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A Royal Canadian Air Force CF-188 Hornet during coalition operations against Daesh, March 2015.
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Canada against Daesh in Iraq and Syria: Operation IMPACT

Operation IMPACT began as the Canadian Armed Forces’ support to the Global Coalition formed in 2014 to degrade and defeat Daesh in Iraq and Syria. Canadian CF-18 Hornets flew 1,378 sorties between October 30, 2014, and February 15, 2016. The mission then focused on training and building the military capabilities of Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon.

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Canadian CF-18s waiting to refuel from a Royal Air Force tanker over Libya, July 2011.
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Canada in Libya, 2011

In 2011 Canada took part in the NATO-led Operation Unified Protector in Libya through Operation Mobile. It began in February with the evacuation of Canadians and other foreign nationals, then, after the UN Security Council imposed a no-fly zone on 17 March, became a combat operation involving naval ships and fighter, transport, patrol, helicopter and refuelling aircraft. It ended on October 31, 2011, after Gadhafi’s death.

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Canadian soldiers and RG-31 vehicles in Afghanistan, October 2008.
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Canada in Afghanistan, 2001–2014

After the attacks of 11 September 2001, Canada joined the international coalition against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, which had sheltered Al-Qaeda. More than 40,000 Canadians served there, the largest deployment of Canadian troops since the Second World War, in a conflict that lasted more than 12 years, the longest in Canada’s history. Canada led Operation MEDUSA, its largest combat operation since the Korean War.

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Photo: ISAF photo by U.S. Air Force TSgt Laura K. Smith · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
Building of the Cégep Garneau, Québec City.
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Cégep Garneau, Québec City

The Collège d’enseignement général et professionnel François-Xavier-Garneau was created in August 1969 from the Collège des Jésuites, the École normale Mérici and the École normale Laval, starting with 550 students. In 2012 it chose to call itself a cégep and adopted Garneau as its key name; it honours the historian François-Xavier Garneau.

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The Schlegel Centre at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo.
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Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo

Wilfrid Laurier University traces its roots to the Evangelical Lutheran Seminary, opened in Waterloo in 1911. Known for a time as Waterloo Lutheran University, it took its present name in 1973, opened a Brantford campus in 1999 and welcomed its first Milton students in September 2024.

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University College, Western University, London.
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Western University, London

Western University was founded on March 7, 1878, by Bishop Isaac Hellmuth as The Western University of London Ontario, and first admitted students in 1881 in arts, divinity, law and medicine. It bought its present campus from the Kingsmill family in 1916 and was renamed The University of Western Ontario in 1923. Brescia University College fully integrated with Western in 2024.

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OCAD University’s Sharp Centre for Design at night.
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OCAD University, Toronto

OCAD University began in Toronto as the Ontario School of Art in 1876, founded by the Ontario Society of Artists with 14 registered students. It was incorporated as the Ontario College of Art in 1912 and adopted the OCAD University name in 2010. The Sharp Centre for Design opened in 2004.

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Photo: John Vetterli from Toronto, Canada · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 2.0 · Credit & context
Tyndale University, Toronto.
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Tyndale University, Toronto

Tyndale University traces its origins to the Toronto Bible Training School, founded in 1894. It adopted the name Tyndale College & Seminary in 1998; Ontario legislation authorized its arts degrees in 2003 under the name Tyndale University College & Seminary.

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The Students’ Union building, University of Lethbridge.
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University of Lethbridge and its coulee campus

The University of Lethbridge’s main campus sits in the southern Alberta coulees overlooking the Oldman River and is known for University Hall, designed by Arthur Erickson; a Calgary campus serves working professionals. The university’s Blackfoot name, Iniskim, meaning Sacred Buffalo Stone, was given by Elder Bruce Wolf Child in 2002.

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Northern lights over Canadian University College in Lacombe, winter 2005; the institution is now Burman University.
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Burman University, Lacombe

Burman University traces its roots to a Seventh-day Adventist school founded near Leduc, Alberta, in 1907 and moved to Lacombe in 1909. On December 15, 2014, the board of Canadian University College approved changing the institution’s name to Burman University.

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View west from the roof of Yukon College in Whitehorse, 2007; the institution later became Yukon University.
CA-K1143Institutions

Yukon University, from training centre to university

Yukon University traces its history to the Whitehorse Vocational and Technical Training Centre, founded in 1963. It became Yukon College in 1983, moved to its present Whitehorse campus in 1988 and was granted university status in 2020. Elder Angela Sidney named the campus Ayamdigut, a Tlingit name meaning “she got up and went.”

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The Shannon School of Business, Cape Breton University.
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Cape Breton University, from Xavier College to university

Cape Breton University traces its origins to Xavier Junior College, founded in 1951 under St. Francis Xavier University. A merger in 1974 created the College of Cape Breton; it became the University College of Cape Breton in 1982 and adopted its present name in 2005.

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Dame Cindy Kiro, Governor-General of New Zealand, meets Mary Simon during the Platinum Jubilee, June 3, 2022.
CA-K1102History

Mary Simon at the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, 2022

From June 2 to 6, 2022, Governor General Mary Simon represented Canada in London at the official events marking the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, and met the Governors General of Australia, Belize and New Zealand.

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