Sentences with phrase «us feds»

The association hopes the feds will consider raising the biodiesel content requirement to 5 % from 2 % to stimulate additional demand.

The feds, however, never learn that the guarantees made by multinationals in the heat of the moment can rarely be trusted.

«I've spent some time thinking about whether or not the feds knew what they were doing when they created these regulations, because it really does spark a lot of business interest in marijuana more generally.»

Then the feds weighed in.

Little wonder that supply management will largely remain in place, and that the feds promised a $ 4.3 - billion fund to compensate farmers who might lose out because of the TPP.

Every five years, the Bank and the feds negotiate an inflation and monetary strategy, and the next update comes in 2016

Nilsson, who believes he has convincingly linked Vinnik to at least 100,000 more Mt. Gox Bitcoins than the feds allege, still doesn't know whether he helped the government's investigation or simply confirmed its conclusions.

There's some talk that that may be a condition that the feds actually put on the transfer, the condition of experimenting with private for profit delivery within the context of a public system.

Though there had been some talk about recommendations for reducing red meat intake, the feds took a soft approach, suggesting merely that «lower intakes of meats, including processed meats; processed poultry; sugar - sweetened foods, particularly beverages; and refined grains have often been identified as characteristics of healthy eating patterns.»

Expect the feds to concede the most.

With the Conservatives in power, there really is much more of a belief that health care should really be just left to the provinces, and the extent to which the feds are involved if at all is really to support the Canada Health Act through the transfer of funding, but not really to look at whether or not [the act] is actually being fulfilled.

He chairs the BMO board, holds a handful of other directorships and serves on two economic advisory panels — one for the feds, the other, Queen's Park.

The association has praised the feds for providing a roadmap for financial institutions that want to work with legal marijuana businesses.

Two decades later, they spent $ 1.1 billion to buy seven buildings from the federal government (then promptly leased them back to the feds).

Details on forthcoming pooled retirement pension plans or PRPPs were slim as the feds wait for the provinces to adopt legislation.

Even if the feds boosted existing supports, Canada would lag far behind the well - endowed auto industry R&D programs that have been established in other countries, including the U.S, Sweden and South Korea.

In 1997, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia shared $ 961 - million in compensation for harmonizing their taxes; two years ago, Ontario agreed to a $ 4.3 billion compensatory package, while British Columbia's move to a Harmonized Sales Tax earned them $ 1.6 billion from the feds.

On April 28, 2009, the Bloc's critic for the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec, Jean - Yves Laforest, introduced a motion in the House of Commons calling for the feds to negotiate in good faith with the Government of Quebec to resolve the dispute, demanding a compensation package prorated to that awarded Ontario.

However, as the feds sought tax harmonization deals with other provinces in ensuing decades, it wooed them with rich compensation packages.

«The fact of the matter is, in NASA, the feds have their one true well - oiled viral hit factory, and... they didn't let us down.»

Porat and Scully designed a plan to put the two entities under conservatorship, with the feds taking over their management — the only way, Paulson says today, to provide «a very necessary long - term guarantee» to keep the mortgage market liquid.

But if the $ 61 billion the feds say has been spent is responsible for the rescue, one respondent says the victory is pyrrhic.

Though most regulatory issues have fallen to municipal bureaucrats so far, Nuttall says the feds do have a role to play.

Of those they did press forward, the feds obtained guilty verdicts in a respectable 76 %.

If the feds enforce marijuana laws in the Golden State, legislators there want them to receive no help from local cops.

The poll results suggest that people want more officers conducting background checks; they want the same standards applied to those who buy a gun from a person at a gun show or online or at a physical store; they want to remove the background check work - around of buying a gun through a trust or corporation; and they want the feds to do a better job of notifying local law enforcement when people in their communities who are prohibited from purchasing a gun attempt to buy one.

Still, the Silk Road fire sale exposed the feds to ridicule from cryptocurrency devotees — and in an era of strained budgets, the pressure to sell high is great.

Whether it's the feds or local authorities doing the seizing, he adds, «we don't know how much property has been seized.»

The fifth - largest U.S. bank skimped on staffing and resources that banks are supposed to have to thwart suspicious activities, the feds say

And despite its positive economic impact, last summer the feds dealt with the growing application backlog by capping the number of applications considered each year at 700.

Another Canadian company's recovery in the face of rejection is worthy of note here: After Ottawa blocked MDA's sale of its space division to a U.S. - based firm in 2008 because the feds deemed the business a strategic national asset, MDA did an about - face.

But when the feds announced a $ 372 - million loan to Bombardier this week, the dual - class structure remained intact.

And if Quebec can't count on the feds to pony up, Edmonton shouldn't hold its collective breath.

Now, the feds are asking a federal judge in California to force Apple to write special software that will override those encryption features in order to peer into the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists.

Our best hope of slapping the hands of Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase, et al in the robo - signing foreclosure scandal lies with the states» attorney generals — not the feds.

The feds just want the court, like courts have on many other occasions, to use its power under the Act to get Apple to comply with the search warrant.

Specifically, the judge pointed the Justice Department to another law called CALEA, which is about assisting law enforcement, and suggested the feds couldn't fall back on the older law instead.

She observes that since the provinces control most of the social programs that are responsible for settling and integrating immigrants into Canadian society, such as education, health care, welfare, and share labour - market training with the feds, it only makes sense that they take a bigger role in implementing immigration policy.

The reporting rules may be complex, but the feds won't let you off the hook because you couldn't figure them out.

Late on Tuesday, the president tweeted about the gun violence in Chicago, writing, «If Chicago doesn't fix the horrible «carnage» going on, 228 shootings in 2017 with 42 killings (up 24 % from 2016), I will send in the feds!»

The feds used to provide subsidies to encourage companies to build rental accommodations, but by the 1980s, these had all been eliminated.

The West has had enough: Don't be shocked if Alberta's new Premier restricts the flow of oil money to the feds.

While the feds made an effort to curb corporate tax breaks a few years ago, they actually ended up making it easier for multinationals to pay less tax by doing business in offshore jurisdictions.

In 2014, American Seafoods Company, the biggest player in Alaskan pollock, paid $ 1.75 million for skewing its scales to fool the feds.

After all, the company still has the US feds on its tail.

Eric Knorr says you need to protect yourself from the coming cloud crackup, and Lucas Mearian suggests ways to keep the feds from snooping on your cloud data.

While the feds are trying to crack down on junk calls, technology can also help — here's a look at apps that can help slow the torrent

Their salaries are public because Hyndman is on long - term loan to the feds from the British Columbia Securities Commission, while Ritchie is similarly seconded from the Ontario Securities Commission, and both B.C. and Ontario publish «sunshine lists» of salaries over $ 100,000.

According to Environment Minister Peter Kent, oil and gas regulations will be out shortly — and on that one, according to the Pembina Institute, the feds are «taking a close look» at Alberta's model.

By now, most people are likely aware of the government's attempts to use the All Writs Act from 1789 as a tool to force Apple write new software with weaker security so that feds could unlock an iPhone 5c they had in custody.