Dear Colleagues,

Email ahughes@yrng.com

Please find a copy of COSTI Vaughan ERC’s (Employment Resource Centre) November Workshop Calendar and Workshop

Nov2005WorkshopVaughan.doc

Explanations attached.  Please inform interested clients to register for workshops in advance by calling our office at 905-669-JOBS (5627) or emailing us at vaughanerc@costi.org. 

Thank you.

COSTI Vaughan ERC Team

www.costi.org

38 Orfus Road

Tel.416-395-3350

    416-395-6505

Website: www.yorkdale.net

870 Queen Street West

Tel.905-891-3034

Website: www.dpcdsb.org/coopcentre

Participants in these schools are Professionally trained adult newcomers to Canada with good proficiency in English and marketable skills, who are legally eligible to work in Canada. The Placement will provide them with the Canadian experience they need to obtain a paid job in their field of choice & familiarize themselves with the Canadian job market and culture.

To be accepted into co-op Program there is personal Interview and Test for English in speaking, reading, writing and listening. All testing, interviewing and registration must be done in-person. You must call to book an appointment.

For the Brian J. Fleming location call: 905 891 3034

For the St. Gabriel location call: 905 362 0701

After the Program 81% of the students get paid employment in their occupation of choice!

The Programs are for:

Foreign Trained Professionals,

Office Skills Training,

ESL (English Second Language) Program

Computer Classes

Credit Classes.

With the Volunteer Placement the International Trained Engineer has a chance to gain that valuable current office experience. While you are in class the Staff will call companies and try to place you. The placement is 8 weeks, full time. It is unpaid but think of it like taking a course…. you will learn a lot!

Sharpen your skills in an office environment. The following is a sample of what you will learn: Resumes, Interview techniques, Cover letters, Computer Skills and Company and industry research.

• Learn about current job market trends
• Gain back that confidence working in the office
• Contribute to a company using previous work experience and education
• Network with people and obtain current references
• Get your "foot in the door"
• Learn about current office standards and methods.

You will be graded on your work & must pass the course to be placed.

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For your information, we learn from our Bulgarian Colleagues that the Classes size of the Brown Fleming DPCDSB is smaller then the Yorkdale, and the personal satisfactions are much higher.

