• In 1857, Queen Victoria chose Ottawa as the permanent capital of the Province of Canada, initiating construction of Canada's first parliament buildings, on Parliament Hill. (wikipedia.org)
  • Quebec ranks first among Canada's provinces for rates of child poverty, suicide, divorce, cohabitating couples, and illegitimate births. (christianitytoday.com)
  • OTTAWA (Reuters) - Ontario, Canada's most populous province, said on Wednesday that people would have to show digital proof they had been inoculated against COVID-19 to enter a wide range of establishments, dropping earlier opposition to the idea. (yahoo.com)
  • While there is plenty of nice golf through Saskatchewan and Manitoba - Dakota Dunes in Saskatoon and Pine Ridge in Winnipeg in particular - Ontario, as Canada's most populated province, has thousands of great courses to choose from. (pga.com)
  • OTTAWA - Canada's holiday season will be even quieter this year as Ontario, by far the country's most-populous province, announces weeks of stricter coronavirus lock-downs starting Dec. 26. (politico.com)
  • Ottawa, Canada's capital city, has been a bright spot in the province in terms of getting Covid under control. (politico.com)
  • A Newfoundland court ruling on Tuesday made the maritime province Canada's seventh to allow gay and lesbian couples to wed. (advocate.com)
  • Prime Minister Paul Martin said after the supreme court's ruling that since judges in six of Canada's 10 provinces and one of its territories already allow same-sex marriage, it should be approved nationwide. (advocate.com)
  • Reuters) - Canada's main oil-producing province of Alberta on Thursday forecast a virtually unchanged budget surplus in the 2023/24 fiscal year and said the outlook was strong, despite unpredictable crude prices. (yahoo.com)
  • Alberta is Canada's largest oil-producing province and home to the oil sands, the world's third-biggest crude reserves. (yahoo.com)
  • Click through for a look at some of the factors that may be at play in influencing Canada's most popular housing types by province. (coastreporter.net)
  • Alberta is one of Canada's three so-called 'prairie provinces,' meaning it has more wide-open, undeveloped space and less population density than some of Canada's other provinces. (coastreporter.net)
  • Manitoba is Canada's fifth-most populous province, and it is known for having a highly varied topography, including mountain ranges, prairie grass, and freshwater lakes. (coastreporter.net)
  • According to Environment Canada , Fiona made landfall as a hurricane-strength post-tropical cyclone and had what's been estimated to be the lowest recorded barometric pressure of any storm in Canada's history. (kpbs.org)
  • A home to abundant beauty and other attractions the province of Newfoundland and Labrador spreads in an area of 405, 212 square kilometers comprises of island of Newfoundland and the mainland Labrador on Canada's Atlantic coast. (ezilon.com)
  • OTTAWA - Canada's national annual inflation rate was 4.0 per cent in August, Statistics Canada says. (richmond-news.com)
  • History plays out in the hills of the West Block at the Fort Walsh National Historic Site , which was the headquarters of the North-West Mounted Police - the precursor to Canada's iconic Royal Canadian Mounted Police, also known as the Mounties. (nationalgeographic.co.uk)
  • But Health Canada's statement that the authorization of a biosimilar is not a declaration of equivalence has contributed to "concern and skepticism" among clinicians as to how biosimilars would perform in real-world settings in Canada, according to the researchers. (medscape.com)
  • The Province of Canada ceased to exist at Canadian Confederation on 1 July 1867, when it was divided into the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ontario included the area occupied by the pre-1841 British colony of Upper Canada, while Quebec included the area occupied by the pre-1841 British colony of Lower Canada (which had included Labrador until 1809, when Labrador was transferred to the British colony of Newfoundland). (wikipedia.org)
  • Of all the provinces and territories in Canada, Ontario and BC together have had the highest mean yearly temperatures each year from 1948 through to 2017. (worldatlas.com)
  • Ontario has had the extreme maximum temperature just eight times, but on average, it is one of the warmer locations in Canada. (worldatlas.com)
  • Ontario is the fourth province to opt for the passports. (yahoo.com)
  • Ontario Premier Doug Ford made the announcement Monday as his province - and much of Canada - deals with a stubborn resurgence of Covid-19. (politico.com)
