Sentences with phrase «called on all levels of government»

Closer to home, a group of Canadian doctors is calling on all levels of government to raise income taxes on high - income earners.

Across Canada, people are standing together to call on all levels of government to recognize our right to a healthy environment — join the Blue Dot movement and secure environmental rights in Canada.

VANCOUVER — Today, West Coast LEAF calls on all levels of government to commit to addressing violence against Indigenous women and girls through a robust, effective national inquiry.

«We call on all levels of government to commit to fully participating in the Inquiry,» says Kasari Govender, Executive Director and co-author of Blueprint for an Inquiry.

This week, West Coast LEAF called on all levels of government to commit to meaningfully address violence against Indigenous women and girls through a robust, effective national inquiry.

For immediate release — August 3, 2016 VANCOUVER — Today, West Coast LEAF calls on all levels of government to commit to addressing violence against Indigenous women and girls through a robust, effective national inquiry.

The National Justice Coalition's «Change the Record» campaign is calling on all levels of government to work together to address this issue.

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The IMF, Royal Bank, and National Bank are three of the non-partisan voices that have called on the Trudeau government to put in writing its verbal commitment to contain debt at current levels.

In presenting the photographs, Jones said Syrian President Bashar Assad's government «has sunk to a new level of depravity» with the support of Russia and Iran and called on the two countries to use their influence with Syria to establish a credible cease - fire and begin political talks.

On a federal level, the Harper government has steered clear of calls for increasing mandatory employee - employer contributions to the CPP in favour of a policy that enables voluntary contributions under professional management.

Nora Senior, president of the British Chambers of Commerce, said there was no need for «overbearing government regulation» and called on business to «step up to the task of nurturing the pipeline of women at middle management level on to executive teams».

In more recent years, our advocacy efforts have also focused on regional issues, from our very public role in the 2015 transit and transportation plebiscite, to our work around Metro Vancouver's proposed Bylaw 280 and regional waste management, our longstanding calls for a mobile business licence program across Greater Vancouver, and our advocacy at all levels of government to invest in roads, bridges, and Pacific Gateway trade infrastructure across the region.

We continue to call on the province to encourage civic levels of government to expedite the application, approval and permitting processes.

Based on these and other serious risks to the economic benefits of the Fraser River, every chamber of commerce in the Lower Mainland — from the mouth of the river around Richmond, to the entrance to the Fraser canyon at Hope, are calling on senior levels of government to act now to commit funding to head off potential disaster.

New Democrats are also calling on the Christy Clark government to implement a moratorium of manure disposal on fields until an acceptable plan is in place to bring contamination to a safe level.

Listen I keep seeing bumper stickers like «you can't be both Catholic and pro-choice» these are not reflective of my faith, theser are slogans made for propaganda, I have 2 beautiful children and I have never been on a position where abortion could even play a part, but it is a legal option to the public at large; this being said even the bible calls for us to be good citizens, and to obey the law, I believe that this is a matter that belongs with the family and not the state; no matter how we criminalize abortion, they will not stop, but people will go under - ground and more fatalities will occur, I rather see the government placing incentives on more conseling for these expectant mothers and more outreach done at church levels, to reduce the debate to a single slogan is dangerous and will not accomplish the ultimately goal of preventing abortions my two humble cents

We call on governments at all levels to come together as a matter of urgency to develop in collaboration with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and communities, health and community sector peak bodies and other key stakeholders, a policy framework, funding commitments and national action plan for food sovereignty and food security.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand called on U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions to meet with New Yorkers who have struggled because of low - level marijuana arrests and said the time has come for the federal government to legalize the drug.

«That this House notes that young people today grow up in an increasingly complex financial world requiring them to make difficult decisions for the future, often without the necessary level of financial literacy; believes that financial education will help address the national problem of irresponsible borrowing and personal insolvency and that teaching people about budgeting and personal finance will help equip the workforce with the necessary skills to succeed in business and drive forward economic growth; further believes that the country has a duty to equip its young people properly through education to make informed financial decisions; and calls on the Government to consider the provision of financial education as part of the current curriculum review.»

«This government which is a government of change must be prepared to change the narrative by ensuring that teachers are motivated and the condition in which they work are conducive at all levels, so that they can deliver on their professional calling,» he said.

«An appeal I have to make is that it is necessary for all levels of government to maintain some level of respect and civility one to the other, and as we start now the process of reconstructing relationships and consultations, there should be what I will call a ceasefire in terms of the kind of abuse that is used all round on one institution of government or the other, even principal parties of these institutions..

That this House notes the improved security of ballots in Northern Ireland following implementation of the Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Act 2002 which has also resulted in increased levels of voter registration; further notes the successful prosecutions for electoral fraud in Slough, Peterborough and Birmingham; further notes the 2007 Council of Europe investigation into electoral fraud in the UK and the recent report entitled Purity of Elections in the UK: Causes for Concern, published by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust Ltd which highlights how vulnerable the electoral system is to electoral fraud; and calls on the Government to improve electoral security across the rest of the UK.

Whilst all four countries are experiencing high levels of fuel poverty the Monitor identifies a number of particular difficulties being faced by vulnerable households in the individual countries calling on the need for Government to provide a more concise and effective plan to tackle the problem.

At 2 p.m., key elected officials representing all levels of state government join reform advocates in calling on their colleagues to support efforts to end political corruption, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Federation of Muslim Women of Nigeria, FOMWAN, has called on governments at all levels to arrest and prosecute drug hawkers to curtail drug misuse and abuse...

«We call on government at all levels to urgently address these anomalies, remove everything that smacks of injustice, and give everybody and every part of our country a sense of belonging.»

