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Moreover, some Canadian public-school systems have adolescents start high-school in 'Grade 10' or, the sophomore year, although, this can depend on the province and even vary within a school-district. The American usages "sophomore", "junior" and "senior" are not used in Canadian university terminology, or in speech.
The 2021 Canadian census had a total population count of 36,991,981 individuals, making up approximately 0.5% of the world's total population. [5] [20] A population estimate for 2024 put the total number of people in Canada at 41,012,563.
Amazon has a number of products and services available, including its digital assistant Alexa, Amazon Music, and Prime Video for music and videos respectively, the Amazon Appstore for Android apps, the Kindle line of eink e-readers, Fire and Fire HD color LCD tablets. Audible provides audiobooks for purchase and listening.
Pierre Marcel Poilievre was born on June 3, 1979, [5] in Calgary, Alberta, to a 16-year-old mother, who was of Irish-Canadian descent on her father's side. [3] [6] Poilievre was adopted by two schoolteachers, Marlene and Donald Poilievre (who is Fransaskois) [7] shortly after being born.
Deadliest traffic accident in Canadian history 1998 January 5–9: Great Ice Storm of 1998: Meteorological storm Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick Eastern Canada 28 Massive ice storm hits Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick 1998 September 2: Swissair Flight 111: Aircrash Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia: Atlantic Canada 229 1999 September 3
A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph. The term derives from the Ancient Greek διακριτικός (diakritikós, "distinguishing"), from διακρίνω (diakrínō, "to distinguish").
Big Bill Haywood and office workers in the IWW General Office, Chicago, summer 1917. The first meeting to plan the IWW was held in Chicago in 1904. The seven attendees were Clarence Smith and Thomas J. Hagerty of the American Labor Union, George Estes and W. L. Hall of the United Brotherhood of Railway Employees, Isaac Cowan of the U.S. branch of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, William E ...