Sentences with phrase «federal government just»

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada unleashed a seismic social, legal and political debate Friday by giving the federal government just 12 months to redraft unconstitutional criminal laws or allow prostitution to flourish as would any other business.

The Canadian federal government just launched a website with information on unhealthy and unsafe food and child products.

Sam Glover: Do you worry about the federal government just doing a 180 and saying, «You know what?

The right wing increases the scope and power of the federal government just as willy - nilly as the left does, mostly in the same areas with some differences in order to give people an excuse to keep voting.

The right wing increases the scope and power of the federal government just as willy - nilly as the left does..»

The federal government just released a report looking at the black - white achievement gap.

«I really think it's gonna happen, because the federal government just sent a bill to the state of New York for a half a billion dollars because we overcharged for Medicaid and we got ta pay that back.

Why are we paying the money from our states into the federal government just to get it back?

And it could arise this time on the Left side of the aisle in opposition to Trump because they may be worried about his potential for demagoguery or worried about mob justice or the federal government just being too powerful in general.

So has Osun shrugged off its laggardness to, despite its puny resources, point the way in the schools feeding programme, which the Federal Government just adopted on a national scale.

Not exact matches

Defence Issues Minister Paul Papalia says Western Australia has been dudded in the federal government's $ 89 billion naval shipbuilding plan, of which WA will receive just over $ 3 billion of work, while the prime minister has lauded it as «unashamedly nationalistic».

And that means that what the federal government regulates, taxes, and spends over the next several years could in large part hinge on the actions of just one 72 - year - old Southerner: Mitch McConnell.

If the sentence is carried out, he would join a group of just three federal prisoners executed since 1988, when capital punishment by the U.S. government was reinstated.

Premier Colin Barnett has described the federal government's mining tax as a flop, after Treasurer Wayne Swan revealed today the impost raised just $ 126 million in its first six months of operation.

CF: What you said about others coming into the fray and starting to build some momentum about it, I think that does give more hope that this just won't just be something that is a transfer of dollars from the federal to provincial governments.

With revenues from the band's winery, golf course, luxury hotel and other ventures as collateral, it can now issue bonds just like municipal, provincial or federal governments — a first in Canada for a native band.

Just in time for all those New Year's resolutions, the federal government has released new dietary guidelines that zero in on America's sweet tooth.

New York City wants $ 35 million from the federal government to cover security costs for President - elect Donald Trump, but it's not just the city that's found itself strapped for cash.

It's basically just the federal government of the United States that seems to have its head in the sand.

There have been just two questions on income inequality asked so far during the debates — one of which was directed at Sen. Rand Paul right before a commercial break (he focused on Federal Reserve policy), and the other which was for Gov. Mike Huckabee (who bemoaned general government incompetence).

There's no new theme to it, just more riffs on the old one of a self - reinforcing spiral of slower growth in China crushing the economies of its raw material suppliers, while an appreciating dollar makes it ever harder for emerging market companies and governments to repay the debts they gleefully took on when the Federal Reserve was giving away dollars for free.

This year — with some of the more influential minds within the industry, state and federal government, and academia all gathered on his back patio — Jenkins wants to do more than just talk about what can be done.

Earlier this year, Ottawa launched a five - year, $ 250 - million program geared at supporting the auto industry — Ford just received a $ 72 - million cash injection — but DesRosiers and other analysts say the federal government's efforts need to be less targeted at the assembly plants.

Just last year, the federal government was championing a law that would have granted police sweeping new powers to monitor Canadians» e-mail and demand customer information from Internet service providers.

Furthermore, last year's Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey found job satisfaction among only 64 percent of almost 400,000 government workers and organization satisfaction for just 55 percent.

The state government is at odds with the Commonwealth over plans to shelve the second stage of the $ 1.7 billion Perth Freight Link, with the federal minister for cities saying today the funding agreement was for both stages of the project, not just stage 1.

The federal government, he argued, should just let the issue go.

