Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney (Calgary Southeast, AB) and Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird (Ottawa West-Nepean, ON) will host an event where the Ottawa Protocol on Combating Antisemitism will be signed. The event will take place at the Main Hall, Government Conference Building, 2 Rideau Street. Call 613-952-1650.
Thousands of police and peace officers from across the country will gather on Parliament Hill to honour colleagues who have died in the line of duty. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews (Provencher, MB) will participate in the 34th National Police and Peace Officers' Memorial Service. Toews and Governor General David Johnston will make opening remarks. … Read more
Government House Leader Peter Van Loan (York-Simcoe, ON) will make a brief statement on the upcoming parliamentary session and take questions from media representatives in the House of Commons Foyer, Centre Block. Call 613-947-7619.
Public Works Minister Rona Ambrose (Edmonton-Spruce Grove, AB) and Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird (Ottawa West-Nepean, ON) will announce the naming of the former Ottawa City Hall building at 111 Sussex Drive. Call 819-997-5421
The Royal Canadian Air Force invites the public to attend a ceremony marking the 71st anniversary of the Battle of Britain. Weather permitting; this year's ceremony will feature fly-pasts by vintage Second World War aircraft and Canadian Forces aircraft. Second World War veterans will march alongside serving members of the Royal Canadian Air Force, and … Read more
On behalf of Veterans Affairs Minister Steven Blaney (Levis-Bellechasse, QC), Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice Robert Goguen (Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe, NB) will commemorate the 71st anniversary of the Battle of Britain at a wreath-laying ceremony in Dieppe, New Brunswick at J. Laurie Cormier POW Park, Champlain Street. Call 613-992-7468.
Join the Writer's Festival for a rollicking, behind-the-scenes look at Canada’s favourite comedy troupe. Don Ferguson, one of the founding members (and the only person in the world who could channel both Preston Manning and Jack Layton), shares stories from their beginnings in 1970 as an onstage comedy troupe, their historic run-on radio, and their … Read more
Get to know the best of the best from Canada’s independent presses! ReLit founder Kenneth J. Harvey celebrates 11 years of fabulous writing with this year’s winners in the Short Fiction, Poetry and Novel categories. Join us for "ReLit Award: Ideas Not Money," an evening of readings, free books and a performance by Glenn Nuotio … Read more
Marshall McLuhan is a visionary on so many levels including his prophetic notions of the relationship between media and consciousness. Are his ideas in this regard, so seldom examined, still relevant today? Join us for "Marshall McLuhan: A Centenary Celebration," an evening of ideas and music honoring one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th … Read more
Three of the fall’s most anticipated books examine lives where the shadow of the past is ever-present. Requiem by Frances Itani, winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Deafening, explores the lasting legacy of the internment of Japanese-Canadians after Pearl Harbor. Retribution by Carmen Rodríguez illustrates how the traumas of social upheaval manifest across three … Read more
