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This paper provides an overview of the telecommunications policy environment in Canada. Like Milner's (2009) article on New Zealand, this paper offers insights on international approaches to telecommunications policy. Canada's telecommunications history reveals a mix of private and public sector investment in regionally-based service providers. Canada did not have a single, publicly owned telecommunications carrier as was the case in Australia. Liberalisation of the telecommunications marketplace encouraged the development of competing infrastructures, with cable companies (traditionally focused on broadcasting distribution) and telephone companies now both providing wireline and wireless, voice, Internet and television services. Competition for wireline services remains regionally based, while wireless providers compete nationally. Although competition is intense, the broadband and wireless markets are highly concentrated. Competition in these markets has not resulted in extensive consumer choice, low prices or innovative services. Most Canadian consumers have access to broadband connectivity, but uptake rates now lag other OECD countries, for services that are slower and more expensive than those available in many other locations. Mobile phone penetration in Canada is on par with that of developing nations. The paper explores the characteristics of Canada's telecommunication markets, discusses the policy environment and notes that government has not offered a vision of a digital future for Canada. ; Middleton, C. (2011). Canada's Telecommunications Policy Environment. Telecommunications Journal of Australia. (61:4). pp. 69.1-69.14.

No more published. ; Stamped on half title: Consulado General de la Republica de Cuba, New York. ; Portacla -- Retrato del autor -- Carta autografa del Presidente de la República, general Menocal, al autor -- Cuba -- Retrato del Presidente de la República -- Mayor General Mario G. Menocal, Presidente de la República (biografía) -- Mapa, bandera y escudo de Cuba -- Geografia fisica y politica -- Historia -- La Prensa -- Politica -- Hacienda; reforma monetaria y estado del crédito público -- Sanidad y Beneficencia -- Inmigración -- Agricultura -- Azúcar -- Tabaco -- Ganaderia -- Mineria -- Industria y Comercio -- Aduanas -- Instrucción pública -- Obras públicas -- Poder Legislativo: Senado y Cånnara de Representantes -- Poder Judicial -- Ejército y Marina -- Policia -- Correos y Telégrafos -- Gobierno y Consejo Provinciales de la Habana -- Municipalidad de la Habana -- Habana -- Banca -- Ferrocarriles -- Vapores -- Los grandes hoteles -- Grandes empresas industriales y comerciales (monografias) -- Casinos y Clubs -- Centros regionales -- La representación de España en Cuba -- Las provincias -- Costumbres cubanas -- La mujer cubana -- Vida social -- Damas de la alta sociedad cubana (retratos) -- Album de retratos y biografías de altas personalidades cubanas -- Nuestros colaboradores. ; Print version: Pardos, Gerardo. Libro de oro hispano-americano. Volumen I. Edición de Lujo. Paris, Sociedad Editorial Hispano-Americana, 1917. OCLC 1871432.

The League of Women Voters of Texas is a non-partisan organization that works to promote political responsibility through active informed participation of all citizens in their government. In 1919, the Texas Equal Suffrage Association evolved into the Texas League of Women Voters, and today is recognized as the League of Women Voters of Texas. Their hallmark activity is the circulation of Voters' Guides through newspapers prior to elections; locally, regionally, statewide, and nationally. The League's intent is dissemination of information on political candidates, and the objective promotion of "political responsibility through informed and active participation of citizens in government." The organization's efforts, however, are by no means limited to politics, but also address issues on water, health care, hazardous wastes, education, energy, and such international concerns as the United Nations. ; The records of the League of Women Voters of Texas also reflect socio-economic changes in the United States with the active organizational membership drives of the mid to late 1970s in response to American society's evolution into a two income family. Collectively, the materials provide researchers with invaluable insight into politics and political concerns on an international, national, statewide, and local basis. ; The collection consists of materials from national, state, and local files, financial materials, photographs, and publications of the National, Texas, and local leagues, as well as other state leagues. Also included are a study of the national league, scrapbooks, memorabilia, vice-presidential program files, and printed materials. The focus of the collection is on state committees and local units. ; Highlights from the donation include the original 1919 minutes from the Texas Equal Suffrage Association authorizing the organizational conversion to the Texas League of Women Voters, films produced by the group on legislative processes, the 104th Congressional recognition given and signed by Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison on the 75th anniversary of the League of Women Voters of Texas, and the flag that flew over the Texas capitol on that day. ; Box 5, Folder 22

Schutz durch Benachteiligung?Mit Einführung des Mindestlohngesetzes zum 1. Januar 2015 sollten u.a. die Arbeitnehmerrechte gestärkt werden. Gleichzeitig nimmt das Gesetz in § 22 Abs. 2 MiLoG allerdings eine besonders schwache und schutzbedürftige Gruppe – minderjährige Arbeitnehmer ohne Berufsausbildung – vom Anwendungsbereich aus. Die Arbeit wirft daher einen – auch rechtsvergleichenden – Blick auf Lohnbestimmungen für Jugendliche und stellt sich die Frage, ob die Ausnahme jugendlicher Arbeitnehmer insbesondere im Blick auf eine mögliche Altersdiskriminierung mit höherrangigem Recht vereinbar sein kann. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei unter anderem auf der Vereinbarkeit mit der Gleichbehandlungsrichtlinie 2000/78/EG sowie nationalem Verfassungsrecht.