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New poll finds 90% of Canadians believe improving literacy is key to competitive economy.

Council of the Federation Announces Literacy Award Winners for 2010

Conference Board of Canada report shows that improving literacy can save lives in the workplace.

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Literacy BC's Diana Twiss speaks about workplace education and literacy (video by ABC Life Literacy Canada)

Project Report: Getting Online: Distance Education Promising Practices for Canadian Literacy Practitioners

The Westcoast Reader, a newspaper for adults learning to read, presents The Best of the Reader, a website with many ebooks and teacher resources.

Watch "Literacy Yarn" to find out why knitting is a good metaphor for literacy.

Data Angel Report: Addressing Canada's Literacy Challenge, A Cost-Benefit Analysis (PDF)

New Guidebook: Learning Together: A Guide to Community-Based Adult ESL & Literacy in British Columbia (PDF)

New TD Bank Report: Helping Newcomers Unlock Their Potential (PDF)

Listen to Barbara Adler's poem, "Florence"

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2010 Archives

Read our Spring 2010 E-Bulletin (PDF)

April 26-May 2 is International Adult Learners Week in BC

April 18-24 is National Volunteer Week

January 27, 2010, was Family Literacy Day

2009 Archives

Literacy BC has moved offices

Literacy & Beyond raises $33,000 for Literacy BC

Literacy BC's 2008/09 Annual Report is now online (PDF)

September 8, 2009 is International Literacy Day

Literacy BC Loses Funding for the READ Line and BC Literacy Directory

Funding is Cut for Regional Literacy Coordinators

The PGI Golf Tournament Raises $58,000 for Literacy

New TD Bank Report: Helping Newcomers Unlock Their Potential (PDF)

Funding Announced for Learning Disabilities Project

Canada's standard of living depends on literacy

New study analyzes costs of dropping out of school

Report: Canada's Hidden Deficit: the Social Cost of Low Literacy Skills

Literacy BC appoints new Executives

Research: children better prepared for school if parents read aloud to them

Certificate in Family Literacy 2009 schedule

Ellen Szita: Readers' Digest Education Hero 2009

2008 Archives

Holiday Greetings and Great Stories from Across BC - our seasonal E-Bulletin is here

A new home for WISH Wellness Centre

Resources from CUPE: Literacy in the Workplace and Putting Literacy on the Public Agenda

500 children's books donated to Newton Family Resource Program

September 8th is International Literacy Day

$6 million to improve literacy programs across BC

September 30th: deadline for PACE Bursary applications

Literacy & Beyond and the PGI - local celebrities attended two star-studded events that raise $100,000 for Literacy BC

Premier honours BC literacy champion: Janice Douglas receives Council of the Federation Literacy Award

Reading the Future: projections of literacy skills in Canada through 2031

Literacy BC a partner in The Centre for Literacy's Summer Institute, June 2008, Montreal