Gov't helps new Canadians get jobs

The Weekly Gleaner;  August 7, 2008 ;     250 words ......an investment of over $800,000, in partnership with the Maytree Foundation. The Government of Canada is creating the best educated...Immigrant Employment Strategies (ALLIES) project with the Maytree Foundation. ONLINE TOOLS Through the federal government's Foreign...

Drawing on personal experiences to empower immigrants

India Abroad;  January 21, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Ratna Omidvar, executive director of the highly-respected Maytree Foundation's Refugee and Immigrant Program, works to empower new...She moved to what she calls a "neutral field." When the Maytree Foundation approached her to take over its new Refugee and Immigrant...

Canada At A Glance: PM 10/4.

Resource News International;  October 4, 2001 ;     700+ words ......conference on cities and immigration sponsored by the Maytree Foundation, which studies immigration matters. In Winnipeg this year...movement is being nurtured by urban thinker Jane Jacobs and Maytree Foundation chairman Alan Broadbent. Yesterday, Murray emphasized...

Government of Canada Helps New Canadians Get Jobs

Marketwire;  July 28, 2008 ;     500 words ......an investment of over $800,000, in partnership with the Maytree Foundation. "The Government of Canada is creating the best educated...Immigrant Employment Strategies (ALLIES) project with the Maytree Foundation. Through the federal government's Foreign Credential Recognition...

Government of Canada Helps New Canadians Get Jobs.

Canadian Corporate News;  July 28, 2008 ;     541 words ......an investment of over $800,000, in partnership with the Maytree Foundation. The Government of Canada is creating the best educated...Immigrant Employment Strategies (ALLIES) project with the Maytree Foundation. Through the federal government's Foreign Credential Recognition...

Bold Prescription for Our Cities

Literary Review of Canada;  May 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......investment holding company, and the chair of the board of the Maytree Foundation, has a long and deep interest in cities that was sparked...Here Broadbent's passion shines through. As chair of the Maytree Foundation, he has led the discussion on diversity and settlement...

Make it easier for immigrants to get here legally; harder to arrive...

Canadian Speeches;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......who follow the rules. Speech to a conference on Economic Migrants or Refugees? Trends in Global Migration, hosted by The Maytree Foundation in co-operation with The Caledon Institute of Social Policy, and The Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Toronto...

Canada wins in brain drains and brain gains.

Canadian Speeches;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......academic and healthcare sectors will be difficult to replace. Speech to the Brain Drain, Brain Gain seminar sponsored by The Maytree Foundation and The St. Lawrence Centre Forum, Toronto, May 25, 2000. , The issue of the brain drain crawled back onto the federal...

Challenging ideas to make cities work

Winnipeg Free Press;  April 27, 2008 ;     628 words ......livable for everyone through a private business, a foundation and a think-tank. The chair of Avana Capital Corp., the Maytree Foundation and the Caledon Institute of Social Policy (though no relation to former NDP leader Ed Broadbent) might be expected to...

Colleges and Institutes to Examine Changing Landscape of Post-Secondary...

Canadian Corporate News;  May 12, 2003 ;     467 words ......United Church of Canada and former Board Chair of Vancouver Community College, Ratna Omidvar, Executive Director, The Maytree Foundation, Kelly Lendsay, President, Aboriginal Human Resource Development Council of Canada, Milton Wong, Chairman of HSBC Asset...

Ontario government to help professional immigrants

India Abroad;  November 10, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Omidvar, an Indo-Canadian, who is on the board of WES and an executive director of the refugee and immigrant program of the Maytree Foundation, told India Abroad that the new service can "provide immigrant job seekers with a practical understanding of the gaps...

CULTURE-CANADA: TORONTO SHOWING SIGNS OF RACIAL TENSION

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  October 29, 2002 ;     700+ words ......school is where we all stop becoming immigrants and start becoming Canadians, says Ratna Omidvar, executive director of the Maytree Foundation. Pedagogical studies demonstrate that learning another language in addition to comprehending English - one of Canada's...

Toronto City Summit Alliance: Ontarians Can No Longer Count on Employment...

Canadian Corporate News;  October 6, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Way of Greater Toronto, and a number of foundations including the Laidlaw Foundation, the Law Foundation of Ontario, the Maytree Foundation, and the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation. About the Toronto City Summit Alliance The Toronto City Summit Alliance (TCSA...

Toronto City Summit Alliance: Ontarians Can No Longer Count on Employment...

CCNMatthews Newswire;  October 6, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Way of Greater Toronto, and a number of foundations including the Laidlaw Foundation, the Law Foundation of Ontario, the Maytree Foundation, and the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation. About the Toronto City Summit Alliance The Toronto City Summit Alliance (TCSA...

Immigrants the new face of Canada

Winnipeg Free Press;  December 5, 2007 ;     700+ words ......international. It makes them a place of global connections and global talent," said Ratna Omidvar, executive director of the Maytree Foundation, a Toronto-based private foundation dedicated to immigration issues. "Urban centres in Canada will have more in common...