Sentences with phrase «as federal department»

Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN) was established as Federal Department of Forestry Research in 1954.

If you fear that your child has been abducted to another country by your former partner / spouse then your first step should be to contact the Ministry of the Attorney General as well as the federal Department of Justice that function as the Central Authorities for the province of Ontario and Canada respectively.

We expect that — as the federal Department of State's assessment of the Keystone XL pipeline showed — new fossil fuels and climate action are incompatible.»

Her comments come as the federal Department of Agriculture announced the terms of reference for a review on export conditions for the northern summer, which will assess the potential use of air conditioning.

Not exact matches

The federal health department released its highly - anticipated task force report on marijuana this week, providing clues as to what Canada's recreational cannabis laws will look like.

But DACA recipients, known as «Dreamers,» fear that, beyond losing their work permits and protections against deportation, they could be uniquely vulnerable to federal immigration authorities because of the information the Department of Homeland Security has collected from them.

As the firestorm over Trump's comment began late last week, the White House and Trump's National Security Council provided no guidance to the State Department about what to say to foreign countries who were incensed, said a U.S. official familiar with the conversations between the White House and other federal agencies.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, during his daily press briefing, said the Department of Justice will be the lead on what Spicer referred to as «greater enforcement» of federal law concerning adult - use marijuana.

The Justice Department lawsuit will cite a provision of the U.S. Constitution known as the «Supremacy Clause,» under which federal laws trump state laws.

The agency (commonly abbreviated as «OPM»), which serves as a human resources department for the federal government, has upped its figure to 5.6 million stolen fingerprint records from its original estimate of 1.1 million.

Federal grants and the Pentagon's 1033 program accelerated after 9/11, and according to The New York Times, as U.S. forces began to withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan, police departments across the nation amassed an even greater supply of surplus weapons — tens of thousands of machine guns, 200,000 ammunition magazines, thousands of fatigues and pieces of camouflage, night - vision equipment, and hundreds of silencers, armored cars, and aircraft.

While no federal law requires paid breaks, the Department of Labor does say, «Breaks from 5 to 20 minutes must be counted as hours worked.

For the platinum coin idea to work, the Federal Reserve would have to treat it as a legal way for the Treasury Department to create currency.

In addition to big banks such as Bank of America Corp and Goldman Sachs Group Inc, there were 50 participants, including major exchanges, clearinghouses, the U.S. Treasury Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

If you're unsure about the proper designation, be sure to review the IRS website, as well as the Department of Labor websites at the federal and state levels, particularly their materials on distinguishing independent contractors from employees, and check your designations with your accountant and / or labor lawyer.

In 2016 I provided advice to the Department of Finance as part of the Review of Federal Tax Expenditures.

Given the legendary dysfunction of the federal department of citizenship and immigration, this latest trend can only be seen as a positive development.

Roberta Casper Watson, who recently joined The Wagner Law Group as head of its welfare benefits department, noted that employers with 50 or more FTEs can be fined $ 2,000 per full - time employee, minus the first 30 workers, if the business doesn't offer coverage to most of its full - timers and even one worker receives a federal subsidy to buy coverage on an exchange.

Opportunity: An era of fiscal austerity in the public sector can be a boon for economics employment there, as federal and provincial departments such as Finance, Industry, Foreign Affairs and the Bank of Canada seek analysts who can work the data.

Civil - service jobs providing front - line service to the public and support to government bodies such as municipal departments, or provincial or federal ministries.

As HHS secretary, he led a $ 1 trillion department whose future is the key to managing mounting federal budgetary deficits.

For the reasons set forth above, the Department amends part 2510 of subchapter B of chapter XXV of title 29 of the Code of Federal Regulations as follows:

The Vancouver Board of Trade is calling on the federal government to invest in transit and trade - enabling projects across the Greater Vancouver region, as part of its pre-budget consultations with the Department of Finance Canada.

A federal appeals court signed off on the U.S. Interior Department's decision to take land into trust for a proposed Native American casino, rejecting arguments that the tribe's promises to mitigate environmental effects are «illusory» because as a sovereign Native American nation, it can not be sued to enforce them.

He also served as Vice-President of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) in the early 2000s and has been an Assistant Deputy Minister in a number of federal government departments.

Maksim Zaslavskiy contends the currencies did not qualify as securities under federal law and so the Department of Justice lacked jurisdiction to bring the charges.

