Event Location: Online

Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Soraya Martinez Ferrada (Hochelaga, Que.) invites media representatives to a press conference on support for the Basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal and the Festival Juste Pour Rire. The announcement of this CED financial contribution will be made on behalf of Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages … Read more

Liberal MP Brenda Shanahan (Châteauguay-Lacolle, Que.) invites media representatives to a press conference on support for the International de montgolfières de Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu and the Parc Safari. The announcement of this CED financial contribution will be made on behalf of Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages Mélanie Joly (Ahuntsic-Cartierville, Que.). Details online.

Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade Mary Ng (Markham-Thornhill, Ont.) will virtually take part in local events in British Columbia. Ng will deliver remarks and participate in discussions with local business leaders and entrepreneurs on the supports that the Government of Canada is providing to small businesses and Black entrepreneurs. Details online. … 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 Association for Mineral Exploration Remote Roundup 2021 virtual conference. This event will take place online. Call 343-292-6100.

Library and Archives Canada co-hosts a virtual commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Participants include Jody Spiegel, director, Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program, Azrieli Foundation; Michaela Küchler, President, International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance; Sabina Sparwasser, Ambassador of Germany to Canada; Prof. Irwin Cotler, recently named by the Government of Canada as Canada’s special envoy on preserving Holocaust remembrance and combatting … Read more

On behalf of Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages Mélanie Joly (Ahuntsic-Cartierville, Que.), Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Will Amos (Pontiac, Que.) will announce support for Auberge et Spa Le Nordik inc. This event will take place online.

Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau (Compton-Stanstead, Que.) will announce an investment to Enterra Food Corporation for a project that will help reduce food waste through sustainable insect production. This event will take place online.

On behalf of Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages Mélanie Joly (Ahuntsic-Cartierville, Que.), National Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier (Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Que.) will announce support for Cime Aventures Inc. and the Coopérative de solidarité de développement touristique, économique et social de Mont-St-Pierre. Lebouthillier will then join Quebec MNA Marie-Eve Proulx to announce financial assistance for the Municipalité de Grande-Vallée, Que. These events will take place … Read more

Ryerson University hosts a lecture on “Canada and the World.” Bob Rae, Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations, will speak with Toronto Star columnist Martin Regg Cohn about global issues including Middle East peace, human rights abuses, refugee strife, carbon crisis and conflict with China. This event will take place online.

The Group of 78 hosts a webinar on “Pandemic Relief, Recovery, and Reshaping the World Economy,” addressing the interrelated issues of short-term pandemic relief, medium-term recovery and, in the long term, reshaping the world economy. Participants include Jomo Kwame Sundaram, senior Adviser at the Khazanah Research Institute; and Sir Richard Jolly former deputy executive director of programs at UNICEF. This event … Read more