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Keeping up with Canada’s Upper Chamber. Important notices: ow.ly/fxGI30j7tsh | eNewsletter: ow.ly/sE4o50J0c7X | En français: @SenatCA
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    Do you have a perspective on issues affecting First Nations, Métis and Inuit youth? Apply to Voices of Youth Indigenous Leaders for the opportunity to travel to Ottawa, meet senators and share your priorities with the Senate Committee on Indigenous Peoples. Every submission
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    At the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Ottawa, @SenatorACardozo highlights the importance of engaging with counterparts from NATO countries and gaining a better understanding of different perspectives. Through parliamentary diplomacy, senators help strengthen dialogue and
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    What happens when young people leave foster care with nowhere to turn? A Senate committee heard that too many face barriers to housing, education, employment and health care just as they enter adulthood. Read the report and its recommendations: ow.ly/Ksly50Znvv7 #SenCA
    Graphic reading ‘’ Read the Report’’ along side the cover of ‘’NOTHING TO CELEBRATE, The Crisis of Youth Aging Out of Care’’
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    At the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Senator @gignacclement raised the issue of the Northwest Passage and the importance of it being recognized as Canadian internal waters. As part of their diplomatic role, senators bring Canadian perspectives to international discussions on
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    An art display installed this year in the Senate of Canada Building journeys through the evolution of transportation infrastructure across Canada’s different geographies and climates — a subject studied over the years by the Senate Committee on Transport and Communications.
    On the left, Markovich’s Modern Intersection (1967) depicts a major highway interchange. On the top right, Commanda Pedestrian Bridge (2024), by Canadian artist Eryn O’Neill, captures a repurposed rail bridge in Ottawa. On the bottom right, Walker’s Point Saint-Charles Interactive shows a Canadian National locomotive passing through Montréal.
    On the left, two untitled drawings by Inuk artist Pudlo Pudlat depict transportation by plane, sled and boat in the North. On the right, a painting titled Snow Removal (1960), by Serbian-Canadian painter Moma Markovich, features a snow blower clearing a quiet road after a winter storm.
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    Jul 15
    Protecting Canada’s most sensitive information is a crucial part of national security. At the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Senator Katherine Hay discussed data sovereignty, secure data environments and the importance of strengthening Canada’s digital resilience. #SenCA @natopa
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    Jul 14
    What does Arctic security mean for Canada and our allies? .@SenRPatterson explains why bringing decision-makers together through the NATO Parliamentary Assembly is an important part of strengthening security, sovereignty and co-operation in the North. #SenCA @natopa #NATOPA
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    Jul 14
    Join the Senate as Procedural Clerk - Anticipatory. Apply by Wednesday, July 22, 2026: ow.ly/SlJ850Zn5r4 #SenCA
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    Senate of Canada
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    Jul 13
    The Arctic may feel far away, but what happens in the North matters to all Canadians. During the NATO Parliamentary Assembly visit to Ottawa and Iqaluit, senators are meeting with parliamentarians, experts and northern leaders to discuss issues including Arctic security,
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    Jul 13
    The future of Canada’s North is the future of Canada. As the NATO Parliamentary Assembly meets in Ottawa and Iqaluit this week, senators are speaking with their counterparts from across the alliance about the development and defence of the North. Why does this matter to you?
    World powers want what Canada has in the North.
A sea lane between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
Abundant oil and natural gas reserves
Rare earth elements essential for modern technology
    But Canada’s North is militarily exposed and economically underdeveloped.
Can we protect what is ours and use these resources to Canada’s advantage?
    Senators took on these and other existential questions during a summit of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly that began in Ottawa today.
    It’s just another way senators address critical issues that are affecting life for residents of Canada’s North and our country’s future.
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    Jul 10
    Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard shares that her understanding of what it means to be Canadian has “been shaped by history, by personal experience, by the realities of anti Black racism and by the deep relationships that have sustained African Nova Scotian communities for
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    Jul 8
    .@SenatorSalma represented #CCOM at the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians steering committee, held on the margins of the 62nd Canadian Regional Conference in Victoria, BC, which met to plan the region’s participation in @CWP_Int events
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    Jul 10
    #CAPF’s @MonaFortier, rapporteur for the @APFfrancophonie Network of Women Parliamentarians, and Senator @amigerba discussed the state of gender equality in the Francophonie with their colleagues during their annual meeting in Yaoundé, Cameroon
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    Jul 9
    The flag on the Peace Tower in Ottawa will be flown at half-mast from sunrise to sunset today, July 9, 2026, for the day of the funeral of the late Thomas Edward Siddon, P.C., who passed away on June 28, 2026. The Honourable Thomas Edward Siddon was the Member of Parliament for
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