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  - Access to Justice Network
British Columbia Debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard)
This Assembly is one of two such bodies in Canada that works on a non-partisan,consensus basis.
Among the many distinctive features of the Nunavut Legislative Assembly is the use of both English and Inuktitut in the proceedings of the House.
www.acjnet.org /nacanadian/legislative.aspx   (456 words)

  
  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Surrey City Council
The Legislative Assembly of Manitoba is located in central Winnipeg, at the meeting point of the Wolseley and Fort Rouge ridings.
The Ontario Legislature Building at Queens Park The Legislative Assembly of Ontario, is the legislature of the Canadian province of Ontario.
The Nova Scotia House of Assembly is the legislative branch of the provincial government of Nova Scotia, located in Halifax.
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 Yukon Health & Social Services - The Minister
Brad Cathers was first elected to the Yukon Legislative Assembly in the general election of November 4, 2002.
Cathers was involved in the administration of the Yukon Party, serving as president of the Yukon Party Lake Laberge Riding Association from 1998-1999, and on the territorial executive of the Yukon Party in 2001 and 2002.
Cathers was the Yukon constituency president for the Reform Party of Canada/Canadian Alliance from 1998 until his election to the Legislative Assembly; was a member of the Reform Party of Canada Leader's Grassroots Advisory Committee on the United Alternative, 1998-1999; and was the Yukon's member on the Canadian Alliance National Council from 2000-2002.
www.hss.gov.yk.ca /about/minister   (180 words)

  
 Elections Yukon: Elections
Elections of the members to the Yukon Legislative Assembly are the responsibility of the chief electoral officer of Yukon, who is selected by the members of the Legislative Assembly.
A by-election is necessary if a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Yukon resigns or dies.
There are three political parties represented in the Legislative Assembly and registered with the chief electoral officer.
electionsyukon.gov.yk.ca /elections.html   (1395 words)

  
 The Conflict of Interest Commissioner
The Conflict of Interest Commissioner is an officer of the Legislative Assembly, and is independent from government.
The Yukon’s Conflicts Commissioner is David Jones, Q.C. who was first appointed by the Legislative Assembly on May 14, 2002.
The Commissioner's primary role is to assist Members of the Yukon Legislative Assembly and Cabinet Ministers to understand their obligations under the conflict of interest legislation, to assist them in identifying areas of possible conflict, and to provide them with advice on preventing conflicts from occurring.
www.gov.yk.ca /conflictcomm   (387 words)

  
 Yukon Legislative Assembly Information
The Yukon Legislative Assembly is the legislative assembly for Yukon Territory, Canada.
Information in this section is current as of 1 May, 2006, reflecting the following changes since the 2002 election:
decision by Peter Jenkins to resign from the Yukon Party on 28 November,
www.bookrags.com /Yukon_Legislative_Assembly   (110 words)

  
  Elections Yukon: Elections
Elections of the members to the Yukon Legislative Assembly are the responsibility of the chief electoral officer of Yukon, who is selected by the members of the Legislative Assembly.
For a number of years the chief electoral officer for Canada ran elections of members to the territorial council or, as it is now called, the Legislative Assembly.
There are three political parties represented in the Legislative Assembly and registered with the chief electoral officer.
www.electionsyukon.gov.yk.ca /elections.html   (1395 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Yukon Party
The Yukon Party is a conservative political party in the Yukon Territory of Canada.
With Brian Mulroney's federal Progressive Conservative government's increasing unpopularity, the Yukon Progressive Conservatives decided to sever their relations with the federal Tory party, and renamed themselves the "Yukon Party" prior to the 1992 general election.
The Yukon Party was reduced to a single seat in the legislature as the right wing vote moved to the Yukon Liberal Party, putting it in power for the first time in the territory's history.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Yukon_Party   (504 words)

  
 yukon
The warmest recorded temperature in the Yukon was 97°F (36.1°C) on 14 June 1969 at Mayo; the coldest was -81°F (-63°C) on 3 February 1947 at Snag.
Above the Arctic Circle (latitude 66 north), the Yukon is known as "the land of the midnight sun" because for three months in summer, sunlight is almost continuous.
In 1898, the Yukon Territory was officially established to ensure Canadian jurisdiction; the Yukon Act provided for a commissioner and an elected legislative assembly.
cms.westport.k12.ct.us /cmslmc/foreignlanguages/canada/yukon.htm   (3122 words)

