Canada Carbon Rebate rural top-up, 2024 and 2025

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Ensuring carbon pollution pricing helps make life more affordable Ottawa – A price on pollution is widely recognized as the most efficient means to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that are contributing to the more intense wildfires, droughts, and floods caused by climate change. Canada’s approach to pollution pricing is also designed to put money back into people’s pockets. Putting …

CRTC to bring fibre Internet to 16 rural communities in Manitoba

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Gatineau – Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) The CRTC is taking action to bring high-speed fibre Internet to 16 rural communities in Manitoba. In 2019, the CRTC launched the Broadband Fund to help connect rural, remote, and Indigenous communities across Canada. To date, the fund has improved high-speed Internet and cellphone service in 270 communities, connecting essential institutions such as schools, …

Feds, Manitoba renew Canada Community-Building Fund deal for 10 years

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Winnipeg — The Governments of Canada and Manitoba have signed a new ten-year agreement for the Canada Community-Building Fund (CCBF) to provide predictable, long-term, and stable funding to communities across the province. Over the first five years, Manitoba will receive more than $415 million to address local infrastructure priorities. Since 2015, the CCBF has funded over 920 highway, road, and bridge projects across Manitoba totalling …

Eligible producers compensated for unpaid deliveries to Zeghers Canada

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Winnipeg – Producers who were not paid for grain delivered to Zeghers Seed Inc. (operating as Zeghers Canada) will be fully compensated for their eligible claims through the Canadian Grain Commission’s Safeguards for Grain Farmers Program. Following a review of individual producer claims, the Canadian Grain Commission determined that there were 27 eligible claims for unpaid deliveries to Zeghers Seed Inc. …

How Canada’s pollution pricing system works

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Ottawa – Every day, we see the increasing impacts of climate change, and they’re costing Canadians more and more. Climate-related impacts are already costing average Canadian households $720 per year and are likely to rise to $2,000 per year by 2050 without significant action to reduce emissions. A price on pollution is widely recognized as the most efficient means to …

Feds, Northwest Territories sign deal to end gender-based violence

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Ottawa – Launched on November 9, 2022, the National Action Plan to End Gender-based Violence (GBV) is a concrete step towards fulfilling a long-standing commitment of federal, provincial, and territorial governments to working together towards a Canada free of GBV, a Canada that supports victims/survivors and their families from coast to coast to coast. The National Action Plan builds on …

Increasing access to justice for Muslim communities in Ontario, Manitoba

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Ottawa – Access to justice is a fundamental Canadian value and an integral part of a fair and just society based on the rule of law. The Government of Canada is committed to providing fair and equal access to justice and legal services for vulnerable and traditionally marginalized groups, including racialized communities across the country, and addressing systemic racism and …

Applications called for Sexual Misconduct Survivors Grant Program

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Ottawa – Improving access to support services across Canada for those who have been affected by sexual misconduct within the wider Defence community is a top priority for the Department of National Defence (DND) and the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). The Sexual Misconduct Support and Resource Centre (SMSRC) launched its 2023-24 call for applications for the Community Support for Sexual …