Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Quebec Region, wishes to advise residents of the North Shore that harvesting shellfish in the areas described below is now prohibited for conservation purposes until March 31, 2009.
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Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada, will present the Governor General's Awards in Commemoration of the Persons Case to six laureates during a ceremony to be held at Rideau Hall, on Friday, November 7, 2008, at 10 a.m.
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Ninety years ago, at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month, the hostilities of the First World War came to an end. The Armistice had been signed six hours earlier, at Rethondes, in the Forest of Compiègne, aboard the train of Marshal Ferdinand Foch, supreme commander of the Allied troops.
The Department of Finance announced today that Canada's official international reserves decreased by an amount equivalent to US$1,578 million during October to US$41,402 million.
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The Canadian Institutes of Health Research is funding up to five Tier 1 Awards (worth $20,000 each) and up to five Tier 2 Awards (worth $10,000 each). The program is open to all working journalists in Canada - reporters, editors, photographers, producers, editorial writers and freelancers - or Canadian journalists working abroad.
The Consular Affairs Bureau of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada publishes information on safety and security conditions abroad. Following is a list of changes made to Current Issues and Travel Reports released in the last 24 hours. This list is subject to change. Please visit www.voyage.gc.ca for further information
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The TSB will release its final investigation report into the White Pass and Yukon Route tarin runaway and derailment in Log Cabin, British Columbia, on September 3, 2006.
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Service on Environment Canada's automated telephone network is only available in both official languages half of the time, according to an audit report by the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages. "When it comes to active offer," says Mr. Graham Fraser, Commissioner of Official Languages, "what we have looks more like variable weather conditions than a steady barometer."