Provincial examinations: Bi-annual province-wide examinations for students between the grades of 10 to 12 in the province of British Columbia
Anything related to a province, a formal geographical division;
Anything related to "the provinces", the parts of a country outside of its capital or largest cities (e.g. all parts of England other than London);
A person who is an inhabitant of a province or "the provinces" as defined above;
Figurative: someone who has a limited, restricted, or non-sophisticated mentality or habits, stereotypical of an inhabitant of "the provinces". See: parochialism
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Provincial and territorial legislatures are unicameral, having no second chamber equivalent to the Canadian Senate.
In most provinces, the single house of the legislature is known as the Legislative Assembly except in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador, where it is called the House of Assembly, and Quebec where it is called the National Assembly.
He cited their importance to the country as a whole and the ongoing need to assert sovereignty in the Arctic, particularly as global warming could make that region more open to exploitation.
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