Encourages the Member States to introduce age-appropriate ICT education in the early stages of school, with a particular focus on inspiring girls to develop interest and talent in the digital field, and urges the Commission and the Members States to promote STEM education to girls from a young age, given that girls move away from science, technology subjects, engineering and maths earlier during their educational path due to gender stereotypes surrounding these subjects, a lack of role models, and a segregation of activities and toys, resulting in an underrepresentation of women in these subjects at university, which extends into the work place; underlines therefore that both gender stereotypes and digital training should be addressed, sta ...[+++]rting within the primary education system and continuing to move through all stages of education until adult learning and training for people who have been excluded from the labour market.

We now know that between 1990 and 1996, the government had made a number of efforts to deport Mr. Gayle, efforts that ultimately proved to be unsuccessful, and that red tape and abuse of the system by a known criminal is what led to the tragic murder of one of our colleagues, Constable Baylis, as well as serious injuries to his partner, Constable Leone.

(Return tabled) Question No. 141 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: With respect to climate change and international and national security: (a) what does the government project are the potential impacts on currently stable regions of the world of such climate change-related phenomena as, but not limited to, (i) rises in sea level, (ii) increases in extreme weather events, (iii) increases in the spread of infectious disease, (iv) increases in environmental refugees; (b) what does the government project will be (i) the consequences of the impacts identified in (a)(ii), (a)(iii), and (a)(iv) on domestic military missions, (ii) the consequences of (a)(i), (a)(ii), (a)(iii), (a)(iv) and (b)(i) in terms of the military’s capacity to respond and the availability ...[+++] of troops for missions not related to conflicts induced by climate change-related phenomena; (c) what does the government project will be the potential impacts on already-weakened states of such climate change-related phenomena as, but not limited to, (i) sea level rise, (ii) extreme weather events, (iii) the spread of infectious diseases; (d) what does the government project will be the extent of the effects climate impacts could have on already-weakened states, including, but not limited to, (i) expanded ungoverned spaces, (ii) further weakened and failed states, (iii) increased conflicts, (iv) increased migrations; (e) what does the government project will be the impact of the effects identified in (d) on Canada’s national security; (f) which nations does the government project will be most affected by climate change, (i) what is the government’s assessment of each such country’s capacity to adapt or cope, (ii) what, if any, action is Canada taking to strengthen the capacity of weak governments to better cope with societal needs projected to arise as a result of climate change-related impacts, (iii) what is the government’s assessment of possible security risks if Canada does contribute to international efforts related to ...

Some of the measures to achieve this important goal should include: a focus on the increasing enrolment of ethnic minorities and mixed minorities; a focus on the increased enrolment of younger donors, aged 18 to 35, as the youth of their stem cells can lead to better transplant outcomes, as published; the establishment of a national cord blood bank in Canada, ethnically diverse, which would be a complementary and long-awaited stem cell source for many patients who cannot find an unrelated donor match; increased funding for research in the area of mismatched donor transplantation, to establish whether manipulation, a graft, and/or the ...[+++]recipient's immune system can lead to improvement in clinical outcomes; continuing the present efforts and adopting new ways to increase awareness among the Canadian public about the importance of becoming a stem cell donor; and perhaps increasing funding to allow for the thorough and accurate reporting of the outcomes of stem cell transplants to the Canadian Blood and Marrow Transplant Group, the only group that collects this clinical data, which in turn might lead to improvements in transplantation outcomes.

that Europe suffered a large number of floods over the last years which caused loss of lives, injuries and damage to properties and infrastructure, the fact that floods have the potential to undermine the drive of the European Union towards sustainable development and cause damage on health, economies and environment, that flood risk management is a part of integrated river basin management, should be guided by a holistic approach and should take account of related policy fields as well as efforts already taken, that human activity co ...[+++]ntributes to the increase in the likelihood and adverse impacts of (extreme) flood events and that climate change will cause an increase of floods as well, that while it is impossible to prevent flooding totally, it is feasible to reduce the risk to human life, economic assets and the environment, that different types of floods need different kind of measures to reduce the likelihood and impact and that preventive, long term and integrated approaches through spatial planning on the different levels (national, regional and local) will also provide in a better use of land, river basins and coastal areas, that flood risk management has financial consequences and that appropriate European funding from existing instruments can play a role;

The NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan subsuming CSTC-Alpha was done to ensure greater unity of effort and purpose in training the Afghan National Security Forces.