News by subject: GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS

Premier Doug Ford returned to the Legislature today after being unavailable to respond, even virtually, to the Long-Term Care Commission Report for days. His Minister of Long-Term Care belatedly allowed journalists to question her today. Still, there...

Local 79 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE Local 79) inside workers, has filed for conciliation in their negotiations with the Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC), a move they hope will lead to more constructive discussions at...

Defining Moments Canada/Moments Déterminants Canada, a heritage education organization, announced today its partnership with the Government of Canada (through Canadian Heritage and the National Research Council of Canada NRC), the University of...

The Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA) is pleased to announce that TSSA President and CEO Bonnie Rose has been honoured as one of Canada's Top Women in Safety by Canadian Occupational Safety (COS) magazine. Rose was selected as one of 40...

Despite reams of promises and emotional press conferences vowing change, the Ford government has made a formal policy choice to delay any meaningful increase in LTC staffing-- and thus care-- by years (see staffing plan released Dec. 17). Mr. Ford...

Virtually every other developed country with universal healthcare has moved to funding hospitals based on services provided to patients, while Canada remains one of only a handful of countries that funds hospitals primarily with lump sum payments,...

Ontario's new Worker Income Protection Benefit is a bare minimum response to the longstanding call for paid sick days from labour advocates, unions, public health officials, and medical experts. The temporary benefit, administered through the...

Inequity among families is a reality for British Columbians. As the social service sector supports individuals and families in crisis, the Province's investments in affordability, mental health resources, and equitable access to justice are not just...

Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited ("Fairfax") announces, together with the Fairfax India Charitable Trust and Fairfax India Holdings Corporation, a commitment of US$5 million (approximately INR 37 crore) to fund initiatives to assist India with the...

RTOERO is calling on the federal government to increase action to address national pharmacare, a national seniors strategy and geriatric health care, which were missing from the federal budget released April 18. RTOERO is also calling for a public...

The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the BMW Group established the Intercultural Innovation Award, which has promoted intercultural dialogue for ten yearsTo mark its tenth anniversary, organisations around the world are invited to...

SAFR® from RealNetworks, Inc. , a face recognition and visual analytics platform specializing in computer vision optimized for real-world challenges, announced it was awarded its third Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract. This contract...

As the world's largest Armenian non-profit organization with a 115 year history serving Armenians around the world, the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) has long understood the value of an unequivocal recognition of the Armenian Genocide of...

Bow Valley College is pleased to announce?the launch of a new suite of courses?through an innovative Competency-Based Education (CBE) model.?After receiving ministry approval, applications are now open for a new Cloud Computing Post-Diploma...

The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, filed a reply brief today in the Arizona Court of Appeals. The suit challenges the Maricopa County Superior Court's decision to allow the Arizona Department of Child...

The national president of Teamsters Canada, François Laporte, made the following comments regarding today's federal budget: "I am relieved that Ottawa continues to support workers and reject the politics of austerity. Since the beginning of the...

Restaurants Canada welcomes a number of commitments unveiled today in the federal budget ? most notably, the promise to extend the rent and wage subsidies until Sept. 25, 2021 ? but is continuing to call for more sector-specific support. "We...

The voice of Canada's food workers, the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW Canada), welcomes the announcement by the federal government to create an additional 30,000 permanent residency (PR) opportunities for more than 100 critical...

Together with the EPS Industry Alliance (EPS-IA), the protective packaging specialist Storopack advocates for a safe and efficient recycling of expanded polystyrene (EPS). Storopack uses recycled EPS in a variety of applications, including the...

Following news that approximately 60 programs have been cut at Laurentian University and that over 80 faculty members have lost their jobs, the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations is calling for the resignation of Minister of...

Doug Ford's stay-at-home order announcement today leaves essential workers in food manufacturing, grocery, pharmacy, and healthcare still going to work every day with very little protection or support from their government. Locals 175 & 633 of the...

Innovate BC is proud to announce President & CEO, Raghwa Gopal will be featured in upcoming book, The Courageous Move which profiles successful Canadian Immigrants.  Raghwa Gopal, a former recipient of the RBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards was...

Teranet Manitoba, the Province's exclusive service provider to operate the land and personal property registries, is excited to announce that its Winnipeg location is moving to a new office space on April 6, 2021. Teranet Manitoba will be moving from...

Based on increased case counts and risks posed by COVID-19 variants of concern, the Provincial Court of Alberta will not be reopening Traffic Court in any of its locations across the province until at least May 17, 2021. All provincial ticket, bylaw...

Leonovus Inc., ("Leonovus" the "Company")  today announces that it was nominated and accepted into Innovation Canada's Accelerated Growth Service (AGS). The AGS assigns an innovation advisor to the Company to help find and take advantage of...

Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business (CCAB) President and CEO, Tabatha Bull, issued the following statement today outlining further opportunities to support Indigenous business through this year's Budget from the Government of Ontario. "CCAB...