  
 Sexual Orientation and Legal Rights (92-1E)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
The legislation added a gender-neutral definition of “common law partner” to a number of laws, including those governing maintenance and custody, health, insurance and pension benefits; the measure had the apparent effect of restricting the term “spouse” in the affected statutes to married individuals.
Under the legislation, opposite-sex or same-sex common-law couples might, irrespective of the duration of their cohabitation, register their relationships and immediately become entitled to the benefits and subject to the obligations for which non registered couples were required to satisfy varying prior cohabitation requirements.
The legislation defined “relationship of interdependence” as one outside marriage in which two persons of the same or of the opposite sex, including non-minor relatives, shared their lives, were emotionally committed and functioned as an economic and domestic unit.
www.parl.gc.ca /information/library/PRBpubs/921-e.htm   (13395 words)

  
 2004 Report of the Auditor General to the Yukon Legislative Assembly - June
In accordance with the Yukon Act, section 30 (2), the Auditor General is to report on any "other matters" arising from the audit that we feel should be brought to the attention of the Legislative Assembly.
The Yukon Government was to contribute $1,860,000 to the Fund, to be paid in five annual installments from April 1997 to April 2001.
Yukon Government corporations and Yukon College — the primary issue to be discussed was the mandates by which those entities operate.
www.oag-bvg.gc.ca /domino/reports.nsf/html/200406yla_e.html   (15765 words)

  
 Duncan, Patricia
She has also served in a number of civic leadership roles: she represented Yukon on the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women, chaired the City of Whitehorse Environmental Health Board, served on the Yukon Advisory Council on Health and Social Services and acted as Yukon Commissioner for the Girl Guides of Canada.
In 1996 Duncan was elected as the Member of the Legislative Assembly representing Porter Creek South.
However, as hers was the only seat that the Liberal Party retained she ceased to be premier, and Dennis FENTIE of the Yukon Party became the new leader.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0009631   (366 words)

  
 Fentie, Dennis
In 1996, Fentie entered territorial politics when he was elected to represent Watson Lake in Yukon's Legislative Assembly as a member of the New Democratic Party.
In the Yukon general election of November 2002, Fentie based the Yukon Party's campaign on a promise to create jobs despite Yukon's struggling economy.
Fentie was re-elected in his Watson Lake constituency, and the Yukon Party won 12 of 18 ridings, the New Democratic Party won 5 to become the Official Opposition and Pat Duncan remained the sole Yukon Liberal in the Legislature.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=a1ARTA0009807   (332 words)

  
 Jamaica :: Tourism in Canada :: The Yukon
The perimeters of this mountainous territory form a rough triangle bordered on the south by British Columbia, on the west by the U.S. state of Alaska and on the east by the Northwest Territories.
The Yukon was the first area in Canada to be settled by people.
The Yukon's vast interior forests were occupied by the Athapaskans, whose cultural and linguistic traditions go back more than 1 000 years.
www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca /latin-america/jamaica/tourism/yukon_apr2003-en.asp   (847 words)

  
 Compendium of Election Administration in Canada
The electoral district boundaries are adopted by an Act of the Legislative Assembly.
If the Legislative Assembly, by resolution, approves or approves with alterations the proposals of the commission, the government must, at the same session, introduce a Bill to establish new electoral districts in accordance with the resolution.
If the Legislative Assembly, by resolution, approves or approves with alterations the recommendations in the final report, the government must, within six months, introduce a bill to establish new electoral districts for the Yukon.
www.elections.ca /loi/com2000/Redistribution/red06_e.html   (784 words)

  
 Yukon Health & Social Services - The Minister
Brad Cathers was first elected to the Yukon Legislative Assembly in the general election of November 4, 2002.
Cathers was involved in the administration of the Yukon Party, serving as president of the Yukon Party Lake Laberge Riding Association from 1998-1999, and on the territorial executive of the Yukon Party in 2001 and 2002.
Cathers was the Yukon constituency president for the Reform Party of Canada/Canadian Alliance from 1998 until his election to the Legislative Assembly; was a member of the Reform Party of Canada Leader's Grassroots Advisory Committee on the United Alternative, 1998-1999; and was the Yukon's member on the Canadian Alliance National Council from 2000-2002.
hss.gov.yk.ca /about/minister   (180 words)

  
 Ryerson Library - Legislation
Bills of the House of Assembly as introduced, for the 1995-96 and subsequent sittings of the Assembly and those of the bills that were passed by the Assembly, as passed, are available on this site.
Supreme Court of the Yukon Territory includes all the decisions rendered by the Supreme Court of the Yukon Territory, since September 2000.
Thomas Legislative Information on the Internet Library of Congress, Thomas, is a service which provides the full text of all versions of House and Senate Bills searchable by keyword or by bill number.
www.ryerson.ca /library/subjects/legis/print.html   (1471 words)

