| Global Affairs Canada | news releases
The Consular Affairs Bureau of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada publishes information on safety and security conditions abroad. Following is a list of changes made to Current Issues and Travel Reports released in the last 24 hours. This list is subject to change. Please visit www.voyage.gc.ca for further information
| Transport Canada | news releases
TROIS-PISTOLES (Quebec) - During his tour of Eastern Quebec, Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, inaugurated today the Trois-Pistoles/Les Escoumins ferry, Héritage 1. For the occasion, the Minister was accompanied by representatives of the Régie intermunicipale des infrastructures portuaires de Trois-Pistoles et des Escoumins, including the Mayor of Trois-Pistoles and president of the Régie intermunicipale, Jean-Pierre Rioux, the Mayor of Les Escoumins, Pierre Laurencelle, the Chief of the Innu of Essipit band council, Denis Ross, and the Mayor of Notre-Dame-Neiges, Gérard Beaulieu.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | news releases
The people of Cupids, NL will have the opportunity to stage a larger celebration marking the 400th anniversary of English settlement in Canada thanks to new funding announced by Prime Minister Stephen Harper today.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | news releases
Canadians who want to improve their literacy skills at work, at home or in their community are getting help from their federal Government.
| Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada | news releases
Residents of Penobsquis will have access to safe drinking water through a new regional water supply system.
| Statistics Canada | news releases
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| Canada Border Services Agency | news releases
Rick Casson, Member of Parliament for Lethbridge, Alberta, on behalf of the Minister of Public Safety, the Honourable Stockwell Day, announced today that a NEXUS lane and enrolment centre have opened at the Coutts, Alberta-Sweetgrass, Montana border crossing.
| Canada Border Services Agency | media advisories
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| National Defence | media advisories
Today, the Honourable Peter Gordon MacKay, Minister of National Defence and Minister of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, will join General Walter Natynczyk, the Chief of the Defence Staff, in downtown Iqaluit, Nunavut, to launch Operation NANOOK 2008, a sovereignty operation in Canada's eastern Arctic.
| Transport Canada | news releases
GASPÉ (Quebec) - During his visit to Gaspé, the Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, gave the go-ahead for a $5.5 M project to rebuild Rue du Quai in the Port of Gaspé (Sandy Beach). The first steps will involve finalizing the different preliminary studies required, establishing the road alignment, surveying, preparing a contaminated material management plan, conducting an environmental impact assessment and completing the final plans and specifications.
