Most, if not all, Canadian PIRG's operate on a consensus decision making model.

Most, if not all, Canadian PIRG's operate on a consensus decision making model.

In the Canadian Rockies, great groves of aspen are already glinting gold.

The Canadian Aboriginal syllabics are also an abugida rather than a syllabary as their name would imply, since each glyph stands for a consonant which is modified by rotation to represent the following vowel.

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.

* 1942 – World War II: Operation Jubilee – the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, France and fails, many Canadians are killed or captured.

Chief among other English dialects are Canadian English ( based on the English of United Empire Loyalists who left the 13 Colonies ), and Australian English, which rank third and fourth in number of native speakers.

The province's unspoiled natural beauty, untamed wild and economic dependence on the land and natural resources in particular are a strong embodiment of Canadian identity.

In Canadian provinces where Boxing Day is a statutory holiday, and it falls on a Saturday or Sunday, compensation days are given in the following week.

In Canada and Australia, accredited graduate programs in Biomedical Engineering are common, for example in Universities such as McMaster University, and the first Canadian undergraduate BME program at Ryerson University offering a four year B. Eng program.

Subnational areas of countries ( such as US States or the Canadian provinces and territories ) are not included in the Factbook.

Instead many Canadian companies have focused their exploration and expansion activities overseas where prices are lower and governments more accommodating.

Canadian companies are increasingly playing important roles in Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Africa.

Only CF, CH, CI, CJ and CK are currently in common use, although four radio stations in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador retained call letters beginning with VO when Newfoundland joined Canadian Confederation in 1949.

Meanwhile co-operation on many fronts, such as the ease of the flow of goods, services, and people across borders are to be even more extended, as well as the establishment of joint border inspection agencies, relocation of U. S. food inspectors agents to Canadian plants and vice versa, greater sharing of intelligence, and harmonizing regulations on everything from food to manufactured goods, thus further increasing the American-Canadian assemblage.

Railway connections between the port of Sydney to Canadian National Railway in Truro are maintained by the Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway.

Complaints against broadcasters, such as concerns around offensive programming, are dealt with by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council ( CBSC ), an independent broadcast industry association, rather than by the CRTC, although CBSC decisions can be appealed to the CRTC if necessary.

Per the Broadcasting Act the commission also gives priority to Canadian signals — many non-Canadian channels which compete with Canadian channels are thus not approved for distribution in Canada.

) Viewers via home antenna who receive both American and Canadian networks on their personal sets are not affected by sim-sub.

The evidence was inconclusive, suggesting that an increased availability of OTT options is not having a negative impact on the availability or diversity of Canadian content, one of the key policy mandates of the CRTC, nor are there signs that there has been a significant decline of televisions subscriptions through cable or satellite.

The Canadian Jewish Congress has expressed its opinion over possible anti-Semitic incitement on this station and that the restrictions on Al Jazeera are appropriate, while the Canadian B ' nai Brith is opposed to any approval of Al Jazeera in Canada.

The two companies are in partnership with American firms XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio respectively, and in accordance with the CRTC decision will only need to offer ten percent Canadian content.

While an unlicensed satellite dish can often be identified easily, satellite radio receivers are much more compact and can rarely be easily identified, at least not without flagrantly violating provisions against unreasonable search and seizure in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The Canadian Great Lakes region has similarities to that of the Upper Midwest & Great Lakes region and / or Yooper dialect ( in particular Michigan which has extensive cultural and economic ties with Ontario ), while the phonological system of western Canadian English is virtually identical to that of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, and the phonetics are similar.

Anthropologists were recruited from England and the USA, setting the foundation for the unique Canadian style of anthropology.

Nonetheless Canadian English also features many British English items and is often described as a unique blend of the two larger varieties alongside several distinctive Canadianisms.

This division is illustrated in a number of ways: The sovereign, for example, holds a unique Canadian title and, when she and other members of the Royal Family are acting in public specifically as representatives of Canada, they will use, where possible, Canadian symbols, including the country's national flag, unique royal symbols, armed forces uniforms, and the like, as well as Canadian Forces aircraft or other Canadian-owned vehicles for travel.

The University of Calgary is unique in that it is the only Canadian university that houses three media operations on-campus.

Today, all Canadian freight railways are standard-gauge, with only the Toronto Transit Commission operating the Toronto streetcar system and three of the Toronto subway lines on its own unique gauge of.

The game starts out like the Canadian variation, but there are some specific rules that make the version unique.

Sometimes a fourth category, the Canadian warming, is included because of its unique and distinguishing structure and evolution.

Canada first fielded a corps-sized formation in the First World War ; the Canadian Corps was unique in that its composition did not change from inception to the war's end, in contrast to British corps in France and Flanders.

The rise to power of arguably Canada's most influential Prime Minister was unique in Canadian politics.

It was inhabited by about 45, 000 Native Americans and 4, 000 traders, mostly French and British – although both groups included the Metis, a sizeable group descended from Native women married to European or Canadian traders who established a unique culture that ruled the Upper Midwest for more than a century.

A younger generation of Canadian poets has been expanding the boundaries of originality: Ken Babstock, Karen Solie, Lynn Crosbie, Patrick Lane, David McGimpsey, Stuart Ross, Sonnet L ' Abbé, George Elliott Clarke and Barry Dempster have all imprinted their unique consciousnesses onto the map of Canadian imagery.

The term led to the naming of the July 1 national holiday ; however, this reference to a unique Canadian historical development was discarded in 1982 " Canada Day ", which had already been in use by most Canadians, was made official by an act of Parliament.

He also began criticizing the Canadian Football League, and its unique concept.

The Texans were unique in that they were the only CFL USA team whose stadium, the Alamodome, had a playing surface large enough to accommodate a regulation Canadian football field.

The Canadian government's use of a unique interpretation of the Basel Convention obligations " intact " and " not intact " opens the door to uncontrolled e-waste exports as long as the device is intact.

Monuments to the Canadian and Norwegian Merchant Navy are located just outside the museum along with a unique children's playground in the shape of a submarine.

He had the unique distinction of starting his military career on the very bottom rung as a pre-war militia gunner before rising through the ranks to become the first Canadian commander of the four divisions of the unified Canadian Corps of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.