We are pleased to provide you with a copy of our report, “Strengthening Canada’s Foreign Policy: Lessons from Our China Experience.” Harmony has been composing this report over the last year based on lessons learned from our experience working in China since 2005. Our intention is to contribute to a positive discussion, involving all Canadians, …
“We possess the means to create a world where every man, woman and child can live free of hunger and discrimination and obtain the healthcare, education and opportunity to reach their potential while ensuring that human development does not squeeze every other life form towards extinction.”— Michael Bloomfield, Founder and Executive Director, Harmony Foundation of …
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Prosperity with Integrity China’s remarkable development has been accompanied by considerable consequences for public and worker health, environmental protection, and social development, resulting in increasing demands from government and the public for improvement. Whether an act of leadership or follow the leader it is prudent for companies, international and domestic, to respond to these calls …
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Click Here to Download Furthering Harmony’s work to encourage business, government, and civil society to work together to improve CSR globally, we are pleased to share with you “Canadian Mining Operations Around the World: Respecting People and the Environment. In our report, we examine Canada’s mining industry to make the case for all Canadian companies to adopt …
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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) goes by many names: corporate ethics, triple bottom line, corporate sustainability, corporate accountability etc. The difficulty is not what to call it; rather that, in most cases, companies emphasize CSR as marketing and public relations rather than investment in healthy societies. This paper will make the case that CSR driven by …
Charities are essential partners in Canadian society, working to relieve poverty, safeguard our environment and health, assist children, seniors and others in need, and provide cultural, educational social and other valuable services. Given that they contribute $35.6 billion* to the economy each year, we’d expect that government would actively encourage these organizations, much in the …
Canada is increasingly seen as just another developed country compromising public health, human rights and the environment to increase profit. But this doesn’t have to be the case. In this presentation, co-authors of the “CSR Guide to Multinational Corporations in China” Lanlin Bu and Michael Bloomfield explain the importance of Corporate Social Responsibility that benefits both society and business. …
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