Sentences with phrase «about election issues»

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The IMF staff report on Canada raises an issue that I wrote about during the election campaign: the unacceptably large gap — 10 percentage points — between the labour - force participation rates of men and women.

The Cambridge Analytica issue was the reason Zuckerberg was on Capitol Hill, answering questions for the second time in two days about how the group - which has counted U.S. President Donald Trump's election campaign among its clients - got hold of data on many millions of Facebook users.

Asked about the discrepancy, the chairwoman of the polling station's election commission, Oksana Mediyeva, said independent monitors had watched the vote and had raised no issues.

Despite the fact that Trump was widely viewed as having lost the recent debate with Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, and that the election itself is just over a month away, the candidate chose to tweet not about the political issues in the campaign but about his dislike of former Miss Universe contestant Alicia Machado.

Some observers believe that the profusion of fake articles on Facebook helped sway the presidential election in favor of Trump, although others have argued that all this accomplished was to entrench the views that Trump voters already held about various issues.

If this election is truly about the future of the Canadian economy, then these issues must be addressed.

Zuckerberg is facing 44 senators in a rare joint committee hearing to talk about how his company protects user data and deals with elections meddling, among other issues.

This afternoon, Antonio Tajani, the president of the European Parliament, publicly issued a call to Zuckerberg to appear before state members to answer questions about personal data on Facebook and the role it plays in swaying elections.

With a provincial election campaign about to begin, GTA REALTORS ® hope that all of the provincial parties will make housing issues a priority.

The referendum also centered on a single issue, while the presidential election can be as much a decision about personality and temperament as candidates» policies.

Then, in a response to a question about consumers that referenced the coarseness of the election and domestic violence issues in the NFL, Nooyi said «forget the Pepsi brand — how dare we talk about women that way?

As questions about Facebook's role in the 2016 election and its privacy issues mounted, Mr. Zuckerberg initially tried to avoid the limelight, dodging requests for public testimony by lawmakers in the United States and Europe.

Before the Dominion Elections Act (1920), voting in Canadian federal elections was largely governed by the provinces, just as voting in US federal elections is still, even today, governed by the «several States» (as they are wont to put it)-- except for the 1917 wartime election, labelled as the «largest gerrymander in Canadian history» (I've just finished a fascinating book about that election, fought over the issue of conscription; I highly recomElections Act (1920), voting in Canadian federal elections was largely governed by the provinces, just as voting in US federal elections is still, even today, governed by the «several States» (as they are wont to put it)-- except for the 1917 wartime election, labelled as the «largest gerrymander in Canadian history» (I've just finished a fascinating book about that election, fought over the issue of conscription; I highly recomelections was largely governed by the provinces, just as voting in US federal elections is still, even today, governed by the «several States» (as they are wont to put it)-- except for the 1917 wartime election, labelled as the «largest gerrymander in Canadian history» (I've just finished a fascinating book about that election, fought over the issue of conscription; I highly recomelections is still, even today, governed by the «several States» (as they are wont to put it)-- except for the 1917 wartime election, labelled as the «largest gerrymander in Canadian history» (I've just finished a fascinating book about that election, fought over the issue of conscription; I highly recommend it).

For example, in the latter days of the 2011 election campaign, as Jack Layton's orange wave was gathering momentum, Harper and then - Finance Minister Jim Flaherty jumped all over Mr. Layton for allegedly violating the sacrosanct principle of central bank independence. Layton had responded to a reporter's question about interest rates, indicating it would be better for Canada's economy if they stayed low. Harper and Flaherty denounced this statement violently, calling it a «rookie mistake» that threatened the independence of the Bank. Layton quickly issued a clarification confirming that he, too, accepted the doctrine of central bank independence.

There are no shortage of issues that I hope will be the focus of debate in this election (urban sprawl, inner city schools, regional amalgamation, and others that I plan to write about over the next six months), but the one issue that may have the potential to create a major wave is the Katz Group «s desire to have the City of Edmonton to fund $ 400,000,000 for a new downtown arena.

The social network's announcement Friday could allay concerns of election experts and lawmakers that ads about hot - button social issues meant to be divisive and foment voter outrage might still slip through, leaving a dangerous weak spot on the network.

This election is currently about the economy, not about social issues.

Thus the antecedent field of the Reform Bill passage is about two years long, or from the accession of the Duke of Wellington as prime minister in the Spring of 1828 (when the issue of Reform was first broached) to the first meeting of parliament after the elections of summer, 1830, when Reform became the focus of political conflict.

It's an election issue that gets virtually no attention, but we found out today that many of you do feel strongly about it: Churches being used as Election Day pollingelection issue that gets virtually no attention, but we found out today that many of you do feel strongly about it: Churches being used as Election Day pollingElection Day polling places.

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We will talk more about predetermination and foreordination in the future posts about Unconditional Election and the Sovereignty of God, so I don't want to use a lot of room to discuss these issues here, except to say that Scripture, reason, and experience all seem to point pretty clearly to the fact that God expects us to make wise choices and holds us accountable for the choices and decisions we make.

The Catholic Church has been outspoken about the issue since it was discussed after the 2012 presidential election.

I'm not so sure, Ross, that you're right about the way you frame the issue of the war and the election.

We may, however, raise questions about which issues should bear the greatest weight in the election.

