| Global Affairs Canada | news releases
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird today presented the John Diefenbaker Defender of Human Rights and Freedom Award to William Hague, the U.K.'s Special Representative on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict and former U.K. foreign secretary, for his work on the prevention of sexual violence in conflict.
| Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | media advisories
Event date: December 2, 2014 - The Honourable Ed Holder, Minister of State (Science and Technology), will deliver a keynote address at this year's CICan on Parliament Hill, a conference organized by Colleges and Institutes Canada (CICan).
| Correctional Service Canada | news releases
On November 29, 2014, at about 5:30 p.m., a lockdown was put in place at Warkworth Institution, a medium security federal institution, to enable staff members to conduct an exceptional search.
| Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | speeches
Thank you, Jean-Yves, for the kind introduction.
| Global Affairs Canada | news releases
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird today announced that this week he will attend the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Foreign Ministerial Meeting in Brussels, Belgium, from December 1 to 2, followed by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Foreign Ministerial Council in Basel, Switzerland, from December 3 to 4. From there he will travel to Manama, Bahrain, to participate in the 10th annual Manama Dialogue from December 6 to 7.
| Health Canada | statements
Today, I had the pleasure of meeting with Mercedes Benegbi, Executive Director of the Thalidomide Victims Association of Canada.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | speeches
Thank you for welcoming me so warmly. And thank you, Mayor Toha, for honouring me with the Key to the City.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | news releases
The Honourable Ed Fast, Minister of International Trade, and the Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, today announced that Canada has signed foreign investment promotion and protection agreements (FIPAs) with three sub-Saharan African countries: Côte d'Ivoire, Mali and Senegal. The FIPAs were signed by Minister Paradis and his counterparts from the three countries on the margins of the 15th Francophonie Summit and the first Francophonie Economic Forum, taking place in Dakar, Senegal, from November 29 to 30.
| Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada | news releases
The Honourable Bernard Valcourt, Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development, announced today an agreement with the National Association of Friendship Centres to help enable Aboriginal people in urban centres to take advantage of the economic prosperity of our country.
| Global Affairs Canada | news releases
The Dakar summit offered an unprecedented opportunity to celebrate Secretary General Abdou Diouf's legacy to La Francophonie, in his country of origin, at the end of his third, and final, term.
