Sentences with phrase «funded by the province»

He points to Muslim schools in Quebec, for instance, that are funded by the province and therefore must accept Christian Lebanese students.

It is funded by the province, and it is open to national and international students.

Generally, child welfare services in Canada are provided and funded by provinces.

Not exact matches

Association president Gary Smith, of Brookfield Financial, opened the conference by imploring federal and provincial governments to play more of a role, lauding those provinces like Ontario that have launched venture funds, and taking credit for the repeal of Section 116 of the Income Tax Act in the Harper government's spring budget.

«For all 12 business support programs, no attempt has been made by the province to isolate the impact of provincial support against what would have happened without provincial funding,» the report said.

In Canada, the Funds are available for purchase by investors resident only in those provinces and territories where they may legally be purchased.

NDP commitments include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (already implemented by the Conservatives (but with a different phase in); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; and, increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI).

Over 95 per cent of Canada's infrastructure is controlled by the provinces, territories and municipalities, for which the federal government already allocates significant amounts of funding through its New Building Canada Plan; a $ 53 billion plan spread over ten years.

The front page of Fridayâ $ ™ s National Post reported, «The Conservatives will encourage the five provinces that do not have harmonized sales taxes — Ontario, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, P.E.I. and Manitoba — to take part by setting up a $ 5 - billion trust fund that would compensate them for lost revenue over the phase - in period.»

NDP promises include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented in the budget by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (also already implemented by the Conservatives); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI); and restoring the 6 % annual escalator to the Canada Health Transfer.

Funding delayed (p. 126 and 150): Last year, Ottawa promise $ 2 billion over two years, starting this year, for a Low Carbon Economy Fund to support emission reductions efforts by provinces and territories.

In their 2015 election platform, the Trudeau Liberals identified a number of items related to Employment Insurance (EI) that they would change: reversing the Harper EI reforms defining «suitable work»; reducing the waiting period for EI benefits; reducing EI premiums; introducing more flexible parental leave; providing better access to compassionate care; and increasing funding for employment and training programs managed by provinces, territories and Aboriginal labour market organizations.

Horgan added that his party had introduced legislation to ensure wildlife and habitat management has secure funding in the province — a bill supported by hunters and wildlife viewing companies, but rejected by the government.

All that work is proceeding as Spectra continues to investigate the feasibility of its proposed Fort Nelson project - a study that is being funded, in part, by a $ 3.4 million grant from the province.

For 2011 - 12, the deficit has been revised up by $ 2.7 billion to $ 32.3 billion, due to the provisional liability of $ 2.2 billion for the province of Quebec and the reprofiling of the stimulus funding.

A municipal funding shortage and delayed environmental assessments by the province, says James Young, town councilor and former mayor.

In contrast to IMF loans to support the kleptocrats» banks and new Cold War asset grabs from the Eastern border provinces with Russia, Ukraine's sale of bonds to Russia's sovereign debt fund and its contracts signed for gas purchases were negotiated by a democratically elected government, at prices that subsidized domestic industry and also household consumption.

Midwifery care is funded by the provincial Ministry of Health and is accessible to all women in the province who meet the standards for low obstetric risk (Box 1).

Alberta will introduce a $ 15.25 per metric ton tax on 1 January 2017 (rising to $ 22.87 by 2018), but Premier Rachel Notley said in a statement that although the province supports the notion of national carbon pricing, it «will not be supporting this proposal absent serious concurrent progress on energy infrastructure, to ensure we have the economic means to fund these policies.»

According to reports prepared by the Council of Ontario Universities (COU), although the level of provincial government funding to universities in all 10 provinces has steadily declined since 1988, it has declined fastest in Ontario, to the point at which Ontario's universities receive 22 % less per student than universities in the other nine provinces.

At issue is a study funded by the U.S. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that was conducted on schoolchildren in Hunan province in 2008 and published online in August.

