Toronto – The City of Toronto is reopening its debenture offerings for an additional $350 million conventional bond to help finance critical capital projects. This is the City’s first public debenture issuance this year. This conventional bond issue, which is a reopening of a debenture originally issued in May 2022, has an all-in cost of 4.504 per cent, a coupon …
Toronto – The City of Toronto announced the recipients of its PollinateTO Grants. Through the grants, the City provides funding of up to $5,000 per project for community-led initiatives that create or expand pollinator habitat on public and private lands in Toronto. Forty-four community-led projects, including 11 projects located in Toronto’s Neighbourhood Improvement Areas and Emerging Neighbourhoods, have been selected …
Ottawa – This week on Match Point Canada, hosts Ben Lewis and Mike McIntyre are joined by tennis journalist Crina Mustafa, who just covered the Canadian Billie Jean King Cup victory over Belgium in Vancouver. Crina is one of the hardest working sports reporters out there and her roles include host and writer for Homestand Sports, the lead writer of The Programme, and also …
TORONTO – The Tampa Bay Lightning scored four power-play goals in a 7-3 win against the Toronto Maple Leafs in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference First Round at Scotiabank Arena yesterday. “I will never question the guys in that room, and again, as the coach, you always want the best, but deep down inside you know there’s a whole …
Delhi – A new strain of Covid has emerged in India that has raised concerns. This strain-Arcturus or Omicron subvariant XBB.1.16 – may be 1.2 times more infectious than the previous major sub-variant. The World Health Organisation has been monitoring this strain since 22 March. One additional mutation has been detected in the spike protein that could increase its infectivity …
Washington – A new study reported by USA Today, says that the mRNA vaccine technology, originally focusing on cancer treatments, can now be used for infectious diseases. The study was presented recently at a research conference that highlighted “after nearly two years, patients who received mRNA vaccine jabs created by Moderna and Merck 44% avoided new tumours and were more …
Montreal – In her short documentary My 2020, which will be available free of charge on nfb.ca as of April 10, adventure filmmaker Sarah McNair-Landry travels from Nunavut to Idaho to create a fascinating travelogue, combining extreme sports and breathtaking Arctic landscapes. About the film My 2020 by Sarah McNair-Landry (34 min 10 s) – WORLD PREMIERE Producer: Denis McCready for the NFB’s Quebec, Canadian Francophonie & Acadian Documentary Studio …
Canada and Ontario investing up to $6 million in market development effort Toronto – The governments of Canada and Ontario are investing up to $6 million through the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership (Sustainable CAP) to help eligible agri-food businesses and industry organizations expand into domestic and foreign markets. The Grow Ontario Market Initiative is a new, cost-share initiative that will …
New expansion projects will create good-paying manufacturing jobs for workers in London and St. Thomas LONDON – The Ontario government is supporting more than $14 million in new investments by two Southwestern Ontario companies, EDGE Automation and Takumi Stamping Canada Inc., to boost local manufacturing and create 78 new good-paying jobs in London and St. Thomas. As part of these …
Sapporo – Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, and Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Natural Resources, have concluded this year’s G7 Ministers’ Meeting on Climate, Energy, and Environment, which took place in Sapporo, Japan, from April 15–16. The Ministers came to champion increased ambition on climate action, nature protection, and pollution reduction, while at the same time advancing global …
