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Local government in Canada can be defined as all elected local authorities which are legally empowered to make decisions on behalf of its electors, excluding the federal government, provincial and territorial governments, and First Nations, Métis and Inuit governments. This can include municipalities, school boards, health authorities, and so on.
Because Toronto is the capital of Ontario, it is where the provincial government meets. Visitors can see how the province is run by visiting the legislature in Queen's Park. There are museums, including the Royal Ontario Museum , the Art Gallery of Ontario , the Ontario Science Centre , the Hockey Hall of Fame , and the headquarters of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation .
The 2018 Toronto municipal election was held on October 22, 2018, to elect a mayor and city councillors in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [1] Registration for candidates for the office of mayor, councillor, and school board trustee opened on May 1, 2018, and initially closed on July 27, 2018. John Tory won the mayoral election with over 60% of the vote.
TransformTO is a plan adopted by the City of Toronto to bring the city to carbon neutrality by 2040. [1] The plan was adopted by city council unanimously in July 2017, [2] and has components addressing buildings, transportation, waste, and natural systems. [1] The plan initially started in response to the 2016 Paris Agreement, aiming to reach ...
In municipal government, a Board of Control is an executive body that usually deals with financial and administrative matters. The idea is that a small body of four or five people is better able to make certain decisions than a large, unwieldy city council. Boards of Control were introduced in many North American municipalities in the early ...
Subsequently, Lastman defeated Hall in the 1997 Toronto municipal election to become the first elected mayor of the megacity. However, Canadian municipal governments are legal creations of the provincial governments and local referendums have little to no legal effect. The Harris government thus had the power to ignore the results of the ...
Toronto City Hall is the seat of the municipal government of Toronto. As of 2016, the city council has twelve standing committees, each consisting of a chair (some have a vice-chair), and a number of councillors. [229] The mayor names the committee chairs and the remaining members of the committees are appointed by city council. An executive ...
