing development ), St. Jamestown ( a largely immigrant area and the most densely populated neighbourhood in Canada ), Cabbagetown, Church and Wellesley ( Canada's largest gay community ), the eastern portion of the University of Toronto and part of the city's financial district ( the northern portion of Bay Street ).