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Media Advisory: Infrastructure Announcement in Edmonton

| Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada | media advisories

Members of the media are invited to an infrastructure announcement with the Honourable Randy Boissonnault, Member of Parliament for Edmonton Centre, and Marjorie Bencz, CM, Executive Director of Edmonton’s Food Bank.


Protecting the Chignecto Isthmus against climate change

| Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada | news releases

The governments of Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia are collectively moving forward to protect the Chignecto Isthmus from the increasingly destructive impacts of climate change. New Brunswick and Nova Scotia commit to paying $162.5 million each for a total of $325 million to support the project (valued at $650 million). This is a major step towards ensuring the security of this important link.


Media Advisory: Infrastructure Announcement in Richmond, B.C.

| Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada | media advisories

Members of the media are invited to an infrastructure announcement with Wilson Miao, Member of Parliament for Richmond Centre, the Honourable Ravi Kahlon, Minister of Housing and Municipal Affairs, and Mike Hurley, Board Chair Metro Vancouver Regional District.


Media Advisory: Transit Announcement in Vancouver

| Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada | media advisories

Members of the media are invited to a transit announcement with the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, on behalf of the Honourable Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities, Patrick Weiler, Member of Parliament for West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country, and a representative from TransLink.


Media Advisory: Transit Announcement in Squamish

| Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada | media advisories

Members of the media are invited to a transit announcement with Patrick Weiler, Member of Parliament for West Vancouver - Sunshine Coast - Sea to Sky Country, His Worship Armand Hurford, Mayor of the District of Squamish, and His Worship Jack Crompton, Mayor of Whistler.


Government of Canada to help skilled newcomers fill labour gaps in key sectors

| Employment and Social Development Canada | media advisories

The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities and to the Minister of Families, Children and Social Development and Member of Parliament for St. Catharines, Chris Bittle, will be in Toronto to announce funding to improve foreign credential recognition processes and help internationally trained professionals across the country secure employment in the healthcare and construction sectors.


Backgrounder: Canada Retraining and Opportunities Initiative

| Employment and Social Development Canada | backgrounders

The new Canada Retraining and Opportunities Initiative provides supplemental support to organizations to respond to exceptional situations of mass layoffs that significantly impact their communities, to help workers transition to new jobs.


Helping Canadian workers impacted by layoffs reskill and find work  

| Employment and Social Development Canada | news releases

Canada is home to a proud, adaptable and robust social safety net. The Government of Canada has worked with local and sectoral partners to implement measures that expand that net to support even more workers, keep more communities and towns resilient and bridge more impacted Canadians and their families to new opportunities.


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