Changing Trend in Migration? Places of Migrants to Canada Evolves Slightly in 2007
Added: 17.12.2008
Changing Trend in Migration? Places of Migrants to Canada Evolves Slightly in 2007; Immigrant’s Knowledge of Official Languages increases in importance
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Knowledge of the Holocaust and Desire for Action Amongst Canadians
Added: 10.11.2008
Presentation by Jack Jedwab on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of Kristallnacht, the night of Broken Glass
November 10, 2008
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Discrimination in Canada and Europe: Perceptions, Experiences and Attitudes
Added: 07.11.2008
Launch of Canada Barometer
International Association for the Study of Canada
Jack Jedwab
November 6, 2008
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Teaching Canadian History in the Era of Diversity
Added: 20.10.2008
Jack Jedwab
Executive Director
Association for Canadian Studies
October 20, 2008
• Pride in Canadian History-Canadians Proud of their History and least educated
affirm most pride
• Most Canadians agree that Canada is a Nation of Immigrants
• Canadian History should prioritize teaching about the treatment of aboriginals
• Are Canadians aware of anti-semitism in the country’s past? Such awareness does
not undercut pride in History
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The Changing Vertical Mosaic: Intergenerational Comparisons in Income on the Basis of Visible Minority Status in Canada, 2006
Added: 06.10.2008
By
Jack Jedwab
Executive Director
Association for Canadian Studies
October 6, 2008
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Canadian Post Olympic Survey
Added: 29.09.2008
Jack Jedwab
Association for Canadian Studies
September 27th, 2008
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Are Canadians Political Animals: Elections 2008, Interest and Engagement in Canadian Politics
Added: 26.09.2008
Are Canadians Political Animals: Elections 2008, Interest and Engagement in Canadian Politics
Jack Jedwab
Executive Director
Association for Canadian Studies
September 24, 2008
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Attitudes towards Jews and Muslims: Comparing Canada with the United States and Europe
Added: 19.09.2008
Jack Jedwab
Executive Director
Association for Canadian Studies
September 19, 2008
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Immigrant Family Income in Canada 2006: Saskatchewan and Alberta are areas of highest remuneration
Added: 04.09.2008
Jack Jedwab
Association for Canadian Studies
September 4, 2008
While Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia are the provinces where most immigrants choose to settle, the 2006 census reveals that Alberta is the province where immigrant family income is highest.
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Shifting Patterns of Immigration in Canada
Added: 25.07.2008
A survey of the most recent immigration trends in Canada.
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Celebrating Identity in Canada: Interest in History Important Dimension of Celebrations of Past
Added: 15.07.2008
Jack Jedwab
Executive Director
Association for Canadian Studies
July 15, 2008
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Do Quebecers know their history and what history interests them?
Added: 13.07.2008
Jack Jedwab
Association for Canadian Studies
July 14, 2008
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Home is Where the Heart Is? Census Reveals Growing Numbers of Americans in Canada
Added: 04.07.2008
Jack Jedwab
Executive Director
Association for Canadian Studies
July 4, 2008
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Immigrants believe the rest of the World could learn from Canada’s Multicultural Policy
Added: 27.06.2008
Friday the 27th of June is national Multiculturalism Day. The Association for Canadian Studies commissioned the firm Leger Marketing to interview some 600 immigrants (half from Toronto and one-quarter from Montreal and Vancouver respectively) over the period May 23rd to June 1st 2008 and inquire into issues of
multicultural policy, life satisfaction, belonging and identity in Canada.
Part 1-Friday June 27th, 2008
Immigrants believe the rest of the
World could learn from Canada’s Multicultural Policy
Jack Jedwab
Executive Director
Association for Canadian Studies
Friday, June 27, 2008
The rest of the world could learn from Canada's multicultural policy.
Canada could learn a lot from the way other countries deal with cultural diversity.
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Canada’s ‘Unmanifest’ Destiny: Perceptions about the Ties that Bind Quebec and the Rest of the Country
Added: 23.06.2008
Jack Jedwab
June 23, 2008
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Finding Divergence Over Who Founded Canada?
