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But it began cooling in the middle of 2012 in the wake of government moves to tighten mortgage lending rules.

Mr Cridland is critical of a government move which saw schools take over the duty to secure independent careers guidance for pupils from last autumn.

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By focusing on outcomes for Canadians and making evidence - based decisions that are anchored in meaningful data and indicators, the Government is moving to a culture of measurement and impact, and is putting in place the tools to deliver on priorities, align resources to programs and activities that deliver real value for Canadians, and provide meaningful information to Canadians and Parliament.

The company maintains that it settled with the government «in the interest of moving beyond disagreements» about whether McKesson was in compliance.

THE state government's move to strengthen codes of conduct in the property industry is credited with helping uncover three new real estate scams.

Pompeo also said that the relocation of the American embassy to Jerusalem, a move set to take place on May 14, was «recognising (the) reality» of «Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and the seat of its government.»

He later reiterated his support with an op - ed in The Washington Post in which he wrote, «Trump's heretical denial of Republican dogma about government incapacity is exactly what we need to move the party — and the country — in a new direction.»

Many Chinese government offices have been public about their interest in taking advantage of the blockchain technology for tasks like tracking people and products moving through industrial supply chains.

Two prominent Perth businesswomen have moved on to new government roles, with Heather Zampatti named the new chair for Lotterywest, while Libby Lyons has become a director of the national Workplace Gender Equality Agency.

Saskatchewan's NDP government learned this lesson the hard way in the 1990s and moved decisively to restore a measure of fairness by reducing top marginal tax rates in their 2000 tax reform.

Adding to it are ever tougher government constraints on greenhouse - gas emissions: Europe, China, and much of the rest of the developing world are moving to curb carbon even as President Trump pulls the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord.

One of the outcomes of the much ballyhooed housing summit earlier this week between Sousa, his federal counterpart Bill Morneau and Toronto mayor John Tory was a commitment to «sharing relevant data more regularly between governments to enhance understanding,» a move that seems comically late after prices in the region have surged double - digits over the past few months.

Poloz indicated in his statement that the prospect of a big spending push by the federal government caused the committee to move away from its intention to cut interest rates.

The Canada Pension Plan Act says that once a sufficient number of provincial governments have indicated support, the federal government can move forward and lock in the reform with an Order in Council — no new Parliamentary debate or legislation is required.

In September, the U.S. government moved to ban the use of Kaspersky products from government computers after it was revealed that Russian hackers managed to obtain U.S. National Security Agency information through the software two years ago.

The move to preemptively brand «property scalpers» a problem, however, smacks of an effort to create a villain that the government can then vanquish — a useful tactic for a government headed by a leader with a record - low approval rating facing an election next year.

By transferring to the private sector ownership of Canada Post, the federal government can eliminate a major drain on public finances and move closer to the goals of eliminating the fiscal deficit and paying down public sector debt.

Carr makes it clear that the government he serves is determined to get the job done: «The prime minister has said many times that it's a major responsibility of the government of Canada to move our natural resources to market sustainably.

The government expects the anti-smoke move will increase federal tax revenues by $ 685 million in 2014 - 15 — a major piece of the puzzle in Tory efforts to balance the books over the next two years.

The City of Cockburn has continued its attack on the interim report by the state government's Major Stadia Taskforce, flagging the possibility of legal action as part of its next move.

As the federal government moves slowly but surely toward the decriminalization of marijuana, Shoppers is looking to stake out its spot in the future market for legal weed.

The move is part of a consumer - first strategy outlined in the federal government's recent throne speech.

The move, which has drawn threats of strike action from the Mail's union, comes a year after the government spun off the 11,780 - branch retail network known as the Post Office.

Indeed, as more information has moved to the cloud, data that is hosted in the U.S. has actually been seen as being less secure because of the government's Patriot Act powers — and that could be a competitive disadvantage for companies based here.

Navarro called the move «courageous» and said it provided an example of what the U.S. government wants to accomplish: more consumer purchasing from local manufacturers to support the economy.

Under such an arrangement, the government would commit to paying the shipping tolls for up to 100,000 barrels per day regardless of whether or not they actually moved that much product — it's a subscription service.

