* 2003 – The Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo ( now called Behchoko ).

* Canadian government scientific research organizations

* Gila APCs ( 6, intended for police use ; paid for by the Canadian government )

Then a major setback hit the growing business: World War II was well underway and the Canadian government issued wartime rationing regulations.

Stations owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation use CB through a special agreement with the government of Chile.

Beginning in 1958, the Canadian government began to orchestrate Dominion Day celebrations, usually consisting of Trooping the Colour ceremonies on Parliament Hill in the afternoon and evening, followed by a mass band concert and fireworks display.

Into the late 1960s, nationally televised, multi-cultural concerts held in Ottawa were added, and the fête became known as Festival Canada ; after 1980 the Canadian government began to promote the celebrating of Dominion Day beyond the national capital, giving grants and aid to cities across the country to help fund local activities.

In many cases, such as the cabinet-directed prohibition on foreign ownership for broadcasters and the legislated principle of the predominance of Canadian content, these acts and orders often leave the CRTC less room to change policy than critics sometimes suggest, and the result is that the commission is often the lightning rod for policy criticism that could arguably be better directed at the government itself.

* RAI International: In Summer 2004, this Italian government controlled channel was denied permission to broadcast independently in Canada on the grounds that it had acted and was likely to act contrary to established Canadian policies.

During the 2008 Canadian parliamentary dispute, two of Canada's opposition parties signed an agreement to form what would become the country's second coalition government since Confederation if the minority Conservative government was defeated on a vote of non-confidence ; unseating Stephen Harper as Prime Minister.

Canada's federal government has influenced Canadian culture with programs, laws and institutions.

The largest class action suit to date in Canada was settled in 2005 after Nora Bernard initiated efforts that led to an estimated 79, 000 survivors of Canada's residential school system suing the Canadian government.

The constitution outlines Canada's system of government, as well as the civil rights of all Canadian citizens and those in Canada.

The Canadian government provided financing for his films through the 1970s.

Thompson's 1814 map, his greatest achievement, was so accurate that 100 years later it was still the basis for many of the maps issued by the Canadian government.

Police negotiate his release and in return the Canadian government grants five terrorists from the FLQ's Chenier Cell their request for safe passage to Cuba.

As a result the Canadian government usage has replaced the ( locally ) defunct term Eskimo with Inuit ( Inuk in singular ).

Two prominent Canadian authors ( both very hostile to the " Chicago School " philosophy ) argue that government at times has to intervene to ensure competition in large and important industries.

Premised on Charter protections and on the notion of the immutability of homosexuality, judicial rulings rapidly advanced rights, including those that compelled the Canadian government to legalize same-sex marriage.

For instance, the Canadian monarch is described by the government as being the personification of the Canadian state and is described by the Department of Canadian Heritage as the " personal symbol of allegiance, unity and authority for all Canadians ".

After 1959, the Canadian government established permanent services at Frobisher Bay, including full-time doctors, a school and social services.

Canadian military attaché Herbert Cyril Thacker served in the field with Japanese forces in the Russo – Japanese War ( 1904 – 05 ), for which the Japanese government awarded him the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Third Class and the Japanese War medal for service during that campaign.

* 1991 – Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm ( who had resigned ) as Premier of British Columbia.

By 2012, despite natural gas prices at a ten-year low and a higher Canadian dollar, oil prices had recovered enough to restart economic growth.

( in fact, the Earl of St. Andrews had already lost his place in the line of succession when he married the Roman Catholic Canadian Sylvana Palma Tomaselli in 1988, but St. Andrews ' place in the line of succession was significantly lower than Phillips '.

The three cup anemometer developed by the Canadian John Patterson in 1926 and subsequent cup improvements by Brevoort & Joiner of the USA in 1935 led to a cupwheel design which was linear and had an error of less than 3 % up to.

In 1986, Bombardier acquired Canadair after the Canadian government-owned aircraft manufacturing company had recorded the largest corporate loss in Canadian business history.

The other judges were John Toohey QC, a former Justice of the High Court of Australia who had worked on Aboriginal issues ( he replaced New Zealander Sir Edward Somers QC, who retired from the Inquiry in 2000 for personal reasons ), and Mr Justice William Hoyt QC, former Chief Justice of New Brunswick and a member of the Canadian Judicial Council.

Canadian media scholar Harold Innis had the theory that people use different types of media to communicate and which one they choose to use will offer different possibilities for the shape and durability of society ( Wark, McKenzie 1997 ).

In 1882, Canadian Pacific transmitted its first commercial telegram over telegraph lines they had erected alongside its tracks, breaking Western Union's monopoly.

English law had already been received in the various Canadian provinces and territories by legislation and judicial decisions over the previous two centuries.

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.

* 2008 Ottawa radio licences: On November 21, 2008, federal Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages James Moore issued a statement calling on the CRTC to review its approval of two new radio stations, Frank Torres ' CIDG-FM and Astral Media's CJOT-FM, which it had licensed in August 2008 to serve the Ottawa-Gatineau radio market.

Canada's political history has also had an influence on Canadian spelling.

The Star had always avoided using recognized Canadian spelling, citing the Gage Canadian Dictionary in their defence.

When placed on exhibit with the Canadian display, The Mammoth Cheese promptly crashed through the floor and had to be placed on reinforced concrete in the Agricultural Building.

It is because of the lack of support for fiscal conservatism that federal parties such as the Canadian Alliance never had much success in the region, and the level of support for the new Conservative Party of Canada in the region is uncertain.

Canada did ratify the statute, but had requested an exception because the Canadian federal and provincial governments could not agree on an amending formula for the Canadian constitution.

Also, there had been reports of intimidation from the side of the contras, with a Canadian observer mission confirming 42 people killed by the contras in " election violence " in October 1989.

Initially, the systems brought American stations to viewers in Canada who had no Canadian stations to watch ; broadcast television, though begun late in 1952 in Toronto and Montreal, did not reach a majority of cities until 1954.

In time, cable television was widely established to carry available Canadian stations as well as import American stations, which constituted the vast majority of signals on systems ( usually only one or two Canadian stations, while some systems had duplicate or even triplicate coverage of American networks ).

It was inspired by an article Trumbo read several years earlier, concerning the Prince of Wales hospital visit to a Canadian soldier who had lost all his limbs in World War I.