Sentences with phrase «national inquiry on»

Mom Laurie Odjick spent Tuesday busy with her daughter Madison while more than 5,400 km away, the national inquiry on murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls began family hearings.

Several months later, on 17 December 2014, during an interview with CBC chief correspondent Peter Mansbridge, Stephen Harper stated that a national inquiry on missing and murdered Indigenous women wasn't «really high on [the government's] radar.»

In recent years, NWAC has been instrumental in the push for a national inquiry on missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG).

The Legal Strategy Coalition on Violence Against Indigenous Women has issued a press release to highlight its public statement urging full involvement of the provinces and territories in the national inquiry on missing and murdered Indigenous women.

As a member of the Legal Strategy Coalition on Violence Against Indigenous Women (LSC), West Coast LEAF is one of 20 signatories to a statement demanding full participation of the provinces and territories in the upcoming national inquiry on missing and murdered Indigenous women.

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RICHMOND, B.C. — A Vancouver sex - trade activist recounted the justice system's failure to protect women who were killed or have disappeared as posters of missing persons were shown on screens Wednesday at a national inquiry.

Nationals senator John Williams has reiterated to The Australian Financial Review if Hayne doesn't come good on Monday and ask all financial institutions to waiver gag orders, he will make a speech in the chamber on Wednesday and push for a Senate inquiry to run in parallel with the royal commission.

A parliamentary inquiry into parenting and social mobility has called on the next government to do more to encourage the UK's early years services to engage with men — and to fund a national reading campaign for dads and children.

He said the UK needs to «get on and build without endless inquiries» because transport infrastructure to ports is needed «in the national interest».

They send inquiries on to the International Tennis Federation, which deals with national classification.

It would establish a new inquiry into «allegations of data protection breaches committed by or on behalf of national news publishers».

The Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to set up a national judicial commission of inquiry to investigate allegations made by sacked...

We'll then host a number of inquiry - style discussions to hone in on the most relevant evidence and submit our recommendations to the National Housing Taskforce by the end of the year.»

Some national retailers have agreed in recent years to stop on - call scheduling following a multistate inquiry by eight state attorneys general, including New York's Eric Schneiderman, a Democrat.

On 31 October 2006, Jackson was one of 12 Labour MPs to back Plaid Cymru and the Scottish National Party's call for an inquiry into the Iraq War.

But from the start, she also developed her own line of inquiry, winning a grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to continue studying genes that govern senescence.

He recognized that the study of aging had lacked robust scientific inquiry, and he conjectured that molecular biology tools could fuel real progress in the field — a forward - looking viewpoint that few others espoused at the time, says immunologist Claudio Franceschi, director of the Italian National Research Center on Aging in Ancona.

The recent National Assessment Program Science literacy results for Australian Year 6 students (ACARA, 2017) showed on the one hand a majority of students are interested in studying Science and learning new things, but on the other hand there has been a pattern of stagnation in inquiry skills since 2006.

Yet troubling statistics persist: On the latest round of testing for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), only 40 percent of fourth graders nationwide were found to be proficient in math, and students at all grade levels were especially weak in inquiry - based science.

The inquiry, which will be held on May 2, was prompted by the National Audit Office's report in February which noted that two thirds of maintained schools rated «inadequate» took longer than «nine months to open as academies.

MPs today held the first hearing into primary test changes after teachers demanded an inquiry following numerous alterations, security breaches and even a national parent walk out on schools.

Re - conceptualizing graduate education as job - embedded, practice - centered, and inquiry - focused, this graduate program went on to win national acclaim when it was selected as the top program in the country by the Association of Teacher Educators.

It is based on best teaching practices in writing, inquiry, collaboration, organization, and reading, and it is supported by state and national content standards.

At this time, the PIV Applicant may also have their fingerprints captured for transmission to Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in order to conduct a fingerprint check as well as a National Agency Check with Inquiries (NACI) or higher based on the position of the employee and their responsibilities within the FAA.

Oates is equally unflinching in her inquiry into class and racial conflicts, and in her imaginative and intrepid variations on actual circumstances and crimes, from the limited choices of disadvantaged women in her Detroit - set National Book Award — winning them (1969) to Marilyn Monroe's disastrous celebrity in Blonde (2000) to a tale of the opposite lives of two college students in Black Girl / White Girl (2006) to the JonBenet Ramsey case and the horrors of the tabloid press in My Sister, My Love (2008) to the festering wound of a long - ago New Jersey lynching in The Accursed (2013).

