A “pan-Canadian literacy strategy” – a concept familiar to many who have worked in various capacities to improve the literacy proficiencies of Canadians – got a fresh airing at the Pan-Canadian Interactive Literacy Forum, held April 14-15 by the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC).

For Melody Paruboczy, who joined the Movement for Canadian Literacy (MCL) as executive director March 31, literacy has been a touchstone throughout her career.

When Literacy Partners of Manitoba (LPM) requested proclaiming September as Literacy Month two years ago, the Province of Manitoba did it. The premier also named to his cabinet a Minister of Literacy in 2006.

A Quebec law, unique in North America, that mandates a minimum corporate expenditure on workplace training now also become a vehicle to encourage the development of occupational standards.

Read about the new plan, unveiled at Canada's Challenge: Workforce Skills for Global Competitiveness, a panel discussion on workforce skills gaps held in Toronto.

Toronto, ON — Working-age Canadians are greatly disadvantaged by their low literacy levels, a situation that has persisted over the past decade and that promises only to worsen with serious consequences to individual citizens and the economy.

Toronto, ON — The findings of the International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey (IALSS), released November 9 with full details November 30, reveal a working-age (16 to 65) Canadian population lacking in the literacy skills needed to cope with the everyday demands of life and work — a social and economic challenge to become even more acute with on-the-job literacy demands increasing and the