As Canada prepares to mark the sixth annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation,  Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty is set to start the week by teaming up with National Indigenous Collaborative Housing CEO John Gordon in downtown Ottawa to highlight new federal funding to support new housing projects via the ‘For Indigenous, By Indigenous’ initiative, which aims to “achieve collective goals, manage and control allocated funds that will be used towards providing housing and housing supports (for) urban, rural and northern Indigenous peoples.” (9:45 a.m.)

Meanwhile, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Rebecca Alty joins Tłı̨chǫ Grand Chief Jackson Lafferty and Behchokǫ Chief Bertha Rabesca Zoe to share the details of new federal funding for local infrastructure during a mid-afternoon visit to the Edzo Transitional Housing project in Behchokǫ̀, N.W.T., which, as Cabin Radio reported earlier this month, is “funded through Indigenous Services Canada’s Family Violence Prevention Program, (and) will provide transitional housing for Tłı̨chǫ citizens, primarily Indigenous women, their children and 2SLGBTQQIA+ individuals fleeing gender-based violence.” (2 p.m. MT)

Elsewhere on the ministerial circuit: Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne will meet up with local Liberal MP Caroline Desrochers at an unnamed location in Shawinigan to deliver what Champagne’s office is billing as a “defence-related announcement that promises to strengthen the region’s economic outlook, support jobs in Québec” —  including “in the Mauricie region,” it notes, as well as “bolster Canada’s defence capabilities.” (10 a.m.)

Rounding out the roster, Secretary of State for Defence Procurement Stephen Fuhr will promote new infrastructure funding during a morning visit to the Kelowna International Airport. (10 a.m. PT)

Back in the precinct, the Senate is set to kick off the fall sitting with a formal swearing-in ceremony for the four new members appointed to the Upper House over the summer —  former Conservative MP Richard Martel, longtime senior Liberal strategist Tom Pitfield, accountant Geeta Tucker and self-described “physician-scientist” Rodney Ouellette. (6 p.m.)

Before the Red Chamber reopens for business, two Senate committees are set to circle back to Champagne’s latest omnibus bid to roll out measures announced in last year’s budget, which, while still working its way through the House of Commons, is under preliminary review at HUMAN RIGHTS and NATIONAL SECURITY, DEFENCE AND VETERANS AFFAIRS. (4 p.m.)

ON AND AROUND THE HILL

Palestinian Students and Scholars at Risk Network chair Ayman Oweida joins members of the Jewish Faculty Network, Independent Jewish Voices and Jews Say No To Genocide, as well as “community leaders and human rights advocates,” to promote a newly released “open letter” that calls on Carney and Diab to “resolve the prolonged study permit delays” and the “discriminatory bias” that, they contend, has been “blocking Palestinian graduate students for over two years.” (10 a.m.)

Queer Momentum executive director Fae Johnstone teams up with representatives of TransAction Alberta, Saskatoon Pride, Pride Corner and the Enchante Network to urge the House of Commons to launch an investigation into what the advisory frames as “the
suspension of transgender young peoples’ charter-protected rights in their provinces,” as well as challenge the federal government “to take action to uphold the freedom, rights and equality of 2SLGBTQIA+ people across Canada.” (1 p.m.)

Also on the radar: The Competition Bureau will “publish a call for information on pricing policies in retail grocery” that, as per the notice, “will support the Bureau’s ongoing examination of the food supply chain,” and “builds on the work of the Bureau’s retail grocery market study, whose 2023 report provided recommendations to meaningfully improve competition in the sector.”

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