The links below feature DiverseCity Voices candidates as well as articles and press releases related to the program.

• The Toronto Star: Digging for data on black daddies There's next-to-no Canadian data on black fathers. The founder of a support group, Black Daddies Club BRANDON HAY intends to change that with a research project.
• Sashar Zarif and Alim Qasimov bring Sama-e Rast to Toronto - thestar.com SASHAR ZARIF plans to take Toronto audiences on a journey into the living culture of his ancestral homeland as he celebrates the winter solstice in company with international music icon Alim Qasimov. The performance, entitled Sama-e Rast, is the first instalment of a planned trilogy in which Zarif, a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist, aims to give local audiences insight tradition of “mugham” from Western and Central Asia.As a teenager, Zarif escaped the horrors of the 1979 Iranian revolution, only to become a stateless refugee in Turkey. After four years separated from his family, Zarif was finally able to settle in Canada in 1988 but struggled to establish a firm sense of identity. “Like others in this diverse community I had to deal with my identity. Do I assimilate, acculturate, stay in the past, or respond to the context I live in and find another way to connect to the past and yet function in the present?”
• Beacon News: Canadian firm d'Avicenna honours soldiers deployed overseas The idea to give back to the armed forces community came from d’Avicenna President SHAHIN KALANTARI, who was an artillery soldier during the 1985-1986 Iran-Iraq war. Serving in the war heavily influenced the direction he took in business. In 2004, he invested his life-savings to build d’Avicenna, an environmentally green and ethical certified organic beauty products company that uses natural plant-based products and green manufacturing processes. “I know first-hand the strength it takes to serve in the middle of a war zone and how hard it is to be away from your loved ones,” he said. “This gift is a way of honouring the courageous work of Canadian soldiers, and to give back where I can. I am also hoping that this will encourage other Canadian companies to follow suit.”
• Dwayne Morgan.ca: Can’t It All Just Be One Love?? Written by DWAYNE MORGAN.
• The Toronto Observer: Toronto budget cuts not the answer, advocacy groups say Social Planning Toronto held a forum at the YMCA on Nov. 30 to discuss the 2013 city budget and how the cuts would affect various services around the city. One of the speakers was NEETHAN SHAN from the Council of Agencies Serving South Asians located in Scarborough. According to Shan, there is a lack of political leadership when it comes to Scarborough, as it is geographically isolated and often forgotten by Toronto politicians. “Scarborough has limited resources and the need has not been met,” Shan said. “The city gives us $30,000 and expects us to change the world.”
• Designing Creative Confidence | Canadian Education Association (CEA) Written by JENNIFER CHAN.
• Imagine A City: My commitment to Toronto Written by SAMUEL GETACHEW
• TO Live With Culture: Sashar Zarif's Solstice Celebration SASHAR ZARIF has been pushing the multicultural envelope for most of his life. As a newly arrived immigrant refugee at Eastern Commerce Collegiate Institute he started a multicultural arts society that staged two multicultural festivals.
• MyBindi: Toronto Poet Sheniz Janmohamed invited to the Jaipur Literature Festival Toronto-based spoken word artist and author, SHENIZ JANMOHAMED, has been invited to the prestigious Jaipur Literature Festival which will take place in Jaipur, India, from January 24th to 28th, 2013. Janmohamed will be participating in a panel and/or a performance at the festival, which will be held at the stunning Diggi Palace over the course of five days. She joins a list of accomplished Canadian authors including Anosh Irani, Shauna Singh Baldwin and Wade Davis and as well as Indian luminaries like Shabana Azmi and Gulzar.
• YorkRegion.com: Performance presents man’s mystical journey Thornhill’s choreographer and dancer SASHAR ZARIF is putting eight years of research on the main stage. To celebrate the winter solstice Dec. 21, Mr. Sashar’s dance company presents Sama-e Rast, a multi-layered performance based on the art of Mugham, which interweaves poetry, music and dance.
