News by subject: GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS

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...

The Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA) is proud to announce that Manon Plante, P.Eng., will become APEGA's 104th president at the 2023 annual general meeting (AGM) on Friday, April 28. Plante is a passionate...

The Open Society Foundations today announced that they are giving $1.7 million to a United Nations initiative in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) that seeks to catalyze increased public spending on achieving the UN's Sustainable...

York University is committed to purposeful words and deeds that demonstrate its longstanding values. Today, President Rhonda Lenton announced that Mike Layton will join York as its first Chief Sustainability Officer, a key role in advancing the...

The Lorenzo Natali Media Prize, the EU's flagship journalism award, opens for applications today. Journalists can apply by submitting eligible stories until midnight of 28 April. The Prize recognises and honours the work of journalists from around...

The leadership of Lucky Man Cree Nation has launched a brand new mobile application in order to communicate with their membership at a moment's notice. The app works on iPhones and Android phones, as well as tablets ? the cross-platform nature means...

The Residential Construction Council of Ontario (RESCON) and other industry partners have scheduled a debate on Wednesday, May 24, 2023, for Toronto mayoralty candidates to address the critical housing supply shortage and affordability crisis facing...

First Quantum Minerals Ltd. ("First Quantum" or the "Company"), today announced that its Panamanian subsidiary, Minera Panamá, S.A. ("MPSA"), has agreed and finalized the draft of a concession contract (the "Proposed Concession Contract") with the...

Canada is on the cusp of a potential public health crisis as the number of Canadians with some degree of hearing loss is expected to substantially increase as our population ages, and noise-induced hearing damage among young people rises. Swift and...

Restaurants Canada is pleased to see B.C.'s provincial budget includes no business income tax increases, but rather offers a number of measures to address affordability challenges for British Columbians. Unfortunately, it does little to help...

Alberta's restaurant sector appreciates the province's focus in the 2023 budget on alleviating skyrocketing inflationary costs, and its commitment to responsible fiscal management. However, Restaurants Canada believes the budget failed to address and...

The Alberta Continuing Care Association (ACCA) welcomes the Province of Alberta's Budget 2023 announcement today that will see the investment of $1B over three years for continuing care transformation. This funding will support the shift of care to...

Per-person (inflation-adjusted) program spending in Saskatchewan reached its highest level on record at $16,843 in 2021 (excluding COVID-related spending, per-person spending ($15,585) was still by far the highest on record), finds a new report...

The Government of Quebec has announced its intentions to match the federal vapour product excise tax and is now considering a ban on flavoured products. Canada is a leader in tobacco harm reduction, but through regressive policy, Quebec could soon...

mySolar, a provincial leader delivering solar energy to Ontario homes, announces the launch of its energy solution providing homeowners with protection from rising utility rates and the opportunity to positively impact the environment. The benefits...

The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) is calling on the federal government to expand fair dealing provisions in the Copyright Act that balance the needs of creators and users of copyrighted materials. Fair dealing allows users to...

Vancouver City Council has voted to end the city's 25-cent single-use cup fee after receiving resounding feedback from local businesses, consumers and associations like Restaurants Canada that the fee has been ineffective in its initial goal of...

The Canadian Institute of Actuaries (CIA) offered its insights on changes to the Québec Pension Plan (QPP) today, as part of the Government of Québec's public consultation on the plan, which takes place every six years. Drawing on its 2019 public...

Teck Resources Limited ("Teck") today announced a donation of $100,000 to the Canadian Red Cross and Red Crescent to support relief efforts following severe earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria. "The stories and images coming out of Türkiye and Syria...

Children's Healthcare Canada and the Pediatric Chairs of Canada are pleased to see the convening of a successful First Ministers meeting to discuss health care funding. We commend the commitment of the Prime Minister and Premiers in prioritizing...

The program which served as a lifeline for Toronto restaurants throughout the course of the pandemic, and now a newfound love of locals and tourists, has officially been made permanent, along with new amendments that offer a phased-in approach to...

Fast Leaf Inc. (the "Company"), an innovative craft cannabis production franchisor, announces its recent Health Canada license approval for the first franchise in its 30-plus multi-unit facility in Woodstock, Ontario, making it the first in the world...

On Tuesday, Mark Baxter the President of the Police Association of Ontario (PAO) spoke with Ontario MPPs at Ontario's Standing Committee on Justice Policy about needed reform of the bail system in Canada to keep people and communities safe. The PAO...

What does reconciliation look like as we approach the 8th anniversary of the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Summary Report in June 2015? Indigenous Watchdog has created a picture based on an examination of all 431 positive...

