TD Bank

Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with more than 2,300 locations and 74,000 employees worldwide, The Toronto-Dominion Bank and its subsidiaries are collectively known as TD Bank Financial Group (TD). TD serves approximately 17 million customers globally through five key business lines: Canadian Personal and Business Banking; Wealth Management; Insurance; Wholesale Banking; and U.S. Personal and Commercial Banking.
As of April 30, 2009, TD Bank Financial Group had CDN $575 billion in assets. TD Bank Financial Group also ranks among the world’s leading on-line financial services firms, with more than 5.5 million online customers. The Toronto-Dominion Bank trades on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges under the symbol “TD”.
Against a recent backdrop of tough economic conditions, TD remains firm in our commitment to employment equity, diversity and inclusion.

Scotiabank

Scotiabank is one of North America’s premier financial institutions, and Canada’s most international bank. Through our team of 69,000 employees, Scotiabank and its affiliates offer a broad range of products and services, including retail, commercial, corporate and investment banking to more than 12.5 million customers in some 50 countries around the world. The Scotiabank Group is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its employees.

KPMG

KPMG is one of Canada’s leading professional services firms, providing Audit, Tax, and Advisory services to clients of all sizes in every major industry with 32 offices in 30 communities across the country.

KPMG is committed to diversity and inclusion in all its forms and is proud to count LGBT people among its demographic makeup. KPMG has been named one of Canada’s Best Employers for Diversity specifically because of its work in LGBT inclusion. Along with its pride@kpmg network, KPMG is the only professional services firm in Canada to allow people to identify as LGBT as part its diversity profile tool. KPMG sponsors many LGBT organizations and is proud to be a supporter of the Out on Bay Street Conference.

IBM

IBM Canada Ltd. is one of Canada’s leading providers of advanced information technology, products, services and business consulting expertise. We are dedicated to helping our clients innovate and succeed through the end-to-end transformation of their business models and the
application of innovative technology and business solutions.

IBM Canada has always stood for progress. Today, Canadians find themselves in a world that is not only smaller and flatter; it’s smarter. Leaders of businesses, governments and institutions have a unique opportunity to leverage this insight to positively transform the way the world works and
IBM Canada remains committed to helping deliver on that vision.

Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With approximately 177,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$23.39 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2008. Its home page is www.accenture.com

Monitor Group

Monitor Group is a strategy consulting firm founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1983. Monitor works with the world’s leading corporations, governments and social sector organizations to drive growth on the issues that are most important to them. Our clients face an environment characterized by increasing connectedness, complexity and change – and a steady compression in the time they have to act and react. Our assignments are predominantly multinational in scope involving industries and organizations facing important (often profound) transitions. We typically work for CEOs, business unit heads and other members of the senior management team. Simply put, the work we do matters. Monitor’s Toronto office opened in 1986 as the third hub in Monitor’s global network, which has since grown to span five continents and more than 20 countries. As one of the two oldest strategy consulting practices in Canada, Monitor has been a pioneer in the Canadian consulting industry. www.monitor.com

Deloitte

Deloitte, one of Canada’s leading professional services firms, provides audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services through more than 7,700 people in 57 offices. Deloitte operates in Québec as Samson Bélair/Deloitte & Touche s.e.n.c.r.l. Deloitte is the Canadian member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.

BMO

Founded in 1817 as Bank of Montreal®, today BMO Financial Group is a highly diversified financial services provider. We offer clients a broad range of personal, commercial, corporate and institutional financial services across Canada and in the United States.

McKinsey & Company

McKinsey & Company is an international management consulting firm that specializes in helping clients achieve substantial and lasting improvements in their performance. its Canadian practice, with offices in Toronto, Montreal, and Calgary, draws on McKinsey’s network of over 90 offices to provide objective counsel to management teams facing strategic, organizational, or operational opportunities and challenges. For more information please visit us at www.mckinsey.com

Ernst and Young

Ernst & Young is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. We aim to have a positive impact on businesses and markets, as well as on society as a whole. We attract talented people from diverse backgrounds. Our emphasis on inclusiveness matters more than ever today. As business challenges become more complex, we need to call upon the widest spectrum of views and opinions to address them. Our open culture fosters continuous personal and professional development. Because when our people grow and succeed, your company benefits.

Telus

At TELUS, we believe a diverse and inclusive team is critical to our success. It’s a significant competitive advantage and a powerful reflection of the communities where we live, work and serve. Diversity thrives when we honour and leverage the traditions, beliefs, lifestyles, abilities and perspectives of all members of our team. That is why we are proud to partner with Pride at Work Canada and support the efforts of Out on Bay Street.

P&G

Three billion times a day, P&G brands touch the lives of people around the world. P&G is Canada’s largest consumer packaged goods company with a portfolio of health, beauty, and home care brands such as Pantene, Tide, Pampers, Gillette, and Olay. Our corporate tradition is rooted in the principles of personal integrity, respect for the individual and doing what’s right for the long-term.
We see diversity as a competitive advantage. Diversity is the uniqueness that each of our employees brings to P&G including sexual orientation and gender identity. We believe that a diverse company will outperform a homogeneous company by inspiring more creative and innovative solutions. P&G Canada actively promotes LGBT diversity with recruitment efforts, a LGBT Employee Network, LGBT social events, and contributions to the broader community including donations, sponsorships, and volunteer programs.

