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31. Nova Scotia TriPartite Forum Proceedings - July 2005 (2005)
Authors: Canadian Labour and Business Centre
Collection: Research Materials
On July 5, 2005, the Nova Scotia Department of Environment and Labour convened a Tripartite Forum on labour/management relations in the province. The Canadian Labour and Business Centre was asked to help to organize and facilitate the Forum.
The objective of the Forum was to bring together senior representatives of employers, labour and government to discuss the role which labour/management relationships can play, both through collective bargaining and through other means, in contributing to strong growth in the provincial economy.
The document includes: the agenda, the opening remarks, keynote address, summary of the roundtable discussions, luncheon address and concluding remarks.
Added: 2007-05-09
32. An Overview of the National Literacy Secretariat Business and Labour Partnership (2007)
Policy Digest
Authors: Partnerships in Learning
Collection: Research Materials
The Business and Labour Partnership Program is a program of the National Literacy Secretariat, Human Resources and Social Development Canada started in 1988. Its aim was to develop and sustain partnerships between business, labour, education, and government sectors that would support adult work-related literacy.
The projects and activities supported through the Business and Labour Partnership Program affected five groups of people involved in workplace literacy and essential skills: business organizations and employers; labour organizations and their local constituents; educational practitioners and experts; project participants and the community at large.
This case study documented the ideas and approaches that were used by the National Literacy Secretariat to implement the Business and Labour Partnership Program. It also outlines the different types of partnerships that developed under the Program. The aim of this report is to demonstrate how this partnership program worked so that government employees and literacy practitioners can learn from the approach.
Added: 2007-07-17
33. A Response to Challenges and Choices (1984)
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Paula De Coito
Collection: Research Materials
This report was written in response to an interim report, a summation and analysis of the views of Canadians on the main issues facing the nation in the coming years, released by the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada.
Added: 2003-10-20
34. Seniors' Parliament (2009)
Series: Case Studies on Adult Learning
Authors: Marthe Vaillancourt
Collection: Learning Materials
This document provides an overview of the Seniors’ Parliament, established in the province of Quebec immediately after the Year of the Senior in 2000.
The goals of the Seniors’ Parliament include getting older people interested in how Quebec’s National Assembly works; enabling seniors to develop bills and take part in legislative debates like real members; and increasing awareness of issues of concern to seniors;
The Seniors' Parliament is made up of retired women and men from every region of Quebec who are appointed by the members of their regional Association québécoise de défense des droits des personnes retraitées et préretraitées (AQDR) chapters. The AQDR’s mission includes combating age discrimination.
Each of the 115 senior parliamentarians is appointed for a one-year term, with the option of participating for a second consecutive year. They are required to attend caucus meetings, draft bills, discuss matters in parliamentary committees, and report back to their AQDR chapters.
Added: 2013-01-15
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35. Solving The Puzzle (2003)
A Guide to Income Assistance
Authors: Urban Core Support Network, Conseil consultatif sur la condition de la femme du N.-B., NB Advisory Council for the Status of Women
Collection: Learning Materials
This document is a guide regarding Income Assistance Program. It includes the following information:
- General Information;
- Applying for Income Assistance;
- Housing/Shared Living;
- Assets and Income;
- Health Card;
- Emergencies;
- People with Disabilities and Long-Term Needs;
- Personal and Family Development;
- Going to Work, Education or Training;
- Appeal Process; and
- Community Resources.
Added: 2003-10-10
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36. Standing up for Literacy (2006)
Pre-budget Consultations
Authors: Movement for Canadian Literacy
Collection: Research Materials
This is the (MCL) Movement for Canadian Literacy’s submission to the federal Pre-Budget Consultations of April 2006. In their recommendations, they have highlighted areas that they believe the federal government can and should address immediately. MCL states that movement on these recommendations is a crucial first step to the creation of a broader, long-term pan-Canadian literacy strategy that will involve all levels of governments and sectors of society in tackling our literacy challenges.
Recommendation 1: Recommend that the federal government position literacy as a policy and funding priority and resume its efforts to develop a comprehensive Pan-Canadian Literacy Strategy in cooperation with the provinces and territories and other stakeholders.
Recommendation 2: Immediately assign additional federal funds to literacy, as recommended by the all-party Parliamentary Standing Committee on Human Resources Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities in its 2003 report.
Added: 2006-11-21
37. Submission by the Canadian Labour and Business Centre to the Innovation Engagement Strategy (2002)
Authors: Canadian Labour and Business Centre
Collection: Research Materials
The submission was made by The Canadian Labour and Business Centre (CLBC) for the Innovation Engagement Strategy, includes:
- Introduction
- Six discussion questions:
- Targets
- Major challenges
- Government of Canada priorities
- Innovation vision
- Commitments, actions and time lines
- National issues
Added: 2007-05-09
38. Submission to the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador's Department of Education (2008)
Strategic Adult Literacy Plan
Authors: Literacy Newfoundland and Labrador
Collection: Research Materials
This document is the submission that Literacy NL made to the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador regarding the province's Strategic Literacy Plan. In the 2007 provincial budget, $140,000 was allocated to update the provincial Strategic Literacy Plan. The intent of the submission was to provide direction from the literacy community that can speak to the foundations for a long-term strategy for literacy and learning in the province.
Literacy NL is a charitable network of individuals and organizations that is committed to advancing literacy and lifelong learning.
Its submission consists of the following main sections:
- Scope of the current state of literacy in the province
- Response to the consultation process
- Identified areas for action
- Summation
Added: 2009-02-24
39. Submission to The Honourable Dwight Duncan Minister of Finance (2006)
Authors: Anette Chawla, Ontario Literacy Coalition (OLC)
Collection: Research Materials
The Ontario Literacy Coalition (OLC), now called Essential Skills Ontario, is a charitable, non-profit adult literacy organization with close to 300 members from across the province, made up of literacy programs, networks, individuals, and people with literacy challenges.
In this paper, the OLC is lobbying for more sustainable funding for literacy. The 2005 International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey (IALSS) showed that 16.2 per cent of adults in Ontario have serious difficulty with even the most basic written materials. The IALSS survey also found that another 26 per cent of Ontarians had literacy skills below the minimum level needed to cope with the complex demands of everyday life and work in our global economy.
The paper gives 5 recommendations, in which it mentions that Ontario needs to take a broader approach to literacy. While labour market development is important, it should not be the only focus for adult literacy and academic upgrading programs.
To find out more about Essential Skills Ontario, click here: http://www.essentialskillsontario.ca/.
Added: 2006-02-01
40. Successful Communication: Tool Kit (2003)
Literacy and You
Authors: Communication Canada
Collection: Learning Materials
Communications Canada has designed this practical tool kit, entitled Successful Communication: Literacy and You, to assist Government of Canada communicators and managers to better communicate to Canadians information about the policies, programs and services that have been designed for them. This resource includes an overview of key techniques, practical examples and case studies that will help to clarify and simplify verbal, written, televised and Internet communications. This tool kit is organized into the following chapters and concludes with a section devoted to case studies:
1. Successful communication
2. Successful written communication
3. Successful verbal communication
4. Successful televisual communication
5. Successful internet communication
6. Evaluation tools
7. Contacts
8. Canadian and international initiatives
Case studies
Added: 2008-09-08
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