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Ottawa Women's Training and Employment Network (OWTEN) is a long-standing group that has provided information, advice and advocacy on training, education and employment programs for women in Ottawa (Ontario, Canada) for over 11 years. The profile of their members is diverse, although there are mostly women involved in the program management and ...
[14] The $761,720.00 [17] provided by the Government of Canada will be used to increase the amount of money that the organization is able to put into resources they provide for Muslim women and girls. There are many challenges that Muslim women face in Canada today and ideally this funding will foster an atmosphere where change can occur.
In Canada, the entirety of the social provisions of government are called social programs (French: programmes sociaux), as opposed to social welfare in European/British parlance. Like in the United States, welfare in Canada colloquially refers to direct payments to low-income individuals only, and not to healthcare and education spending. [2]
There is a Canadian Girls in Training fonds at Library and Archives Canada. [8] The archival reference number is R2975, former archival reference number MG28-I313. [9] The fond covers the date range 1913 to 1985. It consists of 3.83 meters of textual records, 806 photographs and a number of other media records.
Partly funded by government grants, the NAC was widely regarded as the official expression of women's interests in Canada, and received a lot of attention from the media. In 1984 there was a televised debate on women's issues among the leaders of the contending political parties during the federal election campaign .
The Federated Women's Institutes of Canada is an umbrella organization for Women's Institutes in Canada. "The idea to form a national group was first considered in 1912. In 1914, however, when the war began the idea was abandoned. At the war's end, it was Miss Mary MacIssac, Superintendent of Alberta Women's Institute, who revived
The Canadian Women's Army Corps was a non-combatant branch of the Canadian Army for women, established during the Second World War, with the purpose of releasing men from those non-combatant roles in the Canadian armed forces as part of expanding Canada's war effort. Most women served in Canada but some served overseas, most in roles such as ...
The CFI was created by the Government of Canada through the Budget Implementation Act 1997, Bill C-93, [2] to "help build and sustain a research landscape in Canada that will attract and retain the world's top talent, train the next generation of researchers, support private-sector innovation and create high-quality jobs that strengthen Canada's position in today's knowledge economy".