Canada Events

Connexion internationale de Montréal (CIMtl) invites you to its third wine talk on Wednesday, February 26, 2024, starting at 6 p.m. ET, where we'll discuss the growing issues of foreign interference in Canada, a topic of major concern in the current geopolitical context.

With rising international tensions, Canada has seen a rise in efforts to influence foreign actors, whether through disinformation, cyberattacks, or other forms of intervention.

Program:

• Overview of recent forms of interference
• Impact on democracy, citizens' rights and national security
• Actors' responsibilities and preventive measures
• Recommendations for reinforcing protection and preventing incidents
   

Panellists:

Alexandre Veilleux, advisor, research and communications at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and PhD candidate affiliated with The Montreal Centre for International Studies (CÉRIUM).

Fanny Tan, Researcher-in-Residence at the Observatory of Multidimensional Conflicts of the Raoul-Dandurand Chair.

Yann Roche, Director of the Strategy and Diplomacy axis of CÉRIUM's Chair of Asian and Indo-Pacific Studies and Professor in the Geography Department at UQAM | Université du Québec à Montréal.

The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada will co-organize a roundtable discussion with Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) focused on U.S. President Donald Trump's disruptions to the global trading and economic orders. 

By invitation-only.

A winner and nominee of several international documentary awards, this film shed a light on the bravery of freedom fighters in Taiwan who have safeguarded their autonomy and democratic way of life, despite enduring decades of external threats and relentless military harassment. 

The screening will be followed by a networking reception, featuring remarks from Vina Nadjibulla, Vice-President Research & Strategy, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.

Celebrating its 93rd edition in 2025, the Ottawa Conference stands as Canada’s premier defence and security assembly. The conference centres its discussions around a wide spectrum of security and defence matters, orchestrating a sequence of impactful keynotes, presentations, and dialogues led by distinguished experts in the fields of security and defence from Canada and across the globe. 

The audience consists of senior decision-makers in government, thought leaders in academia and civil society, and industry leaders. The event brings together Parliamentarians and reaches deep into the Department of National Defence, with a strong showing of general and flag officers. Many other key segments of government also attend from the Prime Minister’s Office, the Privy Council, Global Affairs Canada, PSPC, Treasury Board, Canadian Coast Guard, Public Safety, and over 20 other government departments and agencies.

APF Canada's Vice-President Research & Strategy Vina Nadjibulla is a featured speaker on Day 2 (1:25-2:30 p.m. ET) on Panel 8: Challenges and Readiness in the Indo-Pacific.

The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada is hosting a talk with Pia Ranada, head of community for Rappler, a Philippines news organization, and winner of the 2024 Marshall McLuhan Award. Previously, Pia was an investigative journalist and senior reporter who covered the Duterte administration (2016-2022). As Community Lead, she is now responsible for linking journalists with communities for impact and action.  

The Embassy of Canada in the Philippines awarded her the Marshall McLuhan Fellowship in November for her “exceptional commitment to journalism, using the craft to build citizens with critical information that can impact societal change” and her commitment to inform, “to enable meaningful public engagement on issues in service of the public, and illustrate how investigations, facts, and transparency can ensure meaningful democratic accountability.”

Pia will discuss how the journalist’s role is expanding beyond reporting to include creating impactful solutions to social challenges and how journalism can be more than truth-telling but also as advocacy for collaborative action. Learn more about Pia here.

The Canadian Women’s International Network (CanWIN), presented by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, will be hosting the second annual CanWIN Global Summit (CGS): The Women’s Business Mission Series to Asia Capstone on March 28, 2025. 

This event will celebrate the successes of mission delegates, discuss the opportunities facilitated by APF Canada for in-market advantages, and explore paths forward for Canada to further diversify its export markets into the dynamic Indo-Pacific region.

CGS2025 will include engaging keynote speakers, panel discussions, a showcase of women entrepreneurs in our network, past delegates, and women business leaders from across Canada and Asia.

This event is exclusively open to CanWIN members, past mission delegates, and partners.

Air Canada is launching a new international destination with service from Vancouver (YVR) to Manila.  

The flight will begin April 2, 2025 with non-stop, year-round, 3 to 4-times weekly service. (Three times from April 2nd to April 30th and then four times a week) and will operate with Air Canada's Boeing 787-9. 

The service represents a strategic expansion of Air Canada's international network with the addition of non-stop flights between its Pacific hub at Vancouver International Airport (YVR) and Manila Ninoy Aquino International Airport (MNL) in the Philippines.

It will be Air Canada's 12th route in its transpacific network from Vancouver, which includes Japan, South Korea, People's Republic of China, Hong Kong SAR, Thailand, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand, leveraging Vancouver's geographic position as the closest major North American city to Asia.

Flights from Canada to Manila can be purchased starting December 5, 2024 on aircanada.com, through Air Canada's contact centres, and via travel agents.