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CANADA
CHEVY TO DEBUT NEW AVEO AT PARIS SHOW, BUT OFFER DIESEL VERSION IN EUROPE ONLY The all-new Chevrolet Aveo 5-door hatchback, which will go on sale in the United States and Canada next year, will debut at the 2010 Paris Auto Show later this month.
The Aveo RS show car was displayed at the Detroit and Geneva motor shows earlier this
Source: Green Car Advisor - 08/09/2010
Category: Cars Ecocars HONDA DENIES REPORTS IT WILL STOP OFFERING INSIGHT AND CIVIC HYBRIDS IN CANADA For at least a week some blogs have been reporting that sales of the Honda Insight (pictured) and Civic Hybrid in Canada have been so weak that the automaker has decided to stop offering the hybrids there.
Not true, the company said in a statement toda
Source: Green Car Advisor - 26/08/2010
Category: Cars Ecocars NAOTO KAN BECOMES NEW JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER TOKYO -- Hours before he became Japan's latest prime minister, Naoto Kan received a memo from his predecessor, Yukio Hatoyama, that offered some advice that Hatoyama himself couldn't follow.
Prime minister - History - Canada - Government - Yukio Hat
Source: Washington Post - 04/06/2010
Category: World NISSAN CANADA AND QUEBEC SIGN MOU TO PARTNER ON ELECTRIC MOBILITY Nissan Canada has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Government of Quebec, the City of Montreal, Quebec City, Hydro-Quebec and the Agence de l'efficacite energetique du Quebec to advance zero-emission mobility in Quebec.
The parties will
Source: Green Car Advisor - 01/06/2010
Category: Cars Ecocars HIGHLIGHTS OF HOUSE SPENDING BILL -- Extend emergency unemployment benefits through Nov. 30 -- at a cost of $39.5 billion.
United States - History - Canada - Hedge fund - Sales tax
Source: Washington Post - 30/05/2010
Category: Business ORIOLES' JONES DETAINED FOR HOURS ENTERING CANADA TORONTO -- Baltimore Orioles outfielder Adam Jones was detained by Canadian immigration officials for a few hours Thursday night after he landed in Toronto for this weekend's series.
Canada - Business and Economy - Baseball - Mlb - Toronto Blue Jays
Source: Washington Post - 29/05/2010
Category: Sports MAGNA SAYS IT'S SEEKING U.S. AND EUROPEAN SITES TO MANUFACTURE BATTERIES FOR EVS Magna International Inc., Canada's biggest auto-parts maker, says it's planning on investing as much as $600 million on new factories for making lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles.
Co-CEO Siegfried Wolf told journalists in Vienna today
Source: Green Car Advisor - 25/05/2010
Category: Cars Ecocars U.S. THRIFTS SWING BACK TO PROFIT FOR FIRST QUARTER United States - Arts - Savings and loan association - Office of Thrift Supervision - Canada
Source: Washington Post - 25/05/2010
Category: Tecnology BIEBER BUILDS AVID LATIN AMERICAN FAN BASE VIA WEB MIAMI (Billboard) - Earlier this year, before a single Justin Bieber album had been released in Latin America, the teen star from Ontario, Canada, was already an Internet sensation south of the border.
Source: Entertainment - 22/05/2010
Category: Reuters CANADA PLANS NEW EMISSION RULES FOR HEAVY TRUCKS VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Canada is on schedule for developing new emissions standards for heavy trucks, although the draft regulations will not be ready until later this year, the environment minister said on Friday.
Source: Environment - 22/05/2010
Category: Reuters CANADIAN OIL SANDS POISED TO BE LARGEST SOURCE OF CRUDE OIL FOR U.S. When talk turns to energy independence, someone always raises the specter of the U.S. having to import most of its oil, and much of that from countries that don't like us all that much.
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Open pit oil sands mining in Canada.
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Source: Cars-Ecocars - 22/05/2010
Category: Green Car Advisor PEANUT, TREE-NUT ALLERGIES MAY BE ON THE RISE IN KIDS NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Between 1 and 2 percent of children in the U.S. and Canada may have allergies to peanuts or tree nuts, with the U.S. rates seemingly on the rise, two new studies suggest.
