National Adult Literacy Database

The month of October is Canadian Library Month across the country with this year’s theme “Your Library: Your World: Opening Doors to the Future” emphasizing the ability of libraries to introduce new ideas, new stories, and new ways into the world around us through both traditional and emerging technologies.

Welcome to Good Reads—books by best-selling Canadian authors. The Good Reads authors have a special talent—the ability to tell a great story, using clear language.

TORONTO, Sept. 29 /CNW/ - The Writers' Trust of Canada has announced the finalists for the 10th annual Writers' Trust Awards. Nominees for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize, and the Writers' Trust/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize, for short fiction, were unveiled this morning at a press conference at Toronto's Ben McNally Books.

TORONTO, September 29, 2010 — Ministers of education across Canada are seeking leave to take their legal argument regarding fair-dealing rights for students in Canadian schools to the Supreme Court of Canada.

Homework shouldn't be about rote learning. The best kind deepens student understanding and builds essential skills.

Community Literacy of Ontario (CLO) is a network of more than 100 community-based Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) agencies located in communities, both large and small, across that province.

On Wednesday, October 6, 2010, the Toronto skyline will turn orange in honour of the life literacy cause and to commemorate ABC Life Literacy Canada’s 20th anniversary. Orange is ABC Life Literacy Canada’s official colour.

Raise-a-Reader, a year-round initiative that raises funds for family literacy programs across Canada, has raised $15-million since its national launch in 2002. The program has also helped educate Canadians about literacy issues and how improved literacy levels have a positive impact on our country's economy and social wellbeing.

Aboriginal education, particularly stronger student outcomes and current federal funding levels, was the primary focus of Saskatchewan ministers participating in the 98th Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC) meeting on September 23-24 in Winnipeg.

TORONTO – September 28, 2010 – ABC Life Literacy Canada, in partnership with Grass Roots Press, and with support from Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, today launched the first six (of 12) titles in the innovative Good Reads series for adult literacy learners. “Being able to connect adult learners to bestselling Canadian authors is an incredibly powerful experience for all involved,” said Margaret Eaton, President of ABC Life Literacy Canada.

Reading is essential not only to our education and our work, but also to our enjoyment. Books and magazines make it possible for readers to explore various themes and discover new worlds.

Celebrate NWT Literacy Week September 27-October 1 by taking part in these numeracy activities on Monday.

(CNN) -- Appreciate the apostrophe, salute the semicolon and exalt the exclamation point Friday. It's National Punctuation Day!

York University's Glendon College is breaking ground on its new Centre for Excellence in French Language and Bilingual Postsecondary Education. With assistance from the Ontario government, the college is building the new facility to improve access to postsecondary French-language programs for Francophone students.

"It's the most important development in my 30-year career," speech-language pathologist Sandy Collins told me last week when I visited White Rock elementary to watch as two young girls - Kaitlyn Peterson and Sarah Cairns, pictured above with Collins - showed me how they use the Fast ForWord software.