Event Location: Online

The Group of 78 hosts a webinar on “Paying their due: reforming international corporate taxation in the global recovery” featuring Toby Sanger, director of Canadians for Tax Fairness; and Edmund Valpy Fitzgerald, Emeritus Professor of International Development Finance, Oxford University, and a commissioner with the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation. This event will take place … Read more

The Canada-China Friendship Society hosts a webinar on “China’s 14th Five Year Plan: New Policy Directions” featuring former Bank of Canada senior policy director Mark Kruger, now with Yicai Global in Shanghai, China, who will explain what a shift to a greener and more innovative China entails. This event will take place online.

Queen’s University hosts a panel discussion on “Where is the Class in Canadian Politics?” exploring definitional parameters of class as well as the role of political parties (whose messaging and policy commitments continue to target an amorphous middle class) and the potential for greater class diversity in Canadian legislatures. Participants include former Liberal MP Ted Hsu, now 2022 Ontario Liberal Party … Read more

The University of Ottawa hosts a webinar on “Strategies to Hold Canada’s Global Mining Sector Accountable” featuring Stephen Brown, professor of Political Science at the University of Ottawa; and John Cameron, associate professor in the International Development Studies at Dalhousie University. This event will take place online.

Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault (Laurier-Sainte-Marie, Que.) will discuss “Democracy in the Digital Age: Addressing Online Harms,” with Anja Karadeglija, parliamentary reporter at the National Post, in a webinar hosted by Canada 2020. This event will take place online.

On behalf of Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages Mélanie Joly (Ahuntsic-Cartierville, Que.), Liberal MP Pat Finnigan (Miramichi – Grand Lake, N.B.) will detail support to businesses in the fish and seafood processing sector in the Escuminac area to help tackle challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. This event will take place online. Contact Danielle.Phillips@ACOA-APECA.gc.ca.

Families, Children and Social Development Minister Ahmed Hussen (York South-Weston, Ont.) will discuss how the Government of Canada is supporting child care in the Northwest Territories. He will be joined by Liberal MP Michael McLeod (Northwest Territories) and territorial Minister of Education, Culture and Employment R.J. Simpson. This event will take place online. Call 819-994-5559.

Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau (Compton-Stanstead, Que.) will highlight investments under the Emergency Processing Fund to support Quebec food processors in their efforts to protect the health of their workers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. This event will take place online. Call 343-549-2326.

Five cabinet ministers will respond to the first reports related to COVID‑19 and the Auditor General’s report on the Investing in Canada Plan. Participants include Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair (Scarborough-Southwest, Ont.), Health Minister Patty Hajdu (Thunder Bay-Superior North, Ont.), National Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier (Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Que.), Infrastructure and Communities Minister Catherine McKenna (Ottawa-Centre, Ont.) and Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion Minister Carla Qualtrough (Delta, B.C.). This event will … Read more

Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam, Deputy Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Howard Njoo, and Deputy Chief Medical Officer at Indigenous Services Canada Dr. Evan Adams will answer your COVID-19 vaccine questions in a live discussion. Samantha Yammine, a neuroscientist, molecular biologist and popular science communicator better known as Science Sam, along with Danielle Nadin from CIHR Institute of Gender and Health will … Read more