Tadoussac offers alot besides leviathans, so book into the landmark 1870 Hotel Tadoussac and stay awhile.

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They weren't leviathans worthy of a summer blockbuster, but they were sharks, with the teeth to prove it.

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But without further changes to the labour laws, the bosses of these former state-owned leviathans are fighting with one hand tied behind their backs.

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But every morning for the rest of her natural life, she'll wake up, walk down the stairs and find herself staring at two hulking leviathans.

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In its own way, United Commercial is an example of the quirks in America's own banking system, which has a few leviathans along with thousands of smaller fry.

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As government delegates, scientists, whale-hunters and environmentalists discuss the large ocean-traversing cetaceans at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting here, green group WWF's new report, The Forgotten Whales, concludes that some of the leviathans' smaller brethren are more at risk.

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Having dropped (back in 1990) a plan to build the world's biggest ice-breaker, the Canadians may also have to seek Russian help next time they need to carve out a path to the North Pole: even the patrol boats ordered up by Mr Harper this month won't match Russia's leviathans.

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As I wander through, reading the young sailors' stories -- many were teenagers who couldn't even swim -- and looking at the harpoons and killing irons, a mother awkwardly tries to explain to her young daughter (they are the only other visitors) exactly what the point was, and why the leviathans were driven to near extinction before whaling played itself out in the Pacific by the 1870s.

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