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13 Mar 2014, 3:41 pm
For the past few months, the CLA Government Library and Information Management Professionals Network, part of the Canadian Library Association (CLA), has been publishing 13 Questions With..., a series on its website that profiles a member of the Canadian library and IM community every week.This week's interview is with Debra Power, Senior IM Analyst, Cogniva Information Solutions: "Career advice – what’s your top tip? [read post]
1 Nov 2007, 8:47 am
[JURIST] The government of Ireland said Thursday it will introduce new legislation next year recognizing the rights of both same-sex and unmarried heterosexual couples to enter into civil unions, after debate [text] on a motion to restore the Civil Unions Bill 2006 [party backgrounder] stalled in the Irish Parliament [official website]. [read post]
11 Jun 2008, 4:15 pm
A congressman said the FBI has found that four of his government computers have been hacked by sources working out of China. [read post]
18 Mar 2005, 5:57 am
[JURIST] Shiite and Kurdish negotiators say they may need another week to hammer out the shape of a new Iraqi government [AP report] as factions in Iraq's new National Assembly struggle to build a coalition that will satisfy the majority clauses contained in the Transitional Administrative Law (TAL) [text], the Iraqi interim constitution agreed to last year after intense bargaining. [read post]
13 Jun 2011, 9:08 am
In this article from the Globe and Mail, Ted Rechtshaffen goes into detail about some government pension programs that are available to the public but are not always collected (or even applied for) by seniors. [read post]
15 Jan 2006, 3:20 am
[JURIST] Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey said in a newspaper interview [in French] published Sunday that the Swiss government has asked the United States for information about 74 alleged CIA flights through Swiss airspace and several landings of CIA aircraft in Switzerland, although she added she had no proof that the flights were actual renditions [JURIST news archive] or were [read post]
22 Nov 2008, 10:20 am
[JURIST] The British government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown has decided to drop from its immediate legislative agenda a controversial security database bill that would have required telecoms to keep records of all domestic phone calls, e-mails and Internet activity, according to British press reports Friday. [read post]
10 Sep 2008, 6:13 am
[JURIST] US government secrecy continued to increase in 2007, according to the Secrecy Report Card 2008 [text, PDF; press release, PDF] released Tuesday by OpenTheGovernment.org [advocacy website]. [read post]
22 Jan 2018, 2:00 pm
WASHINGTON — Congress sped toward reopening the government Monday, as Senate Democrats dropped their objections to a temporary funding bill in return for assurances from Republicans leaders that they will soon take up immigration and other contentious issues. [read post]
24 Jun 2008, 2:04 pm
[JURIST] The Pakistan government will challenge Monday's Lahore High Court ruling [JURIST report] blocking Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) [party website] leader and former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] from running in upcoming parliamentary elections, current Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Tuesday. [read post]
5 Oct 2011, 4:28 am
The Denver Post Medical marijuana may seem prevalent in Colorado, but its precarious place in the eyes of the federal government is evident in two unfortunate recent developments. [read post]
21 Sep 2005, 3:26 am
[JURIST] The Australian government said Wednesday it was pleased with the US decision [JURIST report] to resume military commission proceedings against Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks [Wikipedia profile; advocacy website] in light of a US federal appeals court ruling in Hamdan v. [read post]
30 Sep 2005, 8:02 am
[JURIST] Government officials in the United Kingdom are rethinking plans to enact a new law [JURIST report; draft text, PDF] that would criminalize the act of "glorifying terrorism. [read post]
7 Mar 2008, 5:20 pm
The U.S. government will conduct a series of cyber war games to test its ability to recover from and respond to digital attacks. [read post]
22 Sep 2005, 8:51 am
The announcement was the first clear signal by Nepal's government as to [read post]
30 Sep 2005, 1:18 pm
[JURIST] The Hong Kong government [official website] Friday appealed a high court ruling [decision text, in English] last month that said a criminal law preventing consenting males under the age of 21 from having sex was a violation of human rights [JURIST report]. [read post]
29 Jun 2006, 3:45 pm
[JURIST] Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende [official website; Wikipedia profile] has said that the ruling coalition government in the Netherlands will resign Friday after losing the support of one of the parties making up the coalition due to the treatment of a Dutch lawmaker whose citizenship was nearly revoked. [read post]
14 Jan 2010, 9:30 pm
Brian Balogh, Miller Center for Public Affairs and History Department, University of Virginia, will be discussing his new book A Government out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America. [read post]
22 Mar 2005, 4:35 pm
[JURIST] The Justice Department and tobacco industry representatives have begun settlement negotiations in the government's racketeering case [DOJ case backgrounder] against the industry, an anonymous source involved with the case said Tuesday. [read post]
28 Nov 2005, 7:14 pm
[JURIST] Canadian legislators voted Monday night to defeat the Liberal minority government on a no-confidence motion proposed by the three opposition parties. [read post]
