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CBC's section podcast looks astatine what's motivating immoderate companies — including immoderate successful Edmonton — to cancel diverseness initiatives.

CBC podcast looks astatine wherefore immoderate companies are cancelling diverseness initiatives

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· Posted: Mar 05, 2025 11:00 AM EST | Last Updated: March 5

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The University of Alberta is 1 enactment successful Edmonton to backmost distant from diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, besides known arsenic DEI. (David Bajer/CBC)

A increasing database of companies and institutions are moving distant from diversity, equity and inclusion policies. But why?

Here successful Edmonton, the University of Alberta announced it's changing to a caller attack called "access, assemblage and belonging." AIMCO eliminated 19 jobs including the DEI programme pb past month. 

This is Edmonton10:52The displacement distant from equity diverseness and inclusion

Companies and institutions are moving distant from equity, diverseness and inclusion policies, including present successful Edmonton. Many felt compelled to marque a committedness aft the decease of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests. Now galore are choosing to backmost away. We’ll look astatine what’s down the changing attitudes toward the policies. 

On this week's occurrence of This Is Edmonton, big Clare Bonnyman speaks to CBC newsman Emily Williams about the move away from these initiatives, and what experts deliberation of the changing attitudes toward these policies.

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