  • Sweet treats from Ontario and unique wines from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia are just a few of our favourite locally-made Canadian wedding favours. (weddingbells.ca)
  • We are the Accommodation Industry Alliance for Ontario (AIAO) and are proud to be partners in the Canada Select Program. (canadaselect.com)
  • No less than six provinces, Alberta , Saskatchewan , Manitoba , Ontario , Quebec , and Newfoundland and Labrador have already or will be soon dropping most COVID rules, with more saying they will do so as well. (lifesitenews.com)
  • Ontario is by far the most populous province in Canada and contains the nation's capital, Ottawa, and its most populous city, Toronto. (coastreporter.net)
  • Ontario will soon become the Canadian province with the highest number of cannabis dispensaries. (fool.com)
  • The difference in numbers is starkly in favor of other provinces -- at the moment, Ontario has only 28 dispensaries serving a total population of nearly 14.6 million souls (the highest figure out of all Canadian provinces and territories). (fool.com)
  • The provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia were the first to come onboard in 1867, but it wasn't until 1999 that the territory of Nunavut was created. (dummies.com)
  • has lived and worked in every region of Canada, from the Okanagan Valley of BC to the farmlands of rural Quebec, from Saskatoon to southern Ontario, from Manitoba to PEI. (dummies.com)
  • Canada West then became Ontario and Canada East became Quebec . (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • The groups say the province has also dragged its feet on distributing potassium iodide (KI) pills in Southwestern Ontario, which protect people from thyroid cancer in the event of a nuclear accident. (cela.ca)
  • The province has been giving short shrift to public safety in Southwestern Ontario. (cela.ca)
  • Nuclear emergency preparedness needs to be increased across Ontario so families and communities are properly protected in the event of a nuclear accident at any of the twenty reactors on the Great Lakes," said Theresa McClenaghan, Executive Director of the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA). (cela.ca)
  • This site contains general legal information for Ontario, Canada. (cela.ca)
  • Spokesperson Kelly Cull pointed out that banning menthol could contribute to reducing smoking among youths, and added that other Canadian provinces like Ontario are currently considering similar steps. (who.int)
  • A Preliminary Comparison Between Local Public Health Units In The Canadian Province Of Ontario And In The U.S. (cdc.gov)
  • In the province of Ontario, invasive infections with Group A-hemolytic streptococcus (GAS) has a long- GAS (isolation of GAS from blood or an otherwise sterile standing association with pharyngitis, skin and soft site) and cases of suspected TSS and necrotizing fasciitis tissue infection, and pneumonia (1-3). (cdc.gov)
  • This has remained a somewhat controversial issue in Canada," said John Marshall, MD, director of gastroenterology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. (medscape.com)
  • Gardens apartment complex in Hong Kong, Air China flight 112 from Hong Kong to Beijing, and an acute care hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (cdc.gov)
  • A few days ago, Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston said that the Emergencies Act was not needed in his province. (lifesitenews.com)
  • A downed tree from Post-Tropical Storm Fiona sits in the front yard of a home on Sept. 24 in Irish Cove, Nova Scotia on Cape Breton Island in Canada. (kpbs.org)
  • More than 190,000 electric customers in the hard-hit province of Nova Scotia still had no power as of 1:35 a.m. Monday. (kpbs.org)
  • Vehicles navigate around a downed tree from Post-Tropical Storm Fiona on Saturday in East Bay, Nova Scotia on Cape Breton Island in Canada. (kpbs.org)
  • Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston said in a video message that the storm inflicted a "breathtaking" amount of damage across the province. (kpbs.org)
  • Downed power lines from winds from Post-Tropical Storm Fiona rest against a home in Sydney, Nova Scotia on Cape Breton Island in Canada. (kpbs.org)
  • Wet weather in the Atlantic Coast province of Nova Scotia has allowed that province to free up water bombers to dispatch to Quebec, where wildfires flared up this past weekend. (news10.com)
  • This quarterly economic forecast for the province of Nova Scotia examines its economic outlook, including gross domestic product (GDP), output by industry, and labour market conditions. (conferenceboard.ca)
