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The Town of Ajax envisions an equitable, inclusive and thriving municipality where all residents and employees are valued, respected, and empowered to shape the Town’s future.
Our commitment is to lead with equity by embedding inclusion across every department. We will build a workplace and community culture free from discrimination, systemic exclusion, harassment, and hate. An Ajax where everyone is safe, heard, seen, and treated with dignity.
EDI Strategic Framework
The Town is developing its first Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Strategic Framework to guide how the Town integrates equity considerations into its policies, programs, services and workplace practices.
Ajax is one of the most diverse communities in Canada. As our community continues to grow and change, the Town is committed to ensuring that municipal decision-making, services and engagement practices reflect the needs and experiences of all residents. Stay tuned for our in-person community launch event!
Learn more on the IMO Hub at imo.ajax.ca/EDIStrategicFramework.
Positive Spaces Initiative
The Town of Ajax has worked collaboratively with its staff to create a Gender Expression/Identity Policy to create and uphold accessible, safe and positive spaces within the workplace.
A Positive Space is a welcoming, inclusive environment where Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and other sexually and gender diverse individuals feel safe, supported, and respected. It signifies a commitment to equity and inclusion, fostering a culture where all residents, including 2SLGBTQI+ individuals, can participate fully.
Ajax Diversity X Change
Since its inception, Diversity X Change has grown into an annual program that brings residents together to learn about and engage with issues of racism, discrimination and inequity, while celebrating the histories, cultures and experiences of Ajax’s diverse communities.
Through community events, conversations, storytelling, educational resources and creative programming, Diversity X Change explores how inequity is experienced in everyday life and creates opportunities to learn from people and communities whose experiences have often been overlooked or underrepresented.
Programming is shaped by the issues affecting our communities and by the knowledge of residents, community organizations, educators, artists and other partners.
At its core, Diversity X Change recognizes that building a more equitable community requires more than celebrating diversity. It also requires understanding the barriers that continue to affect people differently and considering the role we can each play in creating change.
Stay tuned for 2026’s programming!
Indigenous Reconciliation
National Indigenous Peoples ’ Day
June 21 is National Indigenous Peoples Day, a day to recognize and celebrate the cultures, histories, heritage and contributions of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples across Canada.
Since 2023, the Town of Ajax has marked National Indigenous Peoples Day with an Indigenous-led Sunrise Ceremony, bringing community members together. The Town is committed to continuing this annual gathering in the years ahead.
TRC Calls to Action
Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 Calls to Action
In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released 94 Calls to Action to address the ongoing impacts of residential schools and advance reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada.
Several Calls to Action speak directly to municipal governments and public institutions. These include adopting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) as a framework for reconciliation, rejecting doctrines used to justify European sovereignty over Indigenous Peoples and Lands, educating public servants about Indigenous histories, Treaties, rights and Indigenous–Crown relations, and supporting education, remembrance and public understanding of the residential school system.
For the Town of Ajax, these Calls help inform how reconciliation is reflected in our relationships, policies, programs, services and decision-making.
What is Orange Shirt Day?
September 30 marks both the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day.
Orange Shirt Day grew from the story of Phyllis Webstad, a Northern Secwépemc (Shuswap) woman whose new orange shirt, given to her by her grandmother, was taken from her when she arrived at residential school as a child. Her story has come to represent the experiences of generations of Indigenous children who were separated from their families, cultures, languages and communities through the residential school system.
First observed in 2013, Orange Shirt Day is an Indigenous-led, grassroots movement grounded in the message that “Every Child Matters.” In 2021, September 30 became the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a federal statutory holiday honouring the children who never returned home, Survivors of residential schools, and their families and communities.
September 30 is an opportunity to learn about the history and ongoing impacts of the residential school system, honour Survivors and those who never returned home, and reflect on our individual and collective responsibilities in advancing truth and reconciliation.
Land Acknowledgement
The Lands on which we gather are situated within the Traditional and Treaty Territory of the Michi Saagiig Anishinaabeg and are covered by the 1923 Williams Treaties and the Gunshot Treaty of 1788, with pre-existing Treaty harvesting rights recognized by the 2018 Williams Treaties Settlement Agreement. The Rights-Holding, Sovereign Nations of the re-settlement include the Mississaugas of Scugog Island, Alderville, Curve Lake, Hiawatha and the Chippewas of Beausoleil, Rama, Georgina Island First Nations.
The Town acknowledges the harmful effects of colonization and commits to making meaningful change toward Truth and Reconciliation by responding to the Calls to Action and Justice and by engaging in reciprocal relationship building with First Nations peoples. This Land is and will continue to be home to Indigenous Peoples. We honour Indigenous histories and cultures and work to uphold our shared Treaty responsibilities, fostering healthy relations with the Lands, Waters, and Air.