One year after entering office with a mandate for change, Mayor Shayne Gallo has pushed ahead with an agenda centered on revitalizing the city by battling blight, forming partnerships with state, federal and county government and ending what he calls a «culture of entitlement» at the highest levels of municipal government.

A total of 26 Bronx politicians from the federal, state and city levels of government signed a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook calling on his company to open one of its retail stores in the borough, noting that while the tech giant currently has 10 stores in the city, none of them are in The Bronx.

Miner said Biden told her in the election night phone call that he is proud of her and that the real innovation in government is happening with mayors on the local level.

A report released by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee of the U.K. Parliament on Thursday calls on universities and the government to review academic career paths and find ways to level the playing field for women.

The Japan government is being called on to intervene as the power company responsible fails to cope and regulators upgrade the severity level of the leakage

The IPPR has called on the government to use its forthcoming review of the national funding formula to weight funding more heavily towards areas of the country which have high levels of disadvantage and which struggle to recruit teachers.

The government now offers two kinds of benefits: a dependent - care tax credit — equal to 20 to 30 percent of expenses, depending on parents» income level — that limits expenses to $ 2,400 for one child or $ 4,800 for two or more children; and so - called «salary reduction plans» that permit parents to have day - care costs withheld from their salary and reimbursed by employers without being taxed.

To support pupils with high attainment in academies, the Sutton Trust is calling for the government to create a fund to support successful initiatives for high attainers from disadvantaged backgrounds, and to focus on supporting disadvantaged pupils of all attainment levels through the pupil premium.

After all, most of the public intellectuals among movement conservatives are focused more on the expansive role of the federal government in civil society and the marketplace, while more populist conservative types are concerned about preserving what they consider to be traditional values such as the idea that the government that is best is the one at the local level that is, in theory, closes to the people (even if the virtual and real bankruptcies of cities such as Detroit and Vallejo, Calif., call that thinking into question).

My parents were given a choice: because I had a disability, I could be treated as a gifted student, eligible for the «mini-schools» at two of the twenty or so schools in the district, or be treated as a disabled student, eligible for «special learning» in «the trailers» at my high school; I was the only student to that point who was thrown out of the special learning program for reading books at a far - too - advanced level; When I was dismissed, I was reading John Locke's Second Treatise on Government, a book about medieval castle battlement defenses, and (all at the same time) a book called «You can trust a communist — to be a communist».

So today I am calling on all of you to join with us to build a transformative education law that offers every child the education they want and need — a law that recognizes and reinforces the proper role of the federal government to support and drive reform at the state and local level.

ASCD's 2015 Legislative Agenda (PDF) calls on the federal government to reauthorize education policies in a way that addresses and supports the needs of today's students and educators, bolstering the development of the whole child at every level of the education system.

The Early Day Motion calls for the government to base APD on the level of carbon emissions produced by flights rather than «arbitrary zones based on location of a country's capital city».

We're calling on governments to set a goal of limiting or reducing their national populations to a sustainable level.

«Representatives at three levels of California government were quick to call for economic measures against neighboring Arizona this week in the wake of its passage of a tough new immigration law... On Tuesday, seven members of the Los Angles City Council signed a proposal for a boycott that urged the city to «refrain from conducting business» or participating in conventions in Arizona.

At the high level conference organised on the side of to the UNFCCC negotiating session in Bonn, Germany, co-hosted by the government of North - Rhine Westphalia and The Climate Group, the States and Regions called for bold action to progress the UN negotiations, highlighted the core role of sub-national governments in global climate action as well as confirmed their own commitments to climate action and to reporting back on their progress at COP 16 in Cancun, Mexico.

This petition to the NSW state parliament focuses on just one component of the Climate Emergency Declaration and Mobilisation program called for in our petition to all levels of government in Australia.

This petition to the Victorian state parliament focuses on just one component of the Climate Emergency Declaration and Mobilisation program called for in our petition to all levels of government in Australia.

There is a major fight heating up at the State and Federal level on how we set what the government calls the Social Cost of Carbon, a metric calculated by the Government on the harm carbon (C02) does the economy, to our health and to tgovernment calls the Social Cost of Carbon, a metric calculated by the Government on the harm carbon (C02) does the economy, to our health and to tGovernment on the harm carbon (C02) does the economy, to our health and to the planet.

This petition to the SA state parliament focuses on just one component of the Climate Emergency Declaration and Mobilisation program called for in our petition to all levels of government in Australia.

The survey, published in Polar Geography, shows that Tea Partiers — who call for minimal government intervention and are known for their climate scepticism — exhibit a high level of self - assessed understanding of climate science, combined with a low level of knowledge on polar facts.

The SA Greens call on the Australian Parliament and all levels of government to declare a Climate Emergency and initiate a society - wide mobilisation to restore, as quickly as possible, a climate that is safe for all people, species, and ecosystems, and 2.

The statement emphasized that 50 — 80 per cent of the actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to keep global temperatures below 2 degrees centigrade will happen at the subnational level, and called on world leaders to formally recognize this significant role of subnational governments.

found that there are carbon monoxide alarms available to buy online in the UK that are not compliant with the BS EN 50291 industry safety standard; further notes that such noncompliant alarms can fail to detect dangerous levels of carbon monoxide, leaving consumers with a false sense of confidence and thus exposing consumers to the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning; notes that eBay, Amazon and Robert Dyas have all taken positive steps to remove dangerous carbon monoxide alarms and detectors from their product lines; and calls on the Government to ensure that all carbon monoxide alarms on the market in the UK are compliant with the BS EN 50291 standard.»