| Employment and Social Development Canada | news releases
Saskatchewan's export growth will lead the country in 2008 with an increase of 13 per cent, with an expected increase of 2 per cent in 2009 according to a Provincial Export Forecast released today by Export Development Canada (EDC).
| Canadian Heritage | news releases
Local residents and visitors will have the chance to enjoy the annual Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival and the Salmon Arm Roots Series, thanks to an investment from the Government of Canada.
| Canadian Heritage | news releases
The Honourable Jason Kenney, Secretary of State (Multiculturalism and Canadian Identity), today announced that the Government will provide a grant of $10 million to the Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko to establish an endowment fund to support initiatives related to the First World War internment experience that predominantly affected the Ukrainian and other East European ethnic communities in Canada.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | news releases
Prime Minister Stephen Harper today announced that John Babcock, Canada's last known surviving veteran of the First World War, is to be granted Canadian citizenship in recognition of his military service to Canada and his expressed desire, at age 107, to become a citizen of the country where he was born.
| Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada | news releases
Janet Hiebert, professor of political science at Queen's University, has won the Bora Laskin National Fellowship in Human Rights Research.
| Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada | news releases
The Jules and Gabrielle Léger Fellowship for 2008 will go to Denis Saint-Martin, associate professor at the Université de Montréal.
| Western Economic Diversification Canada | news releases
High-tech companies looking to field-test new computer-based technologies in a customer or client setting now have ready access to more support from the new Precarn office opening in Alberta. The initiative will help companies focus their research and development projects to quickly bring better products to market, leading to many more successful companies.
| Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions | news releases
Acting on behalf of the Honourable Jean-Pierre Blackburn, Minister of Labour and Minister of Canada Economic Development, the Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, today announced $44,449 in repayable funding to the firm Entreprises Bizier Inc.
| Natural Resources Canada | news releases
OTTAWA - The Honourable Gary Lunn, Minister of Natural Resources, today announced the appointment of Dr. Michael Binder as President of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC). Dr. Binder will serve a five-year term.
| Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada | news releases
The Government of Canada announced today that it will set aside dedicated funding for flood mitigation in British Columbia as a priority under Building Canada, the Government of Canada's new long-term infrastructure plan.
