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QUÉBEC, May 10, 2021 /CNW/ - Thanks to a $62.8-million joint investment made as part of Canada–Quebec Operation High Speed, 15,350 households in the Laurentides region will have access to Cogeco high-speed Internet services by September 2022.
The announcement was made today by Stéphane Lauzon, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Seniors and Member of Parliament for Argenteuil–La Petite-Nation; Will Amos, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry (Science) and Member of Parliament for Pontiac; Nadine Girault, Minister of International Relations and La Francophonie, Minister of Immigration, Francization and Integration, Minister Responsible for the Laurentides Region and Member of the National Assembly for Bertrand; Marguerite Blais, Minister Responsible for Seniors and Informal Caregivers and Member of the National Assembly for Prévost; Gilles Bélanger, Parliamentary Assistant to the Premier
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QUÉBEC, May 6, 2021 /CNW/ - Thanks to a $6.34-million joint investment made as part of Canada–Quebec Operation High Speed, 2,510 households in the Côte-de-Beaupré RCM will have access to Xplornet high-speed Internet services by September 2022.
The announcement was made today by Joël Lightbound, Member of Parliament for Louis-Hébert and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness; Gilles Bélanger, Parliamentary Assistant to the Premier of Quebec (high-speed Internet) and Member of the National Assembly for Orford; Émilie Foster, Member of the National Assembly for Charlevoix–Côte-de-Beaupré and Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Higher Education; and Charles Beaudet, Xplornet s Vice-President, Quebec.
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The Deputy Commandant of the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC), Air Commodore George Arko-Dadzie, has called for effective collaboration among the various peacekeeping actors working in conflict-prone countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
He observed that some of them “worked in distinct and silo approach” that failed to provide “holistic and durable solutions” in countries facing complex crises.
Air Commodore Arko-Dadzie was speaking at the opening of a one-week course on the Humanitarian, Development and Peace (HDP) Nexus in Africa which is underway at the KAIPTC at Teshie in Accra.
Sponsored by the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), the course is aimed at enhancing the capacity of humanitarian, development and peace actors to work more coherently to attain sustainable peace in conflict and post-conflict settlements in Africa.
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