The capital of British Columbia is Victoria, the 15th largest metropolitan region in Canada, named for Canada's Queen at Confederation.

In 2009, agricultural, energy, forestry and mining exports accounted for about 58 % of Canada's total exports.

In 2009, exports accounted for approximately 30 % of Canada's GDP.

In 2005, the transportation sector made up 4. 2 % of Canada's GDP, compared to 3. 7 % for Canada's mining and oil and gas extraction industries.

Canada's automobile industry, on the other hand, has been dominated by American firms from its inception, explaining why Canadians use the American spelling of tire ( hence, " Canadian Tire ") and American terminology for the parts of automobiles ( for example, truck instead of lorry, gasoline instead of petrol, trunk instead of boot ).

Part V of this act established an amending formula for the Canadian constitution, the lack of which ( due to more than 50 years of disagreement between the federal and provincial governments ) was the only reason Canada's constitutional amendments still required approval by the British parliament after ratification of the Statute of Westminster in 1931.

The Canadian dominatrix Terri-Jean Bedford, who was one of three women who initiated an application in the Ontario Superior Court seeking invalidation of Canada's laws regarding brothels, sought to differentiate for clarity her occupation as a dominatrix rather than a prostitute to the media, due to frequent misunderstanding and conflation by the public of the two terms.

Native Americans make up about 2 % of Canada's population, but account for 18 % of the federal prison population as of 2000.

Gray whales are protected under Canada's Species at Risk Act which obligates Canadian governments to prepare management plans for the whales and consider the interests of the whales when permitting development.

According to the Government of Canada's Management Plan for gray whales, threats to the eastern North Pacific population of gray whales include:

* 2008 – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes an historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to a residential school abuse in which children are isolated from their homes, families and cultures for a century.

Ontario, Canada's most populous province, was named for the lake.

With remaining revenues, St-Laurent oversaw the expansion of Canada's social programs, including establishment of the Canada Council to support the arts, and the gradual expansion of social welfare programs such as family allowances, old age pensions, government funding of university and post-secondary education and an early form of Medicare termed Hospital Insurance at the time, that lay the groundwork for Tommy Douglas ' healthcare system in Saskatchewan and Pearson's nationwide universal healthcare in the late 1960s.

The Mint states that multi-ply plated steel technology, already used in Canada's smaller coinage, produces an electromagnetic signature that is harder to counterfeit than that for regular alloy coins ; also, using steel provides cost savings and avoids fluctuations in price or supply of nickel.

The iRewards program is Canada's largest loyalty program for booklovers, offering everyday discounts and special coupons at Chapters, Indigo Books and Music, Coles, SmithBooks, the World's Biggest Bookstore and chapters. indigo. ca.

He was Canada's first saddlebag preacher, and travelled from Lake Ontario to Detroit for 50 years preaching the gospel.

The Crown-in-Council established set lyrics for " O Canada " in Canada's two official languages, as well as in Inuktitut.

While this new legislature maintained equal representation for both of the former colonies, the democratic nature of Lower Canada's elections was fundamentally flawed.

At the end of Canada's centennial year in 1967, Prime Minister Pearson announced his intention to step down, and Trudeau entered the race for the Liberal leadership.

Although aboriginal persons make up 3. 6 % of Canada's population, they account for 20 % of Canada's prison population.

There are national awards, like Canada's Aurora Award, regional awards, like the Endeavour Award presented at Orycon for works from the Pacific Northwest, special interest or subgenre awards like the Chesley Award for art or the World Fantasy Award for fantasy.

Henrietta was discovering in the process of writing, as the born writer does, not merely a channel for the discharge of accumulated information but a stimulus to the development of the creative powers of observation, insight and intuition.

Hegel's profound admiration for the insights of the Greek tragedians indicates a broad channel of classical influence upon nineteenth-century philosophy.

Here the absent sitter makes a `` date '' with a communicator ( someone close to him who is deceased ), asking him to `` come in '' at a certain hour, when a channel will be open for him.