• Forbes: Introducing The Micro-Social Intrapreneurs Ever wanted to tilt your company for good? If so, then you might be a micro-social intrapreneur in the making. RICHARD WILTSHIRE, Senior Manager at Accenture, shares his insights on the MO of a micro-social intrapreneur and what it takes to become one.
• MyBindi: Exclusive Interview - Behind the Curtains with Ravi Jain MyBindi.com's Ashna Singh chats with RAVI JAIN, director, co-writer and performer for A Brimful of Asha - now running at Tarragon Theatre in Toronto.
• Toronto Lime: Far From Over - The Man Behind the Biography One of Toronto’s urban literary gems, DALTON HIGGINS, recently released his newest book Far From Over, a biography of Toronto rap icon, Drake. Higgins cut his teeth in journalism in his hometown of Toronto. Born of Jamaican parents who pushed him to pursue his goals, whether it be athletics or writing, he graduated from York University with a BA in English and Mass Communications and achieved a post graduate certificate from Centennial College in Publishing.
• Slightly Bookist: The Three Rs - Farzana Doctor Interview with FARZANA DOCTOR, a novelist and psychotherapist. Her most recent novel, Six Metres of Pavement, was named one of Now Magazine’s Top Ten Books of 2011. It also won the Lambda Literary and was short-listed for the Toronto Book Award. Farzana was named as one of CBC Books’ “Ten Canadian Women Writers You Need to Read Now”. She is the autumn 2012 Writer in Residence at the Toronto Public Library and co-curates the Brockton Writers Series.
• Huffington Post: Toronto - Use the Billboard Tax to Fund the Arts Written by CHE KOTHARI.
• VC4Africa: Angel investing in Africa (case study part 1): Canadian investor Jerome Kisting and Kenyan based m-Kazi Recently M-Kazi closed their seed round with angel investor JEROME KISTING. This interview is the first installment of a three part series and abbreviates from an interview held with Jerome Kisting on Thursday the 22nd of November 2012.
• Torontoist: George Elliott Clarke Is Toronto’s New Poet Laureate Written by DESMOND COLE.
• Torontoist: Culture Clashes, Asha Smashes As a celebrated actor, director, playwright, and Artistic Director of Why Not Theatre, a Toronto theatre company that specializes in cross-cultural work, RAVI JAIN is a leader in promoting theatre that speaks directly to Toronto’s diverse audiences. His recent work—including A Brimful of Asha, SPENT, and Greenland—even won him the Pauline McGibbon award at this year’s Dora Awards. His comfort on the stage, his friendly disposition, and his knack for storytelling make him a good-natured narrator, and a helpful guide into the Indian customs of courtship for those unfamiliar with the culture.
• Torontoist: Executive Remains Elusive for Council’s Women Written by DESMOND COLE
• Torontoist: Looking for the Meaning of Drake “In my last book, Hip-Hop World, I tried to predict where the rap stars of today and tomorrow would come from,” DALTON HIGGINS said. “I argued that they wouldn’t come from the traditional epicentres of hip-hop culture: New York, L.A., the South. I thought it was going to come from a place like Toronto, somewhere that’s off the beaten path for hip-hop. Hip-hop culture is globalized now.”
• Open Book Toronto: Playwrights in Profile - Ravi Jain RAVI JAIN speaks with Open Book about his organic method of theatre creation, the play that changed his life and getting a play on its feet.
• TamilNet: Canada’s position on Sri Lanka significant, but not enough NEETHAN SHAN, a grassroots community organizer, however questioned Canada’s policy towards Tamil refugees. “The Canadian government needs to be consistent in what it thinks about the situation in Sri Lanka. If they agree that Sri Lankan state continues to engage in various forms of human rights violations, then how can it justify deporting refugee claimants back to that country?” he asked.
