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New Year, New You: REDI’s New Year Book List
Explore a compilation of books that have deeply inspired the REDI team in their work. Immersing yourself in the stories, lived experiences, and perspectives of individuals from various historically marginalized groups can foster empathy, understanding, and even aid in mitigating bias in your teaching and clinical practice.
Stories from the Frontline: Celebrating Black Healthcare Professionals
Join PHSA DEI for an event on Feb 18th featuring frontline Black health-care professionals as they share their lived experiences delivering patient care. This conversation offers an opportunity to learn from their insights and contributions toward ensuring our health-care system and practices are safe and inclusive for all.
REDI Digest Guides: Inclusive Professionalism in Practice
In this first edition, the guide draws on the It Starts With Us webinar Inclusive Professionalism in Medicine (March 2025). It explores how professionalism is evolving from traditional norms toward more inclusive and relational approaches, highlighting key themes, including the impact of professional norms on historically, systemically, and persistently marginalized groups.
REDI Moments That Matter: Faculty & Staff Recruitment
In this first guide, we focus on Faculty and Staff Recruitment as a key moment that signals who is welcome and valued within a unit. The guide invites reflection on how recruitment practices shape culture, belonging, and retention long before someone joins a team, and how processes can either affirm or undermine stated commitments to equity and inclusion.
Research Voices from the Field with Cheryl Holmes
In this edition, Cheryl Holmes, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Medical Education and Clinical Professor of Critical Care in the Department of Medicine reflects on why she co-authored “Core Competencies for Students Entering Medical School: Reaching Pan-Canadian Consensus for Inclusive and Accessible Medical Education” — a must-read for leaders and educators seeking to embed disability justice into medical education.
‘My Name is Charlene’: Perseverance and Poise in an Era of Truth, Reconciliation, Anger & Rage
Join us on Tuesday, April 14, 2026, from 12:00 – 2:00 PM (PT), for a conversation with Chief Charlene Belleau of the Esk’etemc First Nation, who helped lay the foundations for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Her work supported the Commission’s mandate to document the history and legacy of Canada’s Indian Residential Schools, and guide reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.
Accessibility & Disability Inclusion Resources
Explore ways to better support and accommodate people with invisible and visible disabilities across our learning, research and clinical environments with this curated collection of resources. The collection features a TED Talk with Jennifer Brea about what it means to live with an invisible disability.
Building Networks for Lasting Impact: An Affinity Lunch for Indigenous & Black Staff, Faculty, & Clinical Faculty in the FoM (Feb 2026)
FoM Indigenous and Black staff, faculty and clinical faculty are invited to join us on Feb 26, from 12:00– 1:30 pm at the Gordon & Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre. This affinity lunch offers a unique opportunity to engage in meaningful dialogue, and develop collaborative networks with colleagues across the Faculty.
The ABCs of Compassionate Support
Explore trauma-informed strategies for supporting a learner or colleague, without overstepping boundaries or assuming their full story.