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		<title>What Cities Said: April 2012</title>
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		<title>Relying on Immigrant Networks: Business Network Aachen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How does a city re-charge its economic engine and stay competitive in a globalized economy? For the city of Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia, the answer lies with its entrepreneurs, and in particular, with immigrant-run companies in knowledge-intensive sectors. Such leaders have an edge in promoting the city to networks in their executives’ countries of origin.
Aachen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mayor’s Office of New Bostonians</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1998, Mayor Thomas M. Menino made the remarkable decision to open a new kind of city agency. The first of it&#8217;s kind in the United States, the Mayor’s Office of New Bostonians (MONB) was founded on the recognition that a growing number of residents were immigrants, and that more coordination of city services was necessary [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citiesofmigration.ca/good_idea/mayor%e2%80%99s-office-of-new-bostonians/</link>
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		<title>Webinar: Welcoming Cities: Municipal Leadership on Immigrant Integration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[ May 30, 2012; ] 

May 30, 2012

10:00 EDT in Toronto, New York
15:00 BST in London
16:00 CEST in Brussels, Berlin, Barcelona
 
Check your timezone
Free Event!
Learn about the power of city-led public service campaigns in Barcelona (Spain) and Sheffield (UK) that create safe, welcoming communities by challenging myths and changing misconceptions about immigrants and refugees.

These local responses to anti-discrimination help us [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citiesofmigration.ca/webinar/webinar-welcoming-cities-municipal-leadership-on-immigrant-integration/</link>
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		<title>From Neighbours to Citizens: the Barcelona Interculturality Plan</title>
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A working plan on immigrant immigration does not happen overnight.  In Barcelona, a sustained commitment from city leadership and a willingness to experiment contributed to a winning strategy for the intercultural city.
Unveiled in 2010, the Barcelona Interculturality Plan is the result of more than a decade of work by Barcelona City Council.  Intended [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citiesofmigration.ca/good_idea/from-neighbours-to-citizens-the-barcelona-interculturality-plan/</link>
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		<title>What Cities Said: March 2012</title>
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		<link>http://citiesofmigration.ca/ezines/what-cities-said-march-2012/</link>
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		<title>A Charter of Rights for Urban Citizens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Canada, citizens and non-citizens have their rights protected under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.  In Montreal, residents also have their urban rights as citizens recognized. On January 1, 2006, the city introduced the Montreal Charter of Rights and Responsibilities (Charte montréalaise des droits et responsabilités), following in the footsteps of many European cities. In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citiesofmigration.ca/good_idea/a-charter-of-rights-for-urban-citizens/</link>
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		<title>Business Law for Immigrant Entrepreneurs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Providing commercial law expertise to low-resource immigrant entrepreneurs]]></description>
		<link>http://citiesofmigration.ca/good_idea/business-law-for-immigrant-entrepreneurs/</link>
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		<title>Webinar: Count Us In: Building Citizenship through Participation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[ April 25, 2012; ] 



Learn about successful programs in Dublin and Toronto that engage newcomer communities around the rights, responsibilities and rites of urban citizenship. Find out how smart cities are shifting the conversation from voting rights and citizenship status to political participation and a sense of belonging.
Watch the Webinar Video

Resources

	Download the Webinar Powerpoint slides (PDF)
	Watch and listen to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citiesofmigration.ca/webinar/webinar-count-us-in-building-citizenship-through-participation/</link>
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		<title>Mapping Community Cohesion in Waltham Forest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eleven local people arrested on terrorism charges. It is the shocking news that no city council wants to hear. But that is what faced the Borough of Waltham Forest in London’s East End when police found evidence of an alleged plot to down a transatlantic flight to North America in August 2006.
“That was a real [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citiesofmigration.ca/good_idea/mapping-community-cohesion-in-waltham-forest/</link>
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