| Western Economic Diversification Canada | news releases
The Community Futures Winnipeg River is the winner of the annual Minister of Western Economic Diversification's Award for Excellence and Innovation, and one of its board members, Roland Dandeneau, is the winner of the Minister's Award for Excellence in Community Futures Volunteerism.
| Western Economic Diversification Canada | news releases
The Government of Canada announced funding today for research at Genome Prairie that will help strengthen Western Canada's ability to develop and commercialize innovations in the field of genomics.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | speeches
We came from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. We enriched Canada with our accents and our contributions. We are privileged to have roots that run deep in these vast lands that were home to the Aboriginal people who welcomed us. And in return, we were given a country of unlimited possibilities, where the presence, strength and vitality of Canada's Francophonie take on special meaning this year with the 400th anniversary of the city of Québec.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | news releases
Today in Winnipeg, Mr. Steven Fletcher, Member of Parliament for Charleswood-St. James-Assiniboia and Parliamentary Secretary for Health, on behalf of the Honourable Marjory LeBreton, Leader of the Government in the Senate and Secretary of State (Seniors), and members of the National Seniors Council met with seniors' organizations and service providers to better understand the challenges faced by seniors living on low incomes, particularly women.
| Parks Canada | news releases
On behalf of Canada's Environment Minister John Baird, Member of Parliament for Peterborough Dean Del Mastro is pleased to announce that the Government will issue an interim license to the Trent Rapids Power Corporation to begin construction of a new eight-megawatt hydroelectric power generating station along the Trent-Severn Waterway.
| Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada | news releases
The Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, the Honourable Lawrence Cannon, and the Member of the National Assembly for Papineau and Chief Whip for the Quebec Government, Norman MacMillan, on behalf of the Deputy Premier and Minister of Municipal Affairs and Regions, Nathalie Normandeau, are pleased to announce that the Municipality of Notre-Dame-Salette will receive $119,540 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 Notre-Dame-Salette which will receive a total of $298,848 by the end of 2009 for important infrastructure projects.
| Royal Canadian Mounted Police | news releases
The RCMP welcomes the announcement today by the Minister of Public Safety of the creation of the RCMP Reform Implementation Council.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | statements
Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued the following statement today:
| Impact Assessment Agency of Canada | news releases
The Honourable John Baird, Minister of the Environment and Minister responsible for the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, today announced the referral of the proposed Darlington New Nuclear Power Plant project near Oshawa, Ontario to an environmental assessment by a review panel.
| Global Affairs Canada | news releases
The Honourable Maxime Bernier, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today issued the following statement regarding the situation in Tibet:
