| Global Affairs Canada | news releases
Canada condemns the targeted killings of Iraqi Shiite Muslim worshipers near Baghdad today and of Sunni Muslim worshipers in Iraq's eastern province of Diyala on Friday. These vicious attacks, which claimed the lives of several dozen innocent civilians, only serve to inflame sectarian tensions among Iraqis
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | media advisories
Media representatives are advised that Dr. Colin Carrie, Member of Parliament for Oshawa and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of the Environment, will make an announcement regarding funding for the conservation of habitat and species at risk in British Columbia and across the country.
| Service Canada | news releases
Prime Minister Stephen Harper today announced significant financial support to provide upgraded high-speed Internet access to approximately 12,000 households in Nunavut and the Nunavik region of northern Quebec. This investment advances the Government of Canada's priority to promote social and economic development in the North, as outlined in Canada's Northern Strategy. The announcement was made in Pond Inlet, Nunavut, during the Prime Minister's ninth annual Northern Tour, taking place from August 21 to 26, 2014. He was joined by James Moore, Minister of Industry, and Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of the Environment, Minister of the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency and Minister for the Arctic Council.
| Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency | news releases
Entrepreneurs in Cape Breton's craft sector will gain enhanced access to programing, marketing and upgraded facilities thanks to a federal contribution of $430,900 for two projects at the Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Design. Gerald Keddy, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Revenue and for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), and Member of Parliament (South Shore¿St. Margaret's), was in Sydney today to make the announcement on behalf of the Honourable Rob Moore, Minister of State (ACOA).
| Employment and Social Development Canada | media advisories
The Honourable Jason Kenney, Minister of Employment and Social Development, and the Honourable Jeremy Harrison, Minister Responsible for Immigration, Jobs, Skills, and Training, will announce an important initiative that will help Saskatchewan residents get jobs
| Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada | statements
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird and the Honourable Jason Kenney, Minister for Multiculturalism, today issued the following statement
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | media advisories
Vancouver, B.C. - August 24, 2014 - Media representatives are advised that Parliamentary Secretary Colin Carrie on behalf of the Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Canada's Minister of the Environment, Minister of the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency and Minister for the Arctic Council, will host a news conference to launch new wetland restoration projects in partnership with the North American Waterfowl Management Plan.
| Global Affairs Canada | news releases
"Canada deplores in the strongest terms the ongoing violence and destruction in Libya and is appalled by the reported incidents of human rights abuses. We urge all parties to accept an immediate and unconditional cessation of hostilities."
| Service Canada | statements
Prime Minister Stephen Harper today issued the following statement on the occasion of the 23rd anniversary of Ukraine's independence:
| Correctional Service Canada | news releases
On August 24, 2014, in the minimum-security unit at Mission Institution, staff members discovered that Norman Gilbert Riel was not accounted for.
