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Brian O'Dea is a former international drug smuggler who gained notoriety when he placed an advertisement in Canada's National Post seeking a job. The advertisement was titled "Former Marijuana Smuggler" and read: "Having successfully completed a 10-year sentence, incident free, for importing seventy-five tons of marijuana into the United States ...
When a member dies during their term of office this generally causes a by-election, if the deceased member held an electorate seat.Under the Electoral Act 1993, a by-election is not needed when the death occurs within six months of a general election and if 75% of MPs support the postponement of the by-election. [1]
Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution.In the 1867 Canadian Confederation, three provinces of British North America—New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the Province of Canada (which upon Confederation was divided into Ontario and Quebec)—united to form a federation, becoming a fully ...
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., is particularly known for the leaving of offerings to the deceased; items left are collected by the National Park Service and archived. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints perform posthumous baptisms and other rituals for their dead ancestors, along with those of other ...
The members of the European Parliament have been elected by universal suffrage since 1979 (before that, they were seconded from national parliaments). [32] [33] The national governments appoint one member each to the European Commission, the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Auditors. Prospective Commissioners must be ...
The introduction of such a code system allowed Canada Post to easily speed up and simplify the flow of mail in the country, with sorting machines being able to handle 26,640 objects an hour. [ 20 ] The Canadian Union of Postal Workers objected to the automated sorting system mainly because the wages of those who ran the new automated machines ...
Post Animal signed to Polyvinyl in 2017 [2] and played Shaky Knees [3] and Bonnaroo [4] in 2018. The band's debut full-length, When I Think of You in a Castle, was released on April 20, 2018. [5] Post Animal supported Cage the Elephant in February 2020 on their United Kingdom tour. The band were the supporting act on dates in Leeds, Glasgow ...
In the years after World War II, Canada's permissive immigration policies enabled many alleged Nazi war criminals to settle in the country. [20] [21] [22] An especially large number of former SS Galizien members (relative to their total number) migrated to Canada from the United Kingdom, where they had been detained.