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16th Canadian Ministry

The Sixteenth Canadian Ministry was the third cabinet chaired by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.

Ahcene Zemiri

In 2009 Justice Edmond Blanchard ruled that since the men were not Canadian citizens, and their connection to Canada was "tenuous", the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms did not apply to them.

Aman Futures Group

NBI has said that there is about 8,000 complaints filed against the company and over 100,000 Filipino families were victimized.

Andre Champagne

Andre Joseph Orius Champagne (born September 19, 1943 in Eastview, Ontario) is a retired Canadian ice hockey left winger.

Arthur Knight

Arthur George Knight (1886–1918), Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross

Bahari

Maziar Bahari, Iranian-Canadian journalist, filmmaker, and playwright

Battle of Cook's Mills

The Battle of Cook's Mills was the last engagement between U.S. and British armies in the Niagara, and the penultimate engagement (followed by the Battle of Malcolm's Mills) on Canadian soil during the War of 1812.

BOTB

Battle of the Blades, a Canadian television figure skating competition broadcast by CBC.

Charles Tatham

Chuck Tatham (Charles "Chuck" Tatham, born 1963), Canadian screenwriter and television producer

Charles Woodward

Charles N. "Chunky" Woodward - (1924 - 1990), Canadian merchant and rancher, grandson of Charles A. Woodward

Chrysotile

The Canadian government continues to draw both domestic and international criticism for its stance on chrysotile, most recently in international meetings about the Rotterdam Convention hearings regarding chrysotile.

Collin Peterson

In 1998, Peterson gained attention by proposing a constitutional amendment that would allow the residents of Minnesota's Northwest Angle to vote on whether they wanted to secede from the United States and join the Canadian province of Manitoba.

Credit Union Central of Canada

It also represents Canadian credit unions internationally through the World Council of Credit Unions.

CYMA – Canadian Youth Mission to Armenia

CYMA was founded in late 1992 through a collaboration between Archbishop Hovnan Derderian, then primate of the Canadian Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, and university student Ronald Alepian.

Douglas Ferguson

Douglas Ferguson, Canadian numismatist, ANA President 1941-43, whose collection is now in the Currency Museum

Dylan Hudecki

Dylan Hudecki (born in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian musician, who has been associated with the bands By Divine Right, Cowlick and Junior Blue.

Easington, East Riding of Yorkshire

It is also famous for being the birthplace of the Anglo-Canadian poet and literary scholar, Robin Skelton (1925–97).

Fire and Fame

Fire And Fame is a memoir co-written by Joerg Deisinger, former bassist and founding member of the German hard rock band Bonfire, and Carl Begai, a Canadian writer and music journalist.

First Choice Haircutters

The Canadian actress Jacqueline MacInnes Wood, who later went on to act in the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, made her début in a commercial for the company.

Forest Lawn

Forest Lawn, Calgary, a former Canadian town annexed by Calgary in 1961

Forum of Federations

The event drew world leaders such as then U.S. President Bill Clinton; former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien; and Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo.

Hans Island

This was never signed; however, Canadian John Munro, at that time Minister for Northern Affairs and Development, and Danish Tom Høyem, at that time Minister for Greenland, agreed, in common interest, to avoid acts that might prejudice future negotiations.

Heredia Jaguares de Peten

On August 21, 2013 they made history again by winning 1-0 the first match of the CCL Group stage against the Canadian club Montreal Impact.

Howard Goldfarb

Howard Goldfarb is a Canadian poker player, chiefly noted as the runner-up of the 1995 World Series of Poker (WSOP).

Hugh Shaw

Hugh Murray Shaw (1876–1934), farmer, rancher and Canadian federal politician

Jason the Terrible

On September 23, 1994, he teamed with Randy Rudd and defeated Sonny Corleone and Rob Austin to win the Canadian Rocky Mountain Wrestling Tag Team Championships.

Jenna Loren Wright

She attended the Integrated Arts Program at Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational School in Peterborough, along with other talented Canadian musicians such as Serena Ryder, Andrew Shedden and Brock Stonefish.

Joe Doerksen

Joseph Daniel Doerksen (born October 9, 1977) is a Canadian mixed martial artist from New Bothwell, Manitoba.

Joshua Kadison

It peaked at #19 on the U.S. Billboard charts, and Filipino actor/singer Jericho Rosales recorded and released a version of it on his own 2009 album Change. Painted Desert Serenade went platinum in the US and Germany, and went multi-platinum in Australia and New Zealand.

