In this Toronto Star op-ed, published on March 20, 2012, DiverseCity co-chairs Ratna Omidvar and John Tory challenge the boardrooms in the corporate, the voluntary and the public sector in the GTA to open themselves to the voices, perspectives, ideas and connections of the other invisible majority.
January 26, 2009: Canadian Club Partner Launch
Excerpt: We have an ambitious agenda over the next three years, but we also have a plan to get us there. Think of our plan as our very own diversity stimulus package. The DiverseCity plan is practical and tangible, it is about action, results and change, it has outcomes attached to it and it will result in an injection of significant doses of creativity into the leadership landscape of the city region – in board rooms, at the top level of our institutions, in Queen’s Park, on Bay Street, in our media.
January 26, 2009: Canadian Club Partner Launch
Excerpt: What we’re going to talk about today is how to take Toronto from a wonderful spirit of tolerance, a wonderful acceptance of diversity to a much higher plane, a plane at which we embrace the full potential of what this city’s diversity can bring to us and to the world. Diversity asks one question: “How do we get the leadership of the Greater Toronto Region to reflect the composition of our city and the talent that is sitting in this room and throughout this city that is waiting to be unleashed?” DiverseCity is about tapping that talent.