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Actually I don't hate to say I told you so. I just know that people hate to <span style="font-weight: bold">HEAR</span> it.
ALL along when people have gone on and on about the diversity in Toronto I have said "You'd never know it walking into most corporate boardrooms. You'd also never know it if you looked at the demographics at the level of manager and above in most Toronto private corporations." Well for all on and off the board who said "Nutten noh go soh"...
<span style="font-weight: bold">SEEIT DEH HOT OFF THE PRESS IN BLACK AND WHITE FROM TODAY'S TORONTO STAR!!</span>
When even media contolled by white folks has to admit it you know tings BAD!!
<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 20pt">Visible minorities lag in GTA boardrooms</span> </span>
May 27, 2009
TORY ZIMMERMAN/TORONTO STAR
Ratna Omidvar, president
<span style="font-weight: bold">Highlights</span>
Report finds greater representation in government sector
Lesley Ciarula Taylor
immigration reporter
Visible minorities also accounted for:
- 23 per cent of MPPs
- 21 per cent of school board trustees
- 14 per cent of MPs
- 10 per cent of municipal councillors
- 1 visible minority among Brampton municipal government executives
<span style="font-weight: bold">- 10 per cent of provincial deputy and assistant deputy ministers
- 8 per cent of police executives</span>
<span style="font-weight: bold">-<span style="font-size: 23pt"> 5 per cent of senior executives and 3 per cent of board members in private corporations
- 8 per cent of senior executives and 14 per cent of board members in the largest charitable organizations and foundations examined</span></span>
- 19 per cent of principals and vice-principals in Toronto
- 20 per cent of college executives, 27 per cent of college boards, 11 per cent of university executives and 24 per cent of university boards
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<span style="font-size: 23pt">A new report has found that only 5 per cent of the leaders of Greater Toronto corporations are visible minorities.</span></div></div>
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The numbers are somewhat more encouraging when it comes to leadership in government and education, according to the DiverseCity Counts report, released this morning.
The document is part of a campaign to demonstrate the benefits of leadership that better reflects
<span style="font-weight: bold"> <span style="font-size: 20pt">the diversity of Greater Toronto's population, 40 per cent of which is made up of visible minorities, according to 2008 statistics.</span> </span>
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DiverseCity Counts quantifies for the first time the diversity of leadership in politics, education, government and public and private corporations in the GTA.
It's not of purely social interest: there's a lot of money riding on these numbers. A Conference Board of Canada report on diversity in leadership last fall concluded that underemployment of immigrants whose credentials are not recognized here costs Canada between $2.4 and $3.4 billion in annual income.
Studies have also documented the connection between diverse leadership and a better bottom line, with benefits including stronger links to global markets, more thinking outside the box and better odds on retaining talent.
"This isn't about quotas. This is about finding the right leaders for the right times," said Ratna Omidvar, president of the Maytree Foundation, which created the DiverseCity project with the Toronto City Summit Alliance. "We have the capacity to create prosperity."
"Counting can lead to results," said report co-author Wendy Cukier, associate dean of the Ted Rogers School of Management and founder of the Diversity Institute in Management & Technology at Ryerson University. "What gets measured gets done."
Federally regulated organizations are more diverse, said Cukier, because they have been tracking their visible minority numbers for many years.
Among the success stories Cukier found was that visible minorities make up 31 per cent of City of Toronto boards, agencies and commissions. The city identified what it wanted, set a target and hit it.
That strategy is at the top of the report's action plan for diversifying leadership, along with getting senior executives to make diversity a priority, and developing a "pipeline" for finding top talent.</div></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 20pt">Mayor Dave Barrow admits the gap in Richmond Hill is wide. Visible minorities make up 46 per cent of the town's population, but account for only one just-elected city councillor.</span>
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Again this confirms what I have been saying for YEARS!
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"It takes a lot to commit to politics," said Barrow. "A lot of (visible minorities) don't participate. They don't vote. There were very few running in the last election. And government and police are not seen as your friend in the countries they immigrated from."
The city has been recruiting minorities for the library board. committee of adjustment and other council-appointed jobs in recent months, he said. "It's a good introduction to how municipal government runs."
Politics is a difficult job, allows Omidvar. "But please don't tell me running for a council seat is harder than running for Queen's Park."
The Ontario Legislature, in fact, showed the strongest political diversity, with eight of 35 local MPPs being visible minorities. Omidvar was also pleased with the 19 per cent of principals and vice-principals in the Toronto District School Board who are visible minorities.</div></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 14pt">"What happens in our schools is very important," said Omidvar. "The leadership is looking more like the children who go to school." </span></span> </div></div>
Well HELLO!! It's about time.
