The CRTC contends that this low level of Canadian content, particularly when compared to the 35 % rule on local radio stations, was necessary because unlicenced U. S. receivers were already flooding into the country, so that enforcing a ban on these receivers would be nearly impossible ( see below ).

* 1957 – John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the Canadian federal election, 1957, ending 22 years of Liberal Party rule.

Significantly, though, the Scots Vowel Length Rule applies only before voiced fricatives and, whereas Canadian raising is not limited in this fashion ; thus, it may represent a sort of merging of the Scots Vowel Length Rule with the general English rule lengthening vowels before voiced consonants of any sort.

About 4 months later, Carleton's apprehensions regarding the ability of the Canadian noblesse ( nobility ) and clergy to rule over the people are proved right.

Some colonial editors explained their views on how it reorganized Canadian governance, explaining how they felt it established direct rule by the Crown and limiting the reach of English law to criminal jurisprudence.

This rule had never been used at any level of outdoor American football, but was ( and still is ) part of Canadian football.

This rule also came from Canadian football, which still uses it, as does Arena football with kickoffs and missed field goals.

As a rule, Canadian provinces other than Quebec do not consider completion of grade 11 in Quebec ( Sec V )-or, more simply, the secondary diploma of Quebec-to be sufficient for university admission ( or admission at other post-secondary institutions ), since secondary education in all other provinces continues to and includes grade 12.

He has been described as the first French Canadian historian to consider the period of the French regime superior to that of the English rule that followed it, evaluating the Conquest as a disaster rather than the common nineteenth century view of it as a blessing that saved Quebec from the atheist terror of the French Revolution.

While Canadian TV stations are technically required to identify themselves over the air by their call letters, the rule is rarely enforced by the CRTC.

As a rule, the French taught in American classrooms is that of France, as opposed to Canadian French, despite the geographic proximity of Canada to the United States.

Hugely popular with Atlantic fishermen and with departmental staff, LeBlanc was a key figure in Canada's imposition of a 200-mile fishing zone ; the establishment of a new fisheries licencing system ; the widespread use of quotas and zones that protected Canadian fishermen from overexpansion and competition from trawlers owned by large companies ; the owner-operator rule, requiring licence holders to operate vessels themselves ; the separate-fleet rule, preventing corporations from obtaining licences for an under-65-foot fleet ; and for creating an additional system of advisory committees that permitted fishermen a larger voice in fisheries management.

In some instances, American television stations near the border — especially those in small markets which depend on their audience in a nearby Canadian market for their financial viability — have intentionally counter-programmed against this rule by altering their schedules in order to avoid substitutions.

The election of 1984 not only saw Brian Mulroney's Progressive Conservatives win the largest number of seats in Canadian History ( 211 of 282 ), and the second largest majority ( behind John Diefenbaker's 208 of 265 in 1958 ), it ended over twenty years of Liberal rule, not counting the brief 1979 – 1980 tenure of Joe Clark.

In one of the great upsets in Canadian political history, the Progressive Conservative Party ( also known as " PCs " or " Tories "), led by John Diefenbaker, brought an end to 22 years of Liberal rule, as the Tories were able to form a minority government.

The most notable exceptions to this rule are the Hong Kong Derby and Singapore Derby, restricted to four-year-old Thoroughbreds, and the Canadian Pacing Derby, an annual harness race for " aged pacers " ( Standardbreds ) four years old and up.

The Canadian government applies a similar rule after 15 years.

This was primarily out of a reasoning that the Canadian government is in need of a necessary change after more than 12 years of Liberal rule.

Diane Francis, editor-at-large for the National Post, urged that the rule changes be recanted, arguing that there were flaws in the policy which hurt ordinary, hard-working Canadian investors.

First, it would violate the rule of law by ignoring the authority of the constitution as supreme law of the country, and second, it would violate Canadian federalism by acting with powers only allocated to the federal government.

Thus the new rule makes a distinction between Canadian citizens born in Canada and immigrants granted citizenship on the one hand and citizens by birth who were born outside Canada on the other who have attenuated rights to pass on citizenship to their children.

Once the Permanent Residency is granted, a Canadian parent can apply for Canadian citizenship on behalf of the child, without the required three-year-residency rule, however.

In 1962, Canadian historian Elliot Rose published A Razor for a Goat: A Discussion of Certain Problems in Witchcraft and Diabolism, in which he provided one of the first popular history books to openly criticise Murray's interpretation.

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He published his memoirs in 1993 ; the book sold hundreds of thousands of copies in several editions, and became one of the most successful Canadian books ever published.

She became a voracious reader of literature, Dell pocketbook mysteries, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Canadian animal stories, and comic books.

Following Vincent Lam's win of the Giller Prize in 2006, Geist columnist Stephen Henighan criticized the Giller Prize for its apparent dependency for its shortlists and winners on books published by Bertelsmann AG-affiliated Canadian publishing houses, all of which are based in Toronto.

