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"Clearly, "God is changing in Europe" "
Creator(s): Council of Europe | Date Published: 2008-03-14
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"Depuis plusieurs années, des femmes du milieu du cinéma ont sensibilisé la collectivité québécoise au fait qu'elles n'occupaient pas, dans cette industrie, une place comparable à leur représentation globale dans la société."
Creator(s): SODEC | Date Published: 2008-02
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" African Americans see a widening gulf between the values of middle class and poor blacks, and nearly four-in-ten say that because of the diversity within their community, blacks can no longer be thought of as a single race. "
Creator(s): Pew Research Center | Date Published: 2007-11-13
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"'30 Years and Counting' was drafted for the June 2007 conference to promote a cross-generational dialogue at the sessions, this paper helped to frame the thirty-year context of the discussion."
Creator(s): Jack (John Kuo Wei) Tchen | Date Published: 2007-11
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"In recent years immigrant children have come to constitute a significant and a growing proportion of the total school enrolment in countries of immigration. The proportion is particularly large in some cities. Immigrant children seem to be vulnerable to marginalisation and ethnic tension as they are overrepresented among the clients of health workers in many schools."
Creator(s): The Centre for Research in International Migration and Ethnic Relations | Date Published: 2005-11
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"The logic of education systems should be reversed so that it is the system that conforms to the learner, rather than the learner to the system. This is the essence of personalisation."
Creator(s): By Hannah Green, Keri Facer and Tim Rudd, with Patrick Dillon and Peter Humphreys | Date Published: 2005-11
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"This study examines street sexual exploitation in Winnipeg."
Creator(s): Maya Seshia, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives | Date Published: 2005-10-31
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"Hurricane Katrina’s devastation in late August of much of the northern Gulf Coast followed by the slow institutional response to the crisis exposed the impoverishment and disempowerment of many African Americans. The media images of a predominantly African American population left to fend for itself in New Orleans demonstrated to many surprised observers the enduring color line in that city. But striking disparities between urban blacks and whites in the United States are hardly unique to New Orleans."
Creator(s): Rogelio Saenz | Date Published: 2005-10
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"Alternative Federal Budget 2006: Technical Paper #1."
Creator(s): Isabella Bakker, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives | Date Published: 2005-09-19
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"The Honourable Liza Frulla, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Minister responsible for Status of Women, today announced the creation of an expert panel to study accountability and provide advice on strengthening gender equality in Canada."
Creator(s): Status of Women Canada | Date Published: 2005-09-13
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"Life for teenagers is full of opportunities, and most take full advantage of them. New opportunities are opening up all the time driven, for example, by developments in technology and communications. Yet young people often feel that there is not enough for them to do outside school, college or work."
Creator(s): United Kingdom Department for Education and Skills | Date Published: 2005-07
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"A society free from racism. More than a matter of principle, this is Canada’s vision. It brings together people of all backgrounds—ethnic, racial, and religious—to build a society where one’s heritage is a source of pride and inspiration."
Creator(s): Department of Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 2005-03-21
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"One of the most innovative and significant pedagogical experiments that the Renacer Foundation of Colombia has undertaken in recent years relates to use of the Internet for educational purposes in helping street kids and adolescents to reintegrate into society."
Creator(s): Fundación Renacer Prepared by NELSON E. RIVERA REYES Therapeutic Coordinator | Date Published: 2005
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"Our aim is to foster values and institutional changes that reinforce equality between women and men, boys and girls through research and analysis of gender in specific social and cultural institutions, including legal frameworks, and development of programmes that advance gender equality."
Creator(s): United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) | Date Published: 2005
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"The purpose of this review is to outline the strengths and weakness in CRRF's performance, and suggest ways in which CRRF and its key stakeholders (e.g., the Minister, the Department of Canadian Heritage) can address these."
Creator(s): Department of Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 2003-03-17
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"The Association for Canadian Studies commissioned this poll from Environics Research Group/Focus Canada."
Creator(s): Association of Canadian Studies | Date Published: 2003-03-15
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"The Association for Canadian Studies commissioned this poll from Environics Research Group/Focus Canada. The survey of 2,002 Canadians 18 years of age and over looks at tolerance in Canada."
Creator(s): Association for Canadian Studies | Date Published: 2003-03-15
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"A report on the Laidlaw Foundation Forum."
Creator(s): Ideas That Matter | Date Published: 2003
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"This report provides summaries of the keynote addresses delivered at the conference by two academic experts on the multicultural days conference."
Creator(s): Liudmila Kirpitchenko | Date Published: 2002-06-27
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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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"Forced Migration Review provides a forum for the regular exchange of practical experience, information and ideas between researchers, refugees and internally displaced people, and those who work with them."
Creator(s): Univeristy of Oxford - Refugee Studies Programme | Date Published: 1998-12
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"The purpose of this international comparative report is to review the activities in other states surrounding the March 21 United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination."
Creator(s): Heather DeSantis | Date Published: 1996-09-30
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"The term “visible minority” has popularly come to denote “non-white”; it is used widely in federal legislation texts."
Creator(s): Karim Karim | Date Published: 1996-04-17
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"The research has demonstrated a trend toward a focus on young people as a major target group for public policy."
Creator(s): Roger Butt and Barbara Motzney | Date Published: 1994-09-30
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"there are many positive examples of organizations and sports that have made dramatic change and raised the bar in terms of opportunities for girls and women to participate on a more equal footing."
Creator(s): Canadian Association For the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity (CAAWS/ACAFS) | Date Published: 2005
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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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"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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"Much ink has been spilt in France on comparisons between the universal Republican model of integration that prevails there and the multicultural, “communautarian,” particularistic or differentialistic model that prevails in the “Anglo-Saxon” world...However, these dichotomous comparisons, often cast in the form of debate, do not yield a full understanding of the societies they purport to examine."
Creator(s): Margaret Adsett, Citizenship and Heritage, Department of Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 2002-12-12
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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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"Language issues are a recurrent theme in Canadian federalism. The public debate about language issues is, however, often based on different understandings of what is meant by "bilingualism," "official languages", or "bilingual country". Comments, therefore, often reflect misconceptions about federal official languages policy."
Creator(s): Department of Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 1998
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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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