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Canadian flags flying high over the CNE midway.
Canadian flags flying high over the CNE midway. - Tanja Tiziana

Diversity

Cultures coming together for Pride Toronto.
Cultures coming together for Pride Toronto. - Tanja Tiziana
The City of Toronto's motto is "Diversity our Strength" and throughout the entire GTA diversity of race, religion and lifestyle are celebrated and set Toronto apart from many other world cities. Over 100 languages are spoken here and you are likely to find an expression of that culture in at least one neighbourhood, whether in the form of an ethnic event, restaurant or retail shop. It's a diversity that continues to grow: between 2001 and 2005 the Toronto area saw an average of 107,000 international immigrants arrive each year and almost three-quarters of Torontonians aged 15 and older have direct ties to immigration. The GTA is truly the place where the world meets, and mixes.

Diversity Features

Bamiyan Kabob's Afghan cusine empire grows in and around Toronto

From one small restaurant in Thorncliffe Park, Bamiyan Kabob's family operation has grown into a city-wide chain with its own food processing centre and, soon, even a farm. Along the way, they've managed to hire 220 people.read on…

Steam Whistle's commitment to hiring new immigrants

Toronto's Steam Whistle Brewing has an unusual hiring policy: choose the best person for the job, with or without Canadian experience. In doing so, they say they've made their company and brand stronger.read on…

Hadi Mahabadi of Xerox Canada explains how skilled immigrants help push innovation

With researchers from 37 countries, the Xerox Research Centre of Canada's "diversity of thought" strategy, adopted in 2004, has resulted in a 17 per cent year-over-year increase in the number of its patent ideas.read on…

Toronto's film industry: Mongrel Media and Hussain Amarshi Score Again at TIFF

The founder of multicultural Toronto-based and internationally successful film distribution company Mongrel Media is a practical idealist whose newest feature, Score, will open the Toronto International Film Festival next month.read on…

There's a village in that stripmall: a slideshow and essay wandering Wexford's main strip

Wexford used to be a village and though now found in the middle of Scarborough, it still is, but it might not look like you expect it to. Part of our series on neighbourhood strips, take a tour of a Wexford stripmall with Yonge Street's Bert Archer and Tanja Tiziana in words and pictures.read on…

Anatomy of a Chinese restaurant: how Sun's Kitchen in Markham's Pacific Mall started and evolved

After years of serving western style food to please their customers, a Markham chef wows the city with his traditional "la main" noodles, and passes on the thousand-year tradition. Pacific Mall, an informal incubator for new immigrant businesses, is a perfect location.read on…

Not all resumes are treated equally: how Toronto's skilled immigrants are getting hired

Toronto is tapping into its skilled immigrant talent by, in part, training human resources professionals to recognize and hire from this neglected pool of smart and ready-to-work people.read on…

A Different Booklist at Bloor and Bathurst is the independent bookstore that keeps going

A Different Booklist is one independent bookstore that's flourishing by being a community centre for Toronto's Caribbean diaspora.read on…

Yonge Street Video: Toronto's Greenest City sprouts in Parkdale

Yonge Street Video goes to Parkdale and chats with Greenest City. They're not just encouraging neighbourhood green thumbs to turn this most urban neighbourhood into a working city farm, they're also growing a new generation of Toronto leaders.read on…

Eduardo Castro takes care of Toronto's mental and civic health, one person at a time

Eduardo Castro's work with youth, mental health and addiction is all about building long-term relationships and his recent appointment to the Toronto Board of Health is his latest achievement in his civic-minded career.read on…
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