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"The Institute for Research on Public Policy has just pre-released a chapter from a forthcoming book entitled Belonging? Diversity, Recognition and Shared Citizenship in Canada."
Creator(s): Jeffrey G. Reitz and Rupa Banerjee | Date Published: 2007-01-11
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"...examining different measures of social and civic engagement among the immigrant population and flagging areas of concern. In the report, social and civic engagement is broadly defined as 'the active connections between people that foster mutual respect and facilitate cooperative action."
Creator(s): Canada Council on Social Development (CSSD) and the Centre for Applied Social Research | Date Published: 2006-04
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"In A New Social Architecture, a presentation to the Social Sustainability Sub-Committee of the External Advisory Committee on Cities and Communities, Judith Maxwell, CPRN President, draws on CPRN's Family Network research to sketch out the skeleton of a new social architecture for Canada."
Creator(s): Judith Maxwell, Canadian Policy Research Network | Date Published: 2005-08-12
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« Le document « Portrait socioéconomique des régions du Québec » présente, sur une base comparative, les 17 régions administratives du Québec ou de regroupements de celles-ci. »
Creator(s): Dévelopment économique, innovation et exportation Québec | Date Published: 2005-07
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"The main hypothesis underlying the Montréal conference was that the integration process for immigrants and the management of diversity more broadly is an area where the generation of networks of social contacts may potentially play a key role in achieving a number of desired outcomes."
Creator(s): Policy Research Initiative - Government of Canada | Date Published: 2005-07
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"What is today called the social economy, or social entrepreurship, includes some very old organizations such as credit unions, agricultural co-operatives, and the YMCAs. In this article, Nancy Neamtam describes an emerging cohort of young social entrepreneurs who are combining social goals and entrepreneurial strategies with brio."
Creator(s): Nancy Neamtam, Institute for Research on Public Policy | Date Published: 2005-07
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"In many jurisdictions and regardless of the welfare regime to which they belong, social policy communities now often focus on “new social risks.” They also consider that these risks call for investments - in human capital, in lifelong learning, in early childhood services, in training, and so on – and this despite a clear preference for controlling if not reducing state spending."
Creator(s): Jane Jenson, Denis Saint-Martin, Départment de science politique Université de Montréal | Date Published: 2005-06
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"The community cohesion agenda has developed in response to disturbances in northern towns in 2001 and the recognition that cohesion is a national issue."
Creator(s): Fiona Mactaggart | Date Published: 2004-07
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"Strategic approach of increasing the quality of access for disabled people to the arts in Northern Ireland."
Creator(s): Arts Council of Northern Ireland | Date Published: 2004
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Announcement of the European Union for future programs from 2007 onwards
Creator(s): European Union | Date Published: 2004
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"This workshop examined recent research on social determinants of health which increasingly considers social capital and social inequality as factors affecting population health."
Creator(s): Liudmila Kirpitchenko | Date Published: 2003-09-19
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"World Development Report 2003 examines the relationship among competing policy objectives -- reducing poverty, maintaining growth, improving social cohesion, and protecting the environment -- over a 50-year horizon."
Creator(s): The World Bank Group | Date Published: 2003
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"The work attempts to clarify the place of social capital among the social determinants of health."
Creator(s): Health Canada | Date Published: 2003
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"This blue plate special presents the main points of presentations on the topic of citizenship values and social cohesion given by Dr Paul Reed (Carleton University) and Professor Neil Nevitte (University of Toronto)."
Creator(s): Maureen Williams | Date Published: 2002-11-01
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"In the last four years, since CPRN published Mapping Social Cohesion: The State of Canadian Research, there have been significant additions to the body of academic research and policy-related findings on social cohesion."
Creator(s): Caroline Beauvais, Jane Jensen, Canadian Policy Research Network | Date Published: 2002-07-12
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"This paper is intended as a "primer" on the subject of social cohesion and as a summary of what we know about it so far."
Creator(s): M. Sharon Jeannotte, Dick Stanley, Ravi Pendakur, Bruce Jamieson, Maureen Williams and Amanda Aizlewood | Date Published: 2002-02-11
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"This article presents research completed by the Social Cohesion Network."
Creator(s): Maureen Williams | Date Published: 2001-12-01
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"This report summarizes more recently funded (c.1995-2001) activities of national, provincial, and community-based organizations as well as academic and organizational research projects."
Creator(s): Marilyn Smith | Date Published: 2001-10-01
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"This paper explores the cultural policy implications."
Creator(s): Michael Cross | Date Published: 2001-04-01
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"Over the last four years, the Social Cohesion Network has made considerable progress on its horizontal research program."
Creator(s): Dick Stanley | Date Published: 2001-02-19
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"This paper extends to North America the analysis in Helliwell and Putnam (1995) linking regional growth and social capital in Italian regions."
Creator(s): John F. Helliwell | Date Published: 2000-06-01
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"This study criticizes and deconstructs the concept of social cohesion."
