NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh (Burnaby South, B.C.) will meet with the Canadian Medical Association. At 12:00 p.m. ET, he will take part in a press conference with NDP critic for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Jenny Kwan (Vancouver East, B.C.) and two health care workers living in Ontario to urge the Liberal government to address Canada’s nursing shortage. This event will take … Read more
Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem will deliver opening remarks at the inaugural “Symposium on Indigenous Economies,” co-hosted by the Bank of Canada, the Tulo Centre of Indigenous Economics and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. Deputy Governor Lawrence Schembri will participate in a panel on Central Banks and Indigenous Economies with counterparts from the U.S., Australia … Read more
Queen’s University hosts a webinar on “Coronavirus: The Virus, the Pandemic and How the Vaccine Will Save Us” featuring Kingston, Ont.-based public health physician Dr. Ian Gemmill, past chair of the National Advisory Committee on Immunisation and former co-chair of the Pandemic Vaccine Working Group for the Public Health Agency of Canada. This event will take place online.
Yves Giroux, the Parliamentary Budget Officer, will post two new report online: Assessing the Insurance Properties of the Fiscal Stabilization Program and Assessment of PBO’s Election Proposal Costing Service for the 44th General Election. Call 613-992-8026.
The Institute of Public Administration of Canada hosts a webinar on “Digital Transformation and the Evolving Social Safety Net: The Path Forward,” a panel discussion on advancing digital transformation, the future of program and service delivery within the Government of Canada. This event will take place online.
The University of Alberta hosts a lecture featuring Dr. Lorne Tyrrell, one of 12 people appointed by the Government of Canada to the Vaccine Task Force, who will deliver remarks on “Teamwork in Action: Canada’s Vaccine Task Force.” This event will take place online.
The Embassy of Austria and the Friends Of Simon Wiesenthal Center host a webinar, “Memorializing the Holocaust – Perspectives from Austria and Canada.” Austrian Ambassador to Canada Sylvia Meier-Kajbic will open this roundtable discussion on the importance of memorializing the Shoah both in Austria and Canada. Other speakers include former Liberal MP Michael Levitt, president and CEO, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for … Read more
The Canadian Study of Parliament Group hosts a webinar, “A Polite Parliament,” exploring the procedural and practical realities behind addressing the occasional headline-making behaviour of legislators. How is conduct regulated within legislatures? How can Speakers and other presiding officers maintain order and decorum? How is unbecoming conduct addressed and redressed by legislative institutions? This event will take place … Read more
Ryerson University hosts a webinar on “How Should Democracies Regulate Speech Online?” featuring Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and former deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union. This event will take place online.
Liberal MP Ya’ara Saks (York Centre, Ont.) will take part in a webinar on “Campaigns, Covid and Candidates,” a conversation with three female candidates about what motivates them, what they’re most proud of, and what it was like to run a campaign during COVID-19, hosted by Equal Voice. Other participants include former NDP candidate Larisa Julius and former Conservative candidate Krystina Waler. This … Read more