Those agencies are investigating, as are another federal department, state attorneys general, prosecutors» offices and congressional committees.

WASHINGTON, May 3 AT&T told a federal judge late Thursday it should reject any request by the U.S. Justice Department to force it to divest its DirecTV unit or Turner networks as part of approving its proposed $ 85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner Inc..

FSA ID stands for Federal Student Aid ID, a number used to verify your identity on StudentLoans.gov, as well as other Department of Education websites.

WASHINGTON AT&T told a federal judge late Thursday it should reject any request by the U.S. Justice Department to force it to divest its DirecTV unit or Turner networks as part of approving its proposed $ 85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner Inc..

«I would suspect the «know your customer» they're doing on their ad purchasers is probably driven more by what information they need for internal business purposes and to best sell ads rather than to satisfy information requests from any third parties, such as the Federal Election Commission, the Department of Justice, etc..»

It also sidesteps key elements of the state that Trump has pledged to maintain or expand, such as the Defense Department, Medicare and Social Security, two huge federal entitlement programs.

A comprehensive spending review of «at least three federal departments,» to be named later, to eliminate waste and inefficiencies, as well as a three - year review of federal assets and an audit of existing innovation and clean - tech programs.

Last week, Switzerland - based blockchain association Crypto Valley Association announced that, during an educational visit to Zug (also known as Crypto Valley), Federal Councilor and Head of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research Johann Schneider - Ammann affirmed that he would petition the Swiss Federal Council to allocate 150 million Swiss Francs to local startups.

Prior to his appointment at the Bank, Tiff served as associate deputy minister of the federal Department of Finance and Canada's finance deputy at the G7 and G20, the IMF, and the Financial Stability Board.

AT&T (T) told a federal judge that it should spurn any request by the U.S. Justice Department to make it divest its DirecTV business or Turner networks as part of approving its proposed $ 85.4 B takeover of Time Warner (TWX), Reuters reports.

Government Works supports large federal departments such as homeland security, department of defense, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services and others, in custom applications building and hosting.

The Department of Education allows those who meet the criteria to pause their federal loan repayments for as long as three years.

John Grazioli is still registered as an investment adviser with the department and the federal Securities and Exchange Commission, according to the department and SEC records.

Critics of the Labor Department's rule have argued that requiring advisors to serve as fiduciaries to the small and midsize plan market will negatively affect access to 401 (k) plans at a time when policymakers at the federal and state level are crafting and passing legislation intended to broaden access to retirement savings for employees of small employers.

Mr. Page never expected to be the Parliamentary Budget Officer, nor had he actively sought the position He had worked in several federal departments, including the Department of Finance in the Economic Analysis and Fiscal Forecasting Branch and in the Privy Council Office as Deputy Head of the Planning and Priorities Division.

Weldon J. Rougeau, a long - time civil rights activist, has considered the issue of diversity from many perspectives — as director of the office of federal contract compliance programs at the U.S. Department of Labor during the Carter administration, as president of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and even as a prisoner for 78 days (58 of them in solitary confinement) in a Baton Rouge, La., jail cell when he was a student activist.

The bus service that ferries passengers on the cheap between Chinatown and Boston has temporarily ceased operation as ordered by the federal Department of Transportation, according to both Lucky Star's and the DOT's website.

In its complaints to the Justice Department and the FEC last month, Common Cause argued that the alleged payment to Daniels likely violated federal campaign - finance laws as an unreported, in - kind donation to Trump's campaign.

He's seen as a possible Treasury secretary for Clinton, if not first out of the gate at the start of her administration then later on (perhaps after Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg or Federal Reserve governor Lael Brainard, if Clinton chooses to nominate the first - ever woman to lead the department).

The Treasury Department said in its most recent quarterly refunding announcement in November that borrowing needs will increase as the Federal Reserve reduces its balance sheet and as fiscal deficits look set to widen.

The money for the process came from $ 20 million that Congress authorized the Department of Homeland Security to pull from other places in the budget earlier this year after President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January directing the federal government to begin construction on the border wall as soon as possible.

Mortgage loan limits for every U.S. county, as published by Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)

Federal regulations do limit loans guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs to «primary residences» only, however, «primary residence» is defined as the home in which you live «most of the year.»

For two years, he has also served as Special Advisor on justice issues to Canada's federal Department of Justice.