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Government of Canada proposes new regulations for playpens

Proposed regulations would strengthen requirements for playpens to better protect infants and young children from potential injury or death

April 21, 2017 Ottawa, ON Health Canada

Playpens are intended to provide a safe playing environment for infants and young children. However, over the years, playpen designs have evolved and there are safety hazards associated with certain designs, including the use of accessories, such as change tables and other sleep accessories.

While these changes may appear convenient to parents, there are risks involved, including strangulation in collapsed side rails, getting caught between accessories and the playpen, getting caught in openings in the sides of the playpen, and suffocation on the angled mattress pads of sleep accessories.

Following consultation with provincial and territorial governments, Health Canada is proposing to replace the current requirements for playpens under the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act, with the new Playpens Regulations. The proposed regulations were developed to help address identified safety issues and align the majority of the Canadian requirements with those in the U.S.

The proposed Playpens Regulations also better align with the Cribs, Cradles and Bassinets Regulations, which came into force on December 29, 2016. The Cribs, Cradles and Bassinets Regulations contain improved safety requirements for products marketed or intended for children’s sleep, such as cribs, cradles and bassinets, as well as sleep accessories that attach to these products.

The Government of Canada encourages Canadians to review the proposed new regulations and to submit feedback to Health Canada by June 6, 2017.

The best place for an infant or young child to sleep is always a crib, cradle or bassinet. Health Canada continues to remind parents and caregivers that playpens should not be used for unsupervised sleep. The Department also recommends that parents and caregivers always follow the manufacturer’s instructions for assembly and use.

Quotes

“When parents purchase a playpen, they should have confidence that it will provide a safe environment for their child. The proposed changes will further strengthen safety requirements for these products in order to better protect infants and young children.”

Jane Philpott
Minister of Health

“As an organization dedicated to injury prevention and saving lives, Parachute supports these proposed new requirements. The stricter standards that Health Canada has introduced today will offer parents and caregivers better peace of mind when using products that children play and interact with on a daily basis.”

Pamela Fuselli,
Interim CEO, Parachute

Quick Facts

  • The proposed regulations include:
    • additional requirements and test methods to address unintentional folding or collapse of the playpen’s top rails, and
    • the introduction of requirements and test methods for playpen accessories, including accessories intended for unsupervised infant sleep.
  • Between 1990 and September 2016, the Department received 156 reports of incidents associated with playpens and their accessories. These incident reports included 10 deaths, 1 serious injury, 31 minor injuries, and 114 incidents without injury.
  • Between 1995 and October 2016, Health Canada negotiated 19 voluntary recalls with industry that were related to playpens. Eight of these related to entanglement, six to side-rail collapse and five to playpen accessories.

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Contacts

Andrew MacKendrick
Office of Jane Philpott
Minister of Health
613-957-0200

Media Relations
Health Canada
613-957-2983

Public Inquiries:
613-957-2991
1-866 225-0709

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Changes to three CMF program deadlines

Northern Incentive, Anglophone Minority Incentive and Corus-CMF “Page to Pitch” Program

Toronto, April 21, 2017 – The Canada Media Fund (CMF) has modified deadlines for two of its programs to reflect feedback from producers who regularly benefit from these programs. Specifically, deadlines to apply for production funding through the CMF Northern Incentive and the Anglophone Minority Incentive have changed. The Development funding deadline for the Northern Incentive remains May 23, 2017. The CMF also announced upcoming deadlines for the Corus-CMF “Page to Pitch” Program.

The new deadlines are as follows:

    • Northern Incentive – Production
      • Opening date : May 30, 2017
    • Anglophone Minority Incentive
      • First opening date ($3M): May 16, 2017
      • Second opening date (1.5M$): August 29, 2017
  • Corus-CMF “Page to Pitch” Program
    • Year Four, Round Two: June 13, 2017
    • Year Five: October 3, 2017

The Corus-CMF Page to Pitch program is available to producers seeking funding for creative and business activities during the development of eligible live-action and animated television projects triggered by any CRTC-licensed Canadian broadcaster. It funds eligible costs related to story and script development as well as expenses related to the acquisition of pre-sale financing from foreign broadcasters and distributors. The following types of projects are eligible for funding in Year Four, Round Two of this program:

  • English Animation or animated-related projects: PAGE funding
  • French Live Action projects including documentaries: PAGE and PITCH funding

About the Canada Media Fund
The Canada Media Fund (CMF) fosters, develops, finances and promotes the production of Canadian content and applications for all audiovisual media platforms. The CMF guides Canadian content towards a competitive global environment by fostering industry innovation, rewarding success, enabling a diversity of voice and promoting access to content through public and private sector partnerships. The CMF receives financial contributions from the Government of Canada and Canada’s cable, satellite and IPTV distributors. Please visit cmf-fmc.ca.