• BROWN CONDOR: Toronto in unexpected place at its very best, Toronto’s greatest champion, David Pecaut, would have been proud. Written by SAMUEL GETACHEW
• Oxfam International Blogs: Day 1 - Changing Value Systems, One Village at a Time Written by NIDHI TANDON
• InsideToronto.com: Mother and son act air family laundry on the stage For Asha and RAVI JAIN, the stage is their courtroom of sorts and the audience their highly entertained jury. The real-life mother-son acting duo from Etobicoke will return to Tarragon Theatre later this month for a repeat engagement of A Brimful of Asha – and this time they’re hopeful the audience will help them settle a nearly five-year-old spat.
• Open Book Toronto: Writers at Night - The Writers' Trust Gala Series with Farzana Doctor Interview with FARZANA DOCTOR
• The Toronto Star: From There to Here - Mayank Bhatt on how he was welcomed in Toronto MAYANK BHATT, a 51-year-old former journalist at Business India, as well as a former media advisor and trade officer for the U.S. Consulate in Mumbai, came to Canada with his wife and son in 2008, after a six year wait. He grew up in Mumbai and spent most of his formative years there, moving to the suburbs with his parents when he was 10 years old. He calls his immigration to Canada one of the “riskiest gambles” in his life: “I don’t think I would be this person here that I am today at age 51 had I not moved to Canada.”
• The Toronto Star: Jamaica T.O. - Dalton Higgins, cultural critic, wrote first bio of rapper Drake A ’70s baby conversant in the popular culture spanning either side of his generation, DALTON HIGGINS credits much of his ranking as one of Canada’s leading black music experts to the Eglinton Ave. W. business district dubbed Little Jamaica. “My father would come home from work every Friday and go buy 45s at Monica’s,” he recalls of growing up in the historical heartbeat of Toronto’s black community. “I would mimic those energies in Grade 7 and 8, hanging out at the record store with my friends. And there were always elders and community leaders around.”
• Open Book: Toronto: Ghazal Workshop with Sheniz Janmohamed Video of a ghazal workshop with SHENIZ JANMOHAMED.
• The Gannon Knight: Asian filmmaker in process of creating documentary Filmmaker TIFFANY HSIUNG is making a documentary called “Within Every Woman.” She has spent the last three years traveling around Asia and speaking to women who were victims of sex slavery in World War II. These women are known as “comfort women.”
• Torontoist: “No Leadership” on Emergency Planning for Homeless Writen by DESMOND COLE
• InsideToronto.com: ‘Community animators’ to seek ideas on Thorncliffe Park tower renewal projects Tower renewal has begun in Thorncliffe Park, Toronto’s largest “welcome mat” for new Canadians, but it’s not clear yet exactly where it will be or how far it can go. But though TNO’s executive director Jehad Aliweiwi said landlords owning “a very significant chunk of the neighbourhood” agreements must still be made before two or more of Thorncliffe’s 36 apartment buildings are selected for projects.
• Huffington Post: Does Reproductive Tourism Treat Women Like Cattle? Written by Dr. RAYWAT DEONANDAN
• Brantford Expositor: TV journalism life-changing, students hear SADIA ZAMAN, an award-winning documentary journalist and the director of orginal program development at CBC, spoke to Laurier Journalism students, sharing her life and career experiences.
• Torontoist: Rob Ford’s Diversity Distraction Written by DESMOND COLE
• Open Book Toronto: The Dirty Dozen, with Dalton Higgins DALTON HIGGINS speaks with Open Book as part of Dirty Dozen series, which invites writers to share twelve unexpected facts about themselves. From Ethiopian food to unshakable nicknames, Dalton shares a bevy of interesting facts and stories.
• edccamp: Meet Jennifer Chan Meet JENNIFER CHAN, Education and Community Engagement Consultant. She’s coming to Edcamp Ottawa! |
• HR Reporter: Diversity and social media Written by HARPAUL SAMBHI
• HR Reporter: Facebook a powerful recruitment tool Written by HARPAUL SAMBHI
• Torontoist: As Toronto Questions the Diversity of Its Boards, a Conference on Board Diversity Written by DESMOND COLE.
