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Press Release – Public Service Association Public Service Association members will celebrate todays Budget boosts for beneficiaries and low-paid workers, and the announcement of new programmes to tackle the housing crisis. The government has committed to raise weekly benefit rates between $32 and … Public Service Association members will celebrate today’s Budget boosts for beneficiaries and low-paid workers, and the announcement of new programmes to tackle the housing crisis. The governm...

On April 30, 2021, the federal government introduced An Act Respecting Retail Payment Activities (short title,  Retail Payment Activities Act) (the “RPAA”). The much-anticipated RPAA comes in response to a consultation paper published by the Department of Finance in 2017, for a “New Retail Payments Oversight Framework” (the “2017 Consultation Paper”). We discuss the 2017 Consultation Paper here. The RPAA signals the government’s continued willingness to regulate new and increa...

Wednesday, May 12, 2021 In  Navajo Nation v. U.S. Department of the Interior, 2021 WL 1655885 (9th Cir. 2021), the Navajo Nation sued the Department of the Interior (Interior), the Secretary of the Interior (the Secretary), the Bureau of Reclamation, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (collectively, the Federal Appellees) for breach of trust based on the government’s failure to consider the Nation’s as-yet-undetermined water rights under the  Winters doctrine in managing the Col...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: As was expected and announced in Budget 2021: A Recovery Plan for Jobs, Growth and Resilience, on April 30, 2021 the federal government released Bill C-30 containing, among other things, a draft of the long-awaited Retail Payments Activities Act (RPAA). While the devil will be in the detail of the implementing regulations, much can be gleaned from a review of the provisions of the RPAA as drafted. The new regulatory payments regime, ...

State legislation now being considered would restore rights to Maine's Wabanaki people, giving them more control over their land and the welfare of their citizens, and is supported by a coalition that says the initiative would also have other benefits.

Thursday, April 15, 2021 AN IMPORTANT NEW OPTION FOR FINANCING AFFORDABLE HOUSING  The federal “9%” Housing Tax Credit (HTC) program, designed to finance up to 70% of qualified development costs, has for decades been the principal engine for the financing of low income housing in the United States. HTCs function like grants because the return to investors comes from the credits they take against their federal income tax liability over a ten-year period. Unfortunately, there is a ...

Mitt Romney and Mike Lee should vote to confirm Haaland as interior secretary. (Matt Brown | AP photo) This Feb. 21 photo shows a billboard in Billings, Montana, displays support for New Mexico U.S. Rep. Deb Haaland, who has been nominated to lead the U.S. Department of the Interior. If confirmed, she would be the first Native American to lead the agency that has broad oversight over tribal affairs and energy development. By Nathaniel Brown, Charlaine Tso and Herman Daniels | Special to The Tri...

Opinion by David Gray Adler President Donald Trumps hypothetical option of granting himself a pardon before leaving office effectively ended when the House of Representatives opened...