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Historical annexationist movements inside Canada were usually inspired by dissatisfaction with Britain's colonial government of Canada. Groups of Irish immigrants took the route of armed struggle, attempting to annex the peninsula between the Detroit and Niagara Rivers to the U.S. by force in the minor and short-lived Patriot War in 1837–1838.
Conference room at CEGHQ, former CFS Carp. Teletype terminals at CEGHQ, former CFS Carp. Organigramme. Emergency Government Headquarters is the name given for a system of nuclear fallout shelters built by the Government of Canada in the 1950s and 1960s as part of continuity of government planning at the height of the Cold War.
Canada emerged from the Second World War as a world power, radically transforming a principally agricultural and rural dominion of a dying empire into a truly sovereign nation, with a market economy focused on a combination of resource extraction and refinement, heavy manufacturing, and high-technology research and development.
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Cold War participants – the Cold War primarily consisted of competition between the Eastern Bloc and the Western Bloc.While countries and organizations explicitly aligned to one or the other are listed below, this does not include those involved in specific Cold War events, such as North Korea, South Korea, and Vietnam.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Canada is "not for sale" amid a flurry of comments from President-elect Donald Trump about the country potentially becoming a part of the United States. "I love the ...
Canada, Mexico and China are the US’s biggest trade partners. “Everything the American consumers buy from Canada is suddenly going to get a lot more expensive if he moves forward on these ...
Trump has repeatedly mused about the idea of Canada becoming the 51st state, taunting Trudeau recently by calling him “governor.” And he has threatened to impose tariffs on Canadian imports.