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Fair Vote Canada (FVC) is a Kitchener, Ontario-based grassroots, nonprofit, multi-partisan citizens' movement—created in June 2001—that calls for the replacement of the first-past-the-post electoral system with proportional representation, as part of electoral reform in Canada. [14] [15] Friends of Canadian Broadcasting political
Citizens Advice [n 1] (previously Citizens Advice Bureau [9] [n 2] and also known as Cyngor ar Bopeth [n 3] in Welsh [10]) is a British independent organisation specialising in confidential information and advice to assist people with legal, debt, consumer, housing and other problems in the United Kingdom. [11] [12]
The Bloor and Gladstone branch of the Toronto Public Library, a public service operated by the City of Toronto government.. Public services in Toronto are funded by municipal property taxes, financial transfers from the Government of Ontario and Government of Canada, or are operated and financed by the higher-level governments.
The National Citizens Coalition (NCC) is a Canadian conservative lobby group that was incorporated in 1975 by Colin M. Brown, a successful insurance agent who strongly opposed public health insurance—Medicare. In response to what he perceived to be excessive government spending in Canada, Brown had begun an advertisement campaign in 1967. [1]
Toronto, Ontario brookfieldinstitute.ca: 2016 [1] Business Council of Alberta: social and economic prosperity Calgary, Alberta www.businesscouncilab.com: 2019 C. D. Howe Institute: raise living standards by fostering economically sound public policies Toronto, Ontario www.cdhowe.org: 1958 Canada 2020 progressive ideas; move and shape governments
A Citizens' Reference Panel is a non-compulsory public jury used in Canada to provide policy advice to public and elected officials. They are generally convened by the government or a public agency and typically meet several times over a period of weeks or months to learn about, discuss, and reach agreement on recommendations for how to address a contentious public issue.
In November 2023, Toronto City Council voted unanimously to endorse the expansion of the service. [19] The program was launched city-wide by Mayor Chow on September 26, 2024. [20] The service will operate with 12 mobile teams of two crisis workers, with the targeted average response time being 25 minutes. [21]
In Canada, the Access to Information Act allows citizens to demand records from federal bodies. The act came into force in 1983, under the Pierre Trudeau government, permitting Canadians to retrieve information from government files, establishing what information could be accessed, mandating timelines for response. [10]