| Employment and Social Development Canada
| backgrounders
Jody Brennan has over three decades of experience working in various public-facing fields, including in the military, teaching, the Canadian public service, and the Alberta Court and Justice Services. Most recently, Jody has spent over half a decade at the Immigration and Refugee Board where she is currently serving as the Assistant Deputy Chairperson on the Refugee Appeal Division.
| Employment and Social Development Canada
| media advisories
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.
| Employment and Social Development Canada
| backgrounders
In 2021, the Government of Canada announced an ambitious plan for a $10-a-day early learning and child care system across the country. As part of these investments, we are working with provinces and territories to reduce fees for regulated child care to an average of $10-a-day and create 250,000 new early learning and child care spaces by March 2026.
| Employment and Social Development Canada
| media advisories
The Honourable Terry Beech, Minister of Citizens’ Services, and Stéphane Lauzon, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Citizens’ Services, will hold a media availability to discuss the release of the first State of Service report, and to announce significant new improvements to passport services.
| Employment and Social Development Canada
| news releases
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.
| Employment and Social Development Canada
| media advisories
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.
| Employment and Social Development Canada
| news releases
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.
| Employment and Social Development Canada
| media advisories
The Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour, Steven MacKinnon, will be in Hawkesbury to highlight changes to the Canada Student Loan forgiveness that benefit doctors and nurses working in rural and remote communities.
| Employment and Social Development Canada
| news releases
Official language minority communities (OLMCs) have an invaluable impact on our country’s workforce and economy. That is why the Government of Canada is continuing its leadership on official languages by introducing the necessary measures to protect the vitality of Quebec’s English-speaking minority communities and of French-speaking minority communities in the rest of the country, and to respond to the issues those communities face.
| Employment and Social Development Canada
| backgrounders
The Enabling Fund for Official Language Minority Communities is ESDC’s flagship program to enhance the vitality of these communities. The program provides funding to a network of 14 organizations across Canada, including one national organization and one organization in each province and territory.