  • The Eastern Canadian province of Nova Scotia has passed legislation banning most flavoured tobacco products. (who.int)
  • The Canadian Cancer Society expressed its content with the decision, calling Nova Scotia a national leader in tobacco control. (who.int)
  • She grew up in Halifax, in the Canadian Atlantic province of Nova Scotia. (cdc.gov)
  • The Newfoundland ruling comes after the supreme court of Canada ruled earlier this month that the federal government has sole authority to redefine marriage to include same-sex couples. (advocate.com)
  • Port aux Basques, a town in Newfoundland, was under a state of emergency on Saturday due to "multiple electrical fires, residential flooding and washouts," the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said . (kpbs.org)
  • All in all the Newfoundland and Labrador province is just the ideal place for all the water aficionados. (ezilon.com)
  • Located on the northeast coast of the Avalon Peninsula in the southeastern Newfoundland this beautiful city is also the largest in the province. (ezilon.com)
  • On 31st March 1949 Newfoundland joined Canada after the second referendum. (ezilon.com)
  • After its entry into Canada, the province came to be known as Newfoundland but in 1964 the provincial government has named itself as Government of Newfoundland and Labrador. (ezilon.com)
  • Here's what happened in the provinces (previous month in brackets): - Newfoundland and Labrador: 3.8 per cent (2.5) - Prince Edward Island: 3. (richmond-news.com)
  • The Newfoundland and Labrador model that addresses existing buildings and building rehabilitation is being promoted to the other Canadian provinces to solve the current gap in the codes. (pmengineer.com)
  • This training is being customized for the specific needs of Newfoundland and Labrador and will cover the code's requirements and the numerous ways it can be utilized and enforced with the National Building and Fire Codes of Canada. (pmengineer.com)
  • In the Newfoundland province of Canada, the incidence of CLN2 disease is estimated to be 9 in 100,000 births. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Jenner, Alberta, a small hamlet in the southern part of the province, actually reached a high of 108°F, (42.2°C) back in 1917. (worldatlas.com)
  • the other provinces and territories are expected to do so by the end of the year. (medscape.com)
  • IAIABC is a not-for-profit trade association representing government agencies charged with the administration of workers' compensation systems throughout the United States, Canada, and other nations and territories. (cdc.gov)
  • This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 19, 2023. (richmond-news.com)
  • The Province is supporting the BC Hydrogen Strategy with further investments announced as part of Budget 2021, including $10 million over three years to develop policy on reducing the carbon intensity of fuel and advancing the hydrogen economy. (greencarcongress.com)
  • Firstly, Upper Canada was near bankruptcy because it lacked stable tax revenues, and needed the resources of the more populous Lower Canada to fund its internal transportation improvements. (wikipedia.org)
  • Quebec, which is the country's second-most populous province, is cracking down on private gatherings for the vast majority of Quebecers between Dec. 17 and Jan. 10. (politico.com)
  • OTTAWA, September 26, 2017 ( LifeSiteNews ) - Abortion activists are pushing all provinces to offer free "universal access" to the abortion pill. (lifesitenews.com)
  • Mifegymiso, or RU-486, has been available in Canada since January 2017 and retails from $350 to $450, according to media reports. (lifesitenews.com)
  • Under lobbying from pharmacy groups, pro-abortion groups and doctors, Health Canada dropped its requirement a doctor supervise women who take the abortion pill because of the risk of internal bleeding, LifeSiteNews reported in March 2017 . (lifesitenews.com)
  • In order to streamline these types of measures and allow for trend and comparative analysis across time and jurisdictions, a police performance metrics framework for Canadian policing was developed in 2017 by Public Safety Canada. (gc.ca)
  • In 2019, more than four in ten (41%) Canadians living in the provinces said they had a great deal of confidence in the police, while about half (49%) said they had some confidence. (gc.ca)
  • This Juristat article uses data from the 2019 General Social Survey (GSS) on Canadians' Safety (Victimization) to examine perceptions of the police among Canadians living in the provinces. (gc.ca)