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For more information, please contact:

André Ferreira
Communications Manager
Canada Media Fund
416-554-2768
aferreira@cmf-fmc.ca

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NCC: General Membership Meeting – Happy Valley Goose Bay

April 21, 2017

The NunatuKavut Community Council will be having a General Membership Meeting

Monday, April 24, 2017 @ 7:00 pm

NCC Board Room, 200 Kelland Drive, Happy Valley – Goose Bay, Labrador

The NunatuKavut Community Council would like to provide you an update of our progress and initiatives, and we continue to seek your valued input

** Refreshments to be provided **

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21 Additional First Nations welcomed as Signatories to the Framework Agreement

(April 21, 2017)

On behalf of the Lands Advisory Board, and the Framework Agreement Signatory First Nations, and with the full support of Canada, we are delighted to welcome the following 21 new signatory nations to the Framework Agreement. This brings the total number of Framework Agreement Signatory First Nations to 148.

This year the Framework Agreement on First Nation Land Management (Framework Agreement) celebrates 21 years of land governance authority, during which time it has helped communities across the country exercise their inherent rights over their reserve lands and resources. Under the Framework Agreement and the First Nations Land Management Act, 33 sections of the Indian Act no longer apply to those communities who ratify their community land codes enabling these communities to move ahead in their goals of self‐governance and self‐sufficiency beyond the boundaries of the Indian Act.

The Lands Advisory Board and the First Nations Land Management Resource Centre, have worked diligently to provide support to the Framework Agreement signatories, and to ensure that all First Nations are offered the opportunity to pursue this initiative, if they so desire. We are thankful to Canada, and to Minister Bennet and her staff, for the cooperation, partnership and continued support of First Nations across Canada in their pursuit to become signatories to the Framework Agreement.

We look forward to working with each of them as they continue their journey towards self‐ determination.

Nova Scotia: Paqtnkek Mi’kmaw Nation
Quebec: Listiguj Mi’gmaq
Ontario:

Animbiigoo Zaagi’igan Anishnaabek, Chapleau Cree, Big Grassy, Hiawatha,

Mattagami, Saugeen, Sheshegwaning

Saskatchewan: Carry The Kettle, James Smith, Sakimay
Alberta: Enoch Cree, Fort McMurray
British Ditidaht, Iskut, Kwaw‐kwaw‐apilt, Lytton, Penelakut, Splatsin Indian Band,
Columbia: T’it’q’et

“It is with great pride that we announce the addition of these 21 First Nations as signatories to the Framework Agreement. Under the Framework Agreement First Nations are recognized as the authority over their lands and resources and as such, land management activities are being completed at the speed of business. We are forging a new path of prosperity for our communities, and it is wonderful to welcome these 21 additional First Nations on our journey”

– Robert Louie

Chair, First Nations Land Advisory Board

“The Framework Agreement strengthens Aboriginal culture, renews our role as stewards of the land, promotes self‐sufficiency and community pride, and offers protection for our traditional values. It is a great day when we can welcome additional First Nations to the Framework Agreement, so that they too can experience the tremendous benefit it affords to our everyday lives. My thanks to Canada, and to Minister Bennet, for the continued support of this important, First Nation led initiative.”

– Chief Austin Bear

First Nations Land Management Resource Centre Inc.

“Congratulations to the 21 new signatory Nations to the Framework Agreement. Today marks an important step towards your journey to self‐determination. We will continue to work in full partnership with all the signatories as you assume greater control over reserve lands and resources ‐ leading to a brighter, more prosperous future for all.”

–The Honourable Carolyn Bennett

Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs

For further information on this historic departure from the Indian Act, please contact:

First Nation Lands Management Resource Centre Communications Department

985‐5711 www.labrc.com

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Indigenous communities in New Brunswick to benefit from increased snow crab – APTN

April 20, 2017

Mi’kmaq and Maliseet communities in New Brunswick are hoping a bump in their snow crab quotas will help pay for programs that are underfunded by the federal government.

