TORONTO - A team of students from the University of Waterloo (UW) unveiled its innovative emission-free hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle as part of the final year of Challenge X, a multi-year North American competition to develop sustainable transportation solutions.
The Honourable Maxime Bernier, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today announced that the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Afghanistan, Kai Eide, is visiting Ottawa on April 30 and May 1, 2008.
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The Honourable Beverley J. Oda, Minister of International Cooperation, and the Honourable Christian Paradis, Secretary of State (Agriculture) today announced that Canada is allocating $230 million in support of food aid programming this fiscal year, a $50 million increase over last year. In addition, the Government of Canada is fully untying restrictions on where food can be purchased.
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The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (the Agency) is making available $50,000 under its Participant Funding Program (the Program) to assist groups and/or individuals to take part in the environmental assessment of the proposed Lower Mattagami Hydroelectric Complex Redevelopment Project.
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Canada's Environment Minister, John Baird, announced today that the Southern Head Marine Terminal and Associated Works project is not likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects. The Minister has referred the project back to the responsible authorities, Transport Canada and Fisheries and Oceans Canada, for appropriate action.
The Canadian Transportation Agency today ruled that, for international carriage, Air Canada is liable for up to the maximum amount of liability provided by the Montreal Convention, that is, 1,000 Special Drawing Rights, in cases of loss of items contained in checked baggage that it agrees to carry while such items are in its care and control.
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Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman and committee members. It is a pleasure for me to appear before your committee for the first time as Governor of the Bank of Canada. We at the Bank appreciate the opportunity to meet with your committee, which we usually do following the release of our Monetary Policy Reports. These meetings are important in terms of our accountability to Canadians, since they allow us to keep members of Parliament and, through you, all Canadians, informed of the Bank's views on the economy, the objective of monetary policy, and the actions that we take to achieve that objective. These meetings have been very valuable for the Bank over the years, and I hope that we will continue them during my tenure as Governor.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is reminding horse owners and those who transport horses of the federal regulations that govern the humane transportation of animals in Canada.