  • Although the current article is largely based on data collected in 2019, some results related to perceptions of police from the 2020 crowdsourcing initiative "Impacts of COVID-19 on Canadians: Experience of Discrimination" are also presented ( Text box 2 ). (gc.ca)
  • In 2019, British Columbia became the first Canadian province to mandate biosimilar switching. (medscape.com)
  • It would become the province of Quebec after Confederation. (wikipedia.org)
  • The first stage of this construction was completed in 1865, just in time to host the final session of the last parliament of the Province of Canada before Confederation in 1867. (wikipedia.org)
  • Canadian confederation didn't happen in a day. (dummies.com)
  • For quick reference, here's a handy list of Canadian provinces and the year in which each joined confederation. (dummies.com)
  • The two regions were governed jointly until the Province was dissolved to make way for Confederation in 1867. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • It was held in Ottawa from 1866 to 1867, when the city became the capital of the Dominion of Canada under Confederation . (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • OTTAWA ( LifeSiteNews ) - Seven Canadian provinces now oppose an Emergencies Act declaration made Monday by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who claims it is needed to stop the peaceful Freedom Convoy protesters in Ottawa. (lifesitenews.com)
  • It's appalling that rather than push back, each province has acquiesced, unquestioningly" to the demand to offer the abortion pill, says Johanne Brownrigg, Ottawa lobbyist for Campaign Life Coalition. (lifesitenews.com)
  • In the provinces that mandated the switch to biosimilars, cost savings were estimated to be $118.9 million in 2020 alone. (medscape.com)
  • Two Canadian premiers and 16 U.S. state governors in a letter recently demanded that Trudeau and U.S. President Joe Biden allow un-jabbed truckers to cross the border. (lifesitenews.com)
  • Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights has set the premiers' conference in November as the deadline, CTV reported. (lifesitenews.com)
  • When I talk to the premiers of other provinces, they have their hands full," Legault told a briefing in Quebec City. (news10.com)
  • Kateri Champagne Jourdain, the minister responsible for the Côte-Nord region ,said 138 Canadian Armed Forces members arrived in the area Sunday, with another 100 expected Monday, adding that the troops have received training so they can support the province's wilderness firefighters. (news10.com)
  • Just as the COVID-19 pandemic has had unique impacts across the country, every community in Canada is going to have a different approach to celebrating Halloween. (retailcouncil.org)
  • Battlefords News-Optimist reported that ClimateWest will join a network of climate change information hubs across Canada, such as Ouranos in Quebec and the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium in BC. (insurancebusinessmag.com)
  • Treating your guests to locally-made favours representative of the province you marry in will not only allow guests to better connect with the region, it will also give them something memorable to savour when they return home. (weddingbells.ca)
  • Canada is a diverse country made up of numerous provinces. (coastreporter.net)
  • Canada is a geographically vast country, made up of 10 provinces, each with its own unique characteristics. (coastreporter.net)
  • The Province of Canada was made up of Canada West (formerly Upper Canada ) and Canada East (formerly Lower Canada ). (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • Five Canadian provinces along the Atlantic Ocean are marshaling their recovery efforts one day after Post-Tropical Storm Fiona devastated the region. (kpbs.org)
  • The federal government was mobilizing the Canadian Armed Forces to help with recovery efforts in the province, Minister of National Defence Anita Anand said in a tweet . (kpbs.org)
  • Alberta's right-of-center government has vowed to protect the energy industry, saying Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's push to cut emissions of greenhouse gases nationally will cripple oil and gas output. (yahoo.com)
  • Then the New York Times has a story about an alliance of 7 Western States and 4 Canadian provinces who have come together under the name Western Climate Initiative to also put a Cap and Trade system in place. (greenmonk.net)
  • A new non-profit organization dedicated to collecting, assessing, and disseminating climate change information in the Prairie region has launched, and it will be financially backed by three provinces. (insurancebusinessmag.com)
