The Parliamentary Budget Officer will post a new PBO report entitled The Government’s Expenditure Plan and Main Estimates for 2021-22. This report examines the federal government’s Expenditure Plan and Main Estimates for 2021-22, which supports the first two appropriation bills that seek Parliament’s approval of $141.9 billion in budgetary authorities. Call 613-992-8026.
Lawrence Schembri, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada, will speak by videoconference to Restaurants Canada about savings in the time of COVID-19, and the outlook for household spending. Contact: communications@bankofcanada.ca.
Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade Mary Ng (Markham-Thornhill, Ont.) will participate virtually in Canada’s Feminist Response and Recovery Summit on March 9, where she will deliver remarks and moderate a panel on “Women in the Economy.” Details online. Call 343-551-0246.
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard Terry Beech (Burnaby North—Seymour, B.C.) will announce Union Training and Innovation Program funding to help Canadians become certified in skilled trades. The announcement is being made on behalf of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion Minister Carla Qualtrough (Delta, B.C.). Details online. Call 819-994-5559.
Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan (St. John’s South–Mount Pearl, Nfld.), joined by Environment and Climate Change Minister Jonathan Wilkinson (North Vancouver, B.C.), will participate in a virtual ceremony to recognize a major milestone in carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) and Canada’s energy future. Details online. Call 343-292-6100.
Liberal MPs Raj Saini (Kitchener Centre, Ont.) and Tim Louis (Kitchener–Conestoga, Ont.), on behalf of Infrastructure and Communities Minister Catherine McKenna (Ottawa-Centre, Ont.); Mike Harris, MPP for Kitchener—Conestoga, Amy Fee, MPP for Kitchener South – Hespeler, Berry Vrbanovic, Mayor of the City of Kitchener, and Elizabeth Sproule, Chair of the Board of Directors, Centre In The Square, will … Read more
The Native Women’s Association of Canada will host a two-day international Summit of the Americas on Violence Against Indigenous Women from March 29-30. Hundreds of people from North and South America are expected to share their ideas about ways to keep Indigenous women, girls, and gender-diverse people safe, and to bring perpetrators to justice. Call 613-447-6648.
Export Promotion and International Trade Mary Ng (Markham-Thornhill, Ont.) will take part in the panel discussion that will kick-off the APEC Business Advisory Council Digital Symposium. Ng will be joined by her counterparts from Chile, New Zealand and Singapore. Together, they will discuss the role of innovation in re-opening APEC trade and markets. Details online. Call 343-551-0246.
Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen will speak to students from Elizabeth Middle School in Kindersley and to those who have been selected by the Saskatchewan Science Centre in Regina, Man.. These organizations won this visit from an astronaut through the Junior Astronauts campaign. Hansen will share his story, talk about his career as an astronaut, and answer their … Read more
Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan (St. John’s South–Mount Pearl, Nfld.) and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Natural Resources Paul Lefebvre (Sudbury, Ont.) will participate in the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) 2021 virtual conference from March 9 to 11, 2021. On Tuesday, Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade Mary Ng (Markham-Thornhill, Ont.) will provide opening remarks during … Read more