The department of Fisheries and Oceans announced April 12 it is using a surplus of crab stocks to ensure Indigenous communities receive an increase in their Total Allowable Catch (TAC).

“The communities will substantially benefit from any increase in the level of harvest,” said John G. Paul, executive director of Atlantic Policy Congress. “Both on the employment side, as well as the revenue side.”

Paul said the minister made a positive decision in targeting Indigenous communities so they can use the extra money to offset financial shortfalls or services not funded by the government.

Read More: http://aptnnews.ca/2017/04/20/indigenous-communities-in-new-brunswick-to-benefit-from-increased-snow-crab/

Métis National Council Board of Governors Sign Historic Accord with Canadian Government – Métis Nation of Alberta

April 20, 2017

Thursday, April 13, 2017 was a historic day for Métis rights in Canada. Métis Nation of Alberta (MNA) President Audrey Poitras and other Members of the Métis National Council Board of Governors joined Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and key members of his cabinet in Ottawa for the inaugural meeting of the Crown-Métis Nation Summit. At the meeting, both parties signed a groundbreaking accord, Canada- Métis Nation Accord, which establishes important mandates to foster the nation-to-nation, government-to-government relationship between Canada and the Métis Nation. An important mandate of the Accord is increased meetings with policy makers, including annual meetings with the Prime Minister, semi-annual meetings with the Minister of Indigenous Affairs (and key Cabinet Ministers), and quarterly meetings with various Assistant Deputy Ministers on issues of concern to the Métis Nation.

The Accord was signed by Métis National Council (MNC) President Clément Chartier, and each of the Governing Members, including President Poitras. President Poitras is excited to start a new relationship with the federal government based on respect and recognition, stating:

The Accord is another important milestone for Métis rights; I am highly encouraged to see the steps the federal government is taking under the leadership of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. With the unprecedented access to policy makers that the Accord ensures, I am confident my fellow Métis leaders and myself will seek positive outcomes for Métis people of Alberta in significant and lasting ways.

In reference to the Accord, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated:

Last December, I made the promise that federal ministers and Métis Nation leaders would work together to solve important challenges. We did not take that commitment lightly. Today, we are proud to announce our joint signing of the Canada-Métis Nation Accord. While there is still much that needs to be done if we are to address the unique social, cultural, economic, and environmental issues faced by the Métis, we now have a solid foundation upon which to move forward with a respectful, renewed Métis Nation-Crown relationship, for the benefit of all Canadians.

The federal government was represented by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and key members of his cabinet, including Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs, Carolyn Bennett; Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Jody Wilson-Raybould; President of the Treasury Board, Scott Brison; Minister of Health, Jane Philpot; Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour, Patricia Hajdu; and Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, Jean-Yves Duclos.

Find a copy of the Accord here:
English Version Canada-Métis-Nation-AccordEn
French Version Canada-Métis-Nation-Accord

Media Contact:
Jasmine Breti
Communications Assistant
(780) 455-2200
jbreti@metis.org

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2016 Taylor Award Regional Nominees

Pacific Region nominee – Susan Underwood

Susan is being nominated for the Taylor Award for her long-time voluntary work with Mission Institution minimum-security unit and the Fraser Valley community.

Susan’s work for approximately 20 years has been to connect and bridge different groups in the community toward mutual learning and healing. She works as a liaison to the FAVOR Group, a weekly restorative justice exploration group at Mission Institution’s minimum-security unit. She is also a long-time chair/co-chair of the Mission Institution minimum-security unit’s Restorative Justice Conference. She also volunteers as a community support for released offenders, in restorative justice education in the community, and as a non-security escort on offenders’ escorted temporary absences.

As director of the Partners in Learning program in Mission and Abbotsford, she oversaw the mentoring of countless youth by inmates of minimum-security unit at Mission Institution. Her most recent work is as is a Victim-Offender Mediation Program facilitator with the Community Justice Initiatives Association. This program assists both victims and offenders to work towards healing outcomes through a restorative justice approach.

Susan is a long-time resident and has raised her family in the Fraser Valley. Her earlier work with Abbotsford Community Services and with Rogers Communication helped root her deeply in that community. Her volunteer work has also included service as an executive member of the B.C. Association of Community Law Offices, a board member of Abbotsford Community Services, and as a media/video producer with the local Rogers Cable outlet.

