News by subject: GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS

EB5 Capital is pleased to announce that it has received notice from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) regarding the first I-829 petition approval associated with an investor in the firm's Riverfront at the Navy Yard (JF8)...

Appointed Dr. Luc C. Duchesne, Ph.D., as VP of Government Relations to Initiate Canada Expansion Strategy Funded by Federal and Provincial Grant and Non-Dilutive Financing Programs Extensive Record in Grant Applications, Public-Private Partnerships,...

Arbor Metals Corp. ("Arbor" or the "Company") commends the Canadian government's resolve to cement Canada's status as a global frontrunner in the electric vehicle (EV) supply chain. Arbor acknowledges the recent strides made by the government to...

Massimo Ciociola, Founder and CEO of Musixmatch, Alberto Dalmasso, Founder and CEO of Satispay, Ibrahim al-Koni, Libyan writer, and Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction, have been awarded the Luiss Global Fellowship. The prestigious...

International investors have been clamouring to take advantage of one of the best deals in the investment migration industry this year ? St Kitts and Nevis' Sustainable Growth Fund (SGF) Limited Time Offer (LTO) which allows investors to gain...

Hydrostor Inc. (Hydrostor), a leading global long duration energy storage (LDES) solution developer and operator, announced today the addition of Scott Bolton and Sarah Griffiths to lead the company's global government relations, policy and...

Under the High Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella and the President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron, the sixth edition of the Italian-French Dialogues for Europe at the Luiss University Rome, 20...

Over 2,500 SEIU Local 2 janitors ratified a historical two-year deal. "We've won big raises: $1.20 for everyone retroactive to the beginning of the month, and $1.10 next year," said Elsa Paulino, one of the members of the bargaining committee. "Plus,...

Advocis congratulates the Government of New Brunswick on passing the Financial Advisors and Financial Planners Title Protection Act. The legislation, which aims at protecting consumers obtaining financial services, received Royal Assent on June 16....

A genocide is being perpetuated against Indigenous peoples in Canada. That was the unambiguous declaration of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. But, despite a death toll that climbs year after year, many...

Protein Industries Canada, one of Canada's five Global Innovation Clusters and Innovate UK, the UK's national innovation agency, has announced a new bilateral partnership to develop greater connections between the food sectors in both countries....

It's hard to accept, but it's not up for debate. There is an ongoing genocide against Indigenous people in Canada. This history and its legacy must be acknowledged. This is not a partisan issue. This is not a political issue. This is a genocide, and...

LMN Architects and TEF Design have been commissioned to design the Diego Rivera Theater at the City College of San Francisco (CCSF) in California. The project will showcase the iconic Pan American Unity mural created by Diego Rivera and is set to...

Stimulating dialogue between the university and high school students, combating educational poverty, and promoting the transmission of values such as legality, the fight against corruption, mutual respect, environmental protection, and culture while...

Atico Mining Corporation (the "Company" or "Atico") is pleased to announce that on May 31, 2023, Ecuador's President, Guillermo Lasso Mendoza, signed an environmental consultation decree (the "Decree") starting an important and last environmental...

via InvestorWire -- Noble Capital Markets, Inc. ("Noble") announced today that the 43rd President of the United States and Founder of the George W. Bush Presidential Center will be featured at NobleCon19, Noble's 19th Annual Emerging Growth...

The Ontario Health Coalition announced the results of a mass community-run referendum, where Ontarians were given the opportunity to have their say on if they would like their public hospital services to be privatized to for-profit hospitals and...

The Residential and Civil Construction Alliance of Ontario (RCCAO) is proud to partner with the Canadian Automobile Association (CAA) by offering its technical expertise for the 2023 CAA Worst Roads advocacy campaign. This campaign raises awareness...

Over 1% of the Canadian population is deafblind ? some are born with deafblindness, while others acquire deafblindness later in life. Each June, DeafBlind Ontario Services joins service providers and individuals who are deafblind across Canada to...

The next event in TVO Today Live's series on the future of democracy will feature a debate between the leading candidates vying to become Toronto's next mayor. Held in partnership with the Toronto Region Board of Trade, the Toronto Mayoral...

Rome, May 17, 2023 - The AeroSpace Power Conference, the grand event commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Armed Forces, concluded on May 14th with remarkable achievements. Gathering an impressive participation of 1,800 attendees on each day of...

Today, FireSmart BC, the provincial program committed to helping British Columbians reduce their wildfire risk, launched a new campaign reminding residents that everyday chores make everyday heroes.  On average, there are more than 1,600 wildfires...

Maple Hope Foundation, a registered Canadian non-profit organization, today announced the delivery of a generous donation of 30 Thornhill Medical  life-support systems, MOVES® SLCtm,  for immediate use in Ukraine by the Ministry of Defence of...

Today, Restaurants Canada (RC) is calling on the federal government to adopt its Canada Emergency Business Account (CEBA) repayment proposal from RC's 2023 Federal Pre-budget Submission. With only a few weeks until the House of Commons rises for the...

What: The Ontario & Toronto Health Coalitions will be holding a press conference tomorrow to announce the first 500 voting stations in the people's referendum on the privatization of our public hospitals. When: In Toronto the Ontario-wide...

