| Global Affairs Canada | backgrounders
The Honourable Anita Anand, Minister of Foreign Affairs, announced new funding of $60 million to support multilateral efforts aimed at stabilizing the situation in Haiti. The announcement was made during the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Week in New York City, New York. The funding is being distributed as follows:
| Canadian Institutes of Health Research | backgrounders
The Government of Canada is investing nearly $20 million through the CIHR Centre for Research on Pandemic Preparedness and Health Emergencies and partners to support seven research platforms. These platforms will strengthen Canada’s capacity to detect, monitor, and respond to emerging infectious diseases, while addressing the social, behavioural, and health system challenges that arise during pandemics and other health emergencies.
| Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada | backgrounders
The federal government is investing more than $8 million through the Rural Transit Solutions Fund to support transit and feasibility studies and vehicle purchases across Alberta.
| Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada | backgrounders
The federal government is investing $19,205,400 through the Green Infrastructure Stream (GIS), the Rural and Northern Communities Infrastructure Stream (RNIS), and the Community, Culture and Recreation Infrastructure Stream (CCRIS) of the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program (ICIP) to support four water service and recreation projects across Yukon.
| Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency | backgrounders
28 Atlantic Canadian companies and organizations are participating in the mission, representing aerospace and defence, seafood and agri-food, clean technology, consumer products, education, energy, information and communication technology (ICT), bio and life sciences, and ocean technology sectors.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | backgrounders
Workplace Opportunities: Removing Barriers to Equity is a grants and contributions program that provides $3 million per fiscal year to projects aimed at improving representation of designated groups—women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities—in areas of low representation through partnerships and industry-tailored strategies. It is designed to support employers subject to the Employment Equity Act in reducing barriers to equity in their workplace.
| Natural Resources Canada | backgrounders
Today, Corey Hogan, Parliamentary Secretary to the Honourable Tim Hodgson, Canada’s Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, announced $3.2 million in federal funding under the Toward Net-Zero (TNZ) Homes and Communities Program to support five clean energy projects across Western and Northern Canada that will equip trades workers and Alberta’s Indigenous population with the skills to build affordable, more energy-efficient homes and assist Inuit communities working to move away from fossil fuels.
| Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency | backgrounders
The Government of Canada, through CanNor, is providing up to $1.05 million in targeted funding to four projects aimed at attracting workers, developing key sectors, and expanding access to education and services for French-speakers in the Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
| One Canadian Economy | backgrounders
A list of initial projects under consideration by the Major Projects Office
| Health Canada | backgrounders
The following projects aim to improve access to health services in French for official language minority communities (OLMCs) across Western Canada by increasing the number of bilingual health professionals able to offer health services in the minority official language.
