CENTRAL EAST HEALTH INFORMATION PARTNERSHIP
ANNUAL WORKSHOP
Featuring HOSPITAL DATA
Learn all about Process & Quality - PLUS - Special CEHIP Updates
OCTOBER 12, 10:00 to 3:00, North York Memorial Hall, Burgundy Room A
To Register Contact Dianne at <dbokor@cehip.org> by Friday,
Oct. 6, 2000
Session is Free. Attendance is Limited.
DEFINING WHITENESS:
Race, Class, and Gender Perspectives in North American History
On OCTOBER 13 - 15, 2000, the
History Department of the University of Toronto, in association with the History
Department at York University, The Robert F. Harney Professorship and Program in Ethnic,
Immigration, and Pluralism Studies, and the Centre for the Study of the United States,
will be sponsoring a symposium entitled Defining Whiteness: Race, Class, and Gender
Perspectives in North American History.
The symposium will be held in Room 179,
University College, University of Toronto.
Featured Speakers: James Barrett,
University of Illinois, Urbana; Donna Gabbacia, University of North Carolina at Charlotte;
Grace Hale, University of Virginia; David Roediger, University of Minnesota.
Session Topics: "New Perspectives
on Race and Whiteness: A Roundtable;" "Challenges to Whiteness;"
"Race, Whiteness, and the Chicago School of Sociologists;" "Public
Productions of Whiteness;" "Complicating Whiteness Historiography;"
"Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Workplace.
For further details, contact Professor
Franca Iacovetta <iacovett@scar.utoronto.ca
SETTLEMENT SERVICES: TOWARDS A
COORDINATED APPROACH
The OCASI 2000 Professional
Development Conference will take place on OCTOBER 18, 19 and 20, 2000. "Settlement
Services: Towards a Coordinated Approach" will be the theme for this year’s
conference. The OCASI Professional Development Conference provides immigrant service
workers with an opportunity to enhance their skills and knowledge, and a forum for
networking and sharing of skills, information and expertise.
As on other occasions, OCASI is also
extending their invitation to other community-based organizations that provide services to
immigrants and refugees and have demonstrated interest in the work of OCASI.
OCASI will also be holding its Annual
General Meeting (AGM) on October 18, 2000 at Geneva Park. This meeting will include the
election of 5 Board members for 2000-2002.
Note: Tim Rees (City of Toronto) and
Ted Richmond (CERIS) are organizing the Friday morning session on "Modules of
Settlement Services."
Please contact Paulina Maciulis at
<pmaciulis@ocasi.org> tel. (416) 322-, ext. 225 if you need further information
about the conference.
THE MCGILL INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF CANADA
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
"CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM"
MONTREAL, OCTOBER 20 & 21, 2000
Twenty years from now, where will we be as a society?
A Conference on Citizenship
• Civic participation and belonging • Civic Education
• Immigration and cultural diversity
For more information, including the program and registration, please
contact: Citizenship 2020 Conference, The McGill Institute for the Study of Canada
3463 Peel Street, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1W7
Tel: (514) 398-2658 or 398-2605 Fax: (514) 398-7336
<ldarroch@leacock.lan.mcgill.ca> or
<nzenga@leacock.lan.mcgill.ca>
A NEW WAY TO TEACH KIDS ABOUT
CANADIAN IMMIGRATION
You are invited to attend a launch and viewing of the teacher’s
resource kit, "Strangers Becoming Us" on TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2000, 4:00-5:30
P.M.
at The Family Service Association, 355 Church Street, Toronto.
Next month quality learning
materials on immigration will arrive free of charge in Canadian Classrooms. A
teacher’s resource kit for use in grades four to six that includes a CD, lesson plans
and student work sheets will make formerly difficult to get information on immigration
accessible to teachers and students. And it will be accurate and easy for them to use.
