Service Canada Change Agenda
	To assist you in better understanding Service Canada's changes to the administration of Grants and Contribution agreements, ONESTEP has organized and posted a useful list of Annotated Resources at onestep.on.ca.

Member News

SE Regional ONESTEP Meeting

SE Region ONESTEP meeting on February 28th at 10:00 am at YEAH, 105 Strowger Blvd., Brockville. An agenda will be sent out before the meeting.

Toronto/Niagara Regional ONESTEP Meeting

Next ONESTEP Toronto/Niagara region meeting

DATE: Wednesday February 8, 2006

TIME: 9:30 am to 12 noon

LOCATION: YES Toronto, 555 Richmond Street West, Suite 711

AGENDA ITEMS

Update on Service Canada's Change Agenda

What does the LMDA/LMPA mean to your agency?

What does the LMDA/LMPA mean for the non-proft CBT sector?

An agenda will be sent out in early February.

SW Regional Meeting

South West Regional meeting, February 24th at 10:00 am in London. Agenda and location to be determined.

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News/Alerts

Strengthening Our Adult Education System

Announcement made by the Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Education in response to her report Ontario Learns: Strengthening Our Adult Education System a new Adult Education Policy Unit has been established between the Ministries of Education and Training, Colleges and Universities.

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RESPONSES TO IMAGINE CANADA'S LETTER TO FEDERAL PARTY LEADERS

January 23, 2006. Last week, two more political parties voiced their commitments to Canada’s charitable and nonprofit sector in response to the letter Imagine Canada sent them on January 6th.

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Ontario Government Raises Minimum Wage: Increase Helps Lowest Paid And Most Vulnerable Workers

The Ontario government is raising the minimum wage on February 1, 2006, for the third time since taking office.

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New Skills Strategy Simplifies Access To Training And Supports Economic Growth And Prosperity

McGuinty Government Launches No Wrong Door Approach For Training Services

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Study: A decade-long look at registered apprentices

1992 to 2002
About one-half of the individuals who registered in some form of apprenticeship program in 1992 in Ontario, Alberta and New Brunswick had actually completed training a decade later in the trade they had chosen, according to a new pilot study.

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Events

Book Launch: “Good Work! Get a GREAT JOB or be your OWN BOSS: a young person’s guide” (Toronto)

Nancy Schaefer, author of Good Work! is the President of Youth Employment Service
(YES). Nancy’s previous book Good Job! is used in high schools across Ontario and
community organizations to educate and empower youth.
Meet the author, celebrate youth, join the fun.

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COMMUNITY UPDATE RE HRSDC/SERVICE CANADA (Toronto)

Attached please find an update from the Interim Joint Voluntary Sector/Service Canada workgroup, in preparation for the next community meeting on the HRSDC Call for Proposals issue -- as you will see, we continue to make progress, but there are still a number of ongoing concerns and issues.

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February Support Group for People Seeking Employment (Toronto)

The Job Search Coaching Centre is offering a 4 week (meeting on Friday) ongoing support group for job seekers.

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Working Skills Centre Fundraiser (Toronto)

It is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius and the Tribe is rebelling. American youth are screaming out against The Establishment, Vietnam, segregation and sexual rigidity. Hair, the iconic 60’s musical is part pop, part rock, part nostalgia, and total visual delight. Recapture your spirit of hope in a strife-torn world.

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EARN Meetings Change of Venue (Dundas)

EARN meetings are now to be held in the Council Chambers on the First floor at the Dundas Municipal Centre

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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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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:

Federal Transition 2006

“Federal Transition 2006” is an analysis of issues and events relating to the formation of the new Government and their early months in office.

Click here to download the PDF file.

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TAKING ACTION ON SKILLED TRADES

Establishing the Business Case for Investing in Apprenticeship

The current education and training system in Ontario is not producing enough skilled trades workers to meet current industry demand, and this shortage will impede Ontario's businesses' ability to compete, grow and prosper.

Using the province's manufacturing sector as an illustration, the Ontario Chamber of Commerce has developed the business case for investing in apprenticeship training. This report, Taking Action on Skilled Trades: Establishing the Business Case for Investing in Apprenticeship, quantifies, for the first time, the return on apprenticeship training investment. Our research established that there is a 430 per cent return on apprenticeship training investment waiting to be realized in Ontario's manufacturing industry.

Business and government must recognize that apprenticeship is an investment in Ontario's economy.

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