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Sri Mulyani Applauds Issue of New Financial Sector Law

  • August 11, 2024
TEMPO. CO, Jakarta – President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo enacted the Draft Bill on the Development and Strengthening of the Financial Sector (PPSK) as Law No.4/2023 (PPSK Law). Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati explained that the government and House legislators managed to reach an agreement on five major points regulated in the PPSK Law. “The first is the improvement of financial sector authorities with a main focus on institutional; independence,” minister Sri mentioned in a written statement on Friday, January 13, 2023. The second and third aspect, Sri continued, is the improvement of governance and increasing public trust, and encouraging the…
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Canada’s Online News Act Targets Facebook and Google

  • July 2, 2023
The Canadian Parliament has passed a law that will require technology companies to pay domestic news outlets for linking to their articles, prompting the owner of Facebook and Instagram to say that it would pull news articles from both platforms in the country. The law, passed on Thursday, is the latest salvo in a push by governments around the world to force big companies like Google and Facebook to pay for news that they share on their platforms — a campaign that the companies have resisted at virtually every turn. With some caveats, the new Canadian law would force search…
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Tensions flare over law to expand railway competition – National

  • June 13, 2023
A new rail shipping rule is poised to drive up inefficiency and consumer costs. Or it will drive them straight down. It depends who you ask. Set to come into effect with Ottawa’s federal budget bill, an obscure law has Canada’s two main railways fighting back over concerns about expenses and congestion, with the drama playing out in social media posts and a backroom lobbying push. At the center of the tempest in a train yard is legislation that aims to expand what’s known as extended interswitching, a seldom-heard term that describes a critical practice in the rail industry. Interswitching…
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Higgs compromises on language-law update, will keep periodic review

  • May 27, 2023
The Higgs government is compromising on its update to the province’s Official Languages ​​Act in the hopes of winning unanimous support for the legislation. Premier Blaine Higgs is backing away from the elimination of a mandatory 10-year review of the act contained in the statute. He told the legislature the government will introduce its own amendments on “establishing a time frame, or periodic review” of the law. “We believe the amendments will be in the spirit of continuous improvement of the act,” he said. The original Official Languages ​​Act was adopted unanimously in 1969 and the new version of the…
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First guilty plea under US law will stop sports doping

  • May 18, 2023
A man charged with providing banned substances to Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare and another athlete pleaded guilty Monday, marking the first conviction under a landmark US law designed to target wide-ranging doping schemes across the globe. Eric Lira pleaded guilty for his role in helping Olympic athletes obtain performance-enhancing substances before the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. The US attorney in Manhattan, Damian Williams, called the plea “a watershed moment for international sport.” “Craven’s efforts to undermine the integrity of sport subverts the purpose of the Olympic games: to showcase athletic excellence through a level playing field,” he said in a…
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‘A beacon of protection’: Girl’s death sparks training for judges in Ontario

  • May 6, 2023
Jennifer Kagan wipes away a single tear as she composes herself once again to discuss her daughter’s legacy. Her four-year-old, Keira Kagan, was found dead next to her father’s body at the base of a cliff in a Milton, Ont., conservation area in February 2020. A provincial committee found it was “extremely consistent” with past cases of murder-suicide involving a father and a child. Kagan, who had been in a bitter custody battle with Keira’s violent father for years, was determined to have the tragic result in changes to the way the judicial system deals with cases of intimate partner…
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A new law makes it harder for Russians to dodge the draft

  • April 15, 2023
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed new legislation to overhaul the country’s conscription system, which will make it harder for Russians to avoid being called up for military service, and keep at least some of those who already fled the country away longer. Putin signed the bill, which was hastily passed by Russia’s upper and lower houses of parliament this week, into law on Friday. As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine enters its 14th month, the move will create a system where conscription and draft notices will be delivered electronically through a widely used government services portal instead of being hand-delivered.…
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Syria detainees: Canada argues judge misinterpreted Charter

  • April 3, 2023
OTTAWA – A judge’s erroneous direction that Canadian officials should secure the release of four men from detention in northeastern Syria amounts to a “wholesale expansion” of the law, a federal lawyer told an appeal hearing Monday. Lawyer Anne Turley said the decision created a new right to be returned to Canada, or even be rescued by Ottawa, when a citizen finds himself in trouble abroad, despite no involvement of Canada in the foreign detention. Turley made the argument while asking a Federal Court of Appeal panel to overturn a January ruling by Federal Court Justice Henry Brown. The Court…