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The Eastern Ontario Regional Network’s Cellular Gap Project will improve cellular and mobile broadband coverage and service in the region.
What are the key results to date for the Investing in Canada Plan?
Overview of the commitment to create a rural development strategy to spur economic growth and create good middle class jobs in rural Canada.
Through his mandate letter, the Prime Minister has tasked the Minister to work with his colleagues, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry and the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada to advance Canada’s Digital Charter and enhanced powers for the Privacy Commissioner, in order to establish a new set of online rights as well as create new regulations for large digital companies to better protect people’s personal data and encourage greater competition in the digital marketplace.
On November 30, 2018, Canada, the United States and Mexico signed the Canada-United-States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA). The CUSMA includes an extensive section on copyright that covers a number of items, notably: term of protection, notice-and-notice, national treatment and rights management information. The Government of Canada intends to table a legislation to ratify the CUSMA on January 29, 2020.
The Canadian sport system has been under the spotlight to address this public health issue. More recently, the Standing Committee on Health’s (HESA) 24th Report on the Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada’s study, entitled “Tackling the Problem Head-on: Sports-Related Concussions in Canada” was tabled on June 3, 2019 in the House of Commons. The report contains 13 recommendations to support ongoing actions by the Federal government in this area.
Article in the media describing correspondence sent by the City of Sherbrooke to Central Maine and Quebec Railway (CMQR) raising concerns about the safety of a culvert within the city limits.
How has the Government considered the specificities of the agriculture sector in developing its carbon pollution pricing system?
What is the Government of Canada doing to support the sector in reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
How will the Food Policy address challenges in Canada’s food system?