Event Location: Ottawa

Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Mental Health and Addictions and Associate Minister of Health Yasir Naqvi (Ottawa Centre, Ont.) will hold a news conference to announce funding for the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing’s National Nurse Residency Program. This event will be held at the Queensway-Carleton Hospital, Discovery Room, 3045 Baseline Rd. Call 613-291-4176.

Governor General Mary Simon will host “The Governor General’s Symposium: Building a Safe and Respectful Digital World.” This one-day symposium aims to promote respectful digital dialogue by raising awareness of toxic online discourse, bringing together people and organizations working to promote digital respect, creating partnership opportunities and amplifying co-operation. Participants include Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa … Read more

The Canadian Association for Business Economics hosts a hybrid panel discussion on “Housing and Immigration Trends in Canada: how can we solve the housing crisis?” featuring Mathieu Laberge, senior vice-president of Housing Economics and Insights at Canada Mortgage and Houseing Corporation; and Parisa Mahboubi, senior policy analyst, C.D. Howe Institute. This event will take place at the … Read more

Carleton University hosts the Michael Bell Annual Lecture: “Whither the Rules-Based International Legal Order? On Palestine, Israel and the Future” featuring Queen’s University professor Ardi Imseis who is a former legal counsel for UNRWA , former member of the UN Human Rights Council commission of inquiry on Yemen, and current legal counsel to the state of Palestine at the … Read more

The Institute for Research on Public Policy and the Institute on Governance will release the report Resilient Institutions: Learning from Canada’s COVID-19 Pandemic at a news conference. Participants include Jennifer Ditchburn, president and CEO, IRPP; David McLaughlin, president and CEO, Institute on Governance; and Charles Breton, executive director of IRPP’s Centre of Excellence on the Canadian Federation. This event will … Read more

Minister of Emergency Preparedness, President of the King’s Privy Council and Minister responsible for the Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada Harjit S. Sajjan (Vancouver South, B.C.) will deliver the opening keynote address on Day 2 of the annual Ottawa Conference on Security and Defence hosted by the Conference of Defence Associations Institute. This event will … Read more

Justice For All Canada will hold a press conference to highlight the urgent and dire situation faced by Palestinian women and girls in Gaza and the West Bank. Participants include Nihad Jasser, project management professional; Lama Alsafi, Ph.D. student, Carleton University; Monalisa Ghadban, co-founder and creative director, Films4Falasteen; and Ganiyat Sadiq, advocacy officer, Justice For All Canada. This event will … Read more

Canada will host the 2024 All-Atlantic Ocean Research and Innovation Alliance Forum at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, Ontario, from Oct. 8-10, 2024. Details to follow. Contact Jeremy.Collard@dfo-mpo.gc.ca.

National Defence Minister Bill Blair (Scarborough-Southwest, Ont.) will host Latvia’s Minister of Defence, Andris Sprūds, for a bilateral meeting at the National Defence Headquarters, 101 Colonel By Dr. Contact Diana.Ebadi@forces.gc.ca.

Carleton University hosts its Canada Talks Series with a lecture on “Canada, the Middle East, and a Multipolar World” with Dr. Jeremy Wildeman who will look at the role the Middle East is playing in this new global system and what this means for Canada. This event will take place at 1216 Dunton Tower, 1125 Colonel By Dr., … Read more