As an autonomous, charitable foundation established in 2000, CFCAS funds research that improves the scientific understanding of processes and predictions, provides relevant science to policy makers and improves understanding of the ways in which these challenges affect human health and the natural environment in addition to strengthening Canada's scientific capacity.

She stated that she had chosen to attend the event because the city has been home to one of Canada's most ambitious environmental reclamation programs: " When people ask if there's hope ( for the environment ), I say, if Sudbury can do it, so can you.

The RCMP is responsible for policing in Canadian Internal Waters, including the territorial sea and contiguous zone as well as the Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence Seaway ; such operations are provided by the RCMP's Federal Services Directorate and includes enforcing Canada's environment, fisheries, customs and immigration laws.

Also many Canadians were and still are worried about the threats which certain sections of NAFTA are believed to pose to Canada's environment and cultural institutions.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency ( or CFIA ) is a science based regulatory agency that is dedicated to the safeguarding of food, animals, and plants, which enhance the health and well-being of Canada's people, environment and economy.

Military operations in Canada's maritime environment are the responsibility of the Royal Canadian Navy.

Each participant volunteers for about 40 hours per week and completes a learning program that focuses on Canada's official languages, protecting the environment, leadership, cultural diversity, and leading a healthy lifestyle.

GSC is responsible for performing geologic surveys of the country, developing Canada's natural resources and protecting the environment.

A Collection Storage Facility on Highway 50, Gatineau, Quebec, to house the preservation and newspaper collections, will feature a high-density shelving system with a suitable environment to better protect Canada's published heritage.

They point to threats allegedly posed to Canada's environment, natural resources, social programs, the rights of Canadian workers and cultural institutions.

Digital Extremes employment environment has been recognized as one of Canada's Top Employer's for 2010, 2011 and 2012.

Frampton has endorsed guaranteed private property rights as a means of improving Canada's environment.

He then became Canada's first deputy minister of the environment.

In the 2006 Supreme Court of Canada decision of Multani v. Commission scolaire Marguerite ‑ Bourgeoys the court held that the banning of the kirpan in a school environment offended Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms, nor could the limitation be upheld under s. 1 of the Charter, as per R. v. Oakes.

RCAF Station Beaverbank occupied a unique location in proximity to Canada's largest Atlantic seaport and its biggest naval base, making it an important early warning radar during the manual environment of the 1950s.

The CIW measures Canada's wellbeing and tracks progress in eight interconnected categories or domains ( healthy populations, living standards, community vitality, education, environment, time use, democratic engagement, leisure and culture.

Canada's first prime minister, John A. Macdonald, once directed the Governor General of Canada to issue an order-in-council directing that government papers be written in the British style.

Not outlined in any constitutional document, the office exists only as per long-established convention originating in Canada's former colonial power, the United Kingdom, which stipulates that the monarch's representative, the governor general, must select as prime minister the person most likely to command the confidence of the elected House of Commons ; this individual is typically the leader of the political party that holds the largest number of seats in that chamber.

Because the prime minister is, in practice, the most politically powerful member of the Canadian government, he or she is sometimes erroneously referred to as Canada's head of state, when, in fact, that post is held by the Canadian monarch, represented by the governor general.

As such, the prime minister, supported by the Office of the Prime Minister ( PMO ), controls the appointments of many key figures in Canada's system of governance, including the governor general, the Cabinet, justices of the Supreme Court, senators, heads of crown corporations, ambassadors to foreign countries, the provincial lieutenant governors, and approximately 3, 100 other positions.

There do exist checks on the prime minister's power: parliament may revoke its confidence in an incumbent prime minister ; cabinet or caucus revolts can quickly bring down a sitting premier, and even mere threats of such action can persuade and / or compel a prime minister to resign his post, as happened with Jean Chrétien ; the Senate may delay or impede legislation put forward by the Cabinet, such as when Brian Mulroney's bill creating the Goods and Services Tax ( GST ) came before the upper chamber ; and, given Canada's federal nature, the jurisdiction of the federal government is limited to areas prescribed by the constitution.

These spiritual attitudes not only guided Canada's relations with Hitler but gave the prime minister the comforting sense of a higher mission, that of helping to lead Hitler to peace.

External Affairs minister Louis St. Laurent dealt decisively with this crisis, the first of its type in Canada's history.

* June 21 – John Diefenbaker becomes Canada's 13th prime minister.

* November 15 – Louis Stephen St. Laurent becomes Canada's 12th prime minister.

* July 11 – Wilfrid Laurier becomes Canada's seventh prime minister and the first French-speaker to hold that office.

* July 23 – Arthur Meighen becomes Canada's ninth prime minister.

* March 30 – Jane Sym-Mackenzie, second wife of Canada's second prime minister ( b. 1825 )

* December 29 – William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Canada's tenth prime minister.

* December 21 – Mackenzie Bowell becomes Canada's fifth prime minister.

* December 5 – John Thompson becomes Canada's fourth prime minister.

* June 16 – John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister.

