The Honourable Mary Ng, Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade, will participate in the ministers’ panel at the Women in Business Forum, hosted by the Economic Club of New York.

On March 10th, 2021, Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, issued the following statement on COVID-19.

New lab will allow rural Nova Scotia company to expand clean technology services.

On March 11, 2021, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk will speak to students from Prescott Learning Centre in Spruce Grove and Immanuel Christian School in Lethbridge. These schools won this visit from an astronaut through the Junior Astronauts campaign.

Canadians everywhere are feeling the impact of COVID-19, on their families, their livelihoods and their way of life. Together, Canada and New Brunswick are working to reduce the impact of the pandemic, ensure health and safety, rebuild businesses, and promote job creation, growth and investment.

As Canada continues to address the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and look forward to recovery, it is more important than ever that Canadian businesses have the support they need to start up, scale-up, and grow across Canada and around the world, creating jobs, and strengthening the middle class.

Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver are popular destinations for immigrants coming to Canada. However, it is Canada’s small to mid-sized cities that are starting to attract more immigrants from abroad. Over the same period between 2013 and 2019, the number of immigrants settling in smaller urban centres went up by 45 per cent between 2013 […]

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As the Government of Canada addresses the COVID-19 pandemic and plans for a sustainable, inclusive recovery, it is committed to working with partners in the mining industry to generate growth, create jobs, and strengthen the middle class.

Please be advised that Christiane Fox, Deputy Minister of Indigenous Services, and Chad Westmacott, Director General of the Community Infrastructure Branch, will hold a technical briefing to provide information on long-term drinking water advisories on reserves.

The Government of Canada is committed to supporting women entrepreneurs during the COVID-19 crisis and to ensuring that Canada has a feminist recovery.

Please be advised that the Honourable Marc Miller, Minister of Indigenous Services and Christiane Fox, Deputy Minister of Indigenous Services, will hold a press conference to provide an update on long-term drinking water advisories on reserves.

The Government of Canada is committed to ensuring that Black Canadians have a fair and equal chance at success.

British Columbia businesses are strengthening food security and food safety by adopting new traceability technology with funding from the governments of Canada and British Columbia.

On March 10, 2021, Government of Canada officials will hold a technical briefing to provide an overview on the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines.

Media representatives are advised that the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, will make an announcement regarding carbon-pricing-proceeds going to improve energy efficiency for Ontario schools. He will be joined by the Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, the Honourable Catherine McKenna.

Remarks from the Chief Public Health Officer on COVID-19, March 9, 2021.

Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, the Honourable Seamus O’Regan Jr., today celebrated the milestone of permanently storing one-million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) through the Alberta Carbon Trunk Line (ACTL), the world’s largest carbon capture and transportation project.

Alternating lane closure on LaSalle Causeway

Today, the Honourable Marc Miller, Minister of Indigenous Services, and Chief Arren Sock announced the signing of the Regional Education Agreement (or REA) with Elsipogtog First Nation Education Authority, the first of its kind in Atlantic Canada.

In order to help maintain a robust workforce and better position our country for a strong economic recovery, the Government of Canada is investing in the skilled trades to ensure that Canadians have the training they need to access good, well-paying jobs. The government is making targeted investments, so that key groups facing barriers—like women, newcomers, Indigenous people, persons with disabilities, and Black and racialized Canadians—can better find work in the skilled trades through projects led by unions and their partner organizations.

Today, the Honourable Jim Carr, Special Representative for the Prairies, on behalf of the Honourable Catherine McKenna, Canada’s Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, and the Honourable Don McMorris, Saskatchewan’s Minister of Government Relations, announced more than $33 million in joint funding for 26 projects in Saskatchewan.

Funding through the Investing in Canada plan will support 26 infrastructure projects in Saskatchewan. The Government of Canada is investing more than $21 million in these projects, with the Government of Saskatchewan providing over $12 million. Contributions by recipients toward their respective projects are more than $12 million. In total, this represents a combined infrastructure investment of more than $46 million. Funding recipients are responsible for any additional project costs.

Agreement between Government of Canada, Government of Nunavut and Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated will strengthen education in the Inuktut language across Nunavut

Today, the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, the Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, announced funding of up to $116,800 for the Canadian Biogas Association (CBA) to accelerate sustainable agricultural development.

Paul Lefebvre, Parliamentary Secretary to the Honourable Seamus O’Regan Jr., Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, will make an important clean energy announcement.