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CANADA’S BEST DIVERSITY EMPLOYERS (2025)
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Executive inclusion
council
Diversity programs
for LGBTQ+ and
employees with
disabilities
Employee resource
groups
Peer circles
mentorship program
for women leaders
Metzi Liau, vice president of merchandising, at Shoppers Drug Mart (under the Loblaw Companies umbrella).
our network.”
Loblaw leans heavily on
input from its four DEI-related
employee resource groups
(ERGs) – Embrace Your Roots,
ABLE, Go Further Women and
Proud – for initiatives both inside
the workplace and in the larger
community, Liau adds, and
Embrace Your Roots played a key
role in the supplier program.
In 2024, all the ERGs played
a consultative role in Loblaw’s
decision to donate $1 million
in funding to five organizations
representing often marginalized
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Canadian communities: the
Black Business and Professional
Association, the Canadian
Women’s Foundation, Holland
Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation
Hospital, the Canadian Council
for Indigenous Business and Pride
at Work Canada.
For Camacho, a co-lead on
a Proud ERG subcommittee,
inclusivity is a crucial factor
in Loblaw’s appeal. “I’ve never
thought about leaving,” he says,
“and a big part of that is because
we have interwoven DEI into our
everyday business.”
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