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Introduction CN Tower Canada /ˈkænədə/ is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area. Canada's common border with the United States to the south and northwest is the longest in the world. The land that is now Canada was inhabited for millennia by various groups of Aboriginal peoples. Beginning in the late 15th century, British and French expeditions explored, and later settled, along the Atlantic coast. France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763 after the Seven Years' War. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces and territories and a process of increasing autonomy from the United Kingdom. This widening autonomy was highlighted by the Statute of Westminster of 1931 and culminated in the Canada Act of 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British parliament. Canada is a federation that is governed as a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy with Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state. It is a bilingual nation with both English and French as official languages at the federal level. One of the world's highly developed countries, Canada has a diversified economy that is reliant upon its abundant natural resources and upon trade—particularly with the United States, with which Canada has had a long and complex relationship. It is a member of the G7, G-20, NATO, OECD, WTO, Commonwealth, Francophonie, OAS, APEC, and UN. Selected article - The Calgary Hitmen are a Major Junior ice hockey team based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The Hitmen play in the Western Hockey League (WHL). They play their home games at the Pengrowth Saddledome. Their name is derived from local-born professional wrestler Bret "The Hitman" Hart, a founding patron. Established in 1994, the team has been owned by the Calgary Flames hockey club since 1997. They are the third WHL team to represent Calgary, preceded by the Centennials and Wranglers. The Hitmen have twice finished with the best record in the WHL, and have qualified for the playoffs every season since 1998. In 1999, they became the first Calgary team to win the President's Cup as league champions, and the first to represent Calgary in the Memorial Cup since the Calgary Canadians won the national junior title in 1926. The Hitmen hold numerous WHL attendance records, and in 2004–05 became the first team in the Canadian Hockey League to average 10,000 fans per game. Twenty-one former Hitmen players have gone on to play in the National Hockey League. Graham James left his position as coach and general manager of the Swift Current Broncos to found the Hitmen in 1994. James organized a group of eighteen investors in the club, including star National Hockey League players Theoren Fleury and Joe Sakic along with Bret Hart, famous for his exploits in the World Wrestling Federation. The Calgary Flames, who had just assumed control of the Olympic Saddledome (now Pengrowth Saddledome) and were looking to fill extra dates in the building, were receptive to the new team. More information... Featured article Selected biography - Harold Innis (November 5, 1894 – November 8, 1952) was a Canadian professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and the author of seminal works on media, communication theory and Canadian economic history. The affiliated "Innis College" at the University of Toronto is named for him. Despite his dense and difficult prose, many scholars consider Innis one of Canada's most original thinkers. He helped develop the staples thesis, which holds that Canada's culture, political history and economy have been decisively influenced by the exploitation and export of a series of "staples" such as fur, fish, wood, wheat, mined metals and fossil fuels. Innis's writings on communication explore the role of media in shaping the culture and development of civilizations. He argued, for example, that a balance between oral and written forms of communication contributed to the flourishing of Greek civilization in the 5th century BC. He warned, however, that Western civilization is now imperiled by powerful, advertising-driven media obsessed by "present-mindedness" and the "continuous, systematic, ruthless destruction of elements of permanence essential to cultural activity". Innis laid the basis for scholarship that looked at the social sciences from a distinctly Canadian point of view. As the head of the University of Toronto's political economy department, he worked to build up a cadre of Canadian scholars so that universities would not continue to rely as heavily on British or American-trained professors unfamiliar with Canada's history and culture. He was successful in establishing sources of financing for Canadian scholarly research. In the news 19 February 2019 – A house fire in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, kills seven children from a Syrian family. (BBC) 12 February 2019 – Jody Wilson-Raybould resigns as Canada's Minister of Veterans Affairs less than one month into her term amid allegations she had been pressured by the Prime Minister's Office to go easy on SNC-Lavalin while she was Minister of Justice. (Reuters) 8 February 2019 – 2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides Bruce McArthur is sentenced to life imprisonment for eight murders in Toronto, making him the oldest known sexually motivated serial killer in Canadian history. (CBC News) (Toronto Star) 4 February 2019 – World Magnetic Model The location of the magnetic north pole is