The resource kit is the brainchild of
Dr. Morton Beiser, professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto and head of CERIS,
the Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement, jointly supported by
Ryerson, Toronto and York Universities. Dr. Beiser feels that children as well as adults
should be getting more information about immigration: "Our immigration policies have
transformed Canada. Kids today are growing up in a country vastly different from the one
their parents knew as children, and it won’t be long before those kids become the
adults of tomorrow who will have to debate and shape immigration policy. It’s none
too soon for children in school to learn why we have immigration, why we chose to protect
refugees, how settling in a new country affects the people who come here to live, and how
immigration has, and is changing our schools, our neighbourhoods, our economy, the music
we listen to, the stories we tell each other, and the way we think about the world."
Beiser worked closely with Classroom
Connections, the not-for-profit company which produces and distributes learning materials
to teachers and students. The Family Service Association of Toronto, the Chinese Centre
for Information and Community Services, Lord Dufferin Public School and Rowanwood Public
School arranged interviews with immigrant children and their families for the ten
documentary programs on which the lessons in the resource kits are based. OASIS, the
Ontario Administration of Settlement and Immigration Services (Ontario), provided the
funding. Radio producer David Carroll, assembled the snappy CD.
For more information contact May Maskow
(416) 699-2856 or <may.maskow@sympatico.ca>
GTA FORUM -- 2000-20001
Co-Sponsors: Centre for Urban & Community Studies, University of
Toronto; Ryerson Polytechnic University; Urban Studies Programme, York University
OCTOBER 26, 2000 4:00 - 6:30 p.m.
OPTIONS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING: the Market and the State
Co-sponsored by the Ontario Professional Planners’ Institute
Room 308, Metro Hall, 55 John Street, Toronto
Speakers:
Mike Buzzelli, The Efficiency of the Housebuilding Industry and
Affordability
Ed Starr, The Municipal Role in Meeting Ontario’s Affordable
Housing Needs
Van Nostrand, Unplanning the City-Housing in Developing Settings
Moderator:
David Hulchanski, Director, Centre for Urban & Community
Studies, University of Toronto
DECEMBER 7, 2000
THE CITY FOR FUN AND PROFIT
Speakers: Rita Davies and John Hannigan
Moderator: Ron Bordessa, Dean, Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and
Professional Studies, York University
FEBRUARY 1, 2001
AVENUES FOR CITIZEN INFLUENCE IN THE GTA
Speakers: T.B.A.
Moderator: Beth Moore Milroy, Director, School of Urban &
Regional Planning, Ryerson Polytechnic University
MARCH 29, 2001
BEHIND THE SCENES IN MUNICIPAL PLANNING: The Role and
Influence of the Ontario Municipal Board
Speakers: Helen Cooper, John G. Chipman and Stanley Makuch
Moderator: Ross Paterson, Principal Planner (Policy), City Planning
Division, City of Toronto
MAY 3, 2001
HUMAN SERVICE PLANNING: Bridges or Highways?
Speakers: Donna Hind, Susan Phillips and Susan Taylor
Moderator: Valerie Preston, Department of Geography, York University
T.B.A.
AGRICULTURAL LAND POLICY: Debating the Alternatives
Speakers: Christopher Bryant, Charlotte McCallum and Margret Walton
Moderator: T.B.A.
Meetings are held at 4:00 p.m. in the Toronto Archives Auditorium,
255 Spadina Road, Toronto
GTA FORUM, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, M3J
1P3
http://www.yorku.ca/gtaforum/gtainfo@yorku.ca
SETTLEMENT SERVICE EXHIBIT
The Ontario Administration of
Settlement and Integration Services (OASIS), will be exhibiting products and materials
developed in the last couple of years to support settlement programs. The products to be
exhibited include videos, curricula, brochures, informational packages for newcomers,
research studies, software and information on upcoming products and research that are
currently being funded.
The exhibits will also be used to
launch the new website, <www.settlement.org> The Website provides information both
in English and French to Immigrant Newcomers who hare settling in Ontario.
