| Ontario Academic Credit The Ontario Academic Credit or OAC ( or ) was part of the curriculum(s) codified by the Ontario Ministry of Education in Ontario Schools (OS) and its revisions. In common parlance, the term is used to describe the fifth high school year (originally known as Grade 13) that used to exist in the province of Ontario, Canada. Ontario_Academic_Credit
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| University of Ontario Institute of Technology The University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) is located in Oshawa, Ontario and shares its campus with Durham College. The university was founded in 2002 and accepted its first students in 2003, making it one of Canada's newest universities. All undergraduate programs require students to lease a "Lenovo Thinkpad" laptop PC from the university, for over $1000 per year, as a condition of enrollment, making it Ontario's only laptop-based university. University_of_Ontario_Institute_of_Technology
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| List of lieutenant governors of Ontario lieutenant governors (pronounced "lef-tenant") of the Canadian province of Ontario, before and after Confederation in 1867. The Lieutenant-Governor is the Ontarian vice-regal representative of the Canadian Monarch. List_of_lieutenant_governors_of_Ontario
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| David Peterson David Robert Peterson, PC, O.Ont (born December 28, 1943) was the twentieth Premier of the Province of Ontario, Canada, from June 26, 1985 to October 1, 1990. He was the first Liberal premier of Ontario in 42 years. Peterson is married to actress Shelley Peterson, and is the younger brother of Jim Peterson, formerly a federal Liberal MP and cabinet minister. David_Peterson
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| Scarborough, Ontario Scarborough,_Ontario
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| Queen Elizabeth Way Queen_Elizabeth_Way
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| 400-series highways (Ontario) The 400-series highways are a network of controlled-access freeways throughout the southern portion of the province of Ontario, Canada, forming a special subset of the provincial highway system. They function similarly to the Interstate Highway network in the United States. 400-series_highways_(Ontario)
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| Dalton McGuinty Dalton James Patrick McGuinty, Jr., MPP (born July 19, 1955 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian lawyer and politician and, since October 23, 2003, Premier of Ontario. He is the twenty-fourth premier of Ontario, and the second Roman Catholic to hold this office.McGuinty is generally regarded as holding moderate views on economic issues, with his first budget raising personal taxes and planning to eliminate the province's tax on the capital of corporations. Dalton_McGuinty
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| Ontario Liberal Party The Ontario Liberal Party is a centrist provincial political party in the province of Ontario, Canada. It has formed the Government of Ontario since the provincial election of 2003. The party is ideologically aligned with the Liberal Party of Canada but the two parties are organizationally independent and have separate, though overlapping, memberships. The party is currently led by the Premier of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty. Ontario_Liberal_Party
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| Common Sense Revolution Common Sense Revolution (CSR) has been used as a political slogan to describe common sense conservative platforms in Australia and the U.S. state of New Jersey in the 1990s. Based on the Singapore Model of economics, its main goal is to reduce taxes while balancing the budget by reducing the size and role of government. Common_Sense_Revolution
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| Ontario Academic Credit Talk:Ontario_Academic_Credit
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| Sales taxes in Canada Canada there are three types of sales taxesGST, and the Harmonized Sales Tax or HST.Every province except Alberta implements a Provincial Sales Tax or the Harmonized Sales Tax. The Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut do not have any type of regional sales tax. The federal GST rate is 5% effective January 1, 2008. Sales_taxes_in_Canada
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| List of universities in Canada In Canada, the constitutional responsibility for universities rests with the provinces and territories. The decision to assign responsibility for universities to local legislatures was enacted as law in the British North America Act in 1867, later renamed the Constitution Act in 1982; it stateshigher education has evolved in each province. List_of_universities_in_Canada
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| Regional Municipality of Peel The Regional Municipality of Peel (also known as Peel Region) is a regional municipality in Southern Ontario, Canada. It consists of three municipalities to the west and northwest of Toronto:Brampton and Mississauga, and the town of Caledon . The entire region is part of the Greater Toronto Area and the inner ring of Golden Horseshoe. Regional_Municipality_of_Peel
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| Arnprior, Ontario Arnprior is a town in eastern Renfrew County, in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario, Canada. It is located at the mouth of the Madawaska River, as it enters the Ottawa River in the Ottawa Valley. The town is a namesake of Arnprior, Scotland, and is known for lumber, hydro power generation, aerospace, farming and its proximity to the national capital region. Arnprior,_Ontario
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| Mohawk College Mohawk College of Applied Arts and Technology is a public college in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Mohawk also has campuses located in Brantford and Stoney Creek, as well as the Institute for Applied Health Sciences located at McMaster University. Mohawk_College