Kevin Perkins

Kevin Perkins is the executive director of the Canadian not-for-profit organization Farm Radio International since May 2006.

L'Église réformée du Québec

L'Église Réformée du Québec, or "Reformed Church of Quebec", is a small conservative French-speaking Reformed Christian denomination located primarily within the Canadian province of Quebec.

Manmeet

Manmeet Bhullar, a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

Marielle

Marielle (singer) (born 1977), Filipino singer and actress (alternate name's Lilet)

Michael J. Cox

Cox's professional name was a play on actor Michael J. Fox, the mainstream Canadian-American actor whose boyish, preppy persona he shared.

Norman MacKenzie

Norman MacKenzie (lawyer) (1869–1936), Canadian lawyer and arts patron whose collection became the Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery

Oppong

Dominic Oppong (born 1986), Ghanaian-born Canadian soccer player

Quebec, The Revolutionary Age 1760–1791

Quebec, The Revolutionary Age 1760–1791 is a book (ISBN 0-7710-6658-9) by Canadian historian Dr. Hilda Neatby published in 1966 in both the French and English languages as part of The Canadian Centenary Series.

Quiz bowl

SmartAsk – a defunct Canadian high school tournament, began as a spin off of Reach for the Top

Ray Chadwick

Ray is the father of former Canadian Youth International and current US Soccer International Sydney Leroux.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Caceres

The Archbishop Leonard Legaspi O.P., who was also the first Filipino Rector Magnificus of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, and the first Vicar of the Dominican Province of the Philippines.

Ron Lamothe

Starting in 2005, Lamothe spent two years shooting and editing his next documentary, The Call of the Wild, on the self-proclaimed "aesthetic voyager" Christopher McCandless, a filmmaking odyssey that took him through thirty U.S. states, two Canadian provinces, and parts of Mexico.

Royal Canadian Air Force Police

Following amalgamation of the three services into the Canadian Forces in 1968, the AFP was merged with the police units of the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian Army to become simply the Military Police; under the Canadian Armed Forces Security and Intelligence Branch.

Rudolf Virchow Award

1990 - John O'Neil - The Politics of Patient Dissatisfaction in Cross-Cultural Clinical Encounters: A Canadian Inuit example, Medical Anthropology 3 (4): 325-344.

Simone Gbagbo

In July 2008 she was formally called for questioning by a French investigative judge, examining the April 2004 disappearance and presumed death in Abidjan of French-Canadian journalist Guy-André Kieffer.

Stewart L. Gordon

He has served as an adjudicator for many international competitions, including the Gina Bachauer, William Kapell, Rosa Ponselle, Virginia Waring and the finals of the Canadian Music Competitions, and Music Teachers National Competitions at the regional and national levels.

Tolmiea

The genus was named after the Scottish-Canadian botanist William Fraser Tolmie, while the species name refers to Archibald Menzies, the Scottish naturalist for the Vancouver Expedition (1791–1795).

What I Do Best

Sabihin Mo Sa Akin was the theme song of Anne Curtis' Kampanerang Kuba, and finally, Dahil Nagmamahal became the theme song of ABS-CBN's show for Filipino workers abroad entitled Nagmamahal, Kapamilya hosted by Bernadette Sembrano.

William McNaught

William Kirkpatrick McNaught (1845-1919), Canadian manufacturer and politician

Winnipeg General Strike

The Canadian prime minister attended the conference at Versailles and was concerned solely for his government, due to the Russian revolution that began more than a year before the settlement and concern that it would potentially spread to North America.

Woman in the Mists

It is written by the Canadian author Farley Mowat, himself a conservationist and author of the book Never Cry Wolf.


see also

Carlos Bulosan Theatre

The Carlos Bulosan Theatre (CBT) is a Filipino-Canadian, community-based, professional theatre in Toronto, Ontario that was founded after Carlos Bulosan.

Filipino Plaza

Highly visible in the front of the park are wooden arch, a very distinctive-colorful Sarimanok logo, and 2 walls made up of 2,000 red bricks donated by Filipino-Canadian representing the pioneers of the plaza.

Sean Anthony

Sean Michael Anthony (born January 26, 1986 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Filipino-Canadian professional basketball player who plays for the Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters in the Philippine Basketball Association.