• Metro: Free samples make the difference for Loose Button Luxe Box Started an online apparel company but found the market was saturated. Switched to Luxe Box, where consumers can sample new beauty products. Thirteen months later, RAY CAO now employs 15 people and his membership base is on track to reach 100,000 people.
• Canadian HR Reporter: Headhunting in the social media realm Written by HARPAUL SAMBHI
• The Globe and Mail: Private venture capital spurs most innovation - C.D. Howe Venture capital investment peaked at more than $5-billion in 2000 and has been falling steadily since, according the study by TARIQ FANCY, released Wednesday.
• CanPhoto.net: An interview with Che Kothari CHE KOTHARI says: I think that photography is something that found me. I was pretty young when photography became part of my life – I was 15 years old and I basically began as my high school’s yearbook photographer. To me, photography is really about documenting communities, the people that make up our lives and their stories. So, as a yearbook photographer, the community that I was a part of was made up of my schoolmates.
• CanIndia NEWS: South Asian Queer nominated for The 2012 Toronto Book Award The novel Six Metres Of Pavement by Indo-Canadian novelist FARZANA DOCTOR has set Toronto’s literary circles aflame and is set to make waves whether or not she wins the 2012 Toronto Book Award on October 11th at the Bram and Bluma Appel Salon inside the Toronto Reference Library.
• CBC News: Women's advocates heartbroken over 'dress like a whore' tweet "I'm tired of having this conversation," said FARRAH KHAN, a counsellor at the Barbra Schlifer Clinic said on CBC's Metro Morning, when asked how she felt about the issue being raised again. "I kept thinking of the survivors and how they feel when people say to them, 'You should have done something. You shouldn't have worn that. You shouldn't have gone out late at night.' It's never our fault, and we need to focus on that," said Khan.
• Huffington Post: Our Greatest Person - Lekan Olawoye Of For Youth Initiative In Toronto “It doesn’t start with someone pulling a gun and shooting. Many things have happened before that time; we’re talking employment, we’re talking dropping out of high school,” LEKAN OLAWOYE said. “To this day it’s still just issues in communities that lead to violence.”
• Canadian HR Reporter: Social recruitment: What not to do Written by HARPAUL SAMBHI
• The Globe and Mail: In Canada, ‘non-ethnic’ is still the norm Written by MINELLE MAHTANI
• The Globe and Mail: Sikhs have been living in fear of hate crimes since 9/11 Written by RITU BHASIN
• The Toronto Star: London 2012: Poet-in-residence links worlds of sport and art PRISCILA UPPAL is the poet-in-residence for Canadian Athletes Now, a role she’s reprising from the Vancouver Winter Games. Every day, while athletes test their endurance on the field or in the pool, Uppal is flexing her literary muscle, penning two poems inspired by the day’s events. “I’m trying to mimic what’s going on with the athletes. The athletes have to be in this high pressure situation performing, coming up with that extra energy; digging a little deeper to find that endurance to perform at this high level,” she said. “You don’t (normally) write poems like this. You don’t write two a day. It’s a recipe for madness. It’s very intense.”
• The Toronto Star: Black municipal candidate reflects on Danzig St. shooting SAMUEL GETACHEW doesn’t pretend to have to a cure for the deeply rooted problems plaguing Toronto’s inner suburbs. But having listened to hundreds of kids trapped in a dead-end life, and having tried to offer them hope and found they were too disillusioned to care, he thinks he has a few insights to contribute to the debate.
• RCI: Priscila Uppal And PRISCILA UPPAL knows victory. She’s among the few in London this year who knows what it takes to dive off a 5 metre board. Back in 2002, as a way to channel her fear of public speaking, Priscila Uppal took up diving. After 18 months, without having ever having jumped off the board, she dove successfully headfirst. She understands the bravery and fearlessness of divers. As she says, it’s truly poetry in motion.