Creator(s): Paul Bernard | Date Published: 2000-02-01
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"Much clarification is needed before drawing any conclusions about the meaning of social cohesion and its contribution to collective well-being."
Creator(s): Jane Jensen, Canadian Policy Research Network | Date Published: 1998-11-27
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"Provides a progress report on the first 18 months of the Social Cohesion Network's research activities, draws some preliminary conclusions and outlines the research priorities and next steps of the Network."
Creator(s): Social Cohesion Network | Date Published: 1998-11-01
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"Preliminary results suggest that growing pressures on the middle-income group may be having an impact on social cohesion in Canada. This deck outlines the evolving Canadian Values: Exploring Income Fault-lines."
Creator(s): Andrew Leuty and Sharon Jeannotte | Date Published: 1997-11-18
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"This blue plate special presents the main points of presentations on the topic of citizenship values and social cohesion given by Dr Paul Reed (Carleton University) and Professor Neil Nevitte (University of Toronto)."
Creator(s): M. Wernick et T. Herman | Date Published: 1997-11-18
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"The cohesiveness of societies is being affected by globalization, technological and demographic pressures, the implications of which we are only beginning to understand."
Creator(s): M. Sharon Jeannotte | Date Published: 1997-03-01
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Projects & Programs |
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"...is based on the belief that culture and cultures have a central role to play in global development and human affairs and are the key to human welfare and environmental well-being in the future."
Lead Managing Organization: World Culture Project | Start Date: 1988
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« Interculturelles est un carrefour de rencontre, un outil d’information et de réflexion sur l’interculturalité.»
Lead Managing Organization: Groupe de travail : Droits de l'Homme et Dialogue Interculturels (DHDI) | Start Date: 2005
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"The Centre Urbanisation, Culture et Societé houses a team of thirty-four full-time social scientists (professors/ researchers) working on a wide range of issues."
Lead Managing Organization: L'Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) | Start Date: 2005
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General Reference |
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"The Member States of the European Union set themselves the goal of creating an ever-closer union between the peoples of Europe. This process of integration, which was in the past linked to economics and trade (the single market and the single currency), has for some years now been developed on a wider basis, allowing culture to play a full part in strengthening a sense of a shared belonging to Europe."
Creator(s): European Commission | Date Published: 2006
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« Indépendant et neutre par rapport à toute orientation politique ou religieuse, www.tolerance.ca vise à faire connaitre les grands principes démocratiques sur lesquels repose la tolérance. »
Creator(s): Tolerance.ca | Date Published: 2005
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"ALECSO is a specialized Arab organization, established by the League of Arab States. Its primary responsibility is the promotion and co-ordination of educational, cultural and scientific activities at the regional and national levels in the Arab world."
Creator(s): The Arab League Educational Cultural and Scientific Organization | Date Published: 2003
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Statistics |
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"In September 2007, the UIS and the UNESCO Culture Sector organized a meeting on the measurement of the diversity of cultural expressions involving 12 experts from around the world."
Creator(s): UNESCO Institute for Statistics | Date Published: 2007-08
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"This issue is based on data collected over the first 6 months (January to June 2005) of the Cycle 3.1 of the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS). At that time, the survey had collected information from about 68,000 individuals, aged 12 and older."
Creator(s): Statistics Canada | Date Published: 2005-12-21
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"Given the events of September 11th, it was expected that there might have been a shift in social cohesion in Canada. This current research intends to use questions and data from previous research waves to track any recent changes in opinion that may have occurred."
Creator(s): Environics Research Group Ltd. Prepared for Canadian Heritage, Citizenship and Immigration Canada and Communication Canada | Date Published: 2002-03-01
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"A new research study concludes that Canadian social policy is undermining the success of newcomers to this country, hampering their access to employment and vital services and creating a web of discrimination that makes it harder for immigrants to settle here, even though they are more educated and more skilled than their predecessors. The research study was conducted as part of the Community Scholar in Law Reform Project, a joint initiative of Community Foundations Canada and the Law Commission of Canada. The project was launched last year after both organizations identified a lack of comprehensive research regarding the impact of legal and policy barriers on the settlement of immigrants. "
Creator(s): Community Foundations of Canada (CFC) | Date Published: 2006
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"Given New Brunswick's multicultural environment, a voluntary sector that reflects the ethnicity of its communities will greatly increase the effectiveness of non-profit organizations that serve all sectors of the population."
Creator(s): Policy Link N.B. and the John Howard Society of Greater Moncton Inc. | Date Published: 2006
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"RAND Study Says Arts Policy Should Focus On Building Individual Appreciation of the Arts."
