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The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act ( PIPEDA; French: Loi sur la protection des renseignements personnels et les documents électroniques) is a Canadian law relating to data privacy. [ 2] It governs how private sector organizations collect, use and disclose personal information in the course of commercial business.
The National Do Not Call Registry is a database maintained by the United States federal government, listing the telephone numbers of individuals and families who have requested that telemarketers not contact them. [ 1] Certain callers are required by federal law to respect this request. Separate laws and regulations apply to robocalls in the ...
Telephone number representation. Canadian (and other North American Numbering Plan) telephone numbers are usually written as (NPA) NXX-XXXX. For example, 250 555 0199, a fictional number, could be written as (250) 555-0199, 250-555-0199, 250-5550199, or 250/555-0199. The Government of Canada's Translation Bureau recommends using hyphens between ...
8-1-1. 8-1-1 is an N-1-1 telephone number in Canada and the United States. In Canada, the number is used for non-urgent health services. In the United States, 8-1-1 provides a uniform national phone number to access local utility location services.
Canadian Firearms Program ( CFP; French: Programme canadien des armes à feu ), formerly Canada Firearms Centre is a Canadian government program within the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Policing Support Services, responsible for licensing and regulating firearms in Canada . As of December 31, 2020, the Canadian Firearms Program recorded a total ...
The Canada Pension Plan ( CPP; French: Régime de pensions du Canada) is a contributory, earnings-related social insurance program. It forms one of the two major components of Canada 's public retirement income system, the other component being Old Age Security (OAS). Other parts of Canada's retirement system are private pensions, either ...
The Ontario government also outlawed the practice in July 2005. [8] Ontario's regulations prohibiting negative option billing do not protect consumers from owing for goods or services that they have agreed to receive. [9] Additionally, Alberta has outlawed negative billing in 1998. [10]
In August 2018, the government of Ontario passed the Better Local Government Act, which, among other things, ordered the Toronto City Council to change its electoral ward boundaries for the 2018 municipal election to match the boundaries used for federal and provincial electoral ridings, thus reducing the number of wards from 47 to 25.