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Manitoba i /ˌmænɪˈtoʊbə/ or MB is a Canadian prairie Province with an breadth of 649,950 aboveboard kilometres (250,900 sq mi). The arena has over 110,000 lakes and has a abundantly continental altitude because of its collapsed topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the abundant southern and western genitalia of the province, is basic to the province's economy; added above industries are transportation, manufacturing, mining, forestry, energy, and tourism. The better indigenous accumulation in Manitoba is English Canadian, but there is a cogent Franco-Manitoban boyhood and a growing ancient population.

Manitoba's basic and better city, Winnipeg, is Canada's eighth-largest Census Metropolitan Area, and home to 60% of the citizenry of the province. Winnipeg is the bench of government, home to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba and the accomplished cloister in the jurisdiction, the Manitoba Cloister of Appeal. Four of the province's bristles universities, all four of its able sports teams, and best of its cultural activities (including Festival du Voyageur and Folklorama) are amid in Winnipeg. The burghal has alternation and bus stations and a active all-embracing airport; a Canadian Forces abject operates from the airport and is the bounded address of the North American Aerospace Defense Command.

The name Manitoba (meaning "strait of the spirit" or "lake of the prairies") is believed to be acquired from the Cree, Ojibwe or Assiniboine language. Fur traders aboriginal accustomed during the backward 17th century. Manitoba became a arena of Canada in 1870 afterwards the Red River Rebellion. A accepted bang took abode in Winnipeg in 1919, and the arena was hit adamantine by the Great Depression. This led to the conception of what would become the New Democratic Party of Manitoba, one of the province's above political parties.

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Canada is a country application arctic North America, belted to the south by the continental United States, northwest by Alaska (USA), east by the Atlantic Ocean and west by the Pacific Ocean. Canada extends through the Arctic Ocean to the North Pole, authoritative it the northernmost country in the world. Canada is the additional better country in area, afterwards Russia.

Canada is a alliance of ten ambit and three territories. Initially constituted through the British North America Act of 1867, it is absolute as a aldermanic capitalism with Queen Elizabeth II as arch of state, represented by a Governor General.

Canada's official languages are English and French. The Capital burghal is Ottawa and the better burghal is Toronto.

In Canada, Time Zones and Daylight Saving Time usually accept been adapted by Canadian bigoted and territorial governments. Exceptions may abide in assertive Canadian municipalities.

Clocks in Canada are angry advanced by one hour on the additional Sunday in March and angry aback on the aboriginal Sunday of November.

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Map of British Columbia Pictures

British Columbia, or BC for short, is the westernmost arena of Canada. The arena is a arena of the six who abutting the Confederation in 1871.

Geography Area Conditions

This bigoted basic is Victoria, amid in the southeast of Vancouver Island. Terpadatnya burghal is Vancouver, amid at the southwest bend of acreage Canada (not on Vancouver Island). Major bigoted cities such as Surrey, Burnaby, Coquitlam, Richmond, Delta, New Westminster and the Greater Vancouver Regional District, including (Greater Vancouver Regional District), Abbottsford and Langley in the Fraser Valley, Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, and calm with the Kamloops Kelowna in "Inland" (or "Interior"). Cities abutting to the mean of the arena is Prince George, but, the baby boondocks of Vanderhoof, 100 km to the west, afterpiece geographically.

British Columbia is amid at the western end of Canada, adverse the Pacific Ocean. The arena is additionally belted by Alaska, the accompaniment of the United States, appropriate abutting to the arctic is Yukon and Northwest Territories, on the east by Alberta, and on the south by the accompaniment of Washington, Idaho, and Montana. The southern bound of British Columbia authentic by the Treaty of Oregon in 1846.

British Columbia is acclaimed for its amazing accustomed backdrop and appropriate which can be apparent from places like the Rockies Mountains (Canadian Rockies) and additionally a basin in Line In (Inside Passage's fjords), which is a abode for alfresco activities and accustomed attractions. In addition, called Okanagan arena is additionally one of three wine growing arena in Canada and produces a actual nice angel juice, but can alone consign a little of both alcohol it. Baby towns such as Penticton, Oliver, Osoyoos and its temperature was absolutely balmy summers in Canada and a abode for tourism from overseas.

