For example, the Canadian province of Quebec, which is French-speaking, has its own system of French-speaking television, movie and music celebrities.

The nature of the event has also been met with criticism outside of Quebec, such as that given by Ottawa Citizen columnist David Warren, who said in 2007: " The Canada of the government-funded paper flag-waving and painted faces — the ' new ' Canada that is celebrated each year on what is now called ' Canada Day '— has nothing controversially Canadian about it.

Heinz Canada's head office is in North York, Ontario and it also has operations in St. Marys, Ontario ; Calgary, Alberta ; and Montreal, Quebec.

Joual () is the common name for the linguistic features of basilectal Quebec French that are associated with the French-speaking working class in Montreal which has become a symbol of national identity for a large number of artists from that area.

For many years, Tremblay has believed that the only reasonable solution for Quebec is to separate from Canada.

With the exceptions of Louisiana, Puerto Rico, Quebec, whose private law is based on civil law, and British Columbia, whose notarial tradition stems from scrivener notary practice, a notary public in the rest of the United States and most of Canada has powers that are far more limited than those of civil-law or other common-law notaries, both of whom are qualified lawyers admitted to the bar: such notaries may be referred to as notaries-at-law or lawyer notaries.

Tracing its origins to Quebec in the 1950s, it has become a widespread and popular dish throughout Canada.

However, exceptions include Oman ; India ; Saudi Arabia ; Pakistan ( Pepsi has been a dominant sponsor of the Pakistan cricket team since the 1990s ); the Dominican Republic ; Guatemala ; the Canadian provinces of Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island ; and Northern Ontario.

On French-language television in Quebec the téléroman has been a popular mainstay of network programming since the 1950s.

Lawyer and author Claude Duchesnay has reported in May 2003 that a document on the Quebec attorney general ’ s intranet contains the name of 58 persons who must obtain permission prior to instating proceedings before the courts.

She has lived in Montreal, Quebec, Canada since 2002.

In Canada, Chardonnay has seen some success with rich, oaky styles produced in Ontario and lighter styles produced in Quebec and British Columbia.

In Quebec City, Canada, the Old Quebec Funicular has been operating since 1879, connecting the Haute-Ville ( Upper Town ) to the Basse-Ville ( Lower Town ).

Since the 19th century, much of the square dance repertoire has been derived from jigs and reels from Scotland and Ireland, sometimes in relatively unaltered form, sometimes as played in the old time music tradition or as adapted by other cultures such as that of Quebec.

Other projects that Olmsted has been involved in include the country's first and oldest coordinated system of public parks and parkways in Buffalo, New York ; the country's oldest state park, the Niagara Reservation in Niagara Falls, New York ; one of the first planned communities in the United States, Riverside, Illinois ; Mount Royal Park in Montreal, Quebec ; the Emerald Necklace in Boston, Massachusetts ; the Emerald Necklace of parks in Rochester, New York ; Belle Isle Park, in the Detroit River for Detroit, Michigan ; Presque Isle Park in Marquette, Michigan ; the Grand Necklace of Parks in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ; Cherokee Park and entire parks and parkway system in Louisville, Kentucky ; the Forest Park in Springfield, Massachusetts, featuring America's first public " wading pool "; the George Washington Vanderbilt II Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina ; the master plans for the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University near Palo Alto, California ; and Montebello Park in St. Catharines, Ontario.

Although Quebec French constitutes a coherent and standard system, it has no objective norm since the very organization mandated to establish it, the Office québécois de la langue française, believes that objectively standardizing Quebec French would lead to reduced interintelligibility with other French communities around the world, linguistically isolating Quebecers and possibly causing the extinction of the French language in the Americas.

This governmental institution has nonetheless published many dictionaries and terminological guidelines since the 1960s, effectively allowing many canadianismes or more often québécismes ( French words local to Canada or Quebec ) that describe specifically North American realities.

Quebec's culture has only recently gained exposure in Europe, especially since the Quiet Revolution ( Révolution tranquille ), and the difference in dialects and culture is large enough that Quebec French speakers overwhelmingly prefer their own " home grown " television dramas or sitcoms to shows from Europe.

Over time, European French has exerted a strong influence on Quebec French.

Since the 1970s, the official position on Quebec French has shifted dramatically.

Quebec French has some typographical differences with European French.

In grammar, the adjective inuit " Inuit " is invariable in France but, according to official recommendations in Quebec, has regular feminine and plural forms.

I'm sending you a couple of customers -- yeah -- just get them out of my hair and keep them out -- I don't give a damn what you tell them -- only don't believe a word they say -- they're out to make trouble for me and it is up to you to stop them -- I don't care how -- and one more thing -- Cate's Cafe closed at eleven like always last night and Rose and Clarence Corsi left for Quebec yesterday -- some shrine or other -- I think it was called Saint Simon's -- yeah, yesterday.

There is no corresponding right to a writ in any pure or continental civil law legal systems, though some mixed systems such as Quebec recognize these prerogative writs.

Boroughs also exist in the Canadian province of Quebec and formerly in Ontario, in some states of the United States, in Israel, and formerly in New Zealand.

Essentially, every country that was colonised at some time by England, Great Britain, or the United Kingdom uses common law except those that were formerly colonised by other nations, such as Quebec ( which follows the law of France in part ), South Africa and Sri Lanka ( which follow Roman Dutch law ), where the prior civil law system was retained to respect the civil rights of the local colonists.

Other telephone companies, many of which were publicly owned, were regulated by provincial authorities until court rulings during the 1990s affirmed federal jurisdiction over the sector, which also included some fifty small independent incumbents, most of them in Ontario and Quebec.

Linguists tend to eschew this term, but historically some have reserved the term joual for the variant of Quebec French spoken in Montreal.

But he clarified his thoughts some time later by saying he was still a supporter of Quebec sovereignty, though critical of the actual state of the debate, which in his opinion was too much focused on economic issues.

In the UK, the British Computer Society licenses software engineers and members of the society can also become Chartered Engineers ( CEng ), while in some areas of Canada, such as Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec, software engineers can hold the Professional Engineer ( P. Eng ) designation and / or the Information Systems Professional ( I. S. P.

In 1968, in the wake of the Parent Commission Report, the Quebec government asked Loyola and Sir George Williams to consider some form of union.

The effect of this limitation would mean that people such as the some of the Quebec, and Ontario Métis would be excluded from the legal definition and relegated to lower case'm ' métis status.

Formerly it was used to refer solely to Quebec French and the closely related varieties of Ontario and Western Canada, but is no longer usually felt to exclude Acadian French, which is also spoken in some areas of eastern Quebec.

The resulting effect, other historical factors helping, is a negative perception of Quebec French traits by some of the Quebecers themselves, coupled with a desire to improve their language by conforming it to the Metropolitan French norm.

Nevertheless, the Quebec French accent is mostly closer to that of Poitou or of Normandy and also some parts of Wallonia.

They argue that negative social attitudes have focused instead on a subset of the characteristics of Quebec French relative to European French, and particularly some traits of informal Quebec French.

This later put them at odds with some in the Quebec nationalist movement, which argued for French as the official language of Quebec.

was strongly criticized by some French speakers in Quebec and to some degree also among Anglophone Canadians.

She found that some critics had misquoted his work ; for instance, a section in which he said that Quebec women were treated like " sows " was misinterpreted to suggest that Richler thought they were sows.

She returned with some of her works near completion, but settled in Quebec to earn a living as a sketch artist while continuing to write.

This is why some people still affirm today, falsely, that from the early settlements until the 1820s, Quebec had virtually no literature.