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Inclusive Innovation of Immigrant Entrepreneurship 2024 Metropolis Conference,
March 2024TRS2 1.7 Toronto Metropolitan University Activity 2024-03-13 TRS2 1.7 Canada in the international context - Driving inclusivity in the newcomer employment system 2024 Metropolis Conference,
March 2024TRS2 2.2 Toronto Metropolitan University Activity 2024-03-13 TRS2 2.2 Best practices for employers to hire immigrants This session includes various perspectives on how to support employers, especially small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to hire more immigrant talents. Since SMEs are the backbone of the Canadian economy, providing about 90% of employment in the private sector, it is critical to empower SMEs to hire and retain immigrants. Our presentations explore the effectiveness of innovative approaches, such as a social resilience lens, the adoption of employer-driven skills training and employment services, needs assessment of local SMEs, and wraparound supports, in the ecosystem.
TRS2 1.6 Toronto Metropolitan University, Memorial University Activity 2025-03-14 TRS2 1.6 Differential Impacts during COVID-19 in Canada: A Look at Diverse Individuals and Their Businesses
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is affecting all segments of society. This study investigates the pandemic's economic and social impacts on diverse groups in Canada, including women, immigrants, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, and racialized people. Using two large online Statistics Canada surveys, which are neither random nor weighted to represent the Canadian population, we consider quantitative differences in the pandemic challenges and concerns reported by women and men, immigrants and those born in Canada, and intersectional groups, both as individuals and as the businesses they own or represent. Within the samples, individuals from diverse groups and their businesses are more negatively affected by COVID-19.
Toronto Metropolitan UniversityPublication 2024-11-27 Combler l’écart de compétences entre les nouveaux arrivants et l’industrie : preuves provenant du projet d’innovation de la main-d’œuvre et de l’inclusion Les nouveaux arrivants au Canada font face à divers obstacles à leur intégration économique, allant du manque de familiarité avec l'anglais ou le français et la culture canadienne aux réglementations restrictives concernant les titres de compétences étrangers. Ces obstacles se manifestent par des écarts de compétences entre les nouveaux arrivants et l'industrie, pour laquelle les compétences des nouveaux arrivants ne correspondent pas à ce que recherchent les employeurs. Cet article examine la littérature sur les écarts de compétences au Canada, mettant en évidence le besoin de programmes et de services visant à soutenir les nouveaux arrivants dans leur approche avec ces obstacles et à combler l'écart de compétences. Ensuite, l'article présente une argumentation en faveur du développement des compétences entrepreneuriales en tant que voie alternative à l'intégration économique pour les nouveaux arrivants. Enfin, trois programmes de développement des compétences sont analysés, démontrant l'efficacité potentielle de telles interventions pour aider les nouveaux arrivants à surmonter les obstacles à l'intégration économique. Toronto Metropolitan University Publication 2024-07-09 Social innovation to advance diversity and inclusion This chapter proposes an approach to examining gender equality, diversity, and inclusion strategies through a social innovation lens. Many of the sustainable development goals address dimensions of gender equality, diversity, and inclusion but these issues are less often explicitly addressed in social inclusion. Drawing on complex systems theory, we offer a multi-leveled ecological model of change addressing macro, meso, and micro issues. A social innovation approach can bridge divides between theory and practices as well as a systemic and incremental change to enable us to advance gender equity, diversity, and inclusion. Toronto Metropolitan University Publication 2023-10-28
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