Arguing that the trend towards centralization of Canadian publishing in Toronto has led to a monopolistic control of the Giller Prize by Bertelsmann and its authors, Henighan wrote, " Year after year the vast majority of the books shortlisted for the Giller came from the triumvirate of publishers owned by the Bertelsmann Group: Knopf Canada, Doubleday Canada and Random House Canada.

" In the event, his name appeared on the spines of nearly 200 million books, accumulating a fortune that enabled him to live in luxury alongside the likes of Sean Connery, billionaire Joe Lewis and Canadian fashion tycoon Peter Nygard.

He wrote 50 books, including ones on popular culture, Canadian history, critiques of mainstream religion, anthologies, children's books and historical works for youth.

All books it contained were moved to the Canadian parliament in Montreal when the two Canadas, lower and upper, were united.

On April 25, 1849, a dramatic event occurred: the Canadian parliament was burned by furious people along with thousands of French Canadian books and a few hundred of English books.

Moreover, their books often dealt with survival and the rugged Canadian environment ; these themes re-appear in other Canadian works, including Margaret Atwood's Survival.

During the post-war decades only a handful of books of any literary merit were published each year in Canada, and Canadian literature was viewed as an appendage to British and American writing.

Other sources of cryptic crosswords in the U. S. ( at various difficulty levels ) are puzzle books, as well as UK and Canadian newspapers distributed in the U. S. Other venues include the Enigma, the magazine of the National Puzzlers ' League, and formerly, The Atlantic Monthly.

A dynamic preacher and leader in Canadian fundamentalism, Smith wrote 35 books and engaged in missionary work worldwide.

Todd McFarlane ( born March 16, 1961 ) is a Canadian cartoonist, writer, toy designer and entrepreneur, best known for his work in comic books, such as the fantasy series Spawn.

He was inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame in 1996, and in 2005 he was inducted into the Joe Shuster Canadian Comic Book Creators Hall of Fame for his contributions to comic books.

Foster was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1996 and the Joe Shuster Canadian Comic Book Creators Hall of Fame for his contributions to comic books in 2005.

The rise in value has affected the book and book publishing industry, where buyers have been accustomed to fixed prices on the backs of their books: one for the Canadian market and another one for the American market.

A classic use of an abatis was found at the Battle of the Chateauguay, 26 October 1813, when approximately 1, 300 Canadian voltigeurs, under the command of Charles-Michel de Salaberry, defeated an American corps of approximately 2, 300 men.

For Canadian use and as a second source for US missiles, Canadair was selected to build the missiles in Quebec.

* Gila APCs ( 6, intended for police use ; paid for by the Canadian government )

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 ).

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.

Stations owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation use CB through a special agreement with the government of Chile.

Canadian federal statutes must use the terminology of both the common law and civil law for those matters ; this is referred to as legislative bijuralism.

Following the favorable response to the vivid color photography, shot partly on location in the Canadian Rockies, DeMille decided to always use Technicolor in his films.

( Both Canadian and British English use balloted and profiting.

Canada's automobile industry, on the other hand, has been dominated by American firms from its inception, explaining why Canadians use the American spelling of tire ( hence, " Canadian Tire ") and American terminology for the parts of automobiles ( for example, truck instead of lorry, gasoline instead of petrol, trunk instead of boot ).

Many Canadian editors, though, use the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, often along with the chapter on spelling in Editing Canadian English, and, where necessary ( depending on context ), one or more other references.

Just as the older dictionaries it includes uniquely Canadian words and words borrowed from other languages, and surveyed spellings, such as whether colour or color was the more popular choice in common use.

The use of such spellings was the long-standing practice of the Canadian Press perhaps since that news agency's inception, but visibly the norm prior to World War II.

Although many Canadian whiskies are labelled as " rye whisky ", the use of rye grain is not dictated by law, and whisky products of all grain types are often generically referred to as ( and may legally be labelled as ) " rye whisky " in Canada.

* Frequency: in Europe, in China, in Japan, in Latin America and in the US and Canada, and products may NOT be used in the UK or Ireland as they cause and suffer from interference with the UK and Ireland cellular networks with illegal use of such products being prohibited by UK agencies, and UK and Ireland DECT and products may NOT be used in the US and Canada as they cause and suffer from interference with US and Canada cellular networks and aircraft and for that reason is deemed illegal to use by US and Canadian agencies such as the Federal Communication Commission and Industry Canada.

) Apparently a complete break was desired from system of backheeling, and the T formation having gone into eclipse in American football at the time, the Canadian snap was modeled on the formations then in common use in the USA, such as the single wing.

Virtually all Canadian ovens make legal use of the Fahrenheit scale.

The first use of poison gas on the Western Front was on 22 April 1915, by the Germans at Ypres, against Canadian and French colonial troops.

A one-US-gallon gas can showing " U. S. gallon " marking ( for US use ), imperial gallons ( for Canadian use ) and litres.