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					   <title><![CDATA[Projections of the diversity of the Canadian population]]></title>
					   <link><![CDATA[http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/100309/dq100309a-eng.htm]]></link>
					   <description><![CDATA[All growth scenarios considered, the diversity of Canada’s population will continue to increase significantly during the next two decades, especially within certain census metropolitan areas, according to new projections of the country’s ethno-cultural makeup.]]></description>
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					   <title><![CDATA[International Migration and Settlement Challenges in the 21st Century]]></title>
					   <link><![CDATA[http://integration-net.ca/english/media/media_list.cfm?M=6]]></link>
					   <description><![CDATA[A panel discussion marking the launch of the Centre for International Migration and Settlement Studies (formerly Research Resource Division for Refugees), Carleton University, February 1, 2010. The panel featured Abraham Abraham, UNHCR Representative in Canada; Peter Showler, Director, Refugee Forum, Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa; Christopher Worswick, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Carleton University; and Hindia Mohamoud, Project Director, Ottawa Local Immigration Partnership.]]></description>
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					   <title><![CDATA[Citizenship and Immigration Canada - Finding Newcomer Services in Your Area]]></title>
					   <link><![CDATA[http://www.servicesfornewcomers.cic.gc.ca/]]></link>
					   <description><![CDATA[This online resource will be updated and expanded continually to add more information on services newcomers will likely be searching for when they first arrive.]]></description>
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					   <title><![CDATA[Job Posting: Trainer / Coordinator]]></title>
					   <link><![CDATA[http://integration-net.ca:81/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=42&Itemid=1&lang=en]]></link>
					   <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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					   <title><![CDATA[New Video Provides Training Support in Hiring Skilled Immigrants]]></title>
					   <link><![CDATA[http://www.hireimmigrants.ca/tools/4/1]]></link>
					   <description><![CDATA[“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.]]></description>
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					   <title><![CDATA[Immigrants Working in Regulated Occupations ]]></title>
					   <link><![CDATA[http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/75-001-x/2010102/article/11121/11121hl-fs-eng.htm]]></link>
					   <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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					   <title><![CDATA[A Commitment to Foreign Credential Recognition: Government of Canada Progress Report 2009]]></title>
					   <link><![CDATA[http://www.credentials.gc.ca/about/progress-report2009.asp]]></link>
					   <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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					   <title><![CDATA[New Immigrants’ Assessments of Their Life in Canada]]></title>
					   <link><![CDATA[http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11f0019m/11f0019m2010322-eng.htm]]></link>
					   <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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					   <title><![CDATA[Ontario - Newcomer Champion Awards]]></title>
					   <link><![CDATA[http://www.citizenship.gov.on.ca/english/honours/nca/]]></link>
					   <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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					   <title><![CDATA[Citizenship and Immigration Canada, British Columbia/Yukon Region: Call for Proposals]]></title>
					   <link><![CDATA[http://integration-net.ca:81/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=39&Itemid=1&lang=en]]></link>
					   <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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						   <title><![CDATA[Does Your Landlord Want You to Move Out? ]]></title>
						   <author><![CDATA[Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO) ]]></author>
						   <link><![CDATA[http://www.cleo.on.ca/english/six/English/evict-en.pdf]]></link>
						   <description><![CDATA[This resource offers basic information about what tenants need to do if they do not want to move out or be evicted, what happens at a Landlord and Tenant Board hearing, and where to get help in many languages.
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						   <pubdate><![CDATA[Posted on: Mar 9, 2010]]></pubdate>
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						   <title><![CDATA[Immigration Kingston ]]></title>
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						   <link><![CDATA[http://www.immigrationkingston.ca/]]></link>
						   <description><![CDATA[This website offers orientation information on the City of Kingston Ontario, and local settlement related news. It also provides information about the moving and settlement process.
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						   <pubdate><![CDATA[Posted on: Mar 9, 2010]]></pubdate>
						   <category>New Resources</category>
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						   <title><![CDATA[International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC)]]></title>
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						   <link><![CDATA[http://www.iglhrc.org/cgi-bin/iowa/home/index.html]]></link>
						   <description><![CDATA[The IGLHRC is a leading international organization dedicated to human rights advocacy on behalf of people who experience discrimination or abuse on the basis of their actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity or expression. This website features resources based on country.
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						   <pubdate><![CDATA[Posted on: Mar 8, 2010]]></pubdate>
						   <category>New Resources</category>
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						   <title><![CDATA[Consumer Identity Theft Kit]]></title>
						   <author><![CDATA[Consumer Measures Committee ]]></author>
						   <link><![CDATA[http://cmcweb.ca/eic/site/cmc-cmc.nsf/eng/fe00084.html]]></link>
						   <description><![CDATA[This toolkit identifies key ways to reduce one's risk of becoming a victim of identity theft.

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						   <pubdate><![CDATA[Posted on: Mar 8, 2010]]></pubdate>
						   <category>New Resources</category>
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						   <title><![CDATA[Approaches to Measuring Less Poverty in Communities]]></title>
						   <author><![CDATA[ Tamarack]]></author>
						   <link><![CDATA[http://tamarackcommunity.ca/downloads/vc/Measure_Less_Poverty_in_Communities.pdf]]></link>
						   <description><![CDATA[The purpose of this paper is to review and describe different approaches which organizations and governments have used to measure less poverty in communities. This paper provides a simple overview of ten different approaches.
