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Update on the Pathways to Prosperity Pan-Canadian Project Consultations | Nouvelles des consultations sur les projets pancanadiens de Voies vers la prospérité

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The period of public consultations on the seven pan-Canadian research projects proposed by the P2P is now closed. The seven proposals elicited considerable feedback from a broad cross-section of stakeholders concerned with newcomer integration and the development of more welcoming communities. Further direct consultations are about to get underway with provincial and federal ministries, as well as a select number of other organizations... Read More »

What’s New


Agency of the Future

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The Pathways to Prosperity Partnership is collaborating with OCASI-Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants to initiate a new multi-faceted, multi-year, project entitled Agency of the Future. According to Meyer Burstein, the P2P’s Director of Policy and Planning, “the project’s overall strategic goal is to map the landscape of opportunities and constraints that will face settlement organizations between now and 2020 and, based on this mapping, to identify the strategies that will enable the sector to prosper.” Amplifying on this, Carl Nicholson, OCASI’s newly-elected President, states that the Agency of the Future project will help guide settlement agencies as they... Read More »

Special Contribution


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We would like to acknowledge the special contribution by Aurélie Lacassagne to the development of the Voies vers la prosperite websites. Without Aurélie’s assistance, it would not have been possible to launch the French web sites in such a timely manner. We would also like to congratulate Aurélie Lacassagne on her recent appointment as Chair of the Political Science Department at Laurentian University.

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