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[Watch Video: Killer Whales Trapped In Sea Ice In Northern Canada] Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A pod of killer whales that was trapped by ice in northern Canada appears to have made their escape, according to a report from CBC News. After spotting the trapped whales in the freezing waters of Hudson Bay on Wednesday, concerned residents called for the government's help to free the whales. Federal officials announced they were planning to send a team of...
Sims Recycling Solutions, Canada, has announced the start up of their newest electronics recycling facility in Quebec, Canada. Toronto, ON (PRWEB) January 08, 2013 Sims Recycling Solutions, Canada, the global leader in electronics reuse and recycling has announced the start up of their newest electronics recycling facility in Quebec, Canada. Sims has expanded their current recycling service offerings of waste electronic and electrical equipment (WEEE) for consumers, businesses,...
GATINEAU, QC, Jan. 8, 2013 /CNW/ - Representatives of the Canadian Museum of Civilization will be in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on Tuesday, January 15 and Wednesday, January 16 to invite the public to participate in the creation of the new Canadian Museum of History. The new exhibition gallery, which will be inaugurated in 2017, will present the national history of Canada and its people. Representatives from the Museum are travelling the country asking Canadians what they would...
<tt> </tt> <tt> Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 8:00 AM </tt> <tt> Legendary actor & philanthropist William Shatner will disburse $375,000 to the </tt> <tt> charitable organizations that benefit from the annual event. </tt> <tt></tt>...
Listing (TSXV = LO Frankfurt = LE2A) ROUYN-NORANDA, QC, Jan. 4, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - LOUNOR EXPLORATION INC. is pleased to announce that it has closed a private placement for a total amount of CDN $31,000. The placement consists in 93,000 common shares at a price of $0.05 per share representing $4,650 and 439,166 flow-through shares at a price of $0.06 per share representing $26,350. Each share is accompanied of one share purchase warrant that gives the right to subscribe for...
MONTREAL, Dec. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Arup, a multidisciplinary engineering and consulting firm, announced today that the Autoroute 30 (A30) highway project that crosses Montreal is officially open. A ribbon-cutting ceremony involving project representatives and provincial dignitaries took place on Monday, December 17, 2012 at the Beauharnois Canal Bridge over the St Lawrence Seaway. The $1.5B (CAD) A30 project is one of the largest design/build public-private partnership (P3)...
MONTREAL, Quebec, Dec. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Solo International, Inc. (OTC:SLIO "Solo International" or the "Company"), an exploration mining company with a focus on deposits of rare earth metals and rare earth elements is pleased to announce it has received encouraging analytical results from samples taken from the previous apatite mine sites on its Philadelphia Property, near Notre-Dame-De-La-Salette in Quebec. During the Company's initial phase of exploration, 42 total...
MONTREAL, Dec. 19, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ - Transat A.T. Inc., one of the largest integrated tourism companies in the world and Canada's holiday travel leader released its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2012 (ended October 31, 2012) on December 19. Jean-Marc Eustache, Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer and Denis Pétrin, Vice-President, Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer, invite financial analysts and journalists to...
QUEBEC CITY, Dec. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Medicago Inc. (TSX: MDG; OCTQX: MDCGF), a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the development of highly effective and competitive vaccines using proprietary manufacturing technologies and virus-like particles (VLPs), and Folia Biotech, a private biotechnology firm that focuses on vaccine enhancement using plant virus recombinant protein (papaya mosaic virus) as an adjuvant, announce the receipt of $415,000 in financial support from...
UMIUJAQ, QC, Dec. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - At a press conference in Nunavik, Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment, Wildlife and Parks Yves-François Blanchet confirmed that the Québec government will establish the Parc national Tursujuq, which will become the biggest national park in Québec, but also the biggest in eastern continental North America. Minister Blanchet made the announcement accompanied by his Parliamentary Assistant Scott McKay, Maggie Emudluk,...
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Symbol: CRSU2 Group: Dicot Family: Rosaceae Duration: Perennial Growth Habit: Tree Shrub Native Status: L48 N CAN N Synonyms: CRCH80 Crataegus champlainensis Sarg. Distribution: County distributions for the following U.S. states are available at PLANTS:NY, WI Classification: Kingdom Plantae – Plants Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed...
Symbol: CAQU4 Group: Monocot Family: Cyperaceae Duration: Perennial Growth Habit: Graminoid Native Status: CAN N Distribution: Carex×quebecensisLepage [bigelowii × saxatilis] distribution:CAN(QC) Classification: Kingdom Plantae – Plants Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants Division Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants Class ...
The Red-backed Salamander (Plethodon cinereus), or Red-back Salamander, is a small, hardy woodland salamander. It inhabits wooded slopes in Eastern North America, west to Missouri, south to North Carolina, and north from southern Quebec and the Maritime Provinces in Canada to Minnesota. salamander. It is also known as the Northern Redback Salamander to distinguish it from the Southern Redback Salamander (P. serratus). The Red-backed Salamander is found mostly in two color variations: the...
Yellow Birch (Betula alleghaniensis, synomym B. lutea), is a species of birch native to eastern North America, from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and southern Quebec west to Minnesota, and south in the Appalachian Mountains to northern Georgia. It is the Provincial tree of Quebec and the name reflects the color of the tree's bark. This medium-sized deciduous tree reaches 20 m tall (exceptionally to 30 m) with a trunk up to 80 cm diameter. The bark is smooth, yellow-bronze, flaking in fine...
Comptonia is a genus of a single species, Comptonia peregrina, in the family Myricaceae, order Fagales. This shrub is native to eastern North America, from southern Quebec south to the extreme north of Georgia, and west to Minnesota. The common name is Sweetfern or Sweet-fern, a confusing name as it is not a fern. Several fossil species have been discovered, showing that the genus once had a much wider distribution throughout the Northern Hemisphere.
