National Adult Literacy Database

This is an easy-to-read publication for low-literacy individuals who are interested in learning about the trades or working within the trades as a career choice. The resource comes with Teaching Notes.

Job seekers from Saskatchewan, across Canada and around the world visited www.saskjobs.ca in droves this January - with good reason.

Ray Ivany, president of Acadia University, and Bert Lewis, former principal of the Nova Scotia Community College Strait Area Campus, have been appointed to the board of Nova Scotia Business Inc.

Education leaders launched I Love to Read Month in Winnipeg but it was no ordinary guest reading. Education Minister Nancy Allan, the Manitoba Teachers’ Society President Pat Isaak and Winnipeg School Division Board Chair Suzanne Hrynyk read to students from a book loaded onto the classroom’s SmartBoard.

Canadian fleets now have access to comprehensive online tools that combine economic indicators and labour trends, making it possible to generate reports that can be used to support everything from business plans to recruiting strategies.

The Financial Basics workshop offers participants a hands-on learning experience on topics of vital importance to responsible management of personal finances and teaches them money management skills for life.

Citing a long list of new exceptions in the bill, including the expansion of so-called “fair dealing” to cover education, the coalition warns that C-32 will cause serious damage to markets for Canada’s cultural sector and significantly reduce current and future revenues on which creators depend for their income.

“Success also breeds excitement, and the fact that we have grown enrolments this year 7.6 per cent and have the largest enrolment ever in NBCC’s long history is an exciting point.”

Experience has demonstrated that CAMA members have every right to be proud when it comes to excellence in municipal management. Year-after-year there are countless examples of outstanding projects and programs designed, developed and implemented in Canadian municipalities to improve the quality of life for citizens.

For the first quarter of 2011, 45.9 per cent of respondents indicated that their organization was preparing for new hires, versus a mere 3.3 per cent who reported that it was considering cutbacks.

“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.”

Since its release in December, the Oscar-bound historical drama has been inspiring stutterers and raising public awareness of the speech disorder like nothing else before it.

Are you uncertain and/or maybe a bit overwhelmed by the new and ever-changing technology and online tools you are exposed to every day? Considering using some of them but not sure where to start?