| Rachel Corrie Rachel Aliene Corrie (April 10, 1979International Solidarity Movement (ISM) who traveled to the Gaza Strip during the Second Intifada. She was killed by a bulldozer operated by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) while attempting to disrupt its actions. The details of the events surrounding Corrie's death are disputed. Rachel_Corrie
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| Atlantic Puffin The Atlantic Puffin ('''''seabird species in the auk family. It is a pelagic bird that feeds primarily by diving for fish, but also eats other sea creatures, such as squid and crustaceans. Its most obvious characteristic is its brightly coloured beak during the breeding seasons. Atlantic_Puffin
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| Celine Dion Céline Marie Claudette Dion () CC OQ (born March 30, 1968) is a Canadian pop singer, occasional songwriter and actress. Born to a large, impoverished family in Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record. In 1990, she released the anglophone album Unison, establishing herself as a viable pop artist in North America and other English-speaking areas of the world. Celine_Dion
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| John Manley John_Manley
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| Jean Charest John James Charest, PC, MNA (known as Jean Charest) (born June 24, 1958) is a Canadian lawyer and politician from the province of Quebec. He is a former leader of the federal Progressive Conservative Party (1993–1998), the current leader of the Quebec Liberal Party and, the 29th and current Premier of Quebec. Jean_Charest
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| Mike Harcourt Mike_Harcourt
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| Ralph Klein Ralph_Klein
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| Tommy Douglas Thomas Clement "Tommy" Douglas, PC, CC, SOM (20 October 1904 – 24 February 1986) was a Scottish-born Baptist minister who became a prominent Canadian social democratic politician. Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) from 1942 and the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961, he led the first socialist government in North America and introduced universal public healthcare to Canada. Tommy_Douglas
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| History of Chinese immigration to Canada This is the history of Chinese immigration to Canada. History_of_Chinese_immigration_to_Canada
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| Bagel bagel is a bread product, traditionally shaped by hand into the form of a ring Bagel
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| AMBER Alert For "amber alerts" in color-coded systems, see #Other "amber alerts"An AMBER Alert is a child abduction alert bulletin in the United States and Canada, as well as other countries, issued upon the suspected abduction of a child. AMBER is officially a backronym for "America's MissingAmber Hagerman, a 9-year-old child who was abducted and AMBER_Alert
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| Ashanti (singer) Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas (born October 13, 1980) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, actress, dancer, and model who rose to fame in the early 2000s. Ashanti is most famous for her eponymous Grammy Award-winning debut album Ashanti which featured the hit song "Foolish", and sold over 503,000 copies in its first week of release in the U.S. Ashanti_(singer)
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| St. Catharines St. Catharines (2006 population 131,989; metropolitan population 390,317) is the largest city in Canada's Niagara Region and the sixth largest urban area in Ontario, Canada, with 97.11 square kilometres (37.5sq) of land. It lies in Southern Ontario 51 kilometres (32Toronto across Lake Ontario and is 19 kilometres (12United States of America along the Niagara River. It is the northern entrance of the Welland Canal. Residents of St. Catharines are known as St. Catharinians. St._Catharines
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| Journalism Talk:Journalism
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| List of current Canadian senators Senate of Canada () is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the sovereign (represented by the governor general) and the House of Commons. List_of_current_Canadian_senators
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| Conrad Black Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, PC, OC, KCSG (born 25 August 1944, in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian-born British historian, columnist and publisher who was for a time the third biggest newspaper magnate in the world. He is currently incarcerated at the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex in Florida,Before investigation by regulators and investors, Black controlled Hollinger International, Inc. Conrad_Black
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| Tim Hortons Talk:Tim_Hortons
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| New Black Panther Party The New Black Panther Party (NBPP), whose formal name is the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, is a U.S.-based black supremacist organization founded in Dallas, Texas in 1989. Despite its name, the NBPP's founding was independent and it is not an official successor organization to the Black Panther Party. Members of the original Black Panther Party have insisted that this party is illegitimate and have vociferously objected that there "is no new Black Panther Party". New_Black_Panther_Party
