Event Location: Ottawa

The Financial Advisors Association of Canada presents "Financial Planning Issues for Small Business Owners." Business owners may be great at running their business but are often poor at personal financial planning. This day will help financial advisors to more effectively approach, understand and advise business owners. The event will be held at Hellenic Centre 1315 Prince … Read more

The Financial Advisors Association of Canada presents "Update 2013." Each year the national staff at the association create the update by interviewing some of the top experts in their field. The event will be held at Hellenic Centre, 1315 Prince of Wales Drive. For more information, email info@advocisottawa.ca.

The Financial Advisors Association of Canada presents "Variety Day: A Sampler of Important Issues." The one day session will deal with issues of changes to estate settlement rules and health tourism, to pension plan implosions, tax scams and the state of the world economy. The event will be held at the Hellenic Centre, 1315 Prince of Wales Drive. … Read more

The Financial Advisors Association of Canada present "A Hard Look At Regulation," focused on how regulators control more and more of how business is done. This important PD Day will provide perspectives on: how the association is working to mitigate regulatory creep; an Ontario MPP's perspective on financial regulation; the morality of self-regulation; a financial company … Read more

March 21 is the International Day of Nowruz. More information is available online.

NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair (Outremont, Que.) will address the NDP national caucus. The event will be held in room 237-C, Centre Block, Parliament Hill. Call 613-323-7974.

On behalf of Heritage Minister James Moore (Port Moody-Westwood-Port Coquitlam, B.C.), Conservative MP Rod Bruinooge (Winnipeg South, Man.) will commemorate the 70th anniversary of the birth of Princess Margriet of the Netherlands. Bruinooge will be accompanied by Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Rick Dykstra (St. Catharines, Ont.), and Rochus Pronk, Chargé … Read more

The Centre for International Policy Studies at the University of Ottawa presents Robert Vitalis, University of Pennsylvania, who will discuss “Oil and Grand Strategy: The 20th Century Origins of a 21st Century Pseudo-Science.” The event will be held in room 4004, Faculty of Social Sciences building, 120 University Street. More information is available online.

The 2013 Manning Networking Conference: Big Ideas For Conservatives, will be held. Speakers include former Australian prime minister John Howard; Réseau Liberté Québec’s Joanne Marcotte; Sun TV host Ezra Levant; Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney (Calgary Southeast, Atla.), Atlas Network’s Cindy Cerquitalla; Minister of State (Small Business and Tourism) Maxime Bernier (Beauce, Que.); Andrea … Read more

The third annual MacDonald-Laurier Soirée will be held. This annual event brings together parliamentarians, political watchers, public servants and others to celebrate great Canadian prime ministers in the tradition of Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir Wilfred Laurier. The event will be held in the Main Lounge, Rideau Club, 99 Bank Street. More information is … Read more