| Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
| news releases
Canada welcomed more than 260,000 new citizens this year, thanks to the government's improvements to the citizenship program as well as recent reforms to the Citizenship Act, Canada's Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander announced today. This is more new Canadians than in any year in Canada's history and more than double the number from last year.
| Employment and Social Development Canada
| news releases
"Our Government remains focused on what matters to Canadians: creating jobs, economic growth and long-term prosperity for all Canadians. Our Jobs Agenda will help fix the paradox of too many people without jobs and too many jobs without people," said Minister Kenney.
Speaking notes
Dr. Guy Berthiaume, Librarian and Archivist of Canada
Presented to the Library Association of the National Capital Region and L'Association des bibliothèques de l'Ontario-Franco
Ottawa, Ontario
December 11, 2014
| Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
| news releases
Member of Parliament Scott Armstrong (Cumberland-Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley), on behalf of Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, and Nova Scotia Agriculture Minister Keith Colwell, today announced an investment of $29,700 to the Sheep Producers Association of Nova Scotia to help implement a program to control parasites and create safe handling systems for sheep.
December 22, 2014 - Costas Menegakis, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration and Member of Parliament for Richmond Hill, and Senator Tobias C. Enverga Jr., on behalf of the Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, will visit the Envirogard Products Limited manufacturing plant in Richmond Hill, Ontario, with members of Toronto's Filipino-Canadian community on December 23, 2014.
On December 19, 2014, at about 1:15 p.m., Willow Cree Healing Centre, a minimum security federal facility, was notified that Allan Roderick Wright escaped during an escorted temporary absence in North Battleford, Saskatchewan area.
Today, the Honourable Rona Ambrose, Minister of Health, highlighted the Government's key accomplishments in protecting the health and safety of Canadians in 2014.