Tag: Canada

  • Harper fails middle class with new payouts to wealthiest few

    Harper fails middle class with new payouts to wealthiest few

    FREDERICTON – Stephen Harper’s unfair system gives money to those who need it least, and only Justin Trudeau is offering new leadership and a new plan, said Liberal MP Dominic LeBlanc today. “Harper’s Conservatives are at photo ops across the country trumpeting a payout – using taxpayers’ own money – that unfairly benefits the wealthiest…

  • Premiers Commit to Apprentice Mobility

    Premiers Commit to Apprentice Mobility

    ST. JOHN’S – Canada’s Premiers today signed a Protocol that will facilitate the mobility of apprentices across Canada. The Protocol will enable mutual recognition of technical training, work experience, and examination results for apprentices moving between provinces and territories in Canada. By 2016, the training and hours successfully completed by apprentices in one jurisdiction will…

  • Air Canada Foundation Golf Tournament nets over $1,000,000 in Support of Children’s Charities Across Canada

    Air Canada Foundation Golf Tournament nets over $1,000,000 in Support of Children’s Charities Across Canada

      MONTREAL /CNW Telbec/ – This year’s Air Canada Foundation golf tournament netted $1,072,000 in support of organizations focused on health and wellbeing of children in Canada.  Now in its fourth year, the tournament was held Monday, July 13th, at the Saint Raphaël Golf Club, Québec. The event featured 73 teams totaling 292 golfers from across…

  • Thank You Safeway, for helping us fund raise $272,281 to #HelpFeedAbility!

    Thank You Safeway, for helping us fund raise $272,281 to #HelpFeedAbility!

      Easter Seals Canada Easter Seals Canada would like to extend a huge thank you to all those who participated in this year’s Help Feed Ability campaign at Safeway stores from June 12 -28, 2015 in support of our Easter Seals kids. As a result of the incredible effort from Easter Seals’ volunteers and Safeway…

  • Good Things Take Time and So Does Canadian Energy Strategy

    Good Things Take Time and So Does Canadian Energy Strategy

      OTTAWA, July 17, 2015 – Senator Black is encouraged by the release of a Canadian Energy Strategy by the Council of the Federation. The Senator was the founding President of the Energy Policy Institute of Canada (EPIC) that was formed in 2009 and its Canadian Energy Strategy Framework was published in August 2012. “At…

  • Premiers Adopt Canadian Energy Strategy

    Premiers Adopt Canadian Energy Strategy

    Premier Rachel Notley welcomed today’s unanimous agreement by all of Canada’s provincial and territorial governments to a new Canadian Energy Strategy. “This document is an important meeting of the minds across Canada about the importance of Canada’s energy industry, including its national infrastructure. At the same time, this strategy speaks directly to our province’s new…

  • PACHI – Toronto’s Pan Am Games Mascot

    PACHI – Toronto’s Pan Am Games Mascot

    PACHI is a young porcupine who grew up just west of Toronto in a forested area of the Niagara Escarpment. PACHI isn’t your typical porcupine; he’s outgoing and loves to explore new places and meet new friends. And while there are some prickly challenges in being accepted as a porcupine, PACHI is out to prove…

  • Assembly of First Nations National Chief Urges Premiers for Action in Partnership, Presses Federal Government to Come to the Table

    Assembly of First Nations National Chief Urges Premiers for Action in Partnership, Presses Federal Government to Come to the Table

      OTTAWA /CNW/ – Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Perry Bellegarde met (Wednesday) with Premiers in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador and delivered the message that all governments – including the federal government – must work together collaboratively with Indigenous peoples on real action and outcomes that will close the gap in quality of…

  • Canadian Space Technology Helps Breast Cancer Patients

    Canadian Space Technology Helps Breast Cancer Patients

      The technology and expertise developed to build the first Canadarm not only paved the way for its descendants, Canadarm2 and Dextre, that are in great part responsible for the successful assembly and operating of the International Space Station, it also translated into new technology for the operating room. The Centre for Surgical Innovation and…

  • CFIB Launches Petition Campaign to Stop Minimum Wage Hike

      Offers to set up roundtables for government to hear directly from small businesses CALGARY – The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) launched an online petition to capture the reaction of independent business owners from across the province to the Alberta government’s plan to hike the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2018.…

  • Bank of Canada Lowers Overnight Rate Target to 1/2 per cent

    Bank of Canada Lowers Overnight Rate Target to 1/2 per cent

    OTTAWA, July 15, 2015 /CNW/ – The Bank of Canada today announced that it is lowering its target for the overnight rate by one-quarter of one percentage point to 1/2 per cent. The Bank Rate is correspondingly 3/4 per cent and the deposit rate is 1/4 per cent. Total CPI inflation in Canada has been around…

  • Supporting Astronauts Headed to the International Space Station

    Supporting Astronauts Headed to the International Space Station

    Government of Canada invests in simulators designed to train astronauts to operate Canadarm2 on board the ISS Longueuil, Québec – (Yesterday), Industry Minister James Moore announced the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has awarded a contract to L-3 MAPPS for simulator systems used to train astronauts and flight controllers to operate Canadarm2 and Dextre, Canada’s contribution…

  • Triple Gold Day for Canadian Rowers at Toronto 2015

    Triple Gold Day for Canadian Rowers at Toronto 2015

      By Paula Nichols, Content Researcher, Canadian Olympic Committee After a four medal day on Monday, Canada’s rowers were back on the water in St. Catharines, winning three gold medals on Day 4 at Toronto 2015. Carling Zeeman kicked off the morning in the women’s single sculls. Tied for first after the first 500m, she…

  • Statement by the Prime Minister of Canada marking the first Canadian gold medal of the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games

    Statement by the Prime Minister of Canada marking the first Canadian gold medal of the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games

      Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued the following statement (Saturday) congratulating the women’s K-4 kayaking team on winning Canada’s first gold medal of the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games: “On behalf of all Canadians, I would like to congratulate the women’s K-4 kayaking team on winning Canada’s first Pan American Games gold medal in the…

  • A Pluto Flyby with a Canadian Touch

    A Pluto Flyby with a Canadian Touch

      Launched in 2006, New Horizons, the fastest spacecraft ever built, continues its long journey to the Dwarf Planet Pluto over five billion kilometres away from the Earth. The probe has been conducting a study of Pluto and its moons since early 2015, and today marked its closest approach of the celestial body, zooming past…