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Shared Services Canada’s customer departments continue to manage most of their applications. These customer department applications are often aging and require constant maintenance. Shared Services Canada is working with customer departments to identify risks and mitigate service disruptions. Shared Services Canada is driving hosting renewal (with migration to its enterprise data centres and/or to be hosted within the Cloud) while customer departments are responsible for their application modernization plans.
Lebanon has been without a government since August 10, 2020, and government formation efforts have been at a standstill for five months, despite the rapidly deteriorating social/economic conditions.
Canada's position regarding the ICC Prosecutor's investigation into the “situation in Palestine” and updates on recent developments.
The socio-political and security crisis in Haiti exacerbates the difficult living conditions of Haitians.
On March 17, 2021, Chevron Canada announced that it would cease funding Kitimat LNG project feasibility work. The company announced in December 2019 that it plans to exit its 50 percent working interest in the Kitimat LNG Project in British Columbia, as part of global portfolio optimization efforts. Chevron’s other assets in Canada are not included in this decision.
Australia’s Woodside Energy – which also has a 50 percent interest in the project – indicates it continues to have confidence in the project, and will work with Chevron to determine mutually acceptable means of advancing the project as Chevron exits. Woodside continues to work with stakeholders to improve the project’s cost competitiveness. Chevron will remain as operator of the project until its exit from the project or transfer of operatorship.