CANCELLED The Partnership Group for Science and Engineering hosts “The Chemical Bridge to Health: How Canada is Leading the Way,” featuring Dr. David Wishart, 2025 winner of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Herzberg Gold Medal. Dr. Wishart will discuss how metabolomics — the study of metabolites that form an individual’s changing “chemical … Read more
The University of Ottawa’s Centre for International Policy Studies hosts a talk on Charles Burton’s latest book, The Beaver and the Dragon: How China Out-Manoeuvred Canada’s Diplomacy, Security, and Sovereignty. The book is a collection of essays — written in real time across four Canadian governments from 2009 to 2025 — that exposes the illusions of engagement … Read more
Maple Shield 2026, the flagship conference of the National Security Centre of Excellence, will take place March 2–3, bringing together leaders from defence, intelligence, public safety, finance, technology, law and academia to examine national security threats facing Canada and its allies. The conference will focus on issues including cyber threats, foreign interference, organized crime, economic … Read more
Members of the United Nations’ Permanent Forum on People of African Descent (UNPFPAD) will hold a press conference to reflect on their Canadian consultation tour and discuss how input gathered in Toronto, Nova Scotia and Ottawa will inform the draft UN Declaration on the Respect, Protection and Fulfilment of the Human Rights of People of … Read more
Governor General Mary Simon will invest 46 members of the Canadian Armed Forces into the Order of Military Merit during a ceremony in the Rideau Hall Ballroom. Details are available online. Contact media@gg.ca
PSG Senator Danièle Henkel (Alma, Que.) and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Mona Fortier (Ottawa—Vanier—Gloucester, Ont.). will co-host two events in collaboration with the Women’s Health Coalition of Canada to advance a national framework for women’s health. On February 25, from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Minister of Health Marjorie Michel (Papineau, Que.) … Read more
Minister of Industry and Quebec Economic Development Mélanie Joly (Ahuntsic–Cartierville, Que.) will take part in a fireside chat at the launch of former MP Yvonne Rumbolt-Jones’ memoir Just Around the Corner, hosted by The Pearson Centre. Rumbolt-Jones writes about overcoming geographic isolation in Labrador and personal challenges, including sexual abuse, cancer and family alcoholism. The … Read more
Ottawa U’s Centre for International Policy Studies, the International Political Economy Network and the Institute of the Environment host a seminar titled “The Political Economy of AI: Extraction, Climate Disinformation, and the Politics of Climate Governance.” Sonja Solomun, Assistant Professor at McGill University’s Max Bell School of Public Policy, will examine the extractive infrastructures underpinning … Read more
PSG Senator Andrew Cardozo (Ont.), ISG Senator Mohamed-Iqbal Ravalia (N.L.), and Conservative MP Ben Lobb will host a roundtable on how significant advances over the past decade are shaping new approaches to the prevention, treatment, and management of food allergy and anaphylaxis. The event takes place in Room W-180, Senate of Canada Building. RSVP: info.cardozo@sen.parl.gc.ca
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Mona Fortier (Ottawa—Vanier—Gloucester, Ont.), Lobbying Commissioner Nancy Bélanger, Abacus Data President Ihor Korbabicz, former ambassador to the WTO Stephen deBoer, and former Conservative chief of staff Guy Giorno are among the speakers at “NextGen 2026: Shaping the Future of Public Affairs Today.” The event takes place at the … Read more
