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Mineral Resources in Canada (Plain-Language Summary)

Minerals are natural resources. They are different from fossil fuels like natural gas, oil and coal, though. Unlike fossil fuels, minerals are not made from plants or animals. Canada has a lot of minerals. They are mines everywhere in Canada. In fact, Canada is among the biggest producers of minerals in the world. Minerals found in Canada include gold, potash, uranium, diamonds and cobalt. This article is a plain-language summary of Mineral Resources in Canada. If you are interested in reading about this topic more in depth, please see our full-length entry, Mineral Resources in Canada.
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Minimum Wage in Canada

Minimum wage is the lowest wage rate that an employer is legally permitted to pay to an employee. In Canada, provinces and territories regulate minimum wage (see Provincial Government in Canada; Territorial Government in Canada). The federal government also sets a minimum wage for employees covered by Part III of the Canada Labour Code. Minimum wage policy was originally established to protect vulnerable workers from exploitation, and it continues to be used by governments to safeguard non-unionized workers (see Labour Force; Unions).
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Mining

Mining is one of Canada’s primary industries and involves the extraction, refining, and/or processing of economically valuable rocks and minerals. Mineral products (including gold, silver, iron, copper, zinc, nickel) are critical to modern industrial society. Although mining has been key to Canadian settlement and development, in recent decades the industry has also been criticized for its environmental and social impacts. Canada remains one of the world’s leading mining countries and has become a centre of global mining finance and expertise.
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Mining Safety and Health

Like most industrial activities, mining involves risk. However, contemporary mining in Canada is much safer than it once was.
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Mining Work Force

Mechanization and new mining methods have diminished the mining work force since the mid-1970s. Additionally, depleted resources have forced the closure or suspension of some mines. New mines have opened but the number of openings has not kept pace with closures.
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Ministère de la Marine

The Ministère de la Marine is the section of the French government that administered Canada during its last 100 years as a French colony. The Ministère de la Marine — variously described as a ministry, department, or secretariat of state — administered France’s navy, colonies and seaborne trade.
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Ministère des Affaires culturelles du Québec

Ministère des Affaires culturelles du Québec (MACQ). The Act creating the Quebec Ministry of Cultural Affairs to 'favour and promote the specific cultural character of Quebec in the fields of arts, letters, and heritage'.
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Ministers Island Historic Site

In 1890 SIR WILLIAM VAN HORNE purchased Minister's Island on PASSAMAQUODDY BAY for his summer resort. Van Horne built a most impressive sandstone house there, which he called Covenhoven.
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Ministry of Overseas Military Forces

The Ministry of Overseas Military Forces was established in November 1916 to administer Canadian forces in the UK, especially in the training of reinforcements, and to act as the communications channel between the Militia Department, the British War Office, and the Canadian Corps in France.
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American Mink

The American mink (Neogale vison) is a small, amphibious weasel inhabiting wetlands throughout Canada, excluding the tundra, and is abundant along the British Columbia coastline. Part of the genus Neogale, the American mink is closely related to the long-tailed weasel (Neogale frenata) and now extinct sea mink (Neogale macrodon), among others.
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Mink Frog

The mink frog (Lithobates septentrionalis) is a medium-sized frog native to eastern North America. It has a large distribution in eastern Canada that extends from southwestern Manitoba east to Nova Scotia and north around James Bay and into southern Labrador. Mink frogs are highly aquatic and are typically found in large, permanent water bodies.
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Minnow

Many people refer wrongly to any small fish as a minnow. Properly, minnows are small to large freshwater fish of class Actinopterygii, order Cypriniformes, family Cyprinidae. The largest fish family, with over 1500 species (including carp, squawfish, dace, bream, etc), it is found worldwide, excluding South America, Australia and the far north. Fifty-three species occur in Canada. Some have restricted ranges (eg, redside dace, Clinostomus elongatus, of Lake Ontario drainages); others are found coast to coast. Carp (Cyprinus carpio) and goldfish (Carassius auratus) are familiar Asian minnows that have been introduced and become established in several provinces. Minnows inhabit waters from bogs to large lakes and rivers throughout Canada, except insular Newfoundland, and are often the most numerous fishes, both as species and individuals.
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Minority Governments in Canada

A minority government exists when the governing party does not hold a majority of seats in the House of Commons (or provincial legislature) but is still able to command the confidence of the House. Minority governments also exist at the provincial level and in Yukon, but not in Northwest Territories or Nunavut, which do not have political parties and are governed by consensus governments.
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Mint

Mint belongs to the mint family (Lamiaceae, also called Labiatae), a large plant family that also includes several aromatic and ornamental plants like basil, rosemary, oregano, thyme, coleus and sage.
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Miramichi Lumber Strike

The Miramichi Lumber Strike began 20 August 1937 when 1500 millworkers and longshoremen along the Miramichi River in northern New Brunswick struck 14 lumber firms for increased wages, shorter working hours and union recognition.
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