National Adult Literacy Database

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Explore (formerly the Summer Language Bursary Program), which was established in 1971 by the federal government and the provinces and territories, to foster the study of French and English as second languages among Canada’s youth.

Halifax high school students and community leaders joined special guest Lawrence Hill Friday at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic to launch the new Black History in Canada Education Guide created by The Historica-Dominion Institute and sponsored by TD Bank Group. At the celebrations, TD announced a donation from the bank to Dalhousie University for a black student education program.

The Canadian Foundation for Economic Education believes the Task Force has appropriately identified opportunities to improve financial literacy that have gone largely untapped. This includes opportunities for learning in the workplace and opportunities for governments to help improve financial literacy via the many connections they have with Canadians through various programs.

Celebrate Valentine’s Day and discover a love of lifelong learning with this fun list of literacy tips and activities from ABC Life Literacy Canada.

Anthony Ariganello, CGA-Canada’s President and CEO, says the report on financial literacy is only the first step to a national strategy. “The government needs to act on these recommendations.”

Companies across the U.S. are shrinking those boxed-in work areas or scrapping the notion of the once-ubiquitous cubicles altogether.

This report presents the preliminary findings of the Partnership Framework for the Integrated Family Literacy Planning project. The project is led by OLC and funded by the Office of Literacy and Essential Skills at HRSDC.

Here are some very practical suggestions for individuals, employers and community leaders.

ASEP funds partnerships between Aboriginal organizations and major employers to provide on-the-job training and solid work opportunities in a range of sectors such as mining, oil and gas, forestry and fishing, construction and tourism.

Increases in employment in January occurred in business, building and other support services; public administration; and agriculture. Gains were spread across six provinces: Ontario, Alberta, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Manitoba and Prince Edward Island.

“The lessons from our hockey drama for Canadian learning are not encouraging. Our seeming impotence when confronted with external control diminishes a sense of community empowerment and participation.”

Knowledge Ontario’s services reflect many of the priorities of the Ontario Ministry of Education, such as fostering digital literacy and providing equitable access to students across the province, including students in remote, rural, northern, Aboriginal and francophone schools.

Each month NALD releases Library user statistics in a feature known as the Top 20 downloads/20 Plus téléchargés. The report examines the number of NALD Library documents, in both English and French, which are viewed and downloaded by visitors to the websites NALD, NALD@Work, BDAA and BDAA@uTravail.

The CAMA Education Award fosters the development of a library of educational materials for Canadian municipal administrators on subjects of specific interest to CAMA members.

“Looking across various measures of child temperament, physical development and child security, we find very little evidence of an impact of this large expansion of parental leave entitlements.”