Sentences with phrase «major federal parties»

Recently, we sent a questionnaire to the five major federal parties, asking their position on key questions related to HIV and human rights.

But in public, the major federal parties are unanimous in their support for the status quo.

Not exact matches

With presidential candidates from both major political parties proposing a federal mandate on paid parental leave, some companies have chosen to get ahead of any potential new regulations.

Republican leaders have significant differences on what the party's policy agenda will entail for 2018 after securing a major legislative victory in overhauling the federal tax code with a law that included a blow to the Affordable Care Act.

He would become the longest - serving leader of a major political party in Canadian history and the only Prime Minister to win four consecutive federal elections by backing up his pledge of real change with real action.

Find a summary of the major political parties» election platforms and key election promises for the 2008 federal election in Canada.

Sunday's outcome completes a generational change in major party leadership and sets up a new dynamic for the upcoming 43rd Canadian federal election set to take place in October of 2019.

Also Dickson community to community meet the people tour may turn out to be the game changer for the ruling party as the tour afforded the governor the opportunity to interface with the communities in all the nooks and crannies of the council to sell his agenda to the locals The APC may have captured power at the federal level but the PDP remains a formidable party in the state where money, to a large extent, plays a major role in swaying the vote.

In 2018, Ballotpedia is publishing state and federal primary election competitiveness data following each state's major - party candidate filing deadline.

Kayle's been awol from the site b / c of successive Canadian elections keeping him busy (he holds province - wide party office with the Ontario New Democratic Party), but his left - wingers made major gains in recent federal and provincial elections, so we'll forgive him — this party office with the Ontario New Democratic Party), but his left - wingers made major gains in recent federal and provincial elections, so we'll forgive him — this Party), but his left - wingers made major gains in recent federal and provincial elections, so we'll forgive him — this time.

The Progressive Conservatives would never play a major role in federal politics again, eventually merging with the Reform Party (which at this point had been renamed the Canadian Alliance) prior to the 2004 election.

In a year with no federal or statewide races, both major parties in Nassau made the district attorney's office — the only countywide seat on the ballot — a top priority.

The aspiration of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, House of Representatives candidate in Odo - Otin \ Boripe \ Ifelodun federal constituency of Osun State, Barrister Kayode Oduoye, received a major boost...

The passage of the measure ended an ugly, if short - lived, impasse that threatened to give a black eye to both major political parties, and enables hundreds of thousands of federal employees who had been facing furloughs to go back to work.

«We know that the keys of the secretariat are still with the BoT but Sheriff entered by breaking the doors in an action totally unbecoming of a person who had been governor of a state, Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and also claiming to be a national chairman of a major political party.

Federal prosecutors have closed an investigation of the Working Families Party without filing any charges, party officials said on Friday, a major boost for the beleaguered organization as it gears up for the November statewide electParty without filing any charges, party officials said on Friday, a major boost for the beleaguered organization as it gears up for the November statewide electparty officials said on Friday, a major boost for the beleaguered organization as it gears up for the November statewide elections.

David Flaum, who is a Republican, has been an avid political donor to both major parties, according to state and federal campaign finance records.

Also, FDA clears the party drug ecstasy for post-traumatic stress disorder clinical trials, and U.S. courts rule that the federal government must consider the impacts of major energy projects on climate change.

He says that during campaigns for the federal election held in July — after the massive bleaching event of earlier this year — both major political parties promised measures to protect the reef, but neither offered anything to address the «root cause of the problem, which is global warming.»

For instance, support for the federal No Child Left Behind Act has eroded, as evidence accumulated that the federal law was not living up to the promise of its grossly overstated name and politicians in both major parties found it to be an easy target (see Figure 3).

Both of the major - party presidential candidates support increasing federal funding for special education and want to see strategies put in place to help reduce the number of students referred for such services, according to their answers to a questionnaire.

The marathon campaign in the lead up to July's Federal election has already yielded some indication of what to expect from the major parties with regard to education spend and policy.

Now, as every major (and minor) political party vies for your confidence and your vote, I'd like to discuss a federal, provincial and municipal matter that just doesn't get enough attention: aging infrastructure.

Enhancement to the federal child tax benefit — which will cost the government almost $ 3 billion this year — is just one of an array of financial goodies Canada's three major political parties are rolling out to woo coveted middle - class voters.

In the current federal election campaign, each major party advocates different forms of an expanded CPP.

Negative gearing is a controversial political issue in Australia, and was a major issue during the 2016 federal election, during which the Labor Party proposed restricting (but not eliminating) negative gearing and to halve the capital gains tax discount to 25 %.

Meanwhile here in Australia, we have a federal election on, and both major parties are way off in lala land on climate change, supported by the Murdoch media.

To the extent that all of the major parties in the 2006 federal election acknowledged the problem of global warming and were taking steps to address it, though in different ways, (the Liberals, NDP, Bloc Quebecois with the Kyoto accord, and the Conservatives with a Made in Canada approach) it would be difficult to conclude that the audio statements by taking a position on global warming, were targeting one particular party or candidate or a particular party's policy.»

Among other areas, our litigation experience in the environmental area includes governmental and private - party actions under CERCLA (including serving as lead counsel for PRP groups at major Superfund sites throughout the United States), citizen suits under RCRA, the Clean Water Act and other environmental laws, claims for property damage and personal injury arising from industrial emissions or environmental contamination, and defending clients against state and federal governmental enforcement actions.

Since the recent federal election there has been much discussion (and as my colleague Eugene Kung notes, an abundance of open letters) about the Liberal party's election promise to «review Canada's environmental assessment (EA) processes and introduce new, fair processes» for reviewing projects (or re-reviewing them, as in the case of major proposals like the controversial Kinder Morgan and Energy East oil sands pipeline and tankers projects).

This marks the first time that a major federal political party has offered free membership.

The report makes a number of recommendations including that each political party, prior to the next federal election, make Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing a major priority.

This page will provide full access to the AHHA's advocacy throughout the 2016 Federal Election campaign, including our Election Statement, media releases and rating of the major parties» health policies.

This election, Reconciliation Australia seeks the following commitments from all major parties, and calls on the next Federal Government to enact these commitments as a matter of priority.

[15] Bipartisan support was reaffirmed by both major parties as election commitments in the federal election held in August 2010.

All major federal political parties were invited to participate.