Is government wholly responsible for a fall infrastructure spend? - The Guardian
28 May 2012, 4:33 am
The economy is in recession and, according to some pundits, this is down to reductions in government capital spending on construction. The amount that is currently spent in this area is due to reduce by 25%, from £62bn in 2010-11 to £45bn in ...

Harper government ready to order end to CP Rail strike - globaltoronto.com
28 May 2012, 3:43 am
OTTAWA - The Harper government is expected to introduce back-to-work legislation today to end the strike by 4,800 Canadian Pacific Railway workers. Mediated contract talks between the railway and the Teamsters union representing locomotive engineers and ...

government should underwrite infrastructure finance -CBI - Reuters UK
28 May 2012, 1:06 am
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's biggest business group has called on the government to underwrite a larger number of infrastructure projects in order to encourage the private sector to shoulder the bulk of the cost of updating the nation's creaking ...

UN Council condemns Syria government over massacre - DAWN Group
27 May 2012, 10:36 pm
UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council on Sunday strongly condemned the Syrian government for using artillery in a massacre in which at least 108 people were killed and 300 others injured. UN officials said the slaughter in Houla, the subject ...

Quebec students, government to resume negotiations - msnbc.com
27 May 2012, 9:45 pm
MONTREAL (AP) - Quebec students and the provincial government return to the bargaining table on Monday in a high-stakes attempt to put an end to a months-long dispute over tuition hikes that has led to clashes with police and mass arrests. The latest round ...

government Agencies Reduce Costs and Transform Citizen Service With Pegasystems - Yahoo Finance
27 May 2012, 8:05 pm
CAMBRIDGE, MA--(Marketwire -05/23/12)- Pegasystems Inc. (PEGA), the leader in Business Process Management (BPM) and software for customer centricity, today announced two new solutions that enable government agencies to more rapidly modernize ...

Does the government Know What It Is Doing When It Tries to Create Jobs? - Forbes
27 May 2012, 12:20 pm
Listening to the pundits debate over which presidential candidate would be best at “creating jobs” is a distraction. From a governmental perspective, job creation is at best a passive activity. Otherwise, government intervention destroys ...

Who Is The Smallest government Spender Since Eisenhower? Would You Believe It's Barack Obama? - Forbes
24 May 2012, 10:39 pm
It’s enough to make even the most ardent Obama cynic scratch his head in confusion. Amidst all the cries of Barack Obama being the most prolific big government spender the nation has ever suffered, Marketwatch is reporting that our president ...

government Report Says Medical Discharge Process Is Getting Slower - New York Times Blogs
23 May 2012, 4:28 pm
Since the deep embarrassment of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center scandal in 2007, the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs have been trying to make the process of getting a medical discharge from the military less complicated, time ...

UK government staff caught snooping on citizen data - ZDNet
17 May 2012, 4:35 pm
Summary: What a surprise: the U.K. government was forced to reveal under Freedom of Information laws more than 1,000 civil servants have ’snooped’ on British citizens’ private data. Don’t worry about hackers illegally accessing ...