ISED Express

ISED Express is an electronic bulletin featuring articles and other news regarding the economic development of official language minority communities (OLMCs).

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Summer 2020

Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada

• Business Benefits Finder: Find COVID-19 support and other programs for your business
• SME Profile: Clean technology in Canada – February 2020
• High-Growth Firms Characteristics in Canada – May 2020

Regional economic development

FedNor (Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario)

• COVID-19: FedNor launches Regional Relief and Recovery Fund to support local economies

FedDev Ontario (Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario)

• COVID-19: FedDev Ontario launches Regional Relief and Recovery Fund to support local economies
• FedDev Ontario supports tourism and recovery efforts across Southern Ontario
• FedDev Ontario and partners to assist nearly 23,000 Ontario businesses in embracing online commerce

ACOA (Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency)

• COVID-19: ACOA launches Regional Relief and Recovery Fund to support local economies

WD (Western Economic Diversification Canada)

• COVID-19: WD launches Regional Relief and Recovery Fund to support local economy
• Francophone women entrepreneurs boost each other in British Columbia
• Support for Manitoba's bilingual municipalities and entrepreneurs

CED (Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions)

• COVID-19: CED launches the Regional Relief and Recovery Fund to support local economies

CanNor (Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency)

• COVID-19: CanNor launches the Regional Relief and Recovery Fund to support local economies

Community Partners

CEDEC (Community Economic Development and Employability Corporation)

• Public, private and civil society sector collaboration: essential components of Canada's prosperity
• CEDEC's Pioneering Work on Opportunity-Driven Public, Private and Civil Society Collaboration Referenced in New Growth Strategy for Canada Post COVID-19
• Poll discovers perceived split in Quebecers' Post COVID-19 economic outlook

QCGN (Quebec Community Groups Network)

• Huge Victory for Minority School Boards in Supreme Court B.C. School Board Case
• Court Challenge to Bill 40 Launched: Quebec's English-speaking minority seeks interlocutory injunction

RDÉE Canada (National Francophone Economic Development Network)

• Le RDÉE Canada et ses membres présentent un positionnement ambitieux pour le tourisme francophone canadien ! (French only)
• Le RDÉE Canada avec le soutien de son réseau et du groupe de travail en jeunesse économique a lancé une brochure exclusivement dédiée à la jeunesse canadienne (French only)

Other news of interest

Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages

• Questionnaire on the public's experience in emergency situations
• Results of observations of service to the public
• Storytelling on second language teachers

CIRLM (Canadian Institute for Research on Linguistic Minorities)

• Réussir la rencontre. Les francophones nés à l'étranger et installés au Canada atlantique : contexte, accès, expérience, représentations (Part one) (French only)
• Attirer, accueillir et retenir. La promotion, le recrutement et la rétention des nouveaux arrivants francophones en Atlantique (Part two) (French only)
• Faces of Food Insecurity Among Francophones in the Maritimes (Summary in English, Report in French only)
• Official-Language Minority Populations Under Various Enumeration Methods