As CSC’s mandate is to prepare inmates for successful reintegration, Susan and other volunteers provide support, modelling and encouragement for inmates as they learn pro-social and law-abiding ways of being contributing members of the community.

Ontario Region nominees – Neil and Gertie Minnema

For 47 years, Neil and Gertie have been chaplaincy volunteers at multiple facilities in the Kingston area.  Both regularly participate in leading worship, provide music at Chapel service, and give one-on-one support, counselling and religious education to offenders. They also provide citizen escorting and support to offenders released to the community.

Neil and Gertie have demonstrated a kind and compassionate spirit in their relationship with offenders and consistently demonstrate a genuine interest in the well being of offenders. They take time to listen, encourage and challenge inmates to think more positively and to seek ways of making better lifestyle choices.

Locally they also volunteer at a thrift store and assist with the Meals on Wheels Program in the Kingston area.

Outside of Canada, Neil and Gertie have traveled the world in humanitarian aid. They have assisted in the rebuilding homes, orphanages and schools in places after devastating natural disasters. They have assisted in places like Japan following the tsunami and helped rebuild homes in New Orleans, Texas and South Carolina devastated by hurricanes and floods. They’ve helped to build orphanages in Romania and volunteered in several African countries like Uganda, Zambia and Kenya.

Their efforts provide great inspiration to other volunteers, CSC staff and inmates alike. Their reputation is admired and recognized throughout the Kingston area. If two people carry on the legacy of Dr. Charles Taylor and his wife Charlotte with faith-based counseling with offenders in correctional facilities and in the community it is this outstanding team of givers – hats off to Neil and Gertie Minnema.

Prairie Region nominee – Captain Edward Dean

Captain Edward Dean of the Maple Creek Saskatchewan Salvation Army has been a valued volunteer and community champion for Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge for 10 years.

Captain Edward Dean, or “Captain Ed”, has escorted countless temporary absences for offenders participating in community service as well as work release opportunities with the Salvation Army Thrift Shop and Church. He encourages women offenders to volunteer and assists them in building and strengthening positive community relationships.

Captain Dean assists the healing lodge recognize yearly events such as Remembrance Day, and Christmas and Easter dinners. He is respectful of local traditions and First Nation teachings and participates in Spring and Fall Feast, and cultural and spiritual events and ceremonies such as Sundance, powwows, and the Horse dance. He also makes it possible for residents to sell their hobby crafts in the community, which means they can earn their own money and have a sense of satisfaction and pride at a job well done.

Captain Dean has housed families visiting offenders and helped them with meals and transportation. When a resident scheduled to be conditionally released had her bus cancelled due to poor weather, Captain Dean drove her to make sure she did not miss her connection. While there, he took the opportunity to visit another resident who had been released to a halfway house nearby.

Captain Dean is also a member of the Housing Board in Maple Creek, the Chaplain for the local RCMP detachment and legion branch, and a member of the Citizen Advisory Committee for the healing lodge.

Captain Edward Dean embodies the spirit of volunteerism. He is a wonderful, humble person who enhances offenders’ lives and strengthens the rehabilitation process. Captain Dean’s focus, determination and unrelenting ambition and energy are an inspiration to us all.

Atlantic Region nominee – Donna Gardiner

Donna Gardiner has volunteered in her community in Newfoundland and Labrador for more than 20 years in various capacities. She began volunteering with a local Circles of Support and Accountability.  She then was appointed to the Citizen Advisory Committee (CAC) of the Newfoundland & Labrador Community Correctional Centre (CCC). About 18 years later, she is chair of the CAC at the CCC and is CAC vice-chair for the Atlantic Region. Donna is presently on the CAC Subcommittee for Women Offenders and an active volunteer for the 7thStep Society of Canada that she attends weekly in Her Majesty’s Penitentiary, a provincial facility.

Donna also previously held a position on the National Volunteer Association of CSC, has been involved with the St. John’s Cerebral Palsy Association, the Rainbow Riders Therapeutic Riding Program, and Community Chaplaincy.

Donna is a mother of three and grandmother of two. Her initial career began in nursing, after which she also completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology/Sociology, as well as a Criminology Certificate. In 2003 Donna received a Parole Officer Induction Program Certificate from CSC. In her spare time, she makes jewelry and home décor items from recycled silver plated cutlery.