The Investors Group

Investors Group is Canada’s leading personal financial planning company, managing over $60 billion in assets for Canadians from coast to coast. Investors Group specializes in Tax Planning, Retirement Planning, Estate Planning and Investment Planning. As a Consultant with Investors Group, you will have the opportunity to build a business based on financial planning and wealth management. You will be building a clientele by providing comprehensive financial plans dealing with estate, tax, retirement, and investments. This all-encompassing approach is based on relationship building and a strong work ethic.

RBC

RBC is Canada’s largest financial institution, providing personal and commercial banking, wealth management services, insurance, corporate, investment banking, and transaction processing services globally. RBC employs more than 80,000 full and part-time employees who serve more than 18 million personal, business, public sector and institutional clients through offices in Canada, the U.S. and 53 other countries. We are leaders in diversity and remain committed to its principles and objectives for our workforce, in supplier management and in client programs and services.

Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP

Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP (FMC), one of Canada’s leading business and litigation law firms, is committed to creating and maintaining a firm-wide culture of inclusiveness, where the unique potential of all our firm members is recognized. At FMC, we want the best people on our team and we strive to be an employer of choice for all. We believe our team’s strength comes from having a cross-section of all cultures, ethnicities, genders, ages, orientations and backgrounds reflective of our diverse communities. We know that broadening the diversity of our workforce also broadens our insight and perspective, which in turn enhances our ability to provide our clients with the best possible advice and service.

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Osler is a full-service Business Law firm with approximately 450 lawyers practising in Toronto, Montréal, Calgary, Ottawa and New York. We provide integrated legal services with specialists in virtually every area of business law, advising many of Canada’s corporate leaders as well as U.S. and international clients with interests in Canada. Our breadth of legal expertise allows us to provide the kind of seamless, integrated service our clients require. In addition to its reputation for legal excellence, Osler is proud of its supportive environment that encourages and values diversity in every respect across the Firm among its lawyers, students, and staff alike.

Torys LLP

Torys LLP is an international business law firm with 300 legal professionals in our Toronto and New York offices. We have a reputation for quality and creativity, and we are trusted legal advisers in complex transactions and major disputes. Our clients include many of the most prominent and prestigious Canadian and international corporations, as well as non-profit organizations, governments, Crown corporations and individuals.

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP is a leading full-service business law firm with more than 550 lawyers in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary, Vancouver, London, and Beijing. Blakes was recognized as “Canadian Law Firm of the Year” in 2008 by Chamber and Partners, one of the world’s leading publishers of legal directories. Blakes has also been named as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers for the past six years and was recently recognized as one of “Canada’s Best Diversity Employers”, the only law firm on the list to win this award.

McMillan LLP

McMillan is a leading Canadian business law firm serving clients, public and private, in major sectors of the economy. The firm’s reputation and particular strengths are in antitrust/competition, banking and finance, corporate restructuring, commercial real estate, tax, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and business litigation. McMillan comprises more than 200 lawyers in its Calgary, Toronto and Montreal offices and provides high quality legal expertise to clients in Canada, the United States and around the world.

Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP

Cassels Brock is a non-hierarchical, decent place to work. Our students like it here. They are great training. They get to work with some of the best legal minds in the country on files that matter. Our lawyers are smart and dynamic. They have personalities, pets, kids and give back to the community with both money and time. You can read more about our student programs on the following pages and review our website at www.casselsbrock.com

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

BLG is an integrated, full service, national firm with more than 700 lawyers, intellectual property agents and professionals in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Waterloo Region, Ottawa and Montreal. We offer a collegial and dynamic work environment in which students, associates and partners are exposed to a phenomenal breadth and depth of legal work and clients. Each of our offices is home to some of the best lawyers in Canada from whom students and associates can learn. Students and lawyers also have the opportunity to work closely with lawyers and professionals in other BLG offices who are also at the forefront of their fields, thereby exposing them to an even broader professional experience. This, combined with significant resources directed to the Mentoring Program and the Professional Development Program, makes BLG among the top firms in Canada to develop your career. For more information on BLG and our training programs, please visit our website or visit the on-line version of CDLE

Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

Gowlings is a dynamic and respected firm with approximately 700 professionals in offices across Canada (Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Calgary, Vancouver, Hamilton and Waterloo, as well in Moscow and London, UK. Gowlings brings the best minds and resources together to provide our clients with exceptional value at every level – in Business, IP/IT and Advocacy.

The student programs at Gowlings are fundamental to the culture of our firm. As a Gowlings student, you will conduct the research and preparation that forms the foundation of successful transactions and cases, and you will also exercise your skills in advocacy and negotiation. Our students work directly with our clients.

If you’re looking for accelerated professional growth through practical experience, consider Gowlings.

Stikemen Elliott LLP

Stikeman Elliott is a top rated full-service business law and litigation firm with over 500 lawyers in offices across Canada, and in New York, London and Sydney.