Added: 16.06.2008
Jack Jedwab
Association for Canadian Studies
June 16, 2008
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Enquête sur le Rapport de la Commission Bouchard-Taylor
Added: 11.06.2008
Jack Jedwab
Directeur général
Association d’études canadiennes
11 juin 2008
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How are Canadians Reasonably Accommodating Gas Price Hikes? Canadian Consumer Reaction to the Rising Price of Fuel
Added: 09.06.2008
Jack Jedwab
Association for Canadian Studies
June 7, 2008
Highlights:
-Majority of Canadians Report Cutting Back on Daily Driving
-One-third say they are more frequently using other means of travel besides the car
-Six in dollar consider changing to a more fuel efficient car
-Canadians fare better in dealing with gas price hikes than Americans
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Visible Minorities and Education in Canada
Added: 26.05.2008
Visible Minorities and Education in Canada
Jack Jedwab
Executive Director
Association for Canadian Studies
May 26, 2008
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Unemployment Rates of Visible Minority Groups in Canada, 1991-2006
Added: 20.05.2008
Jack Jedwab
Association for Canadian Studies
May 19, 2008
Part 1
As the unemployment rate in Canada declined across the period 1991-2006 so too has there been an improvement in the employment situation of Canada’s visible minorities.
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Visible Minority Unemployment in Canadian CMA’s
Added: 20.05.2008
Jack Jedwab
Association for Canadian Studies
May 19, 2008
Part 2
In this second part of the study on visible minorities and unemployment in Canada we focus on the situation in Canada’s major immigrant receiving cities. In sum we examine the differences in rates of unemployment amongst the white and visible minority populations.
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Reasonable Remuneration: The Earnings Gap between Immigrants and Non-Immigrants in Canadian Cities
Added: 05.05.2008
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Our ‘Cense’ of Self: the 2006 Census Saw 1.6 Million ‘Canadian’ Canadians Return to British and French Origins
Added: 25.04.2008
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Does Bilingualism Mean Greater Employability?
Added: 14.04.2008
Part 1
A recent survey commissioned by the Association for Canadian Studies reveals that a majority of Canadians believe that: “learning a language helps you get a better job”.
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Canadians on the Move in 2007
Added: 07.04.2008
British Columbia Wins the
Race; Winners include Saskatchewan, Alberta and New Brunswick; Ontario and Quebec country’s biggest losers in migration between provinces
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Diverse expressions of culture do not detract from common culture say Canadians
Added: 31.03.2008
Tomorrow (April 2, 2008) Statistics Canada will release its findings on the number of persons identifying with ethnic and visible minority groups. Three things are safe to assume: first that there will be a rise in the percentage of Canadians identifying as visible minority, second that the percentage of persons reporting multiple ethnic origins will increase and third that the number and share reporting Canadian as either single or multiple ethnic origins will increase. Undoubtedly considerable attention will be directed at what all this means for Canadian identity and some will misconstrue the numbers and share of persons reporting Canadian ethnic origins as signaling a stronger sense of attachment to Canada as though persons not indicating Canadian ethnic origins possess a weaker sense of identification with the country. In fact a survey commissioned by the Association for Canadian Studies (with the support of la Fondation canadienne pour la dialogue des cultures et l'Institut des études canadiennes de l'Université de l'Alberta) and conducted by the firm Leger Marketing in early February 2008 reveals that a majority of Canadians (71%) agree that “…it is the diversity of Canadian culture that sets it apart and gives it its particular value.” Some three in four Canadians agree “…that Canada's cultural life is enriched by people with different cultural backgrounds than the majority.” Finally, the majority disagree that “…there is no common Canadian culture because Canadians are too different from one another” In short most Canadians do not agree that Canada’s diversity detracts from possessing a share culture. The Leger Marketing Survey was conducted between February 6th and 11th, 2008 amongst 1500 Canadians age 18 and over and has a margin of error of 2.6 percent 19 times out of 20.
