Managed a first-ever employment equity program for minority students
When working for a big-city mayor in 1988 Sheila developed and ran Ontario's first employment program to place Black youth in management trainee positions with blue chip firms based in Toronto that signed on to participate in this groundbreaking initiative with North York mayor Mel Lastman. They included companies like IBM, CBS Records and the Toronto Star. CBC-TV ran this story. Offering this program required Ontario Human Rights Commission approval.
Sheila wrote an anti-racist joke book in 1993 to fight racism and bigotry.
Proceeds from the sale of the books went toward youth programs.
Sheila is the originator of many attention-grabbing political stunts
Issues such as opposing the sell off of Ontario's public electricity system in 2003 and advocating for the construction of the Sheppard Subway in Toronto in 1994, Sheila was there with creative ideas to attract the cameras. For hydro, she created Hydrozilla, and for the subway she had a well-known civic leader pull a proverbial rabbit out of the hat. Eventually over the years some of Ontario's power system was privatized. The full Sheppard Subway was half built.
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Commenting on Ontario public affairs . . . Watch Sheila on "THE POINT"."The Point" with Marcel Wieder had its online premiere on October 6. Sheila joins Conservative strategist John Mykytyshyn, blogger Andy Radia, political correspondent for Yahoo!News Canada and host Wieder, President and Chief Advocate, Aurora Strategy Group, to look at 2014 municipal election races in Toronto and across Ontario.
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Sheila on CBC Radio One 99.1 FMProducers of CBC Radio's "Here and Now" chose Sheila to sit on its popular political affairs panel.
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Sheila on ontarionewswatch.comOntario's leading political affairs Ontario News Watch podcast airs weekly. As a skilled political pundit Sheila contributes her insider knowledge to a discussion about Premier Kathleen Wynne's new cabinet. (Feb. 14, 2013)
PHOTO: L-R John Snobelen, ONW host Susanna Kelley, Sheila White, Marie Bountrogianni |
Sheila's Special Interest: Litter Prevention www.litterpreventionprogram.com
Sheila's Litter Prevention Program gathers credentials from the Toronto Star (November 17, 2012)
Engaging presentations available for conferences, workshops and speakers' bureaus, business and industry
Engaging presentations available for conferences, workshops and speakers' bureaus, business and industry
BROADCAST CLIPS ~ Hear Sheila being interviewed about litter prevention
Sheila on CBC Metro Morning - Mel Lastman Retrospective
Sheila on CBC Metro Morning - 2003 Toronto Mayor's Race
AM 640 - Sheila's Anti-Racist Joke Book
Some of Sheila's Media Credentials:
