This document published biannually, consists of two double issues of a newsletter devoted to literacy across the curriculum in Canada and elsewhere. Each double issue contains the following: feature articles; annotated bibliographies and reviews; local news; conference announcements and other announcements; and descriptions of events and resource materials available at the Center for Literacy in Montreal, Quebec. The following feature articles are: "(Mis)Trusting Teachers: A Return to Hard Times?"; "Technology and Basic Skills in the Workplace"; "Networking in the UK"; "Healthy Weight: A Workshop Plan" (Mary Norton, Pat Campbell); "Problematizing Women's Literacy: The CCLOW Experience" (Linda Shohet); "Women and Literacy: A Male Perspective" (Anson Green); "Adults with Learning Difficulties: Strategies for Visual and Auditory Problems" (Pat Hatt); "Media Education as Literacy Education" (Winston Emery, Lee Rother); "Verbal and Visual Literacies: Summaries from Research"; "Concerning Literacy and Technology"; and "How Many Low Literature Adults Are There in Canada, the US, and UK? Should the IALS Estimates Be Revised?" (Thomas G. Sticht). The second double issue (issues 3 & 4) contains a pull-out insert that reports on a 6-week community writing project connecting literacy and the literary and includes samples of the student writing produced during the project. (MN)