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New Brunswick needs to better assess progress on French language learning amongst province’s anglophone children
Added: 31.03.2008
Education Minister Kelly Lamrock says it is time to stop setting up the province's French Second Language programs to fail. The Report and Recommendations of the French Second-Language (FSL) Commission on French-Second Language Programs and Services chaired by University of New Brunswick professor James Croll and education activist Patricia Lee recommends that early French immersion be abandoned in grades one to five to be replaced in Grade 5 with an "intensive" French language learning program. Underlying this notion is the assumption that children develop language skills at a later stage in their learning cycle. However data from the recently released 2006 census do not support this conclusion. Rather as revealed below when it comes to the acquisition of English and French amongst New Brunswick children of English mother tongue the period up to grade 5 seems crucial and from the grade 5-9 cohort to the next cohort there is no progress on bilingualism. Paradoxically the census data for 2001 and 2006 also reveals that in the 5-9 and 10-14 age cohorts French second language acquisition actually progressed. Moreover, there are variations between cities in second language acquisition that need to be considered as learning French as a second language is also related to the demographic and social context in the broader community. Hence as revealed in Table 3 in Moncton the percentage of bilingualism amongst Anglophone youth is higher than it is in Fredericton and Saint John, New Brunswick thus suggesting that a one size fits all assessment of the situation may be inadequate. If an issue needs to be addressed when it comes to second language acquisition in New Brunswick it is the decline in the knowledge of French upon the completion of one’s studies. Indeed the government should be paying more attention to stressing the importance of French second language acquisition something to which the government’s current message seems to counter.
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CRRF-ACS Survey on Racism and Anti-Semitism
Added: 20.03.2008
Highlights
- Forty-five percent of Canadians agree that racial profiling is a problem in the
country and this view is held by a narrow majority of persons who speak neither
English nor French at home.
- Those Canadians between the ages of 18 - 24 are more likely to think that racial
profiling is a problem in the country while those Canadians who are 65 or older
are least likely to agree.
- Across the regions of the country there is little difference in the extent to which
racial profiling is seen as a problem in the country.
- A slight majority of Canadians think that the federal government is best
positioned to fight racism in Canada.
- Nearly one in four thinks that the provincial government is best positioned while
less than one in five thinks municipalities are best positioned to do so.
- The youngest respondents believe that the municipal government is best
positioned to fight racism with the federal government chosen increasingly
frequently by those over the age of 35.
- Quebecers are more likely to think the provincial government is best positioned to
address issues of racism, with Atlantic Canadians and British Columbians most
likely to think the federal government best positioned to do so
- As to the degree of satisfaction with government’s approach to combating racism
and anti-semitism while more people express satisfaction than dissatisfaction at
least one-third are likely to say they are not satisfied
- Not unexpectedly those who are least satisfied with the government’s approach to
combating racism are most likely to agree that racial profiling is a problem in
Canada.
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Bilingualism in Canada: Definitely, Maybe? - Part 1
Added: 11.03.2008
Highlights :
- Some 47% of Canadians believe that it is important to speak both English and French.
- Some three-quarters of Canadians would like to either learn a new language or improve their command of an existing one.
- Nearly three-quarters (72%) of Canadians believe they already know or have sufficient command of the language(s) they need.
- Some 41% of Canadians believe that they cannot take the time to learn or improve their command of another language.
- Seventy-six percent of Canadians believe that learning a second language helps them understand other cultures.
- Some 82% of Canadians agree that learning a language helps you get a better job.
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Bilingualism in Canada: Definitely, Maybe? - Part 2
Added: 11.03.2008
Highlights:
- Some 40% Canadians believe that bilingualism keeps the country united while 54% of Canadians disagree with this statement.
- Some 38% of Canadians believe that in Canada we are required to learn a second official language; however the majority of Canadians (57%) disagree with the statement.
- Some 45% of Canadians agree that we should be required to learn a second official language on the other hand 54% of Canadians disagree with the statement. Six percent didn’t reply or don’t know.
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Canadians and Americans: Shared Values but Not Shared Culture
Added: 14.02.2008
By
Will Straw And Jack Jedwab
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Canadians Have Favorable Opinion of Aboriginals in Canada; especially those in contact with members of aboriginal communities
Added: 14.01.2008
by Jack Jedwab
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Canada’s Evolving Language Realities
Added: 11.01.2008
Part 2
‘Oui, I do’: Marriages across language communities in Quebec and the language(s) of their children
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Canada’s Changing Language Realities and the Challenge of Bilingualism
Added: 09.01.2008
Part 1
Montreal increasingly trilingual(Gatineau most officially bilingual region in Quebec and city in Canada)
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