Myriam Cloutier

The Employment Assistance Service for Immigrants is still here for you!

In this difficult time demanding  exceptional measures to curb the pandemic, Alternatives’ employment assistance service remains available to you in teleworking mode! Our services and your individual follow-ups with your counsellor will be offered to you virtually. Please note, however, that due to the risks associated with VIDOC-19, our offices are closed to the public

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Difficulties Returning home for IYIP Interns in Tunisia

Last Saturday, March 14, we notified GAC that we would be repatriating our 19 internationally deployed interns from six countries (Ecuador, South Africa, Uganda, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Tunisia) in response to the federal government’s advice to Canadians to return on commercial flights while it was still possible. GAC supported our request. All of our interns

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Alternatives supports the Wet’suwet’en Nation

Alternatives stands in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en First Nation. We officially express our support to this sovereign people and thank them for preserving their traditional territory with great determination for the benefit of future generations. We urge the governments of British Columbia and Canada to respect the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous

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We must support the revolution in Iraq !

On January 3, 2020, the US government killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad brings a geopolitical dimension to the fore. Demonstrators condemned the US strike as an attack on Iraqi sovereignty while at the same time refusing to take a pro-Iranian stance. But this position, which is both anti-Iranian and anti-American, seems difficult to sustain. Iraq could once again become a battlefield for armed organisations hostile to the United States, the pro-Iranian Shiite militias, such as the powerful Kata’ib Hezbollah, which was led by Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, another victim of the US drone strike.

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The Challenges of Mainstreaming Gender Equality: Activating Change Conference in Edmonton

Caroline Gros, project officer in strategic development, represented Alternatives in Edmonton from November 20 to 22. She was there for the first annual national conference of the program “Enabling Change for Capacity Building and Knowledge Sharing for Small and Medium Organizations (SMOs)” on “Inclusive Governance: Meaningful Participation for Gender Equality”, related to the Feminist International

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