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Glottophobia: Let’s talk about language discrimination in Canada

Posted on: February 21, 2024

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by Iván Barradas, M.A.

Believe me, Im being honest when I say that almost twenty years after immigrating to Canada, no obstacle has been harder for me to overcome than language discrimination. And t…

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Celebrating National Ribbon Skirt Day

Posted on: December 14, 2023

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by Ashley Sheppard

This year on January 4, 2023, Indigenous Peoples across Turtle Island (also known as Canada) celebrated the first ever National Ribbon Skirt Day. It was a significant moment for m…

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Disability Employment Awareness Month

Posted on: October 26, 2021

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CCDI’s conversation with Dr. Mahadeo Sukhai (he/him) from CNIB & Lorin MacDonald (she/her), Human Rights Lawyer

by the CCDI Learning Team

Disability Employment Awareness Month (DEAM) takes pla…

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Building safe and brave spaces

Posted on: June 9, 2021

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Devika Pandey, Manager, Learning and Knowledge Solutions

In a world where we consistently see polarization in thoughts, opinions, and perspectives, I often get asked questions around dismantling syst…

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Why we urgently need to discuss anti-Asian racism today

Posted on: May 3, 2021

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Anne-Marie Pham, Executive Director

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic over a year ago, Asian people have faced growing fear, hatred, suspicion, and physical assaults. The recent shootings in A…

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Announcing our new Executive Director – Anne-Marie Pham

Posted on: March 1, 2021

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Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion (CCDI) is delighted to announce that effective March 1, Anne-Marie Pham became the charity’s Executive Director.

Anne-Marie was formerly Senior Director,…

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The truth behind ‘reverse racism’, it’s not racism

Posted on: July 8, 2020

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Tina Changoor, MSc, PhD, Director, Measurement and Analytics

We are witnessing a global anti-racism and anti-Black-racism movement that has the momentum to turn into a social revolution in Canada. A …

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Join CCDI for a complimentary webinar this spring

Posted on: March 24, 2020

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In light of the ongoing challenges presented by the spread of COVID-19, CCDI has decided to offer complimentary access to our webinars until the end of May. Though access to these webinars has been re…

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Diversity disclosure requirements changing for federally incorporated public companies effective January 1, 2020

Posted on: December 19, 2019

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Effective January 1, 2020, distributing corporations governed by the Canada Business Corporations Act (CBCA) will be required to report on the corporations policies and practices related to diversity …

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2019 Senior Executive of the Year, Eastern Canada: David Leonard, McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Posted on: November 21, 2019

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We asked David Leonard about his career, and his firms’ commitment to diversity and inclusion. As the Awards of Success winner for Senior Executive of the Year (Eastern Canada), he had some great thin…

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2019 Community Contributor of the Year, Western Canada: Elise Ahenkorah

Posted on: September 13, 2019

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MacKenzie Pudwell

Elise Ahenkorah is the Founder and Inclusion Strategist at inclusion FACTOR, a data-driven equity, diversity and inclusion strategic planning firm. She is also the Founder and Execu…

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2019 Western D&I Practitioner of the Year: Dr. Valerie Pruegger

Posted on: September 5, 2019

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MacKenzie Pudwell

“I think the big assumption is, doesn’t it just happen?”

Dr. Pruegger hit the nail on the head - there is an assumption today that D&I work takes care of itself, it just happen…

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2019 Eastern D&I Practitioner of the Year: Zoya Zayler

Posted on: August 22, 2019

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MacKenzie Pudwell

Zoya Zayler leads Accenture’s national D&I strategy as the Canada Inclusion and Diversity Lead. She holds a bachelor’s degree in human resources from York University, and earned…

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CCDI announces the 2019 Awards of Success winners

Posted on: June 20, 2019

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CCDI’s Awards of Success have been designed to recognize individuals who have made a significant contribution to diversity and inclusion here in Canada – whether internally to their organization or ex…

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CCDI calls on Statistics Canada to include LGBTQ2+ people in Census

Posted on: June 19, 2019

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The Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion is calling on the government to include questions about LGBTQ2+ people in its national Census in 2021.

“It is time for Statistics Canada to evolve the …

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The future of diversity and inclusion

Posted on: June 6, 2019

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Pamela Malins, PhD

What was once simply a conversation on an organization’s efforts towards achieving diversity and inclusion, is now an entire field of study. It used to be common for work in this r…

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What’s in a name?

Posted on: May 1, 2019

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Michael Bach

Visible Minority. Racialized Person. Person of Colour. Which one are we supposed to use? I get asked that question a lot. Truthfully, for every person you ask, you’ll get a different res…

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CCDI and Dalhousie University release results of national study on diversity and inclusion in Canadian workplaces

Posted on: February 21, 2019

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In 2017, Dalhousie University and CCDI formed a research partnership, with the commitment to collaborate on conducting a benchmarking study with the goal of capturing national data on the following:

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The incredible impact of the Centennial Certificate in Leadership and Inclusion

Posted on: December 3, 2018

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by Stacey Love-Jolicoeur

The Leadership and Inclusion Program at Centennial College has benefited my career beyond leaps and bounds. I graduated in December of 2016, at which time I was working as a …

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Why diversity is our strength

Posted on: September 11, 2018

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Michael Bach, CCDP/AP - Founder and CEO

On August 12, former Conservative leadership hopeful Maxime Bernier took to Twitter to push out a message that could only be described as intentionally controv…

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