Event Location: Online

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute hosts a virtual book launch for MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley‘s new book, Gardeners vs. Designers: Understanding the Great Fault Line in Canadian Politics. Crowley will take part in a panel discussion featuring Jamil Jivani, MLI’s Senior Fellow for Diversity and Empowerment; Andrew Coyne, columnist for The Globe and Mail; and Danielle Smith, host of radio’s The … Read more

As part of the Canadian Association for Business Economics’s virtual conference “The Impact of the Pandemic on the Economy,” former Bank of Canada governor David Dodge will deliver the keynote presentation on “Fiscal and Monetary Policy Anchors in an Era of Global Excess Savings.” This event will take place online.

Parliamentary Secretary to the President of the Treasury Board and Minister of Digital Government Greg Fergus (Hull—Aylmer, Que.) will take part in a French-language webinar, “Le racisme dans les institutions canadiennes” (Racism in Canadian institutions). He wil be joined by former governor general Michaëlle Jean and Daniella Ingabire with the University of Ottawa. This event will take place online.

Infrastructure and Communities Minister Catherine McKenna (Ottawa-Centre, Ont.) will take part in the Mayor’s Breakfast, hosted by the Ottawa Board of Trade. This event will take place online.

Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux will post a new PBO report, Crown corporations’ COVID-19 liquidity support, online. Call 613-992-8026.

The Pearson Centre hosts a one-on-one conversation with former Liberal cabinet minister Lloyd Axworthy, current chair of the World Refugee and Migration Council. He and Pearson Centre president Andrew Cardozo will discuss “What is the World Coming To?” This event will take place online.

The University of Saskatchewan hosts a webinar on “International Cooperation in North American Politics” featuring Dr. Rachel McCormick, Canada’s Consul General to the U.S. states of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. This event will take place online.

Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux will post a new PBO legislative costing note: ″Full Depreciation for Business Investment in Zero-Emission Vehicles″ online. Call 613-992-8026.

On behalf of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion Minister Carla Qualtrough (Delta, B.C.), Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages (Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec) Élisabeth Brière (Sherbrooke, Que.) will announce government support for youth and students in their studies and employment. This event will take place online. Call 819-654-5552.

As part of the GG Conversations series, Governor General Julie Payette will speak with Dr. Jan Christilaw, clinical professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia and director of Women’s Health for the Canadian Network for International Surgery, about “Women’s Health and Well-Being in the Time of COVID-19.” This event will take place online. Call 343-548-1857.