and Nova Scotia, it decided to adopt a unit based on the Spanish dollar rather than on the U.S. dollar, and there was a slight difference between these two units. The U.S. dollar was created in 1792 on the basis of the average weight of a selection of worn Spanish dollars. As such...
The Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic Union (CIAU) was set up in 1961 to coordinate and regulate college athletics into five regional associations. It struggled with differing views on sport of the various regional groups, the autonomy of powerful Ontario universities, and differing goals concerning na...
Marsden was in Whitesnake from its formation in 1978 until 1982, thus he played on their first five albums — 1978'sTrouble,1979'sLovehunter,1980'sReady an' Willing,1981'sCome an' Get Itand 1982'sSaints & Sinners.He co-wrote some of the group's biggest songs with frontmanDavid Coverdal...
s announcement that Canada was declaring a five-year ban on the licensing of oil and gas drilling in all of itsArcticwaters—with a climate and marine science-based review to come at the end of that time—coincided with Obama’s issuing a pair of memorandums that indefinitely banned oil ...