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Diversity means you, We invite you to read the diversity brochure developed by the London Diversity and Race Relations Advisory Committee. Learn more about ways you can participate in enjoying and enhancing London as a welcoming and inclusive community for all. Diversity means you, diversity includes you … may be obtained by contacting the Committee Secretary. The brochure is also available to view or download as a pdf document in a Spanish, Polish and French version.
Celebrating the diversity that makes our city great! Our Committee assists in the annual development of a Multi-faith Observance Calendar for the Corporation of the City of London. The 2012 calendar (seen on our Resource page) is available as a pdf document (January to June and July to December). Dates are based on the Internet resource Interfaith Calendar. We have also hosted a number of public open house events that have featured a presentation by a keynote speaker and/or a panel discussion as well as diversity-related displays by community organizations. Programs have included an an original stage production in which the audience and actors explored inclusion and equality and eminent guests such as Barbara Hall, Chief Commissioner, Ontario Human Rights Commission;The Honourable David C. Onley, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario; and, most recently, Dr. Kwame McKenzie of Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.
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The article Creating an Inclusive Community in a Larger Mid-sized City: A Municipal Advisory Committee's Approach for London, Ontario was an invited submission prepared by the London Diversity and Race Relations Advisory Committee for the publication Our Diverse Cities. The publication is available as a pdf document at the Metropolis website. Metropolis is an international network for comparative research and public policy development on migration, diversity, and immigrant integration in cities in Canada and around the world. |
Race Relations Recognition Award
Mayor's New Year Honours List (Recipients for Humanitarianism as well as Diversity and Race Relations)