OMDC is an agency of the Government of Ontario, and supports the province's creative economy by providing innovative programs, services and funding for the film & television; book & magazine publishing; interactive digital media & music industries.

This program, increasing to $ 1 billion per year by 2019, will be a permanent source of funding to provinces and municipalities for major public transit projects.

The province has said revenue generated by the tax will fund government housing initiatives for renters, low income earners and first - time buyers.

In some provinces, the law requires that a fiduciary, such as a trustee, may invest funds only in a list of securities designated by the province or the federal government.

In Canada, the Funds are available for purchase by investors resident only in those provinces and territories where they may legally be purchased.

The one - time bonus applies only to the HSBC Mutual Fund Non-Registered account offered by HIFC and is available to HIFC customers who have achieved the age of majority in their province of residence.

HSI Canada called on the Ministère de l'Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l'Alimentation du Québec to take immediate action after a report by the Animal Legal Defense Fund ranked Quebec as the worst province for animal protection in Canada.

The annual games exhibition is run by the Dutch Game Garden (partnered with Casual Connect), an incubator funded by the city and province of Utrecht to create employment and economic growth by stimulating the games industry in the Netherlands.

To make this a just transition towards a cleaner, healthier and more prosperous economy for all, Alberta has also created a Coal Community Transition Fund, to support municipalities and First Nations impacted by the phase - out of coal in the province.

Courthouse libraries are funded in a variety of ways depending on the province; but as a general rule, funds are provided by the provincial law society and law foundation.

Thanks to the MIG, 80 % of accident victims in Ontario have their funding for physiotherapy and other rehabilitation costs limited to a maximum of just $ 3,500 (by far the lowest amount of any province in Canada1), and people are expected to always be fully recovered after just one or two courses of treatment.

They don't tell us much just that «CanLII is funded by the members of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, in other words, the law societies of Canada's provinces and territories and the Chambre des notaires du Québec.»

The first full budget handed down by British Columbia's New Democratic Party will provide much - needed injections of funds to the province's ailing legal community, but at the same time it draws blood from larger corporations and the real estate industry with new tax levies.

Apart from the advisability of bringing the province's lawyers on side, Bryant wants to ensure that any new commission has non-governmental funding to make it more difficult for it to be axed in the future by a hostile government, at least according to a report in The Toronto Star a few days ago.

Through the Legal Services Society, funded by the government, the province also provided a family law line and extended duty counsel to allow the public to access the system and secure advice to resolve disputes in family law.

The fairest way to put this into play would be to create a fund plenished through victim surcharges assessed as part of sentencing in criminal courts, seized proceeds of crime and other earmarked fines levied by the province / feds for quasi criminal / criminal activity.

However, child welfare services for Indigenous children and families living on reserve are provided by provinces, but are funded by the federal government.

Legal aid funding in Ontario — the province that spends the most on it per capita — fell by nearly 10 per cent from 1996 to 2006.

When the province increased funding for Legal Aid Ontario by $ 86 million over the last two years, Attorney General Yasir Naqvi expected 400,000 more low - income people to qualify for services.

He's not accused of bad lawyering (he hasn't been practicing since becoming mayor in 2000), but of being discourteous to the bench in media interviews in connection with a particularly contentious lawsuit brought by the municipality against the province for a greater share of equilization funds.

KO delivers enhanced services to and through the province's publicly funded libraries by supporting equity of access to information, creation of digital content, research and literacy.

Recently on the Sunshine Coast, here in the province of British Columbia, child care programs funded by MCFD have been drastically cut.

With benefits that include publicity, a chance to raise funds for a charity, showcasing the province's top business minds and finding a motivated new agent, The Interview, a reality - based competition co-created by Brooks Findlay, owner of Rock Bridge Realty of Regina, was a win / win for all involved.

Prior to joining the board, he says, «I admired the way AREF was quietly making an impact by funding numerous projects in the province.

The Foundation is funded by real estate transactions across the province.