CERIS MONTHLY BULLETIN

 

August  2004

Issue No. 62

 

This publication comes out each month to keep you informed about upcoming events in and around CERIS and the Metropolis Project including seminars, conferences, public consultations, new research resources, and meetings of the Management Board, its working committees, and its Partnership Advisory Council.

 

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 CONTENTS

 

v     CERIS Meetings

v     News from CERIS, CERIS Researchers, and Partners

v     CERIS Seminars

v     Public Events, Conferences & Announcements

v     Call for Papers and Proposals

v     CERIS Working Paper Series

v     New Documents in the CERIS Resource Centre

v     New Publications

v     Internet Resources

 

 

****** CERIS MEETINGS ******

 

CERIS MANAGEMENT BOARD MEETINGS

 

FRIDAY September 10, 2004             2:00 – 4:00 p.m.

 

FRIDAY November 19, 2004 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.

           

At the main CERIS (Toronto) office, 246 Bloor St. West, 7th Floor, Room 702

 

 

**** NEWS FROM CERIS, CERIS RESEARCHERS, AND PARTNERS ****

 

CERIS MANAGEMENT BOARD: DEPARTURES AND NEW ARRIVALS

 

The CERIS Management Board says goodbye to Drs. Harold Troper and Larry Lam, whose terms ended in June.  Dr. Troper, Professor in the Department of Theory and Policy Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, has been on the CERIS Management Board since its inception in 1997 and served for one year as its Chair. Dr. Lam, Associate Professor of Sociology at York University, has been on the Board since 2001.  We wish to thank them both for their years of service to CERIS and look forward to continued collaboration with them.

 

The Board would like to welcome Drs. Nadia Caidi and Engin Isin who have agreed to fill the two vacant positions. Dr. Caidi is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto and her primary research interests are information policy and social/community informatics. Dr. Isin, Professor in the Division of Social Sciences at York University, holds a Canada Research Chair in Citizenship Studies. His core research concerns primarily the relationship between cities and citizenship, advancing the thesis (now widely regarded as valid) that citizenship is not only an abstract legal status, but also a social practice that unfolds primarily in the city.  We look forward to working with them in the coming years.

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NEW POLICIES AT CERIS

 

During the past academic year, the CERIS Management Board adopted a number of new policies. These are: CERIS affiliation policy (an update of the previous policy); Office Procedures (this includes procedures on cost recovery for projects based at CERIS); Travel Expense Policy (outlining procedures for providing grants to NGO and student representatives to Metropolis Conferences); and Space Policy (outlining the approval process and reporting on use of CERIS space at 246 Bloor St. West). These policies will be posted on the CERIS web site under the “General Information” link. If you would like any further information on these policies, please contact Colleen Burke, CERIS Coordinator at colleen.burke@utoronto.ca or 416-946-3114.

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AMBASSADORS OF THE WORLD: DIASPORAS IN CANADA

 

CERIS Director, Dr. Usha George, has recently received a grant of $35,000 from the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation for a project entitled “Ambassadors of the World: Diasporas in Canada.” The principal researcher will be Dr. Alidad Mafinezam. He will theorize and study the economic, cultural and political interaction of a few select diaspora communities in Toronto with the countries and regions from which these communities originate. The aim is to see how this type of interaction affects and transforms both Toronto and Canada on the one hand, and these places of origin on the other.  In addition to the research, Dr. Mafinezam will build an “epistemic community” of top experts on this topic and set up the foundations of long-term collaboration with them with the goal of making advances in this area policy-relevant.  A seminar of some of the top experts in the field of immigration studies will be convened in December 2004.

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CERIS RESEARCH RETREAT

Date: Friday, October 15, 2004 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. 

 

Details will be announced in the next newsletter.

