While the coast of BC and certain valleys in the south-central part of the province have mild weather, the majority of BC's land mass experiences a cold winter temperate to subarctic climate similar to the rest of Canada.

A few Southern Interior valleys have short cold winters with infrequent heavy snow, while those in the Cariboo, the southern part of the Central Interior, are colder because of their altitude and latitude, but without the intensity or duration experienced at similar latitudes elsewhere in Canada.

In the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ( ELCA ) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada ( ELCIC ), the largest Lutheran Church bodies in the United States and Canada respectively and roughly based on the Nordic Lutheran state churches ( similar to that of the Church of England ), bishops are elected by Synod Assemblies, consisting of both lay members and clergy, for a term of 6 years, which can be renewed, depending upon the local synod's " constitution " ( which is mirrored on either the ELCA or ELCIC's national constitution ).

The phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon for most of Canada are similar to that of the Western and Midland regions of the United States.

More recently the term " cigarette boat " has replaced the term " rum-runner " when similar boats were used to smuggle cigarettes between Canada and the United States.

Canada follows a similar pattern, where a prefix of C is usually added to an IATA code to create the ICAO code.

The holiday has also spread to Canada, and is celebrated by Black Canadians in a similar fashion as in the United States.

Despite these differences, English as it is spoken in both Canada and the United States is similar, with the United Empire Loyalists who fled the American Revolution having had a large influence on the early spoken form of Canadian English.

a state regulatory body called Krajowa Rada Radiofonii i Telewizji ( The National Radio and Television Committee ), which is similar to CRTC in Canada.

Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa followed prewar Great Britain, and Hungary had similar developments during the war.

The North Atlantic Current moderates Svalbard's temperatures, particularly during winter, giving it up to higher winter temperature than similar latitudes in Russia and Canada.

A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.

In Canada, the term " Tory " may describe any member of the Conservative Party of Canada, its predecessor party the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, or any similar affiliated conservative provincial party ; the term is frequently used in contrast to " Grit ", a shorthand for the Liberal Party of Canada.

The United States has negotiated a separate terminal dues formula with thirteen European countries that includes a rate per piece plus a rate per kilogram ; it has a similar arrangement with Canada.

A similar, though proportionally much smaller, phenomenon has taken place in the Unitarian churches in the United Kingdom, Canada, and other countries, which remain more theistically based.

In Commonwealth Realms such as Canada, Australia or New Zealand, the Prime Minister is obligated to seek permission from the Governor-General when implementing executive decisions, in a manner similar to the British practice.

Canada and Scandinavia see similar results in their former tundra regions.

Building on the success of the AWO, the IWW's Lumber Workers Industrial Union ( LWIU ) used similar tactics to organize lumberjacks and other timber workers, both in the deep South and the Pacific Northwest of the United States and Canada, between 1917 and 1924.

In recent years, an unofficial short version of the anthem is sung during Belgian National Day on July 21 yearly, combining the words of the anthem in all three of Belgium's official languages, similar to the bilingual version of O Canada.

In Canada, a similar network of volunteer weather watchers, called Canwarn, helps spot severe weather, with more than 1, 000 volunteers.

In Canada the situation is arguably more biased, with governments regularly formed by parties with support of under 40 % of actual voters holding majority power for full four-year terms.

Canada, a nascent country with a population of 3. 5 million in 1871, lacked the practical means to exercise meaningful de facto control within the de jure political boundaries of the recently acquired Rupert's Land -- building a transcontinental railway was national policy of high order in changing this situation.

In the private sector, the situation was even worse as Canada retained the unreformed common law of libel without the exceptions for public issues or public interest that were added in all other English-speaking countries.

* Lachance, S., " Report on the situation of the Redfin Pickerel, Esox americanus americanus, in Canada.

Though, via adopting the Statute of Westminster, these constitutional laws as they apply to Canada now lie within the full control of the Canadian parliament, Canada also agreed not to change its rules of succession without the unanimous consent of, and a parallel change of succession in, the other realms, unless explicitly leaving the shared monarchy relationship ; a situation that applies symmetrically in all the other realms and has been likened to a treaty amongst these countries.

The same situation also applies to a resident of any other part of Canada visiting Quebec, only they submit any claims to their respective provincial healthplan.

* International clergy sexual abuse news monitor composed and edited by journalist and author Roel Verschueren, daily news updates about the situation in Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Ireland, US, Canada, US and England

It noted that Air Canada " neglected to assign clearly and specifically the responsibility for calculating the fuel load in an abnormal situation ", finding that the airline had failed to reallocate the task of checking fuel load that had been the responsibility of the flight engineer on older ( three-crew ) aircraft.

The early Chinese populations in the United States and Canada were overwhelmingly male in nature, a situation that became worsened when sex-restrictive immigration laws were passed in 1882 in the USA and 1923 in Canada respectively.

However, the situation changed in 1885 when the federal Conservative government executed Louis Riel, the leader of the French-speaking Métis people of western Canada.

This mirrored the situation in Ottawa, where the arrival of Wilfrid Laurier in the 1896 federal election marked the beginning of Liberal Party of Canada dominance at the federal level.

Compared to the situation in the United States, social conservatism has not been as influential in Canada.

* Made in Canada, a Canadian situation comedy series also known as The Industry in foreign syndication

These meetings passed resolutions indicating grave concern over how the colony was being governed and called for a convention with delegates from both Upper and Lower Canada to discuss the situation.

With a larger population, the depressed economic situation in Lower Canada-including food shortages and paralysis of government services-was also much more serious than in Upper Canada.

The situation in Canada was different at this time.

Throughout this time, Vanier attempted to convey to officials in Canada the seriousness of the situation in Europe, especially regarding refugees from the Nazi regime.

This was the situation in Canada in the 2004, 2006, and 2008 federal elections, with no party obtaining a majority due in part to the dominance of the Bloc Québécois in the province of Quebec.

He gave the Canadian government six months from January 9, 2003 to remedy the situation, which prompted the controversial announcement on July 8 that Health Canada would begin distribution of marijuana grown under contract to Prairie Plant Systems in Flin Flon, Manitoba.

By the year 1858, London gave up all attempts to influence the currency situation in Canada, and, by the 1860s, it came to the same realisation in Hong Kong: that there was no point in trying to displace an already existing currency system.

Between them they successfully defused the situation and brought about the union of Upper and Lower Canada.

In a parallel situation for the Royal Townships of the yet-to-formed colony of Upper Canada the thoughfares of the United Empire Loyalist settlement of Cornwall, Ontario were, in 1784, named Pitt Street and Sydney Street in honour of the prime minister and his foreign secretary.