| National Defence | media advisories
The Honourable Bill Blair, Minister of National Defence, will travel to Washington, D.C. from May 13-14, 2024.
| Fisheries and Oceans Canada | media advisories
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia – Member of Parliament, Darren Fisher, on behalf of the Honourable Diane Lebouthillier, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, joined by Assistant Deputy Minister for Defence Research and Development Canada, Dr. Jaspinder Komal, and a senior representative from Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), will officially open the Facility for Intelligent Marine Systems (FIMS), located on the Bedford Institute of Oceanography Campus in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | media advisories
Media representatives are advised that the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, and the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, will make a key announcement on home heating and cooling for the province
| Infrastructure Canada | news releases
Richmond is getting strengthened flood protection infrastructure to reduce the risks from rising sea levels, increasingly severe storms, and climate change, after a combined investment of $13 million from the federal and provincial governments and the City of Richmond.
| Global Affairs Canada | statements
Today, Global Affairs Canada issued this statement: “In 1947, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 181 and agreed that the only viable solution for peace in the Middle East was the creation of two states. However, 75 years later, the full promise of that vision has not been fulfilled.
| Global Affairs Canada | news releases
The Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today announced that Canada is imposing additional sanctions under the Special Economic Measures (Hamas Terrorist Attacks) Regulations.
| Global Affairs Canada | backgrounders
Effective immediately, Canada is imposing sanctions against four additional individuals in response to the terrorist attack by Hamas in Israel that began on October 7, 2023, and the threat that Hamas and its affiliates pose to regional security.
| National Defence | news releases
Today, the Honourable Bill Blair, Minister of National Defence, welcomed Germany’s Minister of Defence, Boris Pistorius, to Ottawa. The Ministers held a productive bilateral meeting, during which they discussed Canada’s recently-released defence policy update, Our North, Strong and Free and Canada-Germany defence relations.
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | news releases
Today, the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, released the Report on the Progress of the Recovery Strategy Implementation (Period 2017–2022) and the Action Plan Implementation (Period 2018–2023) for Caribou (Rangifer tarandus), Boreal Population, in Canada.
| Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | media advisories
Lloyd Longfield, Member of Parliament for Guelph, will announce new investments in Canadian field crop research to address climate change, advance economic growth and support resiliency of the sector.
