Human Resources is committed to working to maintain a welcoming, favourable and accommodating environment for all employees and candidates for employment. Identifying and removing systemic barriers is an important step in this process. 

Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion

Memorial is an employer partner with the Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion (CCDI). CCDI is a national charity that promotes diversity and inclusion with the goal of helping organizations realize their equity and diversity objectives. Through CCDI, Memorial employees have access to a number of resources including webinars, e-newsletters, and an online knowledge repository. For more information on CCDI, please click here.

As part of the “Members Only” portal, CCDI has an e-library with over 1,000 equity and diversity resources which are indexed and searchable by multiple parameters (e.g. by keyword, by topic, etc.).  To access to the Knowledge Repository, you can self-register here.

Readings and Resources

The following are links to various employment equity and diversity readings and resources:

• Anti-Black Racism
• Intercultural Communication
• Indigenous Inclusion
• Unconscious Bias
• Gender Identity

Employee Assistance Program

Memorial’s EAP provider, LifeWorks, has created the following webinars:

• Anti-racism and inclusive leadership
• Raising children to respect diversity
• Anti-racism and allyship