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<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">This vignette, prepared in partnership with Canadian Heritage, briefly presents some initiatives carried out in official language minority communities (OLMCs) across the country. Various themes will be introduced in each issue of the newsletter. This issue features recruitment initiatives.
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<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">This vignette, prepared in partnership with Canadian Heritage, highlights some initiatives carried out by federal institutions in official language minority communities (OLMCs) across the country. In this issue, a few of the initiatives we describe are from [[:en:File:One-pager_minority_media_Nov22_EN.pdf|'''Positive measures related to minority media''']], prepared by Canadian Heritage.
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<br><p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">In Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland and Labrador, '''Parks Canada''' collaborated with the Voice of Bonne Bay Community Radio on a series of French-language radio vignettes on the park’s ecological and cultural heritage. Those vignettes provided members of the Francophone community and visitors to the region with information about Gros Morne in their official language on local community radio.
 
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<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">A partnership between '''Global Affairs Canada''', the Association des collèges et universités de la francophonie canadienne and the Réseau des cégeps et des collèges francophones du Canada facilitates international business development activities for various markets around the world, including the recruitment of French-speaking foreign students for institutions in Canada’s Francophone minority regions.
   
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<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">The Office of the Chief Science Officer of the '''Public Health Agency of Canada''' funded an issue of a children’s science magazine, ''Sciences Mag Junior'', with ''La Liberté'', Manitoba’s only French-language newspaper. The initiative was designed to raise awareness of COVID-19 in the 6-to-12-year age group.
 
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<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">The '''Office of the Chief Electoral Officer''' (OCEO) has put in place a formal mechanism for consulting OLMCs as part of a pilot project to facilitate the recruitment of workers capable of providing services in both official languages during federal elections. This will allow the OCEO to improve its tools, focus its initiatives, develop action plans that take into account the realities of OLMCs and engage its members during election recruitment periods.
   
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<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">Although the '''Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s''' job is to oversee radio broadcasting, it is supporting Quebec’s Indigenous communities by approving a request to continue serving the English-speaking and Mohawk communities of Kanesatake/Oka on the air.
<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">'''Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada'''’s Client Support Centre (CSC) has updated its pool of bilingual candidates to attract more talent in the new remote work environment. By leveraging technology, the CSC was able to resume its intensive hiring strategy, despite the COVID-&nbsp;19 restrictions, through a fully virtual hiring process. The CSC was therefore able to participate in a pilot project using Vid-Cruiter and automate its entire hiring process without compromising the quality of successful candidates.
   
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<br><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">'''Polar Knowledge''' encourages the publication of competitions open to the public in ''L'Aquilon'', the French-language newspaper distributed in the Northwest Territories, to recruit candidates from the French-speaking community.  
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<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><br><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">The '''Canadian Impact Assessment Agency''' has prepared about 30 media plans for projects across the country. All of them included advertising in minority language media.
 
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<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><br>The '''Canadian Security Intelligence Service’s''' Academic Outreach and Stakeholder Engagement program produces a bi-monthly open-source publication entitled “Need to Know,” which is distributed to stakeholders across Canada and around the world. The publication includes primary sources and events, some in English and some in French, to inform the official language communities of the views and sources available in either of the official languages.<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">
 
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<span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">To attract bilingual talent, '''Transport Canada''' (TC) Atlantic has strengthened its relationship with the University of Moncton to identify opportunities to attract bilingual students to a career at TC. In addition, TC Prairies and the Northern Region initiated discussions with the University of Saint Boniface to explore the hiring of bilingual students from the region.<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">
   
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<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">Congratulations to these organizations on their efforts to recruit OLMC members! Would you like to share a best practice that your organization has in place? Let us know by contacting the [Mailto:anik.sauve@tbs-sct.gc.ca '''Council Secretariat''']!
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<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">For more examples of positive measures related to minority media, please see this [[:en:File:One-pager_minority_media_Nov22_EN.pdf|'''document''']] prepared by Canadian Heritage. If you would like to share a best practice established by your organization, contact the [Mailto:Maya.Belanger@tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca '''Council’s secretariat'''].
    
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