Faith in the Workplace: Exploring Canada's Rapidly Changing Employment Landscape

Today at the KPMG building in downtown Toronto, Skills for Change, a settlement agency and TalentOyster partner, will be presenting a conference on culture and faith in the workplace.

Faith and culture are emerging as critical issues for Canadian companies in light of forecasts that call for 100% of job pool growth coming from immigration by 2015. The diversity@work conference is an opportunity to hear from thought-leaders on the front lines of support and integration of new Canadians into society and the workplace.

The conference features a keynote address by Senator Don Meredith, a provocative panel discussion and an opportunity to speak with prominent Canadian employers invested in diversity hiring, including Scotiabank, Home Depot and the University of Toronto.

For more information on this event visit the Diversity@work website at http://www.diversityatwork.org/

Elections and the Ethnic Vote: Numbers Lottery or Political Representation?

This coming Thursday, October 20th from 6 to 8pm, the South Asian Journalists' Association is co-presenting a public discussion at the Munk School of Global Affairs on the "ethnic" vote. The discussion is focused on answering questions like "Is there a South Asian ethnic vote?" and "Are political parties really interested in hearing new voices."

The discussion panel includes MPP-elect Jagmeet Singh (NDP) from Brampton-Gore-Malton, CBC TV's Steve D'Souza, The Agenda's Piya Chattopadhay, Rana Sarkar (former Liberal and federal candidate for Scarborough-Rouge River, and Sunil Rao, editor of South Asian Focus.

For more information or to register to attend this event visit the website at http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11115