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 Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal for Literacy recognizes exceptional achievement in literacy through two categories: Leaders in Literacy Education and Partnership for Literacy.

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.

During last year's inaugural language coffeehouse in Wetaskiwin, Alberta, about 100 people attended the event designed as a chance to celebrate and expose others to the community's multinational, multicultural melting pot.

ABC Life Literacy Canada applauds the work of Canada’s Financial Literacy Task Force who released a new financial literacy strategy to build a more financially literate Canada. The organization also looks forward to working with the Government of Canada, business and literacy partners to implement solutions on this critical literacy and numeracy issue.

Canada's Task Force on Financial Literacy today made public its report to the federal Minister of Finance, recommending urgent action on a national strategy to strengthen Canadians' financial literacy.

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.

The New Brunswick Information Technology Council says it is up to the provincial government, the private sector and education institutions to solve the problem of jobs going unfilled because of a lack of skilled workers.

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.