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The term was first introduced in the Canada 2011 Census; prior to that, Statistics Canada used the term urban area. [1] In the 2021 Census of Population, Statistics Canada listed 300 population centres in the province of Ontario. [2]
Designated place types in Ontario include 45 dissolved municipalities, 44 local service boards, 37 municipal defined places, and 9 dissolved population centres. [5] In 2021, the 135 designated places had a cumulative population of 74,105 and an average population of 549. Ontario's largest designated place is Breslau with a population of 5,053. [6]
Emergency Planning Act [26] Northwest Territories: Public Health Act [26] Nunavut: Public Health Act [36] Yukon: Civil Emergency Measures Act [37] [38] 2021 Wildfires: British Columbia Emergency Program Act [39] [40] COVID-19 pandemic: Ontario: Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act [41] Nova Scotia: Health Protection Act [42] New ...
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has declared a province-wide state of emergency as anti-vaccine mandate protests continue to block streets in Ottawa and access to the busiest border crossing in North ...
Canada population density map (2014). A population centre, in the context of a Canadian census, is a populated place, or a cluster of interrelated populated places, which meets the demographic characteristics of an urban area, having a population of at least 1,000 people and a population density of no fewer than 400 people per square km 2.
Each municipality in Ontario is required to develop and maintain a comprehensive emergency management program under the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act (EMCPA). Municipal programs are designed to protect the lives and property of residents through prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery initiatives.
The Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act replaced the Emergency Management Act of 2002, which had replaced the Emergency Plans Act of 1983. [2] One of the primary changes from previous Acts was the inclusion of emergencies related to disease or health risks, resulting from the poor response of the Government of Canada and Government of Ontario to the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak in ...
The state of emergency was lifted on July 24, 2020. [10] In early September 2020, the province showed a significant increase in new cases, beginning the second wave of the pandemic. [11] Ontario began to reintroduce some restrictions and in early November, created a new five-tiered colour-coded "response framework".