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Immigration Gridlock: Assessing Whether Canada's Express Entry Is an Effective Immigration System for International Students' Transition into Permanent Residency?
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Wang, Chen – Journal of International Students, 2018
This research critically analyzes the introduction of the Express Entry system in Canada, requiring foreign nationals to submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) and wait for an invitation before being allowed to apply for permanent residence. Drawing on available empirical data, I argue that this reform jeopardized international students' chance to…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Immigration, Skilled Workers, Foreign Students
Canadian Firearms Legislation and Effects on Homicide 1974 to 2008
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Langmann, Caillin – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
Canada has implemented legislation covering all firearms since 1977 and presents a model to examine incremental firearms control. The effect of legislation on homicide by firearm and the subcategory, spousal homicide, is controversial and has not been well studied to date. Legislative effects on homicide and spousal homicide were analyzed using…
Descriptors: Certification, Age, Foreign Countries, Weapons
The Canadian Child Welfare System Response to Exposure to Domestic Violence Investigations
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Black, Tara; Trocme, Nico; Fallon, Barbara; MacLaurin, Bruce – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2008
Objective: While child welfare policy and legislation reflects that children who are exposed to domestic violence are in need of protection because they are at risk of emotional and physical harm, little is known about the profile of families and children identified to the child welfare system and the system's response. The objective of this study…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Child Abuse, Child Welfare, Foreign Countries
Directory of Faculty Contracts and Bargaining Agents in Institutions of Higher Education.
Garfin, Molly, Comp. – 1980
A directory on unionization among college faculty for 1979 is presented. It is noted that faculty unionization continues to grow at a stabilized annual rate of approximately 20 new bargaining agents per year. By the end of 1979, 406 faculty unions were recognized as having bargaining agents for faculty and staff and more than 330 collective…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Contracts
Les ecoles secondaires de langue francaise en Ontario: Dix ans apres (French Language Secondary Schools in Ontario: Ten Years Later).
Bordeleau, Louis-Gabriel; And Others – 1980
This is a study of the educational experience of Franco-Ontarians at the secondary level, dealing specifically with the development and achievement of French-language instructional units, and community expectations of such units. The report starts with a review of the history of secondary French-language education from 1848 to 1968, the year in…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Legislation, Ethnic Groups, French
Directory of Faculty Contracts and Bargaining Agents in Institutions of Higher Education. Volume 17.
Douglas, Joel M.; Havey, L. William – 1991
This directory provides the 1990 collective bargaining results and union activity for higher education in the United States and Canada. Sections include lists of: (1) U.S. faculty contracts and bargaining agents; (2) U.S. adjunct faculty contracts and bargaining agents; (3) U.S. graduate and teaching assistant contracts and bargaining agents in…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, Contracts, Directories
Targeting Employment Services (Kalamazoo, Michigan, April 29-May 1, 1999).
Eberts, Randall W., Ed.; O'Leary, Christopher J., Ed.; Wandner, Stephen A., Ed. – 2002
This document contains 13 papers on targeting employment services. The following papers are included: "Targeting Employment Services under the Workforce Investment Act" (Stephen A. Wandner); "Predicting the Exhaustion of Unemployment Compensation" (Robert B. Olsen, Marisa Kelso, Paul T. Decker, Daniel H. Klepinger);…
Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Counseling Services, Decision Making, Delivery Systems