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GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD

 

CERIS initiated an Annual Graduate Student Research Award this year. The award supports significant research projects on immigration and settlement issues that involve a Greater Toronto Area and/or other Ontario community focus. Twenty proposals were received and due to the high caliber of the applications, the Domain Leaders and Executive Committee decided to offer nine awards of $500, instead of the intended six. Award recipients will be required to disseminate their research findings in at least one CERIS-supported venue. These include: presentation of research in a CERIS-organized seminar in Toronto, submission of a paper to the CERIS Working Paper series, and encouragement to present research findings at a future National Metropolis Conference. The following students will be funded:

 

Michelle Goldberg (PhD, 4)

Department of Theory and Policy Studies, Educational Administration, OISE, University of Toronto

Title of Project:  Policy as Discourse: A Case Study of Access to Professions and Trades Policy Reform

Domains: Economic, Justice and Law

 

Kristin Good (PhD, 4)

Department of Political Science, University of Toronto

Title of Project: Multiculturalism in the City: A Comparative Analysis of Municipal Responsiveness to Immigration in the Greater Toronto Area and the Greater Vancouver Regional District

Domains: Community, Justice and Law

 

Heidi Hoernig (PhD, 3)

School of Planning, University of Waterloo

Title of Project: Diversely Planning for Diversity: The case of planning for places of worship

Domain: Community

 

Farah Mawani (PhD, 2)

Epidemiology, Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

Title of Project:  Discrimination and Social Support: Links and Pathways to Depression in Women

Domain: Health

 

Karleen Pendleton Jiminez (PhD, 1)

Language, Culture and Teaching, Faculty of Education, York University

Title of Project: Lengua Latina: Latina Canadians Shaping Identity and Community Through Writing

Domains: Education, Community

 

Rick Sin (PhD, 3)

Sociology and Equity Studies, OISE, University of Toronto

Title of Project:  Negotiating Racial Difference in Cross-Cultural Discourse

Domains: Education, Community

 

Svitlana Taraban (PhD, 4)

Language, Culture and Teaching, Faculty of Education, York University

Title of Project: Professional Integration of Foreign-Trained Teachers in Ontario: Challenges and Opportunities

Domain: Education

 

Elke Winter (PhD, 4)

Department of Sociology, York University

Title of Project: Canadian Multicultural Nation-Building and Symbolic Representation of Quebec

Domain: Community

 

Zhixi Cecilia Zhuang (PhD, 4)

School of Planning, University of Waterloo

Title of Project: Changing Ethnic Retail Landscapes and Implications to City Planning

Domains: Economic, Community

 

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POLICY MATTERS NO. 8

 

The Aging Experience of Chinese and Caribbean Seniors

By Janet M. Lum and Joseph H. Springer

 

This paper documents varying patterns of support service use by Chinese and Caribbean Seniors, living in social housing managed by the Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC). It

explores the factors that facilitate more extensive use of support services and programs critical for the continued independence and well-being of seniors.  It argues that structural factors beyond individual characteristics affect patterns of support service use. These include:  a critical mass of tenants with a similar racial background living in the same building; closeness to an institutionally complete ethnoracial community; and the intervention by social or community case workers.  The findings have broader policy implications for the pattern of support service use for other ethnoracial minority seniors in other metropolitan areas.

 

The paper is available in PDF format on the “What’s New” section of our website, or click

http://ceris.metropolis.net/PolicyMatter/PolicyMatters8.pdf

 

To receive a copy of the original paper please contact Janet Lum: jlum@ryerson.ca

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POLICY MATTERS NO. 9

Assessing the Impact of the Kosovo Conflict on the Mental Health and Well-being of Newcomer Serbian Children and Youth in the Greater Toronto Area

By Joanna Anneke Rummens and Rajko Seat

 

This study assessed the psychosocial impact of the 1999 Kosovo conflict on the mental health  and well-being of newcomer Serbian children and youth in the Greater Toronto Area two-and-a-half years later. Research findings suggest that explicit war coverage, negative media portrayal, ethnic discrimination, and parental distress appear to amplify pre- and post-migration trauma. These produced more severe mental health effects than these children and youth might otherwise have experienced. The study also analyzed responses of parents, educators and healthcare/social service providers during the crisis itself in order to determine effective response strategies and trauma recovery interventions. This research recommends policy development and practices that

could also help safeguard the well-being of other war-affected immigrants and refugee children

faced with similar stresses.

