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Eritrea
Eritrea , officially State of Eritrea, republic (2005 est. pop. 4,562,000), c.48,000 sq mi (124,320 sq km), NE Africa. It is bordered on the northeast by the Red Sea, on the southeast by Djibouti, on the south by Ethiopia, and on the northwest by Sudan. Eritrea also includes the many islands of the ... Read more
Joe Clark
Joe Clark (Charles Joseph Clark), 1939-, prime minister of Canada (1979-80), b. High River, Alta. He entered the Canadian House of Commons from Alberta in 1972 and became leader of the Progressive Conservative party in 1976. In the 1979 elections he led his party to victory and briefly replaced Pie... Read more
Lester Bowles Pearson
Lester Bowles Pearson 1897-1972, Canadian diplomat and political leader, b. Ontario prov. He served in the Canadian army in World War I. Pearson taught history at the Univ. of Toronto from 1924 to 1928 and then joined the Canadian diplomatic service. After serving (1928-35) as a first secretary in ... Read more
Louis Honoré Fréchette
Louis Honoré Fréchette , 1839-1908, French Canadian poet and politician, b. Lévis, Que. He worked (1865-71) as a journalist in Chicago and while there wrote a volume of poetry entitled La Voix d'un exilé [the voice of an exile] (1866-68). Returning to Canada, he served ... Read more
United Nations
United Nations (UN), international organization established immediately after World War II. It replaced the League of Nations . In 1945, when the UN was founded, there were 51 members; 192 nations are now members of the organization (see table entitled United Nations Members ). Organization... Read more
Marcel Lajos Breuer
Marcel Lajos Breuer , 1902-81, American architect and furniture designer, b. Hungary. During the 1920s he was associated, both as student and as teacher, with the Bauhaus in Germany. In 1925, Breuer won renown with his design of the first tubular steel and laminated plywood chair. He built only on... Read more
Simon Fraser
Simon Fraser 1776-1862, Canadian explorer and fur trader. Born in Bennington, Vt., he was taken to Canada as a child. He entered the service of the North West Company in 1792, and in 1801 he was made a partner. In 1805 he was chosen to inaugurate the company's operations beyond the Rocky Mts., an... Read more
NATO
NATO —the North Atlantic Treaty Organization—was originally created by representatives of twelve Western powers: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States, in 1949, as a military security a... Read more
Louis Antoine de Bougainville
Louis Antoine de Bougainville , 1729-1811, French navigator. He accompanied Montcalm to Canada as aide-de-camp, and he later (c.1764) established a colony on the Falkland Islands but had to surrender the settlement to Spain (1766). Accompanied by naturalists and astronomers, he made a voyage around ... Read more
Sir Alexander Mackenzie
Sir Alexander Mackenzie 1764?-1820, Canadian fur trader and explorer, b. Scotland. His family took him to the colony of New York in 1774, and later he was sent to Canada. He entered (c.1779) a Montreal fur-trading firm and in a short time became partner of one of the firms that merged (1787) to for... Read more

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Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History ...policy and image at the UN. External affairs minister...Sweden, Norway, and Canada. This grouping was characterized...internal diplomacy of the UN, and its extensive participation...independent of European partners was both untypical and...unsuccessful. The commitment to UN peacekeeping, ...
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Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...Australia, Britain, Canada, the US, Venezuela...life-saver , market , partner , shop , shopping , show...inflectional systems: un bluff a bluff, bluffare...pocket radio becoming un radio-pocket . (2...adaptation of senses: un flirt an affair; look...

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Dalio, Marcel
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...to flee France; escaped to Canada and then to Hollywood; 1941...L'Or (de Poligny); Un Grand Amour de Beethoven (Beethoven...Sternberg) (as croupier); Unholy Partners (LeRoy) (as Molyneaux...Nikarescu); Portrait d'un assassin (Rolland); Menace...

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Canada Partners With the UN and Canadian and International Organizations to Provide Additional Help to the People of Burma.
News Wire article from: Canadian Corporate News; 5/23/2008; 700+ words ; ...Canadian and international partners with direct access to the affected...through to the people of Burma, Canada will continue to urge Burmese...Officer from Save the Children Canada-one of the Canadian non...partnership with the Government of Canada will mean that we can extend...
Myanmar: Canada Partners With the UN and Canadian and International Organizations to Provide Additional Help to the People of Burma.
News Wire article from: TendersInfo; 5/26/2008; 659 words ; ...Canadian and international partners with direct access to the affected...through to the people of Burma, Canada will continue to urge Burmese...Officer from Save the Children Canada-one of the Canadian non...partnership with the Government of Canada will mean that we can extend...
Canada's UN voting record: Canada's continued weak voting record on nuclear disarmament resolutions ... is robbing this country of credibility ...
Magazine article from: Ploughshares Monitor; 12/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; The Government of Canada declared in its formal...tested this fall at the UN First (Disarmament...An analysis of how Canada voted on nuclear disarmament...Poland -- voted no. Canada's explanation-of...Weapon States and their partners and alliances need to...
Canada's a partner for Mideast peace
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 7/8/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...Headline: Canada's a partner for Mideast peace Byline...8, 2001 -- Lately, Canada's Middle East policy...including charges that Canada's Middle East policy...untrue, and harmful. Canada's Middle East role...of Israel. Within the UN system this support has...
Norway, Canada: Likeminded Partners in the North; The Hill Times/Embassy Newspaper, Ottawa, Canada, 6 November 2008.
M2 Presswire; 11/6/2008; 700+ words ; ...Canada: Likeminded Partners in the North; The Hill...Newspaper, Ottawa, Canada, 6 November 2008(C...in Ottawa, Norway and Canada held the third series...North is important to Canada, as it is for Norway...states' commitment to the UN Convention on the Law...
Canada is a reliable partner in security A false impression has been created that Canada is allowing terrorists to cross its borders.
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 1/22/2003; 700+ words ; ...highly reliable security partner to the United States...Smart Border process, Canada and the United States...the United States and Canada share as partners in North American security...Charles, consul general of Canada LETTERS TO THE EDITOR...must disclose to the UN all its weapons ...
2nd Annual Peacekeeping Intelligence Conference Set for Canada in December - UN Military Advisor and International Speakers Confirmed.
PR Newswire; 11/17/2003; 700+ words ; ...the Royal Military College of Canada, and will take place at the...Conference is being organized in Canada with a focus on the theme...organizations have become full partners in peace support activities, partners who not only require the best...
Serebra Partners With UN's G77 Trade Information Network; G77-TIN Taking Serebra Products & Services to 133 Countries.
Business Wire; 7/10/2002; 650 words ; ...Learning Corporation (TSX Venture: SBR), Canada's leading provider of eLearning solutions...Trade Information Network (G77-TIN), a UN-chartered body bringing products and services...support from the World Bank and several UN agencies, including UNIDO and UNTPDC...
UN: Canada suggests hiatus for Charter Committee as SiSixth Committee continues debate on issues, sanctions.
M2 Presswire; 10/15/1999; 700+ words ; ...PRESSWIRE-15 October 1999-UN: Canada suggests hiatus for Charter...COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:141099 Canada proposed this morning...the representative of Canada expressed serious doubts...was a neighbour or trade partner of a sanctioned State...
Explanation of Canada's vote (on UN draft resolution A/C.1/54/L.18).
Magazine article from: Ploughshares Monitor; 12/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...resolution N54/563-G]. Canada abstained on the "New Agenda...last year. The Government of Canada also shares much of the New...nuclear-weapon States and their partners and alliances need to be engaged...regime. As a member of NATO, Canada was pleased to note the increase...