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October 20, 2006
IN
THIS BULLETIN:
Member
News
Meetings, PDWs and member only resources
-Opportunities
Conference 2007
-ONESTEP South East Region Meeting
News/Alerts
CBT related media reports, RFPs and announcements
-Citizens'
Coalition Reacts to Recent Budget Cuts
-Message from PATH Employment : CANCELLATION OF BMO BANK DATE
-Stu Conger Award Nominations
-Interesting Article about the Citizens' Assembly in NOW Magazine
-Queen's Industrial Relations Centre: October 2006 Newsletter
-A 'Gateway' to Retail Jobs
Events
- Job Fair, Monday October 23 (Kingston)
-Values-Driven Electoral Reform Conference (Kingston)
Job Postings
-YEP Business
Coach (Newmarket)
Resources
-Occupations with "good" employment prospects in Ontario
Communities
Member News
Opportunities Conference 2007
NEW!
Super Saver Registration is now live! Download Registration Form here
Register
before October 31st for first choice of workshops and big
savings.
Now in its
eighth year, the Opportunities Conference is the largest gathering of career
counselling and employment preparation professionals in Ontario, and grows in
popularity each year.
Over 50
workshops to choose from, plus expert panel discussions, an employer forum,
networking receptions, an exhibitor marketplace, and three high-profile
speakers (including Dr. Barbara Moses, a North American leader in career
self-management).
Opportunities 2007 is designed for:
- Non-profit employment and career counsellors; job
developers, case?managers
- Private sector employment preparation and career
development providers;
- Life Skills and job coaches
- Human resource professionals
- School guidance counsellors
- Students who are currently involved in employment
preparation and career development course work in post-secondary
institutions;
- Practitioners and employers in the education and
training field;
- Career development educators from Ontario's
Colleges and Universities
- Employee associations, business associations, and
sector council representatives;
- Government or public sector providers - federal,
provincial and municipal
Register
before October 31st and receive:
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First choice of workshops (the full program will be
launched in November)
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Savings on the
registration fee
Click here to download the conference flyer
To register for the Conference, click here
For more information about the 2007 Opportunities
Conference or past Conferences,
visit our website at www.onestep.on.ca/opportunities
Hosted by:
NEW SPONSORSHIP
OPPORTUNITIES! If you are looking for visibility
for your organization's work in the community, want to be involved in tailored
sessions, or are looking for enhanced interaction with career practitioners,
sponsoring the Conference will deliver real value to your organization. Please
contact Shelley
Smith for more information.
Thank you to our generous sponsors
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ONESTEP
South East Region Meeting
The ONESTEP
South East Region meeting will be held on Thursday November 16th, 2006, 10:30
am at Employment and Education Centre, 105 Strowger Blvd, Brockville Ontario.
Tel: (613) 498-2111. An agenda will be sent out closer to the meeting
time
News/Alerts
Oct 11 2006
Citizens' Coalition Reacts to Recent Budget
Cuts
The recent budget cuts by the Conservative government have affected many
nonprofit organizations across Canada. These cuts have prompted at least one
group of concerned citizens to establish a coalition of Canadian nonprofit
agencies who are building a communities agenda for Canada.
The coalition has developed a website where
users will find news and information in response to the Federal Government's
recent announcement of cuts to programs. The coalition wants to hear your
stories, they want to hear what you have to say in response to this recent
announcement!
Send your stories of how your organization
and your community is affected by the recent budget cuts to nchaland@ccednet-rcdec.ca.
To learn more about the coalition, visit
the website for the Response to Cuts: a
Coalition of Canadian non-profits building a Communities Agenda.
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Message from PATH
Employment : CANCELLATION OF BMO BANK DATE
The Bank of Montreal has run into a
glitch and must re-schedule their October 24th date with PATH. They will
re-schedule their presentation and on-site interviews for a time and date in
November. However, saying this,we are still a go with the Customer
Service Rep Certificate Program and TDCanada is still coming on Wed. Oct. 25
for 9:30 a.m. sharp. Those that attend the Customer Service Rep program
will be notified of the new date for BMO as soon as PATH is notified. Thanks
for your time and I apologize for this inconvenience.
Debra Cote - PATH Employment
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Stu
Conger Award Nominations
The Canadian Career Development Foundation (CCDF) will receive nomination
packages for the Stu Conger Award for Leadership in Career Counselling and
Career Development until on November 30, 2006.
Please visit www.ccdf.ca for details on award
criteria and submission of the nomination package. This is an opportunity
to honour and recognize an individual who has demonstrated exceptional
leadership in career development. Past recipients include Dave Redekopp,
Judy Lynn Archer, Phil Jarvis, John McCormick, Vance Peavy, Roberta
Neault , Jacques Limoges, Danielle Riverin-Simard, Armelle Spain and Kris
Magnusson. The Award is usually given at a special award ceremony at NATCON
and consists of a citation and gift for the recipient as well as a scholarship
to be awarded to an individual selected by the recipient. The award
location will be announced in the near future.
Do not hesitate to contact CCDF staff at 613-729-6164 should you have any
questions.
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Interesting Article
about the Citizens' Assembly in NOW Magazine.
Redeeming
Ballot
By
Richard Swift
'Everyday citizens look into overhauling Ontario's voting system to jeers from
journo insiders.'
