Sentences with phrase «making policy pieces»

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VICTORIA — Dan Woynillowicz, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the federal government's 2018 budget: «Today's budget announced support for implementing key pieces of the government's climate change and clean growth plan, including putting a price on carbon pollution and extending tax support for clean energy.

The recipient of the Distinguished Fellowship will make a significant contribution to APF Canada and global development through: policy - focused research, speaking engagements and workshops, published opinion pieces, and networking among experts and specialists on Canada - Asia relations.

The Fed's statement following its March meeting suggested to us it was unlikely to be hurried into any further interest - rate hikes by a single piece of inflation or employment data crossing a particular threshold and instead would make a wider judgement on the appropriate setting for monetary policy, based on a range of readings across the economy and financial markets.

To learn more about the impact LAC can have, check out our piece with Dr. Josephine Martin and Sandi Walters on the impact school nutrition professionals can make in shaping public policy.

It's also important to remember that other important puzzle piece: agricultural policy that makes ground beef cheap and, therefore, ubiquitous.

I was happy to make the relevant corrections but it didn't alter the substantive facts of the piece: the Tories were against the policy before they were for it before they were against it.

When you know that the outcome of any piece of careful policy analysis may be little more than a chip to be run across the back of a minister's fingers at the poker table, it does rather take the gloss off making sure all the evidence supporting it is just so.

Established think - tanks across the political spectrum such as the Fabian Society, ippr, Demos, Policy Exchange, the Social Market Foundation, Civitas and so on will make a point of stating who the funder of any piece of work or any event is.

Brown will try to cut through what he regards as the media's refusal to focus on policy by making three set - piece speeches this week on health, families and crime.

The point I made in respect of this in my piece was to say that policies of this kind would assist in delivering the kind of growth rate that we shall need in coming years to make the deficit as manageable as possible.

That is the premise of my piece in today's Daily Telegraph, though I also write that «if [David Cameron's Ministers] can't come up with the right policies for growth (and the Treasury's determination is in doubt) then shifting them about will make no difference».

Krauss's piece makes the magazine look like a liberal blowhard — especially because Krauss provides no thoughtful policy analysis, no new insights into the science of health care or politics, and it treats anyone with whom he disagrees with great disrespect.

The piece was intended to demonstrate that 1) good outcomes are associated with good choices made by families and thus 2) we can not conclude that schools and neighborhoods do not matter because such conclusions are invalidated by selection; that 3) we can not tell whether «bad» families are inefficacious because they only have bad choices open to them or because they would make bad choices even if offered good ones; and 4) we ought to be far more open to any policy that makes better choices available to families who now have little or no choice open to them.

More than just making connections, the art students had to use their critical thinking skills not only to understand all the information and nuances of their public policy issue, but also to synthesize it into an art piece that conveyed a message.

Michelle McLaughlin, president of Knowledge Alliance, authored a piece on the Brookings Institution's Education Blog that discusses the role of «intermediary organizations» in providing lawmakers with evidence - based research when making education policy decisions.

For these policies, and others included in the report, to have meaningful value, leaders must first get the measurement and accountability pieces right, and then make smart investments to encourage the best and brightest to teach in our toughest schools.

You are sooo right Jon — this just replaces NCLB and does have even more pieces of concern — by the way — the testing will now include 5 year olds as K - 3 will now be included — thank God we are not letting those kids play anymore — the only thing the waiver provides is that it gets rid of the idiotic unachievable goal of having every student read at proficient / goal by 2014 — its nice to set the bar high but a little bit of realism wouldnt hurt when making policy ---

Building on our distinction as a non-partisan, research - driven organization, Raise Your Hand in advance of the 84th Legislative Session conducted or commissioned several research pieces — all of which were made available for download on our website, and distributed to members of the legislature, policy influencers, and stakeholder groups.

DeMoss, Bank Street's president Shael Polakow - Suransky, and the college's dean of innovation, policy and research Josh Thomases recently wrote an opinion piece for The New York Times in which they make a case for investing in co-teaching residencies as a professional necessity.

In keeping with its recent policy of leaping headlong at the avant - garde, Ford, which got into the aero game early and the minivan market late, has made the Aerostar a head - spinning piece of work.

The insurance experts at Effective Coverage can break it down into meaningful pieces to help you understand your coverage and to make good decisions about your policy.

