The Honourable Jenna Sudds, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, the Honourable Harjit Sajjan, Minister of Emergency Preparedness and Minister responsible for the Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada, and the Honourable Lisa Beare, Minister of Education and Child Care for British Columbia, will make an announcement on the National School Food Program.

No kid should go to school hungry. And in the Northwest Territories, where food prices are among the highest in the country, getting kids a full breakfast before they head out the door or packing school lunches is not always an easy task. That’s why school food programs are so important. They provide healthy meals to kids throughout the school year. They also save working families hundreds of dollars in grocery bills.

Government of Canada will make an important health care announcement in Prince Edward Island

The Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Public Services and Procurement and Quebec Lieutenant, will make an announcement about an important milestone for the construction of a new polar icebreaker for the Canadian Coast Guard.

Canada is growing quickly and suddenly, adding strains to healthcare networks across the country but particularly in rural and remote communities where it is harder to attract and retain health care workers. The Government of Canada is taking steps to rectify that and to guarantee that every Canadian has access to health care, no matter where they live.

Ryan Turnbull, Member of Parliament for Whitby, on behalf of the Hon. Darren Fisher, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence, will make an announcement about support for Veterans and their families through the Veteran and Family Well-being Fund at an event hosted by Wounded Warriors.

The following information is in addition to the news release issued on March 6, 2025, on CED’s financial assistance and the recipient businesses and organizations and their respective projects. CED’s investments detailed below are a key element of the transformation of Montréal’s East End designed to enable this area of the city to assume its place in the province’s economy.

Federal funding will support the Saint John Transit Commission and the Saint John Urban Tree project with a combined investment of over $7 million.

The Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, on behalf of the Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Public Services and Procurement and Quebec Lieutenant, will make an announcement about an important milestone for the construction of a new polar icebreaker for the Canadian Coast Guard.

Government of Canada recognizes 10 new designations of national historic significance

Today, Member of Parliament Yasir Naqvi, on behalf of the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, announced funding of over $1.6 million to Carleton University through the Decarbonization Incentive Program.

Newcomers gain many benefits from filing Canadian income taxes. Filing taxes, even without any income, may allow you to receive money from the Canadian government. You could also be legally required to file taxes. And if you wish to be eligible for Canadian citizenship, you’re required to have met your tax filing obligations. In this […]

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In 2024, British Columbia saw over 1,600 wildfires burn approximately one million hectares of land. Between April 21 and October 7, 2024, over seven thousand residents were evacuated from their homes. Multiple residences, provincial infrastructure, provincial recreation sites and trails, and range fencing were destroyed.

The Government of Canada is providing more than $9.6 million for projects that contribute to the economic transformation of Montréal’s East End, for a total of over $13.2 million in authorized investments under the Initiative to Support Economic Development in Montréal’s East End.

The Minister of Public Services and Procurement and Quebec Lieutenant, the Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, and the Minister of Education of Quebec, Bernard Drainville, will make an announcement on the National School Food Program.

Chairperson of the PMPRB, Mr. Thomas Digby has stepped down from his role, effective March 6, 2025.

Honourable Steven MacKinnon, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour, Leader of the Government in the House of Commons and Member of Parliament for Gatineau, on behalf of the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, will join Sophie Chatel, Member of Parliament for Pontiac, and Stéphane Lauzon, Member of Parliament for Argenteuil–La Petite-Nation, to announce the construction of a new Telesat campus, which will bring well-paying jobs to Gatineau, Quebec.

Today, the Honourable Mark Holland, Canada’s Minister of Health, and the Honourable Josie Osborne, British Columbia’s (BC) Minister of Health, announced the signing of a pharmacare agreement to invest more than $670 million over four years to provide universal access to contraceptive and diabetes medications, devices and supplies for residents of BC.

Today, the Honourable Gary Anandasangaree, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs, and Minister responsible for the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency, and Ann Cecile Hardy, court-appointed representative plaintiff, jointly announced that a proposed Settlement Agreement has been reached in the Federal Indian Hospitals (Hardy) class action.

On February 25, 2025, as a result of the vigilance of staff members, a package containing unauthorized items was seized at Warkworth Institution, a medium security federal institution.

Today, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson and the Honourable Trevor Boudreau announced that they have jointly directed the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Energy Regulator to prohibit the issuance of submerged land licences for the offshore wind energy at Georges Bank, thereby creating a moratorium on offshore wind projects in the Canadian portion of Georges Bank.

Statement from the Chief Public Health Officer of Canada on the Increase in Measles Cases and the Risk to People in Canada

The 61 projects announced to date under the Small Scale Projects intake of the Local Food Infrastructure Fund (LFIF) total nearly $4 million to help improve food security in communities through investments in equipment and infrastructure needs.

The borough of Saint-Laurent is receiving an investment of over $7.3 million from the federal government to enhance its resilience against flood risks during heavy rainfall. Funded through the Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund (DMAF), this financial assistance will be used to build water retention structures in Bois-Franc Park and the Midtown project, as well as to continue the development of the Saint-Laurent biodiversity corridor.

Today, Seamus O’Regan, Member of Parliament for St. John’s South on behalf of the Honourable Ya’ara Saks, Minister of Mental Health and Addictions and Associate Minister of Health, announced more than $2.4 million in federal funding for two organizations in St. John’s that are working to connect people to care.