SfC In The News

http://www.skillsforchange.org/news/index.html

TORONTO, Sept. 28 /CNW/ - Bullfrog Power, Ontario's first 100% green electricity retailer, announced that as of today Ontarians have a renewable energy choice. With the launch of Bullfrog Power, Ontario electricity consumers, businesses and non-profit organizations can stop directing their electricity dollars to polluting producers and instead direct their electricity dollars to power produced exclusively from pollution-free wind and low-impact hydro generators that meet or exceed the Federal Government's Environmental Choice (M) Program EcoLogo (M) standard.
Ontario homeowners who choose to become "bullfrog powered (TM)" pay a modest premium for green power that adds about a dollar a day to the average bill - about the same as the price of a bottle of water. Customers continue to draw electricity from the Ontario grid in the same way that they always have, and therefore don't need any special setup or wiring to make the switch. The difference is that their dollars support 100% EcoLogo-certified power generation instead of fossil fuels and nuclear.
Coal-fired electricity generation is the largest industrial source of air pollution in Ontario. With the arrival of Bullfrog Power, they now have an option to encourage the production of clean, renewable power from generators that produce no greenhouse gas or smog-inducing emissions.
"We're focused on providing Ontario consumers with practical energy choices that help create a sustainable world for future generations," said Tom Heintzman, President, Bullfrog Power. "Switching to Bullfrog Power is an easy way to make a meaningful difference."
Bullfrog Power will be bringing new renewable power onto the Ontario grid through a recently signed agreement with wind power generator, Sky Generation. The agreement includes Bullfrog Power funding to co-develop two new wind turbines at Sky Generation's wind farm on Ontario's Bruce Peninsula. "Bullfrog Power and its customers are causing new renewable power production to be built in Ontario. They are taking a leadership role in changing the balance of power," said Glen Estill, Founder of Sky Generation.
Bullfrog Power has also entered into a partnership with WWF-Canada, based on a shared commitment to fight climate change and encourage energy conservation and a switch to renewable sources of power. "Energy efficiency and renewable, non-polluting sources of energy are the keys to fighting climate change and the focus of WWF's global PowerSwitch! Campaign," said Mike Russill, President and CEO of WWF-Canada. "WWF-Canada is thrilled that Bullfrog Power is now available to electricity users in Ontario. We wish Bullfrog Power great success and encourage Ontario residents and companies to learn more about this green alternative."
"Choosing renewable power is a significant personal decision that we have made to help the environment," said Theresa Albert, one of the first residential customers to sign up as a founding Bullfrog 100 customer. "By switching to become a bullfrog powered home, our family is saying no to coal and nuclear, and yes to clean renewable. We care about where our electricity dollars are going, and now, with Bullfrog Power, we have a real choice."
The Bullfrog 100 is a list of residential electricity consumers who have pledged their support for green power. The ranks of the Bullfrog 100 include Michael Adams, Edward Burtynsky, David Crombie, Thomas Homer-Dixon, Jamie Kennedy, Anne Swarbrick, and many more.
Bullfrog Power also announced that several leading organizations including RBC Financial Group, Upper Canada Forestry Products, Warren's Waterless Printing, Toronto and Region Conservation, Hidden Bench Winery, Bruce Mau Design, Butterfield and Robinson, AutoShare, Forest Stewardship
Council of Canada, Green Living Enterprises (a division of Key Publishers), Investeco, Key Gordon, Summerhill Group, Eco Cleaners, Beach Solar Laundromat, Ofootprint and the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair have chosen to become bullfrogpowered in some or all of their operations.
About Bullfrog Power, visit Bullfrog Power on the web at www.bullfrogpower.com
Full Story - Newswire

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/September2005/28/c4705.html

http://www.higherbracket.ca/

Miscellaneous

Date: Tue Nov 15

Time: 5:00PM – 7:30 PM

Location: U of T, Vivian and David Campbell, Conference Facility - 1 Devonshire Place.

Registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=1729

Registration is required. Please contact Dr. Robert Austin at (416) 946-8942 or Robert.Austin@utoronto.ca

The Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (CERES) at the University of Toronto is one of North America's leading academic institutes for the study of the member countries of the European Union, the countries of the former Soviet Union, and Central and Eastern Europe. The Centre promotes interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching in the social sciences and humanities. Each year CERES organizes several regionally focused seminar series and is host to a number of scholars in residence. Drawing upon the expertise of more than fifteen departments and dozens of faculty members, CERES also sponsors an undergraduate degree program in European Studies and a Master's degree program in Russian and East European Studies. Through its intensive relations with the European Commission, the German Academic Exchange Service, the wider local community in Toronto, and institutions of higher learning across Europe, Ukraine, and Russia, CERES supports the exchange of ideas and scholars across the Atlantic.

Distinguished Leaders in Bulgaria

Lecture Series
Venelin Ganev

(Miami University, Oxford, Ohio),

Venelin I. Ganev (PhD, University of Chicago) is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Professor Ganev’s research focuses on democratization, constitutional law and economic development in Bulgaria and East Central Europe. In addition to his academic research and writing, Professor Ganev also serves as member of the advisory board to the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Bulgaria, a project coordinator for the United Nation’s development program "The Future of the Nation State in the Balkans" and a coordinator for Miami University’s Havighurst Colloquium on Post-Communist Politics.

Presented by Mrs. Genka Beleva, Consulate General of the Republic of Bulgaria in Toronto and Professor Jeffrey Kopstein, Director, the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, University of Toronto.

E-mail: dkaramanev@eng.uwo.ca;