TRIEC’s Winter 2011 e-Lert: New Trends in Mentoring is Out
Read about new trends in mentoring, a firm that is offering facility tours to internationally trained engineers and the leader of a professional immigrant network who’s passionate about profiling Latin America and its MBA graduates here in the Toronto Region. Check...
Fabiola Sicard: A passion for promoting the profile of Latin America and its people to business
Fabiola Sicard has dual identities: She’s Mexican-born and a Canadian citizen; she’s the director of Latin Markets, Multicultural Banking for Scotiabank and she’s co-founder of LAMBA, the Latin American MBA Alumni Network. But above all else, Fabiola is passionate...
Engineering firm offers facility tour to members of professional immigrant networks
George Kelk Corporation (KELK) president Peter Kelk has a history of helping internationally trained engineers. For years he partnered with ACCES Employment to offer tours of the company to clients and now he’s offering the same opportunity to members of engineering...
South Asian Focus: Mentoring into the mainstream
When he came to Canada from India 22 years ago after working nearly 10 years in multinational companies in South East Asia and the Middle East, there was no support for Brampton resident Iqbal Ali. Says Ali: "Having gone through that pain I really wanted to help and...
Globe and Mail: Ethnic marketers capitalize on GTA’s shifting demographics
Dakshana Bascaramurty Statistics Canada predicts that by 2031, 63 per cent of the GTA’s population will be “visible minorities” (a Stats Can term that clearly needs some rethinking), with South Asians and Chinese leading the pack – that’s up from the 43 per cent...
Yonge Street: When macro goes micro
Paul Gallant When Maggie Chen worked in Shanghai as an economist for the Chinese government, she looked at macro-economic trends in order to analyze the impact on the labour force, vocational training and the social-insurance system. After immigrating to Canada just...
Canadian Immigrant: Volunteers mentoring skilled immigrants recognized by The Mentoring Partnership program
The Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council (TRIEC) recognized outstanding volunteer contributions to its award-winning program, The Mentoring Partnership. Facilitating the mentorship of over 6,000 skilled immigrants since its launch in 2004, the program brings...
Toronto Star: Supporting immigration is just so Canadian
Jeffrey ReitzIf the Ontario election campaign reflected anything about the politics of immigration in this country, it was the generally positive role that it plays. Most notably, the opposition issue of supposedly unfair benefits to “foreign workers” was a...