Simon Fraser University was founded upon the recommendation of a 1958 report entitled Higher Education in British Columbia and a Plan for the Future, by Dr. J. B. Macdonald, who recommended the creation of a new university in the Lower Mainland.

Prior to that, Chile had been one of the most protectionist economies in the world, ranking 71 out 72 in a 1975 Cato Institute and Fraser Institute annual report.

In 1970 Aitken was acquitted at the Old Bailey for breaching section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911, when he photocopied a report about the British government's supply of arms to Nigeria, and sent a copy to The Sunday Telegraph and to Hugh Fraser, a pro-Biafran Tory MP.

Fraser insisted to British leaders that Bernard Freyberg, commander of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force, should report to the New Zealand government just as extensively as to the British authorities.

* Canada's auditor-general, Sheila Fraser, releases a scathing report on a CA $ 250-million sponsorship fund that had a major portion of its funds directed to firms friendly to the ruling Liberal party ; the resulting scandal and inquiry is quite likely to affect the coming election.

A report on the issue by the Auditor General's Office of Sheila Fraser came to the same conclusion.

He claims Auditor-General Fraser is misguided in delivering the report, as it distorts what actually went on ; he claims the office of then-Finance Minister Paul Martin lobbied for input in the choice of firms given contracts ; and he denies that any political interference occurred, because his bureaucratic office made all final decisions.

He issued a report in June 2003 arguing that federal bureaucrats had " badly managed " the sockeye salmon fishery in British Columbia's Fraser River two years earlier.

The report also named the Fraser Institute as the only Canadian organization in the Top 30 leading think-tanks in the world in 2011, out of a global group of 6, 545 think-tanks.

In addition, a report stated that Fraser Institute received $ 120 000 in funding from oil giant ExxonMobil.

A report released by the Union of Concerned Scientists in 2007 stated the Fraser Institute received $ 120 000 in funding from Exxon Mobil.

Near the end of 2000, Fletcher endorsed a report from the right-wing Fraser Institute which suggested that Canada would have to end university union contracts and professorial tenure to retain bright young academics.

However, the report of the Fraser Institute is greatly at odds with the Canadian government's 2007 report regarding itself.

In 1975 he was chairman of a Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration, whose report was largely ignored by the incoming Liberal government of Malcolm Fraser.

During the time after the report of the 0. 0 rating came up, which was during the two-week break the show took for CNBC's coverage of the 2004 Summer Olympics, Woody Fraser was brought in to be the executive producer to try to save the show, using his powers to try things like making McEnroe dress more professionally by wearing suits and ties, and having Fugelsang less involved, but to no avail.

An independent report, conducted by Lord Fraser of Carmyllie, cleared Salmond of any wrongdoing and asserted that " There appears to me to have been no breach of the ministerial code by Alex Salmond as First Minister and he should be wholly exonerated of any breach.

* 6 May: Graeme Fraser, the chairman of the New Zealand Qualifications Authority resigns after State Services Commission report into the 2004 NCEA scholarship exams.

In April 2005, the Auditor General of Canada Sheila Fraser gave a scathing report on Passport Canada, claiming that employees of the agency lack proper security clearance.

The Fraser Institute's 2010 / 2011 report on Holy Name of Mary Secondary School gave it an overall grade of 9. 1 / 10, ranking it at 6 of 718 secondary schools in Ontario.

In 2006, the Fraser Institute issued a report, Canada's Inadequate Response to Terrorism: The Need for Policy Reform, suggesting that the Citizenship Act be amended so that the Oath of Citizenship included a provision wherein the new citizen offered loyalty to Canadian values, with violation of this oath punishable by deportation.

When the Fraser Institute originally began publishing report on Ontario secondary schools in 2001, Unionville was rated at 8. 9 / 10 and ranked at 36 out of 568 schools and 21 out of 349 in Ontario over the past five years.

In the Fraser Institute's report on Ontario schools for the 2010-2011 year, the school was ranked 97 out of 718 secondary schools with an overall rating of 7. 7 out of 10.

Joe Hill wrote the song " Where the Fraser River Flows " during this period when the IWW was organizing in British Columbia.

* " Lifeline " ( Brooke Fraser song )

According to their drummer Simon Kirke, Free's most popular song All Right Now was written by bassist Andy Fraser and singer Paul Rodgers in their dressing room in Dunelm House, after a set of slower material had failed to excite the audience .< ref >

Brooke Fraser wrote the song " Albertine " on her album Albertine about an eponymous orphan from the genocide which Fraser met time in Rwanda in 2005.

The theme song for the show was actually a small part of the full version, also called ' Rainbow ' and written by Hugh Portnow, Hugh Fraser and Tim Thomas of the band Telltale, who regularly appeared in the first series of the show.

In 2008, Fraser appeared on the Dave Barnes song " Believe " from his album Me + You + the World, performing backing vocals.

Joni Mitchell's song ' Woodstock ' ( also covered by Eva Cassidy, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Ian Matthews, Richie Havens and Brooke Fraser ) was also referring to ' Yasgur's Farm ':

Many songs for church use bear the title " Hosanna ", including songs written by New Zealand singer Brooke Fraser Ligertwood ( released on the 2007 Hillsong United albums All of the Above and live on Saviour King and covered by the Canadian group Starfield on their album I Will Go ); another song by Paul Baloche on his 2006 album A Greater Song ; another by gospel artist Kirk Franklin, and another by Andrew Peterson on his 2008 album Resurrection Letters II.

