News by subject: GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS

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...

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...