• The Toronto Star: DuskDances - Yvonne Ng & Robert Glumbek YVONNE NG and Robert Glumbek (Photo by Gary Mulcahey) dance in Julia Aplin’s “Onward Ho, My Love.” The dance was performed at Dusk Dances in Withrow Park on July 31.
• Huffington Post: Why Jean Charest Should Stay Written by SAMUEL GETACHEW
• A Dubious Strategy to “Overprotect” Racialized Communities | politics | Torontoist Written by DESMOND COLE.
• Canadian Tamil Congress: Black July Remembrance event highlights continued subjugation of Tamil speaking people in Sri Lanka “The purpose of this gathering is to remember the lives lost, show our gratitude to Canada for opening its doors when Tamils were fleeing persecution, and also to remember the good hearted Sinhalese who saved lives of their Tamil neighbours during the riots of Black July” said PIRAGAL THIRU who moderated the discussion.
• The Globe and Mail: Poet Priscila Uppal’s Olympian challenge When Canadian athletes want to know who will medal at this summer’s London Olympics, they might follow the lead of the ancient Greeks did and consult an oracle – as in their very own poet-in-residence, PRISCILA UPPAL. The author of nine books of poetry and York University creative writing professor will reprise the role she played as the first Olympic poet-in-residence to Canadian athletes at Vancouver, where she tested her own endurance and performance skills by pumping out two sports poems a day – one for gold medal winners, which she read at nightly presentations.
• The Toronto Star: Scarborough shooting aftermath - It’s time to get serious about stopping gun violence GARY PIETERS's view of how Toronto can combat violent crime on a long-term basis.
• Open Book Toronto: On Writing, Olympic Edition with Priscila Uppal PRISCILA UPPAL about her role of a poet-in-residence at the upcoming London Olympics. .
• rabble.ca: Good Jobs for All Coalition launch new campaign to fight changes to EI and Temporary Foreign Worker program Listen to interviews with DEENA LADD, Executive Director, Workers Action Centre, Preethy Sivakumar, Coordinator, Good Jobs for All, Justine Lilley, Coordinator, Honeywell/CAW Action Centre and Chris Ramsaroop, Organizer, Justicia for Migrant Workers.
• MRWEB: Third Eye Opens to Watch ‘New Canadians’ GAUTAM NATH will lead the Third Eye, a Toronto based MR agency, which will delve into cultural nuances including language, ethnic sensitivities and heritage, among ‘new audiences’ including those with roots in South Asia, China, the Philippines and Latin America.
• Ontario Arts Council: Ravi Jain honoured with 2012 Pauline McGibbon Award RAVI JAIN, the 2012 recipient of the Pauline McGibbon Award.
• Open Book Toronto: How to Prolong Writer's Block Written by SHENIZ JANMOHAMED.
• The Toronto Star: Re: 3-year degrees will end in tears, Column, July 2 OMAR HA-REDEYE published a letter in The Star on education reform in Ontario.
• HR Reporter: Social media and employee referrals - A match made in heaven Written by HARPAUL SAMBHI.
• Open Book Toronto : A Moment Against Silence Written by SHENIZ JANMOHAMED.
• Daytime Peel : Audley Stephenson Talks Mentoring & Motivational Book, Gifts From Others! AUDLEY STEPHENSON is a guest in Daytime Peel and talks about the importance of mentoring and its significance to growth, learning and development. His motivational book of inspiration, "Gifts From Others" is also discussed.
• CTVNews: Ontario extends funding for anti-violence program Community activist DWAYNE MORGAN said a lack of representation could leave people in crime-affected neighbourhoods doubting whether a solution will come from the gun summit. “People in the community are usually very weary of these sorts of things, because they don’t actually believe anything positive is going to come of them,” Morgan told CTV Canada AM on Monday.
