Event Location: Ottawa

Members of the Senate Committee on National Security, Defence and Veterans Affairs, including committee chair and ISG Senator Tony Dean, CSG Senator Jean-Guy Dagenais, PSG Senator Margaret Dawn Anderson and Conservative Senator Pierre-Hugh Boisvenu, will hold a press conference following a study of issues relating to security and defence in the Arctic, including Canada’s military infrastructure and security capabilities. This event … Read more

Treasury Board President Mona Fortier (Ottawa-Vanier, Ont.), on behalf of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister Sean Fraser (Central Nova, N.S.), and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Marie-France Lalonde (Orléans, Ont.) will make an announcement about support for pre-arrival settlement services for newcomers. This event will be held at Collège La Cité – … Read more

India’s High Commissioner to Canada, Sanjay Kumar Verma, will join experts for a discussion on India-Canada trade opportunities hosted by the Canadian International Council’s Ottawa Branch. This event will take place in Room 4101, Desmarais Building, 55 Laurier Ave. E., University of Ottawa. Details online.

Treasury Board President Mona Fortier (Ottawa-Vanier, Ont.) will announce projects funded through the Greening Government Fund to help government organizations make strategic investments in clean technologies and develop innovative solutions for greening their operations. This event will take place at the Dominion Observatory (Central Experimental Farm), 1 Observatory Cres. Call 343-551-6020.

Governor General Mary Simon will receive the letters of credence from four new heads to mission to Canada: Plamen Georgiev Georgiev (Bulgaria), Delia Beatriz Valle Marichal (Honduras), Esra Demir (Turkey) and Kennedy Mpolobe Shepande (Zambia). This event will take placre at Rideau Hall, 1 Sussex Dr. Call 343-573-7563.

Treasury Board President Mona Fortier (Ottawa-Vanier, Ont.) will highlight funding to improve the health outcomes of people who use substances in Ottawa at the Pathways to Recovery, 45 Montreal Rd. Call 343-552-5568.

ISG Senator Kim Pate will take part in a press conference to announce plans to travel to northeastern Syria later this summer to visit camps and detention centres in the region, seek access to arbitrarily detained Canadians, and meet with local officials. She will be joined by Alex Neve, senior fellow, Graduate School of Public and … Read more

Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau (Compton-Stanstead, Que.) will join Bloc Québécois agriculture critic Yves Perron (Berthier–Maskinongé, Que.), international trade critic Simon-Pierre Savard-Tremblay (Saint-Hyacinthe–Bagot, Que.) and MP Luc Thériault (Montcalm, Que.) sponsor of Bill C-282, An Act to amend the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Act (supply management), at a press conference following the vote on the third reading of the bill. … Read more

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Papineau, Que.) will deliver remarks at the Survivors’ Flag Raising ceremony for National Indigenous Peoples Day and to mark the summer solstice. Later in the day, he will meet with the Commissioner of Indigenous Languages and the Directors.

Survivors of residential schools and Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller (Ville-Marie-Le Sud-Ouest-Île-des-Sœurs, Que.) will hold a media availability following the “Raising of the Survivors’ Flag Ceremony” on Parliament Hill. This event will be held at the Visitor Welcome Centre. Contact aissatou.diop@rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca.