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OUT For Business Youth Entrepreneurship Cohort 2021 – Scarlett McAllister, Printmaker, Rabittown Press
The CQCC Youth Entrepreneurship Program empowers 2SLGBTQI+ entrepreneurs between the ages of 18 and 39 by providing them with support and tailored guidance to help them establish or grow their own businesses. The one-year program has four components: Launched in 2017, the program helps a new group of young entrepreneurs each year. Each week, we…
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Join the conversation. #BellLetsTalk
Now more than ever, it’s important to prioritize our mental health and be there to support one another as a community. Our community has a long history of overcoming together. Through our resilience we will make it through the other side – stronger together. If you are struggling, please see below for a list of…
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OUT For Business Youth Entrepreneurship Cohort 2021 – Connor Remus, Founder, Connor Remus Photography and Remus & Co.
The CQCC Youth Entrepreneurship Program empowers 2SLGBTQI+ entrepreneurs between the ages of 18 and 39 by providing them with support and tailored guidance to help them establish or grow their own businesses. The one-year program has four components: Launched in 2017, the program helps a new group of young entrepreneurs each year. Each week, we…
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OUT For Business Youth Entrepreneurship Cohort 2021 – B Adair, Founder, Just B Diversity and Inclusion Consulting
The CQCC Youth Entrepreneurship Program empowers 2SLGBTQI+ entrepreneurs between the ages of 18 and 39 by providing them with support and tailored guidance to help them establish or grow their own businesses. The one-year program has four components: Launched in 2017, the program helps a new group of young entrepreneurs each year. Each week, we…
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OUT For Business Youth Entrepreneurship Cohort 2021 – Tim Campbell-Smith, Strategist
The CQCC Youth Entrepreneurship Program empowers 2SLGBTQI+ entrepreneurs between the ages of 18 and 39 by providing them with support and tailored guidance to help them establish or grow their own businesses. The one-year program has four components: Launched in 2017, the program helps a new group of young entrepreneurs each year. Each week, we…
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Canada’s 2SLGBTQI+ Chamber of Commerce Promotional Contest 2021
Contest Rules Prize: Two (2) Economy Class tickets anywhere in Canada Value: $1,800 Description: Air Canada is pleased to provide you with two (2) Economy Class round trip promotional tickets for travel to any Air Canada scheduled destination in Canada. Tickets are valid for travel on Air Canada, Air Canada Express and Air Canada Rouge…
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The 50-30 Challenge – Canada’s 2SLGBTQI+ Chamber of Commerce
The CQCC applauds the federal government’s recent announcement of The 50 – 30 Challenge: Your Diversity Advantage. This initiative brings the federal government together with corporate partners, community organizations, equity seeking groups, and expert researchers to advance gender equity and diversity in leadership across Canada by helping to accelerate diversity strategies already underway and assisting…
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Response to the Fall Economic Statement – Canada’s 2SLGBTQI+ Chamber of Commerce
Canada’s 2SLGBTQI+ Chamber of Commerce (CQCC) listened with great interest as the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, delivered the Fall Economic Statement yesterday. We are encouraged by the government’s ongoing commitment to supporting underrepresented entrepreneurs. Specifically, the announcement of priority applicants for grant funding consideration under the Canada United Small…
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Transgender Day of Remembrance
Transgender Day of Remembrance is held every year on November 20 to memorialize the transgender individuals who have lost their lives as a result of anti-transgender violence. The date was first marked as a response to the murder of Rita Hester in 1998. Hester, a transgender woman working to educate the local community about trans…
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Announcing The 2020 Business Leadership Award Winners
Toronto, ON: Today, Canada’s 2SLGBTQI+ Chamber of Commerce (CQCC) announces the winners of its Business Leadership Awards taking place on November 5, 2020 during its first ever virtual Black & White Gala. The Business Leadership Awards were created to honour individuals and companies that have helped champion diversity, inclusion, and economic growth in the 2SLGBTQI+…
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Small Business Month presented by TD: Mirror Image Media
October is Small Business Month, and together with TD we are profiling 2SLGBTQI+ owned small businesses across Canada that have been successful in navigating the COVID-19 pandemic. We will be discussing how they managed, some of the challenges they’ve faced with respect to the pandemic, and how their financial institution has helped them to weather…
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Small Business Month presented by TD: EAC Construction
Octobre est le mois des petites entreprises et, avec la TD, nous présentons les petites entreprises appartenant à des 2SLGBTQI+ + à travers le Canada qui ont réussi à traverser la pandémie du COVID-19. Nous discuterons de la façon dont ils ont géré, de certains des défis auxquels ils ont été confrontés en ce qui…