  • While British Columbia pays for the abortion pill under its Pharmacare program, the cost may vary, and that's not good enough, Action Canada and three B.C. pro-abortion groups told B.C.'s NDP Premier John Horgan in a September 6 letter. (lifesitenews.com)
  • Residents of British Columbia, Canada, BC COVID-19 informed about COVID-19 to determine what actions and next steps they should take. (who.int)
  • Canada can easily be called the coldest country in North America. (worldatlas.com)
  • Here is a look at the five warmest provinces in the country. (worldatlas.com)
  • The country has seen an average of 177.8 new Covid cases per million people daily during the past seven days , according Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center data compiled by the National Bank of Canada. (politico.com)
  • The Public Health Agency of Canada said Monday that the country has reported 507,795 cases since the start of the pandemic and 14,228 deaths. (politico.com)
  • With a Canadian province hiring underage marijuana shoppers for sting operations, that's exactly what may happen in some parts of the country. (hightimes.com)
  • If the legislation is approved by parliament, Canada would become the third country--along with Belgium and the Netherlands--to embrace same-sex marriage. (advocate.com)
  • While this does not reflect every province in the country, it is generally indicative of most Canadians' home preferences. (coastreporter.net)
  • Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights wants unrestricted access to the abortion drug throughout the country. (lifesitenews.com)
  • Clinical in- knowledge, a similar study has not been formation recorded included: treatment and conducted among newborns in Golestan outcome at discharge (transferred or province in the north of the country. (who.int)
  • The preface to Frank Oliver Call's 1926 The Spell of French Canada instantly grabbed me as my train wound its way out of Montreal, traversing the St. Lawrence river via the Victoria Bridge. (canadiangeographic.ca)
  • I'd spent nearly five years living in Montreal - and while Quebec's metropolitan hub had certainly charmed me, I had neglected the rest of La Belle Province. (canadiangeographic.ca)
  • Campaign Life "has been at the forefront of the battle to keep Mifegymiso out of Canada," Brownrigg told LifeSiteNews in an email. (lifesitenews.com)
  • The Act of Union 1840, passed on 23 July 1840 by the British Parliament and proclaimed by the Crown on 10 February 1841, merged the Colonies of Upper Canada and Lower Canada by abolishing their separate parliaments and replacing them with a single one with two houses, a Legislative Council as the upper chamber and the Legislative Assembly as the lower chamber. (wikipedia.org)
  • Canada East was what became of the former colony of Lower Canada after being united into the Province of Canada. (wikipedia.org)
  • The images that we have seen so far this season are some of the most severe we have we have ever witnessed in Canada and the current forecast for the next few months indicates the potential for continued higher-than-normal fire activity. (news10.com)
  • So hop aboard to begin your journey by exploring the map of the province/territory, the official flower and the provincial flag. (etsy.com)
  • Ordinary Canadian women are mostly unaware" of the lobby for the abortion pill, and "would probably prefer that their provincial health ministers spend tax dollars providing relief to sick children, or wounded veterans, or seniors, or the chronically ill," Brownrigg observed. (lifesitenews.com)
  • It wasn't until the 1950s and '60s that First Nations people were allowed to vote without conditions in provincial and federal elections in Canada. (kdvr.com)
  • The six SIGHTS OF CANADA book series are unique travel, journaling and activity books about CANADA created by a local Canadian artist who's passionate about adventure & learning! (etsy.com)
  • Why Canada Issued Travel Advisory for Its LGBTQ+ Residents Visiting the U.S. (advocate.com)
  • Secondly, unification was an attempt to swamp the French vote by giving each of the former provinces the same number of parliamentary seats, despite the larger population of Lower Canada. (wikipedia.org)
  • Canadians belonging to population groups designated as visible minorities were significantly less likely to report having a great deal of confidence in the police (35%), compared with 44% of non-visible minorities. (gc.ca)
