| Health Canada | backgrounders
Today, the Governments of Canada and Nova Scotia signed the National Strategy for Drugs for Rare Disease (DRD) agreement to invest over $39 million over three years to improve access to new drugs for rare diseases for Nova Scotia residents and to support enhanced access to existing drugs, early diagnosis, and screening for rare diseases.
| Health Canada | news releases
Today, Member of Parliament Brendan Hanley, on behalf of the Honourable Kamal Khera, Canada’s Minister of Health, and the Honourable Tracy-Anne McPhee, Yukon’s Minister of Health and Social Services, announced the signing of a pharmacare agreement to invest up to $9.5 million over four years to provide universal access to contraceptive and diabetes medications for residents of Yukon. The funding from this agreement will also improve access to diabetes devices and supplies.
| Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada | news releases
Francophone immigration plays a crucial role in growing the Canadian economy, in promoting the vitality of Francophone minority communities and in meeting labour needs across the country.
| Global Affairs Canada | statements
The Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development, today issued the following statement:
| Global Affairs Canada | news releases
Following more than a year of devastating conflict, the UN estimates that the entire population of Gaza, more than 2 million people, is in need of urgent emergency assistance. At the same time, the West Bank is facing escalating violence, significant displacement, and movement restrictions that are hampering the delivery of vital humanitarian assistance and worsening the overall humanitarian crisis.
| Canada Border Services Agency | news releases
On March 8, 2025, Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) officers discovered and seized approximately 108 kg of cocaine following a secondary examination of a commercial transport vehicle at the Coutts port of entry in southern Alberta.
| Canada Border Services Agency | news releases
A CBSA firearms-related criminal investigation in Lumby, BC has resulted in two-years house arrest.
| Canada Border Services Agency | news releases
CBSA stops the smuggling of $4.6M worth of Ketamine into Canada leading to criminal charges by the RCMP
| Competition Bureau Canada | news releases
Pavex to pay $150,000 in territory allocation settlement in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean March 20, 2025, GATINEAU, Quebec, Competition Bureau
| Canadian International Trade Tribunal | news releases
The Canadian International Trade Tribunal today terminated the expiry review of its order made on October 31, 2019, in expiry review RR-2018-007, concerning the dumping of hot-rolled carbon steel plate and high-strength low-alloy steel plate from the Republic of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Romania.
