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February 2010

Job Posting: Trainer / Coordinator
The Canadian Centre for Financial Literacy is seeking to hire a trainer / program coordinator to train staff working in community organizations across Canada to facilitate financial literacy curriculum to their clients. The deadline for applications is March 5, 2010.

Immigrants Working in Regulated Occupations
Immigrants who studied for work in a regulated occupation outside Canada were less likely to be working in that occupation in 2006 than either immigrants who had studied in Canada, or those who were born in Canada.

New Video Provides Training Support in Hiring Skilled Immigrants
“Finding Talent,” produced by the Toronto Region Employment Council, is a television-style narrative that uses a storytelling approach to present the hiring challenges faced by employers and the cultural biases they must overcome to attract and recruit skilled immigrants.

A Commitment to Foreign Credential Recognition: Government of Canada Progress Report 2009
This second progress report, published by the Foreign Credentials Referral Office, highlights federal accomplishments made in foreign credential recognition through the collaboration of many key partners.

New Immigrants’ Assessments of Their Life in Canada
In this paper, the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC) is used to examine how immigrants in the 2000-2001 landing cohort subjectively assess their life in Canada. Four years after landing, about three quarters of LSIC respondents said they were satisfied or very satisfied with their life in Canada, and a comparable proportion said their expectations of life in Canada had been met or exceeded. Nearly 9 out of 10 said that, if given the chance, they would make the same decision again to come to Canada.

Ontario - Newcomer Champion Awards
The Newcomer Champion Awards program is a newly created program designed to recognize Ontarians who have facilitated cultural understanding and diversity or helped newcomers to successfully settle and integrate. The deadline for nominations is March 15 of each year.

Citizenship and Immigration Canada, British Columbia/Yukon Region: Call for Proposals
Citizenship and Immigration Canada, British Columbia/Yukon Region, has issued a Call for Proposals for settlement programming for the 2010-2011 fiscal year. The deadline for applications is Friday, March 5, 2010 at 4:30 pm.

Request for Proposals to Design a New Logo for Integration-Net
The Centre for International Migration and Settlement Studies (formerly Research Resource Division for Refugees) is looking for an artist to design a new logo for Integration-Net. The deadline for entries is Monday, March 1, 2010, 5 pm EST.

International Organization for Migration – Job Posting: Project Officer (Canadian Orientation Abroad, COA)
Under the general supervision of the Chief of Mission in Amman and the direct supervision of the COA Global Project Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible and accountable for providing overall assistance and support to the COA project. Interested candidates are invited to submit their applications via PRISM, IOM e-Recruitment system, by February 18, 2010.

CIC’s Modernized Approach to Settlement Programming: A Brief Description
The modernized approach is a shift in how CIC and SPOs address the needs of newcomers, and how settlement initiatives are delivered and administered.

Carleton University launches new research centre on international migration and settlement
On February 1, 2010, the Centre for International Migration and Settlement Studies (CIMSS) was launched at a ceremony hosted by Dr. Roseann O’Reilly Runte, President and Vice-Chancellor of Carleton University, and attended by the Honourable Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, and more than 80 other distinguished guests representing research, policy, and service communities. CIMSS will build on the 25 years’ work of the Research Resource Division for Refugees.

Directions: Research and Policy on Eliminating Racism (Vol. 5, No. 2, Winter 2010)
This issue of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation publication features two studies on the deskilling of immigrant women.

Carleton University to become the official home of the Canadian Policy Research Networks (CPRN) Archive
Carleton University will house the archive of the CPRN, which closed its doors at the end of 2009, as well as host and maintain the CPRN website for seven years.