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Joint VS/Service Canada Workgroup Update |
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Attached please find communiqué #4 from the Voluntary Sector members of the Joint VS/Service Canada Workgroup on funding issues. Also attached is the press release from the Minister, announcing receipt of the report of the Workgroup, and endorsement of its recommendations.
The JOINT SERVICE CANADA / VOLUNTARY SECTOR WORKING GROUP REPORT ON DEVELOPING NEW APPROACHES TO FUNDING RESULTS and an executive summary can be found at: http://www1.servicecanada.gc.ca/en/epb/sid/cia/CCSB/Report.shtml. |
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In This Bulletin:
Member News
Meetings, PDWs and member only resources
Canada-Ontario Labour Market Development Agreement and Partnership Agreement
Letter regarding LMDA and LMPA English
Letter regarding LMDA and LMPA French
Questions and answers
Questions et responses
The Labour Market Agreement and Partnership Agreements are here. We want to hear from you!
The ONESTEP Board met recently to discuss the kinds of supports we need to provide
our members with during the implementation of the LMDA and the LMPA. There are
certain issues that we are aware of but we would like to hear from you. Download
the questionnaire fill out and return to info@onestep.on.ca
News/Alerts
CBT related media reports, RFPs and announcements
Ontario bans mandatory retirement at 65
NEW LAW TO END MANDATORY RETIREMENT WILL ALLOW ONTARIANS TO DECIDE WHEN TO RETIRE
Events
NATCON Pre Registration
(Ottawa)
Call for Papers/Conference: Great Expectations and Competing Accountabilities: Challenges for Community Agencies
(Toronto)
Solution-focused interviewing-brief helping interviews
(Kingston)
Online Resources
To Make Work Pay: One (Modest) Step Forward
Job Postings
Assistant Manager
(Toronto)
Marketing Support Assistant
(Based in Keswick)
Call Centre Associate
(Mississauga)
Employment Facilitator
(Scarborough, Markham, Mississauga)
Member News
Canada-Ontario Labour Market Development Agreement and Partnership Agreement
Please see the attached letter from Training, Colleges & Universities Minister Christopher Bentley regarding the Labour Market Development Agreement and Labour Market Partnership Agreement. Also attached are questions and answers for your information.
Letter regarding LMDA and LMPA English
Letter regarding LMDA and LMPA French
Questions and answers
Questions et responses
News/Alerts
Ontario bans mandatory retirement at 65
TORONTO — People in Ontario can remain in the workforce later in life under new legislation passed Thursday that will eliminate mandatory retirement at the age of 65 in about a year. Critics warned the law means future generations may have to toil into their late 60s or beyond to be eligible for pensions.
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NEW LAW TO END MANDATORY RETIREMENT WILL ALLOW ONTARIANS TO DECIDE WHEN TO RETIRE
TORONTO--Ontario’s new law to end mandatory retirement will provide greater fairness and choice for workers aged 65 and older, Labour Minister Steve Peters announced today.
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Events
NATCON Pre Registration (Ottawa)
The workshop descriptions are now available on the web site www.natcon.org.
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Call for Papers/Conference: Great Expectations and Competing Accountabilities: Challenges for Community Agencies (Toronto)
The CASAE/ACEEA invites you to it’s Ontario Regional Conference, “Great Expectations and Competing Accountabilities: Challenges for Community Agencies on Friday, March 3, 2006.
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Solution-focused interviewing-brief helping interviews (Kingston)
The Solution Focused Interviewing (SFI) training program is designed for health care, helping, and human resource professionals.
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Online Resources
The Resource Library is an online searchable database of information about community-based employment and training across Ontario and beyond. Visit the ONESTEP Resource Library: www.onestep.on.ca/resource/intro.cfm Below are some recent additions:
To Make Work Pay: One (Modest) Step Forward
Friday, December 2, 2005 – The Globe and Mail called it “a huge step in adapting social policy to the 21st century”. Perhaps.
The newspaper was referring to Ralph Goodale’s proposal for a Working Income Tax Benefit (WITB). The federal finance minister’s income supplement is intended to reduce the disincentive to leaving welfare for the job market and to improve the return for full-time work at the bottom end of the income scale.
But in a country where one in six full-time workers earns under $10 an hour, is it really a “huge step”?
In an op-ed commentary published recently in the Globe, Ron Saunders, Director of CPRN’s Work Network, responds positively to Goodale’s announcement, but argues that without other steps the minister’s initiative is unlikely to achieve even its own limited goal.
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