Residents of Port Bruce in the Township of Malahide will benefit from Catfish Creek flood disaster mitigation infrastructure thanks to joint funding from the Governments of Canada and Ontario through the Small Communities Fund.
The Harper Government is providing funding that will prevent and combat homelessness in Halifax. The Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of Justice, Attorney General of Canada and Member of Parliament for Central Nova, made the announcement today on behalf of the Honourable Candice Bergen, Minister of State for Social Development.
The Fur Institute of Canada (FIC), members of the Hunting and Angling Advisory Panel, is the country's lead expert on humane trap research and is the official trap-testing agency for the Government of Canada and all provincial/territorial governments.
Today, the Honourable Rona Ambrose, Minister of Health, announced funding for the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute for a project that will help improve the health of expectant mothers and their unborn children.
The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of the Environment, Minister of the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency and Minister for the Arctic Council, today announced
an investment totalling $845,104 over four years for the continued research, testing and development of humane trapping systems for the capture of furbearing animals on land and in water.
Members of the media are invited to attend an important infrastructure announcement with the Honourable John Duncan, Minister of State and Member of Parliament for Vancouver Island North as well as His Worship Stewart Young, Mayor of Langford, BC and CEO of Rugby Canada, Graham Brown.
The Honourable Peter MacKay, Regional Minister for Nova Scotia, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, and Member of Parliament for Central Nova, was joined today by Joachim Stroink, Member of the Legislative Assembly for Halifax–Chebucto, and Mike Savage, Mayor of Halifax Regional Municipality, to announce federal funding of up to $1.83 million for the purchase of new public transit buses and up to $5.06 million for upgrades to water supply mains in Halifax Regional Municipality under the New Building Canada Plan in Nova Scotia.