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IAMGOLD
( 2026 )
2026
GREATER TORONTO’S
TOP EMPLOYERS
Anthony Meehan,
PUBLISHER
Editorial Team:
Richard Yerema,
EXECUTIVE EDITOR
Kristina Leung,
MANAGING EDITOR
Stephanie Leung,
EDITOR
Sonja Verpoort,
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Cypress Weston,
SENIOR RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Krista Robinson,
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Advertising Team:
Chantel Watkins,
SENIOR PUBLISHING LEAD
Chariemagne Wood,
SENIOR PUBLISHING SPECIALIST
Teresa Yeung,
PUBLISHING COORDINATOR
Vishnusha Kirupananthan,
SENIOR BRANDING & GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Sponsored Profile Writers:
Berton Woodward,
SENIOR EDITOR
Brian Bethune
Deborah Bourk
Abigail Cukier
Mary Dickie
Don Hauka
Patricia Hluchy
Diane C. Jermyn
Sara King-Abadi
Allison Lawlor
Katherine Macklem
Tom Mason
Michael McCullough
Rick McGinnis
Dianne Rinehart
Kelsey Rolfe
Rita Silvan
Barbara Wickens
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p Employees at Toronto-based mining company IAMGOLD listen with interest to a Métis musical trio, who
share their music, history, culture and teachings.
T
oday marks the 20th anniversary of the Greater
Toronto’s Top Employers competition — a
milestone that reflects not only growth, but
the extraordinary ambition of Canada’s
largest urban area. From its earliest days, our
GTA competition distinguished itself by doing something
bold: focusing exclusively on excellence. While our
national project, Canada’s Top 100 Employers, surveys
employers across every province and nearly every
industry, the GTA competition has always been unapologetically selective — it’s a curated list of the region’s very
best employers, regardless of industry or location.
The Greater Toronto Area pulses with a kind of energy
that defies stillness. Dynamism isn’t a feature here — it’s
something you see and feel every day. In one of the most
multicultural urban centres on the planet, diversity and
inclusion stopped being a conversation long ago. GTA
employers understood early what others are still learning:
that the strongest employers reflect the communities they
serve. In a region that attracts talent from around the
globe, inclusion isn’t aspirational or something you wish
for — it’s in the DNA of employers that succeed here.
This same kind of thinking is at work when you look at
the dramatic reshaping of workplaces across the GTA.
After Ontario premier Doug Ford announced return-to-office (RTO) plans for the province’s public service
in August 2025, momentum followed in other parts of the
GTA economy. Public servants moved from three to four
in-office days per week in October, with full onsite
attendance starting in January. The province’s announcement prompted a flurry of similar return-to-office
announcements from the GTA’s major industries including financial services, law, insurance, and professional
advisory firms.
As writers, we don’t spend a lot of time evaluating
different RTO announcements – there is no one-size-fitsall solution. In the highly competitive GTA marketplace,
employers will find which combination of in-office and
hybrid work best suits their industry and organizational
culture. If they get it wrong, their competitors will quickly
show them the way.
Where we do turn our writer’s gaze is towards the
initiatives our GTA winners have unveiled that are
redefining what it means to be working together. In this
year’s announcement magazine, you’ll see employers
investing in reskilling their workforce — from AI literacy
that will power the next generation of work, to technical
training that unlocks new markets, to mentoring and
customized career advancement programs for young
workers whose career growth suffered after the pandemic.
In the highly competitive GTA, these initiatives are the
difference between an organization thriving or surviving.
We can’t predict what the next 20 years will have in
store for GTA employers or what kind of workplaces the
best employers in 2045 will offer. By the middle of the
century, this region is forecast to be home to over 10
million people,1 reshaping transit, healthcare, infrastructure, higher learning and cultural institutions – entire new
communities will grow from opportunity.
The GTA winners we announce today take the torch
carried by employers who appeared in these pages during
the past two decades — and set the standard for those
who will lead in the decades to come.
We may not know exactly what the next 20 years will
bring in the GTA. But we can already see who will be
shaping them.
– Tony Meehan
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Ontario’s Long-Term Report on the Economy (2024):
Regional Demographic Outlook, Greater Toronto Area.
