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AP News Summary at 4:46 p.m. ESTOTTAWA — Cowessess First Nation Chief Erica Beaudin accused Conservative House leader Andrew Scheer of using First Nations drinking water legislation as a political “tactic,” saying she’s disappointed in what transpired in the House of Commons on Thursday. Government legislation known as Bill C-61 recognizes that First Nations have an inherent right to clean drinking water, after amendments by the Indigenous and Northern affairs committee, and commits the government to providing “adequate and sustainable” funding for water services in First Nations. Liberal MP Jaime Battiste asked on Thursday for unanimous consent from members of Parliament to send the First Nations Clean Drinking Water Act to the Senate — but several MPs said no. Scheer, whose riding includes Cowessess, rose immediately afterward with a similar motion that also condemned the Liberal government for inaction, and that was also defeated. While Cowessess is not under a boil water advisory, Beaudin says people in her community rely on bottled water because they don’t trust what comes from their taps. “I’m very disappointed that he used clean drinking water as a tactic in this House in order to say, ‘If you do this, then we will do this,’ where there’s real lives that are being affected,” Beaudin told reporters at a news conference. “We’re not talking about toys, we’re not talking about items that are not essential, but water is essential and you either believe in clean drinking water for everybody or you don’t. And if you do, you do everything you possibly can to work towards that happening.” Beaudin added that she knows Scheer to be “very genuine” in representing the people of his riding and urged him to get the Conservative party to co-operate to get the legislation passed. According to government data, there are 31 long-term boil water advisories on First Nations across the country, and 36 short-term advisories. The situation in the House became heated when Battiste entered the aisle holding a glass of water. Battiste later said he considered throwing it at the Conservative benches after his motion was defeated. “This is about protecting water. In Nova Scotia, they poisoned our water in the Pictou Landing community for generations, if not decades. I had the chief in the audience with some of her councillors, and I feel like I let them down,” said a visibly upset Battiste. Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu blasted the Conservative party’s record on ensuring there is clean water on First Nations, and accused them of ignoring First Nations leadership. “So it’s a bit rich for them to use that moment to exploit First Nations people and their need for water to play politics in the House. It’s appalling,” Hajdu said. Hajdu and Battiste were flanked by several chiefs, including Beaudin, and other First Nations representatives in a press conference following the vote. Originally, they planned to speak about the bill moving on to the Senate. The Assembly of First Nations held a special chiefs assembly in Ottawa this week, and on Tuesday the AFN executive endorsed a resolution to continue advocating for the approval of water legislation. The bill is stalled at third reading in the House of Commons because of an ongoing privilege debate that has taken precedence over nearly all other business since late September. The Conservative party did not immediately respond to a request for comment. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 5, 2024. — With files from Alessia Passafiume David Baxter, The Canadian Press
UCF will attempt to shake off a dreadful offensive performance when it collides with LSU on Sunday afternoon in the third-place game of the Greenbrier Tip-Off in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. The Knights (4-1) couldn't get anything going against No. 19 Wisconsin on Friday, going 21-for-62 from the field (33.9 percent) and just 2-for-17 from 3-point range (11.8 percent) en route to an 86-70 loss. Jordan Ivy-Curry finished with 13 points while Keyshawn Hall and Dior Johnson added 11 apiece for UCF, which never led and fell behind by as many as 23. Knights coach Johnny Dawkins is hoping that his team's struggles don't carry over into the meeting with the Tigers (4-1). "We have to do better offensively," Dawkins said. "We have to space the floor better. We have to balance our offense between our perimeter and our bigs. Those are things that we didn't do consistently (on Friday)." LSU also needs to clean things up after committing 15 turnovers in a 74-63 setback against Pitt on Friday. Tigers forward Jalen Reed doesn't believe giving the ball away will be a lingering issue. "I feel like a lot of our turnovers were more on us than them," Reed said. "I feel like a lot of the turnovers were careless, but we're a better team than that and I feel like we'll take care of the ball better moving forward." Reed and Vyctorius Miller each posted 14 points in the loss to the Panthers, with Reed also hauling in seven rebounds. Cam Carter chipped in 11 points. Carter is putting up a team-leading 16.4 points per game. Jordan Sears (12.0 points per game), Reed (11.0) and Miller (10.2) also have scoring averages in double figures. Ivy-Curry (16.8 points per game), Hall (16.2) and Darius Johnson (13.0) have been leading the way for UCF. Sunday marks the first-ever meeting between the Knights and Tigers. --Field Level Media