A recent AP - NORC poll of U.S. adults, conducted during and after the collapse of the GOP proposal, found just 52 percent called it a federal government responsibility to make sure all Americans have coverage.

He sounded a lot like BHP executives back in 2010 as they tried to assuage Canadian fears, just before the federal government rejected that deal.

The federal government has increased pressure on the private sector to fight the war on drugs, just as public support for the effort has reached a low.

Of the 476,000 applications that have been started, just over half have been from the 36 states where the federal government is taking the lead in running the markets.

There's just one problem: States and the federal government don't have much way to know what works and what doesn't because the data isn't being collected and evaluated, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAgovernment don't have much way to know what works and what doesn't because the data isn't being collected and evaluated, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAGovernment Accountability Office (GAO) report.

In the ruling, which was made public just before Christmas, the U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington said the government was wrong to deny a trademark to «The Slants,» an Asian - American band.

Ottawa's «Innovation Supercluster Initiative,» which will see the federal government invest nearly $ 1 billion to create five separate «regional innovation ecosystems,» is just the latest example of the federal government's boundless optimism in its own ability to foster economic growth.

But just because the new drone program debuted, doesn't mean that local authorities, the federal government, and corporate interests won't butt heads.

Under new rules just introduced by the Obama administration, companies contracting with the federal government are now obliged to allow both full and part - time workers to accrue paid leave which they can use for anything from preventative doctor's visits, to staying in bed and sipping chicken soup, to caring for an ill family member.

Admittedly, 3,000 jobs is peanuts in the U.S. labour market, but, as the chart below shows, the federal layoffs mean that Washington is starting to be a drag on employment growth just as state and local governments are beginning to recover (blue is the federal government; green is state government; red means local government; and private sector employment, excluding farm employees, is orange).

Just days before that group published its recommendations in June, the federal government announced plans to introduce mandatory standards within two years.

Rather than repeat this approach, both the federal government and state governments should write contracts to ensure that economic incentives focus on reducing recidivism and improving outcomes for the nation's inmates, not just warehousing as many people as possible.

The Parliamentary Budget Office has been warning that the federal government has been running a «structural deficit» for several years now, and the Conservative government has been dismissing those warnings for just as long.

This means that in just four more years, Social Security will no longer be able to loan any more money to the federal government.

Provincial governments make mistakes too... just the the federal government does... mostly based upon their own survival.

It's actually part of the work we just do on an ongoing basis with the federal government.

But claiming as the Conservatives would that, if the federal government were to run a deficit, Canada would soon become like Greece is just utter «bull crap».

Just over half (53 %) are of the view that the ultimate authority rests with the federal government, while just under half (47 %) say provincial governments should have the power to «veto» projects in their jurisdictiJust over half (53 %) are of the view that the ultimate authority rests with the federal government, while just under half (47 %) say provincial governments should have the power to «veto» projects in their jurisdictijust under half (47 %) say provincial governments should have the power to «veto» projects in their jurisdictions.

I've been reading Galbraith's The Predator State — see a review here — and it got me to thinking just how little our federal government — and governments elsewhere ---LSB-...]

Financial results just released by the Finance department for the first eight months (April to November) of the 2014 - 15 fiscal year show that the federal government posted a deficit of $ 3.3 billion, an improvement of $ 10.1 billion from the deficit of $ 13.4 billion recorded in the same period in 2013 - 14.

VICTORIA — Dan Woynillowicz, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the federal government's announcement regarding electricity regulations and a just transition for workers: «The regulations announced today mark important progress in implementing the federal government's commitment to cut carbon pollution, but equally important is recognizing that clean growth...

These include: the macroeconomic effects of the new mortgage rules; the likely path of our exports; the impacts of the federal government's fiscal measures, which are just beginning to be felt; and the effects on business confidence of the US election.

I suppose coming just a few days before Christmas, a dispute over federal health transfers can become a new sort of Canadian holiday tradition given it has happened before with the December 2011 unilateral transfer decision announced by the federal government.