The UK video for the title song was directed by John Hillcoat, and features a couple, played by Max Beesley and Laura Fraser, trashing their apartment.

Robin Guthrie described the EP as " shit " in a 1983 interview with Sounds, claiming it was " a bad mixture — bad song, bad producer, bad band ".< ref name =" cocteautwins. com "> Elizabeth Fraser simply described the material as " all we had at the time ".

At the south-east is a tall clock tower topped with turrets, one of which has a balustrade similar to a feature at Castle Fraser.

There is also Fraser Square which is not so square-like since it now opens out into Middle Street but it still houses the Imperial Hotel.

While it is difficult to comprehend how Vancouver missed the Fraser River, much of this river's delta was subject to flooding and summer freshet which prevented the captain from spotting any of its great channels as he sailed the entire shoreline from Point Roberts, Washington to Point Grey in 1792.

Captain James Fraser was employed as a supervisor, and remained by the Loch afterwards, taking cine film ( which is now lost ) on 15 September 1934.

These figures are slightly inflated due to the inclusion of areas within the Regional Districts which are not normally considered to be part of the Lower Mainland, notably the lower Fraser Canyon and the heads of Harrison and Pitt Lakes, which are within the FVRD, and Lions Bay and Bowen Island, which are within the GVRD

Health system services and governance in the Lower Mainland are provided by Vancouver Coastal Health, serving Vancouver, Richmond and the North Shore, and the mainland coast as far north as the Central Coast region, and Fraser Health, which serves the area of the Lower Mainland east of Vancouver and Richmond.

In the 1994 comedy Airheads ( in which he is credited as " Lemmy von Motörhead "), one scene involving Brendan Fraser, Adam Sandler, and Steve Buscemi, has Brendan Fraser's character, " Chazz " Chester Darvey talking to an undercover cop who is pretending to be a record executive — Chazz asks him, " Who'd win in a wrestling match, Lemmy or God?

Despite his support for SBS, the Fraser government imposed stringent budget cuts on the national broadcaster, the ABC, which came under repeated attack from the Coalition for its supposed left-wing bias and for allegedly " unfair " or critical coverage on TV programs including This Day Tonight and Four Corners, and on the ABC's new youth-oriented radio station Double Jay ( 2JJ ).

After 1996, Fraser was critical of the Howard Coalition government over foreign policy issues ( particularly Howard's alignment with the foreign policy of the Bush administration, which Fraser saw as damaging Australian relationships in Asia ).

As expressed by Peter Fraser in Punch & Judy ( 1970 ), " the drama developed as a succession of incidents which the audience could join or leave at any time, and much of the show was impromptu.

He was granted a state funeral on 14 September, which was attended by over 1, 000 mourners including Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, Premier Neville Wran, Mervyn Wood, Justice Lionel Murphy and former NSW Labor Premier and former Governor-General Sir William McKell.

SFU's student union is known as the Simon Fraser Student Society ( SFSS ), which includes undergraduates who study at SFU.

Round 10, 2005 saw St Kilda and its Coleman Medal-winning full-forward, Fraser Gehrig, claim more revenge for its defeat to Sydney in the corresponding fixture the previous season, winning by 43 points, 15. 11 ( 101 ) to Sydney's 8. 10 ( 58 ), after which the Swans earned the ire of the media and the AFL Chief Executive, Andrew Demetriou, for their game plan in the match.

In addition to this the University was a founding member of the Western Canadian Universities Marine Sciences Society, UVic maintains this field station on the west coast of Vancouver Island, which is jointly run by the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, the University of Alberta and the University of Calgary.

The Subcommittee on International Organizations of the Committee on International Relations ( also known as the Fraser Committee ) was a committee of the United States House of Representatives which met in 1976 and 1977 and conducted an investigation into South Korea – United States relations.

The children's book Ten Mile Day by Mary Ann Fraser tells the story of the final, record setting push by the Central Pacific in which they set a record by laying of track in a single day on April 28, 1869 to settle a $ 10, 000 bet.

* Thomas Fraser of Muchalls obtains lands in Aberdeenshire, upon which he starts the building of a towerhouse that will later be known as Muchalls Castle.

Several beaches are claimed to be the " world's longest ", including Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh ( 120 km unbroken ), Praia do Cassino ( 212km ) in Brazil, Fraser Island beach, 90 Mile Beach in Australia ( 151 km ) and 90 Mile Beach in New Zealand ( 88 km ), Troia-Sines Beach ( 63 km ) in Portugal and Long Beach, Washington ( which is about 40 km ).

Kerr also asked on 21 October for Whitlam's permission to interview Fraser, which the Prime Minister readily granted, and the two men met that night.

Fraser was able to coordinate a wave of communications from party members which served to neutralise both men.

After Whitlam left, Kerr called in Fraser, informed him of the dismissal, and asked if he would form a caretaker government, to which Fraser agreed.