Donna has also demonstrated a keen interest in Indigenous and women offender issues. She is an individual who continually demonstrates her commitment to this community and the volunteer sector. Donna is a valued asset to various community organizations and has demonstrated an ability to work collaboratively with other volunteers, community partners, CSC and offenders.

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N.S. review of ‘conquered people’ brief complete, but minister won’t comment – APTN

April 20, 2017

A review of a controversial Crown brief that implied the Mi’kmaq are a conquered people is now complete, but Nova Scotia’s justice minister refused Wednesday to divulge its contents.

“I’ve seen the report and I’m not able to give any information about it,” Diana Whalen said after a cabinet meeting. “It’s got a lot of legal and personnel information in it.”

Whalen initiated the review after Mi’kmaq groups raised objections to the government’s decision to have Crown lawyer Alex Cameron handle a case involving the Indian Brook First Nation.

Late last year, the band argued that a plan by Alton Natural Gas Storage to create storage caverns near Stewiacke poses an environmental risk to the nearby Shubenacadie River.

Read More: http://aptnnews.ca/2017/04/20/n-s-review-of-conquered-people-brief-complete-but-minister-wont-comment/

Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup challenges Canadians to set a new record for Canada’s 150th birthday

ACROSS CANADA, April 21, 2017 – Canada is turning 150 this year and to celebrate the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup is challenging Canadians to mark Canada’s big birthday by cleaning their shorelines in record-breaking numbers.

With Earth Day tomorrow, registration for the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup is now open and is easier than ever, with a new, user-friendly website at ShorelineCleanup.ca.

“We had an incredible year in 2016,” said Rachel Schoeler, manager of the Shoreline Cleanup. “We broke all of our previous records, with more than 2,300 shorelines cleaned and 77,000 people helping us protect ecosystems and wildlife across the country.”

The Shoreline Cleanup isn’t coasting on its success for the year ahead; instead it will build on the momentum to almost double participation, with a birthday-themed target of 150,000 Canadians taking part for 2017.

“We’re setting an ambitious target because we believe Canadians have a responsibility to protect the nature around them — and as last year’s record participation shows, Canadians care deeply about the health of their communities and want to take action for the environment.”

Now in its 24th year, the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup, presented by Loblaw Companies Limited, is Canada’s largest conservation-based cleanup. An initiative of the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre and WWF-Canada, it calls on Canadians from coast to coast to help rehabilitate shoreline areas throughout the year. Participating in the Shoreline Cleanup educates participants on the stewardship of the water, habitats and how to make a positive impact on the environment.

“From storm drains, parks and school yards to lakes, rivers and oceans, shoreline litter impacts people and wildlife such as frogs, turtles, whales and birds in every corner of the country. By participating in the Shoreline Cleanup, we’re picking up debris before it has the chance to get into our aquatic ecosystems,” said Schoeler.

The most widely collected litter items in 2016 included plastic and paper bags, cigarettes, food wrappers and containers, caps and lids, glass and plastic beverage bottles, beverage cans, disposable flatware, straws, tobacco packaging and building materials. Once these items enter aquatic ecosystems, they can contaminate and degrade habitat, and cause injury to wildlife from ingestion and entanglement.

Celebrate Canada and make a difference in your community by taking action against shoreline litter. Participants can start a cleanup any time of year, at any shoreline across the country, and are invited clean it multiple times throughout the year.

The Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup
The Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup, presented by Loblaw Companies Limited, is one of the largest direct action conservation programs in Canada. A conservation initiative of the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre and WWF-Canada, the Shoreline Cleanup aims to promote understanding of shoreline litter issues by engaging Canadians to rehabilitate shoreline areas through cleanups. www.ShorelineCleanup.ca

Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre
The Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre is a non‐profit society dedicated to the conservation of aquatic life. www.vanaqua.org

WWF-Canada
WWF-Canada creates solutions to the conservation challenges that matter most to Canadians, so that nature, wildlife and people thrive together. Because we are all wildlife. www.wwf.ca

Loblaw Companies Limited
Loblaw Companies Limited is Canada’s food and pharmacy leader, the nation’s largest retailer, and the majority unit holder of Choice Properties Real Estate Investment Trust. www.loblaw.ca

Media contacts:

Deana Lancaster
Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre
Deana.lancaster@vanaqua.org
604-659-3752

