NDP Leader Jack Layton (Toronto-Danforth, ON) and NDP MP Olivia Chow (Trinity-Spadina, ON) will move in to the official residence of the Leader of the Official Opposition. This marks the first time a New Democrat Leader has occupied the residence. There will be a photo opportunity at Stornoway, 541 Acacia Avenue. Call 613-720-6463.
Green Party Leader Elizabeth May (Saanich-Gulf Islands, BC) will hold a press conference to speak on the Bonn climate change negotiations taking place this week in the Charles Lynch Press Theatre, Room 130-S, Centre Block. Call 613-614-4916.
Canada 2020 and the Canadian Electricity Association will bring the experts together at POWERTALK: Investing to Keep the Country Strong. Panelists will discuss overdue upgrades to Canada's electricity systems. Chairman of Canada 2020 Advisory Board Don Newman will moderate a debate on the issues that have almost become taboo under today’s green energy panacea, such … Read more
First Tunisia, then Egypt. Since mid-December 2010, a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests has spread to 16 Middle East and North African countries. Political columnist and author Rami G. Khouri will assess the reasons for the citizen revolts across the Arab world, the responses of ruling regimes, and the prospects for transitions to pluralistic … Read more
Conservative Nova Scotia Senator Kelvin K. Ogilvie and Dr. Antoine Hakim, CEO and Scientific Director of the Canadian Stroke Network, a national network of university and hospital-based stroke researchers, are jointly holding a national press conference to present The Quality of Stroke Care in Canada, the first study of its kind. The event will take … Read more
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird (Ottawa West-Nepean, ON), National Defence Minister Peter MacKay (Central Nova, NS) will be available to speak to media after the motion on the extension to the mission in Libya is voted upon in the Foyer of the House of Commons, Centre Block. Call 613-995-1851.
Engineers Without Borders Canada will join Conservative MP Dean Allison (Niagara West-Glanbrook, ON), NDP MP Paul Dewar (Ottawa Centre, ON) and Liberal MP Mark Eyking (Sydney-Victoria, NS) for some frank discussion on inefficiency in Canadian foreign aid. They will hold a press conference in the Charles Lynch Press Theatre, Room 130-S, Centre Block to call … Read more
The Bloc Quebecois will hold a general council meeting concerning its leadership race. Call 514-526-3000.
Media are invited to hear an announcement by NDP MP Rathika Sitsabaiesan (Scarborough-Rouge River, ON), prompted by Channel 4’s frank and heartbreaking broadcast, “Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields” which will be be telecast on June 14th. Elected members of parliament, community and human right groups will speak to the importance of Canada joining the group of … Read more
The Canadian Grain Commission has invited the grain industry, producer groups and the media to attend an information session to be presented at the Western Canada Farm Progress Show at the Queensbury Convention Centre, Conference Room 5, 1700 Elphinstone Street. Call 204-983-2749.