 

The paper is available in PDF format on the “What’s New” section of our website, or click

http://ceris.metropolis.net/PolicyMatter/PolicyMatters9.pdf

 

To link to the original report CERIS Working Paper Series # 25, click http://ceris.metropolis.net/Virtual%20Library/health/WP25_Rummens.pdf

 

 

************ CERIS SEMINARS ***************

CERIS seminars will resume in the fall.

 

 

***** PUBLIC EVENTS, CONFERENCES & ANNOUNCEMENTS*****

 

NINTH INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE

COOPERATIVE MIGRATION MANAGEMENT

Date: September 27 – October 1, 2004 in Geneva, Switzerland

This year's conference will focus on co-operative migration management, a rapidly developing issue that is especially appropriate for Geneva with its many international headquarters.  The goal is to improve the way we manage international migration of people, through policy that will see benefits of migration distributed more evenly among the world's nations that will see migrants treated in such a way that their humanity is fully respected and, should they be permanent immigrants, to see them justly and effectively integrated into their new societies. 

 

The Geneva Conference will gather experts on migration including heads of international migration organizations, representatives of other related international initiatives, academics, policy makers and NGOs from all over the world for intense discussions on research findings, lessons learned, and policy options and implications. Eighty highly focused workshops are being organized to complement an exciting program of plenary sessions.

 

Register Now!    http://www.metropolis2004.ch/en/reservations.shtml

 

Seats are limited!

 

You will find a copy of the Ninth International Metropolis Conference Preliminary Program and Registration Form on the Metropolis International Website at www.international.metropolis.net

 

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the organizing committee at info@metropolis2004.ch

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MIGRATION AND INTEGRATION FOR DEVELOPMENT: FROM POLICY TO PRACTICE

Date: November 9 - 29, 2004 in Jerusalem, Israel

 

This course examines effective practices in the fields of migration and integration, examining Israel's extensive practical experience with immigrant integration and multiculturalism, return and reintegration and diaspora-homeland partnerships. 

 

The course emphasizes the application of ideas learned in the course to one's home country situation and work.  This is achieved through small working groups and mentors, and through a final project in which participants prepare and present their proposal as to how they will upgrade current policies and practices, or develop new more effective ones. 

Note: participants from what are considered developing countries must cover their flight expenses but their expenses in Israel are covered for them; participants from what are considered developed countries must cover both flight and hotel expenses, however there is no additional fee for the course itself.  

 

Contact Information: 

Rebecca Bardach  
Director of Program Development  
The Center for International Migration and Integration  

Tel: ++972 2 655 7151

Fax: ++972 2 566 7893

Email: rebeccab@jdc.org.il

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SEVENTH SOCIAL JUSTICE SUMMER RETREAT  

Date: August 19-22 at Camp Arowhon in Algonquin Park

The theme for the coming year is: "Dreaming the Future: Reclaiming Community"

Plenary Sessions: Visioning Community / Sharing Our Dreams;

                 Community Building: How to Overcome the Obstacles

 

Registration
Register online at:
http://www.socialjustice.org/subsites/summerretreat/index.php

Or you can download the registration form in pdf format:
http://www.socialjustice.org/subsites/summerretreat/Retreat_Brochure6.pdf

For more information contact
Amy Coulterman
303-489 College St.
Toronto, ON M6G 1A9
416-927-0777
1-888-803-8881

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WORKSHOPS BY STATISTICS CANADA

 

TURNING STATISTICS INTO STORIES

Date: September 21, 2004

This one-day workshop will show you how and where to look for the data you need, how to interpret

and present them. The workshop will cover the dos and don’ts of building tables and graphs, as well

as how to effectively search our extensive information resources. Cost: $300 or $275 for early

registration 3 weeks prior (plus applicable sales taxes).

 

MAKING SENSE OF SURVEY DATA

Date: October 5-7, 2004

A three-day workshop which includes a brief review of survey design considerations and provides an

overview of the basic tools of descriptive statistics using data from a socio-economic household

survey. It includes an introduction to several additional statistical techniques used in data analysis,

and a discussion on interpreting and presenting survey results. Cost: $750 or $699 for early

registration 3 weeks prior (plus applicable sales taxes).

