| Financial Consumer Agency of Canada
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The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) today announced a new partnership with the Canadian Bankers Association (CBA) that strengthens their respective financial literacy efforts. The two organizations will promote The City, FCAC's free web-based teacher resource and YourMoney, CBA's newly modernized in-class seminar in high schools across the country.
| Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada
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Kelowna Mayor Sharon Shepherd today announced $14.6 million in joint funding to support a highway improvement initiative along Highway 97 between Gordon Drive and Highway 33. Federal funding support for the upgrades to Highway 97 comes from the Provincial-Territorial (PT) Base Fund, under the Building Canada plan.
The Government of Canada announced today that it will support the hosting of the 2009, 2010, and 2012 International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Junior Championships.
Francophone theatre professionals in Western Canada will have the opportunity to gain new experience and attend administration workshops, thanks to support from the Government of Canada.
On August 18th, 2008 the Greater Toronto Area Commercial Crime Section charged twelve individuals with offences under the Criminal Code of Canada pertaining to the Canada Small Business Financing Act. The charges are the result of a request for an investigation from the Royal Bank of Canada and Industry Canada which is responsible for overseeing the Federal Government's Small Business Financing Program.
| Western Economic Diversification Canada
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Rod Bruinooge, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians, on behalf of the Honourable Rona Ambrose, President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and Minister of Western Economic Diversification, today announced the renewal of federal funding of $168,300 to Community Futures Manitoba Inc. (CFM) aimed at strengthening the capacity of Aboriginal entrepreneurs and businesses to thrive.
| Financial Consumer Agency of Canada
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The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) and the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) today launched The City, a new financial education resource, designed to help young Canadians improve their knowledge of today's complex financial reality.
| Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada
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The Honourable Chuck Strahl, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians, today announced the appointment of Brian Schmidt to the Indian Oil and Gas Co-Management Board.
| Western Economic Diversification Canada
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Residents of Preeceville will benefit from a new water distribution system funded through the Canada-Saskatchewan Municipal Rural Infrastructure Fund (MRIF). Preeceville's water distribution project is the final Saskatchewan project to be announced as both levels of government work toward implementing the Communities Component of the new Canada-Saskatchewan Building Canada Fund (BCF).
| Western Economic Diversification Canada
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The Government of Canada, through Western Economic Diversification Canada, is investing in three projects in British Columbia's interior communities that have been impacted by the Mountain Pine Beetle infestation.
