Posted in CCCED events, Hate Crime, March 21st, Publications & Resources on Aug 16th, 2010
CCCED is pleased to release the report on our recent ‘Responding to Hate’ forum available here to download and viewable in our resource library.
Posted in News, Publications & Resources, Stats Canada, immigration on Apr 14th, 2010
Some highlights from a recent report from Statistics Canada on the Diversity of the Canadian Population, 2006 to 2031: The ethnocultural diversity of the Canadian population Approximately 3 in 10 Canadians (between 29% and 32%) could be a member of a visible minority group in 2031, regardless of the projection scenario. Canada would then have [...]
Posted in All posts, Events, March 21st, Publications & Resources on Mar 17th, 2010
Organizations in Calgary and throughout Alberta are marking March 21st and their commitment to the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in many special ways. CCCED has compiled these event listings into our first virtual March 21st: Calendar of Events. If you have an event you would like added to our March 21st Calendar, please click here [...]
Posted in All posts, Publications & Resources, immigration on Feb 22nd, 2010
CCCED and Black Powder Teachings have just released a new publication, ‘Bridging the Gap between New Canadians and Aboriginal Peoples,’ a teaching toolkit. ‘Bridging the Gap’ began as a grassroots project to develop an anti-racism curriculum for students and teachers at the Bow Valley College ESL program in Calgary, and this program was successfully piloted [...]
Posted in All posts, Hate Crime, News, Publications & Resources on Dec 9th, 2009
To mark International Human Rights Day, occurring tomorrow December 10, 2009, the Alberta Hate Crimes Committee (AHCC) have just issued a media release for their new guide, Hate Crimes: What you should know and what you can do! For Immediate Release, December 10, 2009: In support of International Human Rights Day whose aim is to [...]
Posted in All posts, Hate Crime, Publications & Resources on Dec 9th, 2009
Following last week’s ‘Calgary says NO to Hate‘ (held after swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans were spray painted on the Calgary Holocaust War Memorial and the Calgary Jewish Centre – CTV video coverage of the rally here) I wanted to post two resource tools that address hate crime in Alberta, its prevalence — and, most importantly, [...]
Posted in All posts, News, Publications & Resources, immigration on Oct 12th, 2009
A recent (September 23rd) release from the C.D. Howe Institute offers some interesting suggestions for how to alter current Canadian Immigration Policy to the economic betterment of new and recent immigrants. The full report findings from the C.D Howe Institute can be accessed here, but the report’s principle recommendation is to reform Canada’s current point [...]
Posted in All posts, News, Publications & Resources on Oct 1st, 2009
CCCED will be presenting tomorrow at the Income Security for all Canadians Workshop in Ottawa, sponsored by BIEN (Basic Income Earth Network) Canada. As a board member of Canada Without Poverty, CCCED Executive Director Vilma Dawson will be speaking to issues of Ensuring Economic Inclusion for Newcomers to Canada at this workshop – issues which [...]
Posted in All posts, News, Publications & Resources on Sep 22nd, 2009
The new City of Calgary Cross Cultural Connections Directory for 2009 has been released. Please click here to access the online directory, or click the City of Calgary listing in the ‘Useful Links’ section of this blog. This updated directory includes contact information for cross cultural groups in Calgary and is indexed by cultural, religious [...]
Posted in All posts, News, Publications & Resources, Stats Canada, immigration on Jul 28th, 2009
A recent article in the Globe and Mail by Tavia Grant and Jennifer Yang (click here) explores how immigrants are bearing the brunt of the recession… Excellent piece. ‘…for newcomers who are forced to accept jobs below their qualifications, the damage to their careers is often permanent – a term dubbed “the scarring effect.” The [...]