GoodWoodWatch, a collaboration of local environmental groups and the Canadian branches of Greenpeace and the Sierra Club, has praised Vanoc for using renewable, local lumber in place of building materials like steel, aluminium and plastic, which have much higher carbon costs.

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In 2008 it partnered with Element 21, a Canadian golf-club maker, to develop processes to slice and encapsulate the aerogels into something apparel makers could use.

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Come evening first-class passengers repair for cocktails to the dome car's snub-nose lounge, where, as they sip Canadian Club or Canadian microbrews and graze on smoked salmon and foie gras, they can visit with one another and enjoy the waning light.

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And the kicker : no Canada-based club has taken the Cup since 1993, when the Montreal Canadiens wrapped up a stretch of eight Canadian Cups in ten years.

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