As people moving across territorial borders continues to drive globalization, our society needs to reflect on the linguistic identities of students who are learning English and French, Canada’s two official languages.
In language classrooms, where English as a Second Language (ESL) and French as a Second Language (FSL) programs reflect Canada’s bilingual mandate, how we teach languages has not evolved much from the traditional grammar-based mode of instruction.
With most of the world’s attention focused on the United States last week, you may have missed a few developments in British Columbia’s inquiry into criminal money laundering, featuring damning testimony against the old BC Liberal government.
BC is currently conducting a public inquiry into criminal money laundering in the province’s casinos, which ran virtually unchecked under the BC Liberals.
A new partnership between researchers based at Dalhousie University, St. Thomas University and Cooper Institute is seeking to interview Temporary Foreign Workers (TFWs) about their experiences working in the agricultural and seafood sectors in the Maritime provinces during the COVID pandemic.
Raluca Bejan, an assistant professor of social work at Dalhousie University who has researched migration in Greece and other European countries, has turned her attention to the situation of TFWs in the Maritimes.
A coalition of Mi’kmaq First Nations will soon become part owners of the largest fishing company in Atlantic Canada, a “win” for Indigenous fishing communities after months of intimidation by white commercial fishermen in Nova Scotia.
On Monday, the Mi’kmaq coalition and Premium Brands Holding Corporation, specializing in food manufacturing and distribution, announced they partnered to acquire the publicly traded shellfish company, Clearwater Seafoods, for $1 billion, including debt.
Prairie Sky Strategy, a public affairs government relations firm based in Calgary, has hired Ryan Greer as a senior strategy advisor to set up its new office in Ottawa.
Before joining Prairie Sky, Greer spent five year as a senior director at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the nation’s largest business association, where he was responsible for “supporting companies across the country on government relations, advocacy, policy infrastructure, supply chains, regulatory issues, interprovincial trade and cannabis,” according to the Prairie Sky announcement.
There should be relief, I suppose, with the defeat of Donald Trump and the Republican flunkies he has running the executive branch. A bitter lesson of twentieth century history, after all, is the popularity of fascism at the ballot box, and the deadly consequences when state power is at its disposal.
“At this point, I would not trust my family to be brought to St. Boniface General Hospital for anything” says Jacquelyn*, a nurse at Winnipeg’s second-largest health centre. The COVID-19 pandemic has been a known concern and threat for over eight months. Yet, like many of her colleagues, Jacquelyn wonders why her hospital was not prepared for the city’s most recent surge of cases.
EU and UK officials have resumed trade talks in London at the start of another key week for the negotiations. They are trying to bridge what the two sides have said are still significant differences on fishing quotas and competition issues.
New research reveals that once anthropogenic carbon emissions drop, so too will the ocean’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide. That could make it seem like emission reduction efforts aren’t working.