The Brandon University Centre for Aboriginal and Rural Education Studies (BUCARES) is established in 2008, and its role is to promote and facilitate research activities that are of interest to rural, northern, and Indigenous communities, school divisions, and related organizations. The “Real Change” film project was part of a research project in Manitoba, by Michelle…
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This fact sheet provides an overview of the minimum standards that employers in the agriculture sector need to be aware of. The original document is available in both official languages on the Government of Manitoba website. In 2022, with funding from the Province of Manitoba, MANSO coordinated the translation of the document to Tagalog and…
Read More...The Public Policy Forum, in partnership with Pathways to Prosperity, is pleased to share their report: “Beyond the Big City: How Small Communities Across Canada Can Attract and Retain Newcomers.” Research was conducted to determine how newcomer attraction and retention could be enhanced to contribute to the success of smaller centres and less densely populated…
Read More...The Manitoba Association of Newcomer Serving Organizations (MANSO) has 70+ member organizations across Manitoba that provide a range of settlement and integration services to newcomers. Many of these services are federally funded and eligibility is limited to permanent residents; however, some organizations have funding for services or programs to serve newcomers with temporary immigration status….
Read More...On March 26-28th, 2018, the first National Small Centres Settlement & Integration Conference was held for organizations that deliver services to newcomer immigrants in communities outside major urban cities. 184 delegates from across Canada met and discussed trends, excellent practices, challenges, ways that technology and innovation can assist service providers, and priorities for IRCC’s next…
Read More...The Prairie Northern Territories Small Centre Promising Practices Learning Event provided a platform to network, share challenges and successes, and collectively inform Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada’s (IRCC) priority-setting for future funding. Over a three-day period from June 26, 2017, small centre organizations in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba came together in Brandon, Manitoba, to share…
Read More...In November 2015, a national resettlement initiative was undertaken to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees cross Canada. Since November 4th, 2015 the Government of Canada has welcomed more than 29,700 Syrian refugees (August 1st, 2016) and the commitment to resettling more refugees to Canada is continuing in 20161. More than 1000 Syrian refugees have resettled in…
Read More...Significant research efforts have focused on examining settlement services in large centres across Canada. With more immigrants selecting small centres and rural areas, this project is intended to inventory the extent to which settlement services exist in selected communities across Western Canada (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba) and to identify gaps, barriers and needs….
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