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Law is a system ___MASK33___ rules that are created and enforced through social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior . State - enforced laws can be made by a collective legislature or by a single legislator , resulting in statutes , by the executive through decrees and regulations , or established by judges through precedent , normally in common law jurisdictions . Private individuals can create legally binding contracts , including arbitration agreements that may elect to accept alternative arbitration to the normal court process . The formation ___MASK33___ laws themselves may be influenced by a constitution , written or tacit , and the rights encoded therein . The law shapes politics , economics , history and society in various ways and serves as a mediator ___MASK33___ relations between people . ___MASK8___ is a state in the northwestern region ___MASK33___ the United States . It borders the state ___MASK33___ Montana to the ___MASK14___ and northeast , Wyoming to the ___MASK14___ , Nevada and Utah to the south , and Washington and Oregon to the west . To the north , it shares a small portion ___MASK33___ the Canadian border with the province ___MASK33___ British ___MASK62___ . With a population ___MASK33___ around 1 . 7 million people and an area ___MASK33___ , ___MASK8___ is the 14th largest and 39th most populous ___MASK33___ the 50 states . The state ' s capital and largest city is Boise . A province is almost always an administrative division , within a country or state . The term derives from the ancient Roman " provincia ", which was the major territorial and administrative unit ___MASK33___ the ___MASK71___ ' s territorial possessions outside Italy . The term province has since been adopted by many countries , and in those with no actual provinces , it has come to mean " outside the capital city ". While some provinces were produced artificially by colonial powers , others were formed around local groups with their own ethnic identities . Many have their own powers independent ___MASK33___ federal authority , especially in Canada . In other countries , like ___MASK76___ , provinces are the creation ___MASK33___ central government , with very little autonomy . ___MASK69___ , one ___MASK33___ the 13 provinces and territories ___MASK33___ Canada , is located in ___MASK14___ - central Canada . It is Canada ' s ___MASK89___ populous province by a large margin , accounting for nearly 40 percent ___MASK33___ all Canadians , and is the second - largest province in total area . ___MASK69___ is fourth - largest in total area when the territories ___MASK33___ the ___MASK84___ Territories and Nunavut are included . It is home to the nation ' s capital city , Ottawa , and the nation ' s ___MASK89___ populous city , Toronto . An ice age is a period ___MASK33___ long - term reduction in the temperature ___MASK33___ Earth ' s surface and atmosphere , resulting in the presence or expansion ___MASK33___ continental and polar ice sheets and ___MASK74___ glaciers . Within a long - term ice age , individual pulses ___MASK33___ cold climate are termed " glacial periods " ( or alternatively " glacials " or " glaciations " or colloquially as " ice age "), and intermittent warm periods are called " interglacials ". Glaciologically , " ice age " implies the presence ___MASK33___ extensive ice sheets in both northern and southern hemispheres . By this definition , we are in an interglacial period  the Holocene  ___MASK33___ the ice age that began 2 . 6 million years ago at the start ___MASK33___ the Pleistocene epoch , because the Greenland , Arctic , and Antarctic ice sheets still exist . Emergency medical services , also known as ambulance services or paramedic services ( abbreviated to the initialism EMS , EMAS , EMARS or ___MASK20___ in some countries ), are a type ___MASK33___ emergency service dedicated to providing out - ___MASK33___ - hospital acute medical care , transport to definitive care , and other medical transport to patients with illnesses and injuries which prevent the patient from transporting themselves . Emergency medical services may also be locally known as a paramedic service , a first aid squad , FAST squad , emergency squad , rescue squad , ambulance squad , ambulance service , ambulance corps , or life squad . The Burrard Peninsula is a peninsula in the Lower ___MASK34___ region of southwestern British Columbia , Canada , lying between Burrard Inlet to the north and the Fraser River to the south , and bounded by Georgia Strait on the west and the Pitt River on the east . The City of Vancouver occupies most of the western half of the peninsula . ___MASK31___ is a U . S . state located in the northwest extremity of North America . The Canadian administrative divisions of British Columbia and Yukon border the state to the east ; its most extreme western part is Attu Island ; it has a maritime border with Russia to the west across the Bering Strait . To the north are the Chukchi and Beaufort seas  the southern parts of the Arctic Ocean . The Pacific Ocean lies to the south and ___MASK82___ . ___MASK31___ is the largest state in the United States by area , the 3rd least populous and the least densely populated of the 50 United States . Approximately half of ___MASK31___ ' s residents ( the total estimated at 738 , 432 by the U . S . Census Bureau in 2015 ) live within the Anchorage metropolitan area . ___MASK31___ ' s economy is dominated by the fishing , natural gas , and oil industries , resources which it has in abundance . Military bases and tourism are also a significant part of the economy . A gendarmerie or gendarmery ( or ) is a military component with jurisdiction in civil law enforcement . The term " gendarmerie " is derived from the medieval French expression "", which translates to " armed men ". In ___MASK40___ and ___MASK89___ Francophone nations , the gendarmerie is the branch of the armed forces responsible for internal security during wartime . This concept was introduced to several other Western European countries during the Napoleonic conquests . In the mid twentieth century , a number of former French mandates or colonial possessions such as ___MASK22___ and the Republic of the Congo adopted a gendarmerie after independence . British ___MASK62___ ( BC ) is the westernmost province of Canada , with a population of more than four million people located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains . British ___MASK62___ is also a component of the Pacific ___MASK84___ and the Cascadia bioregion , along with the U . S . states of Idaho , Oregon , Washington and ___MASK31___ . The City ___MASK33___ ___MASK30___ is a waterfront municipality on the north shore ___MASK33___ Burrard Inlet , directly across from Vancouver , British Columbia . It is the smallest ___MASK33___ the three North Shore municipalities , and the most urbanized as well . Although it has significant industry ___MASK33___ its own , including shipping , chemical production , and film production , the City is usually considered to be a suburb ___MASK33___ Vancouver . The city is served by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police , British Columbia Ambulance Service , and the ___MASK30___ City Fire Department . A U . S . state is a constituent political entity ___MASK33___ the ___MASK53___ . There are 50 states , which are bound together in a union with each other . Each state holds administrative jurisdiction over a defined geographic territory , and shares its sovereignty with the United States federal government . Due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the federal government , Americans are citizens ___MASK33___ both the federal republic and ___MASK33___ the state in which they reside . State citizenship and residency are flexible , and no government approval is required to move between states , except for persons covered by certain types ___MASK33___ court orders ( e . g ., paroled convicts and children ___MASK33___ divorced spouses who are sharing custody ). The Rocky Mountains , commonly known as the Rockies , are a major ___MASK1___ range in western North America . The Rocky Mountains stretch more than from the northernmost part ___MASK33___ British ___MASK62___ , in western Canada , to New ___MASK94___ , in the southwestern United States . Within the North American Cordillera , the Rockies are somewhat distinct from the Pacific Coast Ranges and the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada which all lie further to the west . Provincial Health Services Authority ( PHSA ) is a publicly funded health service provider in the province ___MASK33___ British ___MASK62___ . Other health authorities in the province have a regional jurisdiction . PHSA is unique in Canada as the only health authority having a province - wide mandate for specialized health services . Services are provided either directly through PHSA agencies or through funding or collaboration with regional health authorities . ___MASK100___ , officially the City of ___MASK100___ , is a coastal seaport city on the ___MASK34___ of British Columbia , Canada , and the most populous city in the province . ___MASK50___ ( pronounced or ) is the second - most populous province of Canada and the only one to have a predominantly French - speaking population , with French as the sole provincial official language . The ___MASK18___ Shore Mountains are a ___MASK1___ range overlooking ___MASK100___ in British ___MASK62___ , Canada . Their southernmost peaks are visible from most areas in ___MASK100___ and form a distinctive backdrop for the city . The ___MASK61___ is the largest ___MASK33___ the Earth ' s oceanic divisions . It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean ( or , depending on definition , to Antarctica ) in the south and is bounded by Asia and ___MASK88___ in the west and the Americas in the ___MASK14___ . An ambulance is a vehicle for transportation ___MASK33___ sick or injured people to , from or between places ___MASK33___ treatment for an illness or injury , and in some instances will also provide out ___MASK33___ hospital medical care to the patient . The word is often associated with ___MASK64___ going " emergency ambulances " which form part ___MASK33___ an emergency medical service , administering emergency care to those with acute medical problems . The British ___MASK62___ Ambulance Service ( BCAS ) is the sole ambulance service and provider of pre - hospital emergency care in the province of British ___MASK62___ . BCAS is managed by British ___MASK62___ Emergency Health Services ( BCEHS ) and falls under the jurisdiction of the Provincial Health Services Authority ( PHSA ). The service is tasked with the provision of emergency medical response province - wide . Today , BC Ambulance is among the largest Emergency Medical Services ( EMS ) provider in Canada and North America . The fleet consists of more than 481 ground ambulances operating from 183 stations across the province along with 77 support vehicles . BCAS provides inter - facility patient transfer services in circumstances where a patient needs to be moved between health care facilities for treatment . BCAS also operates an airevac program that utilizes both fixed - wing and rotary aircraft . ___MASK21___ ( French : ) is a country in the ___MASK13___ half of North America . Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean , covering , making it the world ' s second - largest country by total area and the fourth - largest country by land area . ___MASK21___ ' s border with the United States is the world ' s longest land border . The majority of the country has a cold or severely cold winter climate , but southerly areas are warm in summer . ___MASK21___ is sparsely populated , the majority of its land territory being dominated by forest and tundra and the Rocky Mountains . About four - fifths of the country ' s population of 36 million people is urbanized and live near the southern border . Its capital is ___MASK96___ , its largest city is Toronto ; other major urban areas include Montreal , Vancouver , ___MASK46___ , Edmonton , ___MASK50___ City , Winnipeg and Hamilton . Burrard Inlet is a relatively shallow - sided coastal fjord in southwestern British ___MASK62___ , Canada . Formed during the last Ice Age , it separates the City of Vancouver and the rest of the low - lying Burrard Peninsula ( to the south ) from the slopes of the North Shore Mountains , home to the communities of West Vancouver and the City and District of ___MASK30___ . The Pacific ___MASK84___ ( in the United States , commonly abbreviated as PNW ), sometimes referred to as Cascadia , is a geographic region in western North America bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and loosely , by the Rocky Mountains on the east . Though no agreed boundary exists , a common conception includes the U . S . states of Oregon and Washington and the Canadian province of British Columbia . Broader conceptions reach north into ___MASK31___ and Yukon , south into far northern California and east to the Continental Divide , thus including Idaho , Western Montana , and western Wyoming . Narrower conceptions may be limited to the northwestern US or to the coastal areas west of the Cascade and Coast mountains . The variety of definitions can be attributed to partially overlapping commonalities of the region ' s history , geography , society , and other factors . ___MASK59___ ___MASK100___ is a district municipality in the province of British ___MASK62___ , Canada . A member municipality of ___MASK15___ , the governing body of the Greater ___MASK100___ Regional District , the municipality is northwest of the city of ___MASK100___ on the northern side of English Bay and the southeast shore of Howe Sound , and is adjoined by the District of North ___MASK100___ to its east . Together with the District of North ___MASK100___ and City of North ___MASK100___ , it is part of a local regional grouping referred to as the North Shore municipalities , or simply " The North Shore ". ___MASK59___ ___MASK100___ has a population of 42 , 694 ( 2011 census ). Cypress Provincial Park , mostly located within the municipal boundaries , was one of the venues for the 2010 Winter Olympics . ___MASK59___ ___MASK100___ is also home of Canada ' s first shopping mall , Park Royal Shopping Centre , and also of the Horseshoe Bay Ferry Terminal , one of the main connecting points between the British ___MASK62___ mainland and ___MASK100___ Island . Geologically , a fjord or fiord is a long , narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs , created by glacial erosion . There are many fjords on the coasts ___MASK33___ ___MASK31___ , British Columbia , Chile , Greenland , Iceland , the Kerguelen Islands , New Zealand , Norway , Novaya Zemlya , Labrador , Nunavut , Newfoundland , Scotland , and Washington state . Norway ' s coastline is estimated at with fjords , but only when fjords are excluded . The Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ; ( GRC ), " Royal Gendarmerie ___MASK33___ Canada "; colloquially known as the Mounties , and internally as " the Force ") is both a federal and a national police force ___MASK33___ Canada . The RCMP provides law enforcement at a federal level in Canada , and also on a contract basis to the three territories , eight ___MASK33___ Canada ' s provinces ( the RCMP does not provide provincial or municipal policing in either Ontario or ___MASK50___ ), more than 150 municipalities , 600 aboriginal communities , and three international airports .