Event Location: Across Canada

It is Food Freedom Day, which marks the calendar date by which the average Canadian will have earned enough to pay the entire year's grocery bill.

Volodymyr Lytvyn, Chairman of the Parliament of Ukraine, and a Parliamentary Delegation visit Canada. Visit http://www2.parl.gc.ca/iia.

The Native Women’s Association of Canada is encouraging Canadians to host Sisters in Spirit Vigils across the country to honour the lives of missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls. For information on hosting a vigil please visit http://www.nwac.ca/2010-sisters-spirits-vigil.

Every year, BIOTECanada and its national partners across Canada celebrate the imaGENEnation of Canada’s biotechnology scientists, researchers and entrepreneurs. Join us for events, lectures, facility tours and hands-on science experiments across the country. Visit www.imagenenation.ca.

The Summer issue of the Bank of Canada Review will be released. The full release is available online.

The Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup is a national conservation program that encourages Canadians coast to coast to clean up shorelines in their communities. There are up to 700 cleanup sites registered. Visit www.shorelinecleanup.ca.

Media Awareness Network and the Canadian Teachers' Federation are joining to mark the fifth anniversary of Media Literacy Week, by encouraging youth, parents, educators, community leaders, governments and media industries from across the country to participate in and support media and digital literacy initiatives in their regions. Call 613-224-7721 x 231.