Credit Unions – Owned By Their Customers
Instead of being owned by shareholders like chartered banks, credit unions and caisses populaires are owned and controlled by their members. Their main purpose is providing financial services to members.
Connecting Talent with Opportunities
The PAIE Program is an innovative, employer-led Ontario bridge training program that connects highly skilled Internationally-Trained Engineers and Geoscientists with employers seeking qualified talent. PAIE is developed and led by Toronto…
English: Going Beyond ESL
Résumé Writing 101 dictates that when applying for a job, you need to customize your résumé so that it contains key words exclusive to your field, but this becomes an obstacle when all you know are basic phrase structures that may well help…
Distance Education: Learn While You Earn
You need to work to support your family, but you have to go back to school to get Canadian credentials for a good job. How can you do both? Many people today use distance education, especially if they have problems understanding spoken…
English: Higher Level ESL for the Internationally Trained
Published March 2005. Some information in this article is outdated. Joe Volpe, the new Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), and Mary Anne Chambers, Ontario 's Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities, announced a…
Connecting Latinos
“Making a better Canada” is the name of a year-long education and outreach campaign to promote the contribution of Hispanic and Italian immigrants to Canadian nation-building. It is how Telelatino (TLN) decided to commemorate its 25 years…
Choosing a Phone
What a confusing world we live in. From one corner of the globe to the next, there are different languages, different cultures, different foods and different politics. And through all this confusion, one would hope that at least our…
Skills for Change Begins New Project to Help Newcomer Women’s Employment
March 12, 2012 - Every year, Skills for Change, a Toronto settlement agency, helps about 14,000 newcomers settle in Canada. Of that number, over 55% are immigrant women. By 2031, it is predicted that 5.8 million people out of 11.1 million…
Canada to Welcome Record Number of Immigrants Under Provincial Nominee Program
Provinces and territories are on track this year to welcome a record number of immigrants selected under their own nominee programs.
Canadian Lifestyles, Joy of Camping in Ontario
Sioban Costelloe was born on the island of Dominica and raised in Trinidad and Tobago before migrating to Canada in 1997. Students are often asked what they did on their summer vacation. If you've never been camping, now is the time to…