In 2021, Creatella Impact and Women’s Initiative for Startups and Entrepreneurship (WISE) implemented a women’s economic empowerment program in Vietnam that provided mentoring and coaching to accelerate the success of women-oriented social-business startups in Vietnam. The program was supported by Investing in Women (an initiative of the Australian Government), Global Affairs Canada and the GSRD…(Read more)
Al Etmanski received the Order of Canada for his remarkable leadership over 30 years of championing disability rights, including the design of the national Registered Disability Savings Plan. His next ambitious goal is to work with a committee of representatives from the disability community to design and institute a guaranteed income for persons with disabilities.…(Read more)
Writing in the Globe and Mail, Jim Leech and Sean Cleary of the Institute for Sustainable Finance at Queen’s University applaud the Canadian Securities Administrators proposal for new rules on climate disclosure for Canadian companies which align with most of the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). However, the authors argue…(Read more)
