Ottawa – Everyone deserves a place to call home. However, for many across the country, home ownership and renting is out of reach due to the unprecedented housing crisis Canada is facing. We need to build more homes, faster, to get Canadians into homes that meet their needs, at prices they can afford. That’s why in Budget 2024 and Canada’s …
Dartmouth – Canada is facing a housing crisis that is impacting lives and communities across the country. We need to build more homes, faster, to get Canadians into homes that meet their needs, at prices they can afford. To support this, Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Public Services and Procurement, and Sean Fraser, Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities, announced 5 …
Esquimalt – Bill Blair, Minister of National Defence, announced that a new, 480-room accommodations facility for Canadian Armed Forces members will be built at Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Esquimalt – and that a contract has been awarded to begin design work. The new 31,700 m2 facility for Junior Non-Commission Members will provide incoming Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) personnel with modern and functional infrastructure …
Montreal – Five years in the making, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) feature documentary Arab Women Say What?! by Alberta-based Egyptian-Canadian filmmaker Nisreen Baker will premiere this fall. The film will have its world premiere on October 20 when it opens the 2023 Calgary Arab Film Nights festival at Calgary’s Globe Cinema. On November 1, Arab Women Say What?! premieres in Montreal at a free screening at UQAM’s Salon de la …
Toronto – Toronto City Council approved a pilot program to allow residents and visitors 19 years of age and older to consume alcohol in 27 parks across Toronto responsibly. The City’s Alcohol in Parks webpage is now live. The pilot will run from Wednesday, August 2, to Monday, October 9, 2023. These City parks have been selected and confirmed in …
Ottawa – Statistics Canada, in partnership with the National Microbiology Laboratory from the Public Health Agency of Canada, continues to collect the Canadian Wastewater Survey (CWS) to better understand the levels of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in the wastewater of five Canadian municipalities (Metro Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto, Montréal, and Halifax). As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, this survey continues to provide valuable …
