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7 Core Competencies of Successful Non-profit Leaders
Every non-profit organization is different, so a single set of competencies is difficult to articulate.Last updated Oct 25, 2024
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Course/Training
Online Resources to Help Celebrate Safety and Health Week
The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS), along with organizations across North America, will be celebrating Safety and Health Week from May 3-9, albeit, a little differently this year.Last updated Oct 21, 2024
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Course/Training
English for Financial Literacy, Volume 1 (CLB 1 - 2)
English for Financial Literacy is an instructor’s resource for teaching financial literacy concepts and skills in LINC and adult ESL programs at CLB levels 1 to 8.Last updated Jul 30, 2024
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Course/Training
English for Financial Literacy, Volume 2 (CLB 3 - 5)
English for Financial Literacy is an instructor’s resource for teaching financial literacy concepts and skills in LINC and adult ESL programs at CLB levels 1 to 8.Last updated Jul 30, 2024
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Best Practices/Practical Guide
A round-up of inflation supports and a new benefit for people with disabilities
Starting July 1, 2023, Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) rates increased by 6.5% and will be adjusted yearly based on inflation. And the federal government sent out a Grocery Rebate on July 5 with people’s GST/HST tax credit.Last updated Jul 30, 2024
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Tool
Multilingual resources on occupational health and safety and employment standards
Settlement agencies play an important role in supporting newcomer workers to understand their rights and responsibilities.Last updated Jul 30, 2024
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Best Practices/Practical Guide
Organizational culture
An organization's culture defines the proper way to behave within the organization.Last updated Jul 29, 2024
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Research/Dataset
Five Pillars of People Risk
The Five Pillars of People Risk: Managing risks for workforce and business resillience, examines the greatest people threats facing employers today.Last updated Jul 29, 2024
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Glossary/Factsheet
Canadian Foundations
A foundation is a category of nonprofit organization or charitable trust that typically provides funding and support for other charitable organizations through grants, but may also engage directly in charitable activities.Last updated Jul 29, 2024
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Glossary/Factsheet
What is the Employment Standards Act (ESA)?
The Employment Standards Act (ESA) states the minimum standards of employment for workers in Ontario, along with the workplace rights and responsibilities of employers and employees. The Act covers most workers in Ontario, with several industry exemptions.Last updated Jul 29, 2024
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Building an anti-racist child-care system in Canada
Policy Options Kaitlin Peters January 9, 2023
In 2021, a Montreal daycare flagged a three-year-old Black child for ”troubling behaviour,” deciding to call Quebec’s youth protection services before having a meeting with the child’s parents. The parents – both of whom had…
Published January 10, 2023
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Refugee group says Ottawa will help bring 600 LGBTQ Afghans to Canada
Dylan Robertson The Canadian Press December 22 2022
An LGBTQ refugee group says Ottawa is helping resettle to Canada 600 Afghans who are fleeing persecution due to their sexual orientation or gender identity.
Earlier this week, Toronto-based Rainbow Railroad said it has only been…
Published December 29, 2022
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Quebec suspends immigration program for non-French-speaking entrepreneurs
The Canadian Press Dec. 21, 2022
Business people from abroad who are thinking of immigrating to Quebec with a business project but don't speak French will have to change their plans in 2023.
The Minister of Immigration, Francisation and Integration, Christine Fréchette, announced…
Published December 22, 2022
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Newcomer YouTubers help immigrants get settled in Canada with advice and candid takes
Dakshana Bascaramurty The Globe and Mail 21 December 2022
The Idumota Market in Nigeria’s capital – also known as Lagos Island Market – is a dizzying warren of shops and street vendors selling house slippers, dresses, bottled water, wristwatches, knockoff designer purses, and…
Published December 22, 2022
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Here's what happens when your immigration application is assigned to inactive employees ID
Priscilla Ki Sun Hwang · CBC News · Posted: Dec 22, 2022
After CBC News published a story about how Canada's immigration department assigned tens of thousands of applications to hundreds of inactive employees and placeholder codes, the department explained its processing system…
Published December 22, 2022
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Refugee group partners with Ottawa to bring hundreds of LGBTQ Afghans to Canada
Nick Logan · CBC News · Posted: Dec 22, 2022
A leading advocacy organization for LGBTQ refugees is partnering with the federal government to resettle hundreds of Afghan refugees fleeing persecution because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
Rainbow Railroad has…
Published December 22, 2022
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New study shows that high rates of workplace injuries in Montreal involve immigrants
The Canadian Press 20 December 2022
A new study from a Montreal research institute for occupational health and safety estimates that up to 80 per cent of people who are injured at work in the city and require rehabilitation are immigrants.
Jessica Dube, a researcher with the…
Published December 21, 2022
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LGBTQ refugee group only able to resettle four per cent of Afghans, urges Ottawa help
Dylan Robertson The Canadian Press December 20 2022
LGBTQ refugee group Rainbow Railroad says it has only been able to resettle 4 per cent of the nearly 3,800 Afghans who have asked it for help since the Taliban took over their country.
The Toronto-based group documents…
Published December 21, 2022
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Canada plans to welcome millions of immigrants. Can our aging infrastructure keep up?
Tyler Dawson The National Post Published Dec 21, 2022
The Canadian population just blew past 39 million, and the country is only going to get bigger: Ottawa announced in November it wants to bring in a half-million more immigrants each year. The population grows apace, our…
Published December 21, 2022
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Most Canadians welcome immigrants, but anti-immigration sentiments persist
The Conversation December 20, 2022 Constantin Colonescu Dr. Andrea Wagner
Hostility towards immigrants has become a powerful component of right-wing populism in several western countries. But for the time being, Canada has not succumbed to this wave.
In Canada, attitudes towards…
Published December 21, 2022