Join us as we welcome former AT&T CEO Anne Chow. Drawing on her extensive experience, she offers strategies to help leaders build more dynamic, inclusive workplaces in today’s evolving world. | January 22, 2025
Join us for our third LinkedIn Live event, hosted by GATE’s Associate Director Lechin Lu and featuring GATE Advisor Chanel Grenaway, an expert on integrating equity, inclusion, and intersectionality practice into workplace cultures. Together, they’ll explore meaningful community engagement strategies for designing inclusive businesses and programs. | January 24, 2025
Combatting homelessness requires a multifaceted and coordinated effort. Fred Victor, a Toronto-based charity, operates over 25 sites across the GTA, offering four key programs: housing solutions, health and wellness services, income generation and education, and food security and nutrition.
The Lone-parent households, predominantly led by women, are especially vulnerable to rising housing costs. YWCA Metro Vancouver, a registered charity within the global YWCA network, is addressing this challenge by providing 16 affordable housing communities to 291 single mothers and their children as of 2024.
Our popular annual Feminist City event series is back! This year we explored how cities can respond to the gender-based violence epidemic, how we can meet the growing demand for access to safe and sustainable housing for our most vulnerable populations, and more. | December 3, 2024
The Daniels Corporation (Daniels) launched its Accessibility Designed Program (ADP) in 2017 to address the accessibility needs of individuals with disabilities by incorporating design features that go beyond the accessibility standards set by the Ontario Building Code (OBC).
Busting the myth that AI is bias-free!
Mila, a Quebec-based AI research institute, is at the forefront of AI development that promotes ethics, transparency, privacy, fairness, and accountability.
GATE's Founding Director Sarah Kaplan speaks to The Globe and Mail about women choosing to continue careers in consulting after retirement. (Image credit: Alicia Wynter/The Globe and Mail)
Despite the lack of diversity in the construction and facility industry overall, Freshco has built a workforce that is 77% women, 41% LGBTQ2S+, 33% BIPOC, 10% neurodiverse, 7% disabled, and 6% veterans. The company has accomplished this by building trust through demonstrated support for diversity, contrasting the tokenism often seen in the corporate landscape.
