Actually, you don't have to go to Arctic Canada to find north-south flowing rivers in Canada. If you want to consider north flowing rivers as ones that drain into the Arctic, you just have to be north of the "height of land" divide (the n-s equivalent of the e-w continental divide).
In fact this site has a good explanation. I'll quote a small bit here:
Surprisingly, four of the world's ten longest rivers flow generally in a northern direction. The Nile in Africa, the Ob-Irtysh and the Lena in Eurasia and the Mackenzie-Peace in North America.
Got a nice email from Shaw cable today, letting customers know that they're dropping @Home. Well, phasing out. As of September 1st! (Yesterday!). Here's the relevent bit of the email....
Fortunately, our proactive actions came at a time when confidence in the service that the @Home Corporation in the U.S. was providing, was diminishing. But, because of the network construction we have completed, the current financial issues that the @Home Corporation are facing will have no impact to the quality of service we provide our customers. Shaw is confident that, the major shareholders of @Home Corp will maintain all e-mail and web space services without impacting its 3.7 million customers across North America.
Bottom line, all current customers who have @home.com email addresses and webspace, (managed by @Home Corp. in the U.S.), can currently maintain these existing addresses as well as choose an @shaw.ca email and webspace address that is managed locally by Shaw. Shaw is committed to providing a smooth transition from @home.com to @shaw.ca. As of September 1, 2001, all new Shaw@Home customers will be installed with the @shaw.ca email and webspace address only. We will be contacting all current Shaw@Home customers, encouraging them to transition over to the @shaw.ca email andwebspace.
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In fact this site has a good explanation. I'll quote a small bit here:
Cheers!
If they release a movie based on Enterprise, will they have to use negative numbers? Star Trek -1: The Klingon Wars
Hello? The Xbox is the only console out there that comes with an ethernet adapter *built-in*!!
What's up with that?