Who should attend:
Service Provider Organizations that rare currently funded to deliver
settlement programs and services, school boards, teachers of English as Second Language,
community health centres, academics, foundations, representatives from all levels of
government, social service agencies and other interested stakeholders are invited to
attend.
When:
NOVEMBER 9TH- Toronto Royal York Hotel 9:00 am.-7:00 pm.
NOVEMBER 14TH- London Delta London Armouries 9:00 am.-7:00 pm.
NOVEMBER 16TH - Ottawa Delta Ottawa Hotel 9:00 am.-7:00 pm.
If you would like to be added to the
mailing list please send your name, address, and a phone number to
<Rebecca.Dale@3923rop.cion.cic.x400.gc.ca>
DONALD CREIGHTON LECTURES
Department of History University of Toronto
Philip Morgan, Department of History, The John Hopkins University
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2000 - 6:30 PM
The World of Books and the World of Slavery:
An Eighteen -Century Jamaican Perspective
Sandford Fleming Building, 10 King’s College Circle, Rm. 1105,
University of Toronto
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2000 - 10 AM.
Rethinking American Slavery
University College, 15 King’s College circle, Room 179 (Media
room)
University of Toronto
Open to the public - For more information call (416) 978-3365
FIFTH INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE
Vancouver, NOVEMBER 13-17, 2000
The Fifth International Metropolis Conference is approaching
rapidly. The Conference Organization Team has already posted a Virtual Programme and
Registration Form (in downloadable and on-line formats ) on the International Metropolis
website. Please note that there is a late payment for registration after October 31st.
For more information visit <www.international.metropolis.net>.
UPCOMING INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
There will be a conference on
"Race, Ethnicity, and Migration: The United States in a Global Context",
Minnesota, November 16-18, 2000. The conference is organized by the Immigration and Ethnic
History Society (IEHS) and the Seminar on Race, Ethnicity, and Migration (REM) at the
University of Minnesota, and will bring together scholars who work on the United States
and other parts of the world for comparative and interdisciplinary discussion on race,
ethnicity, and migration. For more information, send e-mail to <rem@tc.umn.edu> or
visit the conference web site: http://www.umn.edu/ihrc/rem/Novconf.htm
The Amsterdam-based "Politeia" network is organizing a
seminar on "Citizens Participation in Europe - Global Changes, National Challenges
and the Role of Civic Education" to be held in the Netherlands, November 24-26, 2000.
For details, contact Anja Ostermann, Teichstrasse 3, D-58285 Gevelsberg, Germany; tel:
49-23324199; fax: 49-2332 75 70 56; e-mail <ostermann@apex-management.de> or visit
the Politeia web site: http://www.publiek-politiek.nl (in Dutch) or
http://www.publiek-politiek.nl/english/index.html (in English)
The annual conference of the American
Society for Political and Legal Philosophy (ASPLP) will be on the topic of
self-determination, in San Francisco, on January 2-3, 2001 (in conjunction with the
meetings of the American Association of Law Schools). Speakers include Allen Buchanan,
Wayne Norman, James Anaya. For information contact Allen Buchanan at
<allen@u.arizona.edu>
The major "World Conference
Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance" (WCAR)
will take place in South Africa, August 31-September 7, 2001. A list-serve that provides
regular information on the conference has been established. For more information on the
conference or to subscribe to the list-serve, send an e-mail to
<lwiseberg.hchr@unog.ch>
era21 end racism! activism for the 21st century
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada NOVEMBER 17-20, 2000
The 20th century has seen ample evidence of the destructiveness of
racism. As we approach the 21st Century and the International Year for Mobilization
against Racism and Racial Discrimination., not only is racism pervasive in Canadian life,
but it is dynamic, adaptable and changeable, fitting the contours of contemporary social
practices and dominant norms so that it is often invisible to those who reproduce it. The
current
challenge is both to counter the deleterious and egregious effects
of hate-motivated racism and racist crimes, and also to offset the more subtle effects of
racism as they
occur in ordinary practices and social discourses. This challenge
will be met in a major international conference that will bring together community groups,
NGOs, academics,
policy makers and practitioners, to re-think concepts, practices and
strategies for eliminating racism in the new millennium. era21 is a 3-day working forum
designed to
sharpen the tools for anti-racism practice in the 21st century.