I am merely a channel for something.

These are used where the vessel is permanently or semi-permanently sited, for example in the case of lightvessels or channel marker buoys.

The sound chip, named Paula, supports four sound channels ( two for the left speaker and two for the right ) with 8-bit resolution for each channel and a 6-bit volume control per channel.

Although the hardware is limited to four separate sound channels, software such as OctaMED uses software mixing to allow eight or more virtual channels, and it was possible for software to mix two hardware channels to achieve a single 14-bit resolution channel by playing with the volumes of the channels in such a way that one of the source channels contributes the most significant bits and the other the least.

In a 2D image element, which stores a color for each pixel, additional data is stored in the alpha channel with a value between 0 and 1.

In this case, the 0. 5 value for the G channel actually indicates 100 % green intensity ( with 50 % opacity ).

This mode devotes 5 bits for every primary RGB color ( 15-bit RGB ) plus a remaining bit as the " alpha channel ".

For some applications, a single alpha channel is not sufficient: a stained-glass window, for instance, requires a separate transparency channel for each RGB channel to model the red transparency, green transparency, and blue transparency.

Exile turns the Electron's one channel output into a digital speaker for PCM output.

The Accelerated Graphics Port ( often shortened to AGP ) is a high-speed point-to-point channel for attaching a video card to a computer's motherboard, primarily to assist in the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.

The channel frequencies chosen represent a compromise between allowing enough bandwidth for video ( and hence satisfactory picture resolution ), and allowing enough channels to be packed into the available frequency band.

*** 8-bit DAC for each channel ( 4 channels × 8-bits / channel = 32 bits commonly quoted )

His plans and dreams had revolved around her so much and for so long that now he felt as if he had nothing.

Hank had gathered wood for a cookfire, and his wife was busy at it now.

And she really tried to go a step further and say she hoped they'd be just as right as they now were for her and for Rod.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

It was spoiled now for seed, and it would sour and mold in three days if they failed to find a place and fuel to dry it.

He knew her mind pretty well, by now, its quick perceptions and sympathies, its painful insistence on truth and directness, its capacity for love almost too deep for a man to reciprocate, even in part.

The marine was alone, for they were impatient people and by now would have vied to knock him from the tree.

`` Well '', he announced, `` Guess I'll be going now, Ed, and thanks for the warmup ''.

Something was beginning to stir and come alive in her, too ( it may have been there for a good while, since she was twenty now ; ;

He had been conning the freights for a long, long time now.

I been riding train for a ways now ''.

As for states' rights, they have never counted in the thinking of my liberal friends except as irritations of a minor and immoral nature which exist now only as anachronisms.

For better or for worse, we all now live in welfare states, the organizing principle of which is collective responsibility for individual well-being.

Only recently new `` holes '' were discovered in our safety measures, and a search is now on for more.

Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.

The promenade, for example, continues to take place on the Chahar Bagh, a mile-long garden of plane and poplar trees that now serves as the city's principal street.

Undoubtedly even the old Southern stalwart Richmond has felt the new wind: William Styron mentions in his latest novel an avenue named for Bankhead McGruder, a Civil War general, now renamed, in typical California fashion, `` Buena Vista Terrace ''.

The street that is full now of traffic and parked cars then and for many years drowsed on an August afternoon in the shade of the curbside trees, and silence was a weight, almost palpable, in the air.

Proprietorships should get the tax advantages now accruing to corporations, e.g. the chance to accumulate capital so vital for growth.

No consideration of risk urges itself upon him now: for this is what the mind does with the ideas on which it has not properly focussed.

Some years ago Julian Huxley proposed to an audience made up of members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science that `` man's supernormal or extra-sensory faculties are ( now ) in the same case as were his mathematical faculties during the ice age ''.

Actually, you could wish for some passion, now and then, but when you look around the world and see the little volcanos of current history which partisan social passions have wrought, you are glad that in these pamphlets there is at least some civilized calm.