Source: Health - 19/05/2010
Category: Reuters CANADIAN LOGGERS, GREEN GROUPS TO PROTECT FORESTS OTTAWA (Reuters) - Most of Canada's largest forestry companies announced a groundbreaking deal with environmental groups on Tuesday that will restrict logging in the country's vast northern forests.
Source: Environment - 19/05/2010
Category: Reuters CANADA LURES U.S. PLUG-IN HYBRID PIONEER TO OVERSEE NATIONAL HYBRID VEHICLE EFFORT No more Mr. Nice Neighbor to the North.
The Canadian government has lured hybrid-electric vehicle powertrain pioneer Ali Emadi away from Illinois Institute of Technology to oversee the country's hybrid-vehicle development efforts at McMaster Univers
Source: Cars-Ecocars - 19/05/2010
Category: Green Car Advisor LOGGING DEAL EXPECTED IN CANADA'S NORTHERN FOREST VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Some of Canada's largest forestry firms and environmental groups are expected to unveil a landmark deal on Tuesday to end their battle over logging in the country's massive northern forest.
Source: Environment - 17/05/2010
Category: Reuters
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Canada Il Canada è uno Stato che comprende la parte nord dell'America settentrionale, ed è delimitato dall'Oceano Atlantico ad est, dal Pacifico ad ovest e dall'Oceano Artico a nord. È, dopo la Russia, il paese più esteso del mondo e confina con gli Stati Uniti d'America a sud e a nord-ovest (Alaska). Il Canada è uno Stato Federale che comprende dieci Province e tre Territori, è una democrazia parlamentare e una monarchia costituzionale, retta dalla Regina Elisabetta II del Regno Unito. Il Canada ha ottenuto l'indipendenza dal Regno Unito attraverso un lungo processo di emancipazione, svoltosi tra il 1867 ed il 1982.
Mappa del Canada
È una nazione multiculturale e bilingue: l'inglese e il francese sono le lingue ufficiali, con una parità di status. Tuttavia in Canada, a causa della composizione della popolazione, formata da numerosissime etnie, ed ai continui flussi immigratori, sono parlate numerose altre lingue. Il bilinguismo impone al governo federale l'obbligo di fornire servizi in entrambe le lingue ufficiali del paese. Il Canada è un paese industrializzato e tecnologicamente avanzato. La sua economia diversificata si basa principalmente sull'abbondanza di risorse naturali e sul commercio, condotto in gran parte con gli Stati Uniti. Gli abitanti sono detti canadesi o anche, amichevolmente, canucks. Il nome ebbe origine nel 1535, durante le esplorazioni lungo il fiume San Lorenzo compiute da Jacques Cartier. Alcuni Irochesi si riferirono al villaggio di Stadacona, la futura Québec, usando il termine kanata (che nella loro lingua vuol dire villaggio, comunità). Jacques Cartier utilizzò così il nome Canada per tutto il territorio in cui si trovava il villaggio di Stadacona. Negli anni seguenti il nome indicava sulle carte geografiche tutti i territori a nord del fiume San Lorenzo. Nei secoli XVII e XVIII il nome Canada venne utilizzato per indicare i territori della Nuova Francia, estendendone via via l'uso fino a ricomprendervi alcune parti degli attuali territori statunitensi. Nel 1791, il Canada Act divise la provincia del Québec in due parti: l'Upper Canada e il Lower Canada. Le due colonie furono riunite nel 1841, con il nome di Provincia del Canada. Nel 1867, infine, il British North America Act unì Nuova Scozia e New Brunswick a Québec e Ontario, facendone "un unico dominio sotto il nome del Canada" (preferendo questo nome agli altri che furono proposti: Victorialand, Borealia, Cabotia, Tuponia - The United Provinces of North America, Superior, Norland e Hochelaga).
13 / 05 / 2010 - Src Wikipedia Per approfondimenti Canada
Focus Canada by WikipediaCanada ( /ˈkænədə/) is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area. Canada's common border with the United States to the south and northwest is the longest in the world.
The land occupied by Canada was inhabited for millennia by various groups of Aboriginal peoples. Beginning in the late 15th century, British and French expeditions explored, and later settled, along the Atlantic coast. France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763 after the Seven Years' War. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces.[10][11] This began an accretion of provinces and territories and a process of increasing autonomy from the United Kingdom. This widening autonomy was highlighted by the Statute of Westmins...(continua)(source Wikipedia) |
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