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Grows Position in Copart, Inc. (NASDAQ:CPRT)Welcome to this special inaugural issue! This column covers good governance and sustainability initiatives in the Philippines. Rest assured, my dear friends, this shall not be an academic exposition but rather a true to life discussion on current situations surrounding a topic that has transcended into the DNA of the country’s top corporations and key stakeholders representing government, capital markets and civil society. The series shall ultimately proclaim that sound strategic governance and sustainability practices are critical factors for long-term growth for organizations. Consider this endeavor as a piece of the global phenomenon upon the turn of the century, catapulted by the inevitable Asian Crisis of 1997 and the infamous Enron corporate scandal — the primary case for corporate governance abuses. To answer the call, previous Secretary of Finance, Dr. Jesus P. Estanislao founded the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD) and the Institute for Solidarity (ISA), which recently celebrated their 25th year anniversary. The ICD, in particular, has been at the forefront of advocating improved corporate governance practices in the Philippines, providing training, research and resources for directors and executives. Thankfully, incoming ICD chairperson Benedicta-Du Baladad and president Senen Matoto shall continue to advocate for governance reforms that promote good governance practices towards economic prosperity and social responsibility. Together with the ISA, which focuses on public governance and working toward creating a more inclusive and transparent government, these organizations have collaborated on the Dream Philippines 2046 project, a roadmap for the country’s governance and sustainability initiatives. In the global context, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) maintains its universal role and serves as a critical framework for addressing good governance and sustainability priorities. The 17 SDGs continue to be a backbone for sustainability reports as required for publicly-listed corporations and with Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Emil Aquino and SEC Commissioner Javey Francisco actively involved in the regulatory perspective on good governance, the Philippines has done its share in aligning governance regulations with the SDGs as well as the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and a handful of stakeholders in the global sustainability world, fondly called the alphabet soup of acronyms — all ensuring that corporate growth and sustainability, social welfare and corporate growth. They are walking the talk and have been central in the mix of things. Thankfully, the Philippine economy continues to grow (really) and we have finally met the United Nation’s upper-middle gross national income level of $4,086 after posting a record high of $4,230 last 3Q2024. We will continue to grow and Dream Philippines 2046 (Estanislao) will be a reality, hopefully sooner rather than later. For as long as the majority of Filipinos remain morally upright and we maintain our self-respect as a people capable of nationwide growth and greater service to our fellowmen, the Philippines shall have a climate conducive to economic stability and maintain its faith towards political maturity. Yes, we need faith and action to make this work... and it will! Kudos to those involved in merging good governance practices in this never-ending journey towards various stakeholders aside from the SEC and Philippine Stock Exchange. These include the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, Insurance Commission, Governance Commission for GOCCs, Philippine Council for NGO Certification, among others. Various prominent advocates of governance reform from the private sector have played critical roles in shaping the discourse on corporate and public governance in the Philippines and shall be discussed further in this weekly series. Wonderful that the country’s top audit and advisory firms are deeply entrenched in the bandwagon as well. I recall Accenture’s ex-CEO Lito Tayag in the 1980s, a trailblazer in the governance of the Information Technology space when digitalization was at its infancy stage in the strategy decision-making arena back then. Well, all of the country’s top audit firms now have distinct advisory services and are the fastest-growing departments. From KPMG R.G. Manabat, PwC Isla Lipana, P&A Grant Thornton to SGV, they are all in. As a senior advisor in Reyes Tacandong & Co., I envision RT&Co as spearheading the country’s premiere Strategic Governance and Sustainability advisory group. All in the spirit of good corporate governance! Until next week... (Dr. Carlos Jose P. Gatmaitan is an independent director, fellow of the Institute of Corporate Directors, senior advisor of Reyes Tacandong & Co., and faculty at the Ateneo Graduate School of Business. Please share your thoughts and comments at corgov.associates@gmail.com.)Lindsay Corporation Stock Hits 52-Week High at $135.17
Rivers Crisis: Clark insists pro-Wike lawmakers lost their seatsTwo Londonderry Republicans will lead the N.H. House and Senate for the next two years, after being formally voted in by their peers Wednesday. Sherman Packard was reelected House speaker, beginning his third term in the job with a much more comfortable legislative majority than the last term. And Sen. Sharon Carson was chosen to be Senate president, overseeing a 16-8 Republican-controlled chamber and succeeding longtime Sen. Jeb Bradley, who is retiring this year. The elections were part of Organization Day, when newly elected senators and representatives are sworn into office, and the House and Senate choose the secretary of state and state treasurer. Here’s what you need to know. Packard, Carson call for civility Introducing Packard before voting began, Rep. Lisa Mazur, a Goffstown Republican, praised Packard’s legislative priorities. “With his extensive experience, he has championed legislation that supports parental rights, strengthens our economy, safeguards personal freedoms, and ensures that every tax dollar is spent wisely,” she said. Rep. Ted Gorski, a Bedford Republican, drew attention to what he said were Packard’s evenhanded