Disability
This term refers to disabilities characterized by unpredictable periods of illness or symptoms that can vary in frequency and severity.
What are Episodic Disabilities?
About this movie, Danica claims "I may have had an unhealthy obsession with it when it first came out… We're talking weeks of rewatching it and having trouble sleeping, eating, or concentrating on anything unrelated to vampires."
What is Twilight?
This Canadian inventor is credited with developing the first practical telephone in 1876.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
On foot or by bus, for example.
What is commute?
This Canadian organization collects and publishes data on employment, wages, and the overall labour market, including the unemployment rate.
What is Statistics Canada?
According to the 2022 Canadian Survey on Disability, approximately 20% of this demographic have a disability.
What are Youth (15- 24)?
The sound of flapping wings, making a crow-related incident for this colleague all the more traumatizing.
What is Yaalini's fear?
The invention of this device, which allows for wireless communication over long distances, was pioneered by Canadian scientist Reginald Fessenden.
What is the radio?
A set of principles that underpin Canada’s public service.
What are values and ethics?
This Canadian federal program provides employment insurance benefits to individuals who are unemployed through no fault of their own, such as due to layoffs or temporary disability.
What is Employment Insurance (EI)?
This athlete won Canada’s first gold medal in the 2024 Paris Paralympics.
Who is Nicholas Bennett (men's 100-metre breaststroke)?
The viewpoint from which Ioana has gotten to admire the city of love.
What is the Eiffel Tower?
This Canadian technology company is known for creating the BlackBerry smartphone, which was first released in 1999.
What is Research In Motion (RIM)?
Interruption of work duties, involving a hot beverage.
What is a coffee break?
This term refers to the percentage of the working-age population in Canada who are actively seeking employment or are currently employed.
What is the labour force participation rate?
This Canadian province was the first to implement a province-wide, publicly funded accessibility policy for persons with disabilities in 2003, known as the "Accessibility for (?) with Disabilities Act."
What is Ontario?
For a stranger she had just met, Andrena spent 100$ on these.
What are groceries?
This Canadian researcher developed the first successful insulin therapy for diabetes in 1921.
Who is Frederick Banting?
At Portage, our primary Emergency Location meeting point in the area (lucky us!).
What is Le Troquet?
This legislation, introduced in 2018, aims to address pay equity by requiring employers in federally regulated sectors to ensure equal pay for work of equal value.
What is the Pay Equity Act?
This Canadian city was the first to pass a comprehensive accessibility law in 2005, focusing on making public spaces accessible to people with disabilities.
What is Calgary?
Amy loves Spooky Season for the candies, costumes, and classic movies! And she looks forward to the cooler weather since, aside from seeing them in Halloween decorations, encounters with these particular species are much rarer.
What are “creepy crawlies” (bugs, spiders)?
This Canadian scientist is renowned for his work in developing the first successful polio vaccine in the 1950s.
Who is Jonas Salk?
A decision to which each member or party generally agrees.
What is a consensus?
This program, managed by the Government of Canada, helps employers hire young Canadians, for a duration of 8 weeks on average, by providing wage subsidies and job training opportunities.
What is the Canada Summer Jobs program?