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| Communications Security Establishment Canada The Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC or CSE) () (CSTC or CST) is the Canadian government's national cryptologic intelligence agency. Administered under the Department of National Defence (DND), it is charged with the duty of keeping track of foreign signals intelligence (SIGINT), and protecting Canadian government electronic information and communication networks. Communications_Security_Establishment_Canada
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| Edward Schreyer Edward_Schreyer
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| Liberal Party of Canada Talk:Liberal_Party_of_Canada
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| Taser A Taser is an electroshock weapon that uses electrical current to disrupt voluntary control of muscles. Its manufacturer, Taser International, calls the effects "neuromuscular incapacitation" and device's mechanism "Electro-Muscular Disruption (EMD) technology". Taser
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| Peter MacKay Peter_MacKay
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| Stephen Harper Stephen Joseph Harper, PC, MP (born April 30, 1959) is the 22nd and current Prime Minister of Canada, and leader of the Conservative Party. Harper became Prime Minister after his party won a minority government in the January 2006 federal election. He is the first Prime Minister from the newly reconstituted Conservative Party, following a merger of the Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parties. Stephen_Harper
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| List of scandals with "-gate" suffix The suffix -gate derives from the Watergate scandal of the United States in the early 1970s, which resulted in the resignation of U.S. President Richard Nixon. The word Watergate is derived from the Watergate Complex, where the scandal started. On June 17, 1972, agents of the Nixon White House and the Nixon reelection campaign were arrested while breaking into the office of the Democratic National Committee, which at the time was located in the Watergate Complex (a combination of residences and offices located near the Potomac River) in Washington, D.C. List_of_scandals_with_"-gate"_suffix
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| Huntsville, Ontario Huntsville (2006 population 18,280) is a town in the Muskoka Region of Ontario, Canada.The area was first settled, and founded in 1869 by Captain George Hunt, who built a small agricultural centre there. In 1870, a post office was built and the area was named Huntsville after Hunt, who became the first postmaster. Huntsville,_Ontario
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| David Ahenakew Talk:David_Ahenakew
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| Same-sex marriage in Canada On July 20, 2005, Canada became the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide with the enactment of the Civil Marriage Act. Court decisions, starting in 2003, each already legalized same-sex marriage in eight out of ten provinces and one of three territories, whose residents comprised about 90% of Canada's population. Same-sex_marriage_in_Canada
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| Tenacious D Tenacious D is a rock band from Los Angeles, California. The band consists of musicians and actors Jack Black (vocals, guitar) and Kyle Gass (guitar, vocals).Tenacious D formed in 1994 when the members performed as an acoustic duo. The band first gained popularity in 1999 when they starred in their eponymous television series and began to support large rock acts. Tenacious_D
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| Pretty Together Pretty_Together
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| Phil McGraw Phillip Calvin McGraw (born September 1, 1950), best known as Dr. Phil, is an American television personality, author, and former psychologist, currently the host of his own television show, Dr. Phil, which debuted in 2002. McGraw first gained celebrity status with appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show in the late 1990s. Phil_McGraw
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| Electronic Arts Electronic Arts (EA) () is an international developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers responsible for its games. Electronic_Arts
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| Ogopogo Ogopogo or Naitaka (, "lake demon") is the name given to a lake monster reported to live in Okanagan Lake, in British Columbia, Canada. Ogopogo
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| Lorne Calvert Lorne_Calvert
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| Rich Skrenta Richard "Rich" Skrenta (b.1967 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a computer programmer and Silicon Valley entrepreneur. In 1982, as a high school student at Mt. Lebanon High School, Skrenta wrote the Elk Cloner virus that infected Apple II machines. It is widely believed to be the first large-scale self-spreading personal computer virus ever created. Rich_Skrenta
