Sentences with phrase «liberal ones of»

On the other hand, however, many civilizations, especially the more liberal ones of the present epoch, have been painstakingly careful to acknowledge the possibility of a personal change of heart and to enable the person to escape the more painful consequences of his own past behavior provided he is genuinely repentant.

Not exact matches

Few would be surprised if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau borrowed a page from iPhone - maker Apple Inc. in a bid to boost Canada's innovation chops, one of several Liberal campaign promises.

Instead of reinventing the wheel, the Liberals are suggesting bring back a policy from the 1990s, one that avoided the unintended consequences of the current government proposal where firms receive benefits by firing workers.

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.

The issue does seem to be one facet of the gun control debate where conservatives and liberals may be able to agree.

Some academics see undeclared majors as the epitome of Deweyan education, the last vestiges of America's one - time liberal - arts sensibility.

But with no clear outcome for a bill that is unpopular with both conservatives and liberal lawmakers alike, hospital stocks are one of the riskiest bets on the market right now.

Co-founder and CEO Eli Pariser, whose site first staked a reputation for re-packaging liberal stories, says the move to partner with a traditional network (and MSNBC in particular) is one that makes sense for both companies: «We had a meeting with NBCU and realized that we were thinking about a bunch of the same things, and that it would be fun to collaborate on a project,» he says, by «bringing together what we learned from curating a lot of video for purpose - driven millennials, and what they know about visual video storytelling,» he tells Inc. exclusively.

In Ontario, for instance, Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne has included a separate provincial pension counterpart as one of her party's key election promises ahead of the province's June 12 election.

It's hard to tell how many do this — I know of a few politically engaged Liberals who periodically hold Tory membership cards too — but it's a fact of life for those of other political stripes in a one - party province like Alberta: the political direction of the province is decided at the PC leadership conventions, not in general elections.

Canada, so far, is one of the few beacons of liberal openness remaining.

NEW YORK, March 19 - Actress and liberal activist Cynthia Nixon, one of the stars of the «Sex and the City» television series and movies, announced on Monday she would run for governor of New York, challenging incumbent Andrew Cuomo for the Democratic nomination.

Far from being the «nation of innovators» so often touted by Justin Trudeau's Liberal government, the Bloomberg report is a stark reminder of one simple fact that negatively impacts a lot more than just jobs: our country is suffering from an innovation crisis, and it's getting worse every year.

Aaron Ginn, one of the LincolnLabs co-founders, said merely getting a couple hundred conservatives in the same room in San Francisco to talk technology is a victory given the region's and tech industry's liberal politics.

As if to prove this claim, federal Liberal leader Justin Trudeau announced that one plank of his election platform will be to realign the tax system to shift wealth away from those nasty one - percenters and down to the middle class.

One of the missing facts in Darcy's report is that while conservatives with big microphones taught their listeners not to believe what is reported in the mainstream media (and especially the elite press in New York and Washington) they themselves still relied on those sources as their baseline reality — minus the liberal «spin,» of course.

Ralph Goodale, a Liberal MP and former finance minister, accused the Tories of putting «all of their eggs in one particular basket» — the energy sector.

NDP Leader Adrian Dix has said he would examine whether the stadium should be sold, prompting the Liberals to label him a hypocrite for complaining about some asset sales while considering one of his own.

The former Liberal was apparently rejected by the party because of public family disputes, a tendency to litigate and more than one business failure.

And for their turn, Kenney's surrogate MLAs — he's not one himself yet — hammered away daily with scripted attacks on pipelines, and picked up Kenney's campaign theme of equal - time bashing of Notley and Trudeau, in hopes of tying an unpopular NDP premier to an unpopular - in - Alberta Liberal PM and arguing she won't defend Alberta's energy sector.

From the viewpoint of open government, 2002's Bill 66 is one of the most praiseworthy — if unheralded — of all measures implemented by the Liberal government.

Although the Conservatives later replaced the Canadian Building Incentive Program with a similar program, the new one is more limited in scope with a smaller budget — typical of the cuts Harper made to many climate related initiatives that had been proposed and voted through in Parliament under the previous Liberal government.

When it was all over, the tally of alleged wrongdoing cited here today, assigned to one party or another, included unpaid taxes (NDP), abusing election laws (Conservatives), improperly taking money from charities (Liberals), improperly claimed expenses (Liberals), illegal campaign debts (Liberals), illegal political donations (NDP), flouting Hill security (NDP), a potentially illegal cheque (Conservatives), secrecy (Conservatives) and sabotaging the committee to select the parliamentary budget officer (Conservatives).

