Event Location: Ottawa

The 17th Annual Travel and Vacation Show will be held at Lansdowne Park. Call 613-567-6408.

The Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nigeria, Honourable Odein Ajumogobia, will be in Canada on a two-day official visit to meet with Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon (Pontiac, QC) and initiate steps to strengthen the existing cordial relations between Nigeria and Canada. Call 613-233-6399.

The Parliamentary Budget Officer will post a new report entitled “An Estimate of the Fiscal Impact of Canada’s Proposed Acquisition of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter” online. Call 613-992-8026.

The Office of the Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault will hold a technical briefing on her special report entitled Open Outlook, Open Access – 2009-2010 Report Cards at Ottawa Mariott Hotel, Wellington Salon, 3rd Floor, 100 Kent Street. Call 613-943-4368.

Conservative MP Brent Rathgeber (Edmonton-St. Albert, AB) will speak to the media on the introduction of a Private Members' Bill to give added protection for public transit operators at the Charles Lynch Press Theatre, Centre Block. Call (613) 996-4722.

Before the third reading vote on Bill C-393, An Act to amend the Patent Act (drugs for international humanitarian purposes) and to make a consequential amendment to another Act, international humanitarian activists Dr. James Orbinski, Stephen Lewis and Juno Award-winning artist K’naan will hold a press conference to encourage MPs and Senators to support Bill … Read more

A delegation of Sayisi Dene from Northern Manitoba will hold a press conference, vigil, and MPs’ briefing to press for resolution of their claim against the federal government in Room 130-S, Centre Block. Call 613-565-9449.

NDP MP and Status of Women critic Irene Mathyssen (London-Fanshawe, ON) is hosting the annual parliamentary breakfast to celebrate International Women’s Day at the Parliamentary Restaurant. Call 613-222-5048.

New Democrat Health Critic Megan Leslie (Halifax, NS) will hold a press conference in Room 130-S, Centre Block to introduce a legislation to improve and extend the ban on flavoured tobacco products. Call 613-295-9228.

Please join the family of Jim Travers and a wide circle of friends and colleagues at a public memorial to honour Jim's remarkable contributions to journalism, politics and Canadian society at the Government Conference Centre.