Employment equity programs are used in Canada to promote equality in the workplace. They tend to focus on integrating four under-represented groups in Canadian society: women, visible minorities, aboriginals, and persons with disabilities. In order to determine whether an organization is properly using an employment equity program, it is important to look at the type
The Canada Tibet Committee is hosting a historic Public Talk by His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama on Saturday, 28 April at the Ottawa Civic Centre Arena. Doors open at 9:00 AM and the Public Talk will start at 10:00 AM.“Human rights, ethics, resource and opportunity equality are the most important issues we face today,
The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs sits down with Jeffry Sachs and discusses why he believes that “at the root of America’s economic crisis lies a moral crisis” and why he is charting a course to what he calls “a more mindful society”.
On September 7, 2011, in Montreal , His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, will be joined by Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi, world-famous author Deepak Chopra, Professor Tariq Ramadan, Professor Robert Thurman, Professor Gregory Baum recipient of the Order of Canada, and Swami Dayananda Saraswati who all will speak on the theme ‘Peace Through Religion’.More information
Ethicists, investigators and human rights professionals have a particular interest in getting their findings right. Judge Richard Goldstone, head of the infamous UN panel that issued the Goldstone Report in 2009, backtracked on his most serious accusations on Friday. The Goldstone Report had accused Israel and Hamas of “actions amounting to war crimes, possibly crimes
In the afterward of the Toronto G20 summit there has been a good deal of discussion on the role of the police. Some are arguing the Toronto police could have done more. Others take the view that they should have done less. Emrys Westacott asks how the advent of a surveillance society affects people’s moral
The Dalai Lama, who has written extensively about ethics, talks about promoting secular ethics, with special emphasis on the role of scientific investigation, during his talk to a gathering of 200 Buddhist monks and nuns held at his hotel in Nagano, Japan, on June 20th, 2010.