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External Report: “Workflex and Manufacturing Guide: More Than a Dream”
Published by When Work Works (authors: Kenneth Matos and Eve Tahmincioglu) Employers typically require some degree of flexibility from their employees to meet their organizational needs, but employees...
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Dads Play a Greater Role at Home: Family Life Benefits
As Canadians prepare to celebrate Father’s Day, modern fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers are redefining what exactly fatherhood means to families and society. Canada’s 8.1 million...
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Suggested Reading: “Parenting Through the Storm”
By Ann Douglas Review by Cindy Graham An estimated one in five schoolchildren live with “invisible” conditions: mental health, behavioural or neurodevelopmental disorders serious enough to adversely...
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Timeline: 50 Years of Families in Canada
Today’s society and today’s families would have been difficult to imagine, let alone understand, a half-century ago. Families and family life have become increasingly diverse and complex, but families...
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Reflections on the Families in Canada Conference 2015
By Vanier CEO Nora Spinks If it is true that “many people walk in and out of your life, but only true friends leave footprints on your heart,” then many participants at the Families in Canada...
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Governor General David Johnston at the Families in Canada Conference 2015
On June 10, 2015, His Excellency The Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, and Mrs. Sharon Johnston launched the Families in Canada Conference 2015 with opening remarks about...
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Family Finances: Investments in Education
Stacy Yanchuk Oleksy and Nathan Battams Decisions surrounding post-secondary education can have a significant impact on the lives of young adults and their families. A degree or diploma can open doors...
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Respect, Reconciliation, Resilience: Phil Fontaine and Archbishop James...
During the Families in Canada Conference 2015, the Vanier Institute of the Family invited former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) Phil Fontaine and former President of the Canadian...
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Andrew Solomon – Diversity, Difference, Disability and Families
On June 10, 2015, award-winning author and lecturer Andrew Solomon delivered a powerful keynote presentation at the Families in Canada Conference 2015 about diversity, difference and disability through...
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The Place of the Family in Times of Social Transition, Part 1
Dr. Elise Boulding was a founding thinker behind the work of the Vanier Institute, a family sociologist and author whose work informed (and continues to inform) our understanding of families and family...
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The Place of the Family in Times of Social Transition, Part 2
Dr. Elise Boulding was a founding thinker behind the work of the Vanier Institute, a family sociologist and author whose work informed (and continues to inform) our understanding of families and family...
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Family Law, Parenting and Diversity (Transition Vol. 45 No. 3)
The new edition of Transition magazine is available to download! From divorce proceedings to diversity, this issue of Transition looks at the effects that law, health and relationships can have on...
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Modern Maternity Care in Canada
Cecilia Benoit Georgina, a mother of Mi’kmaq heritage, is in the last stage of her pregnancy. Reluctantly, she is preparing to leave her home community of Port-aux-Basques, located on the southwestern...
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Putting the “F” in EFAP: The Evolution of Workplace Mental Health Supports
Craig Thompson October is Canada’s Healthy Workplace Month, an occasion for highlighting the importance of workplace health for the success of organizations and the well-being of their employees and...
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The National Families in Canada Listening Tour
In June 2014, the Vanier Institute of the Family launched the national Families in Canada Listening Tour at L’Arche Ottawa, a cousin organization founded by Jean Vanier – son of Vanier Institute...
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When Cupboards Are Bare: Food Insecurity and Public Health
October 16 is World Food Day, an occasion for highlighting the importance of food for families, communities and society. In this week’s blog post, Nathan Battams explores the relationship between food...
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Caring Enough to Flex, Flexing Enough to Care
Sara MacNaull October is Canada’s Healthy Workplace Month, an occasion for highlighting the importance of workplace health for the success of organizations and the well-being of their employees and...
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Families and Work in Canada
Nora Spinks and Nathan Battams Families in Canada are diverse, complex and dynamic. The family is society’s most adaptable institution, always reacting to the social, economic, environmental and...
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Courage Through Conversation
Ann Douglas In June 2015, best-selling parenting and health author Ann Douglas closed the Families in Canada Conference 2015 with some thoughts on family, resilience and the power of conversation. Her...
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The Online Lives of Canadian Youth
Matthew Johnson November 2–6 is Media Literacy Week, an event that highlights the importance of teaching children and teens digital and media literacy skills to ensure their interactions with media are...
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