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    Writers' Union of Canada

    Prose writing in Canada, especially the writing of fiction, had certain problems associated with it until recently.

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    Wrongful Convictions in Canada

    The unearthing of wrongly convicted offenders has been arguably the dominant legal development in Canada over the past half-century.

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    Wrongful Dismissal

    Wrongful Dismissal, see EMPLOYMENT LAW.

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    WTO Rules Against Canada's Magazine Policy

    Donovan Bailey might not seem the most likely witness on behalf of Canadian culture.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on January 27, 1997

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    WTO Seattle Riots

    It was a remarkable, and perhaps prophetic, closing chapter to the millennium.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on December 13, 1999

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    XY Company

     XY Company (New North West Co), named after the marks used to distinguish its bales of goods from those of the NORTH WEST COMPANY, was a product of conflicts between NWC agents (led by Simon MCTAVISH) and NWC winterers, following the company's reorganization in 1795.

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    Yachting

    Yachting refers to races of watercraft using sail power only. Competitors are required to complete a prescribed course in the shortest possible time, passing marker buoys in the correct order and on the correct side.

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    Yarrow

    Yellowish disc florets (3-10) make up the central part, which is surrounded by 5 petal-shaped ray florets. They bloom from May to October. Yarrow has a dry, one-seeded fruit. Throughout the ages, yarrow has been used to stop blood flow, hence one common name, "nosebleed.

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    Yeast

    at genus level is based on the morphology of the spores and vegetative cells and, at species level, by the ability to metabolize different sugars and related compounds.

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    Yellowjacket

    Yellowjacket is the common name for wasps in the genera Vespula and Dolichovespula. They belong to the insect family Vespidae in the order Hymenoptera, which also includes other types of wasps such as hornets, as well as bees and ants. Worldwide, there are about 50 recognized species of yellowjacket, 17 of which are native to Canada. These native species include the common (Vespula alascensis), Eastern (V. maculifrons), Western (V. pensylvanica) and aerial (Dolichovespula arenaria) yellowjacket. One species, the German yellowjacket (V. germanica), is introduced to Canada and is especially common in Ontario and Quebec.

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    Yew

    Yew is the common name for evergreen conifers, genus Taxus, of the yew family (Taxaceae).

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    York Boat

    The York boat, named for the Hudson’s Bay Company’s York Factory, was one of three types of inland boats (the others being scows and sturgeon-heads) used by the HBC in the fur trade. It was the company’s most suitable boat for lake travel, although it also plied rivers. For about a century beginning the 1820s, this freight-carrying boat was the main mode of transportation between York Factory on Hudson Bay and inland trading posts.

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    York Factory

    York Factory, also known as York Fort, Fort Bourbon by the French, and Kischewaskaheegan by some Indigenous people, was a trading post on the Hayes River near its outlet to Hudson Bay, in what is now Manitoba. During its life, it served as a post and later as a major administrative centre in the Hudson’s Bay Company’s fur trade network. It also bore witness to the largest naval battle to take place in Arctic Canada, the Battle of Hudson Bay in 1697.

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    York University

    York expanded rapidly in the 1960s, establishing new faculties and programs such as Atkinson College for part-time degree studies, the Centre for Research in Experimental Space Science, the Institute of Social Research and the Faculty of Administrative Studies.

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    York Winds

    York Winds. Wind quintet formed in Toronto in 1972.

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