| Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
| media advisories
Members of the media are invited to join Rodney Weston, Member of Parliament for Saint John, on behalf of the Honourable Rob Moore, Regional Minister for New Brunswick and Minister of State (Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency), and Dr. Ed Doherty, Minister of Government Services, on behalf of Hon. for Saint John Harbour, for a funding announcement on Friday, June 19, 2015
| Public Services and Procurement Canada
| media advisories
The Honourable Kerry-Lynne D. Findlay, Minister of National Revenue and member of Parliament for Delta-Richmond East, will make an announcement in support of Canadian innovation, and job creation and economic growth in Canada, on behalf of the Honourable Diane Finley, Minister of Public Works and Government Services.
The Honourable Greg Rickford, Canada's Minister of Natural Resources, today announced the introduction of the Canada-Quebec Gulf of St. Lawrence Petroleum Resources Accord Implementation Act. This fulfills the Government's commitment to introduce legislation to implement the Canada-Quebec Accord, signed in March 2011.
The Honourable Denis Lebel, Minister of Infrastructure, Communities and Intergovernmental Affairs and Minister of the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec, and Francine Charbonneau, Minister of Families, Seniors and Anti-Bullying and Minister responsible for the Laval region, on behalf of Robert Poëti, Quebec Minister of Transport, are pleased to announce that the Société de transport de Laval will receive $89,760 funded under the Programme d'aide aux immobilisations en transport en commun [public transit capital assistance program] of Quebec's Société de financement des infrastructures locales (SOFIL) and by the Department of Transport. The funding for SOFIL's program and the Department of Transport's participation comes from the federal Gas Tax Fund and a Quebec Government contribution.
| Patented Medicine Prices Review Board Canada
| media advisories
The Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB) will hold a public pre-hearing conference in the matter of the price of the patented medicine Soliris and Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc., the pharmaceutical company that exercises patent rights for Soliris and sells the medicine in Canada.
Members of the media are invited to attend an important event to mark the beginning of construction of the new Champlain Bridge with the Honourable Denis Lebel, Minister of Infrastructure, Communities and Intergovernmental Affairs, and Minister of the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec; and other invited guests.
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories - Blaine Calkins, Member of Parliament for Wetaskiwin, on behalf of the Honourable Gail Shea, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, will present a 2015 National Recreational Fisheries Award to the Fly Kid Foundation.
| Patented Medicine Prices Review Board Canada
| news releases
The Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB) will hold a public pre-hearing conference in the matter of the price of the patented medicine Soliris and Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc., the pharmaceutical company that exercises patent rights for Soliris and sells the medicine in Canada.
| Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada
| backgrounders
I am writing to seek support of the Aboriginal Affairs Working Group to fulfill one of the key commitments arising from the National Roundtable on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, which took place in Ottawa on February 27, 2015.