In 1977, the Canadian government took the initiative to legislate stricter gun control. ... Moreover, Canadians are exposed to American television (both entertainment and news programming) and, Canadians and Americans read many of the same books and magazines. As a result of this, the Canadian public has adopted "much of the American culture" . ... From the study conducted by Sproule and Kennett the rate of violent crimes was five times greater in the U.S than Canada, and "almost double the rate of firearm use in American than Canadian homicides" (32-33). ... Accordi...

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The ice sheets, called the Laurentide and the Cordilleran glaciers stretched southward to the middle of the continent, covering most of what is now Canada and the area in the Pacific Northwest from Alaska to Tacoma. ... A new mammoth species evolved from the original mammoths as they migrated from Eurasia, over the Bering Land Bridge, leaving substantial populations in Beringia as they progressed southward. ...

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