Sentences with phrase «appointed royal commission»

Twenty years ago, when Canadians were first debating how best to address potential conflicts over frozen embryos, the government - appointed Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies recommended that gamete providers be jointly required to make decisions regarding the disposition of their embryos prior to gametes being retrieved or embryos created, and to indicate their preferences in consent forms that would be binding for the clinic involved.

In Canada, the provincial government of Ontario appointed a royal commission to study (among other things) «the increasing exhibition of violence in the communications industry; to determine if there is any... relationship between this phenomenon and the incidence of violent crime in society...» Two of the commission's research studies found that 24 per cent of the news items on television and in newspapers dealt directly with violence and 40 per cent were violence - related, while radio news was concerned with violence and conflict almost 60 per cent of the time!

Second, we should appoint a royal commission to look into the alternatives.»

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The Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada (Macdonald Commission) was appointed in 1982 to examine the future economic prospects of the country and the effectiveness of its political institutions.

The London Health Commission, set up by Boris Johnson last year under ex-Labour health minister Lord Darzi, has called on the mayor to make bylaws banning smoking in Trafalgar Square and Parliament Square and exert influence over the royal parks, where he appoints the board, to also ban smoking in their spaces.

In 1836, after studying 97 proposals, the Royal Commission appointed to decide on the style of the rebuilt Houses of Parliament chose the architect Charles Barry's plan for a Gothic style Palace.

Also in attendance at the ceremony were the State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, the outgoing Vice Chancellor and newly appointed Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole, the incoming Vice Chancellor, Professor Idowu Olayinka, the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council Dr. Umar Musa Mustapha, the Minister of Education Professor Anthony Anwukah, who was represented by the Executive Secretary of the National University Commission (NUC) Professor Julius Okojie, His Royal Majesty, Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Samuel Odulana Odugade 1, who was represented by the Elerin Olubadan High Chief Abimbola Ajibola and the Owa Obokun of Ijesa land, Oba Adekunle Aromolaran.

In 1991, he was appointed as one of the members of the Mulroney government's Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

Pay and employment equity, a national and universal publicly funded child care system, and labour standards to improve the conditions of part - time workers were recommended by a series of federally appointed task forces and royal commissions.

In 2014, when the body became the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP following the coming into force of the Enhancing Royal Canadian Mounted Police Accountability Act, McPhail was appointed full - time chairman.

In 1910, Mr. Justice William Meredith was appointed to a Royal Commission to study workers» compensation.

In 1910, he was appointed to head an Ontario royal commission to study workers» compensation systems throughout the world and to make recommendations.

Not yet a Chief Justice, in 1910, Meredith was appointed to head an Ontario Royal Commission to study workers» compensation systems throughout the world and to make recommendations.

The Federal Government initially appointed former Northern Territory Chief Justice Brian Martin to head the Royal Commission, however he resigned within days following criticism of a lack of consultation with NT Indigenous groups and conflict of interest concerns about his past role.)

On Sunday, 22 February 2015, the Governor of Victoria appointed a Chair and two Deputy Commissioners to the Royal Commission into Family Violence.

[64] In 1900, a Royal Commission was appointed by the NSW parliament to report on the difficulties facing pastoralists in the Western Division.