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Are you Canadian enough? A discussion on Canadian values

April 23, 2014 – 6:20 am | 4,724 views

A national poll conducted in 2011 by Dalhousie researcher Howard Ramos, in conjunction with the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, found Canadians valued gender equality, freedom of religion and tolerance of others. While 97 per cent …

Highly qualified Muslim immigrants face employment discrimination

February 24, 2014 – 9:11 am | 3,030 views

Last week, Quebec business interests sounded an alarm about the negative economic ramifications on the province of the proposed values charter.
First the Conseil du patronat and then the head of a cable and media company …

Systemic Inequality in BC: Past & Present

February 20, 2014 – 8:11 pm | 4,338 views

SPARC BC and PeerNet present a day of talking about Systemic Inequality in BC: Past & Present. Saturday, 29 March 2014 from 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM (PDT)
Vancouver, BC
What are the root causes of inequality?
How …

Today is pay equity day in the USA. UBC female profs are getting equal pay.

April 9, 2013 – 10:33 am | 1,908 views

“President Barack Obama officially declared Tuesday “National Equal Pay Day,” symbolically marking how much extra work women supposedly must perform to reach pay parity with men.
“Women — who make up nearly half of our nation’s …

Proposals could limit immigrant workers’ stay

March 8, 2010 – 9:43 pm | 1,839 views

According to Edmonton Journal:

“They arrive on the promise of good jobs, fair wages and an opportunity to support their families back home.
But thousands of migrant labourers — those who land in British Columbia to pick …