On behalf of Infrastructure and Communities Minister Catherine McKenna (Ottawa-Centre, Ont.), Minister of Labour Filomena Tassi (Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas, Ont.) will take part in an infrastructure event. This event will take place online. Call 613-941-0660.
Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux will post two new PBO reports: Review of PBO Economic and Fiscal Projections and Cost Estimate of a Hybrid Parliament System online. Call 613-992-8026.
Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade Mary Ng (Markham-Thornhill, Ont.) will take part in a roundtable discussion on supporting Black business owners and entrepreneurs. She will be joined by Minister of Diversity and Inclusion and Youth Bardish Chagger (Waterloo, Ont.); Families, Children and Social Development Minister Ahmed Hussen (York South-Weston, Ont.); Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Small Business, … Read more
Following the tabling of a petition calling on the Canadian government to act in response to increasing extrajudicial attacks on civilians and human rights defenders in the Philippines, NDP MP Heather McPherson (Edmonton Strathcona, Alta.) will take part in a press conference. She will be joined by Cristina Palabay, General Secretary, Karapatan; Bern Jagunos, International Coalition for Human … Read more
Minister of Seniors Deb Schulte (King-Vaughan, Ont.) will host information sessions about how seniors can prepare for tax season. Details online. Call 343-551-7558.
The Parliamentary Budget Officer will post a new PBO report entitled Supplementary Estimates (C) 2020-21. This note presents a detailed analysis of the Government’s third and final supplementary estimates for the 2020-21 fiscal year, which seeks Parliament’s approval of $13.4 billion. Call 613-992-8026.
Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk will speak to students from Christ the King School in Winnipeg, Man., and Edward Schreyer School in Beausejour, Que. These schools won this visit from an astronaut through the Junior Astronauts campaign. Kutryk will share his story, talk about his career as an astronaut, and answer their questions. Details online. Call 450-926-4370.
To mark the fifth annual Canada’s Agriculture Day, Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau (Compton-Stanstead, Que.) will join farmers, ranchers, food processors, sector leaders and youth to raise a fork to the food we love and the people who produce it. Bibeau, joined Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Papineau, Que.), will take part in a virtual farm tour with Kelly Smith-Fraser, owner of … Read more
The Migrant Rights Network along with leading doctors, health policy experts, and labour leaders, are sounding the alarm about the possibility of hundreds of thousands of people not being vaccinated against COVID-19 because of their immigration status. Federal and provincial assurances that vaccination will be universal and non-coercive has not been accompanied with any concrete … Read more
Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages Mélanie Joly (Ahuntsic-Cartierville, Que.) will chat with Monique Leroux, Chair of the Industry Strategy Council of Canada; Véronique Proulx, President and CEO of Manufacturiers et Exportateurs du Québec; and Charles Milliard, President and CEO of the Fédération des chambres de commerce du Québec, on their vision and actions to be taken … Read more