  • Together, the findings in this article will provide more recently available, national-level information on the perceptions Canadians have of the police-including those of people belonging to population groups designated as visible minorities (hereafter referred to as visible minorities) and Indigenous people. (gc.ca)
  • This occurred even though the population of English-speaking Canada West (480,000) was considerably smaller than the overall population of Canada East (670,000), of whom about 510,000 were French Canadians. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • While the US has some very cold temperatures in its northern states during the winter, it is a fact that Canada calls a much larger section of the arctic its home, and as such, it can claim to be the icebox of the continent. (worldatlas.com)
  • The location of the capital city of the Province of Canada changed six times in its 26-year history. (wikipedia.org)
  • The statistic depicts the donor rate in Canada in a year 2013, distinguished by province. (statista.com)
  • The Province of Canada was a 26-year experiment in anglophone-francophone political cooperation. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • The Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, today announced the following appointment under the new judicial application process announced on October 20, 2016. (canada.ca)
  • Nominees to the Supreme Court of Canada are selected by the Prime Minister from a thoroughly vetted list of candidates. (canada.ca)
  • It is not subject to the Government of Canada Web Standards and has not been altered or updated since it was archived. (gc.ca)
  • This is the Liberal government 's response after it was hammered in August by the abortion lobby and media for allegedly having the worst abortion access in Canada. (lifesitenews.com)
  • The solution he recommended in the Durham Report (1839) was to unify UpperandLower Canada under one government. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • The Act established a single government and legislature in a united Province of Canada. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • Our ability to control case growth is still very precarious," Dr. Adalsteinn Brown, co-chair of Ontario's Covid-19 science advisory table, told a press conference Monday after releasing updated models for the province. (politico.com)
  • The capital city of this province is St. John's. (ezilon.com)
  • The improved outlook is driven by the large number of people moving to the province. (yahoo.com)
  • Some provinces are home to younger people and families, while others have a greater demographic mix. (coastreporter.net)
  • And these factors may influence what types of homes in which people in these provinces choose to live. (coastreporter.net)
  • Therefore, many people-especially young people-cannot afford single-family detached homes, meaning many remain in apartments throughout the province longer than they wish. (coastreporter.net)
  • Canadians who said they had a physical (38%), or mental or cognitive (33%) disability were less likely than people without a disability (43%) to report having a great deal of confidence in the police. (gc.ca)
  • Canada may not be first on most travelers list when considering destinations that provide visitors and residents alike with sunshine hot enough to fry an egg on the dashboard of your car. (worldatlas.com)
  • If you want to experience adventure in Western Canada, there's only one place you need to go. (canadaselect.com)
  • This part of Canada does occasionally experience the remnants of hurricanes, but Fiona was particularly strong, reporter Emma Jacobs told NPR . (kpbs.org)
  • This western Canadian province is one of forests, fields and grasslands, filled with some of the most untouched sections of wilderness left on the planet - all waiting to be explored on an epic two-week road trip. (nationalgeographic.co.uk)
  • Big dense forests, lofty Appalachian-chain mountains, beautiful and quite lakes, stunning landscapes, freshwater adventures, hunting, fishing and much more are great pulls to the province. (ezilon.com)
  • This is not a great leap for many of these jurisdictions as NFPA 101 is well used as a source of information to augment information that might not already be in the Canadian Model Codes," said Sean Tracey, Canadian regional manager for NFPA. (pmengineer.com)
  • With more than 480 wilderness firefighters on the ground, Quebec can fight around 30 fires, Quebec Premier François Legault told reporters Monday, adding that normally firefighters would come from other provinces to help. (news10.com)
  • On Friday afternoon there were 324 fires burning across Canada. (news10.com)