George continues to make her point that is the same as mine in my piece Easy In, Hard Out; that the Fed may have greater problems as a result of its abnormal policies, whatever they do in the future.

Landlords in Kentucky can be listed as additional interest and made aware of changes in the status of their residents» policies without ever opening another piece of mail from an insurance company.

The man who controlled the fed, made monetary policy, had access to every piece of economic data available at the time, and spent his life studying markets.

Her current piece makes the point that the Fed should not have entered into such policies of easing, because now we face the results of those policies, which include low interest rates, and little reason to borrow.

Firefighting policies have shifted, but far too late to avoid more massive events like the Rim Fire, as is made clear in a sobering statistic in «With Rim Fire Near, A Look Yosemite's History with Fire,» a fine piece by Ker Than for National Geographic:

The first, the cover feature «Here Comes the Sun» of The Beijinger its green issue this March, speaks to the general state of China's solar industry and concludes that despite the tough times (see previous post), a vast market and progressive national renewable energy policies make China the key to a solar future. Yours truly is quoted several times in this piece.

The partnership with the Greens has delivered the best piece of policy making on climate and clean energy that we have seen, and some valuable institutions.

That's why an article on «The World's Ongoing Ecological Disasters» — some of which make the BP spill pale in comparison — offered an especially striking reminder that there are ecosystems and people suffering outside the eye of the nightly news.A Five - Decade Oil Spill in Nigeria In his piece this week for Foreign Policy, author Joshua E. Keating highlights five global environmental catastrophes that appear to be even harder to solve that the BP spill.

«I am hopeful that disclosure of a few key pieces of information will establish the impartiality of climate research and policy recommendations published in your institution's name and assist me and my colleagues in making better law,» Grijalva wrote.

Time and again politicians try to push through certain policy ideas, often packing them into broader pieces of proposed legislation, and predictably many of these proposals never make it through.

In his 2004 article «System Failure: Why Governments Must Learn to Think Differently», Jake Chapman observed that the traditional model of policy making involves reducing the problem into smaller pieces and applying expertise and logic to reach solutions.

Let's start with doctrine: — Current copyright literature Next to Genie Tyburski and the wonderful Virtual Chase — Virtual Chase Legal Research guide: Intellectual Property Law From Slaw's own Ted Tjaden, some Canadian links — Intellectual Property Law — Canada Pausing only to suppress my occasional cynicism about the length of time that Canada's policy - making on copyright has been going on, at least they have good resources explaining the process — Copyright Reform Process A few comparative links: the United Kingdom — Copyright on the UK Patent Office Site Next New Zealand — New Zealand Copyright Law How to do research on Australian copyright law — Intellectual Property Research in Australia Now two important US sites: first the authorized version — The US Copyright Office Next, a wonderful site that reflects some of Larry Lessig «s thinking at Stanford — The Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center And finally, reflecting the fact that so much law in this area reflects not domestic policy - making, but hard - fought international consensus, an Index to what the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a United Nations agency has accomplished — WIPO Index And to conclude with an American and a European take on international copyright, since I was just in Chicago, look at Irene Berkey's links — International Intellectual Property and finally a European source (actually it's Swiss, but that's not obviousRobert Kraft, in his Diaries, quotes Stravinsky, la justice — c’est une invention suisse)-- Swiss Legal Research Center International IP Links, run by CMS von Erlach Henrici And finally, a nice and quirky piece on the oddities of copyright called — Digital Copyright & Copywrong by Peter Jacso.

The policies make up «a relatively small piece of the insurance market,» she adds.

Read these news pieces to know about new schemes, any change in the insurance regulations to make sure you are updated while buying home insurance policies.

Jewelry coverage helps protect the investment you've made in your favorite pieces by helping you replace them if you experience a loss that's covered by your policy.

The insurance piece of the death benefit shrinks over time as the cash value grows, until eventually the cash value makes up 100 % of the money the insurance policy will pay out.

If you're going to need Southaven renters insurance, the final piece of advice you should consider is that you must make sure that the policy you pick will be able to cover all of your belongings.

The insurance experts at Effective Coverage can break it down into meaningful pieces to help you understand your coverage and to make good decisions about your policy.

If you have made a significant addition to your gun collection, or inherited or been given a new piece of jewelry, you will need to update that portion of your policy.

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