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I've addressed this question before in various ways, but was prompted to dig into my ideas and feelings about the building greenhouse effect with new rigor when two very different magazines, Issues in Science and Technology (the magazine of the National Academies) and Creative Nonfiction, invited me to write an essay on my 30 years of climate inquiry.

Daniel Cressey; cross-posted from The Great Beyond Over 250 members of the US National Academy of Sciences have hit back at global warming deniers, warning that attacks on climate science are being mainly driven not by intellectual inquiry but by special interest and dogma.

On the other hand, Steve McIntyre is to be applauded to have made the hockey - stick result an issue in the public debate; without his efforts, we guess, there would have been not Barton letters, thus no inquiry by the National Research Council and subsequently no hearing in a subcommittee of the House.

In the midst of such uncertainty, on Oct. 15 the EPA's Office of Inspector General announced it would conduct an independent inquiry into whether the agency properly updated its own life cycle analysis in light of the 2011 National Academy of Sciences study.

Senate inquiry on climate change and national security risks The Australian Senate has resolved to set up an inquiry into the implications of climate change for Australia's national security.

Agencies like the EPA and NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) have rejected and ignored congressional oversight, particularly inquiries from the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, led by Rep. Lamar Smith (R - Texas).

Kay et al. (National Center for Atmospheric Research); 4.89 + 0.5 Million Square Kilometers, range of 4.0 to 5.8 million sq kilometers; Heuristic, Statistical, Modeling Method is an informal inquiry of 19 climate scientists on June 1, 2010.

Thank you for your inquiry regarding the HADCRUT3 gridded data available on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) website: http://www.cdc.noaa.gov.

I maintain it is fraudulent, that it was fraudulently promoted by the IPCC and by Al Gore (as the great iconic all - you - need - to - know image of global warming), that Mann himself is fraudulent (falsely claiming on an industrial scale to be a Nobel Laureate) and that, indeed, even his court filings are fraudulent (falsely claiming to have been «exonerated» by the British Government and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and all kinds of other «Climategate» inquiries that have never ever investigated him).

VANCOUVER — Today, West Coast LEAF calls on all levels of government to commit to addressing violence against Indigenous women and girls through a robust, effective national inquiry.

With respect to judicial interpretation, therefore, while the national legal traditions on which the articles and rules in question are modeled can provide some guidance, over-reliance on a narrow inquiry can lead to the perpetuation of the default position, according to which, as Byrne («The new public international lawyer and the hidden art of international criminal trial practice», 25 Connecticut Journal of Int» l Law (2005) 243) notes, some international judges «interpret legal norms through the lexicons of their respective traditions», rather than through a truly sui generis prism.

Together with members of the Coalition on Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls, West Coast LEAF has written Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and several key Cabinet Ministers regarding the promised national public inquiry on violence against Indigenous women Read More

Together with members of the Coalition on Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls, West Coast LEAF has written Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and several key Cabinet Ministers regarding the promised national public inquiry on violence against Indigenous women and girls in Canada.

The Coalition on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls has issued a press release to honour the families and Indigenous community organizers who have fought tirelessly for the national inquiry that is about to begin.

Peter Skelton QC's practice encompasses public inquiries, inquests, human rights litigation, clinical negligence, judicial review, national security and personal injury litigation, with a particular emphasis on multi-party actions and claims arising in foreign jurisdictions.

Summary: Current law prohibits, among other things, an employer to make any nonjob - related inquiry, either verbally or on an application form, that expresses any limitation, specification, or limitation based upon, among other things, a person's race, religion, national origin, or gender.

This week, West Coast LEAF called on all levels of government to commit to meaningfully address violence against Indigenous women and girls through a robust, effective national inquiry.

For immediate release — August 3, 2016 VANCOUVER — Today, West Coast LEAF calls on all levels of government to commit to addressing violence against Indigenous women and girls through a robust, effective national inquiry.

CBC reports, «First Nations chiefs expressed growing frustration with a delay in the federal government's launch of a national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women, calling on both the provinces and Ottawa to stop dragging their feet... [Assembly of First Nations Regional Chief Shane] Gottfriedson said while the Trudeau government was quick to «spring into action» with the pre-inquiry phase as several ministers consulted with the families of the victims, the launch of the inquiry itself is now dragging on.»

In 2007, Francis joined a federal commission of inquiry on national security matters.

On December 8, 2015, the federal government announced that it was launching a national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women.

The national inquiry officially began on 1 September 2016.

On 8 December 2015, the Government of Canada announced plans for the launch of an independent national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

Despite the ongoing push from Indigenous women and communities and human rights groups such as Amnesty International, the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action, Human Rights Watch and the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, the federal government continued to dismiss the need to launch a national public inquiry.