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CANADA'S GREENEST EMPLOYERS (2025) SPONSOR CONTENT
CANADA’S
GREENEST EMPLOYERS
Anthony Meehan,
PUBLISHER
Editorial Team:
Richard Yerema,
EXECUTIVE EDITOR
Kristina Leung,
MANAGING EDITOR
Chantel Watkins,
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Sonja Verpoort,
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RESEARCH EDITOR
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Brian Bethune
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Mary Dickie
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Sara King-Abadi
D’Arcy Jenish
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Tom Mason
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Rick McGinnis
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Stacey Stein
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Employees from GHD Ltd. at a shoreline cleanup in Vancouver to prevent plastics from entering the ocean.
T
he generational divide between Canadians
when it comes to the environment and
sustainability has in many ways never been
wider. Thanks to a belligerent administration
governing our southern neighbour, older
Canadians by a wide margin are pressing the pause button
on efforts to limit fossil fuel emissions. From their
perspective, Canada has an existential need to reduce its
dependency on the United States and, practically
speaking, this means building new pipelines east and west
to reach new markets.
For younger Canadians, who have more at risk from
climate change, the calculation is different. New pipelines
might be necessary, they reason, but so are efforts to
promote sustainability and reduce Canada’s environmental footprint. For this generation, the technologies of
tomorrow will be sustainable and so will the jobs and new
opportunities they create. Canada should not waste this
chance to use its resources to create the products and skills
that the world will need in the future.
Across this generational divide, there’s widespread
fatigue with topics like carbon pricing and multilateral
initiatives that consistently fail to deliver results or, worse,
become captured by the special interests they were
originally intended to regulate.
Our Canada’s Greenest Employers competition sits at the
crossroads of these competing worldviews. Since the
project’s first edition 18 years ago, our editors have focused
on practical initiatives and projects that every employer
can do to make their operations sustainable. The result is
a fascinating catalogue of best practices when it comes to
creating sustainable workplaces: carbon neutral objectives
and ambitious policy goals are studiously avoided in
favour of practical and concrete initiatives that everyone
can agree on.
While our selection criteria for the competition have
remained unchanged since its inception, the project has
evolved to focus on initiatives that involve employees.
Canadians increasingly expect their employers to reduce
their environmental footprint – and want to play an active
role in making sure this happens. The common thread
that runs through Canada’s Greenest Employers is that they
have sustainability at the core of their organizational
culture.
For job-seekers, we are excited to announce that our
sister project, Eluta.ca, has released a new search interface
that lets you focus your search results exclusively on
winners of all our special-interest and regional competitions, including Canada’s Greenest Employers. Millions of
Canadians have used Eluta.ca to find new job opportunities directly from employers’ websites. With its new
faceted job search, Eluta.ca now makes it possible to focus
on employers that are sustainability leaders too.
Today, our team of editors released detailed ‘reasons for
selection’ explaining why each of the winners was chosen.
These are available to read free of charge via the competition homepage (www.canadastop100.com/greenest) and
include hundreds of additional stories and photos. If your
organization would like to be considered for next year’s
edition of Canada’s Greenest Employers, I encourage you to
reach out to our editorial team at: ct100@mediacorp.ca
– Tony Meehan