  
 Government of Yukon - Department of Education - Hon. John Edzerza   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Government of Yukon - Department of Education - Hon.
Edzerza was born August 14, 1948 in Lower Post, British Columbia; was raised in Atlin, BC and moved to the Yukon in 1963 to attend high school.
He worked as a journeyman welder throughout the Yukon for 15 years, and in the healing and counselling profession with First Nations for 20 years.
www.education.gov.yk.ca /general/minister.html   (184 words)

  
 National Survey of Legislative Drafting Services 2002 - The International Cooperation Group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
The same relationship applies in Ontario, Prince Edward Island and the Yukon, where the office is considered to be a government drafting office that, concurrently, has an independent function as the law clerk of the provincial or, in the case of the Yukon, territorial legislative assembly.
In the Northwest Territories, the legislative drafting office generally does the actual drafting, but the law clerk to the Legislative Assembly ensures liaison with the private member.
In Nova Scotia, the Chief Legislative Counsel attends all meetings of the Cabinet Committee on Legislation and is thus able to provide input on the setting of legislative priorities and to advise the Committee on the progress of all drafting.
canada.justice.gc.ca /en/ps/inter/survey/page2.html   (1153 words)

  
 Commissioners: Yukon Territory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Of Gwich'in ancestry, Geraldine van Bibber was born and raised in Dawson City, Yukon, and has roots in Fort McPherson, N.W.T. She is the former Administrator of the Yukon Territory (2001-2005).
She was integral to the formation of the Yukon First Nation Tourism Association in 1992, and has been on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Tourism Commission, Aboriginal Tourism Canada, the Yukon Tourism Education Council, and the Government of Yukon's Business Development Fund.
He is also the former Yukon Liberal Party member of the Yukon Legislative Assembly for the Riverside riding (1992-2000) and leader of the party from 1992 to 1995 and again from 1997 to 1999.
www.heraldry.ca /misc/arms_lieutGovernor_YU.htm   (301 words)

  
 Board Members - Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board
Dale was elected to the Yukon Legislative Assembly representing the riding of Riverdale North.
In April 2000, Scott was elected to the Yukon Legislative Assembly representing the riding of Riverside.
She has traveled throughout the Yukon with the Yukon Placer Authorization Review and Public Consultation, meeting with a variety of stakeholders on issues that affect the placer mining industry.
www.yesab.ca /about_us/the_board_members.html   (1090 words)

  
 Introduction - Yukon Places and Names
However, the first feature in the Yukon to be given a name by white men was Mount St. Elias in the southwest corner of the territory.
Ogilvie, who was to become the first Commissioner of the Yukon Territory, named a number of prominent peaks after the pioneer prospectors of the Yukon, whom he admired, and a number of streams after geological phenomena observed on them.
Gordon McIntyre, Yukon Lands Titles Agent and later member of the Yukon Legislative Assembly was responsible for most of the research.
www.yukonplacesandnames.com /intro.html   (1437 words)

  
 Society Government/Parliaments and Legislatures/Regional Parliaments/Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Manitoba - Province of Manitoba Legislative Assembly in Winnipeg.
New Brunswick - Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in Fredericton.
Northwest Territories - Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories in Yellowknife.
www.gy.com /Society/Government/Parliaments_and_Legislatures/Regional_Parliaments/Canada/index.htm   (118 words)

  
 Canada Regional Parliaments Parliaments and Legislatures Government Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
- Province of Manitoba Legislative Assembly in Winnipeg.
- Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in Fredericton.
- Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories in Yellowknife.
www.iaswww.com /ODP/Society/Government/Parliaments_and_Legislatures/Regional_Parliaments/Canada   (91 words)

  
 Whitehorse Star Online
But as the smallest assembly in the country, time can sometimes be one of the largest challenges, he says.
It means, that while in larger assemblies MLAs may be clambering to get their chance to speak to the floor, in the Yukon, some members dread it.
The investigation into a local hotelier was being conducted on legislative assembly property without the consent of the Speaker.
www.whitehorsestar.com /auth.php?r=44883   (1225 words)

  
 Press Release: Members of the Yukon Legislative Exchange Make Their Way to Juneau
SB 56 is sponsored by Sen. Fred Dyson (R-Eagle River) and allows the residents of the Yukon to obtain sport fishing licenses and anadromous king salmon tags, in Alaska, for the same fees charged to Alaskan residents.
After their meeting with the lieutenant governor, Yukon legislators will visit the house floor session at 10:00 a.m.
Yukon and Alaska legislators meet every year alternating between Juneau and Whitehorse.
www.akrepublicans.org /dyson/23/news/dyso2004021701p.php   (563 words)

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