Lessons learned from last year’s Juneteenth — Byline: Written by Jessica Regan, Sr. DEI Advisor at Bloom Slavery may have legally ended in 1863 in the United States, but it wasn’t until 1865 that federal troops actually ended slavery in Texas, the last state to hold out. That day — June 19th, 1865, or “Juneteenth” for short…

Byline: Co-written by Vinciane de Pape, DEI Advisory Lead and Emma Hunt, Sr. Talent Advisor at Bloom. As Pride Month comes into full swing, like clockwork we observe organizations and businesses of all sizes change their logos to rainbow colours and plaster their storefronts with rainbow flags and “Love is…

“Get your f****** a** up and work” This International Women’s Day, Billionaire Kim Kardashian gave some awful and out-of-touch business advice to women, stating, “I have the best advice for women in business. Get your fucking ass up and work,” Kim says in the clip before adding, “It seems like nobody wants to work these days.” Oufff…

If you’re a full-stack developer who wants to build genuinely helpful products, your next career move should be to Willful. Willful’s core product — affordable digital wills and estate documents for Canadians — brings peace of mind to thousands of families nationwide as they begin the tough conversations around end-of-life…

Growing pains hit different in a global pandemic and tight talent market. Hiring your dream team has never been harder. Craft PR was ready to scale in early 2021, Melissa Retty, a senior vice president at the firm and the company’s HR lead, knew she would need help. …

Byline: Written by Vinciane de Pape, DEI Advisor at Bloom Dear Bloom, I’m an HR manager at a small startup. I’m friends with a lot of my fellow employees and we all follow each other on Instagram. One day I noticed a tagline on an employee’s image: “Link in bio for more”. I clicked out of curiosity. Turns out, it was to their OnlyFans, which advertised a lot of “sexy” pictures and videos behind the paywall.

Byline: Written by Jessica Regan, DEI Advisor and Vinciane de Pape, DEI Advisor Thursday, September 30, 2021 marks the first Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada — but how did we get here? For many Canadians, the conversation about reconciliation started on May 27th when the remains of over…

Too many influencers think of themselves as fun individuals just doing their ~*thing and ignore the fact that they are entrepreneurs. And when that happens, the scandals inevitably emerge. …

It’s easy for people living in rural areas to claim that urban issues don’t affect them. But when multiple harrowing events happened throughout 2020 including the murder of George Floyd, the board of the Beef Farmers of Ontario (BFO) realized that this wasn’t an urban vs rural problem. Instead, the…