| National Defence | news releases
The ship's company of Her Majesty's Canadian Ship (HMCS) Fredericton is preparing to deploy overseas to join the Standing NATO Maritime Forces in the Mediterranean Sea as part of NATO measures to promote security and stability in Central and Eastern Europe in light of Russia's aggression against Ukraine.
| Impact Assessment Agency of Canada | news releases
The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of the Environment, Minister of the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency and Minister for the Arctic Council, announced today that the proposed KSM (Kerr-Sulphurets-Mitchell) Project, (the Project) located in British Columbia, is not likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects when the mitigation measures described in the Comprehensive Study Report are taken into account. The Project has been referred back to the responsible authorities, Environment Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada and Natural Resources Canada, for appropriate action.
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | news releases
Bloom Lake General Partner Limited was ordered to pay $7.5 million in the Criminal and Penal Division of the Court of Quebec in Montreal today, after pleading guilty to 45 charges under the Fisheries Act, resulting from several incidents including the breach of a tailings pond dam.
| Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada | news releases
Today, Canada's Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander announced that the parent and grandparent program (PGP) will re-open on January 2, 2015.
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | news releases
The governments of Canada and Ontario have renewed their commitment to restore, protect and conserve the Great Lakes by signing the Canada-Ontario Agreement on Great Lakes Water Quality and Ecosystem Health (COA), 2014.
| Canadian Heritage | news releases
Government of Canada support for the Harrison Festival Society
| National Defence | news releases
The Honourable Rob Nicholson, Minister of National Defence, today announced the Government's intent to upgrade the defence missile system onboard the Royal Canadian Navy's fleet of newly modernized Halifax-class frigates. The first step in the upgrade process is the recent signing of a Memorandum of Understanding for the development of the Evolved Seasparrow Missile Block 2.
| National Defence | backgrounders
The NATO Seasparrow Missile System Project is an international initiative that began in the late 1960s to develop an effective point defence missile system, missiles and associated launchers, in order to protect naval forces from evolving air and surface missile threats.
| Canada Border Services Agency | news releases
On December 12, Xandros Efren Zelaya Fuentes pled guilty to one count under to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) for returning to Canada without authorization and was sentenced to 30 days in jail by a Winnipeg provincial court judge.
| Fisheries and Oceans Canada | news releases
December 19, 2014 - Montreal, Quebec The Canadian Coast Guard and the Ontario Provincial Police have warned that icebreaking operations will begin in various areas of the Great Lakes as seasonal conditions change.
