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BookNet Canada was founded in 2002 in response to government and industry initiatives to support book publishing in Canada, with an initial mandate of "implementing technologically focused, universally adopted supply chain standards and solutions (including a centralized sales reporting database)."
The Job Bank is an employment website operated by Employment and Social Development Canada. It provides an online database of job listings in Canada , as well as other employment services and information for recruiters and job seekers, including career planning, resume creation, job matching, and notifications.
Open data in Canada describes the capacity for the Canadian Federal Government and other levels of government in Canada to provide online access to data collected and created by governments in a standards-compliant Web 2.0 way. Open data requires that machine-readable should be made openly available, simple to access, and convenient to reuse. [1]
The Canada Year Book was originally edited by a volunteer from the Department of Finance and published by a private company, which offset costs with advertisement sales. This method continued until 1879, at which time the record ceases, until 1885, at which time the Department of Agriculture took up the burden.
BookScan is a data provider for the book publishing industry that compiles point of sale data for book sales, owned by Circana in the United States and NIQ in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, and Poland. [1] [2] [3] [4]
The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) stated that 5,561 of its members in 23 government departments had received notices from the federal government about the potential termination of their jobs. [5] [22] This includes 308 jobs at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, [5] which will cut its operating budget by $56 million. [23]
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Prior to introduction of responsible government in 1848, the Province of Canada, then a British colonial possession lacked an organized civil service. [5] Positions in the colonial administration were then largely filled through patronage, with appointments almost exclusively controlled by the sitting governor, often under the advisement of members of the ruling Family Compact, who would ...