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Introduction Royal Canadian Mounted Police 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 Parliament of Canada is Canada's legislative branch, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario. According to Section 17 of the Constitution Act, 1867, parliament consists of three components: the sovereign, the Senate, and the House of Commons; the sovereign is normally represented by the Governor General, who appoints the 105 members of the Senate on the recommendation of the Prime Minister. The 308 members of the House of Commons are directly elected by the people, with each member representing a single electoral district, frequently called a constituency or a riding. The lower house, the House of Commons, is the dominant branch of the Canadian parliament. The upper house, the Senate, rarely opposes the will of the other chamber, and the duties of the sovereign and Governor General are largely ceremonial, although both have reserve powers in which could refuse to grant royal assent to a bill, and could dismiss the Cabinet and call an election unprompted. The Prime Minister and Cabinet must retain the support of a majority of members of the Lower House to remain in office; they need not have the confidence of the Upper House. More information... Selected biography - Trevor Linden (born April 11, 1970) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played centre and right wing for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Since joining the league in 1988, he has played with four different teams: the Canucks (in two stints), New York Islanders, Montreal Canadiens, and Washington Capitals. Before joining the NHL, Linden captained the Medicine Hat Tigers of the Western Hockey League (WHL) to consecutive Memorial Cup championships. In addition to appearing in two NHL All-Star games, Linden was a member of the 1998 Canadian Olympic team and participated in the 1996 World Cup of Hockey. Throughout his career, Linden has been recognized as a respected leader on and off the ice. He was named captain of the Canucks at the age of 21, making him one of the youngest captains in league history. While captaining the Canucks, Linden led the team to within a game of winning the Stanley Cup in 1994. In 1998 he was elected President of the National Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA), a position he held for eight years. Off the ice, Linden has taken an active role in charities, and was awarded the King Clancy Memorial Trophy for leadership on the ice and humanitarian contributions off the ice in 1997, as well as the NHL Foundation Player Award in 2008. After 19 seasons in the NHL, Linden announced his retirement at a news conference in Vancouver on June 11, 2008 The official announcement came twenty years to the day of initially being drafted by Vancouver. In the news 19 April 2019 – A house deck collapses in Langley, British Columbia, Canada, injuring 40 people, twenty of them severely. (Global News) 18 April 2019 – Mountain climbers Jess Roskelley, David Lama and Hansjörg Auer are suspected dead after an avalanche on Howse Peak in Canada's Banff National Park. (MSN.com) 2 April 2019 – SNC-Lavalin affair Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expels former ministers Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott from the Liberal Party of Canada. (BBC), (Reuters) Selected images - The Indian Chiefs Medal, presented to commemorate the Numbered Treaties of 1871–1921 The Mount Meager massif as seen from the east near Pemberton. Summits left to right are Capricorn Mountain, Mount Meager and Plinth Peak. Benjamin West's The Death of General Wolfe (1771) dramatizes James Wolfe's death during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham at Quebec. 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) 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. 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 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. The Quebec City–Windsor Corridor is the most densely populated and heavily industrialized region of Canada, spanning 1,200 kilometres (750 miles). A small sampling of Canadian foods. Clockwise from top left: Montreal-style smoked meat, maple syrup, poutine, Nanaimo bar, butter tart, peameal bacon The Senate chamber within the Centre Block on Parliament Hill Monument to Multiculturalism, by Francesco Pirelli in Toronto. A political map of Canada showing its 10 provinces and 3 territories The Canadian Delegation to the United Nations Conference on International Organization, San Francisco, May 1945 Population pyramid 2016 Bill Reid's 1980 sculpture Raven and The First Men; the raven is a figure common to many of Canada's indigenous mythologies 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. Parliament Hill home of the federal government in Canada's capital city, Ottawa A 1904 postcard showing the Grand Opera House and Majestic Theatre, Adelaide Street, in the current Toronto Theatre District. The Centre Block of the Canadian parliament buildings on Parliament Hill Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal, Québec at the Saint-Denis Theatre. Prime Minister Trudeau and U.S. President Trump meet in Washington, February 2017 Margaret Atwood is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, inventor, teacher and environmental activist. Köppen climate types of Canada 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. 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 Tree-map of Canada's goods exports in 2014 Tom Thomson, The Jack Pine, Winter 1916–17. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa CBC's English-language master control point, the Canadian Broadcasting Centre, in Toronto Linguistic areas of North American Indigenous peoples at the time of European contact Canada's ice hockey victory at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver The Canadarm robotic manipulator in action on Space Shuttle Discovery during the STS-116 mission in 2006 Standard Theatre, 482 Queen Street West, Toronto, 1906 Fur traders at work as depicted in 1777 by Claude J. Sauthier The Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa, west of Parliament Hill A Canadian war bond poster that depicts an industrious beaver a national symbol of Canada Canadian crew of a Sherman tank, south of Vaucelles, France, during the Battle of Normandy in June 1944 Ice Hockey being played at McGill University, in Montreal, 1884. The Jack Pine by Tom Thomson. Oil on canvas, 1916, in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada Quebec's National Holiday (French: La Fête nationale du Québec) is celebrated annually on June 24, St. John the Baptist Day Ottawa Jazz Festival inside Rideau Centre, 2008 "Ye Gude Olde Days" from Hockey: Canada's Royal Winter Game, 1899 Symbols of Canada - Viola cucullata (Hooded Blue Violet, Marsh Blue Violet or Purple Violet) is a species of the genus Viola native to eastern North America, from Newfoundland west to Ontario and Minnesota, and south to Georgia. The purple violet is the provincial flower of New Brunswick... More information... Did you know... - ... that five individual career records were set during the 2008 season of Canadian university football? ... that the forthcoming Canadian film Smash Cut will feature a cameo appearance by filmmaker Herschell Gordon Lewis who invented the splatter film genre? ... that a 30-metre (98 ft) tsunami was created when Broke Off Cliff fell into Western Brook Pond, which is a fjord in Canada? ...that 40% of French-speaking Quebecers have at least some sort of Irish ancestry? ... that a 1974 provincial Order-in-Council has prohibited hunting on the Grand Codroy Estuary, the "most important wetland" on the island of Newfoundland?

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