Our firm was founded as an entrepreneurial business venture in 1952. Our defining principles continue to shape our culture: We believe in individual initiative that supports our shared goal of excellence in business law; we believe in providing our clients with the highest quality business solutions to their legal issues; we believe in an open and democratic environment, where diversity is welcomed and supported; and, most importantly, we believe in the spirit of adventure that built our firm and continues to shape its future.

We were chosen as Top Corporate & Commercial Team in Canada for 2008 by World Finance magazine, and National Law Firm of the Year (Canada) in 2007 by IFLR, and are consistently ranked as a global and domestic leader in virtually all our areas of practice.

Osgoode

For over the past 120 years, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University has built its reputation for excellence and leadership on the strength of our internationally-renowned faculty, exceptional students, supportive staff and respected alumni. We are also known for the depth and breadth of our course offerings in the Juris Doctor (JD) program and for having the strongest Graduate and Professional Development programs in the country. Osgoode offers many hands-on clinical programs including the Osgoode Business Clinic and the Advanced Business Law Workshops in Corporate Finance and Mergers and Acquisitions, as well as various combined programs, such as the JD/MBA (3 or 4 year) program with the Schulich School of Business and the JD/JD and JD/LLM programs with New York University’s School of Law. Osgoode prepares its graduates for leadership and service within the legal profession and beyond.

Queen’s Law

- Canada’s Global Law School – 3 global law programs at the BISC, international exchanges and internships, international visiting scholars
- Interdisciplinary Opportunities – multiple combined degree programs: MIR-JD, MPA-JD, M.A.(Econ) –JD, JD-MBA ( two more MBA options planned), new M.PL.-JD
- Clinical Programs & Experiential Learning – Queen’s Legal Aid, Clinical Correctional Law, Clinical Family Law, Queen’s Business Law Clinic, Pro Bono Students Canada
- Leader in Student Engagement and Leader in Placement rates
- Diverse student body, LGBT friendly culture evidenced in 2009 LSSSE survey and LSAC profile at http://www.lsac.org/SpecialInterests/lgbt-selecting-ls.asp.
- Commitment to Education Equity and outstanding Academic Assistance Program

Rotman MBA

The Rotman School is redesigning business education for the 21st century with a curriculum built on Integrative Thinking^TM. Located in the heart of Toronto — North America’s third-largest financial capital and the world’s most culturally-diverse city — the School is developing a new way to think about business. The Rotman MBA program is currently ranked in the top 25 in North America by theFinancial Times. These are just some of the reasons why Bruce Nussbaum recently wrote in BusinessWeek Online, “Managers who want to ‘get’ the new innovation paradigm should check out Rotman’s MBA and exec-ed programs.”

Ryerson MBA

Located on Bay Street, in the heart of Toronto’s business community, the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University is Canada’s largest undergraduate management school. It is recognized for its innovative programs and for producing students who are immediately able to contribute to Canadian business. The Ted Rogers School of Management focuses on relevant education that is grounded in contemporary applied business practice. Graduate programs include a broad-based MBA with an international focus with specializations in Human Resources Management, International Business, Marketing, Retail and Commercial Development and an MBA and MMSc in the Management of Technology and Innovation with specializations in Media Management, Information Systems Management and Supply Chain Management.

University of Ottawa Law

It is hard to think of a better place to study law than where laws are made and where they receive their final interpretation.
Located in the heart of the nation’s capital, the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law offers a learning environment like no other. As Canada’s largest law school, uOttawa offers a broad and diverse curriculum that few law schools in the world can match in areas such as social justice, human rights, e-commerce, intellectual property, international law and environmental law. The school’s close ties with law firms, government, NGOs and clinics also provide students with unique practical experiences.

University of Toronto Law

The Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto is one of the world’s great law schools, a dynamic academic and social community with 60 full-time faculty members and 20 distinguished short-term visiting professors from the world’s leading law schools, as well as 600 undergraduate and graduate students.

The Faculty’s rich academic programs are supplemented by its many legal clinics and public interest programs, and its close links to the Faculty’s more than 6,000 alumni, who enjoy rewarding careers in every sector of Canadian society and remain involved in many aspects of life at the Faculty.

Western Law

Western Law is one of the top law schools in Canada. The opportunities for the theoretical and practical study of law are numerous. Our graduates can be found in top jobs in government, business, the judiciary and legal practice in Canada and around the world. Open minds and open doors reflect a community that is dedicated to diversity – in the programs we offer our students and in the students themselves. Our students are a diverse, intelligent and enthusiastic group of individuals who help make Western the truly remarkable place that it is. Students have many opportunities to enhance their legal education through international exchanges and internships, as well as practical clinical experiences.

Windsor Law

Windsor Law has a history of innovation in our curriculum, teaching approaches and programs. We offer four programs (LLB, JD/LLB, MBA/LLB and our new MSW/LLB), and exceptional faculty who provide our students an appreciation of the law as a vehicle for social and legal justice. Our students benefit from a curriculum which combines theoretical and practical approaches, preparing them for a wide range of career options. Visit www.uwindsor.ca/law for further information