Counting the commentaries on International Women’s Day last Friday could fool us into thinking women are breaking the glass ceilings in the corridors of power. This may be true for white women, although their advance is slow and halting. But it is absolutely false for women of colour. Knowing just how far women of colour […]
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Last May my wife and I flew from Broome, on the west coast of Australia, to Sydney. Just before landing, the flight attendant made this announcement: “Qantas acknowledges the First Nations peoples of Australia as the continuing custodians and traditional owners of the land on which we live and work.” As we landed, I thought
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They say a problem redefined is a problem half-solved. Nowhere is this truer than with the problem of women on boards and in corner offices. The problem, of course, is that while there are scads of women qualified for these positions, far too few actually fill these leading indicators of power. Osler LLP recently came
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Lecture Delivered by Bob Ramsay University Lecture Series University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies November, 2018 This lecture is not called New Places to Travel, but rather New Ways to Travel. By that I mean new ways to think about travel. Because how you view travel is how you will travel. It also means looking at
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“Male, pale and stale.” Is this the fate of the foundations that give out billions to Canadians? This summer, Britain’s Association of Charitable Foundations revealed the race, age and gender of the board members of the nation’s 300 biggest private foundations. (Private foundations are the ones set up by families and companies vs. by governments.) What percentage
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