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    Scotties Tournament of Hearts

    The Tournament of Hearts is the annual Canadian women's curling championship. Created in 1981 in St. John's, NL, it is sponsored by Kruger Products, and named after a brand of facial tissue, Scotties.

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    Scouts Canada

     The scouting movement was founded in England in 1907 by Robert Baden-Powell, then a lieutenant-general in the British army.

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    Sculpin

    Sculpin is one of the many common names given to the fish family Cottidae and its close relatives. The group, comprising over 300 species, is one of the dominant faunal components of the North Pacific Ocean, where it is believed to have evolved. Sculpins also occur in the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans; a few have penetrated to the southwest Pacific, South American and southern African waters. Freshwater forms occur in temperate and arctic waters of North America, Europe and Asia. Marine sculpins are found from intertidal waters to depths of several hundred metres; most inhabit relatively shallow waters (100 m or less). Freshwater forms generally live in shallow water. Most sculpins are bottom-living; a few occupy pelagic or mid-water habitats. About 63 species occur in Canadian waters, mostly on the west coast; a few in rivers and lakes throughout the country. 

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    Scurvy

    Scurvy is a disease caused by a dietary deficiency of vitamin C (ascorbic acid). The disease has occurred with regular frequency throughout human history and prehistory in populations lacking fresh foods, especially vegetables and meat.

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    The École Polytechnique Tragedy: Beyond the Duty of Remembrance

    Every year on 6 December, the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, the women who lost their lives in the massacre are remembered. While flags are flown at half-mast, vigils, conferences and demonstrations are held in remembrance. Despite these efforts, assigning meaning to the shooting has stirred controversy — and continues to do so.

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    Sea Ice

    Sea ice formed by the freezing of seawater and floats on the surface of the polar oceans. Its coverage varies with the seasons; in the Northern Hemisphere sea ice ranges from a minimum of about 9 million km2 in September to a maximum of about 16 million km2 in March. In the Southern Hemisphere the range is from 3 million to 19 million km2, with the minimum and maximum coverage occurring in February and September respectively. The thickness of sea ice can vary from a few centimetres for newly formed ice in protected locations to 20 m or more in ridges; however, typical thicknesses are about 3 m in the Arctic and about 1 m in the Antarctic.

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    Sea Lion

      The northern sea lion, also called the Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus), is the largest of the eared SEALS.

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    Sea Otter

    Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris), largest and most marine weasel, lives exclusively in shallow seas of the North Pacific, formerly from Japan to California. Ruthless hunting for their valuable pelts almost exterminated sea otters before 1900. A few survived in Alaska and California. Protection has permitted them to increase and reoccupy much of their former range. Transplants to south-east Alaska and British Columbia have been successful. 

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    Sea Urchin

    Sea Urchin, radially symmetrical marine invertebrate. Sea urchins and near relatives, the sand dollars and heart urchins, belong to class Echinoidea of phylum Echinodermata.

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    Seabird

    Seabirds are those bird species which spend long periods away from land and obtain all or most of their food from the sea while flying, swimming or diving, and occupy all of the world's oceans.

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    Seafarers' International Union

    Seafarers' International Union In 1949, supported by the federal government and some union leaders and shipping executives, an unsavoury ex-convict was allowed into Canada to destroy the powerful, communist-dominated Canadian Seamen's Union.

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    Seagram

    Seagram Company Limited, commonly known as Seagram or Seagram’s, was the world’s largest producer and distributor of distilled spirits. Its head offices were in Montréal. While Seagram traced its roots back to a distillery founded in 1857, it was incorporated as a public company in 1928 under the name Distillers Corporation-Seagrams Ltd., a holding company that acquired the capital stocks of Distillers Corporation Ltd. and Joseph E. Seagram & Sons Ltd. It gained notoriety during American prohibition (1920–33), during which time Seagram legally exported spirits directly and circuitously to the United States. The company was majority owned and operated by the Bronfman family; Samuel Bronfman established the company in 1928 and his eldest son, Edgar, took over after his death in 1971. Edgar in turn handed control to his son Edgar Jr. in 1994. The company expanded and diversified a few times, branching from the liquor business to the oil and gas industry in the 1950s and 1960s, the petrochemicals industry in the 1980s, with industry giant DuPont, and the entertainment and communications business in the 1990s, with MCA Inc. and Universal. In 2000, the company was sold to French conglomerate Vivendi, who retained Seagram’s entertainment and communications wing but sold its distilling interests to Pernod Ricard and Diageo.

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  • Macleans

    Seagrams Buys MCA

    Last week, as investors tried to get used to the idea of Seagram Co. Ltd. as a show-biz giant, America’s newest movie mogul was in California. Edgar Bronfman Jr. was visiting the institution that redefined his company: the huge entertainment conglomerate MCA Inc.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on April 24, 1995

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  • Macleans

    Seagram's Shift in Direction

    Among the qualities possessed by Edgar M. Bronfman, the chairman of Montreal-based Seagram Co., are a palpable sense of confidence and an encyclopedic knowledge of his family’'s history.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on November 16, 1998

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    Seal

    Seal is a common name given to a diverse group of aquatic, generally marine mammals of the order Pinnipedia.

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