Let's look at one of the first acts of the minority Harper government: the cancelling of a truly historic program announced and funded by the previous Liberal government: the national, universal child care program.

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.

Under the previous Liberal government, Cabinet agreed on the «one third rule» for using the surplus - one third of the surplus went to tax cuts; one third to new spending; and, one third to debt reduction.

Liberal candidates have the classic stimulus plum of job - creating infrastructure, though that deficit - inducing investment appears to be spread proportionally across the provinces, rather than targeted at the ones most needing a kick - start.

Last night's victory by Premier Christy Clark and the BC Liberals will go down in British Columbia political history as one of the biggest upset victories ever.

His tweets Thursday suggested Tories should confine their criticism of the Khadr payment to Canadian soil, advising one Tory MP that even when Liberals «disagreed with your government's approach to the U.S., we supported you while in the U.S.»

At one time governments, both Liberal and Conservative, asked their public servants to provide their best advice, regardless of disagreement, wanted policy options costed, and were even willing to publish reports and analysis and defend them in public.

His move to one of Europe's most influential financial posts is likely to lead to more liberal policies toward foreign acquisitions.

And that colourful party has only one MLA, who supported the regressive — environmental endangering — BC Liberal budgets for the first two years of his 4 year term!

Kashuv has become part of a culture war far bigger and older than him taking place between liberals and conservatives over one of the most divisive issues in America.

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.

Nevermind that B.C.'s Minister of Natural Gas Development, Rich Coleman, who was responsible for reviewing the environmental and social impacts of Woodfibre LNG, also has a mandate to develop an LNG export industry — and he's one of the BC Liberals» largest fundraisers.

As one Liberal was quick to tweet, if Mr. Moore had read to the second page of that 2009 letter from Mr. Trudeau, he might've noticed that the penultimate sentence explains that, «The Department of Human Resources Canada and the Ministry of Immigration of Quebec have already given permission to hire the above - mentioned individuals for an initial period of 2 years.»

If one is even a moderately fiscally conservative Ontario voter, the prospect of spending billions more in an already heavily indebted province, or rewarding the long - governing Liberals with another term is untenable.

VICTORIA — A report from B.C.'s Representative for Children and Youth shows the Liberal government has failed to show leadership or bring the focus needed to fulfill one of the most important responsibilities of government — providing services for Aboriginal children and youth, say B.C.'s New Democrats.

Radio stations in Metro Vancouver had documented ongoing rifts developing between B.C. Liberal insider Satnam Johal and the B.C. Liberal leadership as the election approached, primarily due to reports that Johal was kept out of the nomination process in at least one constituency.

No one would accuse the Liberals and Conservatives of neighbourly relations these days, unless we're talking about fences and feuding families.

Past Conservative voters who own small businesses view this proposal as unfair by nearly seven - to - one, and they are joined in this opinion by a plurality of Liberal - voting business owners (43 %), as seen in the following graph:

At a time when the restaurant and tourism industries are still struggling under the uncertainty associated with the Liberals» HST mess, the premier had nothing to offer in terms of a quick and smooth transition back to the PST, and committed $ 0 toward the tourism sector in her jobs plan, one of British Columbia's most important industries.

We are witnessing an assault by the national security state and its liberal media on a President of the United States that is unprecedented... What we are witnessing is the determination of the national security state to keep their prized «Russian Threat» in its assigned role as the Number One Threat to the US.

Unfortunately for B.C. the Liberals have put all their economic eggs into one basket, at the expense of the rest of the economy, and their failure to create employment is hurting British Columbia.»

VICTORIA — A report from B.C.'s Representative for Children and Youth shows the Liberal government has failed to show leadership or bring the focus needed to fulfill one of the most important responsibilities of government — providing services for Aboriginal...

Former MLA supports Raj for Liberal leader Conservative MLA turned Liberal leadership hopeful Dr. Raj Sherman has the support of at least one former Liberal MLA.

The foreign buyers» tax was one of 16 measures by the Liberal government aimed at slowing increasingly unaffordable housing in the region.

«Our immigration policy is much more liberal,» Mr. Watson said of one edge a Canadian city might have in bidding to host Amazon's second headquarters.

Christy Clark «s Liberals have 43 MLAs, one MLA short of a majority.

Twenty - one years ago, in a federal election that reshaped the Canadian political landscape, the Liberals swept Edmonton, electing Members of Parliament in four of the city's six federal ridings.