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Questions tagged [canada]

for questions about claims based in Canada, or limited to Canada. Can also refer to any element of Canada's history, policy, government, or politics.

Canada is a North American country made up of 10 provinces and 3 territories. The name is reported have been derived from an Iroquoian word "kanata" which means "village".

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Does Iowa have more farmland suitable for growing corn and wheat than Canada?

Stephen Haber ("professor of political science, professor of history, and professor of economics" at Stanford) claims in a 2014 podcast: the state of Iowa has more farmland suitable for growing corn and wheat than the entire country of…
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Do 50% of Canadians live south of the 45°42′N latitude?

Brilliant Maps claim that: While the 49th parallel is often thought of as the border between the US and Canada, the vast majority of Canadians (roughly 72%) live below it, with 50% of Canadians living south of 45°42′ (45.7 degrees) north or the red…
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Did Canadian children sing the Islamic song "Tala'al badru" to welcome Syrian refugees?

Saw this video being shared around in the social media, ostensibly a performance by Canadian children to welcome Syrian refugees' arrival to Canada. I recognized the song as the Islamic song Tala' al Badru 'Alayna. According to Wikipedia it was…
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In Canada, will there soon be more female doctors than male doctors?

Obviously no one can know the future with certainty. But several articles make statements regarding more women graduating with medical degrees than men and that in the near future more doctors will be women rather than men. From here For many…
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Do honeybees disrupt native pollinators in North America?

One of my colleagues at work is vegan, and I became curious about why vegans don't eat honey. After a search on the internet I found a website explaining why honey is not vegan. However what baffled me was the claim that bees are harmful to the…
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Were the remains of 215 indigenous children, some as young as 3 years old, found at the site of the Kamloops Indian Residential School in Canada?

According to many reports this week, a mass grave was found in Kamloops, BC, containing the remains of at least 215 indigenous children. For example: "Indigenous groups call for Canada to identify graves after remains of 215 children found"…
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Were the Dene people unaware they had mined ore for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki until the 1990s?

From a web project called The Forbidden Rock Prophecy (elsewhere it claims the atomic bombs were prophesied): Nor did they know what the materials they carried would be used for. So in addition to the physical and environmental consequences of …
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Is there an increase in sales of child-size coffins?

A number of "news sites" have been reporting an increase in child-sized coffins. (The linked is an example, there are many more). The implication being there is an increase of childrens deaths, ascribed to the COVID vaccine? From the Western…
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Did the Canadian government look through a catalogue of guns and ban the scary looking ones?

In Canada, certain firearms are classified as "prohibited", and one cannot possess or acquire them unless they were owned before the law was made. Such firearms include .25 and .32 calibre handguns, handguns with barrels less than or equal to 105…
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Does Canadian law allow the government to take children away from parents that don't accept their gender identity?

Canada to take kids from Parents that don’t recognize Gender Confusion A Canadian province has passed a law that gives rights to the government to take away children from families that don’t accept their kid’s chosen “gender identity” or “gender…
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Does the Conservative Party of Canada have a ban on abortion in its platform?

It would either be an outright ban (outlawed) or a ban on the public funding part (health care being all public in Canada). But I'm just asking: is there such a thing in their platform?
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Has the Canadian government recently dismissed a net of 2,000 scientists?

A CBC article claims: In the past five years the federal government has dismissed more than 2,000 scientists, and hundreds of programs and world-renowned research facilities have lost their funding. Claims like this are being used to suggest…
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Does the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms not apply to government hiring practices?

While I was reading Yahoo! News today, I came across this article which discussed British Columbia's New Democratic Party's affirmative-action rules: According to the BC NDP's affirmative-action rules, [being "a straight, old, able-bodied, white…
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Has the Kamloops International School "mass grave" been verified?

Throughout much of the news media over the last couple years in Canada (and internationally), it was claimed that a mass grave of 215 Native American children had been found at a mass grave site at the site of a former residential school in British…
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Do more than half of Ontario residents believe that "mainstream" Islamic doctrines promote violence?

In its article about the recent shootings in Quebec City, the New York Times reported that: A survey in Ontario last summer found that while there was widespread support for accepting the refugees, only a third of respondents had a positive…
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