In July 2011, fellow Canadian superstar Michael Bublé confirmed in a live video chat with fans that he recorded a duet of ' White Christmas ' with Twain for his 2011 Christmas album.

* November 27 – The Calgary Stampeders defeat the Ottawa Rough Riders 12 – 7 before 20, 013 fans at Toronto's Varsity Stadium to capture their first Grey Cup and complete the only perfect season to date in Canadian Football.

Despite his strong long running image as a face, the Canadian Hart was turned heel in an anti-USA gimmick, while Steve Austin became cheered by fans despite efforts to design him as the ultimate heel, making him a tweener.

Most notably, Bassett's Toronto Northmen were forced to find a new home after the Canadian government threatened to ban any American football team from competing with the Canadian Football League ( despite the fact that the Toronto Rifles of the Continental Football League had played in Toronto just seven years prior ); though the Canadian Football Act never passed, the mere threat of it prompted Bassett to move the team to Memphis, where they became the Memphis Southmen, but were generally referred to by fans, local media, and even some official team materials as the " Grizzlies ".

Canadian fans and media approached the series with confidence ; many predicted that the Canadian professionals would win all eight games of the series.

In front of 16, 000 fans, he performed a ceremonial kickoff at a Canadian Football League game and was given a standing ovation.

Canadian sports fans make claims of having created waves during the late 1970s at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, National Hockey League games in Canada, and at Vancouver Whitecaps games, where crowds were alleged to have performed the wave for a commercial in which the slogan was " Catch the Wave.

The 1992 and 1993 European and Canadian releases make up what is often called " Generation 1. 5 ", much to the annoyance of many UK fans.

In her book The As It Happens Files, former show host Mary Lou Finlay notes that As It Happens has given a boost not just to Reading's profile, but also to its economy, as in recent years a number of Canadian fans of the show have made a point of visiting Reading when they are visiting the UK.

The DVD included interviews with McKennitt, her band, crew, fans and professional colleagues from the Canadian music industry.

Five Blue Bombers were named to the Canadian Football League 2011 CFL All-Star team: Offensive lineman Brendon LaBatte, defensive end Odell Willis, defensive backs Jonathan Hefney and Jovon Johnson as well as safety Ian Logan were selected to the All-Star team by fans, members of the Football Reporters of Canada ( FRC ) and CFL head coaches.

Because of the one-sidedness of the game, many fans and hockey insiders considered options on how to make the All-Star Game more balanced, including one where the All-Star Game was eliminated altogether in favour of a best-of-nine Stanley Cup Final with the proceeds of two of the games going to the players ' pension fund, and one which saw a Canadian Teams vs. American Teams format ( a somewhat-flawed concept in that nearly all NHL players of the era, whether playing for teams representing U. S. or Canadian cities, were Canadians ).

Many fans also weren't happy with the system, especially some Canadian fans, who resented having a team with 75 % Canadian players labeled " North America.

As a measure of the product's Canadian popularity, its Facebook page, KD Battle Zone, attracted 270, 000 fans, despite there being no prizes for the contest.

As an affront to the fans, he renamed the titles to the Canadian Heavyweight Championship, 100 kg and Under Championship, and Saskatchewan Hardcore International Title ( S. H. I. T.

This disappointed many wrestling fans over the years, and is unusual since the violence of wrestling scenes are not significantly different from other television programs aired on regular Canadian networks.

His consistency throughout the final phase of the competition and his great song choices won him many fans and eventually the Canadian Idol crown.

WBAI is on the right track: in the sound medium there has been excessive emphasis on music and news and there could and should be a place for theatre, as the Canadian and British Broadcasting Corporations continue to demonstrate.

In many cases, such as the cabinet-directed prohibition on foreign ownership for broadcasters and the legislated principle of the predominance of Canadian content, these acts and orders often leave the CRTC less room to change policy than critics sometimes suggest, and the result is that the commission is often the lightning rod for policy criticism that could arguably be better directed at the government itself.

The Canadian Citizenship Act of 1947 provided for a distinct Canadian Citizenship, automatically conferred upon most individuals born in Canada, with some exceptions, and defined the conditions under which one could become a naturalized citizen.

Canada did ratify the statute, but had requested an exception because the Canadian federal and provincial governments could not agree on an amending formula for the Canadian constitution.

Previously, the Canadian federal constitution could be amended by solitary act of the Canadian or British parliaments, by formal or informal agreement between the federal and provincial governments, or even simply by adoption as ordinary custom of an oral convention or unwritten tradition that was perceived to be the best way to do something.

A month later Igor Gouzenko, a cipher clerk in Ottawa, took political asylum in Canada and gave the Royal Canadian Mounted Police many agent names ; Philby could do nothing about this.

Using meconium, a Canadian research group at the Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, showed that by measuring a by-product of alcohol ( FAEE ) they could objectively detect babies exposed to excessive maternal drinking of alcohol in pregnancy.

Canadian judges are not bound by the Crown's sentencing recommendations and could impose harsher penalties.

For the Canadian government to copy the American model of railway financing whilst insisting on an all Canadian route, it was implied that the railway's backers would be expected to build hundreds of miles of track across rugged shield terrain ( which had little economic value ) at considerable expense before they could expect to access lucrative farmland in Manitoba and newly-created Northwest Territories.

This is attributed to a few factors: ( 1 ) he felt the federal NDP could not achieve power, because of Tommy Douglas's inability to attract voters in Quebec, ( 2 ) Trudeau expressed doubts about the centralizing policies of Canada's socialists ( he favoured a more decentralized approach ), and ( 3 ) there were " real differences " between his approach and the NDP's " two nations " approach to the Canadian constitution and the role of Quebec within Canada.

