The Ottawa International Writers’ Festival hosts a webinar on “Neglected No More: The Urgent Need to Improve the Lives of Canada’s Elders” featuring Globe and Mail health reporter André Picard who will discuss his new book which explores the full extent of the crisis in eldercare, and offers an urgently needed prescription to fix a broken system. … Read more
Infrastructure and Communities Minister Catherine McKenna (Ottawa-Centre, Ont.) will discuss “Building the Canada We Want” with BNN Bloomberg reporter Amanda Lang, hosted by the Canadian Club of Ottawa. This event will take place online.
Canada’s Chief Herald Samy Khalid will present the new emblems and letters patent to Richard Wagner, Chief Justice of Canada, at a small ceremony in the courtroom at the Supreme Court of Canada. The coat of arms, flag and badge visually communicate the Court’s role, legal traditions and judicial independence. Following the presentation, Wagner will say a few … Read more
Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux will post a new PBO legislative costing note entitled Cost Estimate of Bill C-246: Tuition for Persons with Disabilities online.
Following the presentation of petition e-2971 in the House of Commons, NDP MP Heather McPherson (Edmonton Strathcona, Alta.) will join the ALS Parliamentary Caucus for a press conference highlighting the petition, whic calls upon Health Minister Patty Hajdu (Thunder Bay-Superior North, Ont.) to initiate a pilot program to speed up regulatory approval for new ALS treatments. This event will take place online. … Read more
Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade Mary Ng (Markham-Thornhill, Ont.) will participate in the ministers’ panel at the Women in Business Forum, hosted by the Economic Club of New York. Ng will open the forum with Elisabeth Moreno, France’s Minister of Gender Equality, Diversity and Equal Opportunity. Ng will also deliver remarks. This event will take place … Read more
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute hosts a webinar on “Canada’s Strategic Move: Stepping up in the Indo-Pacific” which will look at how Canada can better serve its interests and promote its role through the tenets, rules and values that form the basis of the emerging growth of Indo-Pacific frameworks. Speakers include Margaret McCuaig-Johnson, senior fellow at uOttawa’s Institute for … Read more
Environment and Climate Change Minister Jonathan Wilkinson (North Vancouver, B.C.), joined by Infrastructure and Communities Minister Catherine McKenna (Ottawa-Centre, Ont.), will make an announcement regarding carbon-pricing-proceeds going to improve energy efficiency for Ontario schools. Details online. Call 819-271-6218.
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Natural Resources Paul Lefebvre (Sudbury, Ont.) will make an important clean energy announcement. Details online. Call 343-292-6100.
Liberal MP Wayne Long (Saint John-Rothesay, N.B.), on behalf of Infrastructure and Communities Minister Catherine McKenna (Ottawa-Centre, Ont.); Arlene Dunn, MLA for Saint John Harbour, and Don Darling, Mayor of Saint John, will make an infrastructure announcement. Details online. Call 613-941-0660.