Emily Vandermeer
WWF-Canada
evandermeer@wwfcanada.org
416-489-4567 ext. 7298

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Gallery commemorates 150 years of Canadian Confederation – Beaverbrook Art Gallery

April 20, 2017

Gallery commemorates 150 years of Canadian Confederation with exhibition celebrating rich and diverse visual arts heritage

Fredericton, NB, April 20, 2017 — The Beaverbrook Art Gallery will launch its celebration of Canada’s sesquicentennial year with a large-scale, commemorative exhibition. The exhibition, Canadian Mosaic: Celebrating 150 Years of Art from the Permanent Collection, will span multiple rooms and will showcase a variety of Canadian art. The public is cordially invited to attend the opening reception at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery of the new exhibition on Saturday, April 29th, 2017 at 5pm.

In honour of Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confederation, Chief Curator Jeffrey Spalding will fill five galleries with artworks to encourage visitors to explore the development of Canadian art through the Beaverbrook Art Gallery’s permanent collection. Different gallery spaces will focus on different periods in Canadian art – historical, modern and contemporary – with an additional presentation highlighting the art of Atlantic Canada.

“Through the nearly six decades of its history,” he says, “the Gallery has amassed a fine overview of the principal artists associated with our nation.” Canadian Mosaic will showcase some of the most admired works in the collection by artists across the decades: Cornelius Krieghoff, Paul Kane, J. W. Morrice, Emily Carr, David Milne, Lawren Harris, Tom Thomson, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Paul-Émile Borduas, Alex Colville, Mary Pratt, Jack Humphrey, Molly Bobak, Carl Beam and many more. As one particularly fitting inclusion, the Gallery will unveil a recently-donated 19th Century sculptural portrait of Sir George-Étienne Cartier, co-premier of the Province of Canada and Father of Confederation.

Spalding’s aspiration for the project is to send a love letter to Canada on the occasion of its 150th birthday. “Our presentation is a mosaic,” he continues, “of the extraordinary variety of approaches, ideas and feelings represented by Canadian art, coast to coast to coast and over the decades. We hope visitors will find the artworks in this exhibition inspiring.”

However, he cautions that, “it would be impossible to use the project to even attempt to construct a portrait of the art of the nation. The country is too vast: our demographics, cultural, ethnic, and geographic differences are wide-ranging. Invariably, someone and something would be left out. A mosaic, after all, is an image made up of fragments of other objects.”

Canadian Mosaic will be on display all summer, through September 10, allowing visitors from New Brunswick and away to make it part of their Canada 150 celebrations.

Also remaining on display through the summer are some of the Gallery’s most prized international artworks. Masterworks: Homecoming—A Celebratory Selection from the International Collection, invites visitors to explore another facet of the Gallery’s collection. Though not by Canadian artists, by virtue of the collection’s history and of Lord Beaverbrook, these works have also become part of a Canadian story.

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About the exhibitions:

Canadian Mosaic: Celebrating 150 Years of Art from the Permanent Collection is curated by Jeffrey Spalding and organized by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. The exhibition is on display from April 29, 2017 through September 10, 2017.

Masterworks: Homecoming – A Celebratory Selection from the International Collection is curated by Terry Graff and Jeffrey Spalding and organized by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. The exhibition is on display in the Harriet Irving Gallery from February 11, 2017 through September 10, 2017.

About the Beaverbrook Art Gallery

The Beaverbrook Art Gallery was founded by Lord Beaverbrook on September 16, 1959. The Gallery is internationally known for its collection of Atlantic Canadian, Canadian, British, and International works of art. The Beaverbrook Art Gallery “enriches life through art”. As the official art gallery of New Brunswick, and one of Canada’s leading art galleries and most important cultural treasures, its mission is to “bring art and community together in a dynamic cultural environment dedicated to the highest standards in acquisitions, exhibitions, programming, education and stewardship.”

The Beaverbrook Art Gallery enriches life through art.
La Galerie d’art Beaverbrook enrichit la vie par l’art.

Media Contact
Jeremy Elder-Jubelin
Manager of Communications and Visitor Services
Beaverbrook Art Gallery
703 Queen Street, P.O. Box 605
Fredericton, NB  E3E 5A6
Phone: (506) 458-2039
Email: visitorservices@beaverbrookartgallery.org
Fax: (506) 458-2028
www.beaverbrookartgallery.org

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