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    Information Highway

    Information Highway is a term attributed to former American vice-president Al Gore in the 1990s and refers to the delivery of digital media over high-speed networks.

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    Information Society

    Information SocietyFor many writers, pundits and policy makers the rapid development and diffusion of INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES (ICT) heralds the development of a new kind of society - a society where the production and exchange of information is a key feature in both the economy and social life in general. While the first half of the 20th century saw the dominant form of economic production shift from agricultural to industrial, the second half was...

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    Injunction

    An injunction is an equitable judicial remedy issued at the court's discretion. It usually takes the form of an order preventing or restraining a person from performing an act. The order may also take a mandatory form by compelling someone to do something.

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    Injury and Prevention

    Some 2000 Canadians between the ages of one and 19 are killed each year because of injury, and over 85 000 are hospitalized. With the control of infectious diseases, injury has become the leading cause of death and disability in Canadian children and youth.

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    Canada and Innovations in Battlefield Transfusions

    One of the most challenging aspects of military (and emergency) medicine is the stabilization of patients who have suffered traumatic injuries and severe blood loss. Canada has made significant contributions to the development of battlefield transfusions, including the popularization of blood transfusion in the First World War and the development of mobile transfusion units in the Spanish Civil War. Canada was also a leader in the production of freeze-dried blood serum during the Second World War. During the war in Afghanistan, Canadians established a walking blood bank at the Role 3 Multinational Medical Unit at Kandahar Airfield, where survival rates ranged from 95 to 98 percent. These developments reduced mortality rates and improved patient care during wartime and have improved trauma management in civilian contexts as well. 

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    Innu Nikamu

    Innu Nikamu is an annual festival of traditional and contemporary Indigenous music featuring hunters and musicians from Quebec. Innu Nikamu takes place in the Maliotenam (Mani-Utenam) reserve, located near Sept-Îles in Quebec’s Côte-Nord administrative region.

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    INRS - Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie Research Centre

    The Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie Research Centre, is part of the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS). It is an important centre for research, training and technology transfer (see Medical Education).

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    Insect

    Insects are small invertebrates (more than 75% of known species are less than 6 mm long) with 3 pairs of legs, 1 or 2 pairs of wings (or lacking wings) and a segmented body.

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    Insect Classification

    A classification system acts as an efficient storage mechanism for information about each taxon or group.

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    Insect Pests

    Insects and humans cohabit the Earth and have developed complex relationships. Insect pests (less than 1% of all species) are those insects that feed on, compete for food with, or transmit diseases to humans and livestock.

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    Insectivora

    Insectivora is an order of mammals containing seven living families: shrews (Soricidae), moles (Talpidae), hedgehogs (Erinaceidae), tenrecs (Tenrecidae), otter shrews (Potamogalidae), golden moles (Chrysochloridae) and solenodons (Solenodontidae). There are approximately 350 living species, widely distributed in Africa, Eurasia, North America and northern South America. The 22 species found in Canada belong to the Talpidae and Soricidae. 

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  • Macleans

    Inside the Kyoto Deal

    Alberta’s energy minister, Steve West, spent much of last week wearing a tight smile, his clenched jaw and square shoulders set as firmly as his conviction that people who blame the oilpatch for the next century’s foul weather have lost their heads.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on December 22, 1997

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    Inside the Rig

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on March 3, 1997. Partner content is not updated. On this crisp, clear mid-February afternoon, the mechanical colossus - the so-called topsides of the Hibernia drilling rig - towers over the shimmering waters of Newfoundland's Bull Arm.

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    Insolvency in Canada

    Insolvency is a financial state defined by either of two situations. One is when a person, business or country cannot meet their obligations as they become due. The other is when the value of a person’s liabilities exceeds their assets. 

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    Insulin

    Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas. It helps the body absorb glucose and use it as energy. When someone has diabetes, there is either not enough insulin in the body or the body cannot use the insulin it produces. From between 1921 and 1922, a team at the University of Toronto isolated insulin. This medical breakthrough contributed to the treatment of diabetes and saved lives. (See also The Discovery of Insulin.)

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