temperament and skills at conflict resolution. “Recently, Sherm and I had a difference of opinion on an issue, and after the issue played out, we were emailing back and forth, and I decided to call Sherm, but Sherm beat me to the punch,” he said. “He actually called me, and we had a great conversation. As the call ended, it was evident to me that Sherm would not harbor any bad feelings, but his goal was to maintain the relationship.” In his own speech, Packard called for civility between members of both parties. “We’ve got two tough years ahead of us,” he said. “Philosophically, in many cases, we are going to have different opinions on subject matter. ... But by God, that doesn’t mean we can’t be civil and friendly and cooperate with each other when we are on the same page.” Packard urged special caution around social media practices, saying he wished Facebook and Twitter — now called X — didn’t exist. And, he said, “my door is open.” Democrats nominated Rep. Alexis Simpson, of Exeter, as speaker. She lost that bid but will be the House Democratic leader, succeeding Rep. Matt Wilhelm, of Manchester, who is continuing to serve as a representative. “Whatever it is, whatever bill you want to pass and send to the governor’s desk, you cannot do it alone,” Simpson said in her own election speech. “None of us can. We need to work together in this body to make the changes that we envision.” Following House rules, the speaker was elected via a secret ballot. With 388 representatives casting votes, 202 votes went to Packard, 162 went to Simpson, 17 were scattered votes for other candidates, and 7 ballots were left blank. Carson, who won by unanimous vote in the Senate, promised to work to “preserve and expand the New Hampshire advantage, ensuring that our state remains a place where families thrive, businesses grow, and communities flourish.” “I am energized by the work ahead together. We have an opportunity to build on the traditions of civility and collaboration that makes this chamber truly unique,” she said. Sen. Rebecca Perkins-Kwoka, a Portsmouth Democrat and the Senate minority leader, seconded the motion to elect Carson. “I hope there will be things we can work together on this session,” she said. “Such as: We all know our residents need housing. We all know our businesses need workforce. And we all know our families need child care.” Secretary of state and state treasurer stay on The House and Senate reelected Dave Scanlan as secretary of state and Monica Mezzapelle as state treasurer. Neither were contested. Accepting his election, Scanlan said the past two years had been “busy.” “We have had a lot of successes, but the largest one is in preserving the first-in-the-nation presidential primary, which is something that everybody in this room gets behind,” Scanlan said. “We faced the largest challenge to the primary in the primary’s history, and I think the aftermath is still as relevant as it ever has been.” In a nomination speech for Mezzapelle, Sen. Cindy Rosenwald, a Nashua Democrat, praised her “sound professional judgement on borrowing,” which she said had contributed to New Hampshire’s S&P Global Ratings increase from AA to AA+ in March, “which will save the state millions.” “She’s been incredibly successful here with interest coming in $85 million ahead of plan for last fiscal year and $46 million ahead of plan for the current year today,” Rosenwald added. Mezzapelle, who has served in the role since 2020, said the pandemic had provided economic challenges and opportunities for the state. “One of the key takeaways for me is the importance of being prepared,” Mezzapelle said. “The need to assess risks and develop policies and plans that can guide us during good and also not-so-good times.” The first lawmaker resignation The 2025 session has not yet begun, but there is already a special election needed. Rep. Dawn Evans, a Democrat from Somersworth, has resigned her seat because she has moved out of her district. Her resignation letter was read by House Clerk Paul Smith Wednesday. The resignation changes the balance of the House to 221 Republicans, 177 Democrats, and one independent; Somersworth officials will need to schedule a special election to fill the seat soon. New committees As the housing shortage continues unabated, the N.H. House now has a permanent committee dedicated to housing bills. That came about as part of a rule change, and is a response to what Deputy Speaker Steven Smith of Charlestown called a growing need. “I think both sides want this,” he said. “I know the public wants us to do it.” And the Senate has created a new permanent committee, too: the Committee on Children and Family Law. The body did not detail the reasons for the creation of its committee. Tightening ethics rules On Wednesday, the House and the Senate both adopted a set of ethics rules proposed by the Legislative Ethics Committee that will require lawmakers to recuse themselves from far more votes than before. Spurred by a law passed by the Legislature in 2024, House Bill 1388, the new ethics rules prevent lawmakers from voting on bills if they have a personal conflict of interest or if they or a family member could expect to benefit — or suffer — financially if the bill were to pass or fail. A lawmaker who requires recusal is “someone who founded the company or organization,” is “a substantial contributor,” is paid based on the revenues of the organization, has control over the organization’s expenses or budget, or who owns a controlling interest in that organization. While the Senate passed the new rules easily, the House had some hiccups. Some Republican lawmakers requested that the vote be postponed by a month — or tabled — because they said they had not had enough time to read and review the final ethics changes. But those lawmakers failed to achieve the votes necessary to do so and the ethics rules moved ahead.
