National Adult Literacy Database

Approximately one of three (36 per cent) Canadian workers is seriously considering leaving their organization at the present time, up sharply from 26 per cent in 2006. Meanwhile, another 22 per cent are indifferent about leaving but are increasingly dissatisfied with their employers and yield the lowest scores on key measures of engagement.

The Assembly of First Nations has released a one-year status report on the national Call to Action on First Nation education, showcasing progress and partnerships in working toward fairness in education for First Nations and encouraging others to join the effort.

Don’t give up on education. ● Don’t take a school day for granted. ● Work hard.

Naturally, the generation that lives on Facebook and can text at warp speed prefers to look for jobs online. The problem is that it's one of the least likely places to find work.

One of the hardest parts of reading to a child, especially a young one, is keeping his/her attention. Fathers can help keep children engaged in reading by making it fun and entertaining.

An Edmonton consultant’s international initiative will pair countries to build social infrastructure. Literacy Without Borders will also devote time and resources to preserving and building indigenous languages, many of which are on the verge of extinction.

Summer slide, the brain-drain that occurs during the holiday months when young people are out of class, can be a problem, especially for those who struggle in school.

Quebec has announced concrete measures to advance the matching of training and the needs of the job market in the province. A total of 13 strategies have been outlined and other initiatives may be added as work with the partners proceeds.

Frontier College is looking for a contract researcher/writer to conduct research and develop a written summary over the course of the next six months. The subject area is the inter-relationships between justice and literacy as they relate to youth, within a Canadian context.

Ontario is expanding French immersion programs across the province to give more high school students the opportunity to learn a second language.

Alberta’s three-year high school completion rate jumped to 72.6 per cent in 2010 from 71.5 per cent in 2009. The increase follows efforts by school boards, teachers, parents, communities and government to better engage students in the importance of learning.

With a seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 5.0 per cent (well below the national average of 7.4 per cent), Saskatchewan has now had the lowest unemployment rate in Canada for three straight months.

The face of the non-profit sector is getting younger as the baby boomer population retires but there’s also a new effort under way to make sure it gets more diverse as the workforce is renewed.

Canada’s employers are going into the summer a little more willing to bring in new hires than they were three months ago, according to a newly released quarterly hiring outlook.

Increasing optimism about the Canadian labour market among hiring managers and job seekers is not expected to let up anytime soon, with Calgary and other Prairie cities leading the way in job creation and economic growth over the rest of the year, according to several reports.