 

INTRODUCTION TO SURVEY SAMPLING

Date: November 17-19, 2004

A three day workshop presenting the basic concepts and techniques of sample design. Participants

will discover the practical considerations in designing a sample. The workshop is intended for those

who plan, design or analyse a sample survey. Cost: $750 or $699 for early registration 3 weeks prior

(plus applicable sales taxes).

 

To register for the above workshops, please contact:

Advisory Services, Central Region, Statistics Canada,

25 St. Clair Avenue East, 10th Floor,

Toronto, Ontatio M4T 1M4

Phone: 1-800-263-1136    Fax: 1-877-287-4369

Email: Toronto.info@statcan.ca

 

Web site: http://www.statcan.ca?cgi-bin/workshop/wst.cgi?region=ontario

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COMMUNITY-ACADEMIC PARTNERSHIPS PROMOTING HEALTH

 

Toronto-based Wellesley Central Health Corporation and Seattle-based Community-Campus Partnerships for Health have announced a partnership to promote health in communities across North America through community-academic partnerships.  Both organizations view these partnerships as a key strategy for understanding and addressing the complex determinants of health, and ultimately achieving healthier communities.

 

The first initiative of the partnership is the launch of a Community-Based Participatory Research electronic discussion group (or listserv) as a learning and information sharing resource.  To sign up, go to https://mailman.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/cbpr

 

Additional collaborative activities in development include: partnership brokering by building a database of individuals and organizations interested in community-academic partnership approaches to health, developing new resources to support community-academic partnerships and enhancing the broader acceptance and status of community-based participatory research and community-based learning.  Joining the CBPR listserv is one way to be kept informed about these initiatives and opportunities for involvement.  Interested individuals and organizations are also encouraged to become members of Community-Campus Partnerships for Health at www.ccph.info.

 

About Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH)

CCPH is a nonprofit membership organization that promotes health through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions. These partnerships are powerful tools for improving health professional education, civic responsibility and the overall health of communities. To learn more, visit www.ccph.info.

 

About Wellesley Central

Wellesley Central emerged out of the closure of one of Canada's leading inner city hospitals that focused on the health of marginalized communities.  In its current inception Wellesley Central no longer provides direct care but is dedicated to building and strengthening communities though assisting coalitions, enhancing capacities and though supporting community- and policy-relevant research.  To learn more, visit www.wellesleycentral.com

 

For more information, call (206) 543-8178 or email ccphuw@u.washington.edu

 

 

***** CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS *****

 

EVALUATION OF A PILOT PROJECT TO PROVIDE LIFE SKILLS SUPPORT TO GOVERNMENT-ASSISTED REFUGEES IN ONTARIO

Deadline for submissions: September 14, 2004 at 4:00pm

 

Citizenship and Immigration Canada would like to fund an evaluation of a pilot project that will improve temporary life skills support to newly arrived, high-needs Government Assisted Refugees (GARS) immediately after their arrival in Canada.

 

For details of the RFP, please go to:

http://www.settlement.org/sys/atwork_library_detail.asp?doc_id=1003605

 

All proposal inquiries should be directed by e-mail to:

Fiona Corbin, Program Consultant, CIC

Fiona.Corbin@cic.gc.ca

 

Proposals must be submitted in both hard copy and electronically in MS Word.

 

Send three hard copies to:

Elizabeth Gryte
Director, Settlement Programs
Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Ontario Region
130 Adelaide Street West, Suite 1500
Toronto, ON M5H 3P5

 

Send the electronic version (MSWord) to: Fiona.Corbin@cic.gc.ca

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CANADIAN FOREIGN POLICY JOURNAL: SPECIAL ISSUE ON GENDER AND CANADIAN FOREIGN POLICY

The deadline for proposals is September 15, 2004.

