Sentences with phrase «federal competition»

With the arrival of the new federal competition, Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge, early childhood programs are finally getting a seat at the table in conversations about education reform.

I know that this system really works, because I directed strong and outrageous thoughts toward the federal government about one Ms Melanie Aitken, a very smart, but out - of - control egomaniac (In my opinion) whilst she occupied the office of Federal Competition Commissioner, and PRESTO!

Federal Competition Commissioner Melanie Aitken has been a thorn in the side of many businesses, including setting her sights on Visa and MasterCard for forcing merchants to accept customer use of high - fee points cards.

The project was based on the exhibition The Cold Horizontals by artist Shahryar Nashat (29.9.2017 — 7.1.2018) and took place in cooperation with LYRIX — the German federal competition for young lyric poetry.

The approval by the Austrian Federal Competition Authority has already been given.

CHSH is reporting that it supervised the winning team in a competition law moot court organized by the Austrian Federal Competition Authority.

This is a wake ‑ up call to the real estate regulators, federal competition regulators, real estate associations and to all brokers who have let our referral system be abused by a niche group within our industry.

The statement of claim filed by Club Coffee in Ontario Superior Court is seeking compensation, punitive damages and a court order to permanently bar Keurig from alleged violations of various federal competition, trade - mark and consumer laws.

Although the deal is still subject to regulatory approval from the Mexican Federal Competition Commission, Fonterra has sold its New Zealand Milk (Mexico) subsidiary to Sigma Alimentos, the food division of Mexican industrial group ALFA, for an undisclosed sum.

Scientists in California, New Mexico win federal competition to design hardier nuclear weapon

According to Federal Competition Bureau, Canadians lost an estimated $ 290 million to fraudsters between January 2014 and December 2016 — and a disproportionate number of the victims were new immigrants.

Finally, Race to the Top, last year's federal competition for $ 3.4 billion in grants to support education reform, emphasized improving the training and evaluation of principals as much as it did the training and evaluation of teachers.

In recent years, she has acted in major cartel investigations undertaken by the European Commission and Germany's federal competition authority.

With the arrival of the new federal competition, Race to the Top — Early Learning Challenge, early childhood programs are finally getting a seat at the table in conversations about education reform.

BY DOUG MCCALLUM This is a wake ‑ up call to the real estate regulators, federal competition regulators, real estate associations and to all brokers who have let our...

The federal Competition Act may be in play in some cases, and on some matters consumer protection laws vary by province.

Though the deal was vetted and approved by the federal Competition Bureau, the combined company now controls two - thirds of Ontario's private medical testing industry and as much as 85 % of that in B.C..

Using a website, a YouTube video and a few posters designed to be shared over social media, the board, which represents 34,000 Greater Toronto Area realtors, portrays itself as the guardian of consumer privacy and safety in an ongoing legal fight with the federal Competition Bureau.

Now the federal competition bureau has begun legal proceedings against Rogers (owner of Canadian Business) over alleged misleading advertising that claimed the startup services suffered more dropped calls.

Under pressure from the federal Competition Bureau, the Canadian Real Estate Association had only just introduced interim rules allowing members to offer no - frills services, including simply posting properties on its listing service and leaving the client to show the property, field offers and seal the deal.

This year she dragged Air Canada before the federal Competition Tribunal, aiming to block its proposed merger with the huge United Continental on the grounds the deal would result in higher prices on important transborder routes.

The transaction requires a number of approvals, from unitholders in both REITS and the federal Competition Bureau, which has authority to review all mergers in Canada.

The issue of permitting virtual office websites (VOWs) to publicly display sold data — a property's purchase history — is still before the courts, a years - long litigation between the Toronto Real Estate Board, CREA and the federal competition bureau.

Shoppers» shareholders recently voted in favour of the takeover offer and the deal is before the federal competition bureau for approval.

TheRedPin aims to redefine real estate at a time when pressure from the Federal Competition Bureau is forcing big changes in the sector - The Globe and Mail

And the federal Competition Bureau, which investigates price - fixing cartels, offers companies or individuals immunity for being the first conspirator to come forward, and leniency for the second conspirator.

The federal competition was not necessarily the only catalyst for Maryland.

For example, Race to the Top, a federal competition that awarded money to states with the best plans to overhaul their education systems, prompted many states to adopt new data systems that will use student test scores to grade schools and teachers.

Already the California State Board of Education is poised to adopt new academic content standards for math and English language arts largely aligned with a national common core developed as part of the federal competition.

Duncan encourages these models with financial incentives such as School Improvement grants and Race to the Top, a federal competition encouraging education reform that Colorado lost.

He said the national policy moment that resulted in teacher evaluation laws and regulations stems from both the financial crisis and Race to the Top, a federal competition for grant money in exchange for the pursuit of specific education reforms.

It arguably drove more change in education at the state, district, and school levels than any federal competition had previously been able to achieve.»

The board's teacher evaluation guidelines come as a result of a law passed last year in order to secure $ 700 million in funding from Race to the Top, a federal competition run by the U.S. Department of Education that urged states to push for, among other things, tougher standards for grading teachers.

The federal Competition Bureau estimated in 2010 that credit card acceptance fees added up to $ 5 billion annually — a figure that has likely grown since — with about $ 4 billion of that coming in the form of interchange fees.

The federal Competition Bureau has concerns about the Canadian Real Estate Association's control of the Multiple Listing Service, the realtor - controlled website with information on homes for sale.

Of course, most reverse mortgage lenders know that they have federal competition, and make their rates competitive.

The biggest move towards transparency came a couple of weeks ago, after the federal Competition Tribunal ordered the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) to stop limiting access to home sales data.

Federal competition is the reason for discontinuing their MBA loan program.

According to the federal competition watchdog, it would be one of the largest consumer settlements in Canadian history.

The federal Competition Bureau has launched an aggressive attack on the Canadian Real Estate Association, challenging its rules governing the Multiple Listing Service and calling for a radical change in how homes are sold in Canada.

Earlier this month, the federal Competition Tribunal sided with Canada's Competition Bureau over a long, drawn - out dispute with the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB).

Even in adopting that standard, Marrocco noted that the federal Competition Act has a different purpose than that of Quebec's consumer protection laws.

The amendments to the federal Competition Act that took effect in 2010 expanded the Competition Bureau's powers of administration and enforcement.

Representing thyssenkrupp in rail track cartel proceedings led by the Bundeskartellamt (Germany's federal competition authority) and defending the client in subsequent follow - on damages (mass) litigation.