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Canada Dept. of Supply and Services, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1984
In 1984, Canada's Special Parliamentary Committee on Visible Minorities in Canadian Society issued a set of recommendations which challenged government at all levels, institutions, organizations, and individuals to commit themselves to the full development of a dynamic and socially harmonious multicultural and multiracial society. This document…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Peer reviewedJournal of Intergroup Relations, 1984
Reports on an international conference of human rights professionals held in 1982. Topics covered include ethnicity, intergroup relations, migration, immigration, emigration, and women's rights. (KH)
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Feminism, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedJournal of Intergroup Relations, 1984
Provides a summary of discussion at an international conference of human rights professionsls in 1982. Covers a wide range of subjects, from women's access to positions of economic power, to day care facilities as a means of expanding choices of both women and men who work in or out of the home. (KH)
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Feminism, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedSamuel, T. John. – Journal of Intergroup Relations, 1990
Discusses recent changes in Canada's labor market. Examines the role of "visible minorities" in the labor force. Presents a forecast of anticipated changes for visible minorities in the Canadian labor market by the year 2000. Examines possible changes in the United States' labor market and the implications on Canada. (JS)
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Employment Projections, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Foreign Countries
Mason, Peter – 1986
Two sets of opinion exist regarding the control of schools. The first pertains to the freedom of parental choice in education and the right of individuals and associations to run private schools subject to minimal government controls. The second stresses the overriding need to promote greater equality of opportunity in the form of publicly…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Cooperation, Educational Demand, Educational Opportunities
Peer reviewedLawson, Robert F.; Ghosh, Ratna – Education and Urban Society, 1986
Discusses Canada's problems in searching for a national identity and the controversy of the Federal policy of multiculturalism. Presents its objectives within a bilingual framework and the contradictions involved. Suggests a workable model involving assimilation conditioned by regional or local circumstances, useful also as a development strategy.…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism, Developed Nations, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedJournal of Intergroup Relations, 1984
Summarizes discussion at an international conference of human rights professionals in 1982. Addresses such topics as: police-community relations, education and the mass media, the roles of human rights agencies, affirmative action, the impact of new technology, new challenges in dealing with discrimination, and coalition-building. (KH)
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Agency Role, Civil Liberties, Emerging Occupations
