Sentences with phrase «liberal left in»

The Guardian is the newspaper of choice of the liberal left in the UK and my own chosen national daily.

There is no Left liberal left in US, Democrats are at best centre right.

A start at combating the gays and liberal left in their efforts to boycott and destroy a business because of ideology.

Not exact matches

In the process, however, WA industry and consumers were left facing a Liberal - created privately controlled gas monopoly market.

The company, which already had one of the most liberal paternity leave policies among U.S. companies with 17 paid weeks for both mothers and fathers, expanded its policy to employees outside the U.S. and became gender neutral, allowing same - sex couples to participate in the program.

If anything like that happened in Canada, this sort of euphoric feeling some of us on the left have now, we may actually be able to force the NDP and Liberals to get together.

Walk into a store — old - school hip - hop playing softly, like Muzak for millennials — and you'll find customers leafing through Oak Street, the company's in - house magazine (a recent issue features an editorial by Ethan Song that quotes Steve Jobs's thoughts on the intersection of technology and the liberal arts).

And while it's clear the Liberals hope to use their tax changes as a sort of parable for the standing - up - for - ordinary - workers part of their broader discourse — a centre - left populism that Trudeau believes other like - minded leaders, such as Hillary Clinton, forgot to defend, to their peril — the specific tax changes in question didn't appear on the Liberals» radar because the current arrangements are unfair.

New Brunswick MP Wayne Long speaks to reporters as he leaves a Liberal caucus meeting on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa on Monday, October 16, 2017.

In 2003, she heard the channel was planning a new political program called SqueezePlay, built around O'Leary's right - wing free market cheerleading and the left - leaning views of Brian Tobin, the former Newfoundland premier and Liberal cabinet minister.

And while some viewers — and her co-host — occasionally accuse Lang of having left - leaning sympathies, she says it has more to do with counterbalancing O'Leary's conservatism than growing up in a Liberal household.

Today, companies also offering liberal benefits that include transgender health benefits and paid paternity leave are placing a definitive stake in the ground.

«This is not about the left or the right, conservative or liberal,» Tim Cook wrote in response to the protests and violence in Charlottesville.

He's effectively destroyed the federal Liberal Party, leaving it demoralized and in disarray.

But even in the best - case scenario in which Mark Carney's conduct is blameless, we are still left with the prospect that not - insignificant elements in the Liberal Party of Canada were willing to risk one of the most crucial elements of our governance for partisan gain.

Unlike the Liberals, however, the profile of annual commitments and available funds would leave the NDP with substantial additional sources of funding in both 2016 - 17 and 2017 - 18.

The biggest detonation Harper has suffered came early, before he won power, when Belinda Stronach left the Conservatives for the Liberals in 2005.

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.

As for related reports that Carney indulged in private conversations with Liberals about seeking their party's leadership, back before his surprise announcement late last November that he would be leaving next spring to become governor of the Bank of England, his answer today indicated that those were one - sided discussions.

Under the Liberal plan, parents would have a year and a half to take unpaid parental leave but they wouldn't see an overall increase in any benefits from employment insurance.

In my opinion, Edmonton - Centre MLA Laurie Blakeman was the only candidate who left the impression that she would define the Liberal Party as more than just a softer version of the Progressive Conservatives.

Had the Liberals, after 2000, held spending growth to a rate sufficient to cover increases in population and inflation — that is, had they held spending constant in real per capita terms — they would have left the Tories with a budget of $ 148 billion in fiscal 2006, instead of the $ 175 billion it turned out to be.

The previous Liberal government having increased spending 47 per cent in its last six years in office; the Conservatives having increased spending another 19 per cent in its first three years («good times»), and a further 20 per cent over the next two («bad times»); after doubling spending, in short, in the space of a decade, the government's notion of restraint is more or less to leave it there.

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Two Liberal MLAs, Kent Hehr and Darshan Kang, are leaving provincial politics to run as federal Liberal candidates in next year's federal election.

«After that, the Liberals had 15 years — but instead of investing in mental health and addictions services, they're leaving office with 12,000 children languishing on mental health care wait lists.»

