Regional Development Network - RDN

06/18/2026

Voice of English-speaking Quebec, one of our member organizations, has launched its new website! ✨Check it out and learn about all the important work the organization is doing in the Greater Québec City region!
▶ https://veq.ca/

06/16/2026

Shae Smith, director of community engagement and outreach from Kennesaw State University's KSU Global Education program in Kennesaw, Georgia, visited the RDN office today to discuss exchange and career development opportunities for the school's students to experience the regions of Québec. We had a great discussion and are looking forwarding to continuing brainstorming!


Photo (left to right): Jenny Montgomery, RDN network communications officer; Hoffman Wolff, RDN social economy manager; Cathy Brown, RDN executive director; Shae Smith, Director of Community Engagement and Outreach, Kennesaw State University Global Education program; and Mario Oropeza, RDN social economy officer.

06/16/2026

Last week, RDN was pleased to attend the launch of the Centre for Access to Services in English (Case-Mcq) Pathways to Employment Initiative, a new program providing employment support to English-speaking residents of Mauricie and Centre-du-Québec.

La semaine dernière, le RDR a eu le plaisir d’assister au lancement de l’initiative Pathways to Employment du Centre d’accès aux services en anglais (Case-Mcq), un nouveau programme offrant un soutien à l’emploi aux résidents d’expression anglaise de la Mauricie et du Centre-du-Québec.

06/15/2026

We were pleased to participate in TALQ - formerly QCGN’s AGM last week. It was a great opportunity to learn more about their past year’s accomplishments and to network with other provincial and regional partners. It was also exciting to meet the new Commissioner of Official Languages, Ms. Kelly Burke (Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages of Canada.

Small group photo (left to right):
Cathy Brown, executive director of RDN; Ms. Kelly Burke, commissioner of official languages; and John Buck, president and CEO of Cedec.

Nous avons eu le plaisir de participer à l’assemblée générale annuelle de TALQ la semaine dernière. Ce fut une excellente occasion d’en apprendre davantage sur les réalisations de l’organisme au cours de la dernière année et d’échanger avec d’autres partenaires provinciaux et régionaux. Nous avons également été ravis de rencontrer la nouvelle commissaire aux langues officielles, Mme Kelly Burke.

La photo du petit groupe, de gauche à droite :
Cathy Brown, directrice générale du Réseau de développement régional (RDR); Mme Kelly Burke, commissaire aux langues officielles; et John Buck, président-directeur général de la Corporation d’employabilité et de développement économique communautaire (CEDEC).

06/12/2026

Chad Walcott from Provincial Employment Roundtable - Table ronde provinciale sur l’emploi (PERT) was recently on the podcast Avec ou sans Accent par Tania Longpré. They discussed (in French) the challenges that English speakers encounter when trying to improve their French to get it to a professional level for the Québec job market as well as statistics related to unemployment and poverty when comparing at French speakers and English speakers in Québec. Check it out!
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06/09/2026

✨ Did you know that we have a toolkit that gives an overview of our SEEnet - Social Economy English-Speaking Network social economy videos and podcasts? It has links to the videos and podcasts to make it easy for you to find and share them. ✨ Check it out and let us know what you think!
➡ To download our PDF guide: https://bit.ly/4o8HSDM
➡ To check out the resources directly on our website: https://see-net.ca/resources/

06/05/2026

CHSSN Community Health and Social Services Network recrute un(e) adjoint(e) administratif(ve) à Québec ! 📢
CHSSN Community Health and Social Services Network in Québec City is hiring an administrative assistant! 📢

06/05/2026

Day 2 of our Community Builders Retreat brought together provincial and regional organizations serving Québec’s English-speaking communities. Focused on relationship building and collaboration, the discussions centred on sharing about effective community-driven initiatives across the province as well as key issues affecting English-speaking communities.

Walter Willett shared an update on the EnRoute app, which tells the stories of English-speaking communities in the regions of Québec. Sylvia Martin-Laforge, executive director of TALQ - formerly QCGN, gave a presentation on Section VII of the Official Languages Act, which was followed by a panel discussion with Nicholas Salter from Provincial Employment Roundtable - Table ronde provinciale sur l’emploi (PERT), Brigitte Wellens from RDN, Miranda Castravelli from ELAN Quebec, and Christine Truesdale from LEARN. Thank you to all for the fantastic event! We look forward to our next gathering of provincial and regional organizations.

06/04/2026

Day 1 of our Community Builders Retreat was an excellent day! We started off with an informative presentation by Danielle Azoulay, Regional Manager, Québec, for the Official Languages Support Programs of Canadian Heritage. There was an information session with the Ministère de l’Immigration, de la Francisation et de l’Intégration about Francisation Québec's French language learning services as well as network updates and group discussions. We had two great Community Impact training sessions facilitated by Russ Kueber. Then we closed the day with a networking 5 à 7 with our member organizations and provincial organizations. During that, we launched the books created from our Recording Our Past to Promote Our Future: A Collection of Regional Organizational Histories project. This initiative created historical narratives and timelines for RDN’s regional member organizations.

06/04/2026

Happy Gaspesian Day! 💙 We're celebrating its 20th anniversary over here in Québec City today! 🙂 Here are two of our Gaspesians, Cathy Brown, executive director of RDN, and Allen Richards, executive director of CASA - Committee for Anglophone Social Action.

Vivre en Gaspésie