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						   <pubdate><![CDATA[Posted on: Mar 5, 2010]]></pubdate>
						   <category>New Resources</category>
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						   <title><![CDATA[OCISO Awards Gala Dinner (Mar 11, 2010   -Ottawa, Ontario)]]></title>
						   <link><![CDATA[http://www.ociso.org/Forms_Flyers/Evite%20OCISO%20Gala%202010.pdf]]></link>
						   <description><![CDATA[The Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization (OCISO) is hosting an annual gala dinner in celebration of their community. 
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						   <title><![CDATA[University of California International Migration Conference (Mar 12, 2010   -La Jolla, United States)]]></title>
						   <link><![CDATA[http://ccis.ucsd.edu/2010/03/university-of-california-international-migration-conference/]]></link>
						   <description><![CDATA[Themes at this international conference include "Assimilation and Transnationalism," and "Ethnicity and the Welfare State."
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						   <title><![CDATA[Living in Apologetic Times: Multiculturalism and Reconciliation in Canada (Mar 12, 2010   -Toronto, Ontario)]]></title>
						   <link><![CDATA[http://integration-net.ca:81/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=41&Itemid=1&lang=en]]></link>
						   <description><![CDATA[CERIS – The Ontario Metropolis Centre is presenting this free public seminar.

 
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						   <title><![CDATA[“A Relational Approach to Intercultural Conflict” Workshop (Mar 16, 2010   -Ottawa, Ontario)]]></title>
						   <link><![CDATA[http://integration-net.ca:81/event_evenement/2009-029.pdf]]></link>
						   <description><![CDATA[This advanced practice workshop will involve participants in experimental exploration of creative ways to address intercultural conflict. 
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						   <title><![CDATA[AGEISM and the Situation of Seniors in Quebec: Observations and Prospects  (Mar 16, 2010   -Montreal, Quebec)]]></title>
						   <link><![CDATA[http://ffdpm.com/2010/index_en.php?item=evenement02]]></link>
						   <description><![CDATA[What is ageism? This term includes all forms of discrimination, segregation and contempt based on age. Looking beyond the myths and the taboos, a group of lawyers, unionists, researchers and filmmakers get together to address the situation of the elderly in Quebec.
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						   <title><![CDATA[Language Training Centre of Ottawa]]></title>
						   <link><![CDATA[http://ltco.ncf.ca/en/english.html]]></link>
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						   <category>New Links to Organizations</category>
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						   <title><![CDATA[Immigrant Settlement and Integration Services]]></title>
						   <link><![CDATA[http://www.isisns.ca/]]></link>
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						   <category>New Links to Organizations</category>
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						   <title><![CDATA[Mount Carmel Clinic]]></title>
						   <link><![CDATA[http://www.mountcarmel.ca/]]></link>
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						   <title><![CDATA[Physical Activity Resource Centre]]></title>
						   <link><![CDATA[http://parc.ophea.net/]]></link>
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						   <category>New Links to Organizations</category>
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						   <title><![CDATA[Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services]]></title>
						   <link><![CDATA[http://accessalliance.ca/]]></link>
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						   <title><![CDATA[International Migration and Settlement Challenges in the 21st Century]]></title>
						   <link><![CDATA[http://integration-net.ca/english/videos/media_list.cfm?M=6]]></link>
	   					   <description><![CDATA[A panel discussion marking the launch of the Centre for International Migration and Settlement Studies (formerly Research Resource Division for Refugees). The panel featured Abraham Abraham, UNHCR Representative in Canada; Peter Showler, Director, Refugee Forum, Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa; Christopher Worswick, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Carleton University; and Hindia Mohamoud, Project Director, Ottawa Local Immigration Partnership.]]></description>
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						   <title><![CDATA[Research in the Positive Development of Policy and Practice in the Area of Refugees and Forced Migration]]></title>
						   <link><![CDATA[http://integration-net.ca/english/videos/media_list.cfm?M=5]]></link>
	   					   <description><![CDATA[A keynote address by Abraham Abraham (UNHCR Representative in Canada), Second Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies]]></description>
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						   <title><![CDATA[Imperfect Storm Warnings]]></title>
						   <link><![CDATA[http://integration-net.ca/english/videos/media_list.cfm?M=4]]></link>
	   					   <description><![CDATA[A keynote address by Peter Showler (Director of the Refugee Forum, Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa), Second Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies]]></description>
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						   <title><![CDATA[Rethinking Poverty 2: Community Forum]]></title>
						   <link><![CDATA[http://integration-net.ca/english/videos/media_list.cfm?M=3]]></link>
	   					   <description><![CDATA[A speech given by immigrant rights activist Uzma Shakir at the forum.]]></description>
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						   <title><![CDATA[Responding to the Challenge of Protracted Refugee Situations]]></title>
						   <link><![CDATA[http://integration-net.ca/english/videos/media_list.cfm?M=2]]></link>
	   					   <description><![CDATA[A public event co-hosted by the Canadian Refugee Research Network (CRRN), the Ottawa Migration and Refugee Research Network (OMRRN), and the Centre for International Migration and Settlement Studies (CIMSS, formerly Research Resource Division for Refugees)]]></description>
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