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IHA
( 2025 )
CANADA’S TOP 100
EMPLOYERS
Anthony Meehan,
PUBLISHER
Editorial Team:
Richard Yerema,
EXECUTIVE EDITOR
Kristina Leung,
MANAGING EDITOR
Chantel Watkins,
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Sonja Verpoort,
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Juliane Fung,
RESEARCH EDITOR
Cypress Weston,
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Vithusa Vimalathasan,
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Advertising Team:
Kristen Chow,
MANAGING DIRECTOR, PUBLISHING
Ye Jin Suhe,
MANAGER, PUBLISHING
Chariemagne Kuizon,
PUBLISHING COORDINATOR
Vishnusha Kirupananthan,
SENIOR BRANDING & GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Sponsored Profile Writers:
Berton Woodward,
SENIOR EDITOR
Brian Bethune
Deborah Bourk
Abigail Cukier
Mary Dickie
Jane Doucet
Steven Frank
Don Hauka
Patricia Hluchy
D’Arcy Jenish
Diane Jermyn
Sara King-Abadi
Allison Lawlor
Tom Mason
Rick McGinnis
Diane Sims
Barbara Wickens
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his year marks the 25th anniversary of
the Canada’s Top 100 Employers project,
which has become a catalogue of best
practices for employers and employees
alike. At such moments, it’s the disposition of
writers and editors to be skeptical of weighty pronouncements or, worse, triumphal retrospectives.
Experience teaches humility more than any other
lesson, the ancient Greeks would tell us.
But a quarter century and tens of millions of
words of ink spilled on paper also make it incumbent on scribes to justify their labours and share
whatever insights their toil has revealed. If only as
an apologia to long-suffering readers or perhaps
even our families who periodically cast a concerned eye over our annual labours.
From time to time, I also reflect on the sources
of our misadventure. When Richard Yerema and
I started the competition in 1999, the ideals of law
school were still fresh in my head and, indeed,
formed the basis of how the project is organized.
The recurring principle of writing reasons and
releasing them publicly would not only attract the
interest of readers and employers over time, but
also inform my most cringeworthy and embarrassing writing over the years. (The high-water
mark surely was an essay more than a decade ago
comparing our project to the basalt obelisk in the
Louvre that is Hammurabi’s Code.)
But to stele a page from one of the more modern
self-help guides, it’s perhaps unwise to dwell too
much on the past. Suffice it to say that, for the first
time, our project allowed Canadian readers and
employers to see what the very best organizations
in the nation were doing.
The selection criteria used to choose the competition winners are another topic that brings to
mind ancient sources. They are the same today
as they were 25 years ago when the project was
started. To be completely clear, there were seven
when we launched the competition. But after the
first edition, we added one for community involvement: employers that took a broader view of their
role in the community, it turned out, were almost
always better places to work.
To be clear, consistency is not always a virtue
and sometimes it is a poor excuse for doing the
same thing over again exactly the same way. Emerson was not far from the truth when he observed
that consistency was indeed the hobgoblin of the
smallest minds. But for our project, the steady
if not divine nature of the selection criteria have
allowed us to measure the changes that have taken
place over years and decades.
Without raising this anniversary to the status
of a jubilee year, when the mercies of your editors
are particularly manifest, we will be publishing a
series of retrospectives over the weeks and months
ahead. Herodotus may have had the Histories, but
our editors’ charts will be equally revealing, tracing the path not only of the past 25 years, but also
of progress itself in Canada’s workplaces.
– Tony Meehan
