Steinbach, Manitoba – Ted Falk, Member of Parliament (Provencher), on behalf of the Honourable Shelly Glover, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, will make an announcement on Tuesday about festivals and celebrations in southeastern Manitoba.
The Honourable Rona Ambrose, Minister of Health, today announced the launch of Phase 1 clinical trials for Canada's Ebola vaccine (VSV-EBOV) at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States.
Today, on the International Day for Disaster Reduction, we celebrate the resilience of people and communities affected by disasters around the world. We also celebrate the action we are all taking to reduce our vulnerability to disasters.
Canada condemns in the strongest terms the attacks conducted yesterday in several Iraqi provinces that killed dozens of people, including several members of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces in Diyala. Canada is also extremely concerned by the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)'s continuing attacks on the Kurdish-majority town of Kobane in northern Syria.
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird today announced that he will visit Kuwait and Saudi Arabia from October 15 to 17, 2014, to discuss the strong and growing relations between Canada and Kuwait, and Canada and Saudi Arabia.
Her Majesty's Canadian Ship (HMCS) Toronto joins Exercise NOBLE JUSTIFICATION today as part of her Operation REASSURANCE NATO deployment in response to Russia's aggressive military actions against Ukraine.
AREQUIPA, PERU – The Honourable Rob Nicholson, P.C., Q.C. M.P. for Niagara Falls and Minister of National Defence, met with his American counterpart, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel today at the Conference of Defense Ministers of the Americas.