Local Government

Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of public administration within a particular sovereign state. This particular usage of the word government refers specifically to a level of administration that is both geographically-localised and has limited powers. While in some countries, "government" is normally reserved purely for a national administration (government) (which may be known as a central government or federal government), the term local government is always used specifically in contrast to national government – as well as, in many cases, the activities of sub-national, first-level administrative divisions (which are generally known by names such as …

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School of Public Policy, University of Calgary · 13 March 2024 English

R E S E A R C H P A P E R Volume 17:04 Assessing the March 2024 Viability of Smaller Municipalities: The Alberta Model Kimberly Jones, Mukesh Khanal, …

governments to instead consider a reorganization of local government. This may mean merging a number of communities one-third of New Brunswickers were without elected local government representation as they lived in local service provincial government stated in the report that the local government system needed to change in order to “… meet portions of them, with an existing and adjacent local government”; and • “Formation of 12 rural districts for districts (LSD)— or parts of them—that are outside local government boundaries” (Province of New Brunswick n.d


Fraser Institute · 12 March 2024 English

Business subsidies delivered through government spending since 1961 came with significant costs to Canadian taxpayers. In 2019, provincial business subsidies reached $27.0 billion ($2022). This represents the single largest year …

Figure 1 shows total federal, provincial, and local government subsidies in real terms (2022 dollars) from average real cost of federal, provincial, and local government subsidies per taxpayer by province from 2007


Environmental Defence · 11 March 2024 English

OF GOvErnmEnT” 9 The emissions reductions from changing the All of these policy interventions can be built environment of our towns and cities is achieved with the program design of …

cost-shares The federal for public transit Local government capital projects. governments manages a $2


FCPP: Frontier Centre for Public Policy · 7 March 2024 English

“this threat and Incredibly, a segment of the CBC’s Fifth Estate was devoted to the Coastal from where it is GasLink extremist attacks but devoted most of the segment to …

public expenditures in important areas such as local government, education, health and social policy. The


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 6 March 2024 English

This briefing paper analyzes the importance of integrating externalities into financial analysis to improve decision making for infrastructure transport projects.Transport is a crucial part of modern society, connecting communities and …

leading to increased tax revenue for the local government (World Bank, 2019). This highlights the fact Implementation completion and results report, Local government and decentralisation project. https://documents1


Columbia Basin Trust · 5 March 2024 English

Applicants operating outside the Basin must partner with community-based organizations operating within the region and must show that the project benefits the Basin. [...] • The project, and the organizations …

• have on-the-ground action on crown land, local government land, First Nations land, or conservation


CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 1 March 2024

It was the first nation in the have a significant impact on the lives of Canadians world to publish a national AI strategy.5 The and the operations of Canadian businesses.”9 …

(Nelson 1989; Esanu and Uhlir 2003). Moreover, local government officials could use Many countries, firms


PHABC: Public Health Association of BC · 29 February 2024 English

6 To really make a causes hunger, poverty, and a lack of control over food change, we need to break the foundations of the food for others, especially people of …

counter-examples that challenge advocating to their local government for a community the myth? garden site. 4.2 relations and equity in Example of “Power Over”: Local government fining a food systems planning. The purpose


SPI: Smart Prosperity Institute · 27 February 2024 English

The same framework is then applied to North-Eastern BC to help policymakers identify the areas of strength and the opportunities for improvement in a region aiming for the growth of …

exist to support a located. Recently, the local government has established various diverse wood industry


SPI: Smart Prosperity Institute · 27 February 2024 English

Precision is required in the manufacturing of mass timber products.114 The scale of mass timber manufacturing the components of a mass timber building (as the building struc- — which involves …

Design for of mass timber includes current local government policies in BC, Manufacturing and Assembly internationally. An adequate number tified current local government policies in BC and building of skilled professionals


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