In fact, a recent study in the American Journal of Public Health finds that the EPA «has moved away from the public interest and explicitly favored the interests of the regulated industries,» and is on the slippery slope to what scholars term «regulatory capture,» in which a government agency makes rules in the interest of an industry it's supposed to regulate rather than the public.

Trump, whose administration is moving to crack down on leaks of U.S. government information, also retweeted a Fox News report based on anonymous sources that said U.S. spy satellites had detected North Korea moving anti-ship cruise missiles to a patrol boat.

The move is a novel way for the San Mateo, Calif., company to finance the enormous cost of installing panels on thousands of roofs — a typical residential system costs $ 25,000 — while appealing to retail investors who are on the hunt for better rates of return than they can find in savings accounts and government bonds.

The state government has begun the tender process to find a lead financial adviser as it plans to move ahead with divesting a portion of Keystart's loan book to the private sector.

The move was prescient: The following week, the Argentine government suddenly changed the rules for severance payments — instead of one month's salary per year of service, it would be two months» salary.

«Where we need innovation and where I think we are going to finally see social entrepreneurs spend more and more time is the public sector, because the big challenge that is facing every community on the planet is that government and public policy are not moving at the pace of technology or even meeting expectations of constituents,» says Blumenthal.

Treasurer Eric Ripper said the move was aimed at stamping out the practice of Governments offering financial incentives to lure companies and events from one State to another.

U.S. President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration and his move to strip Haitians, Salvadorans and others of their temporary legal status have had a broad effect on Canada's refugee system, Reuters interviews with social service providers, government officials and a review of Canadian immigration data show.

The 12 - year old scandal over the Australian Wheat Board's payments to the government of Iraq has moved closer to final resolution, with its former chairman Trevor Flugge convicted today of breaching his duties as a director but cleared of more serious charges concerning his knowledge of the payments.

The move would fly in the face of the Chinese government's mission to bring down the country's soaring debt as the country finds itself reliant on leveraged growth.

Fianna Fail, whose backing Varadkar requires from the opposition benches to keep his government functioning, has said it will move a motion of no confidence in Fitzgerald at 2000 GMT on Tuesday unless she quits, a position that hardened on Monday.

All these efforts can help the government move closer to its dream of «Housing for All» by 2022.

The case revived memories of the horrific rape and murder on a moving bus of a young physiotherapist in Delhi in 2012, which became the subject of a BBC documentary that was banned by the Indian government this year.

As more sensitive data inevitably moves to the cloud, and that data is managed by private entities (think: Dropbox, Box, etc.), tech companies must begin thinking about how to approach transparency in an era of FISA and other government - related surveillance requests.

Similarly, after a period of stimulus spending that increased spending and debt, the government is moving its spending back to traditional levels.

But Britain's government is determined to move forward, describing the privatization as critical to the future of Royal Mail, which has seen its revenues shift more toward packages and away from the mail of the past.

The move is believed to be part of joint drills planned by the Iranian and the Iraqi government armed forces in retaliation for an independence referendum held a week ago by Iraq's Kurds.

There's a bit more moving money around, focusing on innovation, which is clearly in the interest of business, but our view here is that innovation must be lead by business not by government.

For civic governments trying to stay on top of all of this, it can mean overload: As more and more government departments — many of them already prodigious producers of data — start moving their data to the Internet, cities are faced with the question of what to do with it all.

Brazil's government quickly moved to right many of these wrongs to placate the people and show investors that they had things under control, starting first with the low hanging fruit.

Slovakia's government has moved a step closer to breaking point amid corruption allegations following the double murder of a journalist and his partner.

Pompeo also said that the relocation of the American embassy to Jerusalem, a move set to take place on May 14, was «recognizing (the) reality» of «Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and the seat of its government.»

The move comes at a time when Maduro's socialist government is in the midst of a crackdown on domestic freedoms and Caracas» financial transactions have been hamstrung by Western sanctions.

Their call to reduce barriers to foreign investment is welcome, as is the notion that governments need to «lead by example» by moving more of their own services online.