Please check the web site for further information as it becomes available:
http://www.era21.net
For further information contact: Professor Audrey Kobayashi, era21
co-chair
Department of Geography Fax: 604 822 6150 University of British
Columbia
e-mail: <cabbies@post.queensu.ca> Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z2
CANADIAN COUNCIL FOR REFUGEES
FALL CONSULTATION, MONTREAL, 30 NOVEMBER - 2 DECEMBER
Hotel Wyndam Montreal
1255 Rue Jeanne-Mance, C.P. 130, Montreal, Quebec, HB5 1E5
Phone: 800-361-8234/514-285-1450 Fax: 514-285-1243
Theme: Refugee Protection After 50 Years
A day long session on Refugee Women as Leaders will be held
immediately prior to the main conference on Wednesday November 29. Refugee women are
invited as participants, other are encouraged to attend as observers.
Special workshops of Fall 2000 Consultation: faith and refugees;
international refugee protection 50 years after the creation of the UNHRC and the adoption
of the Refugee Convention; reception and integration of refugees.
For further information contact the Canadian Council for Refugees
6839 Drolet, #302, Montreal, QC, H2S 2T1. Tel. 514-277-7223, Fax:
514-277-1447.
E-mail: <ccr@web.net>. Website <www.web.net/~ccr/>
RE-INVENTING SOCIETY IN A CHANGING GLOBAL ECONOMY
J.J.R. MacLeod Auditorium
Medical Sciences Building, University of Toronto
MARCH 8-10, 2001
Conference sessions will focus on the impact of global economic
change, as seen by leading Canadian and international scholars, in:
1. International Relations: How is changing global inequality
affecting international cooperation?
2. Labour Relations: What is the impact of changing labour market
inequality on labour relations?
3. Culture and Social Values: Is contemporary economic change
reshaping our social values, culture ? even religion?
4. Information and Knowledge: How are knowledge institutions ? the
media, education, science ? affected by expanding domains of economic activity?
5. Nationalism and Migration: Which direction of change is seen for
nationalism and international migration?
6. Politics: Can democratic politics successfully manage
contemporary economic change?
The conference is sponsored by the University of Toronto Department
of Sociology and the R.F. Harney Professorship and Program in Ethnic, Immigration and
Pluralism Studies. Conference organizing committee: Raymond Breton, Jeffrey G. Reitz
CALL FOR CONFERENCE SUBMISSION
INCLUSION BY DESIGN - Planning the Barrier-Free World
JUNE 1-5, 2001, Montreal (Quebec) Canada
From June 1-5, 2001, The Canadian
Council on Rehabilitation and Work is hosting an international world congress - INCLUSION
BY DESIGN - Planning the Barrier-Free World in Montreal, Canada (Palais des Congres de
Montreal). As well as encouraging barrier-free design, the conference delegates and
presenters will look at inclusive policies which can be developed and implemented through
government, corporate and community infrastructures.
Senior Canadian and international
representatives are invited to attend this truly unique and progressive event. Delegates
and presenters from around the world will reflect a range of global issues, experiences
and solutions. The event brings together the policy makers, educators, professionals,
organizations and individuals who focus on implementing universal design and equal access
for all people.
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
The Canadian Council on
Rehabilitation and Work (CCRW) is inviting you to participate in this event by the
presentation of your work and contribution in the creation of a barrier-free world. You
may choose to submit a Theme/Topic/Subject presentation or a Best Practices presentation.
Congress themes are Inclusive Employment, Inclusive Communities and Developing Universal
Access. Within these themes, there are essential components to ensure mobility,
accessibility and opportunity for everyone. For further information see the CCRW Website
at <www.ccrw.org>
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