A worsening economy, burgeoning national debt, and growing public antipathy towards Trudeau's perceived arrogance caused his poll numbers to fall rapidly in the mid and late 1970s Trudeau delayed calling the 31st Canadian general election as long as he could, but was forced to call one in the spring of 1979.

Trudeau announced his intention to resign as Liberal Party leader ; however, before a leadership convention could be held, Clark's government was defeated in the Canadian House of Commons by a Motion of Non-Confidence, in mid-December, 1979.

The exclusion of the British North America Acts was the result of disagreements between the Canadian provinces and the Canadian Federal government over how the British North America Acts could be amended in an independent Canada.

In the case of proposed Quebec separation from Canada the Supreme Court of Canada in 1998 ruled that only both a clear majority of the province and a constitutional amendment confirmed by all participants in the Canadian federation could allow secession.

Thereafter in the 1990s, the PCs were a small party in the Canadian House of Commons, and could only exert legislative pressure on the government through their power in the Senate of Canada.

The Canadian Alliance party ( as the Reform Party had become ), and some leading tories came together on an informal basis to see if they could find common ground.

Asked of Canada were the terms of the Canadian side to initiate discussions, and whether or not the island of Barbados could depend on the full influence of Canada in getting the change agreed to by the United Kingdom.

“ We never could stand each other, and instead of taking pressure off me, they put on even more by bringing Carlos Reutemann into the team .” Having announced his decision to quit Ferrari at season's end, Lauda left early due to the team's decision to run the then unknown Gilles Villeneuve in a third car at the Canadian Grand Prix.

The little Force we have in the Province was immediately set in Motion, and ordered to assemble at or near St. John's ; The Noblesse of this Neighbourhood were called upon to collect their Inhabitants, in order to defend themselves, the Savages of those Parts likewise had the same orders ; but tho ' the Gentlemen testified great Zeal, neither their Entreaties or their Example could prevail upon the People ; a few of the Gentry, consisting principally of the Youth, residing in this Place, and its Neighbourhood, formed a small Corps of Volunteers under the Command of Mr. Samuel Mackay, and took Post at St. John's ; the Indians shewed as much Backwardness as the Canadian Peasantry.

Canadian media scholar Harold Innis had the theory that people use different types of media to communicate and which one they choose to use will offer different possibilities for the shape and durability of society ( Wark, McKenzie 1997 ).

As a consequence of the above, most Canadian medical students who wish to pursue an academic emergency medicine career, and / or work primarily in a major academic center, choose the FRCP route of certification.

In Canada in 2002 the ruling Liberal Party of Canada under Prime Minister Jean Chrétien opposed a successful measure by Paul Martin Jr., also a Liberal and widely regarded as Chrétien's rival or successor, to require Canadian House of Commons committees to choose chairs by secret ballot.

Most U. S. and Canadian wireless carriers do not let their customers choose an IXC ( long-distance provider ).

Community radio and campus-based community radio stations often choose to meet higher Canadian content levels than commercial broadcasters because of their mandate to support up-and-coming Canadian artists and provide content not readily available on commercial radio or the CBC.

In Canadian politics, a leadership convention is held by a political party when the party needs to choose a leader due to a vacancy or a challenge to the incumbent leader.

As approximately 30 percent of the Canadian population — those who were close enough to the US border — had access to over-the-air ( OTA ) broadcast signals from both Canadian and US networks, they could choose to watch American programs on either a Canadian or US network.

In 2003, at the behest of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ), CPAC and its carriers started to allow television viewers to choose which language they hear the service in, putting the feed of one language on the service's main audio channel and the feed of the other language on its SAP channel.

However, this uniform is still used by some Canadian viceroys and others could choose to wear it again at any point.

The Canadian Alliance, a conservative political party in Canada, held two leadership elections to choose the party's leader.

The channel, which is licensed by the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission as a Category B specialty channel ( which under CRTC rules, Canadian digital cable and direct broadcast satellite providers can choose to carry the channel on an optional basis ), is aimed at 15-34 year olds.

Advocates of union with Canada denounced the Economic Union Party as republican, disloyal and anti-British ; Britain refused to allow the voting populace the option to choose union with the U. S., and the U. S. State Department, needing British and Canadian cooperation during the Second World War, decided not to interfere.

Led by Mayor Nathan Phillips, Toronto city council decided in 1956 to have an international competition to choose the new design under terms drawn up by the International Union of Architects, which itself caused some controversy as some felt the work should be done by a Canadian.

Whereas the federal act states that, in the case of a referendum about the secession of a Canadian province, the House of Commons has the power to determine afterwards whether the question was clear enough and whether the obtained majority was large enough for the result to be accepted, the provincial one stipulates that Quebecers determine alone the manner in which to exercise their right to choose their political regime, and that the winning option in a referendum is whichever obtains 50 % of the votes plus one.

However these organizations are marginal in terms of membership when compared to Canadian organizations of the Left that choose to embrace nationalism ( such as the Council of Canadians and Canadian Labour Congress ).

At approximately the same time, the editors of The Globe and Mail began calling for the Governor General to be made head of state under the guise of " patriating the monarchy ", and arguing that Canada could rid itself of its Crown without becoming a republic, and backing their journalist Jeffrey Simpson's preference for the Companions of the Order of Canada to choose the head of state in a Canadian republic.

Another is the popular Canadian Hockey League ( for male hockey players aged 15 to 20 ), which effectively serves as the primary development league for the professional National Hockey League, although CHL teams offer financial support for players who choose to play CIS hockey after leaving the CHL.

While many of these companies choose to feature subversive brand names, this is not an exclusively Australian characteristic, as some US and Canadian microbreweries use the same marketing strategy.

Members of the Canadian Senate can choose to sit as representatives of a political party.