| Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada | news releases
Immigration is essential to our country’s economic success and growth. To meet the growing demand for housing, Canada needs a strong construction and skilled trades workforce, and immigrants play a vital role in fulfilling these needs.
| Global Affairs Canada | news releases
Vaccines work. They save lives, protect the most vulnerable – especially children – and make the world safer for everyone. Unfortunately, 1 in 5 children around the world lack access to pre-existing vaccines and an estimated 1.5 million children die from vaccine-preventable illness every year.
| Global Affairs Canada | news releases
Canada is committed to diversifying its trade relationships and improving its commercial partnerships around the world. The Honourable Mary Ng, Minister of Export Promotion, International Trade and Economic Development, today announced the launch of negotiations to modernize the 1999 Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA) between Canada and Uruguay.
| Global Affairs Canada | backgrounders
Effective immediately, Canada is imposing sanctions against the following individuals and entities for undermining the peace, security and stability of the country and contributing to gross human rights violations.
| Global Affairs Canada | news releases
The Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today announced sanctions against 13 Myanmar senior government officials and 3 entities for undermining the peace, security and stability of the country and contributing to gross human rights violations.
| Global Affairs Canada | news releases
The Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Honourable Marci Ien, Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth, are pleased to announce that today, Canada signed the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women (Belém do Pará Convention).
| Global Affairs Canada | backgrounders
Canada is imposing new sanctions under the Special Economic Measures (Iran) Regulations against 3 Iranian individuals and 4 entities that have engaged in destabilizing activities in the Middle East region and globally that undermine international peace, security or stability in a manner that is consistent with the policies of Iran.
| Global Affairs Canada | news releases
Today, the Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, announced that Canada is imposing new sanctions under the Special Economic Measures (Iran) Regulations against Iranian individuals and entities who have engaged in gross human rights violations against Iranian civilians and destabilizing activities in the Middle East region and globally that undermine international peace, security or stability in a manner that is consistent with the policies of Iran.
| Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency | backgrounders
Dr. Brendan Hanley, Member of Parliament for the Yukon, on behalf of the Honourable Gary Anandasangaree, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs and Minister responsible for CanNor, announced an investment of over $1.6 million in five infrastructure projects to grow, preserve and supply food in the Yukon.
| Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency | news releases
Dr. Brendan Hanley, Member of Parliament for the Yukon, on behalf of the Honourable Gary Anandasangaree, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs and Minister responsible for CanNor, announced a contribution of over $1.6 million in five infrastructure projects to grow, preserve, prepare and supply food in the Yukon.