After hibernating all winter, Ontarians will soon be flocking together with friends and family on restaurant or backyard patios ? masked, socially distanced and following regional public health guidelines, of course ? to celebrate the arrival of...

Ontario's university faculty and academic librarians are disappointed that the 2021 Ontario Budget fails to adequately invest in Ontario's universities to put them on secure financial footing. University faculty and academic librarians have played an...

Health care advocates including thousands of families; residents and their substitute decision makers; care workers, professionals, nurses and their unions have come together to release a legal opinion on what national standards for long-term care...

LMN Architects is pleased to celebrate the construction progress of the Lakeview Office Building in Kirkland, Washington. Situated on a triangular, prominent site at the gateway to Kirkland, the building is expected to be completed in the summer of...

Ontario's faculty and academic librarians are appalled and dismayed that none of the $106.4 million in new postsecondary funding announced by the Ontario government has been allocated to Laurentian University. This funding is purportedly designed to...

Health care advocates including thousands of families; residents and their substitute decision makers; care workers, professionals, nurses and their unions have come together to release a legal opinion on what national standards for long-term care...

Earlier today, the Ontario government announced the continuation of the temporary wage bonus program of $3 per hour, for some Personal Support Workers (PSWs). Instead of creating the necessary solutions that would address the employment issues in the...

The Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA) is proud to announce that Brian Pearse, P.Eng., will become APEGA's 102nd president at the 2021 annual general meeting (AGM) on Friday, April 23. Pearse, a professional...

The Open Society Foundations are deeply concerned by reports that Phyu Pa Pa Thaw, finance manager of OSM (Open Society Myanmar), has been detained in Myanmar. We call for her immediate release. We are alarmed by reports that authorities are seeking...

China's top legislature endorsed on Thursday a decision on improving the electoral system of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, which marks another major step to improve the region's legal and political systems, said Lv Jian-she, President...

Ottawa, March 16, 2021 ? Research from The Conference Board of Canada, in partnership with the Future Skills Centre, has found that employers and employees need a high degree of flexibility in today's rapidly changing labour market.  ...

UFCW Canada, the union organizing Uber drivers and Uber Eats couriers across the country, says Uber Canada's recent proposal to provincial governments to set up an alternative set of regulations to govern gig workers that Uber calls ?Flexible...

LMN Architects in collaboration with Booth Hansen is pleased to celebrate the design and construction of the new Computer Design, Research, and Learning Center at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Located at a unique prominent site on campus,...

On May 5, 2021 The B.C. government and Innovate BC will award three prizes at the first-ever Aquaculture Innovation Awards event. The event encourages sustainable growth, competitiveness and adaptability of the aquaculture sector in BC by funding...

The Government of Canada, through its COVID-19 Immunity Task Force (CITF), is supporting a study in the Maritimes aimed at determining which health factors cause long-term care residents to experience severe COVID-19 outcomes, including death. The...

Eligible producers who were not paid for grain delivered to Canpulse Foods Ltd. and Global Grain Canada Ltd. will be fully compensated through the Canadian Grain Commission's Safeguards for Grain Farmers Program. The Canadian Grain Commission...

Committed to protecting Ontarians from the dangers posed by shoddy technical workmanship on fuel-burning appliances, the Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA) kicks off Fraud Prevention Month with the launch of its second annual 'Trunk...

Jushi Holdings Inc. ("Jushi" or the "Company") , a vertically integrated, multi-state cannabis operator, issued the following statement on the Commonwealth of Virginia legalizing cannabis for adult use. In the fall of 2020, Jushi, through its...

As part of a week of advocacy, faculty and students from across Ontario have been meeting with dozens of MPPs to demand the provincial government take responsibility for the underfunding of Laurentian University and provide the institution with the...

Today the Ford government announced funding to train 373 new long-term care PSWs in Lanark and Renfrew, North Bay, Hamilton, Ottawa, the Greater Toronto Area, Kitchener, London and Burlington. This number of PSWs would not be enough to improve care...

The Western Grain Elevator Association (WGEA) announced today that the grain sector is embarking on a major campaign to raise awareness and seek solutions for outdated and problematic marine port governance rules. "We are working in a port oversight...

Ottawa, February 18, 2021 ? The economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic will have a lasting impact on Canada's economic performance and government revenues, new research from The Conference Board of Canada has found. Profits and labour...

The Building Industry and Land Development Association (BILD) and the Ontario Home Builders' Association (OHBA) are asking that the Ontario government stay focused on the proposed Greenbelt expansion announced today for consultation, while ensuring...

This morning, Doug Ford's Conservative Government refused to support the NDP's call for all-party consent to pass Bill 239, Peggy Sattler's Stay Home If You Are Sick Act. Bill 239 would provide 7 permanent paid sick days, plus 14 additional days...