Ontario NDP Health Critic France Gélinas is reintroducing a bill titled, ?Vaping is not for kids.' The bill would prohibit the promotion of vaping products, restrict sales to specialty vape shops, increase the minimum legal age from 19 to 21, and ban...

The Share the Road Cycling Coalition (The Coalition) Ontario's cycling advocacy and policy organization today released province-wide polling data at the opening of the 15th annual Ontario Bike Summit. The data outlines that there is a high prevalence...

Is an equitable world that includes humans and machines possible? York University researchers believe it must be and have set out to make it so through a first of its kind interdisciplinary research initiative called Connected Minds: Neural and...

The world's first open-source repository of knowledge and information about the development of carbon capture and storage (CCS/CCUS) projects will be established by the International CCS Knowledge Centre (Knowledge Centre) with foundational support...

RTOERO volunteers and staff met with federal MPs and government officials during its second Advocacy on the Hill event on April 24 and 25. During virtual meetings both days and an in-person reception on April 25, RTOERO Board of Directors, Political...

With the 2023 capelin fishing quota announcement just around the corner, new polling commissioned by Oceana Canada from leading market research firm Abacus Data found that the vast majority - 84 per cent - of residents of Newfoundland and Labrador...

Denmark, Switzerland and Finland took the top three spots in the 2023 World Citizenship Report, which launched today. The World Citizenship Report ranks 188 countries across five key motivators defining citizenship for the global citizen. ...

The federal government is underfunding municipalities and public infrastructure, while reaping the greatest proportion of tax dollars from high-tax policies on homebuilding. Cumulative underinvestment in public infrastructure across all three levels...

For the first time, Ontario's government is pushing forward with plans to privatize the province's public hospitals. In response, thousands of Ontarians have taken to the streets of their communities to organize a mass citizen-run referendum. The...

Today, the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed Cambie Surgeries Corporation's (CSC) attempt to overturn previous decisions made by BC's courts that upheld the BC Medicare Protection Act. This decision marks the end of the corporation's lengthy legal...

Luiss Guido Carli celebrated in the Aula Magna of the Campus, the inauguration of the 2022-2023 Academic Year. In the presence of its Top Management, it conferred the Doctorate Honoris Causa in Management on Ornella Barra, Chief Operating Officer -...

Winshear Gold Corp. (?Winshear', the ?Company', or the ?Claimant') reports that the complete video recording of the evidentiary hearing in its arbitration against the United Republic of Tanzania (?Tanzania') is now available online. Here -...

The Royal Canadian Legion is trusting that the 2023 budget commitment of $156.7 million dollars announced today to help support military and RCMP Veterans, will do just that ? and in tangible ways. "We are happy to see this proposed spending,"...

The Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) is disheartened that the federal government's Budget 2023 has once again failed to address critical issues facing Indigenous women, girls, and gender-diverse people: particularly addressing MMIWG and...

The Canadian Fuels Association (CFA) and its members [1] appreciate the Federal Government's recognition for low-carbon fuels, including biofuels and hydrogen, in Budget 2023. The lack of targeted measures in support of Made-in-Canada low-carbon...

While today's federal budget includes measures to create good, sustainable jobs and ease financial pressures for some, more action is needed to extend a helping hand to hard-pressed families. "Canada's unions applaud the government's investment in...

Luiss joins the elite of the world's top 15 universities in Politics and International Studies in the prestigious QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023, which rewards the best institutions of higher education for individual subject areas....

"In a joint press statement today, the Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and the Kingdom of the Netherlands, along with their partners, endorsed the launch by Nedamco Africa of an innovative initiative to implement Water...

Restaurants Canada was pleased to see several welcomed initiatives announced in yesterday's Ontario Budget, in particular, the province's bold commitment to review its taxation system. Restaurants Canada also welcomes actions to address labour...

The Residential and Civil Construction Alliance of Ontario (RCCAO) welcomes the Ontario Government's continued investment in critical infrastructure. Building a Strong Ontario, 2023 Ontario Budget builds on the serious progress made to expand...

Yesterday, Saskatchewan tabled its 2023-24 budget, which was primarily focused on debt reduction and improving the province's overall fiscal position with a $1.0 billion surplus. Restaurants Canada was encouraged to learn the budget contained no new...

A recent decision by the Ontario Divisional Court represents significant progress towards increasingly equitable and fair taxation in Ontario municipalities. The decision comes after the Top Aggregate Producing Municipalities of Ontario (TAPMO), with...

Canada's unions are calling on the federal government to invest in workers in its budget to be released on March 28. "High inflation is eating away at workers' hard-earned pay cheques, the relentless pursuit of higher corporate profits through price...

OTC Markets Group Inc. , operator of regulated markets for 12,000 U.S. and international securities, celebrates the ESOP Fairness Act (S.3270) (H.R.5851), which was included in the SECURE Act 2.0 retirement package that was signed into law on...

The Canadian Commercial Corporation (CCC) is pleased to announce that it has signed a new government to government (G2G) contract with the Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC) for the delivery of Canadian potash from Canpotex...