ALL along when people have gone on and on about the diversity in Toronto I have said "You'd never know it walking into most corporate boardrooms. You'd also never know it if you looked at the demographics at the level of manager and above in most Toronto private corporations." Well for all on and off the board who said "Nutten noh go soh"...
<span style="font-weight: bold">SEEIT DEH HOT OFF THE PRESS IN BLACK AND WHITE FROM TODAY'S TORONTO STAR!!</span>
When even media contolled by white folks has to admit it you know tings BAD!!
<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 20pt">Visible minorities lag in GTA boardrooms</span> </span>
May 27, 2009
TORY ZIMMERMAN/TORONTO STAR
Ratna Omidvar, president
<span style="font-weight: bold">Highlights</span>
Report finds greater representation in government sector
Lesley Ciarula Taylor
immigration reporter
Visible minorities also accounted for:
- 23 per cent of MPPs
- 21 per cent of school board trustees
- 14 per cent of MPs
- 10 per cent of municipal councillors
- 1 visible minority among Brampton municipal government executives
<span style="font-weight: bold">- 10 per cent of provincial deputy and assistant deputy ministers
- 8 per cent of police executives</span>
<span style="font-weight: bold">-<span style="font-size: 23pt"> 5 per cent of senior executives and 3 per cent of board members in private corporations
- 8 per cent of senior executives and 14 per cent of board members in the largest charitable organizations and foundations examined</span></span>
- 19 per cent of principals and vice-principals in Toronto
- 20 per cent of college executives, 27 per cent of college boards, 11 per cent of university executives and 24 per cent of university boards
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<span style="font-size: 23pt">A new report has found that only 5 per cent of the leaders of Greater Toronto corporations are visible minorities.</span></div></div>
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The numbers are somewhat more encouraging when it comes to leadership in government and education, according to the DiverseCity Counts report, released this morning.
The document is part of a campaign to demonstrate the benefits of leadership that better reflects
<span style="font-weight: bold"> <span style="font-size: 20pt">the diversity of Greater Toronto's population, 40 per cent of which is made up of visible minorities, according to 2008 statistics.</span> </span>
</div></div>
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DiverseCity Counts quantifies for the first time the diversity of leadership in politics, education, government and public and private corporations in the GTA.
It's not of purely social interest: there's a lot of money riding on these numbers. A Conference Board of Canada report on diversity in leadership last fall concluded that underemployment of immigrants whose credentials are not recognized here costs Canada between $2.4 and $3.4 billion in annual income.
Studies have also documented the connection between diverse leadership and a better bottom line, with benefits including stronger links to global markets, more thinking outside the box and better odds on retaining talent.
"This isn't about quotas. This is about finding the right leaders for the right times," said Ratna Omidvar, president of the Maytree Foundation, which created the DiverseCity project with the Toronto City Summit Alliance. "We have the capacity to create prosperity."
"Counting can lead to results," said report co-author Wendy Cukier, associate dean of the Ted Rogers School of Management and founder of the Diversity Institute in Management & Technology at Ryerson University. "What gets measured gets done."
Federally regulated organizations are more diverse, said Cukier, because they have been tracking their visible minority numbers for many years.
Among the success stories Cukier found was that visible minorities make up 31 per cent of City of Toronto boards, agencies and commissions. The city identified what it wanted, set a target and hit it.
That strategy is at the top of the report's action plan for diversifying leadership, along with getting senior executives to make diversity a priority, and developing a "pipeline" for finding top talent.</div></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 20pt">Mayor Dave Barrow admits the gap in Richmond Hill is wide. Visible minorities make up 46 per cent of the town's population, but account for only one just-elected city councillor.</span>
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Again this confirms what I have been saying for YEARS!
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"It takes a lot to commit to politics," said Barrow. "A lot of (visible minorities) don't participate. They don't vote. There were very few running in the last election. And government and police are not seen as your friend in the countries they immigrated from."
The city has been recruiting minorities for the library board. committee of adjustment and other council-appointed jobs in recent months, he said. "It's a good introduction to how municipal government runs."
Politics is a difficult job, allows Omidvar. "But please don't tell me running for a council seat is harder than running for Queen's Park."
The Ontario Legislature, in fact, showed the strongest political diversity, with eight of 35 local MPPs being visible minorities. Omidvar was also pleased with the 19 per cent of principals and vice-principals in the Toronto District School Board who are visible minorities.</div></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 14pt">"What happens in our schools is very important," said Omidvar. "The leadership is looking more like the children who go to school." </span></span> </div></div>
Well HELLO!! It's about time.
Mi actually did catch one wid whom mi did tink we was batty and bench a back chat me dung soh. Mi touch dung JUST in time fi see it. 
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