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| Golden Horseshoe The Golden Horseshoe is a densely populated and industrialized region (or urban agglomeration) centred around the western end of Lake Ontario in Southern Ontario, Canada, with outer boundaries stretching south to Lake Erie and north to Georgian Bay. Most of it is also part of the Quebec City – Windsor Corridor. Golden_Horseshoe
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| Marc Lépine Marc Lépine (October 26, 1964 Montreal, Quebec who murdered fourteen women and wounded ten women and four men at the École Polytechnique, an engineering school affiliated with the Université de Montréal, in "the Montreal Massacre", also known as "the École Polytechnique massacre". Marc_Lépine
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| Kate Moss Kate_Moss
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| August 2003 August 2003 January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December August_2003
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| Arthur Currie Sir Arthur William Currie GCMG, KCB (5 December 1875 Canadian general during World War I. He had the unique distinction of starting his military career on the very bottom rung as a pre-war militia gunner before rising through the ranks to become the first Canadian commander of the four divisions of the unified Canadian Corps of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Arthur_Currie
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| Highway 401 (Ontario) The King's Highway 401 (also known as the Macdonald-Cartier Freeway) is a highway that extends across Southern Ontario, Canada. It is the longest 400-Series Highway in Ontario, and one of the widest and busiest highways in the world. In fact, the segment of Highway 401 passing through Toronto has the distinction of being North America's busiest freeway. Highway_401_(Ontario)
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| Stanley Park Stanley Park is a 404.9 hectare (1,000 acre) urban park bordering downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was opened in 1888 by Lord Stanley of Preston, the Governor-General of Canada.It is more than 10% larger than New York City's Central Park and almost half the size of London's Richmond Park. Stanley_Park
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| Khan Noonien Singh Khan Noonien Singh, commonly shortened to Khan, is a villain in the fictional Star Trek universe. According to backstory given in the character's first appearance, the Star Trek original series episode "Space Seed", Khan is a superhuman tyrant who once controlled more than a quarter of the Earth during the Eugenics Wars of the 1990s. Khan_Noonien_Singh
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| Yoweri Museveni Yoweri Kaguta Museveni () (born c. 1944, Ntungamo, Uganda Protectorate) has been the President of Uganda since 29 January 1986.Museveni got involved in a war that deposed Idi Amin, ending his rule in 1979, and in the rebellion that subsequently led to the demise of the Milton Obote regime in 1985. Yoweri_Museveni
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| Bernard Landry Jean-Bernard Landry, GOQ (born March 9, 1937) is a Quebec lawyer, teacher, politician, who served as Premier of Quebec, Canada, (2001leader of the Opposition (2003Parti Québécois (2001 Bernard_Landry
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| Canada AM Canada AM is a Canadian breakfast television news show, which has aired on the CTV Television Network since 1972. It was created as a response to the popularity of American morning shows such as The Today Show and adopted a similar format initially. The program currently airs only on weekdays. Canada_AM
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| 3-1-1 The non-emergency telephone number 3-1-1 is a special N-1-1 telephone number in many communities in Canada and the United States that provides quick, easy-to-remember access to non-emergency municipal services or a Citizen Service Center. Dialing this number allows city residents (only in certain cities) to obtain important non-emergency services through a central, all-purpose phone number quickly and effectively. 3-1-1
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| Alias (TV series) Alias_(TV_series)
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| United States – Canada softwood lumber dispute United States – Canada softwood lumber dispute is one of the most significant and enduring trade disputes in modern history. The dispute has had its biggest effect on British Columbia, the major Canadian exporter of softwood lumber to the United States.The heart of the dispute is the claim that the Canadian lumber industry is unfairly subsidized by the federal and provincial governments. United_States_–_Canada_softwood_lumber_dispute
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| Pierre Pettigrew Pierre Stewart Pettigrew, PC (born April 18, 1951 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian politician.Born in Quebec City, Pettigrew has a BA in Philosophy from the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (1972) and an M.Phil in International Relations from Oxford University (1976). Pierre_Pettigrew
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