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Senators looking to acquire a defenseman after injury to Artem ZubNew Delhi, Nov 23 (PTI) Union Culture Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on Saturday said his ministry is considering if any further amendment is needed in the AMSAR Act as he underlined that "we need to be dynamic" and prioritise preservation of heritage while causing "minimum interference" in people's lives. The sites under the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) are maintained under the ambit of the AMSAR (Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains) Act. At present, over 3,690 monuments are under the ASI. Also Read | Maharashtra Assembly Elections Results 2024: 5 Major Factors That Helped MahaYuti To Win Landslide Victory. In his address at the first-ever foundation ceremony of the National Monuments Authority (NMA) here, Shekhawat said, "In the last 10 years, the compass of vision to look at heritage has turned by 360 degrees" and "now we have to do more" factoring in the challenges in upkeep of monuments. The NMA was established as per provisions of the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains AMASR (Amendment and Validation) Act, 2010 which was enacted in March 2010. Also Read | 'Haryana Defence': Rahul Gandhi Terms Maharashtra Assembly Elections Defeat 'Unexpected' Too. Several functions have been assigned to the NMA for the protection and preservation of monuments and sites through the management of the "prohibited" and "regulated" areas around centrally protected monuments. One of these responsibilities of the NMA is also to consider granting permissions to applicants for construction-related activity in prohibited and regulated areas. Fourteen years is not a long period but given the wealth of ancient heritage sites that NMA has to protect, this is a time for "deep introspection" as well, the Union minister said. "We have to think how to maintain a balance by working scientifically... We have to be dynamic and keep changing our rules and regulations so that we can, while absorbing resistance, prioritise maintenance of our heritage sites," he added. Any construction that falls within the protected and regulated areas surrounding an ASI site, has to be in sync with the norms and warrants approval of the NMA. "We need to work regularly and speedily on how we can maintain our heritage using a scientific approach while making minimum interference in people's lives," Shekhawat said in the presence of NMA Chairman K K Basa. In ease of living, through efforts of the government, in many government departments, "we have achieved success" in bringing ease of living and ease of doing business, Shekhawat said. But this cannot be a permanent benchmark, and by continuously evolving there is a need to work on "further simplifying procedures". "We need to rationalise, we are also contemplating that. If any more amendments are needed in the AMSAR Act from that point of view, the ministry is also considering that at various levels," he added. However, he didn't elaborate on what aspects the ministry is contemplating. In his address, he lauded the value of India's civilisational past which has stood for centuries symbolised by its ancient monuments and sites. The minister said in the last 200 years or so, rulers made efforts to undermine India's heritage and "it was made out that Western traditions" in art and architecture were "superior". And, before that "attacks on our Sanatan civilisation" took place by invaders, but "our historic structures of thousands of years have beckoned to look back at our glorious past", he said. These monuments have stood as "symbols of our progressive past". And, the way India is rising, the country's cultural prowess gives it that edge in the world and "makes our responsibility also grow manifold", the minister added During the event, the minister also released the Annual Report 2023-24 of the NMA, which provides a comprehensive overview of the Authority's mandated activities for the year. This marked the first such publication by the NMA. "The report highlights that, to date, the NMA has laid 55 Heritage Bye-Laws (HBLs) covering 98 centrally-protected monuments, in Parliament. An additional 53 HBLs covering 57 more centrally-protected monuments have also been approved," the culture ministry said in a statement. Furthermore, the NMA has been a leader in harnessing information technology to streamline the process of issuing permissions for construction activities in prohibited or regulated areas around centrally protected monuments, it said. "One of the significant advancements in this area is the implementation of the NMA Online Application Processing System (NOAPS) portal. The portal integrates cutting-edge technology from ISRO through its SMARAC mobile app, which utilises colour-coded zonal maps of centrally protected monuments, facilitating efficient management and monitoring of construction activities," it said. (This is an unedited and auto-generated story from Syndicated News feed, LatestLY Staff may not have modified or edited the content body)
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