According to The Canadian Dictionary of ASL there are five broad regions of ASL variation in Canada, the Pacific, Prairie, Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic regions.

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.

According to the laws of Canada, a Canadian whisky must be mashed, distilled and aged in Canada.

According to Canadian broadcaster, CTV, " IKEA's publications have developed an almost cult-like following online.

According to the 2001 Canadian Census, the largest ethnic group consists of people of Scottish descent ( 38. 0 %), followed by English ( 28. 7 %), Irish ( 27. 9 %), French ( 21. 3 %), German ( 4. 0 %), and Dutch ( 3. 1 %) descent.

According to law professor H. Patrick Glenn of the Canadian McGill University, located in Montreal, Quebec, " oday it is said that the dhimmi are ' excluded from the specifically Muslim privileges, but on the other hand they are excluded from the specifically Muslim duties ' while ( and here there are clear parallels with western public and private law treatment of aliens – Fremdenrecht, la condition de estrangers ), ' or the rest, the Muslim and the dhimmi are equal in practically the whole of the law of property and of contracts and obligations '.

According to the American calendar, the U. S. summer season is commonly regarded as beginning on Memorial Day weekend ( the last weekend in May ) and ending on Labor Day weekend ( the first weekend in September ), more closely in line with the meteorological definition ; the similar Canadian tradition starts summer on Victoria Day one week prior ( although summer conditions vary widely across Canada's expansive territory ) and ends, like the United States, on Labour Day.

According to the 2008 Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches, the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations claimed 214, 738 members in 2002.

According to Canadian Lawyer Magazine, the law school ranks among the top five in Canada.

According to Northeast Intelligence Network, Al-Qaeda listed the crash among its successes, and a Canadian militant cooperating with authorities suggested that it had been brought down with a shoe bomb.

According to a worldwide ranking by the École des Mines de Paris, Concordia ranks first among Canadian and 33rd among world universities in terms of graduates occupying the rank of Chief Executive Officer at Fortune 500 companies.

According to the Canadian Royal Heritage Trust, Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn — due to his having lived in Canada between 1791 and 1800, and fathering Queen Victoria — is the " ancestor of the modern Canadian Royal Family.

According to Canadian historian Michael H. Kater, Orff claimed at the end of the war to his Allied interrogators that he was a founding member of the White Rose and was released.

According to this literature, Canadian identity has been defined by a fear of nature, by settler history and by unquestioned adherence to the community.

According to Canadian protocol, as a former Prime Minister, he is styled " The Right Honourable " for life.

According to Canadian historian Ken Coates, the border has not merely influenced the Pacific Northwest — rather, " the region's history and character have been determined by the boundary ".

According to the study, from 1990 – 1997, the Innu community of Davis Inlet had a suicide rate more than twelve times the Canadian average, and well over three times the rate often observed in isolated northern villages.

According to Hopewell's rather romantic account, Blanchette met another French Canadian ( Bernard Guillet ) at the site of St. Charles in 1765.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village, founded by a French Canadian Roman Catholic priest ( that later converted to Protestantism ) and friend of Abraham Lincoln by the name of Charles Chiniquy, has a total area of, of which, of it is land and 1. 92 % is water.

According to the 2011 Canadian census, the population of the city proper was 123, 363, while the population of the census metropolitan area ( CMA ) was 159, 561.

According to the Canadian Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of, of which, of it is land and of it ( 5. 10 %) is water.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Canadian has a total area of, all of it land.

According to Robertson Davies in his book The Manticore, the Canadian arms had toned down the genital aspects of the lion and the unicorn, who in previous times had been represented with what Davies called " saucy pizzles.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, an Allocution is a solemn form of address or speech from the throne employed by the Pope on certain occasions.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia on David descendant Jehoash of Judah: In Rabbinical Literature: As the extermination of the male descendants of David was a divine retribution for the extermination of the priests because of David ( comp.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia Abiathar was deposed from office when he was deserted by the Holy Spirit without which the Urim and Thummin could not be consulted.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, " a comparison of the Masoretic text with the Septuagint throws some light on the last phase in the history of the origin of the Book of Jeremiah, inasmuch as the translation into Greek was already under way before the work on the Hebrew book had come to an end ...

According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Mohist consequentialism, dating back to the 5th century BCE, is the " world's earliest form of consequentialism, a remarkably sophisticated version based on a plurality of intrinsic goods taken as constitutive of human welfare.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, the large number of people claimed to have been killed by the Jews is an improbability ; " Perhaps the most striking point against the historical value of the Book of Esther is the remarkable decree permitting the Jews to massacre their enemies and fellow subjects during a period of two days.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, after the cycle of Grail romances was well established, late medieval writers came up with a false etymology for sangréal, an alternative name for " Holy Grail.

According to the Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups, in 1790 there were 400, 000 Americans of Irish birth or ancestry out of a total white population of 3, 100, 000.

According to the Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World

* Relationship between Jainism and Hinduism – According to the Encyclopedia Britannica Article on Hinduism ,"... With Jainism, which always remained an independent Indian religion.

According to the Encyclopedia of Social Work ( 19th edition ), the news media play an influential role in the general public's perception of cults.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, materialism denies the existence of both deities and " souls.

According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the " deep tension between the Kantian moral imperatives and a Nietzschean diagnosis of the modern cultural world is apparently what gives such a darkly tragic and agnostic shade to Weber's ethical worldview.

According to the Princeton Encyclopedia on American History:

According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Mohist consequentialism, dating back to the 5th century BC, is the " world's earliest form of consequentialism, a remarkably sophisticated version based on a plurality of intrinsic goods taken as constitutive of human welfare.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia article on the Canon of the New Testament: " The idea of a complete and clear-cut canon of the New Testament existing from the beginning, that is from Apostolic times, has no foundation in history.

According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy " It must also be recognized that ' forgery ' is a modern notion.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia and other sources, Benedict IX was around 18 to 20 years old when made pontiff, although some sources claim 11 or 12.

According to the Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll:

According to The Star Trek Encyclopedia, the registry number " NCC-1701 " was devised by Matt Jefferies, art director of the first Star Trek series, inspired by an old science fiction cover that Gene Roddenberry liked, with a starship flying through space.

According to ' The Encyclopedia of the Indian Diaspora ' ( published in 2006 ), " independent surveys approximate the number of South Asians on work permits to be between 30-35 per cent of the total ' Indian ' population in Singapore, or approximately 90, 000-100, 000.

According to the New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, the Kestoi " appears to have been intended as a sort of encyclopedia of the material sciences with the cognate mathematical and technical branches, but to have contained a large proportion of merely curious, trifling, or miraculous matters, on which account the authorship of Julius has been questioned.

According to the Encyclopedia of African History, " It is estimated that by the 1890s the largest slave population of the world, about 2 million people, was concentrated in the territories of the Sokoto Caliphate.

According to the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Solovyov thought, “ Although empiricism and rationalism (= idealism ) rest on false principles, their respective objective contents, external experience, qua the foundation of natural science, and logical thought, qua the foundation of pure philosophy, are to be synthesized or encompassed along with mystical knowledge in ' integral knowledge ,' what Solovyov terms ' theosophy.