Individual Company Activities to Enhance CSR

Individual Canadian companies have been paying attention to the demands of the marketplace and the pressures from citizens and public sectors on such CSR challenges as those relating to environmental protection (e.g. climate change, pollutants), human resource management practices (e.g. diversity), community development (e.g. supporting community initiatives, local hiring), consumers (e.g. product choice and safety), and others. Businesses are increasingly using CSR or similar concepts such as corporate sustainability, corporate citizenship, corporate accountability and corporate stewardship to address the triple bottom line challenges from economic, social and environmental imperatives.

Many Canadian companies are pursuing CSR in focussed ways to cover the "plan, implement, check, and improve" facets of their business structures, processes and management decision-making. Others are more comprehensive in their approaches.

There are many companies in Canada that can be identified as practitioners of CSR. Based upon reviews of industry activity in various fora and processes (including those of Industry Canada and other federally supported studies, assessments within industry such as by Corporate Knights, participation by companies in initiatives of organizations such as the Conference Board of Canada and the Canadian Business for Social Responsibility and others) the following is a sample list of companies that can be reviewed to indicate the sorts of individual businesses undertaking initiatives on environmental, human resource, human rights, community development, and/or other CSR fronts:

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