January 25, 2023 ? Greenfield Global Inc., Canada's leading alcohol, solvent and biofuels producer, yesterday welcomed Mr. Francis Drouin, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, to Greenfield's sponsored laboratory...

A program that was originally a lifeline for restaurants throughout the course of the pandemic in Toronto, is now poised to cause further challenges to struggling restaurant operators in Toronto due to new measures proposed by the City. The City of...

The Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) is proud to announce the launch of "Change the Bill", a call to action that aims to promote reconciliation through art. Despite being the original inhabitants of this land, an Indigenous person has...

The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) has announced that, effective immediately, regulated sport and event betting operators in Ontario may resume offering bets and betting related products on Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)...

Yesterday, the Ford government announced plans to expand private, for-profit health care in Ontario. The Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) is calling the move, "entirely out of touch with what Ontarians want and need." According to polling...

First Quantum Minerals Ltd. ("First Quantum" or "the Company") today issued the following update regarding the status of the Cobre Panamá mine operated by its subsidiary Minera Panamá, S.A. ("MPSA"). Engagement between First Quantum, MPSA and the...

Clinical-stage pharmaceutical company ENA Respiratory has been awarded a $4.38 million USD agreement from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to support ongoing research and development of INNA-051, a clinical stage first-in-class broad-spectrum...

TORONTO, ON, January 6, 2023 ? Four of Canada's largest police associations representing more than 60,000 sworn and civilian police personnel announced today they have joined forces to confront the growing wave of violence against police and the...

Ontario joins British Columbia, Alberta, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan, and the Northwest Territories in implementing a "switch" policy that changes coverage for specific biologic medicines.Biosimilar switch policies are an...

As Canada's premiers and the federal NDP ramp up the pressure on the Trudeau government, Health Coalitions across Canada are demanding that any increase in public health funding be used in the public interest and not be used to privatize health care....

This fall, a coalition of Iranian women, along with Vital Voices Global Partnership and For Freedoms launched a campaign calling for the immediate removal of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) from the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women...

The Ontario Health Coalition has tracked hospital cuts, closures, service closures and overcrowding for more than two decades and are experts in the history and scale of these events. The Coalition has never seen the crisis in our public hospitals...

The Ontario Health Coalition has tracked hospital cuts, closures, service closures and overcrowding for more than two decades and are experts in the history and scale of these events. The Coalition has never seen the crisis in our public hospitals...

Based on trends in the real estate market as of July 1, 2022, most homes are expected to be up in value with BC Assessment's soon-to-be released 2023 property assessments. "Most homeowners around the province can generally expect about a 5 to 15%...

Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business announces the recipients of the 2023 Business Lifetime Achievement Award and the Young Aboriginal Entrepreneur Award Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business (CCAB) plans celebration to honour Dawn Madahbee...

Indigenous Watchdog tracks and reports on how reconciliation is progressing in Canada. On November 15, 2022 the Manitoba Government Speech from the Throne identified the following priorities and commitments: Helping Make Our Communities SaferHelping...

The Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships makes the following statement on the Ottawa Light Rail Transit Public Inquiry report released today: "The Council thanks the Honourable Justice William Hourigan and the entire commission team for...

Cirba Solutions, the largest and most comprehensive cross-chemistry battery management and materials processor in the industry, is the recipient of a grant of $7.4 million from the Department of Energy under President Biden's Bipartisan...

(Ottawa, November 25, 2022) CAUT - Over 150 academic staff association leaders meeting in Ottawa this week are calling on the Liberal government to uphold its promise to remove publicly funded post-secondary education institutions from the Companies'...

From the green energy boondoggles in the so-called "Inflation Reduction Act" in the United States, to the ongoing wind-power disaster in Germany, and threats of energy cuts in the winter in the UK, the climate policy "solutions" are a real and...

APTIM, in collaboration with Rebuild by Design and iParametrics, has released the Atlas of Disaster, a comprehensive study on the impacts of climate risk across the U.S. The 650-page report, which found that 90 percent of U.S. counties experienced...

Oceana Canada's latest audit of Canada's fisheries, and their stewardship by Fisheries and Oceans Canada, (DFO) reveals that for the sixth year in a row, less than one-third of wild fish and invertebrate stocks can be considered healthy, and most...

The BC Real Estate Association (BCREA) is pleased to see Premier David Eby's announcement of the BC Housing Supply Act today. This new legislation?if passed?would improve housing supply, provide stronger leadership and incentivize municipalities...