• The Globe and Mail: To curb gun violence, invest in young people Written by LEKAN OLAWOYE.
• HR Reporter: Facebook set to ‘like’ recruitment Written by HARPAUL SAMBHI.
• Toronto Is Awesome: Celebrating the Stories of New Citizens July 10th marked the three-year countdown to the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games and to commemorate the event Arrivals.ca has unveiled the Fresh Eyes art installation at City Hall – a 100 meter long transparent photography piece shot by CHE KOTHARI. The images are fixed to the windows of the city councillors’ offices looking out onto Nathan Phillips Square, encouraging our city officials to see through the eyes of a new citizen.
• Notable.ca: Brandon Hay BRANDON HAY created Black Daddies Club as a safe space for black fathers to speak about challenges, as well as victories, as parents and partners. Find out how he is making a difference in people's lives and what he recounts as his top career milestone in today's YEDaily...
• The Toronto Star: No one has swagger like Jamaicans Recalls author DALTON HIGGINS: “Growing up in Toronto, while my peers were looking to get tats with dollar signs and other consumerist-related phenomena, I wanted to get Claude McKay's words from ‘If We Must Die' stuck somewhere on my body for props and posterity.”
• Torontoist: Are Dupont Street’s Bike Lanes Under Threat? Written by DESMOND COLE.
• The Huffington Post: A Refugee's Thoughts on the Eaton Centre Shooting Written by SAMUEL GETACHEW.
• Quill & Quire: Farzana Doctor wins Lambda Literary Award FARZANA DOCTOR has won a Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Fiction for her novel Six Metres of Pavement (Dundurn Press).
• Unvailed: Cool Canuck Chicks "I had the great pleasure to hang out with Farzana Doctor, author of Six Metres of Pavement, currently short-listed for a Lambda Award".
• Lambda Literary: ‘Six Metres of Pavement’ by Farzana Doctor ‘Six Metres of Pavement’ by FARZANA DOCTOR
• The Toronto Star: Time to change your business How does a business know it’s time to pivot? According to RAY CAO, it’s as simple as listening to your customers and advisors. In 2010, Cao and fellow tech geek Aditya Shah founded the social shopping site Loose Button. With freshly printed engineering degrees and three winning years as members of the Impact Entrepreneurship Group—a youth-run, non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening youth-run businesses— the ambitious 25-year-olds were primed to make their mark in the e-commerce market with a carefully curated collection of high-end women’s wear.
• Torontoist: Evergreen Centre Plans to Cut Drop-In Programming Written by DESMOND COLE
• TVO The Agenda with Steve Paikin: Moving Sri Lanka Forward Agenda guest NEETHAN SHAN
• The Toronto Star: Known to police - Better communication between youth and police urged “We’re dealing with violence because young people are hungry, they’re suffering,” said LEKAN OLAWOYE, executive director of For Youth Initiative, who grew up in Jamestown and said he’s had many contacts with police growing up. “Even as a grown man I feel uncomfortable in the realm of police,” he said, sitting at a panel table that included police board chair Alok Mukherjee, Deputy Chief Peter Sloly, Ward 11 Councillor Frances Nunziata and Johanna Macdonald, a lawyer with Justice for Children and Youth.
• The Huffington Post: Being Ethiopian Does Not Make Me Guilty Written by SAMUEL GETACHEW
• Fort Erie Times: ‘Destroying’ the immigration system FRANCISCO RICO-MARTINEZ went over in detail changes made by Immigration Minister Jason Kenney during the past three years. Included were announcements made recently that will take effect in the coming months and impact various programs, as well as health care and eligibility requirements. “With those changes, he is destroying the immigration and refugee system as we know it,” Rico-Martinez said adamantly.