In September 2009, Corey Hogan became Executive Director of the Liberal Party after filling a vacancy left after the resignation of long - time Executive Director Kieran Leblanc in 200In September 2009, Corey Hogan became Executive Director of the Liberal Party after filling a vacancy left after the resignation of long - time Executive Director Kieran Leblanc in 200in 2008.

IMHO, there tends to be little electoral overlap between the provincial and federal levels, at least in this province, and in fact the vote splits between right, left and centre are quite different with one unified Conservative party (more aligned with Wildrose than with Alberta PC), and a not - quite - as - moribund Liberal party in play.

His roll of the dice has cost the long esteemed LIBERAL PARTY its position in parliament and brought to the fore a more left - oriented NDP.

Yesterday, Liberal Communications Director Brian Leadbetter announced that he will be leaving after a year in the position.

In 2006, MLA Dan Backs was asked to leave the Liberal Party caucus, and subsequently sat as an independent in the legislaturIn 2006, MLA Dan Backs was asked to leave the Liberal Party caucus, and subsequently sat as an independent in the legislaturin the legislature.

«They are struggling to support children in a school system Christy Clark tore down, struggling to support their parents at a time when Liberals have left 9 in 10 residential care facilities understaffed, and struggling to make ends meet when we have the slowest wage growth in the country and the highest cost of living.

So while I agree with her that political life may help renew faith in human dignity and so make human rights believable, the politics of human rights is conducted through liberal language that is extremely partial, that leaves out at least half of the human experience.

The liberal agenda machine is slowly killing any moral values left in these lands by promoting gay activities.

It is funny that the people who claim they are the most tolerant in theory (the liberal media and left) and actually the least tolerant in fact.

(The Liberals have also mused about reserving some parental leave exclusively for fathers, as is the case in Quebec.)

If liberals really were hoping that the Boston bombing would be a one - off, then they, in all their deep commitment to tolerance, would have hoped that the bombers were left - wing extremists.

I'm genuinely curious to know of surveys saying that young people are leaving liberal denominations because they aren't interested in social justice, the findings of modern science, and creating a welcoming environment for LGBT people.

I incline toward the first of two alternative explanations Robert Benne offers for the leading role ex-Missourians have played in the liberal protestantizing of ELCA Lutheranism, namely, that their experience of torment from the right blinded them to «any danger on the left.»

So if liberals really hope that the next terrorist event will be treated as an isolated incident, they should, in the immediate aftermath, say something like «We really hope these are left - wing terrorists who were inspired by the ability of the Weather Underground bombers to leverage their terrorist activities into employment in academia.»

(Please don't mention Bishop Spong; he's way too far out in left field even for me, and I consider myself a liberal.)

I trust that Matt Walsh understands (as I do), that not all «liberals» are deep down inside hateful evil people, and that the hateful ones, in fact, probably represent only a small (yet loud) fraction of left - wingers.

There is not a day that goes by that their is some liberal telling me what I can say and not say (political correctness), what I should and should not eat, what I should and should not wear, what light bulbs I have to buy, what car I should and should not drive, indoctrinate my children in schools with left wing dribble, take my property and do things with it I don't approve of.

The second debate left liberals with the weak argument that Trump was opportunistically using female victims in order to demonstrate (accurately) that the Clintons and their enablers had used and discarded female victims.

Thereby hangs a tale vigorously, and often humorously, told by Jonah Goldberg in Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, published by Doubleday this month.

Hauerwas and Lemert both belong to the liberal left» both judge America with little sense of irony» but they read Niebuhr in opposite ways.

Robert Wuthnow of Princeton is among the students of American religion who have incisively analyzed the ways in which all the churches are split along a left - right, liberal - conservative divide, mirroring the divides within our general culture.

Right wing conservative types have a Jesus who is against gay marraige, is anti-abortion, thinks there should be prayer in school, and teaches the prosperity stuff and so on... Left wing liberal Christians quote the verses about giving up possessions, feeding and clothing the poor... inner city Christians often have a Jesus who is about social justice... we were made in His image?

The Reverend Bob Edgar, a former Democratic congressman, led the organization from 2000 to 2007, when he left to head Common Cause, a liberal lobbying group in Washington.

On women's issues in general, liberal Protestants fall well to the left, conservatives well to the right, of the national average.