| Canadian Coast Guard | news releases
Canadian Coast Guard Ship (CCGS) Louis S. St-Laurent, Canada’s largest, most powerful icebreaker, reached the North Pole on August 16 as part of its 2026 Arctic deployment.
| Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission | news releases
Today, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission announced the Commission’s decision to amend the licensing basis for lutetium-177 production at the Bruce A and B Nuclear Generating Stations.
| Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada | news releases
Far too many people across Canada are experiencing homelessness or are at imminent risk of losing a safe place to live. Addressing homelessness requires immediate action to expand supportive and deeply affordable housing, reduce barriers, and deliver solutions faster for those who need them most.
| Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | news releases
This past weekend, the Honourable Heath MacDonald, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food joined His Excellency Mark Wiseman, Canada's Ambassador to the United States to attend the Iowa State Fair and meet with government officials and agriculture leaders.
| Transport Canada | news releases
Today, the Honourable Steven MacKinnon, Minister of Transport and Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, announced that Transport Canada has awarded a $32-million contract to Dexter Construction, a Canadian company based in Bedford, Nova Scotia, to replace the movable transfer bridge at the Souris ferry terminal on Prince Edward Island.
| Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario | news releases
FedDev Ontario invests more than $7 million to help two local companies expand operations and increase resilience
| Natural Resources Canada | backgrounders
On August 17, 2026, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, alongside the Premier of Québec, Christine Fréchette, the Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, Tony Wakeham, and the CEOs of Hydro-Québec and Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro, announced a package including up to $10 billion in federal financial support and investments to expand clean electricity generation and transmission in Labrador through upgrades to Churchill Falls, development of the Gull Island hydroelectric project, and enabling infrastructure needed to support critical minerals development in the Labrador Trough. As part of this agreement, the federal government will guarantee the financing to develop the massive and long-discussed Gull Island power project.
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | readouts
On Friday August 14th, 2026, the Honourable Nathalie Provost, Secretary of State (Nature) met with members of the Expert Taskforce on Natural Capital Accounting and Nature Financing for the Taskforce’s inaugural meeting.
| Canadian Coast Guard | media advisories
Media are invited to the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) Search and Rescue Station in Shippagan, New Brunswick, where Serge Cormier, Member of Parliament for Acadie-Bathurst, will welcome the CCG’s newest Search and Rescue Lifeboat, the Canadian Coast Guard Ship Cascumpec Bay, into service.
| Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada | media advisories
Members of the media are invited to a speech on infrastructure and housing by Jennifer McKelvie, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Housing and Infrastructure, at the 2026 Association of Municipalities of Ontario Annual Conference.