Creator(s): RAND Corporation | Date Published: 2005-02-15
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« Le portrait socioéconomique des artistes, rendu public le 24 février 2004, faisait la démonstration que plusieurs artistes et créateurs subsistent dans une précarité économique ou occupent un double emploi pour arriver à vivre décemment. On y remarque aussi d’importantes fluctuations de revenus. »
Creator(s): Ministère de la Culture et des Communications - Gouvernement du Québec | Date Published: 2004-06
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"The purpose of this book is to present an overview of the accomplishments of the Canadian model of official bilingualism, based upon the coexistence of English-speaking and French-speaking Canadians and upon a partnership between federal and provincial governments in serving citizens' needs and interests."
Creator(s): Stacy Churchill | Date Published: 2004-02-04
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"This publication will attempt to explore the concepts of assimilation and community vitality, as well as the statistical evidence regarding the vitality of the Francophone communities outside Quebec. It will also seek to highlight trends and attempt to clarify certain issues related to the current demographic reality of Francophone communities outside Quebec."
Creator(s): O'Keefe, Michel | Date Published: 2001
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"This report presents findings of the 1998 survey of Providers of Training in English or French as a Second or Foreign Language in Canada. The purpose of the survey was to gather information at the Canada level and, where possible, at the regional level on the size of the industry, its characteristics and the role played by foreign students."
Creator(s): Training and Continuing Education Section, Centre for Education Statistics, Statistics Canada | Date Published: 2000
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"Initiated in 2000 by the Media Awareness Network (MNet), Young Canadians in a Wired World (YCWW) is the most comprehensive and wide-ranging study of its kind in Canada. The research project tracks and investigates the behaviours, attitudes, and opinions of Canadian children and youth with respect to their use of the Internet."
Creator(s): Media Awareness Network (MNet) | Date Published: 2000
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"The theme of the Canadian Cultural Research Network (CCRN) Colloquium, "Cultural Policies, Cultural Practices and Social Change: Exploring the Links Between Culture and Social Change," was chosen in collaboration with the organisers of the 1998 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada."
Creator(s): Canadian Cultural Research Network | Date Published: 1999-01-05
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"Linguistic assimilation is a phenomenon that is still poorly understood by the general public but one that generates a good deal of discussion, frequent emotion and occasional alarmist remarks. [T]his publication [...] tries to bring a certain ‘objectivization’ to the phenomenon of the linguistic assimilation of the Francophone minorities in Canada."
Creator(s): O'Keefe, Michel | Date Published: 1998
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"The ties that bind Francophones from across Canada take many forms, from the more traditional family and kinship networks to the electronic communication networks."
Creator(s): Department of Canadian Heritage; Guindon, René; Poulin, Pierre | Date Published: 1996
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« Il est...primordial pour le gouvernement québécois de veiller à la promotion, au développement et au maintien d’échanges, de rencontres et de coopérations où le respect et l’acceptation de l’autre occupent une place essentielle. »
Lead Managing Organization: Immigration et Communautés culturelles | Start Date: 2006
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"Our main objectives are to determine why and how people come together to share reading through a comparative study of selected mass reading events such as “Canada Reads,” “Richard and Judy’s Book Club,” and “One Book, One Community” programmes."
Lead Managing Organization: Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). | Start Date: 2005
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"Because Canadians often feel they must struggle to be heard over the roar of a history that includes powerful nations like the United States, Britain and France, great emphasis is placed on preserving our own national symbols."
Creator(s): Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 2005
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"The National Film Board of Canada welcomes you to CitizenShift, a new interactive web site we hope will make the NFB even more accessible to emerging filmmakers, individuals and communities in Canada."
Creator(s): National Film Board of Canada
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"The international Adult Literacy Survey of 1994 is an important source of information about the literacy levels of Canadians as well as the factors that can explain the disparities between certain sub-populations. The current study shows and tries to explain some of the disparities between Francophones and Anglophones in Canada."
Creator(s): Statistics Canada | Date Published: 2000-12-22
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"CPRN's mission is to create knowledge and lead public debate on social and economic issues important to the well-being of Canadians. Our goal is to help make Canada a more just, prosperous, and caring society."
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"MCDC acts as a catalyst for individuals, corporations, and community, non-profit, government and educational organizations by providing networking, referral services, educational activities, and promoting the value of cultural diversity."
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"Since its formation in 1973, the C.D. Howe Institute has earned a reputation as Canada's most respected independent, nonprofit, economic and social policy research institution."
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"The 411 Initiative For Change uses contemporary arts and culture as tools to raise public awareness and foster social change... undertakes public education and the promotion of civic participation of young people on social issues that frame their development within their communities; it works to build and strengthen the national action movement on common global issues, in their domestic and international contexts."
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"The Caledon Institute is a social policy think tank."
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"The Canadian Council on Social Development (CCSD) is a non-governmental, not-for-profit organization, which was founded in 1920. "
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"The Creative Coalition is the premier non-profit, non-partisan organization comprised of members of the arts and entertainment community dedicated to educating and advocating on behalf of social and political issues, specifically in the areas of the First Amendment, arts advocacy and public education."
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"The International Network for Cultural Diversity (INCD) is a world wide network of artists and cultural groups dedicated to countering the homogenizing effects of globalization on culture."
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