Most of Vancouver Island is a air-conditioned close forest, one of the few bodies who accept agnate ecosystems in the apple (apart from the Olympic Peninsula (Olympic Peninsula) in Washington and in Chile). The arctic allotment of this arena accept added snow and actual algid winters, however, the southern allotment of Vancouver Island and additionally abundant acknowledgment in best areas, area klimatnya added afflicted by the Pacific Ocean. In the interior, summer temperatures can be warmer, sometimes absolutely hot. There are added than one abode in British Columbia area a almanac summer temperatures recorded 43.3 ° C (110 ° F).

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This Alberta map gives you all the Alberta Canada acclimate you should need. How do you use to get anticipation info? Click on any association apparent on the Environment Canada Alberta acclimate page, or baddest your boondocks from the lower box on the right. The high box lets you aces addition province.

Each city-page gives accepted temperature and added information, additional forecasts for the abutting 5 days. Acclimate warnings currently in aftereffect will appearance in red beyond the top of the page. If you accept cable TV or satellite, you can consistently tune into the Acclimate Network to get their forecasts as well. If you compare, you'll acquisition them agnate but not identical to the predictions provided by Environment Canada.

New Zealand Does Its Own Happiness Study

A sheep on a quest to Mordor. From Wicked Campers.

Continuing the theme from yesterday, the New Zealand Herald reports that New Zealand has published its own national happiness study. The 18-month study, entitled "Working Towards Higher Living Standards for New Zealanders," says, "Treasury's role as a central agency with oversight over all significant policy issues across the state sector has also led it to acknowledge that living standards are broader than income alone, and are determined by a wide range of material and non-material factors."

Ross McDonald, a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland Business School, says that he hopes the study will provide good advice to politicians. For instance, the study could lessen the move toward increasing work hours. "We've got to get out of the mindset that sees growing economies as our ultimate purpose in life," he says.

The news story doesn't go into detail about how New Zealand conducted this study, but if it's anything like other Gross National Happiness measures, they probably sent out thousands of questionnaires to citizens, asking them about their life satisfaction. As always, click on my Gross National Happiness tag to see all the other countries that are into this sort of thing, and which ones are holding out.

The OECD Throws Its Hat into the Happiness Measuring Ring

You'll never guess who this logo belongs to!
From Supply Chain Management Review.

The Guardian reports that the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (or OECD) has started including "life satisfaction" with its economic measures. As part of the OECD's 50th anniversary, The Better Life Index uses these 11 separate dimensions of measurement for each of the OECD's 34 member countries:  housing, income, jobs, community, education, environment, governance, health, life satisfaction, safety, and work-life balance. This should provide a more useful view of progress than the measurement of GDP alone.

OECD secretary-general Angel Gurría says, "This index encapsulates the OECD at 50, pushing the boundaries of knowledge and understanding in a pioneering and innovative manner. People around the world have wanted to go beyond GDP for some time. This index is designed for them. It has extraordinary potential to help us deliver better policies for better lives."

This effort to look beyond GDP is part of a recent trend. It started in Bhutan in the 70s, but within the past year Britain, Germany, Canada, one or two U.S. cities, and more have all started measuring their own happiness. Look at my Gross National Happiness tag for more info.

If YOU want to participate in the OECD's measurements, go to their Better Life website, where you can view stats for each country and take the survey yourself.

Men Who Like Culture Are Happier

The Louvre. From Brock's Renaissance Art.

Hey gang. Today's story is again brought to you by Julia of The Thank You Project. It seems whenever I have trouble finding new stories, there she is with a good one. Any help is always welcome!

As for the story itself, LiveScience reports that men who enjoy cultural outings, like visits to art museums or the ballet, tend to be happier with their lives than those who don't. The researchers call this "receptive culture," which is separate from "creative culture," wherein a person actually takes a hands-on approach by painting, singing, or writing.

Study author Koenraad Cuypers and his colleagues looked at data on the activities, life satisfaction, perceived health, anxiety, and depression of 50,797 adult residents of Nord-Trondelag County in central Norway. Even after controlling for income and education, participating in receptive culture has a positive effect on the wellbeing of both genders, but the effect is not equal. Cuypers says, "Men seemed to get more of a percieved health benefit from being involved in different receptive cultural activities than women did."

Since this study did not examine people's happiness over time, it can make no assertions on whether receptive culture causes happiness or if the two just happen to go together. Cuypers wants to expand the research to answer that question, and also to find out if the correlation is true in European countries other than Norway.

You can read the actual study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.