Awards of Excellence
As Canada continues to grapple with issues of racism, it's crucial that we celebrate the achievements of those who are fighting for a more inclusive society.
This year's Awards of Excellence celebrates organizations, agencies, and individuals who have demonstrated excellence in combatting racism and discrimination in Canada.
The Awards event, and the positive attention leading up to it, put positive race relations in the spotlight by featuring the best practices of forward-thinking and innovative companies, organizations and groups.
The Awards of Excellence are part of the CRRF's Best Practices initiative. Best practices represent a program, strategy or initiative that has demonstrated promise, success and social impact. The Awards Jury will acknowledge an organization whose best practice represents excellence in promoting harmonious race relations while demonstrating the following:
Education | Innovation | Leadership | Partnerships | Positive race relations | Social impact | Potential to scale | Sustainability
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Marcia Young
Marcia Young joined CBC Radio in the summer of 2004 as host of Canada at Five. The following year she became the first host of The World This Hour, a news program connecting Canadians to the world. Marcia is currently the Friday host of World Report. Before joining the CBC, Marcia worked as an anchor/reporter at City TV. A graduate of Ryerson's journalism program, Marcia began her career in sports radio at the Fan590 in Toronto. Marcia started with CBC News in 1998 as a researcher on The National. Reporting and hosting news programs at CBC has taken Marcia from Toronto, to Saskatchewan and to Prince Edward Island.
Marcia has covered live breaking national and international news.
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Fireside Chat with Cameron Bailey
Cameron Bailey is the Artistic Director of the Toronto International Film Festival®. He is responsible for the overall vision and execution of Festival programming, as well as maintaining relationships with the Canadian and international film industries. Toronto Life has named him one of Toronto's 50 Most Influential People four years in a row.
Born in London, Bailey grew up in England and Barbados before migrating to Canada. Before taking up his current position at TIFF, he was a Festival programmer for eleven years, and a writer and broadcaster on film. He reviewed for Toronto's NOW Magazine, CBC Radio One and CTV’s Canada AM. He presented international cinema nightly on Showcase Television's national programme The Showcase Revue, and has been published in The Globe and Mail, The Village Voice, CineAction!, and Screen. Cameron has curated film series for Cinematheque Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada, the National Film Board of Canada, and Australia's Sydney International Film Festival.
Bailey currently sits on the Advisory Council for Western University's School for Arts and Humanities and for Haiti's Cine Institute film school. He is also a board member of Tourism Toronto, and he currently teaches a course in programming and curation at the University of Toronto.
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Featured Performer - Liberty Silver
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Featured Performer - Mayne Champagne
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