A message and reading from Mayor of Toronto John Tory

Dec 18, 2015 Published on December 18, 2015

On the occasion of International Migrants Day (December 18, 2015), Mayor John Tory offers a warm welcome to the Syrian refugees now making their home in Toronto, and shares an excerpt from Flight and Freedom: Stories of Escape to Canada (2015).

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

Launch of Syrian Refugee Settlement Initiative in Toronto

Jun 17, 2015 Published on

Lifeline Syria will recruit, train and assist sponsor groups to welcome and support 1,000 Syrian refugees coming to Canada as permanent residents to resettle in the Greater Toronto Area over the next two years.

Toronto 2025, What will our city look like in 10 years?

Apr 2, 2015 Published on April 1, 2015

CBC Townhall

With a surging population, developers can't build fast enough. Aging infrastructure, limited transit lines, and physical space are all obstacles as we expand.

Fighting for more diversity at the top: Hepburn

Mar 4, 2015 Published on February 25, 2015

Bob Hepburn, Toronto Star

Unique Toronto program to recruit minorities for governance boards goes

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Diverse Leadership in the Health Care Sector

Feb 19, 2015 Published on

Diverse Leadership in the Health Care Sector examines diversity on boards and in senior management of health care institutions in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).

Immigrant Self-Employment and Entrepreneurship in the GTA

Feb 19, 2015 Published on

An investigation of self-employment and entrepreneurship as viable strategies for lifting new Canadians out of poverty.

What is possibility? Together we are possibility

Jan 28, 2015 Published on January 28, 2015

United Way Toronto

United Way Toronto asks, “What does possibility mean to you?”

Meet Toronto’s Disenfranchised Non-Citizens

Jan 5, 2015 Published on January 5, 2015

Debra Black, Toronto Star

Debra Black writes in the Toronto Star, "About 380,000 of the city’s residents don’t have Canadian citizenship — a difference that is invisible but not inconsequential."

Multicultural Toronto, but “White Guy” for Mayor

Dec 15, 2014 Published on

Ratna Omidvar responds to an opinion piece in the Guardian: "Old white guy for mayor: has Toronto's great multicultural project failed?"