Broadcasting and Government: Responsibilities and Regulations

Medical devices: new regulations, new responsibilities.

Monitoring and Updating Regulations and Policies for Government Services

One of the challenges citizens and businesses face in interacting with governments for entitled services or compliance services is to find the right set of regulations and rules that are applicable for them. Very often the regulations and policies that determine the applicability of specific services are implemented and provided by separate government agencies, thus scattered in different Web s...

An Information Infrastructure for Government Regulations

The complexity and diversity of government regulations make understanding the regulations a non-trivial task. One of the issues is the existence of multiple sources of regulations and interpretive guides which are often independent of governing bodies. In this work, we propose an information infrastructure for regulation management and analysis, which includes a document repository and tools fo...

Federal government tightens live-in caregiver regulations.

moved to protect foreign workers who’ve been brought to Canada to be live-in caregivers by imposing tighter restrictions on employers. The changes will include the creation of a public “blacklist” that will articulate the names of employers who fail to comply with minimum standards for working conditions. The blacklist will be posted on Citizenship and Immigration Canada’s website. As well, emp...

How Government Policies and Regulations Can Affect Dietary Choices

Regulations—regardless of whether or not they are directed specifically at the food sector—can affect the varieties and qualities of foods available for purchase, the prices consumers face, the information consumers receive about a product, and consumer confidence in the food supply. This chapter reviews four important categories of policies and regulations—farm assistance programs, food safety...