Mayor of Ottawa Jim Watson, together with Dalton McGuinty, Premier of Ontario and Conservative MP Royal Galipeau (Ottawa-Orléans, Ont.) will make an announcement on Ottawa’s Light Rail Transit Project. The event will be held at Andrew Haydon Hall (Council Chambers), Ottawa City Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue. Call 613-580-2450.
Industry Minister Christian Paradis (Megantic-L'Erable, Que.) will deliver a keynote address at the 2012 Canadian Aerospace Summit. The event will be held at the Ottawa Convention Centre, 55 Colonel By Drive. Call 613-995-9001.
Information Commissioner of Canada Suzanne Legault will be taking questions from the media following the tabling in Parliament of the special report, Report Cards 2011-2012. Report Cards 2011-2012 is the final in a series of special reports that assess the root causes of delays in the access to information system. This report is a follow-up … Read more
Prime Minister Stephen Harper (Calgary Southwest, Alta.) will deliver remarks at the launch of the Year of Korea. Harper will be joined by Kim Hwang-sik, Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea, Hee-yong Cho, Ambassador of South Korea to Canada, Conservative British Columbia Senator Yonah Martin and Conservative MP Barry Devolin (Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock, Ont.). The … Read more
Prime Minister Stephen Harper (Calgary Southwest, Alta.) will participate in a tête-à-tête meeting with Kim Hwang-sik, Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea. The meeting will be held on Parliament Hill, Office of the Prime Minister, Room 307-S, Centre Block. Call 613-957-5555.
Speaker of the Senate Noël A. Kinsella will welcome Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea Kim Hwangsik. The event will be held in the Senate Foyer. Call 613-944-4082.
Liberal Aboriginal affairs and northern development critic Dr. Carolyn Bennett (St. Paul's, Ont.) and Liberal health critic Dr. Hedy Fry (Vancouver Centre, B.C.) along with grand chief Harvey Yesno and deputy grand chief Alvin Fiddler of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation, will hold a press conference to discuss the government's decision to approve generic versions of … Read more
Rosemary McCarney, president and CEO, Plan Canada and Renu Mandhane, director, International Human Rights Program, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law will launch a new report that looks at school-related gender-based violence and the effect it has on the world’s children. Particular attention is paid to what is going on in Canada. The event will … Read more
The embassies of Sweden, Israel, Hungary and the Jewish Federation of Ottawa jointly present a panel of experts on the legacy of Wallenberg as it relates to the current discussions on tolerance, personal courage and how one person can make a difference. Raoul Wallenberg saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust while his own fate … Read more
Minister of State (Science and Technology) Gary Goodyear (Cambridge, Ont.) will deliver a keynote address at the Innovation 2012 conference organized by the Alliance for Commercialization of Canadian Technologies (ACCT Canada), which specializes in bringing together academic and industry representatives to discuss research and development matters. The event will be held at Ottawa Marriott Hotel, … Read more
