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| a body set up by the federal government to study the state of Canadian culture |
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| Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) |
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| the agency that regulates the amount of foreign material broadcast over the airwaves in Canada and imposes rules requiring Canadian content |
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| Canada Council for the Arts |
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| the group that funds Canadian artists and supports the arts in Canada |
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| a period lasting approximately from 1945 to 1989 when there was tension and hostility between the communist Soviet Union and its allies and the capitalist United States and its allies |
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| one who believes that property and the production and distribution of goods and services should be owned by the public and that the labour force should be organized for the benefit of all; the application of the theory in the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and other countries resulted in dictatorships by leaders of communist parties |
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| one who believes in an economic system in which the production and distribution of goods are owned privately or by shareholders in corporations that have invested money in the hope of making a profit |
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| the term used to refer to the United States and Soviet Union in the post–Second World War period when both were engaged in building up powerful arsenals of weapons of mass destruction as deterrents against aggression |
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| a nation that is not a superpower but has international influence |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) |
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| the mutual defence organization set up to protect several Western European countries, Canada, and the U.S. from possible aggression from the U.S.S.R. after the Second World War |
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| a post–Second World War military alliance established in 1955 involving the Soviet Union and the Soviet block countries of Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romaniaa post–Second World War military alliance established in 1955 involving the Soviet Union and the Soviet block countries of Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania |
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| North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) |
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| a defence agreement signed in 1958 between Canada and the United States (known as the North American Air Defence Agreement until 1981 |
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| Distant Early Warning (DEW |
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| radar stations in northern Canada set up between 1958 and 1960 to detect Soviet activity over the North Pole |
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| an organization established in 1945 to bring peace and security to the world. |
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| The Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow was a delta-winged interceptor aircraft, designed and built by Avro Aircraft Limited (Canada) in Malton, Ontario, Canada, as the culmination of a design study that began |
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| attacks on a civilian area since the 1950-53 Korean War. The two Koreas are still technically at war because their 1950s conflict ended with an... |
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| The attack followed Egypt's decision of 26 July 1956 to nationalize the Suez Canal, after the withdrawal of an offer by Britain and the United States to fund the building of the Aswan Dam |
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