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Air Canada took home the DEI Program award at Benefits Canada’s 2025 Workplace Benefits Awards for embedding diversity, equity and inclusion into every layer of its organization. Judges noted the scale of its initiatives and the way the airline built inclusion into its governance, leadership accountability, talent development and employee supports. “This recognition is a […]

  • By: Sonya Singh
  • October 27, 2025 October 24, 2025
  • 09:00
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More than half of Canadian women say they feel unprepared for menopause and nearly 60 per cent are unaware that symptoms such as anxiety, depression and memory issues are linked to this stage of life, according to a new report by GreenShield and Mental Health Research Canada. The report analyzed survey responses from more than […]

  • By: Staff
  • September 23, 2025 September 22, 2025
  • 09:00
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South Asian women remain one of the most educated yet under-utilized groups in Canada’s workforce, facing persistent barriers to progression despite record immigration levels. Canada’s immigration levels more than doubled in recent years to 1.4 million annually and while South Asians made up the largest share of newcomers, they face uneven workforce integration, particularly women, […]

  • By: Sonya Singh
  • September 11, 2025 September 10, 2025
  • 09:00

While U.S. institutional investors have slightly increased their allocations to diverse-managed funds, more than 95 per cent of their capital commitments remain concentrated in non-diverse managed funds, according to a new report by the National Association of Investment Companies. It found overall, institutional investors’ allocations to diverse-managed funds increased from 7.6 per cent in 2012 […]

  • By: Staff
  • January 8, 2025 January 8, 2025
  • 15:00
Women in Canada’s benefits, pension industries talk gender diversity

Women represent roughly a quarter of C-suite leaders in North America, while women of colour represent just one in 16, according to a report by McKinsey & Company. The report, which was based on research from more than 270 companies in the U.S. and Canada, found women of colour faced the steepest drop-off in representation […]

  • By: Staff
  • February 26, 2024 February 23, 2024
  • 09:00