A Hunger Awareness breakfast sponsored by the Turkey Farmers of Canada and co-hosted by Conservative New Brunswick Senator Percy Mockler, Liberal Nova Scotia Senator Wilfred Moore and NDP MP Joe Comartin (Windsor-Tecumseh, Ont.) will be held to share the fasting experience with fellow parliamentarians, as well as food bank staff and volunteers from around the country. … Read more
To raise awareness for hunger in Canada, Food Banks Canada is challenging parliamentarians and staff to fast for the day so that they can experience what it's like to have food out of reach during an average day. More information is available online.
Two marches (one starting at the University of Ottawa Morisset Terrace and the other at McNabb Park), will converge at Prime Minister Stephen Harper's (Calgary Southwest, Alta.) office to protest austerity. Solidarity Against Austerity is encouraging people to bring their pots and pans, in the spirit of the Quebec student strike. Speakers will include Bridget … Read more
Solidarity Against Austerity will be holding a workshop to educate and empower participants to resist austerity. The event will be held at Room 203, Jack Purcell Community Centre, 320 Jack Purcell Lane (Elgin Street at Gilmour). Call 613-795-8685.
Canada’s new $5 and $10 bank notes – the final notes in the Polymer series, will be unveiled during an official ceremony at the Bank of Canada’s head office in Ottawa. Joining Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney to speak at the event will be Finance Minister Jim Flaherty (Whitby-Oshawa, Ont.), Paul G. Smith, chairman … Read more
The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (Ottawa Chapter) will hold their May luncheon and annual general meeting. The speaker will be Ian Naish, president, Naish Transportation Consulting Inc. The subject of his presentation will be "Saudi Arabia's Railway Expansion Plans – Next 10 Years. The luncheon will be held at 50 O'Connor Street Conference … Read more
World Press Freedom Day will be hosted by CTV journalist Don Newman. The feature speaker is Charles Sennott: “Ground Truth in a Digital Age.” Winners of the 13th International Editorial Cartoon Competition (theme: “Hard Times and Free Speech”) will be on hand, and the presentation of the 15th annual Canadian World Press Freedom award will occur. … Read more
The Ottawa Economics Association and the Canadian Association of Business Economics will hold a luncheon. The event is titled: "Aboriginal People and Resource Development: Creating Partnerships that Work for Canada” with guest speaker Ken Coates. The event will be held at the Fairmont Chateau Laurier, 1 Rideau St. More information is available online.
Dr. Michael Bloom will moderate a panel discussion on the theme of Intellectual property for individuals and institutions in the National Capital Region. The event is presented by the Ottawa Society for the Arts and Sciences. Panelists include Ken Larose, chair, National Archival Appraisal Board, and Jennifer Raoul, patent lawyer with Borden Ladner Gervais. The event … Read more
On World Intellectual Property Day, Roseann Caldwell, president of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC), and Michel Gérin, IPIC executive director, are calling on the government to make important changes to Canada’s legislative IP system to ensure that IP owners and Canadian innovators do not face the inadvertent loss of patent and trade-mark rights from events … Read more