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| GO Transit GO Transit is an interregional public transit system in Southern Ontario, Canada, currently operated by the provincial crown agency Metrolinx. It primarily serves the conurbation referred to by Metrolinx as the "Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area" (GTHA) with operations extending to several communities beyond Toronto and Hamilton proper. GO_Transit
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| Ontario general election, 2003 Ontario general election of 2003 was held on October 2, 2003, to elect the 103 members of the 38th Legislative Assembly (Members of Provincial Parliament, or "MPPs") of the Province of Ontario, Canada.The election was called on September 2 by Premier Ernie Eves to capitalize on an increase in support for the governing Ontario Progressive Conservative Party in the days following the 2003 North American blackout. The election was won, however, by the Ontario Liberal Party, led by Dalton McGuinty. Ontario_general_election,_2003
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| Premier of Ontario The Premier of Ontario is the first Minister of the Crown for the Canadian province of Ontario. The Premier is appointed as the province's head of government by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, and presides over the Executive council, or Cabinet.Although sometimes referred to as the Prime Minister of Ontario, the Executive Council Act (R.S.O. Premier_of_Ontario
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| Ontario Health Insurance Plan Ontario_Health_Insurance_Plan
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| Hemp Talk:Hemp
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| Alvar This article is about the landform. For the Tamil saints, see Alvars; for the village in Armenia, see Alvar, Armenia.An alvar or pavement barren is a biological environment based on a limestone plain with thin or no soil and, as a result, sparse vegetation. Alvar
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| Northern College for the former teacher training colleges in Scotland, see University of Aberdeen and University of DundeeNorthern College of Applied Arts and Technology is a community college in Northern Ontario. The College's catchment area extends across or 160,000 square kilometres. Northern_College
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| Laurentian University Laurentian_University
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| McMaster University McMaster University (Mac) is a public research university located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It bears the name of William McMaster, a prominent Canadian Senator and banker whose substantial bequeathed funds helped form the beginning of the university. The institution being incorporated under the terms of an act of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1887. McMaster_University
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| Lakehead University Lakehead University (LU) is located in Thunder Bay, Ontario. It is the only university in Northwestern Ontario. Lakehead University attracts many students from across Canada as well as international students. Lakehead offers a broad range of degree and diploma programs within nine faculties. Lakehead_University
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| University of Windsor University_of_Windsor
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| Nipissing University Nipissing_University
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| Ontario College of Art & Design The Ontario College of Art & Design (commonly referred to by its acronym, OCAD; , ) is Canada's largest and oldest university for art and design. It is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on McCaul Street beside the Art Gallery of Ontario. The school combines an experiential, studio-based education with liberal studies, which is recognized with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), a Bachelor of Design (BDes), an Interdisciplinary Master's in Art Media and Design (MA, MFA or MDes), a Master's in Criticism and Curatorial Practices (MFA), or an Executive Master's of Design in Advertising (EMDes). Ontario_College_of_Art_&_Design
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| Provincial highways in Ontario The Ontario Ministry of Transportation maintains the system of provincial highways in the Canadian province of Ontario. Provincial_highways_in_Ontario
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| Toyota Prius The Toyota Prius () is a hybrid electric mid-size car developed and manufactured by the Toyota Motor Corporation. It first went on sale in Japan in 1997, making it the first mass-produced hybrid vehicle. It was subsequently introduced worldwide in 2001. The Prius is sold in more than 40 countries and regions, with its largest markets being those of Japan and North America. As a top seller in the US market, the U.S. Toyota Prius made up more than half of the 1.2 million Prius sold worldwide by early 2009. Toyota_Prius
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| Lieutenant Governor of Ontario The Lieutenant Governor of Ontario is the vice-regal representative of the Queen of Canada in the province of Ontario. The role of the Lieutenant Governor is to carry out the constitutional and ceremonial duties of the monarch in the province.The Governor General appoints the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario on the advice of the Prime Minister, and in consultation with the Premier of Ontario. There is no set limit to a Lieutenant Governor's term, the traditional description being "at Her Majesty's pleasure." Lieutenant_Governor_of_Ontario
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| Helicoverpa zea The larva of the moth Helicoverpa zea (formerly in the genus Heliothis) is a major agricultural pest. It can feed on many different plants (i.e. it is polyphagous) during the larval stage. Accordingly, the species has been given many different common names. Helicoverpa_zea
