According to the Fraser Institute, Alberta has very high levels of economic freedom and rates Alberta as the most free economy in Canada, and second most free economy amongst U. S. states and Canadian provinces.

A 2003 study by TD Bank Financial Group found the corridor is the only Canadian urban centre to amass a U. S. level of wealth while maintaining a Canadian-style quality of life, offering universal health care benefits.

The study found GDP per capita in the corridor was 10 % above average U. S. metropolitan areas and 40 above other Canadian cities at that time.

* Champ is the name given to a reputed lake monster living in Lake Champlain, a natural freshwater lake in North America, partially situated across the U. S .- Canada border in the Canadian province of Quebec and partially situated across the Vermont-New York border.

In terms of ultra vires actions in the broad sense, a reviewing court may set aside an administrative decision if it is unreasonable ( under Canadian law, following the rejection of the " Patently Unreasonable " standard by the Supreme Court in Dunsmuir v. New Brunswick ), Wednesbury unreasonable ( under British law ), or arbitrary and capricious ( under U. S. Administrative Procedure Act and New York State law ).

Southeast Alaska, sometimes referred to as the Alaska Panhandle, is the southeastern portion of the U. S. state of Alaska, which lies west of the northern half of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

An agreement with Western Union required that U. S. company to route messages in a specified ratio of 3: 1, with three telegraphic messages transmitted to Canadian National for every message transmitted to Canadian Pacific.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper ( right ) and President of the United States | U. S. President Barack Obama ( left ) meet in Ottawa in February 2009

Meanwhile co-operation on many fronts, such as the ease of the flow of goods, services, and people across borders are to be even more extended, as well as the establishment of joint border inspection agencies, relocation of U. S. food inspectors agents to Canadian plants and vice versa, greater sharing of intelligence, and harmonizing regulations on everything from food to manufactured goods, thus further increasing the American-Canadian assemblage.

Some nationwide celebrities might command some attention outside their own nation ; for example, the singer Lara Fabian is widely known in the French-speaking world, but only had a couple of Billboard hits in the U. S., whereas the francophone Canadian singer Celine Dion is well known in both the French-speaking world and in the U. S.

The CRTC contends that this low level of Canadian content, particularly when compared to the 35 % rule on local radio stations, was necessary because unlicenced U. S. receivers were already flooding into the country, so that enforcing a ban on these receivers would be nearly impossible ( see below ).

Cranberries are a major commercial crop in the U. S. states of Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon, Washington, and Wisconsin, as well as in the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, New Brunswick, Ontario, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Quebec.

Even though supply still slightly exceeds demand, there is little will to invoke the Federal Marketing Order out of the realization that any pullback in supply by U. S. growers would easily be filled by Canadian production.

Thus, much of the spirits used in making a Canadian whisky, prior to aging, may have less grain-derived flavour than typical single malts or U. S. " straight " whiskeys.

While this aspect is similar to Scotch and Irish whisky regulations, it contrasts with the maximum alcoholic proof limits on distillation ( 80 % abv ) and aging ( 62. 5 % abv ) purity allowed in the production of straight whiskey in the U. S. All spirits used in making a Canadian whisky must be aged for at least three years in wooden barrels of not greater than 700 L capacity ( a requirement similar to that for Scotch and Irish whisky and longer than for American straight whisky ).

However, U. S. law permits " blended " whisky to contain up to 80 % un-aged grain neutral spirits ( with an age statement on the label that refers only to the " straight " part of the blend ), while Canadian law requires that all of the spirits in a Canadian whisky be aged for at least three years.

Canadian products aged less than three years ( or failing to meet the domestic Canadian whisky standards in some other way ) cannot be called " Canadian whisky " within Canada and in some other countries ( such as the U. S .).

Canadian whisky featured prominently in rum-running into the U. S. during Prohibition.

In Canadian and U. S. usage, a centillion is 10 < sup > 303 </ sup >.

All crossings ( ports of entry ) on the American side are secured by the U. S. Customs and Border Protection's Office of Field Operations and on the Canadian side by the Canada Border Services Agency ; all areas between the American ports of entry and on the American side of the river are secured by the United States Border Patrol.

The British and Canadian Liaison Officers, as well as Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, the American Red Cross, and similar interested organizations were informed from time to time as training aids were developed.

Juniors competed last year at American Kennel Club and Canadian Kennel Club, recognized shows to be eligible to compete in this Class -- the Finals for the year.

Still more jealous bitterness was engendered by the O'Banion gang's seizure from a West Side marshalling yard of a freight-car load of Canadian whisky worth $100,000 and by one of the biggest coups of the Prohibition era -- the Sibley warehouse robbery, which became famous for the cool brazenness of the operation.

Gordon A. Lonsdale, 37, a mystery man presumed to be Russian although he carries a Canadian passport.

WBAI is on the right track: in the sound medium there has been excessive emphasis on music and news and there could and should be a place for theatre, as the Canadian and British Broadcasting Corporations continue to demonstrate.

In the Canadian Rockies, great groves of aspen are already glinting gold.

After making a series of westerns and comedies, Dwan directed fellow Canadian Mary Pickford in several very successful movies as well as her husband, Douglas Fairbanks, notably in the acclaimed 1922 Robin Hood.

Canadian anthropology began, as in other parts of the Colonial world, as ethnological data in the records of travellers and missionaries.

Anthropologists were recruited from England and the USA, setting the foundation for the unique Canadian style of anthropology.

A term similar to this is the Canadian motto A Mari Usque Ad Mare (" From sea to sea.

Examples of assistive technology for visually impairment include the Canadian currency tactile feature, which a system of raised dots in one corner, based on Braille cells but not standard Braille.

The Canadian Aboriginal syllabics are also an abugida rather than a syllabary as their name would imply, since each glyph stands for a consonant which is modified by rotation to represent the following vowel.

The other major family of abugidas, Canadian Aboriginal syllabics, was initially developed in the 1840s by missionary and linguist James Evans for the Cree and Ojibwe languages.

Later in the 19th century, other missionaries adapted Evans ' system to other Canadian aboriginal languages.

Canadian syllabics differ from other abugidas in that the vowel is indicated by rotation of the consonantal symbol, with each vowel having a consistent orientation.

Abugidas were long considered to be syllabaries or intermediate between syllabaries and alphabets, and the term " syllabics " is retained in the name of Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics.

In 1941, van Vogt decided to become a full-time writer, quitting his job at the Canadian Department of National Defence.

Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed bear, originally named " Edward ", was renamed " Winnie-the-Pooh " after a Canadian black bear named Winnie ( after Winnipeg ), which was used as a military mascot in World War I, and left to London Zoo during the war.

* A. M. ( musician ), a Canadian electronic musician

* 1866 – Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, Canadian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church ( d. 1931 )

* 1884 – Walter Huston, Canadian actor ( d. 1950 )

* 1935 – Douglas Hill, Canadian writer ( d. 2007 )

* 1952 – Michel Larocque, Canadian hockey player ( d. 1992 )

* 1917 – World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.