• HR Reporter: Building a social media strategy? Start with small steps Written by HARPAUL SAMBHI
• The Globe and Mail: A wedding gift for more than the bride and groom Some couples choose to have all their gifts donated to a charity, while others add charity to other registries as an option. The average wedding nets the charities about $1,000, said Canada Helps CEO OWEN CHARTERS. “It’s been growing,” he added. “We see it for couples who are getting married a bit later in life, or who are combining two households.”
• The Huffington Post: Want Real Senate Reform? Appoint Inspiring, Worthy Advocates Written by SAMUEL GETACHEW
• YorkRegion.com: Education key to thwarting ‘honour killings’, experts say Dr. NAILA BUTT, with Social Services Network, said she hopes it will be the start of a national movement. Next year’s event will focus on the need to engage leaders of the community and faith groups, corporate Canada, ethnic media and private philanthropists. There is also no honour killing in the Muslim religion, she said.
• Law Times News: Government sued over duty to consult “If the duty belongs to the Crown, then there’s a case for saying that they’re responsible if things don’t go well,” says RALPH CUERVO-LORENS.
• YorkRegion.com: 7 families off housing list “This is an auspicious occasion,” York Region Habit for Humanity president ARUN CHANNAN told the crowd of supporters and build sponsors gathered at the Lake Drive site purchased by Humanity York near West Park on Saturday. “This makes the dream of home ownership a reality.” Mr. Arun noted 100 per cent of donations go directly to build projects. And volunteers are always welcome.
• The Toronto Star: Refugee reform bill sparks grassroots protests across GTA “Times are changing,” said FRANCISCO RICO-MARTINEZ, who fled political persecution in El Salvador 22 years ago for the welcoming arms of Toronto, where the couple helped set up a refugee shelter. “Because of the current government’s overhaul of the refugee system, refugees no longer have the same opportunity to escape precarious situations and rebuild their lives in Canada,” he said.
• Torontoist: Cycling Advocates Consider a Rebrand Written by DESMOND COLE
• TEDxSenecaCollege: Bhupesh Shah TEDx talk at SenecaCollege - BHUPESH SHAH
• The Atlantic: What's So Crazy About an Arranged Marriage? In arranged marriages, says REVA SETH, author of First Comes Marriage: Modern Relationship Advice from the Wisdom of Arranged Marriages, "both people come into the relationship with a sense that this is forever." That kind of mindset stands in stark contrast to the one common in Western culture, says Seth, a Canadian journalist who spoke to more than 300 women over the course of five years while researching her book. In this part of the world, she says, even in committed relationships, we're constantly asking ourselves: Could I do better? Would someone else make me happier? That kind of mentality—coupled with how easy it is, legally and socially, to get divorced—"makes it extremely difficult to duplicate the level of commitment that I found among the women I spoke with," Seth says.
• MaRS blog: Meet a MaRSian, Nabeel Ahmed Interview with NABEEL AHMED, Managing Editor of SocialFinance.ca at the MaRS Centre for Impact Investing.
• Huffington Post: Why Ethnic Politicians Should Move to Ontario Written by SAMUEL GETACHEW
• Advisor.ca: Wealth preservation tops list of HNW concerns Fixed income has become a staple for portfolios that need to generate income, says TINA TEHRANCHIAN, CFP, Assante Capital Management, Richmond Hill, Ontario. “Fixed income adds diversification,” she said. “Last year, if your money was invested in bonds, you’d have done a lot better than the stock market. Generally because of this kind of negative correlation, it’s good from a diversification standpoint to have a fixed income component in the portfolio.”
• Mississauga.com: Bid envisioned for Summer Games LOUROZ MERCADER, president of the Mississauga Youth Games, wants to see the City of Mississauga host the 2014 Ontario Summer Games. To turn that dream into a reality, he's trying to gather as much support as possible before he takes his proposal to City Council.
• HR Magazine: Winning strategies for internal networks Written by HARPAUL SAMBHI