Alternatives offers employment assistance services to immigrants and newcomers of all origins. The objectives of these services are to facilitate your transition to employment, to help you understand the mechanisms, rules and functioning of the Quebec labour market, to allow you to acquire work experience and to facilitate the accessibility and use of collective services […]
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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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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 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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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.
We must support the revolution in Iraq ! Read More »
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
Michel Lambert, CEO of Alternatives, is a member of the APC Board of Directors. He was in Berlin for two days, November 23 and 24, 2019, for the annual meeting. The mission of the APC (Association for Progressive Communications) is to “empower and support organisations, social movements and individuals in the use of information and
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Major social mobilizations have been taking place all over the world in recent years: the movements of the Places (Tahrir, Taksim), the Indignados, the Yellow Vests, as well as the wave of impressive uprisings in recent weeks, from Chile to Iraq via Algeria. All of them put forward the notion of dignity. It is therefore
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Mark your calendars! We look forward to seeing you at our Annual General Assembly on Saturday morning, November 16. It will be an opportunity to share with you the highlights of our projects carried out over the past year (July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019), as well as to discuss upcoming activities! Twenty-five years
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On the occasion of International Women’s Rights Day, Alternatives would like to highlight the exceptional achievements of women that mobilized to defend their rights around the world. Their struggles against oppression, exploitation and violence are at the root of the radical change in society that we want to collectively achieve. Since its creation in 1994,
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