 

Call for paper proposals of no more than 300 words on topics such as:

*        gender and Canadian defence policy

*        gender and human security

*        gender and Canadian development policy

*        gender and Canadian trade policy

*        gender and Canadian immigration and refugee policies

*        gender and Canadian international environmental policy

*        gender and Canadian international health policy

*        gender and Canadian-American relations

*        gender and peace building

*        teaching gender and Canadian foreign policy

*        gender analysis of themes and theories of Canadian foreign policy

 

Authors of successful proposals must be in a position to submit completed papers for peer review by December 1, 2004. The volume is scheduled to be published in Spring 2005.

 

Please send proposals to issue editors: Claire Turenne Sjolander (cturenne@uottawa.ca) and Heather Smith (smith@unbc.ca). Please contact the editors if you have any questions regarding the issue.

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CIRCULATIONS AND TERRITORIES IN INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION

Date: March 16-18, 2005 in Toulouse, France

 

Deadline for submissions: September 30, 2004

 

The conference is organized jointly by CIRUS-CIEU, IPEALT and Dynamiques Rurales from the French University of Toulouse le Mirail and Mutations des Territoires en Europe from the University of Montpellier. The proposals may deal with any region of the world. In the same way, there is no restriction on the migratory flows analyzed (it may be about economic migration, forced displacements, refugees, little or very qualified populations, regional or intercontinental migration, legal or clandestine, etc.). As the attention is centered on circulation processes, it is quite obvious that flows are considered as well in the direction of the initial displacement of the migration (places of origin towards places of destination) as in the opposite direction. Approaching migratory spaces as a whole, the conference is also open to works that deal with "intermediate" spaces of circulation (borders, places of transit and exchange, relay of the migration, etc.).

 

Submissions should be sent by e-mail to: colloque.circulation@free.fr

Or by regular mail to:

Laurent Faret,

Colloque circulations et territoires,

Maison de la Recherche CIRUS-CIEU

Université de Toulouse le Mirail,

5 allées Antonio Machado

31058 Toulouse cedex,

France

 

 

***** NEW PUBLICATIONS *****

 

Immigrants, Welfare Reform, and the Poverty of Policy

Editors:

Phil Kretsedemas, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild
Ana Aparicio, University of Massachusetts-Boston

 

Greenwood-Praeger Publishers, 2004

Price: $79.95 (hard cover)

For a summary of contents and to order, please visit:

<http://www.nationalimmigrationproject.org/Preview/immigrants,%20Welfare%20Reform%20&%20the%20Poverty%20of%20Policy.htm>

 

This book is a major contribution to our understanding of how the 1996 immigration and welfare reforms have affected immigrants in the United States. Based on research conducted in different states with diverse immigrant groups, the contributors to this volume provide insightful analyses of the politics, processes and outcomes of these policy measures. This volume should ignite a wide discussion about the declining status and rights of immigrants, including legal permanent residents, in the United States.

 

For more information contact: Phil Kretsedemas at the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild at 617 227 9727 extension 6 or E-mail phil@nationalimmigrationproject.org

<mailto:phil@nationalimmigrationproject.org>.

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Sisters or Strangers? Immigrant, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canadian History.

Edited by Marlene Epp, Franca Iacovetta, and Frances Swyripa. University of Toronto Press, 2004. http://www.utppublishing.com/detail.asp?TitleID=2831

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Nunes, F. (2003). Integration or Return? Towards an Effective Emigration Policy and Practice For a Neglected Diaspora.  In Sakic, V., Duncan, H. & Sopta, M. (Eds.), Immigrants and Homeland. Institute of Social Sciences IVO PILAR, Zagreb.

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Nunes, F. (2003 - Draft publication).  Marginalization, social reproduction and academic underachievement: The case of the Portuguese community in Canada.  In de Abreu, G., Cline, T. (Eds.), The Education of Portuguese Children in Britain: Insights from Research and Practice in England and overseas. Department of Psychology, University of Luton, England.

 

 

********* CERIS WORKING PAPER SERIES *********

 

Submissions to the Working Paper series, based on research in the fields of immigration and settlement studies, from faculty, graduate students, and members of community organizations are most welcome.

