This is a tale of a wonderful coincidence that ties together Mars, the Canadian north-west, Scotland and 100 years of geology.
The Canadian north-west has some ancient rock formations, similar in age, we think, to those found in Gale Crater, Curiosity's landing site.
On that autumn morning, James Hill was the Commander-in-Chief of NORAD, which is the joint Canadian-US North American Aerospace Defense Command.
The reconstructed Antarctic map is more complete than the corresponding map for the Arctic where the team had to contend with more gaps in the Nimbus coverage, including around the Canadian Archipelago and north of Alaska.
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Bank of Montreal CEO Bill Downe said the move was an effort involved in a strategy to strengthen the Canadian bank's North American businesses.
At the same time, as wages rise in China, firms are relocating their manufacturing options to Mexico, where wages remain competitive and where products have easier access to the U.S. and Canadian markets through the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Some of that production is for North American companies like Canadian Solar, but among the fastest growing solar outfits are Chinese companies like Yingli Green Energy Holding and JA Solar Holdings.
Other reported contributions include offering more CF-18 jet fighters for joint patrols of North American skies and Canadian soldiers for peacekeeping duties in Bosnia to free U.S. troops there for duty elsewhere.
On Monday at the North Hill shopping center, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper showed up and served up some pancakes and handshakes.
Tijuana is also conveniently near I-10 and I-5, which heads north all the way to the Canadian border.
Maine got help from 1, 200 such crews from Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Virginia and the Canadian Maritime Provinces.
Canadian law only prohibits them from selling drones to North Korea or Iran.
Dr Lesley Peterson, a Canadian scholar and associate professor at the University of North Alabama, in the US, has succeeded in getting it published.
At stake was a slot in the elite eight of this year's Canadian Table Hockey Championships, the best-attended North American tournament that the game has seen in decades.
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In May, Enbridge, a Canadian company, reversed the flow of a big North American oil pipeline, sending a glut of oil from America's northern plains southward to coastal refineries.
Hastings was injured driving at night in September 2007 when her van hit a black cow on County Route 53 in North Bangor, a hamlet near the Canadian border, according to court papers.
Contrary to common belief, North America is hugely important for the Canadian company, where it earned 26.2% of its revenues, but increased pressure from competitors like Apple and Samsung helped push sales down 9%.
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After the 1994 North American Fair Trade Agreement , the Canadian government encouraged winemakers to rip out cheaper varietals and plant premium grapes for merlot, pinot gris, chardonnay and pinot noir, to better compete with US wines.
According to the survey, the Canadian city of Vancouver is the most expensive location in North America, at position 21.
Then just ten years ago, 190 miles north of Yellowknife, a determined and then obscure Canadian geologist, Charles Fipke, found the rich Diavik mine, vaulting Canada from irrelevant to third-largest supplier of diamonds, after Africa (again) and Russia.
Inspectors are working to find out whether the disintegration on Thursday of the heavily used span over the Skagit River, 60 miles north of Seattle and 40 miles south of the Canadian border, was a fluke or a sign of bigger problems.
Id be more inclined to own the Vanguard Energy Fund(VGENX), which is heavily weighted in the be st North American producers, Exxon Mobil, Occidental Petroleum, Canadian Natural Resources, and Suncor Energy.
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The Canadian owned energy company have held the licence for oil and gas exploration in the North West since 2008.
One reason why Barack Obama's campaign struggled in the Buckeye State was the revelation that an economic adviser had privately assured Canadian officials that his boss was only posturing when he said nasty things about the North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Not all energy stocks are alike, and for North American energy I like Baytex Energy ( BTE, 47 ), a Canadian producer that pays monthly and yields 5.75%.
To get an idea of where it may take us, we have only to look North to Canada and the impact of the tar sands on the strengthening of Canadian economy.
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Research In Motion, once the pride of the Canadian tech sector, is losing customers where it hurts the most: in the Great White North.
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And whereas Canadian companies once strongly backed regional integration, their focus has now shifted to Asia, turning their North American agenda almost entirely towards the United States.
The ship drifted undetected until late last month when a Canadian coastal air patrol spotted it several hundred miles off the Queen Charlotte Islands, an archipelago on the north coast of British Columbia.
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