Event Location: Ottawa

CBC News’ Adrian Harewood will moderate a discussion on “The Future of Work: Black Excellence in the Public Service” featuring Caroline Xavier, associate deputy minister, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada; Jacqueline Rigg, CEO, Association of Professional Executives of the Public Service of Canada; Deborah Gomes-Schultz, national contact point of OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises; and Nadia Theodore, … Read more

The Partnership Group for Science and Engineering hosts its “Bacon and Eggheads” breakfast featuring Queen’s University’s John P. Smol who will speak on “The ‘fierce urgency of now’: Lessons for Canada from the ghosts of climate past,” This event will take place in Room 100, Sir John A. Macdonald Building. Register at baconandeggheads@gmail.com.

Green Party Parliamentary Leader Elizabeth May (Saanich-Gulf Islands, B.C.), Green MPs Jenica Atwin (Fredericton, NB) and Paul Manly (Nanaimo-Ladysmith, B.C.) will hold a press conference to discuss their budget recommendations to Finance Minister Bill Morneau (Toronto Centre, Ont.). This event will take place in Room 135-B, West Block, Parliament Hill. Call 613-562-4916 x 206.

Environment and Climate Change Minister Jonathan Wilkinson (North Vancouver, B.C.) and President of Inuit Heritage Trust, Pamela Gross, will make an announcement related to the archaeological research on the wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. They will be joined by Stanley Ablanak, President of the Kitikmeot Inuit Association. This event will take place at Parks Canada Conservation Laboratories, … Read more

Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard Bernadette Jordan (South Shore–St. Margaret’s, N.S.) will deliver remarks at the Chamber of Marine Commerce’s Marine Day at a Hill reception hosted by Liberal MP Vance Badawey (Niagara Centre, Ont.). This event wil take place in Room 425 Wellington Building. Call 613-294-8515.

Bloc Québécois and NDP MPs, along with Green Party Parliamentary Leader Elizabeth May (Saanich-Gulf Islands, B.C.), will be joined by environmental and law groups for a press conference about the rising costs of the Trans Mountain pipeline at the National Press Building, 150 Wellington St. Call 778-316-5558. 

Mortgage Professionals Canada board members will deliver remarks to the media on the state of the mortgage market in Canada and their recommendations to policymakers at 135-B Press Conference Room, West Block. Call 647-289-9774.

Jody Thomas, Deputy Minister of National Defence, will deliver remarks at the Ottawa Conference on Security and Defence. Other speakers at this two-day event include (among others) Gen. Jonathan Vance, Chief of Defence Staff; Chinese Ambassador to Canada Cong Peiwu; Ellen Lord, U.S. Under Secretary of Defence for Acquisition and Sustainment; and Admiral Timothy Fraser, … Read more

The Correctional Investigator of Canada, Dr. Ivan Zinger, will hold a news conference to discuss issues in his 2018-19 Annual Report. This event will take place in the National Press Theatre, 150 Wellington St. Call 613-990-2690.

Veterans Affairs Minister Lawrence MacAulay (Cardigan, PEI) and South Korea’s Minister of Patriots and Veterans Affairs Park Sam-Duck will participate in commemorative wreath-laying ceremony in recognition of the two nations’ shared military history. This event will take place at the Canadian War Museum, 1 Vimy Pl. Call 613-992-7468.