* 1955 – The Canadian Labour Congress is formed by the merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and the Canadian Congress of Labour.

* 1961 – The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded by the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and the Canadian Labour Congress.

A Labour Day parade in Toronto, Canada in 1900

Labour Day has been celebrated on the first Monday in September in Canada since the 1880s.

The origins of Labour Day in Canada can be traced back to December 1872 when a parade was staged in support of the Toronto Typographical Union's strike for a 58-hour work-week.

An old fashioned tradition in Canada and the United States frowns upon the wearing of white after Labour Day.

A Labour Day tradition in Atlantic Canada is the Wharf Rat Rally in Digby, Nova Scotia, while the rest of Canada watches the Labour Day Classic, a Canadian Football League event where rivals like Calgary Stampeders and Edmonton Eskimos, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Toronto Argonauts ( except in 2011, due to a scheduling conflict ), and Saskatchewan Roughriders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers play on Labour Day weekend.

Category: Labour in Canada

* 1970 – In Montreal, Quebec, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.

* Canada / USA-Labor Day ( Labour Day in Canada ) is observed on the first Monday in September in the United States and Canada.

" His doctoral thesis argues against oriental immigration, summed up in the following comments from an earlier 1908 report King authored while he was Deputy-Minister of Labour: " That Canada should desire to restrict immigration from the Orient is regarded as natural, that Canada should remain a white man's country is believed to be not only desirable for economic and social reasons but highly necessary on political and national grounds.

** The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded with the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ) and the Canadian Labour Congress.

** October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.

After World War II, the islands achieved self-rule, with the Malta Labour Party ( MLP ) of Dom Mintoff seeking either full integration with the UK or else " self-determination ( independence ), and the Partit Nazzjonalista ( PN ) of George Borg Olivier favouring independence, with the same " dominion status " that Canada, Australia and New Zealand enjoyed.

Category: Labour disputes in Canada

Assault is an offence under s. 266 of the Criminal Code of Canada.

The Criminal Code of Canada describes Assault as a dual offence ( indictable or summary offence ).

Subsequently, with the passage of the Civil Code of Lower Canada in 1866, Quebec's civil law became entirely statute based, using the civil law system for matters within provincial jurisdiction.

Criminal offences are found within the Criminal Code of Canada or other federal / provincial laws, with the exception that contempt of court is the only remaining common law offence in Canada.

* Criminal Code of Canada, criminal law

It is outlawed in New Zealand and in all Australian states and territories, and is a crime under section 268 of the Criminal Code of Canada.

Under the Criminal Code of Canada the writ is largely unavailable if a statutory right of appeal exists, whether or not this right has been exercised.

In Canada, advocating genocide or inciting hatred against any ' identifiable group ' is an indictable offence under the Criminal Code of Canada with maximum prison terms of two to fourteen years.

Among its accomplishments, the United Province of Canada negotiated the Reciprocity Treaty of 1854 with the United States, built the Grand Trunk Railway, improved the educational system in Canada West under Egerton Ryerson, reinstated French as an official language of the legislature and the courts, codified the Civil Code of Lower Canada in 1866, and abolished the seigneurial system in Canada East.

Reacting to fears of Communist subversion, Bennett invoked the controversial Section 98 of the Criminal Code of Canada.

For summary conviction offences that fall under the jurisdiction of the federal government ( which includes all criminal law ), section 787 of the Criminal Code of Canada specifies that, unless another punishment is provided for by law, the maximum penalty for a summary conviction offence is a sentence of 6 months of imprisonment, a fine of $ 5, 000 or both.

* Police do not require a warrant to arrest under an indictable offence: see S. 495 ( 1 )( a ) Criminal Code of Canada

Section 322 ( 1 ) of the Criminal Code of Canada provides the general definition for theft in Canada:

The term " Napoleonic code " is also used to refer to legal codes of other jurisdictions that are influenced by the French Code Napoléon, especially the civil code of Quebec, which was derived from the Coutume de Paris, which the British continued to use in Canada following the Treaty of Paris in 1763.

In the Criminal Code of Canada, " bodily harm " is defined as " any hurt or injury to a person that interferes with the health or comfort of the person and that is more than merely transient or trifling in nature.

Section 380 ( 1 ) of the Criminal Code of Canada provides the general definition for fraud in Canada:

As the national police force of Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is primarily responsible for enforcing federal laws throughout Canada, while general law and order including the enforcement of the Criminal Code and applicable provincial legislation is constitutionally the responsibility of the provinces and territories.

The Inter-american Press Association, which blankets the Western Hemisphere from northern Canada to Cape Horn, is meeting in New York City this week for the first time in eleven years.

You remember the words of President Kennedy a week or so ago, when someone asked him when he was in Canada, and Dean Rusk was in Europe, and Vice President Johnson was in Asia, `` Who is running the store ''??

This happy, always smiling lad with the sunny disposition is our new Junior Mr. Canada -- Henri De Courcy.

There's Gaetan D'Amours who is our newest Mr. Canada ; ;

From the records we keep -- Susan is the only Junior who has placed in the Junior Classes in both United States and Canada.

Not a year goes by but what several local companies in the U.S. and Canada, even overseas, write to Fueloil & Oil Heat to inquire if it's feasible and where it is being done.

Yet Dartmouth still is the dominant member of the Intercollegiate Ski Union, which includes the winter sports colleges of Canada as well as those of this country.

Tim Larson, a junior at Wilson High School and president of Spice-Nice, is the young executive who guided his firm to the top-ranking position over the 4,500 other Junior Achievement companies in the United States and Canada.

The title refers to the nickname given his wife by the composer, who is also a member of the National Film Board of Canada.

It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait.

* Laurentian Abyss is found off the eastern coast of Canada

In contrast, the largest North American community north of the circle, Sisimiut ( Greenland ), has approximately 5, 000 inhabitants, while between Canada and the USA, Barrow, Alaska is the largest settlement with circa 4, 000 inhabitants.

The land on the Arctic Circle is divided among eight countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, the United States ( Alaska ), Canada, Denmark ( Greenland ), and Iceland ( where it passes through the small offshore island of Grímsey ).

* 1842 – The Webster – Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the Canada – United States border east of the Rocky Mountains.

There is the standard way to sign the word learn that seems to be used by most speakers of ASL in Canada, and there is also an Atlantic regional variation.

Countries where ASL or a derivative of ASL is the national or a widespread language include Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana ( with BSL ), Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, the Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d ' Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kenya ( minority use ), Liberia, Madagascar ( minority use ), Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Philippines ( L2 use ), Puerto Rico, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Trinidad and Tobago, Togo, and Zimbabwe ( with ZSL ).

The Spanish term norteamericano ( North American ), is frequently used to refer things and persons from the United States, but this term can also denote people and things from Canada, and the rest of North America.

Throughout Latin America the word Gringo is also used for any foreigner from the United States, Canada, or Europe, however the true sense of the word is any foreigner.

The Antarctican dollar, a souvenir item sold in the United States and Canada, is not legal tender.

Abalone is also farmed in Australia, Hawaii, Canada, Chile, France, Iceland, Ireland, Mexico, Namibia, New Zealand, South Africa, Thailand, and the United States.

It hit number 1 in the UK singles chart in April 1972, spending 24 weeks total on the charts, topped the RPM national singles chart in Canada for three weeks, and rose as high as number 11 in the U. S. It is also a controversial instrumental, as it combined pipes with a military band.

In the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada, corporal punishment administered to children by their parent or legal guardian is not legally considered to be assault unless it is deemed to be excessive or unreasonable.