National Adult Literacy Database

“Each of these organizations is making an important and positive impact in their communities,” said Scott Mullin, Vice-President, Community Relations, TD Bank Group. “The TD Financial Literacy Grant Fund will help grantees foster innovation and extend their program reach to benefit more people.”

A new report from AlphaPlus suggests that with the help of cloud computing, the future of cyberspace for adult literacy will see a proliferation of new and easily accessible literacy tools such as smartphone applications to help read signs and turn text into voice.

In his first public address as Minister of Industry, Christian Paradis reaffirmed the Government of Canada's commitment to a digital economy strategy. Speaking at the 2011 Canadian Telecom Summit in Toronto, he underscored the importance of information and communications technologies to Canada's economic growth and global competitiveness, and acknowledged the private sector’s essential role.

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.

Immigrants landing in Calgary are confused by the dominance of English in that city, and express puzzlement that they don't hear much French spoken on the street or in buses. They wonder, under those circumstances, why Canada calls itself bilingual.

New research shows that bilingualism assists the brain in its ability to focus and can stave off the negative effects of Alzheimer's disease in old age.

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy invited the spouses of the heads of state and government taking part in the G8 Summit in Deauville, France, recently to join her for a working session about overcoming low literacy levels.

Despite all of the advances in modern management wisdom, there remains a startling finding: over the last 30 years and across industries, employee retention and turnover rates have remained virtually unchanged – on average, 50 per cent of all hires will turn out to be mistakes. The implications of this are dramatically felt within all companies.

Organizations need to ensure their CEO’s vision of success is communicated to every employee, at every level. It's essential to assess how each job contributes to the company's success, and then determine whether the person in the job can deliver. If this isn't done, then the organization's performance is limited by the weakest fit in the structure.

Decoda will be involved in the full literacy continuum – from early childhood to family, adult, workplace and emerging literacy. It will use literacy as a key strategy to help solve fundamental societal issues, as well as business and industry challenges. Decoda brings together the work, experience and expertise of two previous literacy organizations: Literacy BC and 2010 Legacies Now.

No matter the job, employers say they want good communication skills. But when so many job applications are online, job-hunters’ verbal abilities don’t get a chance to shine until their written skills pass the test.

The Essential Skills Literacy: Training Tools for Older Adults project, undertaken by the Newfoundland and Labrador Laubach Literacy Council Inc., has resulted in the development of a teaching and learning resource entitled Essential Skills – Have You Used Yours Today.

Young workers around the world are lacking in engagement with their employers and are the most affected by perceived pressures at work, posing long-term retention and management problems for companies and countries, a new GfK study has found.

Many youth in Canada have noticed that high debt levels and heedless spending – the very issues that have led to our having a financial literacy issue in the first place – are problems created by their parents.

Media Awareness Network and the Canadian Teachers' Federation have unveiled the theme for this year's annual Media Literacy Week – Digital Citizenship – calling on Canadians to encourage young people to reflect on their online lives, and their rights and responsibilities as they navigate the digital world.