Each province has its own act, such as Ontario and British Columbia's respective good Samaritan acts ; Alberta's Emergency Medical Aid Act ; and Nova Scotia's Volunteer Services Act Only in Quebec, a civil law jurisdiction, does a person have a general duty to respond, as written in the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms.

There is general agreement that Rutherford's greatest legacy, and the one in which he took the most pride, lies in his contributions to Alberta's education.

This came as a considerable shock to the Tories, who had dominated Alberta's federal politics for a quarter-century, and as Grey had finished a distant fourth in the general election held few months earlier.

Burundi in general has a tropical highland climate, with a considerable daily temperature range in many areas.

In general, scientists reject such claims because of the improbably large numbers necessary to maintain a breeding population and because climate and food supply issues would make such purported creatures ' survival in reported habitats unlikely.

Beyond its general economic and political stability, the government has also encouraged the use of Chile as an " investment platform " for multinational corporations planning to operate in the region, but this will have limited value given the developing business climate in Chile itself.

The variables which determine climate are numerous and the interactions complex, but there is general agreement that the broad outlines are understood, at least insofar as the determinants of historical climate change are concerned.

The UNESCO general history of Central Asia, written just before the collapse of the USSR, defines the region based on climate and uses far larger borders.

An arid climate is nearly devoid of rainfall, and temperature swings widely according to the general time of the day / night.

Prior to this period there was a general perception that the climate of Washington State was too cold to produce red wine varietals.

The general character of the climate is windy and cloudy with at least of rain falling on more than 250 days a year.

The Encyclopædia Britannica Online defines terrorism generally as " the systematic use of violence to create a general climate of fear in a population and thereby to bring about a particular political objective ", and states that " terrorism is not legally defined in all jurisdictions.

In general, Tajikistan's climate is continental, subtropical, and semiarid, with some desert areas.

In general the complexity of a field ’ s rotation is limited by what soil, climate, and other environmental conditions permit.

Physically based general circulation models are often used in theoretical approaches to match past climate data, make future projections, and link causes and effects in climate change.

The most general definition of climate change is a change in the statistical properties of the climate system when considered over long periods of time, regardless of cause.

The first general circulation climate model that combined both oceanic and atmospheric processes was developed in the late 1960s at the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory AOGCMs represent the pinnacle of complexity in climate models and internalise as many processes as possible.

The next available land for general settlement, Oregon, appeared to be free for the taking and had fertile lands, disease free climate ( yellow fever and malaria were prevalent in much of the Missouri and Mississippi River drainage then ), extensive uncut, unclaimed forests, big rivers, potential seaports, and only a few nominally British settlers.

By remaining on the move, he cleverly avoided battles with large concentrations of heavy Frankish cavalry, while maximizing his advantages of mobility and the general climate of fear of Viking unpredictability.

The general ' post-Würm ' climate ( the repeated succession of long periods of more rainy weather followed by arid ) remains problematic with respect to fixing dates in history, e. g., apparent contradictions may arise simply due to divergent micro-climates.

The general coastal climate is more typical the further south-west into the region.

This view was echoed by an article in TV Zone magazine, which noted that Timeslip “ was probably the general public's first introduction to what are now everyday scientific concepts, such as cloning and climate change ”.

In general, scientists reject the possibility that such mega-fauna cryptids exist, because of the improbably large numbers necessary to maintain a breeding population and because climate and food supply issues make their survival in reported habitats unlikely.

Other fruits tend not to be widely cultivated due to the plant requiring climate or soil conditions that are not cost effective or the plant species is not well known to the general market.

The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.

Yet his concern even here is with a slowly changing socio-economic order in general, and he never deals with such specific aspects of this change as the urban and industrial impact.

The general effect is tragic.

It is different with his volume The Swedes And Their Chieftains ( Svenskarna och deras Hovdingar ), a history intended for the general reader and particularly suited for high school students.

The same command is repeated as many times as there are levels in rank from general to corporal.

Even the officer in charge, be it a captain ( for small display ) or a general, is restrained by monitoring.

And it is clearly argued by Lord Percy of Newcastle, in his remarkable long essay, The Heresy Of Democracy, and in a more general way by Voegelin, in his New Science Of Politics, that this same Rousseauan idea, descending through European democracy, is the source of Marx's theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

However, it was not of innocence in general that I was speaking, but of perhaps the frailest and surely the least important side of it which is innocence in romantic love.

It is my studied conviction that no nation will ever risk general war against us unless we should become so foolish as to neglect the defense forces we now so powerfully support.

Steele's purpose is to present a general defense of his political writing and a resume of the themes which had occupied him in the Englishman ; ;

Its truth is illustrated by the skill, sensitivity, and general expertise of the English professor with whom one attends the theatre.

One might argue that the ultimate purpose of literary scholarship is to correct this spontaneous provincialism that is likely to obscure the horizons of the general public, of the newspaper critic, and of the creative artist himself.

An idea, of the sort that we have in mind, although of necessity readily available to imagination, is more general in connotation than most poetic or literary images, especially those appearing in lyric poems that seek to capture a moment of personal experience.

Although open to the general public it is not overcrowded ; ;

Such a list must naturally be selective, and the treatment of each man is brief, for I am interested only in their general ideas on the moral measure of literature.

He assures us, early in the Poetics, that all art is `` imitation '' and that all imitation gives pleasure, but he distinguishes between art in general and poetic art on the basis of the means, manner, and the objects of the imitation.

There is a clear relationship between their educational evaluations and their basic pattern of general values.

One reason is, of course, that the new scepticism has been willing to maintain the general picture of the invasions as portrayed in the traditional sources.

One is impressed with the dignity, clarity and beauty of this new translation into contemporary English, and there is no doubt that the meaning of the Bible is more easily understandable to the general reader in contemporary language in the frequently archaic words and phrases of the King James.

Prof. C. H. Dodd, 76, a Congregational minister and a leading authority on the New Testament, is general director of the project and chairman of the New Testament panel.

According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.