When AMIA leaders talked to me about their departure from the Episcopal Church, they focused more on the doctrinal problems represented by Bishop Spong than on the sexual issues raised by the election of gay bishop V. Gene Robinson.

As far as creating opportunities for dialog within your faith communities, I'd recommend starting with a book club, perhaps around a book like Trouble I've Seen by Drew Hart, or The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, or Assimilate or Go Home by Danielle Mayfield, or Forgive Us by the authors mentioned above — something that's not directly about this election or this presidency, but that addresses issues related to justice.

During the past year Louisville's news has been dominated by several seemingly disparate issues — the troubled relationship between the police department and the African - American community; efforts to build more mixed - income housing in the city; adoption of a regional plan intended to moderate suburban sprawl; disagreement about the number and location of proposed new Ohio River bridges linking Louisville and southern Indiana; a campaign to attract high - tech business to the downtown area; and a lively election campaign around the issue of a city - county merger.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg spoke on Tuesday about the plan and criticized politicians he claims are using the issue for political gain ahead of mid-term elections in November.

What questions and issues do you have about the biblical doctrines of election and predestination?

There we go again, shut up this hypocritical rightwingers.Only at election time do rear their ugly heads up to be seen and heard.It's time to unleash the CRACKKIN, the monster that the IRS people use on unruly religious groups, exemption is like a death sentence to these groups.Most of these religious leaders are wolves in sheeps clothing, selling their political poison to anyone in their flocks.They push the envelope on the seperation of church and state issue, seeing how far they can go.Pastors and ministers would never speak politics like this years ago, that was taaboo.Now people like Robertson, Graham, and the rest, flaunt their ideaology both religious and political at every event.They don't care about the legal consequences, they have LAWYERS, perishioners pay for that.

I've noticed that nearly every time I post anything about the upcoming presidential election, the issue of abortion inevitably emerges in the subsequent comments.

This «Belief» blog can not seem to focus on faith (belief) issues: it always goes back to opinions about the elections and po.l.i.t.i.c.al.

The issue of foreign investment has made an explosive entry to the election campaign, with the agriculture minister, Joel Fitzgibbon, left scrambling to clarify Labor's foreign investment policy after Kevin Rudd's surprise comments that he was «a bit anxious» about an «open slather» approach to foreign investment.

I've continued to talk about the issue to anyone who'll listen; five of our seven school board seats are up for election this year, and I've written to all of the candidates asking their position on the issue.

The three newcomers and one incumbent running for the two open seats on the Palatine Park District board talk about issues including a district - owned stable and the future of a municipal golf course as being key in the April 9 election.

PATS President John Moyer stated «With the recent elections, the main goal of the «Hike To Harrisburg» event was to thank those legislators who have been PATS supporters and to enlighten the freshman legislators about our Society, as well as, our role in concussion and sudden cardiac arrest management and other recent health care issues that we have supported.»

At last week's New Organizing Institute / IPDI - sponsored Google presentation on advocacy tools, after looking at Google Ads and answering questions about click fraud, the company's Elections and Issue Advocacy team touched on a new tool whose potential political significance jumped out at me.

If it is being considered a workable model we are in a world which is much more realistic than the one we were in before — and certainly more than the one we were in before the election, when May's tragic - comic aides killed all rational thought about the issue.

Local elections are often said to be about local issues but actually most of the changes over time in shares of council seats won the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats can be accounted for by changes the popularity of these parties at the national level.

The UK General Election is a great opportunity to get policymakers to talk about some of the important engineering issues facing the country.

The current British Election Study has collected data from about 4,000 Scots on a variety of political issues — one of which is Scottish independence — and also includes a large amount of background information, including each respondent's placement on the «Big Five» personality dimensions.

The prime minister also noted that it was «bread and butter issues», such as water rates, that had dominated the election campaign on the doorstep, adding this said much about the «modern face» of Northern Ireland.

«My reading is that with the uncertainty about the outcome of the election whether it be a hung parliament, whether it be a Tory majority or any of that stuff, people actually tuned in much more to local issues.

Maybe if the Dems focused on issues that the every day voter actually cared about, they'd start to win elections.

The president noted that just as it is the case in the United States, the health of the candidates is something that the electorates will talk about, but then that will not form part of his campaign «I noticed in the US elections too there were issues about candidates» health so it's something that people will talk about but I don't take advantage of a person's health... I believe that I have enough to talk about without running on somebody's health».

Regarding our involment in election management from 2011 up till the generals election of 2015, l would say that, despite the apolcalytic projections either about the elections or about the country going under on account of some devisive issues, the successful transition of Nigeria from same - party democratic consolidation to opposition party democratic consolidation, which is not very common, especially in our continent, is indicative of progress and we should congratulate ourselves as a people and a country.

The fact that there were around three times more male journalists shaping election coverage than female ones demonstrates that the dearth of women is not just an issue for political parties, but that national media outlets also need to consider why it is that national political journalism in the UK continues to be a domain where men write about other men.

He insisted that the local elections were a test of the Tory government and criticised reporters for asking about polls instead of «focussing on the issues».

In the election campaign of that year, the Social Democrats emphasized issues that appealed to middle - class insiders and had less to say about the problem of unemployment than they had in 1994.