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    Accenture document on governance presented with the Alcan case, place Canadian Shield in the appropriate quadrant. According to the Accenture document, I would place Canadian Shield within the efficient, predictable operator category. The slow rate of change and need to compete on operational efficiencies characterized by most companies in this quadrant is detailed by the following quote from the case authors. “Sustainability for Canadian insurance companies greatly depended on investments in projects

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    is dominated by the Canadian Shield, an ice-scoured area of Precambrian rocks surrounding Hudson Bay and covering half the country. This vast region, with its store of forests, waterpower, and mineral resources, is being increasingly developed. East of the Shield is the maritime area, separated from the rest of Canada by low mountain ranges pierced by plains and river valleys, and including the island of Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island. South and southeast of the Shield are the Great Lakes–St

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    The shield that is located in Canada is the most famous shield because it is the oldest. The shield is the only area of rock that is as old as the Earth itself. This means that the rock formations located within the shield are 4.6 billion years old. No other area of the Earth’s crust is this old because of the rock cycle. The rock cycle basically recycles the

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    The canadian shield is made up of bedrock that existed from an ancient continent called Actica that last existed about 2.5 billion years ago.This continent also formed into scotland, greenland, and siberia. The area was originally full of mountains before it was lowered down to what we know as the canadian shield This was likely caused by water erosion that sank the land around it, leaving the bedrock exposed, resulting in the forms that are now known as the canadian shield.The Canadian Shield is

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    The Canadian Shield is a landform Region that covers almost half of Canada, including Nunavut, Quebec, Labrador, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The Canadian Shield is a landform that is composed of igneous and metamorphic rocks. It has a huge boreal forest ecosystem, hence, a lot of lands in the Canadian Shield are covered with trees. Due to the amount of trees and the boreal forest ecosystem, a number of animals such as horned owls, black bears and geese liked to live in the lands of the Canadian

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    The Canadian Shield takes a massive land span of 50 percent of all of Canada.When first considering this total area,you would think that there would be many job opportunities within the Canadian Shield.Well this is not the case for the Canadian Shield.The Canadian Shield consist of three major industries.The “Forestry Industry,which primarily consist of exporting wood,the Mining Industry which consist of extracting minerals as well as the Agricultural Industry which consist of mainly Farming”.These

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    Promotional Pitch for Canadian Mining Association Introduction The Canadian Shield is is arguably the best place to hold the annual Canadian Mining Association Summit as it's considered one of the richest areas of mineral ores in the world, making it great for future mining opportunities. This provides thousands of jobs for people looking to get into this industry as truck drivers, miners, geologists, analysts, etc. Types of Landforms The Canadian Shield is a landform region that covers 8,000,000

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    Neil Morrison Recommend a career ladder promotion be awarded to Neil Morrison, IT Analyst (P2), to the position of Sr. IT Analyst (P1). In last a few years Neil has been one of the most reliable and dependable performers and since I took over the Desktop Design and Management Team his performance is consistently exceeding all my expectations. He has been involved and led in just about every enterprise level project (Office 365 deployment, SCCM design, deployment, administration and maintenance

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    Logging in the Canadian Shield started in the early 19th century when the British demanded large amounts of big pine trees for masts for the British Naval Fleet (“Timber”). This started the mark of mass amounts of logging that cleared large portions of land in the shield. The clearing of the land was popular among the newly arriving immigrants but extremely unpopular for the indigenous people of Canada. The immigrants really loved the new land because it gave them many options to begin a farm in

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    Questions How did nature create the shape of the continents? What is the Canadian Shield? When did the Ice Age happen,what happened, and what were its effects on the North American landscape? ________________________ How did the first people reach North America? What did these people do after arriving in North America? Answers First, everything was a giant land mass, then it started separating into the continents and oceans formed in between. We know this because the same species

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