 

The current editor for the series is Dr. Michael Doucet, Department of Geography, Ryerson University, Email: mdoucet@ryerson.ca   Phone: (416) 979-5000 ext. 6174  Fax: (416) 979-5362

 

Manuscripts, in both digital and hard copy form, should be sent to the editor in WordPerfect format, if possible. An abstract of 100 to 200 words and a list of key words must be provided with each manuscript. If accepted for publication, new Working Papers will be both printed and posted to the CERIS Virtual Library.  The copyright for each Working Paper remains with the author(s).

 

Copies of recently published CERIS Working Papers may be ordered through the CERIS Office at  $10.00 each plus postage.  Previously published Working Papers can be downloaded from the Virtual Library on our website: <http://ceris.metropolis.net/Virtual%20Library/VLFrame_E.html>

 

 

 

***** NEW DOCUMENTS IN THE CERIS RESOURCE CENTRE *****

 

For a list of new documents in the CERIS Resource Centre, please go to: http://ceris.metropolis.net/research-policy/NewdocList/newdoc list.htm

 

 

********** INTERNET RESOURCES **********

 

Conversations for Change: An Overview of Services for Immigrant Children and Youth in Calgary

This study is by United Way Calgary on services for immigrant youth. It and can be found at:

http://www.calgaryunitedway.org/research_reports.htm

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Newsletter of the Queen's Forum for Philosophy and Public Policy

If you would like to be added to the mailing list for this newsletter, please send a message to: philform@qsilver.queensu.ca. Back-issues of the newsletter are posted on the Web on Will Kymlicka's home-page: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~philform/newsletter.html

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JustResearch No. 11 http://canada.justice.gc.ca/en/ps/rs/pubnew.html

This issue of JustResearch contains articles on a number of policy-research areas including the burden of self-representing accused in criminal court, Bill C-46 and disclosure of third-party records in sexual assault cases, and the tension between privacy, rights, and advancements in genetic health research.

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RESOURCES FROM SETTLEMENT.ORG

 

**  Understanding Car Insurance **

 

A guide to help you understand insurance coverage, and to assist you in asking informed questions so you can choose the car insurance coverage that best meets your needs.

http://www.settlement.org/sys/link_redirect.asp?doc_id=1003604

 

** Our City Guide (Toronto) **

 

This small booklet contains general information about basic City of Toronto services and programs that would be of interest to new residents to Toronto.  Available for download in English, French, Chinese, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Spanish, Tagalog, Tamil and Vietnamese.

http://www.settlement.org/sys/library_detail.asp?doc_id=1003603

 

** What are basic working conditions in Ontario? **

 

Your rights as a worker are protected by federal and provincial labour laws.

http://www.settlement.org/sys/faqs_detail.asp?faq_id=4000249

 

** How do I prepare for a job interview? **

 

You've made it to an interview, which means that someone was impressed with your résumé and cover letter and wants to find out more about you. This is your time to convince them that you are the right person for the job.   Find out how.

http://www.settlement.org/sys/faqs_detail.asp?faq_id=4000392

 

**Featured Discussion: Information on Health Service Coverage**

 

A useful discussion about what is covered by OHIP and how to find more information about OHIP and private health insurance plans.

http://www.settlement.org/discuss/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2185

 

**Featured Region: York Region**

 

Find help in York Region: Aurora Markham Richmond Hill

http://www.settlement.org/sys/regions_detail.asp?doc_id=1002934

 

 

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DONATIONS NEEDED

The development of our Resource Centre and Web Site Virtual Library depends on donations of paper and disk copies of relevant research documents from CERIS affiliates and partners.  You can help us build up these valuable resources! 

 

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT:

The Toronto CERIS office:  Tel. 416-946-3110   Fax 416-971-3094

The York CERIS office: Tel. 416-736-5223 Fax 416 736-5752   E-mail: ceris@yorku.ca

Visit the CERIS Website:  http://ceris.metropolis.net

Visit the York CERIS Website: http://www.yorku.ca/ceris

Visit the National Metropolis Website: http://canada.metropolis.net

 

If you would like to add an event to the listings in this Electronic Bulletin, please forward the complete information to Sue Ann Truong at the CERIS office by fax or e-mail: ceris.office@utoronto.ca