Sentences with phrase «than the conservatives in»

A recent debate on strategic voting between Erin Weir and Matthew Bergbusch prompts me to wonder the extent to which liberals are more progressive than conservatives in the federal political arena.

Most Liberal Democrat activists want the party to support Labour rather than the Conservatives in government after the next general election, a poll has found.

Whisper it quietly but Labour's conference in Brighton next week might emerge more united than the Conservatives in Manchester the week after.

Most voters in Labour - held constituencies want the SNP to help Labour rather than the Conservatives in the event of a hung parliament.

However these scenarios are at the extreme outer edges of probability, and, in the absence of some extraordinary event, Labour will almost certainly once again win significantly fewer seats than the Conservatives in 2020, whatever the party's economic policies and whoever is leader.

So as a responsible opposition, and more credible than the conservatives in this approach, I think that we're seeing and doing the right thing.

Not exact matches

rnExperts say that soon - to - be retirees, or conservative investors, should put no more than 5 % of their portfolio in gold.

That will be an advantage for the Conservatives, who sit atop a larger war chest than the other parties, as Alice Funke recently noted in Maclean's:

Experts say that soon - to - be retirees, or conservative investors, should put no more than 5 % of their portfolio in gold.

Known for being a retirement - friendly area, residents here are more likely to choose a Caribbean vacation over Europe or Asia, they ski less than any of their peers in the top 5 richest neighbourhoods in B.C., and are staunch Conservative voters, with 60 % voting Tory.

Sun TV News, though it has yet to launch, has already drawn comparisons to the Fox News Channel in the U.S. Roughly two - thirds of the respondents, however, believe Sun TV News will have less impact in Canada than Fox News has had in the U.S. «I'm as conservative as it gets in this country, but the Fox News network is designed for a constituency that is just not widespread in Canada.»

A bet on the price of oil is not exactly conservative investing, but MLPs are cheaper than they've been in years, and the income they can offer investors is substantial.

That's because, rather than handing the capital over to any one of 17 government agencies with a finger in the innovation pie, or giving the money to the Business Development Bank of Canada, which deployed just $ 408 million of its $ 18.4 billion balance sheet to the venture capital industry, the Conservatives have decided to invest that money directly in entrepreneurs.

Notwithstanding a black swan or two, even the most conservative forecasts show that China and India are set to be the No. 1 and No. 3 economy in the world by 2050 — larger together than the entire G7.

The U.K.'s challenges are somewhat different from Canada's: as a result of the Conservative Party's austerity campaign, the U.K.'s economy has suffered more than Canada's, which has taken more of a Keynesian approach; and the City, as London's financial hub is known, has had a reputation for a much looser approach to regulation than that found in either Canada or the U.S. Tal says the U.K.'s finance sector has to change and he expects Carney will attempt to move it in the direction of greater regulation.

If you want to fit in to that Calgary neighbourhood it helps if you're married, voted conservative, earn more than a half million annually and have a taste for champagne — the denizens there drink more than twice as much bubbly than the national average (no doubt toasting their good luck to be part of the oil patch).

Money aside, the people who live in these neighbourhoods aren't your average Canadians: They have stronger conservative views than the general population, they're more likely to be married and they have slightly larger families, according to detailed data provided by Environics Analytics.

She believes women often are more conservative than men and don't believe in themselves enough to push their ideas.

Another reason is that women tend to be more conservative in running their businesses, so you see generally stronger balance sheets with more personal equity and less debt than in businesses owned by men.

Conservative Solutions, the pro-Rubio super PAC, raised more than $ 14 million in the second half of 2015, about as much as Rubio's campaign committee did in the fourth quarter.

From bakers to retailers and construction firms, more than a dozen of Mexico's biggest companies cited concerns over NAFTA and the election and issuing conservative guidance in recent weeks, despite economic data pointing to an uptick in Latin America's second - largest economy.

His leadership summits and crusades in more than 185 countries and territories forged powerful global links among conservative Christians, and threw a lifeline to believers in the communist - controlled Eastern bloc.

He noted that the baseline scenario for tests in 2015 — which projected an economic contraction of 2.3 percent for that year — was more dramatic than the 1.3 percent contraction used in the most conservative scenario in the current tests.