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| Highway 33 (Ontario) Highway 33 is a provincially maintained highway in southeastern Ontario, Canada. It currently runs from Highway 62 in Bloomfield (Prince Edward County) to the Collins Bay Road junction at Collins Bay in the city of Kingston, a distance of 68.4Originally, Highway 33 ran from Stirling along the Trent River through Trenton into Kingston. The route from Trenton eastward followed the Lake Ontario shoreline. Highway_33_(Ontario)
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| Toronto Eaton Centre The Toronto Eaton Centre is a large shopping mall and office complex in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, named after the now-defunct Eaton's department store chain that once anchored it. In terms of the number of visitors, the shopping mall is Toronto's top tourist attraction, with around one million visitors per week. It is also the largest shopping mall in Eastern Canada and third-largest in Canada as a whole. Toronto_Eaton_Centre
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| Eaton's Eaton's was once Canada's largest department store retailer. Founded in 1869 in Toronto by Timothy Eaton, an Irish immigrant, Eaton's first advertisement read "We propose to sell our goods for CASH ONLY haggling for goods was commonplace, this was a revolutionary business practice.The T. Eaton's
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| Royal Military College of Canada The Royal Military College of Canada (RMC), is the military academy of the Canadian Forces, and is a degree-granting university. RMC is the only federal institution in Canada with degree granting powers. Located on Point Frederick, a 41-hectare peninsula in Kingston, Ontario, the college is a blend of older, historic buildings and modern academic, athletic, and dormitory facilities. Officer Cadets are trained in the four pillars of academics, military, athletics, and bilingualism (French and English). Royal_Military_College_of_Canada
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| Xaviere User_talk:Xaviere
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| CFPL-TV CFPL-TV (known on-air as A London) is a television station owned by CTVglobemedia, which serves the London and Sarnia regions of Ontario, Canada.CFPL is part of the A system, and is currently the flagship station of a mini-system of stations in southwestern Ontario including CHWI in Wheatley, which serves the Windsor and Chatham areas; and CKNX in Wingham, which serves much of Western Ontario north of London. CFPL-TV
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| Lincoln Alexander Lincoln MacCauley Alexander, PC, CC, OOnt, CD, QC (born January 21, 1922), served as the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1985 to 1991. Alexander was also a Governor of the Canadian Unity CouncilBorn in Toronto, Ontario to West Indian immigrants to Canada, Lincoln Alexander first distinguished himself by serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the second World War. In 1953, he graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. Lincoln_Alexander
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| James Bartleman James_Bartleman
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| George Smitherman George Smitherman MPP (born 1964) is a Canadian politician, who represents the provincial riding of Toronto Centre in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. He is notable for being the first openly gay MPP elected in Ontario, and the first openly gay cabinet minister. Smitherman is currently Ontario's Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, as well as Deputy Premier of Ontario. George_Smitherman
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| Santa Claus parade Santa Claus parades or Christmas pageants are parades held in some countries to celebrate the official opening of the Christmas season with the arrival of Santa Claus. Christmas songs. They are moving pageants that typically end near the center of a city. Often sponsored by department stores, they may reinforce the store's brand recognition during the important Christmas shopping season. Santa_Claus_parade
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| Ontario Provincial Police "O.P.P." redirects here. For the Naughty by Nature song, see O.P.P. (song). Ontario_Provincial_Police
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| Canada Company Canada_Company
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| Flag of Ontario Flag of Ontario was proclaimed the official flag of the Canadian province of Ontario by the Flag Act on May 21, 1965. The flag is a defaced Red Ensign, with the Union Flag in the canton and the Ontario shield of arms in the fly. Before 1965, the Canadian Red Ensign had flown outside the legislature and government buildings. Flag_of_Ontario
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| Coat of arms of Ontario The Coat of Arms of Ontario was granted by Royal Warrant of Queen Victoria on 26 May 1868. The award of arms was augmented with supporters and a crest by Royal Warrant of King Edward VII on 27 February 1909. Coat_of_arms_of_Ontario
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| Order of Ontario This article is about the Canadian order. Oont is Urdu for "camel" and was adopted as an Anglo-Indian term for the animal during British rule of India.The Order of Ontario is a prestigious society in the Canadian province of Ontario. Created in 1986 by then Lieutenant Governor Lincoln Alexander, induction into the order is the highest official honour in the province. The order recognizes individual excellence and achievement in any field, but is not awarded for acts of bravery. Order_of_Ontario
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| Guelph Gryphons The Guelph Gryphons are the athletic teams that represent the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario, Canada and member of the Canadian Interuniversity Sport. Guelph_Gryphons
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| Ontario Agricultural College Ontario_Agricultural_College
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