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OHRC and LCO release new tool to help organizations assess AI technologies to ensure they uphold human rights
The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) and the Law Commission of Ontario (LCO) launched the Human Rights Impact Assessment for AI Technologies (“HRIA” or “the tool”), a tool to help assess and mitigate human rights impacts of AI systems in a broad range of applications.Last updated Nov 13, 2024
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CLEO's New Guided Pathway for Open Work Permits
CLEO has a new Guided Pathway to help people fill out draft forms to apply for an open work permit in Canada. An open work permit allows someone to work for any employer in Canada.Last updated Nov 5, 2024
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Capacity Building Opportunity: Facilitation Skills Training
For a limited time, Skills for Success Canada is covering the tuition fees to participate in the highly successful Change it Up Facilitator Training.Last updated Nov 5, 2024
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Understanding and Challenging Anti-Black Racism
This 4-module course aims to assist people working in the immigrant and refugee-serving sector understand how systems operate and how they create and manifest racism and anti-Black racism.Last updated Nov 4, 2024
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Best Practices/Practical Guide
5 Trends Driving the New Post-Pandemic Workplace
Here are five workplace trends that have been accelerated and now are driving priorities for the new post-pandemic office.Last updated Oct 29, 2024
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WESO Toolkit Training
The Wired: Evaluating Settlement Online (WESO), an IRCC-funded SDI project located at the YMCA of the National Capital Region (Ottawa), would like to introduce you to our research-based evaluation toolkit for settlement organizations.Last updated Oct 25, 2024
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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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Best Practices/Practical Guide
Succession Planning Process
Succession planning is the process of identifying very important positions in the organization and creating a talent pipeline, by preparing employees to fill vacancies in their organization as others retire or move on.Last updated Jul 29, 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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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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Work skills must be central to Canadian immigration efforts
Pedro Barata, Steven Tobin Policy Options December 13, 2022
The federal government recently announced a significant increase in immigration targets for the next three years – welcoming almost 1.5 million people between 2023-25. The plan aims to address continuing labour…
Published December 20, 2022
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Canada’s new permanent-residency pathways are a half-measure
Iain Reeve The Globe And Mail 12 December 2022
Iain Reeve is the associate director of immigration at the Conference Board of Canada.
Earlier this year, Liberal MP Randeep Sarai put forward a private members’ motion in the House of Commons, calling for expanded immigration…
Published December 12, 2022
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Canada not doing enough with its highly educated immigrants, StatsCan says
Jessica Wong · CBC News · Posted: Dec 01, 2022
Being a physician has been a lifelong dream for 35-year-old Ayman Jabril. He's passionate about caring for patients, clearly explaining medical treatments, and following up with them over time. He trained and worked as a physician in…
Published December 2, 2022
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Not everyone thinks Canada’s new immigration plan will grow the economy the way it should
Brian Hill Global News December 1, 2022
Nadine Rana’s family has been proudly cleaning clothes for more than 50 years.
Her parents immigrated to Canada from the West Indies in the late 1960s and opened a dry cleaner in Toronto’s east end. Rana now runs the business with the hope…
Published December 2, 2022
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Why are migrant farm workers calling for permanent residence status for all? A Niagara lawyer explains
Zahraa Hmood St. Catherine’s Standard Tue., Nov. 8, 2022
Mandip Grewal is a staff lawyer with the Niagara Community Legal Clinic, focused on handling the legal concerns of seasonal farm workers in the Niagara region, particularly Niagara-on-the-Lake. "I've seen workers speak…
Published November 9, 2022
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Ottawa Public Health confronts systemic racism, initiates action plan for reform
By Gail Pope Capital Current October 17, 2022
A report examining systemic racism within Ottawa Public Health has highlighted various challenges faced by racialized employees at the City of Ottawa agency that’s leading local efforts to fight COVID-19 and bring greater “health…
Published October 19, 2022
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Don’t speak English or French? In Hamilton, you might earn 57 per cent less than people who do
Ritika Dubey Spectator Reporter Thu., Oct. 13, 2022
If your English or French is weak, you might be earning 57 per cent less than Hamiltonians with better linguistic skills, according to the latest census data.
The fluency of official languages in Hamilton strongly reflected on…
Published October 13, 2022
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Cap on international students' working hours should be permanently lifted: advocates
Laura Osman | National Observer | October 12th 2022
A new pilot project to lift the cap on the number of hours international students can work should be made permanent, say advocates who have spent years asking for the change.
Immigration Minister Sean Fraser announced last…
Published October 13, 2022
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Students say lifting cap on working hours doesn't fix bigger issues for international students
CBC News · Posted: Oct 08, 2022
Post-secondary students in Calgary say a one-year pilot project that will lift the cap on off-campus hours international students are allowed to work is good news.
But it's a short-term fix that does not address bigger problems, they said.
On Nov…
Published October 11, 2022
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Recruiters and employers increasingly taking advantage of temporary foreign workers, advocate says
Joel Ballard, Francis Plourde · CBC News · Posted: Sep 23, 2022
Temporary foreign workers are reporting paying recruiters and employers thousands of dollars to obtain a permit to work in Canada — only to end up with nothing.
CBC Radio-Canada spoke with multiple experts who say…
Published September 29, 2022