** Richard Bennett becomes Canada's eleventh prime minister.

* March 22 – Jane Sym, second wife of Canada's second prime minister ( d. 1893 )

He or she will host members of Canada's royal family, as well as foreign royalty and heads of state, and will represent the Queen and country abroad on state visits to other nations, though the monarch's permission is necessary, via the prime minister, for the viceroy to leave Canada.

The 1997 – 2000 term was marked by the Bloc's fight against the passage of the Clarity Act, the attempt by Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien ( himself a Quebecer who represented a strongly nationalist riding ) and Stéphane Dion, a Quebec minister in Chrétien's cabinet, to codify the Supreme Court of Canada's 1998 decision that Quebec could not secede unilaterally.

They regularly engage in pie-throwing — in January 2010, Canadian MP Gerry Byrne compared them to terrorists for throwing a tofu cream pie at Canada's fishery minister Gail Shea in protest at the seal hunt, a comment Newkirk called a silly chest-beating exercise.

On June 4, 1979, the day before his 40th birthday, Clark was sworn in as Canada's youngest prime minister, after defeating the Liberal Party in the May 1979 general election.

This had been done in preparation for Buchan's appointment as Canada's governor general ; when consulted by Canadian prime minister Richard Bennett about the appointment, the Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, William Lyon Mackenzie King, had recommended that the King allow Buchan to serve as viceroy as a commoner, but George V insisted that he be represented by a peer.

Some carriers have been known to disable payphone calls to 958 or 959 test lines, such as Bell Canada's system-wide ANAC line at 958-2580 or ( area code ) 958-6111.

The capital of British Columbia is Victoria, the 15th largest metropolitan region in Canada, named for Canada's Queen at Confederation.

B. M. Hertzog and Canada's Prime Minister at that time, William Lyon Mackenzie King.

As of September 2011, Canada's national unemployment rate stood at 7. 1 %, as the economy continues its recovery from the effects of the 2007-2010 global financial crisis.

In 1999, Cronenberg was inducted onto Canada's Walk of Fame and was awarded with the Silver Bear Award at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival.

Gray whales are protected under Canada's Species at Risk Act which obligates Canadian governments to prepare management plans for the whales and consider the interests of the whales when permitting development.

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.

Air Miles is Canada's largest loyalty program-Air Miles can be earned at more than 100 different sponsors and almost a thousand different rewards.

The iRewards program is Canada's largest loyalty program for booklovers, offering everyday discounts and special coupons at Chapters, Indigo Books and Music, Coles, SmithBooks, the World's Biggest Bookstore and chapters. indigo. ca.

Mali established its embassy in Canada in 1978 at 50 avenue Golburn in Ottawa, with its 1st appointed ambassador Zana Ousmane Dao, while Canada's embassy in Mali has been open since 1995.

In 1994, a young astronomer, Joshua Huneker, killed himself while at work at a National Research Council of Canada's radio telescope in Algonquin Provincial Park.

There are national awards, like Canada's Aurora Award, regional awards, like the Endeavour Award presented at Orycon for works from the Pacific Northwest, special interest or subgenre awards like the Chesley Award for art or the World Fantasy Award for fantasy.

In 2004 the Canadian province of Nova Scotia gave an invitation to join but Canada's government said they would look at the matter later.

" Two of Canada's four Confederation Poets-Sir Charles G. D. Roberts and Bliss Carman-were educated at UNB, as was Francis Joseph Sherman, along with a number of notable 20th and 21st century Canadian writers.

Gretzky debuted with the Team Canada's men's team at the 1981 Canada Cup.

The 1996 World Cup also ended Canada's winning streak at the tournament ( including the Canada Cups ), losing in three games of a best-of-three final.

Gretzky again acted as Executive Director of Canada's men's hockey team at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, though not with the success of 2002 ; the team was eliminated in the quarterfinals and failed to win a medal.

He was asked to manage Canada's team at the 2005 Ice Hockey World Championships, but declined due to his mother's poor health.

Although many populated land locations on the planet now have terrestrial communications facilities ( microwave, fiber-optic ), even undersea, with more than sufficient capacity, telephony and Internet access is still available only via satellite in many places in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, as well as isolated locations that have no terrestrial facilities, such as Canada's Arctic islands, Antarctica, the far reaches of Alaska and Greenland, and ships at sea.

Technetium-99 is a diagnostic isotope in short supply due to difficulties at Canada's Chalk River facility.

On the final day 221, 554 visitors added to the more than 50 million ( 50, 306, 648 ) that attended Expo 67 at a time when Canada's population was only 20 million, setting a per-capita record for World Exhibition attendance that still stands.

Starting at 2: 00 p. m., Expo Commissioner General Pierre Dupuy officiated over the medal ceremony, in which participating nations and organizations received gold and silver medallions, as well as the ceremony in which national flags were lowered in the reverse order to which they had been raised, with Canada's flag lowered first and Nigeria's lowered last.

By contrast, when Canada's YTV began airing the series in 1989, they continued airing the 1981 season as part of the package, as well as Whatever Turns You On, which was never shown in the United States at all.