Is Toronto still a city for refugees?

Nov 4, 2015 Published on November 4, 2015

GDX Executive Director Ratna Omidvar at the Walrus Talks Cities of Migration

It’s Not a Small World After All

Jun 16, 2015 Published on

Our screens vividly bring faraway places into our homes, projecting an image of closeness, but every encounter with the foreign in the flesh reminds us how much lies far beyond our reckoning - Pico Iyer

Creating a favourable and inclusive entrepreneurial climate at local level

May 12, 2015 Published on

Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises are engines of growth and economic development, providing added value, knowledge and filling gaps in markets

Lean In to Diversity

Mar 11, 2015 Published on

Ratna Omidvar writes: Sheryl Sandberg made waves when she told women to “Lean In.” Pursuing diversity also takes the will to lead. Welcome to the Global Diversity Exchange.

Cities and the Case for Migration

Feb 17, 2015 Published on

Khalid Koser of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy writes, "While states are building walls; cities are building bridges."

An Agenda for Shared Prosperity

Feb 17, 2015 Published on

Mekonnen Mesghena of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung writes, "Cities have always been laboratories of social innovation and pioneering places of change."

No One Should be Afraid to Say Where They are From

Feb 17, 2015 Published on

Roger Casale of New Europeans writes, "One reason why this nation needs migration is because men and women from other countries help to remind us who we are."