This day is an occasion to raise awareness on how important museums are in the development of society.
The suggested theme for 2014 is: Museum collections make connections
This theme reminds us that museums are living institutions that help create bonds between visitors, generations and cultures around the world.
Celebrate ‘Safety on the Water’ during Safe Boating Awareness Week. Watch for displays, newspaper articles, radio spots, and more in your community as CPS gears up to ensure recreational boaters are equipped with the information they need to enjoy their boating pursuits. In keeping with its educational goals, CPS strives to ensure that all Canadians who head out on the water do so well informed to have a safe day.
Safe Boating Week Key Messages
-Wear Your Lifejacket
-Don’t Drink and Boat
-Take a Boating Skills Course
-Beware of Cold Water Risks
-Be Prepared
The biggest canyons in the world are under water. Beneath the Bering Sea off Alaska there are seven giant canyons: Bering Canyon, 240 miles long; Navarin Canyon, 60 miles wide; Zhemchung Canyon, 9000 feet deep. In comparison, the Grand Canyon in Arizona is only 10 miles wide, one mile deep and 250 miles long.
The Sahara, one of the world’s largest and driest deserts with sand up to thirty feet deep was once a land with flowing rivers, humid swamps and lush fields. Cave painting, 9,000 years old, found in the heart of the Sahara, show men herding cattle and hunting lions and hippos. About 2,000 years ago the cave painters, herders and animals left because the area that was rapidly becoming the desert we know today.
Seeds from a wild flower, the Artic Lupine, found in Alaska, have grown in the lab after being frozen in the ground for 10,000 years.
Canada Safety Council’s annual awareness campaign focuses on behaviors that put drivers, passengers and other road users most at risk: impaired driving, driver distractions, aggressive driving, and seat belt use by all persons inside the vehicle. Officers will enforce these violations with a zero tolerance approach.
Canadian Police Week is dedicated to increasing community awareness and recognition of policing services while strengthening police-community ties. Police Week also encourages community involvement and initiation of activities through media awareness and community sponsored events.