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Resume Now
Free advice, tips and templates for resumes and cover letters.
Career Paths for Skilled Immigrants
Career Paths for Skilled Immigrants program helps professionals use their skills, training, and foreign qualifications for work in B.C. It also offers financial help to pay for professional training or licenses, job-related language training, assessment of credentials and experience, career planning and coaching, and more.
Elections Canada – Voter Information Service
The Voter Information Service provides information about your electoral district, including the list of candidates, locations of advance and election day polling places, the address of your local Elections Canada office and a map of your electoral district.
BC Codes
Full text of the BC Building Code, Fire Code and Plumbing Code. Also includes the City of Vancouver Building By-law and Plumbing By-law.
Legal Information & Codes
Vancouver Coastal Health
Vancouver Coastal Health provides health care services through a network of hospitals, primary care clinics, community health centres and residential care homes throughought Vancouver, Richmond, North and West Vancouver and along the Sea-to-Sky Highway, Sunshine Coast and BC’s Central Coast.
VCH Aboriginal Health: Lots of great local information, resources, and services for Indigenous peoples, including links to the Aboriginal Patient Navigator Program, the Aboriginal Wellness Program, and the First Nations Health Authority.
Canadian Mental Health Assocation (CMHA)
Nation-wide organization that champions good mental health. CMHA branches across Canada provide a wide range of innovative services and supports to people who are experiencing mental illness and their families. The North Shore Branch is located at #300 – 1835 Lonsdale Avenue in North Vancouver.
North Shore Peer Assisted Care Team (PACT) is a mobile civilian-led team, that will respond to crisis calls related to mental health and/or substance use on the North Shore. The program pairs a mental health professional and a peer worker to provide trauma-informed, culturally safe support to youth aged 13+ or adults in the North Shore.
Call 1-888-261-7228 or text 778-839-1831 – available in English and Farsi
Service Hours: Thursday to Sunday, 6 pm to 12 midnight
History Channel – World War II
From television’s History Channel, this regularly updated site includes articles as well as numerous images and videos about the causes, events and people of World War II.
Practice Citizenship Test – Richmond Public Library
Richmond Public Library has created a practice test consisting of over 100 multiple choice questions (with answers) derived from the book Discover Canada, on which the test is based.
Civil Resolution Tribunal
The Civil Resolution Tribunal (CRT) is Canada’s first online tribunal, located in British Columbia. It is one of the first examples in the world of online dispute resolution that’s being incorporated into the public justice system. The CRT has jurisdiction over small claims and strata property (condominium) disputes, certain motor vehicle accident disputes, as well as disputes under the Societies Act and the Co-operative Association Act.
The CRT provides the public with online access to interactive information pathways, tools, and a variety of dispute resolution methods including negotiation, facilitation and, if necessary, adjudication. For those who are unable or unwilling to use technology to resolve their dispute, the tribunal provides paper-based or telephone-based services.
Ability411
An online service that provides practical information about assistive technologies and equipment to BC seniors, their family members and their health providers (please note they do not take phone calls, questons can be asked from the website or by email). Ability411 is operated by CanAssist and funded by the Government of British Columbia.
BC Job Connect (Immigrant Employment Council of BC)
BC JobConnect is a customized online tool connecting job-ready newcomers to BC employers. It provides a platform for newcomer job seekers to showcase their skills, education and work experience and presents their profiles and résumés to BC employers looking for workers.
Library of Parliament – Background Paper on Electoral Reform
A 2016 paper entitled “Electoral Systems and Electoral Reform in Canada and Elsewhere: An Overview” published by Library of Parliament that provides impartial background context and an overview of electoral reform.
UBC – Resources: Electoral Reform in Canada
Great resource from UBC’s Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions that includes videos, reports, and links to other resources that explain the issues and systems around electoral reform.
Fair Vote Canada BC
A great introduction to voting models for BC which focusses on the proportional systems on the ballot in BC’s referendum.
West Vancouver Art Musuem
Check out the museum’s latest exhibition or browse through the museum’s digital collection of important contemporary and modern artists, architects and photographers from British Columbia and beyond.
CanLit Guides
CanLit Guides is a free, open educational resource, created and maintained by the journal Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review. Resources cover Canadian literary history, theory, works, authors, and more. Great for educators, students, and private study.
National Film Board – Indigenous Cinema
A collection highlighting over 200 films made by Indigenous directors, made freely available as part of the NFB’s 3-year action plan to redefine its relationship with Indigenous Peoples based on the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and Indigenous film creators. Read more here: http://onf-nfb.gc.ca/en/about-the-nfb/indigenous-action-plan2/
Choosing Plants for Pollinators
This guide is specifically for gardeners and farmers of the Lower Mainland including the Greater Vancouver Area, Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Powell River, Harrison Lake, and parts of the Similkameen Valley.
Pollinators of Southern British Columbia
Learn about the research taking place at SFU’s Pollination Ecology Lab.
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