| Correctional Service Canada | news releases
The lockdown put in place at Mountain Institution on September 16, 2014 has ended and an exceptional search has been completed. The institution has resumed its normal operations.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | news releases
The Canada Council for the Arts has awarded the 2014 York Wilson Prize to the MacLaren Art Centre in Barrie, Ontario. The $24,000 award will enable the Gallery to acquire a new work, entitled Tautology, by Aboriginal artist and 2013 Sobey Art Award winner Duane Linklater. The acquisition builds on the Gallery's tradition of supporting practices by regional and Aboriginal artists. The MacLaren Art Centre will unveil Tautology on September 25, 2014 at the Gallery's annual MacLaren Legacy Dinner, a featured event of Carnegie Days, which coincides with its Culture Days activities (September 26 to 28, 2014).
| Department of Justice Canada | backgrounders
The Youth Justice Fund was established in the 1990s as part of the Youth Justice Renewal Initiative, and provides grants and contributions funding for projects across Canada. The Youth Justice Fund has a budget of approximately $4.5 million each year.
| Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission | speeches
Few Canadians know that, before the start of CBC Television . . . before any television at all in Canada, in fact . . . even before the first Broadcasting Act and the creation of the original Canadian Radio-Television Commission, Canadian entrepreneurs were sending television signals down a cable to home TV sets to improve viewers' reception.
| Department of Justice Canada | news releases
Today, Justice Minister Peter MacKay announced $499,805 in funding to the Agincourt Community Services Association. The funding will help the organization develop and deliver a series of workshops to assist youth in learning new skills and coping mechanisms to increase their resiliency in the face of negative peer influences and decrease their involvement with the criminal justice system.
| National Defence | media advisories
Mr. James Bezan, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Defence, will make a special announcement
| Correctional Service Canada | news releases
On September 25, 2014, at about 2:00 p.m., a lockdown was put in place at Bath Institution, a medium security federal institution, to enable staff members to conduct an exceptional search.
| Infrastructure Canada | media advisories
The Honourable James Moore, Minister of Industry and Minister Responsible for British Columbia, will deliver a keynote address to the Union of British Columbia Municipalities 2014 Convention to provide an address on the Government of Canada's infrastructure investments and its commitment to removing barriers to internal trade.
| Canadian Heritage | media advisories
Minister of State Gosal to speak at KidsCan School Day
| Canadian Heritage | media advisories
Hammond (Ontario) – Pierre Lemieux, Member of Parliament Glengarry–Prescott–Russell, on behalf of the Honourable Shelly Glover, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, will make an announcement in Hammond on Friday about Franco-Ontarian heritage.