updated one year early due to its increasingly rapid movement toward Siberia from the Canadian Arctic at a rate of 55 kilometers (34 miles) per year. (NOAA) Selected images - At Rideau Hall, Governor General the Viscount Alexander of Tunis (centre) receives the bill finalizing the union of Newfoundland and Canada on March 31, 1949 The Jack Pine by Tom Thomson. Oil on canvas, 1916, in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada The Centre Block of the Canadian parliament buildings on Parliament Hill Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal, Québec at the Saint-Denis Theatre. A 1904 postcard showing the Grand Opera House and Majestic Theatre, Adelaide Street, in the current Toronto Theatre District. Margaret Atwood is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, inventor, teacher and environmental activist. The Senate chamber within the Centre Block on Parliament Hill Parliament Hill in Canada's capital city, Ottawa A small sampling of Canadian foods. Clockwise from top left: Montreal-style smoked meat, maple syrup, poutine, Nanaimo bar, butter tart, peameal bacon Tree-map of Canada's goods exports in 2014 The Indian Chiefs Medal, presented to commemorate the Numbered Treaties of 1871–1921 A Canadian war bond poster that depicts an industrious beaver a national symbol of Canada Soldiers from the Canadian Grenadier Guards in Kandahar Province in Afghanistan, pictured, fought with Dutch soldiers against Afghan insurgents. Aboriginal Peoples Television Network headquarters in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The maple leaf is the symbol most associated with Canadian identity. An animated map showing the growth and change of Canada's provinces and territories since Confederation in 1867 The Quebec City–Windsor Corridor is the most densely populated and heavily industrialized region of Canada, spanning 1,200 kilometres (750 miles). The Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden in Vancouver's Chinatown is the first full-size Chinese or "scholars" garden built outside of China Population pyramid 2016 Linguistic areas of North American Indigenous peoples at the time of European contact Tom Thomson, The Jack Pine, Winter 1916–17. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Canadian crew of a Sherman tank, south of Vaucelles, France, during the Battle of Normandy in June 1944 A political cartoon from 1910 on Canada's early European multicultural identity, depicting the French tricolour, the Union Jack, the maple leaf, and fleurs-de-lis. One of the national symbols of Canada, the beaver is depicted on the Canadian five-cent piece and was on the first Canadian postage stamp, c. 1859. Bill Reid's 1980 sculpture Raven and The First Men; the raven is a figure common to many of Canada's indigenous mythologies Approximately 98% of Canadians can speak either or both English and French:   English – 56.9%   English and French – 16.1%   French – 21.3%   Sparsely populated area ( < 0.4 persons per km2) Ottawa Jazz Festival inside Rideau Centre, 2008 Benjamin West's The Death of General Wolfe (1771) dramatizes James Wolfe's death during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham at Quebec. Monument to Multiculturalism, by Francesco Pirelli in Toronto. 20x20px Prime Minister Trudeau and U.S. President Trump meet in Washington, February 2017 Quebec's National Holiday (French: La Fête nationale du Québec) is celebrated annually on June 24, St. John the Baptist Day Fur traders at work as depicted in 1777 by Claude J. Sauthier Ice Hockey being played at McGill University, in Montreal, 1884. Canada's ice hockey victory at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver Köppen climate types of Canada A political map of Canada showing its 10 provinces and 3 territories The Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa, west of Parliament Hill The Mount Meager massif as seen from the east near Pemberton. Summits left to right are Capricorn Mountain, Mount Meager and Plinth Peak. Standard Theatre, 482 Queen Street West, Toronto, 1906 The Canadarm robotic manipulator in action on Space Shuttle Discovery during the STS-116 mission in 2006 CBC's English-language master control point, the Canadian Broadcasting Centre, in Toronto The Canadian Delegation to the United Nations Conference on International Organization, San Francisco, May 1945 The mother beaver on the Canadian parliament's Peace Tower The five flowers on the shield each represent an ethnicity: Tudor rose: English; Fleur de lis: French; thistle: Scottish; shamrock: Irish; and leek: Welsh. Symbols of Canada - The Flag of Manitoba is a variation of the Red Ensign which bears the shield of the provincial coat of arms. This flag was approved by the passage of a bill in the Manitoba Legislative Assembly on May 11, 1965.. More information... Did you know... - ...that Gazell Macy DuBois designed the Ontario pavilion at Expo 67 which looked like "a mess of paper triangles or mentally disarranged envelopes"? ...that St. George's Golf and Country Club is rated as one of Canada's top three country clubs? ... that the Canadian Ballet Festival is credited for Canadian dancers finding paid work in television? ... that Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Newton said the Brampton Jail in Brampton, Ontario was "worse than any jail in Cuba"? ... that the New Fighter Aircraft program selected the CF-18 Hornet for the Canadian Forces Air Command when attempts to purchase Iran's fleet of F-14 Tomcats failed?

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