Thank you for those working hard to improve equity and human rights in Toronto.

Nominations are now open for the 2021 Access, Equity and Human Rights (AEHR) Awards.

For more than 15 years, the AEHR Awards have been the City of Toronto’s highest honour to recognize people or organizations who have created a more equitable city by addressing discrimination and working to eliminate barriers to equality.

The five AEHR Awards are: the Mino Bimaadiziwin Award (Indigenous), Disability Access Award, Constance E. Hamilton Award for Women’s Equality, Pride Award and the William P. Hubbard Race Relations Award.

Hubbard was Toronto’s first Black alderman who served from 1894 to 1914.

He was a very popular and influential politician, who was nicknamed Cicero for his oratory. He died in April 1935 at the age of 93.

Award recipients will be recognized at a virtual event on December 10. Nominees must be Toronto residents or non-profit organizations. For more information and to submit a nomination, visit http://toronto.ca/Awards. The deadline for nominations is July 30.