At a time when celebrating diversity and inclusion is more important than ever, Canadian Immigrant magazine is proud to launch the voting phase for the 13th annual Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards. All Canadians are invited to visit canadianimmigrant.ca/top25, get inspired by this year’s Top 75 finalists — and cast their vote for their favourites.

The Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards program, with program partner COSTI Immigrant Services, has been the leader in highlighting inspiring stories of immigrants from across Canada, and honouring them with the only national award celebrating immigrant success.

Past finalists and winners over the last dozen years have come from different backgrounds, professions and countries of origin, but these role models all share something in common — they make Canada a better place through their work, volunteerism and community spirit.

This year’s shortlist is no different. The 2021 shortlist of 75 were chosen from among hundreds of nominations by a judging panel composed of past winners.

The public can now vote for up to three of their favourite finalists online at www.canadianimmigrant.ca/top25 until September 17, 2021.

For the seventh year, the awards will also recognize one of the 25 winners who demonstrate excellence in business with the Entrepreneur Award. And, for the fifth year, the Youth Award will recognize the achievements of immigrant youth (between ages 15 and 30) who are making a difference in their adopted country and show great potential in further building this nation. Both awards are additional honours given to a Top 25 winner. No separate votes are required.

All the award winners will be announced on November 8, 2021 online on www.canadianimmigrant.ca and in Canadian Immigrant magazine. This year’s media partners are CityTV, Toronto Star, Metro Newspaper, Metroland Community papers, Sing Tao and OMNI Television.