| Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada
| news releases
The Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, the Honourable Lawrence Cannon, and the MNA for Mégantic-Compton, Johanne Gonthier, on behalf of the Deputy Premier and Minister of Municipal Affairs and Regions, Nathalie Normandeau, are pleased to announce that the Municipality of Dudswell will receive $166,963 under the federal-provincial agreement on the transfer of a portion of federal gasoline excise tax revenues and the Government of Québec's contribution. This is the first payment to the Municipality of Dudswell which will receive a total of $417,407 by the end of 2009 for important infrastructure projects.
| Employment and Social Development Canada
| news releases
Families and individuals in Fort McMurray working to break free from the cycles of homelessness and poverty and build a stronger future for themselves are getting help from the Government of Canada.
LONDON - The Government of Canada has unveiled a new resource to help farmers reduce their dependence on conventional energy sources and improve farm sustainability. The Integration of Renewable Energy on the Farm (IREF) Web site is a complete repository of technical information and online tools for analyzing the potential for integrating renewable energy sources onto individual farms. The announcement was made by Joe Preston, Member of Parliament for Elgin-Middlesex-London, on behalf of the Honourable Gary Lunn, Minister of Natural Resources at the Growing the Margins Conference.
| Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
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Jacques Gourde, Member of Parliament for Lotbinière-Chutes-Chaudière and Parliamentary Secretary to the Honourable Jean-Pierre Blackburn, Minister of Labour and Minister of Canada Economic Development, on behalf of the latter and on behalf of the Honourable Jim Prentice, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), today announced a total of $1,134,000 in non-repayable funding contributions to the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT) for its underground communications research facility, the Laboratoire de recherche Télébec en communications souterraines.
| Employment and Social Development Canada
| news releases
Export Development Canada (EDC) was today named one of Canada's Best Diversity Employers by Maclean's Magazine. EDC is the only Crown Corporation to have won the award.
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) announced today that its officers at the Blue Water Bridge border crossing in Point Edward (near Sarnia), Ontario, have seized 46 kilograms of cocaine with an estimated street value of $5.75 million.
OTTAWA - Project teams from the University of Waterloo and McMaster University in Hamilton are among the five finalists in the international Hydrogen Student Design Contest being held in the United States. Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) provided $5,000 in support for the contest.
OTTAWA - On Friday, April 4, Rob Merrifield, M.P. for Yellowhead, on behalf of the Honourable Gary Lunn, Minister of Natural Resources Canada, will announce further measures for an integrated approach to mountain pine beetle spread control in Alberta. A key goal of this initiative is to engage in targeted spread-control measures to further reduce beetle populations in areas at risk.
CALGARY - On Friday, April 4, the Honourable Gary Lunn, Minister of Natural Resources, will make an important announcement outlining new investments in clean energy technologies. This event will take place at the Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy at the University of Calgary.
The Honourable Maxime Bernier, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement upon learning of a Beijing court's sentencing of Chinese citizen Hu Jia to three and a half years in prison and one year of deprivation of political rights for "inciting subversion of state power."
