In the province of Alberta are three major oil sands areas: the Athabasca (the largest), Peace River, and Cold Lake.

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Some of the biggest projects to benefit include the Peace Bridge across the River Foyle and the proposed new Conflict Transformation centre at the Maze.

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The money has funded scores of community groups as well as high profile projects like the Peace Bridge across the River Foyle and the planned Conflict Resolution Centre at the site of the former Maze prison.

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He aims to promote peace, friendship and free navigation on the river.

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Estimates at the Peace Bridge -- which crosses the Niagara River and connects Buffalo and Canada -- ranged up to 15 hours, according to the Ontario advisory.

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He was drawn by the peace and quiet, and the amazing views of undulating cliffs and a majestic river.

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Syria contends that the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin agreed during lower-level peace talks that stalled in 1996 to return the Golan, a water-rich region that overlooks the upper Jordan River valley.

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Some suggest that, while Israel's peace treaty with Jordan is reasserted, a buffer zone could be drawn up on the eastern side of the Jordan river, perhaps monitored by peacekeepers from NATO or the UN, to protect Israel against an invasion from the east and to enable it to withdraw from the West Bank.

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