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The most prominent form of local government in Canada is municipal government, which is a local council authority which provides local services, facilities, safety and infrastructure for communities. Municipal governments are local general-purpose authorities which provide services to all residents within a defined geographic area called a ...
In June 2021, "National Service Territories" came into effect for the Boy Scouts of America. This affects how the BSA national office works with the local councils The transition from the four regions of the Boy Scouts of America to the sixteen National Service Territories were made as an effort to reduce staff and save costs. At the territory ...
The program of Scouts Canada is administered through councils, (previously referred to as regions which reported to the Provincial Council, when Scouts Canada was a federated structure) with each council covering a geographic area that may vary from a census metropolitan area (CMA) in British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario, to an entire province, the case with most councils.
1st Council of the Northwest Territories: Lieutenant governor of the North-West Territories: 1888–1905 North-West Legislative Assembly — 1905–1951 — 2nd Council of the Northwest Territories: Governor General of Canada as represented by the Commissioner of the Northwest Territories Commissioner-in-Council 1951–2014
The NTC provides programs and services to approximately 8,000 registered members, of which about 2,000 live off reserve (NTC, 2008a). The Central Region is by far the largest component of the NTC at the present time. Some programs (e.g. child welfare, fisheries, and training) are administered directly by NTC staff on behalf of the bands.
A two-year national project (January 2006 through March 2008) aimed at identifying strategies to improve the income and wages, including the living wage, of young families and their children. Partners: Community Services Council, Newfoundland and Labrador; Family Service Association of Toronto; Social Planning Council of Winnipeg
The Public Service Commission of Canada (PSC; French: Commission de la fonction publique du Canada) is an independent government agency that safeguards merit-based hiring, non-partisanship, representativeness of Canada's diversity, and the use of both official languages (English and French) in the Canadian public service. The PSC aims to ...
Prior to introduction of responsible government in 1848, the Province of Canada, then a British colonial possession lacked an organized civil service. [5] Positions in the colonial administration were then largely filled through patronage, with appointments almost exclusively controlled by the sitting governor, often under the advisement of members of the ruling Family Compact, who would ...