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Canada (pronounced /ˈkænədə/) is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area^[7] and its common border with the United States to the south and northwest is the world's longest.

The land occupied by Canada was inhabited for millennia by various groups of Aboriginal people. Beginning in the late 15th century, British and French expeditions explored, and later settled along, the Atlantic coast. France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763 after the Seven Years' War. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces.^[9][10][11] This began an accretion of provinces and territories and a process of increasing autonomy from the United Kingdom. This widening autonomy was highlighted by the Statute of Westminster of 1931 and culminated in the Canada Act of 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British parliament.

A federation comprising ten provinces and three territories, Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy, with Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state. It is a bilingual and multicultural country, with both English and French as official languages both at the federal level and in the province of New Brunswick. One of the world's highly developed countries, Canada has a diversified economy that is reliant upon its abundant natural resources and upon trade—particularly with the United States, with which Canada has had a long and complex relationship. It is a member of the G8, G-20, NATO, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, WTO, Commonwealth of Nations, Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, OAS, APEC, and United Nations.

Etymology

The name Canada comes from a St. Lawrence Iroquoian word, kanata, meaning "village" or "settlement". In 1535, indigenous inhabitants of the present-day Quebec City region used the word to direct French explorer Jacques Cartier towards the village of Stadacona. Cartier later used the word Canada to refer not only to that particular village, but also the entire area subject to Donnacona (the chief at Stadacona); by 1545, European books and maps had begun referring to this region as Canada.

From the early 17th century onwards, that part of New France that lay along the Saint Lawrence River and the northern shores of the Great Lakes was named Canada, an area that was later split into two British colonies, Upper Canada and Lower Canada, until their re-unification as the Province of Canada in 1841. Upon Confederation in 1867, the name Canada was adopted as the legal name for the new country, and Dominion (a term from Psalm 72:8) was conferred as the country's title; combined, the term Dominion of Canada was in common usage until the 1950s. Thereafter, as Canada asserted its political autonomy from the United Kingdom, the federal government increasingly used simply Canada on state documents and treaties, a change that was reflected in the renaming of the national holiday from Dominion Day to Canada Day in 1982.

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Earthlings have a 50/50 record of reaching Mars - for every successful probe, another has crashed, failed or been lost. Recently, our cinematic achievements in rendering other worlds has been even worse-2008 gave us WALL-E (four stars!) but also delivered the animated space adventures Delgo, Space Chimps and Fly Me to the Moon, which earned four stars only if you put all their ratings together.

Planet 51, which lands on planet Earth today, is better than most, though it still feels a bit derivative. Perhaps it's the title's colour scheme, best described as Shrek green. Maybe it's the fact that it was written by Joe Stillman, who also helped create Shreks 1 and 2. Maybe it's the voice talent of John Cleese, who, um, also worked in Shreks 2 and 3 ...

The story concerns an astronaut, Captain Charles T. Baker, who combines the swagger of Captain Kirk with the intelligence of Cap'n Crunch and the voice of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Baker lands on what he expected would be an uninhabited planet, only to discover a race of Shrek-coloured lifeforms enjoying an oddly suburban lifestyle.

Technologically, the Planet 51-ians are stuck somewhere in the late 1950s. (The soundtrack's first song is 1958's Lollipop.) There are anachronisms, however. They've perfected the hovercars that have been stuck at the drawing-board stage on Earth these last 50 years. And, strangest of all, they don't have pants.

OK, this one needs elaboration. The males don't wear pants, though they often have belts. (Why? To hold their shirts down?) The women wear skirts and dresses-though not pantsuits. It's as if somehow a vital step in the evolution of fashion had been skipped, and no one's the wiser. There might even be worlds (planets one through 50?) whose citizens have never heard of cufflinks, say, or toques.

Baker is regarded with fear, suspicion and outright hostility by most. Fortunately, one of the first green guys he comes across is Lem (Justin Long), who's too smitten with his neighbour Neera (Jessica Biel) to care about a potential alien invasion. He agrees to help the astronaut return to his ship. Tagging along is a puppy-like rover with a rock-collecting fixation.

I'm sorry, but can I just say how much the pants thing creeped me out? Even Shrek wore leggings below his tunic, for pants' sake! I found myself pondering genitalia-related issues that have no place in a family-friendly film. Pantless 51 is more like it. OK, I'm done now.

The movie, directed by a trio of first-time filmmakers, presents a mild message of tolerance and weren't-the-'50s-silly, but in large part the structure seems to function as a frame from which to hang movie references. There's a creature called Ripley (from Alien), whose pee can melt metal; a restaurant named Nikto's (after The Day the Earth Stood Still, though Klaatu's would have worked better); and humorous homages to E.T., Star Wars, etc.

The computer-generated animation - we're at a weird moment where it seems necessary to note that it's not in 3-D - looks superb, but the writing and plot are standard stuff. Kids will doubtless enjoy the endless chase scenes, but parents may want to leave their brains in neutral.

A DVD of Planet 51 was taken to the International Space Station in August, and is now circling Earth at 7.7 kilometres a second. Perhaps the 21st-century version of what book you would take to a deserted island is "What movie would you take into orbit?" But Planet 51, with its references to 2001 and, oddly, Singin' in the Rain, might only remind spacefarers of better films left behind.

Still, this Planet of the Japes has the sequel potential of Planet of the Apes. Imagine if Lem and his friends figured out how to visit our world. You can almost hear their greeting: "We come in peace. But not pants."

Vincent Munier is a photograph born in 1976.
He was influenced by photographers such as the Japanese Michio Hoshino and the Finnish Hannu Hautala, in particular. For him, they catch the essence of wildlife's beauty. The genuineness of their pictures reveals a long and trying work out in the field, often in testing conditions.
“I still believe in the power of pictures to reveal nature's beauty, to make people become aware of the dangers that threaten it.”

Vincent was prize-winner, three years running, of the "Eric Hosking Award" in the "BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year" competition.
As such, his photographies have been exhibited in over 35 countries, including the United States, Brazil, Spain, Sri Lanka and Morocco, as well as in many museums and scientific centers all over the world.
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