(Disponible en français : « L’égalité compte » : Le Canada célèbre la Journée internationale des femmes de 2017) This year, Canada’s theme for the annual celebration of International Women’s Day on March 8 is “Equality Matters.” The United Nations (UN) is focusing on “Women in the Changing World of Work: Planet 50-50 by 2030.”…
(Disponible en français : Mise à jour – L’accord intergouvernemental Canada–États Unis et l’échange de renseignements fiscaux) The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) became U.S. law in 2010. It aims to prevent American taxpayers from using foreign bank accounts to evade taxes. Since 1 July 2014, FATCA has required foreign financial institutions to report…
(Disponible en français : La petite histoire d’une procédure parlementaire inusitée) On 2 June 1898, the Hon. Clifford Sifton, Minister of the Interior, introduced Bill C-160, An Act Respecting the North-Western, Northern and North-Eastern Boundaries of the Province of Quebec. He began by explaining that the purpose of the bill was to ratify “a conventional boundary on…
(Disponible en français : Les langues autochtones dans l’édification d’un pacte de réconciliation) 1. Calls to Action on Aboriginal languages from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada In its final report tabled in 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) notes that the suppression of Aboriginal languages was a core element of…
(Disponible en français : Les langues officielles : vers une modernisation du cadre réglementaire) Renewed focus on the offer of services in French across Canada Clearly the past 15 months saw an unprecedented renewal of focus on the offer of French-language services across Canada. In October 2015, for the first time in its history, the…
(Disponible en français: La violence faite aux femmes au Canada : la Journée nationale de commémoration et d’action contre la violence faite aux femmes) The National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women – marked every year on 6 December – provides an opportunity to reflect on how violence affects women in Canada…
(Disponible en français: Les systèmes d’information géographique (SIG) : des outils de visualisation de données associées à un emplacement géographique (la localisation, c’est important!)) “…if some countries have too much history, we have too much geography”: Former Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.[1] A single map can convey information. But if you layer various datasets…