As far as investing is concerned, UBS found in a study that Millennials were more likely to self - identify as conservative investors than their Baby Boomer or Generation X peers, even though they had the longest time window to retirement.

Baker is a little more conservative on the next quarter — he thinks Q2 EPS will come in at $ 0.86 — but he's more bullish than Becker on EPS growth in Q3 and Q4.

«It is the first time the Libertarian ticket will have more government experience than the Republican ticket, and that is astonishing,» says Stan Veuger, a resident scholar and economist at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C.

Merkel was weakened after a September election as voters angry with her decision in 2015 to open Germany's borders to more than a million asylum seekers punished her conservatives by voting for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) far - right party.

Since the popular vote for the Conservatives in 2011 was less than that, Mossop doesn't think Harper will pay any great political price for approving the pipeline.

Cuban, who identifies as a libertarian, also said that he strongly opposes Trump's socially conservative policies and added that he could do a better job than Trump in the Oval Office.

A 2011 LPL Financial survey found that women place seven times more value in financial peace of mind than in having their investments grow (the paradoxical result being their investments often grow using this conservative approach).

«We have taught conservatives for many years to trust nothing other than what they hear in conservative media.

Simultaneously, the conservative news media sought to lock in its audience by characterizing the mainstream press as an industry comprising dishonest liberals — something with which the GOP was more than happy to go along.

I think John Boehner genuinely wanted to get a deal done, but it was hard to do in part because his caucus is more conservative probably than most Republican leaders are, and partly because he is vulnerable to attack for compromising Republican principles and working with Obama.

The conservative news website has a large readership — visited by more than 6 million readers in July, according to Quantcast.

The service will walk users through opening a 529 account, recommend a savings goal and manage the account — slowly skewing conservative as the child approaches college age — for an all - in fee of no more than 0.46 %, depending on investment expense ratios.

Over the years, the Conservative government has thrown investors the occasional bone — the biggest being the introduction of the tax - free savings account in the 2008 budget — but since then it's done little more than tinker when it comes to helping the plight of Canadian savers.

However, by retiring early and saving so much, it is actually MORE CONSERVATIVE, b / c dying in your 60s and 70s is much likelier than dying in your 40s.

What began as a small, focused Enbridge campaign with northern First Nations grew into a political juggernaut that arguably contributed to the Harper government's 2015 defeat, after the pro-tanker Conservative party lost more votes in B.C. than in the rest of the country combined.

A New York Times investigation published last year found that the family had documented assets of more than $ 160 million, a conservative figure that did not include bank accounts, real estate, assets held by proxies or other wealth not reflected in publicly available records.

Harper has said repeatedly that he wants to make Canadian tax rates lower than those in the U.S., and a key plank in the Conservative platform is Gordon Campbell - style income tax cuts aimed at middle - income earners.

With more than just a few weeks to organize, vote - swapping could well result in a Conservative rout.

The Conservative proposals take up a large part of the surplus but puts money in taxpayer's pockets, some more than others.

The Conservatives raised $ 17 million in 2012, more than the Liberals and the NDP combined and a huge number for a non-election year.

So 150 of the biggest, fattest CEOs in Canada wield less clout in Ottawa than any 150 Conservative hotheads in my home riding of Edmonton Centre.

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.

Less information is now provided to the public in budgets than under previous Liberal and Conservative governments; the authority of Parliament over government spending has been weakened; the understanding of Canadians as to what the government is actually planning to do in the budget has been eroded.

But this wrenching concern over the deficit — particularly when the situation in Puerto Rico remains so dire — is hard for some to swallow when conservatives are simultaneously pushing forward a tax reform package that could leave a more than a trillion - dollar hole in the deficit and have signed on to spending bills that added more than $ 100 billion to defense spending, without the immediate promise of offsets elsewhere.

You can then increase the portion in ETFs if you wish a more conservative portfolio or simply ignore the last few lines and concentrate on the stocks if you seek more growth than revenues.

Even though my progress appears farther along than in the «Passive Income» chart, the numbers are actually more conservative.

In six years since the Conservatives have arrived, we've lost 500,000 good - paying manufacturing jobs, more than half of them because of the fact that we're not internalizing the environmental costs.