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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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Tool
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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Best Practices/Practical Guide
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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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
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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Best Practices/Practical Guide
Leadership skills for the Future of the Sector
How can we build leadership together?Last updated Jul 29, 2024
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Best Practices/Practical Guide
9 Non-profit Leadership Skills Every Founder & Director Must Master
Without good leadership, everything falls apart. It’s like a band with no director – everyone is playing their own song and together it’s just noise instead of beautiful chords of music.Last updated Jul 29, 2024
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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
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Ontario has promised to put immigrant nurses to work faster. That change is long overdue
Yamaan Alsumadi · CBC News · Posted: Sep 20, 2022
I'm a fourth-year nursing student studying at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ont., and I'm in a classroom filled with people who are perfectly qualified to help out with Ontario's health-care shortage.
Instead, they're…
Published September 20, 2022
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Ontario Passes the Working for Workers Act
Monte McNaughton, Minister of Labour, Training and Skills Development, issued the following statement in recognition of the passing of the Working for Workers Act, 2021:
“Our government is working for workers everyday to help them earn bigger paycheques, stay safe, and have…
Published December 1, 2021
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Door opens to Chatham-Kent’s agricultural workers
Oct 19, 2021 - There has been broad praise for changes to Canada’s immigration policy announced earlier this year that provide a path to permanent residency for temporary foreign workers – including agricultural workers.
In Chatham-Kent, workers the Caribbean, Latin America and…
Published October 19, 2021
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Government of Canada supports initiative to address workplace sexual harassment and improve access to justice in Canada
March 3, 2021 – Ottawa, Ontario – Department of Justice Canada
Creating and maintaining workplaces where everyone – no matter their gender identity or expression – can be safe, respected and able to focus on their work is a priority for the Government of Canada.
The Minister of…Published March 3, 2021
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Ontario Provides More Than $1 Billion In Support for Small Business
March 2, 2021 - TORONTO — The Ontario government has to-date provided more than $1 billion through the Ontario Small Business Support Grant to help eligible business owners affected by the COVID-19 restrictions. The grant provides a minimum of $10,000 to a maximum of $20,000 and…
Published March 3, 2021
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OCASI wants to hear from you, settlement practitioners!
In order to better serve its communities of settlement practitioners, OCASI is organizing a survey for its 2 bilingual knowledge hubs, SettlementAtWork and its French counterpart SecteurEtablissement.
The short survey will allow OCASI to get feedback and more insight on how…
Published February 4, 2021
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Ontario Launches Workplace Education and Enforcement Campaigns
Inspection Blitzes Helping to Stop the Spread of COVID-19 and Keep Workers Safe.
Published November 19, 2020
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Ontario Releases COVID-19 Response Framework to Help Keep the Province Safe and Open
Government Provides Additional Details on $300 Million to Support Eligible Businesses.
Published November 3, 2020
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Canadian families to benefit from call for proposals to identify innovative early learning and child care practices
Today, the Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, Ahmed Hussen, launched a call for proposals for innovative projects that aim to improve the quality of early learning and child care across Canada by fostering cutting-edge practices.
Published October 30, 2020