* The Special Senate Committee on Illegal Drugs reviewed Canada's current anti-drug policies and legislation and reported in September 2002 that marijuana is not a gateway drug and should be treated more like tobacco or alcohol than harder drugs.

The Olympic rings were also added below the CTV logo, signifying it as the current Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium | official broadcaster of the Olympic Games in Canada.

Slavery which was practiced within Canada's current geography, was practiced primarily by Aboriginal groups.

" This bill of rights, however, was not as elaborate as Canada's current constitutional bill of rights, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

It is also home First Nations School of Toronto, a cultural survival school that places heavy emphasis on aboriginal values and culture, and the current location of SEED Alternative Secondary School, Canada's first public alternative school.

Jason T. Kenney, PC, MP ( born May 30, 1968 ) is Canada's current Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism.

The ESV lectionary is set to replace the current English, Welsh, Irish, and Australian lectionaries, and to eventually replace Canada's " provisionally approved " NRSV lectionary ( which has had its " provisional approval " renewed for almost twenty years ) and the United States of America's lectionary drawn from the New American Bible lectionary — a translation which has drawn a wide range of criticism and little praise for wooden English and lack of style, non-traditional renderings, heterodox annotations, gender-neutral language, and systematic removal of Messianic prophecy, to the point where the 1991 NAB Psalms were condemned by the Vatican.

In his testimony, Canwest president Leonard Asper blamed the current rules for the poor financial condition of Canada's broadcast television stations, a position which has subsequently been adopted and addressed through rule changes by the CRTC and FCC.

* Ross Hornby, Canada's current Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the European Union

Canada's current annual population growth rate is 1. 238 %, or a daily increase of 1, 137 individuals.

Surveying and charting was extended to Canada's Pacific coast in 1891, tidal and current metering nationwide began in 1893, surveying and charting extended to the Maritimes by 1905, and water level gauging of the Great Lakes began in 1912.

It was regretful that the current draft resolution did not condemn the rocket attacks on Israeli civilians ," said Canada's representative Terry Cormier, the lone voter against.

1999 – World's highest proton beam current ISOL ( isotope online ) facility, lifetime measurements of 37-K at ISAC, TRIUMF becomes Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics

Since no single institution can do the work alone, LAC is building the networks necessary to acquire, preserve and make Canada's documentary heritage accessible to current and future generations.

( At that time, the University's football / rugby team, the Queen's Tricolour, were the winners of the Grey Cup for three consecutive years, and it is a common myth that when the current call letters CFRC were assigned, their meaning was " Canada's Famous Rugby Champions ", however the relationship was purely coincidental ).

The popular series Comics, based around one comedian each week, has been the first national television exposure for many of Canada's current comedy stars.

The team was disbanded after the last show of the season, but the aircraft were used a few years later to form the Snowbirds, Canada's current national team.

Len Rudner, also with CJC Ontario Region, stated that: " While workers face an uncertain economic future and students at one of Canada's largest universities are scrambling to recover from a lengthy strike that has jeopardized the current academic year, it boggles the mind to consider that CUPE Ontario's leadership has no matter more pressing than promoting a resolution that is bigoted on its face and discriminatory in its intent.

Canada's current Commissioner of Official Languages is Graham Fraser.

Sarnia — Lambton, with its predecessors Sarnia, and Lambton West, is Canada's current most bellwetherly riding, having voted for the winning party since 1963.

Unlike Canada's previous MTV2 ( now Juicebox ), of which the vast majority was music videos, the new channel became much closer in format to its U. S. counterpart ; in fact, due to quirks in their respective licences, it actually airs music videos and music programming unlike the current main MTV channel in Canada, making it also slightly similar to the American MTV.

Founded in 1860, making it Canada's oldest art institution, it moved to its current location in 1912 thanks to a large donation from businessman James Ross.

Under the stewardship of its current owner, the Government of New Brunswick, and its current operator, Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, The Algonquin continues to offer a premier vacation experience in one of Canada's most historic seaside resort towns.

Only four national over-the-air television networks are currently licensed by the CRTC: the government-owned CBC ( English ) and Radio-Canada ( French ), French-language private network TVA, and a network focused on Canada's indigenous peoples, APTN.

These critics say that Canada's proximity to the United States causes a " brain drain " or migration of Canadian-trained doctors and nurses ( as well as other professionals ) to the United States, where private hospitals can pay much higher wages and income tax rates are lower ( partially because health care is not covered through taxation ).

Canada's Medicare system and most of the UK's NHS general practitioner and dental services, which are systems where health care is delivered by private business with partial or total government funding, fit this broader definition, as do the health care systems of most of Western Europe.

The Reform Party suggested that Canada's government-funded universal health insurance system be replaced by a two-tier private and public health insurance system.

* Canadian Association of Broadcasters, the national voice of Canada's private broadcasters, representing the vast majority of Canadian programming services, including private radio and television stations, specialty, pay and pay-per-view services

In the early pioneer days of Western Canada's Prairie towns, when a good farming spot being settled, many people wanted to make money by building their own grain elevators, this brought in droves of private grain companies.

Other parts of Canada's retirement system are private pensions, either employer-sponsored or from tax-deferred individual savings ( known in Canada as a Registered Retirement Savings Plan ).

His first post upon returning to his home country was an advisory position with the Canadian Radio and Television Commission ( CRTC ) in Ottawa, where he battled Canada's private broadcasters, especially CTV, over new Canadian content regulations.

The company is privately held by private equity funds and majority owned by Canada's Onex Corporation.

TVA also owns Le Canal Nouvelles ( LCN ), Canada's only private French language headline news channel.

* CTV, Canada's oldest, largest, and most-watched private broadcast television network, including 21 owned and operated stations.

In 2006 Stoffer withdrew his own private members bill aimed at preserving Canada's neglected heritage lighthouses, in order to support similar legislation, Heritage Lighthouse Protection Act introduced by Conservative Senator Pat Carney.

Marc Emery frequently challenged Canada's censorship laws during his years as an FpO organizer, via the private bookstore he operated in London.

He remained active on law enforcement issues, introducing a private member's bill to create a national witness protection program and calling for tougher provisions under Canada's Young Offenders Act.

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.

Canada's system is known as a single payer system, where basic services are provided by private doctors ( since 2002 they have been allowed to incorporate ), with the entire fee paid for by the government at the same rate.

Transport Canada used to manage most of Canada's major airports, but in the 1990s, most airports were off loaded to non-profit private airport authorities.

Six of Canada's ten provinces used to ban private insurance for publicly insured services to inhibit queue jumping in order to preserve fairness in the health care system.

It is Canada's first private, non-profit, secular university.

On October 20, 1789, Home Secretary William Wyndham Grenville wrote a private and secret letter to Carleton, informing him of the plans of the king's counsellors to modify Canada's constitution.

In March 2003, he participated in a discussion on health-care funding at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, in which he argued that Canada's provinces should be permitted to enact user fees and expand the role of the private sector in health-care provision.

Bezan authored a private members bill allowing Canada's official recognition of the Holodomor, the Ukrainian famine instigated by Soviet policy.

The Canadian Association of Broadcasters ( CAB ) was the national voice of Canada's private broadcasters, representing the vast majority of Canadian programming services, including private radio and television stations, specialty, pay and pay-per-view services.