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Early Childhood Care and Education New Brunswick and the Canadian Child Care Federation are pleased to host the national child care conference Valuing Children: A Canadian Conversation, May 26 - 28, 2011, in Saint John, New Brunswick.
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Top 20 PDF Downloads for February 2011

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.
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Federal government launches fun, educational mobile application

Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney has launched a fun and educational Facebook application that tests your knowledge of Canada’s history, values, symbols and political institutions.
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Popular learning disabilities program may get second life

A program that takes a unique approach to learning disabilities by challenging students to retrain their brains is under review by the Toronto Catholic District School Board.
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OLC conducting research on professionalism in literacy field

The study will draw upon academic research, findings from international literacy professionalization initiatives, and interviews with literacy stakeholders to identify their particular issues, concerns, hopes and ideas relating to professionalization.
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Look for a new “intelligent” event creation form, a dynamic new events calendar, a powerful search tool, new graphics and a wide range of promotional materials you can customize to fit your needs.
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Employment survey of NBCC/CCNB graduates shows positive results

The overall employment rate for 2009 New Brunswick Community College graduates was 90 per cent, with 94 per cent of those finding work within the province. A total of 1,099 graduates responded to the survey.
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Debate surrounds privacy rights and employee use of email in the workplace

“There is a context and set of conditions within which the employer has to work,” said André Marois of Quebec’s Privacy Commission. “A company policy on email usage has to be made known to staff, explaining how they are to use it and that they’ll be subject to inquiries if they go beyond an established norm of usage.”
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Toronto school for poor students would make them work for tuition

A private school for low-income high school students – where the young people would work to pay for their own tuition – has made its first inroads into opening in Toronto.
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Future job market will require more post-secondary graduates

Prospective university, college and vocational students have a tough decision to make in selecting the right program that will launch their career. With so many post-secondary schools to choose from, students are being reminded at learning institutions to make the most of their education options.
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PEI launches addictions toolkit for use in workplace

Health PEI has joined other provincial health authorities in Atlantic Canada to offer employers a new way of dealing with the impact of substance abuse in the workplace.
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Deadline to apply: March 14, 2011
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After brain injury, former U.S. scientist turns to writing

A former scientist from Clinton Township, New Jersey, turned a traumatic brain injury into a new beginning as an author speaking out to support fellow survivors.
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Whatever it takes: How hero worship can get boys into books

Literacy is about "cultivating the fundamental need in most boys to be the hero of their own story, and showing them how they can experience it through the power of the written word."
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Personal financial stress sometimes spills over into poor workplace performance, or perhaps employee preoccupation with trying to find more lucrative employment.
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