| Public Safety Canada | news releases
The Honourable Stockwell Day, Minister of Public Safety, made the following statement following a record seizure in Vancouver of the illegal precursor chemical MDP2P - the main ingredient used in the production of Ecstasy.
| National Defence | news releases
Canadian Forces members today successfully helped locate a family of seven who had been missing for a week in a remote region of Nunavut after searchers followed a signal fire the family had lit. Canadian Rangers from Nunavut had joined in the search that also included Canadian Forces aircraft, RCMP personnel, and local volunteers. Searchers were able to locate the missing family after sighting their burning snowmobile and komatiq (sled) in a remote area of the Melville peninsula. The assistance of the Canadian Forces had been requested by the Nunavut Emergency Management Organization and RCMP due to the vastness of the search area and prolonged duration.
| Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | news releases
The Honourable Jim Prentice, Minister of Industry, today wrote to Alliant Techsystems Inc. (ATK), pursuant to paragraph 23(3)(b) of the Investment Canada Act, to confirm that he is not satisfied that its application to acquire control of the Information Systems Business of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) is likely to be of net benefit to Canada.
| Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions | news releases
The Honourable Jean-Pierre Blackburn, Minister of Labour and Minister of Canada Economic Development, today announced the awarding of $50,950 in funding, half of it in the form of a non-repayable contribution, to Radiateur J. M. T. Ltd. of La Sarre for the completion of an industrial conversion process.
| Canadian Space Agency | news releases
The Honourable Jim Prentice, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for the Canadian Space Agency, today announced a four-year contract valued at $109 million between the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA). MDA will continue to provide logistics, sustaining engineering services for the Canadian-made Mobile Servicing System on the International Space Station (ISS).
| Employment and Social Development Canada | news releases
Canada Post today announced that the 2009 stamp program will include four new stamps in the Canadian Recording Artists series. These stamps will feature a group of great Canadian performers, all having attained international recognition: Bryan Adams, Edith Butler, Robert Charlebois and Stompin' Tom Connors.
| Canadian Heritage | news releases
The Niagara Folk Arts Festival, an annual event for four decades, will expand its programming this year to celebrate its 40th anniversary thanks to funding from the Government of Canada.
| Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada | news releases
Harold Albrecht, Member of Parliament for Kitchener-Conestoga, on behalf of the Honourable Diane Finley, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, today announced new funding to help five organizations deliver settlement services to an estimated 1,200 immigrants in Kitchener-Waterloo.
| Department of Finance Canada | media advisories
The Honourable Jim Flaherty, Minister of Finance, will be the guest speaker at a breakfast hosted by the Economic Club of Toronto on Monday, May 12, 2008. The Minister will begin his address at approximately 8:20 a.m.
| Royal Canadian Mounted Police | news releases
On Thursday, May 8, 2008, the Integrated Bankruptcy Team, which is made up of investigators of the RCMP and the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy, arrested five alleged fraudsters who could face charges of fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud for orchestrating an abuse of credit scheme of nearly $2.5 million at the expense of financial institutions.
