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Regina uses the council-manager system of city government. The council comprises a mayor, who is elected at large, and ten councillors, one from each of ten wards. The mayor and councillors serve three-year terms. Regina's senior administrative official is the city manager, who is appointed by the council.
Poverty among indigenous people is Regina's most urgent problem. Health and housing conditions are often poor, and there is a growing dependence on food banks and other welfare agencies, especially in the inner city where indigenous residents are concentrated. Rates of drug and alcohol addiction and violent crime are high. These problems are serious everywhere in western Canada, but the situation has also worsened as a result of government cutbacks: The federal government, which has jurisdiction over Canada's indigenous population, no longer gives aid to those who have left their reserves to live in cities.
