| Veterans Affairs Canada | news releases
The Honourable Erin O'Toole, Minister of Veterans Affairs, today provided an update on the progress made by the Department's Veteran-centric Communications Task Force to improve how Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) communicates with Veterans and their families.
| Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | news releases
The digital economy is changing the realities of our everyday lives. In today's labour market, young adults who have not had the occasion to develop digital experience and skills can face barriers when looking for employment. By providing young Canadians with specialized training, the Government of Canada is helping them gain knowledge and important hands-on work experience so that they can successfully build their career path to high-skill employment opportunities.
| Parks Canada | backgrounders
Created in 1911, Parks Canada is the world's first national parks service dedicated to conservation. Parks Canada will apply its rigorous, award-winning and innovative scientific approach to the management of Rouge National Urban Park. Parks Canada will draw on more than 100 years of experience to protect the Rouge's natural ecosystems and cultural and agricultural landscapes, maintain native wildlife and ensure the health of those ecosystems.
| Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency | news releases
Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) is upgrading its Greenwing Legacy Interpretive Centre in the Shubenacadie Provincial Wildlife Park.
| Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | news releases
Over $1 million in funding for local non-profit through the Government of Canada's Youth Internship Program
| Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada | news releases
Canadians could soon see new treatments and cures for serious diseases and injuries such as blindness, cancer, diabetes, heart and liver disease thanks to a legacy investment by the Government of Canada into a new, world-leading medical research program at the University of Toronto. This investment will save lives while creating high-value Canadian jobs and helping to grow the medical industry in Canada.
| Parks Canada | news releases
Robert Goguen, member of Parliament for Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe, on behalf of the Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of the Environment and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, today unveiled a Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada plaque commemorating the designation of the Intercolonial Railway as a National Historic Event of Canada.
| Global Affairs Canada | news releases
The Honourable Rob Nicholson, P.C., Q.C., M.P. for Niagara Falls, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today issued the following statement: "Canada strongly condemns yesterday's attack on a police station in Gurdaspur, a district in the northern Indian state of Punjab, which killed at least six people and injured several others.
| Parks Canada | backgrounders
The Intercolonial Railway, which linked the Maritimes and central Canada, was the first major transportation project undertaken by the new Dominion of Canada. Its main line, which linked Halifax to Québec City, opened for traffic in 1876. Eventually, the railway provided a continuous connection, with branches, from Montréal, through eastern Quebec and New Brunswick, to North Sydney, Nova Scotia, and later extended to Prince Edward Island.
| Service Canada | media advisories
Members of the media are invited to attend an important infrastructure event with the Honourable Erin O'Toole, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Member of Parliament for Durham; Granville Anderson, Member of Provincial Parliament for Durham, on behalf of the Honourable Brad Duguid, Minister of Economic Development, Employment and Infrastructure; Willie Woo, Deputy Mayor of Clarington; Kelly LaRocca, Chief for the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation; Gerri Lynn O'Connor, Mayor of Uxbridge; and Janna Guido, Deputy Mayor of Scugog.
