NCON 2008 - 2009

2008 Spring Session - April 3, 2009
Host: Mississauga Community Connections

Keynote: Donna Messer, President, ConnectUs Communications Canada, former Broadcast Journalist and Entrepreneur

Theme: "Collaboration, Communication & Perseverance - Making it Work"

2008 Summer Sesison - July 10, 2008
Host: Mississauga Central Library

Keynote: Don Mills, Director of Library Services, Mississauga Library System

Theme: "Your Library - Today and Tomorrow, A Guide for Agencies Serving Immigrants"

2008 Fall Session - October 2, 2009
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Host: Ontario Inter-Cultural Community Services (OICS)

Keynote: Armine Yalnizyan, Senior Economist, Canadian Centre of Policy Alternatives. Honored first recipient of the Atkinson Foundation Award for Economic Justice. Received the Morley Gunderson Prize from the University of Toronto in 2003.

Theme: "The Growing Gap and What We Can Do About it. Trends in Incomes, Jobs, Public Policy & Poverty Reduction"

2009 Winter Session - January 15, 2009
Host: Sheridan College

Keynote: Rekha Lakhani, Project Content Lead, Peel Immigration Web Portal, Region of Peel

Theme: "Web Immigration Web Portal"