They
get off the buses and file slowly through the grey, early-morning light into
Osgoode Hall Law School at York University.
No,
these aren't prospective lawyers gearing up for their bar exam. They're members
of the Ontario Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform, voters one per riding
randomly chosen from across the province to consider whether it's time to scrap
our voting system that elects candidates with the most votes regardless of
whether they have a majority.
Their
recommendations are slated to go to the people of Ontario in a referendum as
part of the next election. But their work, so far largely ignored by the major
media, could actually trigger a political earthquake in the next 12 months.
The
Assembly, which met at York September 9, isn't actually representative;
Ontarians didn't elect them to do this. But its members are much more
reflective of the people of Ontario than is the coterie of mostly professional
and business folk who make it through the party nomination system and gruelling
election campaigns to win a plurality of votes cast by those who still bother
to cast them.
For
a start, half are women. The group includes people of colour from Asia and
Africa, a sprinkling of Chinese Ontarians, working-class guys with ball caps, a
good spread of ages from eager 20-somethings to greying retirees who haven't
had their belief in the duties of citizenship beaten out of them.
Take
William Kwegyir-Aggrey, who represents York South. Born in Ghana, he spent time
in prison for criticizing the military coup in his native land. For him, a key
issue is "holding them [what he calls the political giants] to account
once they have been elected." This is a common theme amongst many
delegates.
Elsayed
Abdelaal, the member from Guelph-Wellington, raises the issue of strategic
voting. "So often we end up voting with our heads rather than our
hearts," he complains. He concludes not that this is simply bad, but that
it would be better to have a situation where "we need both."
Women
delegates make the case that our present parliamentary politics are too
simple-mindedly adversarial. Politicians from one party condemn others not
because they disagree but simply because they're on the other side.
The
discussion moves back and forth. Some value governing coalitions of parties as
opposed to the "strong leadership" associated with single-party
government. Sometimes the conclusions are conservative, other times reformist
or even radical in their implications.
Missing
is the kind of insider cynicism and grandstanding so often associated with
people who have positions and institutions to defend.
It's
probably this absence of an institutional stake that makes political insiders
nervous about this kind of open-ended process dominated by everyday citizens.
The distrust of democracy spreading beyond the professionals is palpable.
Take
the Queen's Park correspondents. Murray Campbell of the Globe and Mail hasn't
pronounced recently on the Citizens' Assembly, but in a spirited defence of the
electoral status quo after the last federal election he referred to it as
"Dalton McGuinty's golly-gee wish for democratic renewal."
Ian
Urquhart of the Star launched a recent assault on the Assembly, disparaging its
members as "mostly retirees, part-time workers, students, homemakers and
computer nerds looking for some excitement in their humdrum lives."
The
subtext: how dare these ordinary people consider deep questions of democracy?
The hostility of the Queen's Park journos' inner circle and the editorial
boards to which they're answerable may say something about the almost total
media silence that has greeted the start of Citizens' Assembly deliberations.
But
the need for reform is there if you want to look. Voter participation has
fallen to just above the 50 per cent mark in recent Ontario elections.
Poll
data presented by Citizens' Assembly animator Jonathan Rose, a political
science professor at Queens, shows Canadians' trust in and respect for
political parties declining dramatically.
In
Ontario, political parties with bare pluralities and quite radical reform
programs get to impose their will on an unwilling majority. In fact, thanks to
the first-past-the-post voting system, Ontarians have not actually experienced
legitimate majority rule a government elected by the majority of voters since
1943.
Democracy
is the thing we are asked to cherish, pay taxes for and sometimes even die to
defend. Perhaps ordinary citizens should occasionally be allowed to think about
it.
Link
to original article: http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2006-10-12/news_story4.php
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Queen's Industrial
Relations Centre: October 2006 Newsletter
Click here to download the newsletter in
Microsoft Word Format.
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A 'Gateway' to Retail Jobs
Retail Council of Canada is partnering with community organizations such as
Gateway Cafe to broaden the reach of its retail designation program and support
youth in need of quality employment opportunities.
Click here to
download the complete article.
Events
Job Fair - Monday October 23
11am-2pm
Assurant Solutions have joined the KEYS Job Fair taking place
this Monday October 23 11am-2pm at our Kingston Office 182 Sydenham St . Job seekers will have the opportunity to
apply to 7 actively hiring employers :-
- Assurant Solutions
-S&R Department Store
- Tim Horton's
- Clarica
- Swiss Chalet
-Your Workplace Magazine
-Startek
Monday October 23, 2006
KEYS 182 Sydenham St.
11am-2pm
For
further details please contact:
Tanya Dee
KEYS Employment Services
tanyad@keys.ca
613-583-2818
Click here to
download the official flyer
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Values-Driven Electoral Reform Conference (Kingston)
The
School of Policy Studies at Queen's University and the Citizens' Assembly
Secretariat of the Province of Ontario are inviting organizations to
participate in an exciting conference on Values-Driven Electoral Reform, which
will take place on November 12-13, 2006 in Kingston, Ontario.
The official invitation letter can be downloaded here. To
download the conference program click here.
Jobs
YEP Business Coach
(Newmarket)
Resources
Occupations with "good" employment prospects in Ontario Communities
Please click here to download a 2006 listing of
occupations where there is strong job potential.
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