|
Background
Now entering its third year, Canada's Best Diversity Employers recognizes employers across Canada that have exceptional workplace diversity and inclusiveness programs. This competition examines a range of diversity initiatives covering five major employee groups: (a) Women; (b) Members of visible minorities; (c) Persons with disabilities; (d) Aboriginal peoples; and (e) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered/Transsexual (LGBT) peoples. This competition replaces our two annual rankings of the top employers for women and visible minorities, which we published as an appendix to our book from 2002 to 2007. Winners may use the competition's official logo for recruitment purposes until next year's winners are released.
Eligibility Requirements
Any employer with its head office or principal place of business in Canada may apply for this competition. Employers of any size may apply, whether private or public sector. Each applicant should have an interesting initiative for at least one of the five above diversity groups covered by this competition.
Competition Partners
We are assisted on this project by BMO Financial Group, which has agreed to fund the competition’s costs, and the diversity consulting firm TWI Inc., developers of The Equity Continuum™ - an industry-recognized diversity measurement methodology. Read this year's press release from the competition partners announcing the winners of our 2009 competition: English | French.
Editorial Partners
Our newspaper and magazine partners help announce the winners of the Canada's Best Diversity Employers competition, publishing special editorial features on the competition. Read the editorial features on this year's winners published in February 2009 by some of our newspaper and magazine partners:
Toronto Star,
Times Colonist (Victoria),
The Province (Vancouver),
The Vancouver Sun,
Edmonton Journal,
Calgary Herald,
Leader-Post (Regina),
The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon),
Ottawa Citizen,
The Gazette (Montreal),
Financial Post, and
Canadian Immigrant Magazine.
Selection Process
To determine the 2009 winners of the Canada’s Best Diversity Employers competition (list shown at right), Mediacorp editors reviewed the applications of employers that applied for the 2009 Canada’s Top 100 Employers project. Over 2,100 employers across Canada started the application process for this year’s competition, which was reduced to a short-listed group employers that had developed noteworthy and interesting diversity initiatives. Each candidate's diversity and inclusiveness programs were reviewed to determine how these efforts compared to those of other employers in their field. The finalists chosen represent the diversity leaders in their industry and region of Canada. Mediacorp editors were assisted in this process by specialists from the diversity consulting firm TWI Inc. (As the funding sponsor of the project, BMO Financial Group graciously took itself out of consideration for the competition.) Final selection of the winners was made by the editors at Mediacorp. You can read the editors' Reasons for Selection, together with TWI's scores for each employer, by clicking the names of the winning employers in the opposite column.
How to Apply
Employers apply for this competition through the Canada's Top 100 Employers application process. Employers complete a single application package for both competitions. Request an application.
Further Information
For more information on the Canada's Best Diversity Employers competition, please contact us.
|
Search jobs currently posted at the
Canada's Best Diversity Employers:
|
|
2009 WINNERS:
Our detailed 2009 Reasons for Selection are now available online.
Click below to read why each employer was selected. 
(in alphabetical order*)
Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Inc.
Assiniboine Credit Union Limited
Bell Aliant Regional Communications, LP
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Boeing Canada Technology Ltd., Winnipeg Division
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Canada Post Corporation
Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd.
Catholic Children's Aid Society of Toronto
Corus Entertainment Inc.
Ernst & Young LLP
Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Co.
HSBC Bank Canada
Information Services Corporation of Saskatchewan
Intuit Canada Limited
KPMG LLP
L'Oréal Canada Inc.
McGill University
Nexen Inc.
Ontario Public Service
Pfizer Canada Inc.
Procter & Gamble Inc.
Royal Bank of Canada
Saskatchewan Government Insurance
SaskPower Corporation
Scotiabank Group
Statistics Canada
Telus Corporation
Toronto Police Service
University Health Network
University of British Columbia
University of Toronto
Vancity Group
WorkSafeBC
Xerox Canada Ltd.
* As the competition's sponsor, BMO Financial Group has graciously taken itself out of consideration for this award. We have prepared a review of BMO's own diversity and inclusiveness efforts, which is available online.
|
