Friday marks the second National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, and several organizations in and around Hamilton and Six Nations are hosting events to commemorate the week and come together as community.
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Melissa Dunne
The murder of George Floyd, one year ago today in Minneapolis, Minn., sparked calls for change around the world including in Canadian workplaces.
Floyd’s death kicked off global Black Lives Matter rallies last spring and summer, as well as many hard conversations about anti-Black systemic racism between Canadian employers and employees. And in the wake of those initial talks and rallies, more than 400 Canadian organizations, including Enbridge Inc., IKEA Canada, Lifeworks Inc., Scotiabank and York University, have now signed the BlackNorth Initiative pledge since it was launched last June.
“From an employer point of view and from an employee point of view, once the Band-Aid has been ripped off, you can’t really go back,” says Paula Allen, global leader of research and total well-being at LifeWorks Inc., of the one-year anniversary of Floyd’s death. “So if an organization [says], ‘Well, let’s just forget about everything that’s come to light.