CONTENTS

1. CALLS TO ACTION
2. EVENTS
3. ARTICLES
4. EMPLOYMENT

Save the Science Centre

We need your help to send a message that Ontarians care about the Ontario Science Centre. Send a message to the Premier, provincial Ministers of Infrastructure and Tourism, Members of Provincial Parliament, and the City of Toronto’s Mayor and City Councillors today.

Demand that proper investments are made in the Ontario Science Centre so that it continues to be a world class educational institution that Ontarians can be proud of and enjoy for decades to come.

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Ask reClimate Anything

When: January 23rd, 12pm

Do you have questions about communicating climate change? Are you facing challenges in creating your own climate-related communication or engagement materials? Or have you recognized misinformation or greenwashing that needs a deeper dive?

This time, we’re doing things differently in our webinar. Instead of bringing you research or choosing the topic we want to delve into, your questions will set the agenda for the webinar. Our Re.Climate experts will be there to answer them. It’s an “Ask Us Anything” webinar!

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Documentary screening: Strike to Win

When: January 23rd, 7pm
Where: Nat Taylor Cinema, Ross North 102, York University

As part of the celebrations for CUPE 3903’s 50th Anniversary of our certification by the Ontario Labour Board, we’ll be presenting a free screening of the recently digitized Strike to Win documentary!

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OHC Annual Assembly

When: January 25 and 26
Where: Central YMCA, 20 Grosvenor St

Come and hear where the fightback is seeing some success. Working with the families of long-term care residents, the unions and health professionals, academics and advocates, we have forced the reinstatement of inspections and the beginning of fines for substandard care in long-term care. Ontario has the deepest opposition to health care privatization in the country, in part because of our work. Polls are indicating that approximately 80% of Ontarians think the Ford government is doing a poor or very poor job on health care. The majority of Ontarians oppose privatization and, no matter their political stripe, people are deeply opposed to the closure of their local hospital services.

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2-Day Forum on Unity in Struggle

When: January 25th and 26th, 11am

We invite you to join us on the 25th and 26th of January as part of a 2-day Forum on “Unity in Struggle: Liberation, Solidarity, and Collective Justice” in ‘Toronto’. ‘Toronto’ area based organizers are coming together to program an event packed with panels, workshops, seminars, food and other community activities for activists and allies to learn and exchange ideas about the interconnection between struggles.

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Canada in Africa

When: January 25th, 7pm
Where: A Different Booklist, 779 Bathurst

A Different Booklist Presents: Canada in Africa Featuring Yves Engler.

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Video Essay: Letter to My Tribe

When: January 25th, doors open 7pm
Where: Neighbourhood UU, 310 Danforth

Film showing and discussion. PWYC.

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Rally to End US Blockade Against Cuba

When: January 26th, 1pm
Where: 360 University Ave (in front of US Consulate)

Monthly rally to end the US Blockade Against Cuba.

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Boycott4Palestine: Strategies and Campaigns

When: January 26th, 1:30pm

A session by the Canadian BDS Coalition and International BDS Allies.

Speakers: Hanna Kawas, Canada Palestine Association, Bram Hanekom, Africa for Palestine, Bana Abu Zuluf, Good Shepherd Collective, Karen Rodman, Just Peace Advocates.

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Webinar: History of Medicare

When: January 27th, 7pm

We’re thrilled to welcome Gregory P. Marchildon, author of Tommy Douglas and the Quest for Medicare in Canada, for an engaging discussion on the origins and evolution of universal public healthcare in Canada.

At a time when public healthcare urgently needs reform, we’re looking forward to reflecting on critical lessons from history and considering how they can inspire meaningful, transformational change today. CDM’s Chair, Dr. Melanie Bechard, will moderate this discussion.

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Canadian Foreign Policy Hour with Yves Engler

When: Mondays at 6pm

Join author Yves Engler on Mondays for a weekly news roundup and interactive discussion about Canada’s role abroad. This weekly session will delve into the latest developments on subjects ranging from military affairs and Canada’s role in Ukraine to its contribution to Palestinian dispossession, and the exploitation of African resources. Join Yves for a critical take on Canada’s foreign policy. Questions, comments, and criticisms are all welcome.

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All Out Rally: Nursing Ratios Now!

When: Wednesday January 29th, 12pm
Where: Hilton Hotel, 145 Richmond St W

Hospital CEOs and the Ford Conservatives are intentionally understaffing our public hospitals to replace their services with private clinics. For nurses and health-care professionals, this is causing overwhelming workloads, unsafe staffing conditions and moral injury. Every day hospital nurses and health-care professionals are forced to make difficult decisions about how to provide the best care they can without enough staff.

This is why nurses and health-care professionals are fighting to protect and improve public hospitals.

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Book launch: Eros And Alienation

When: Wednesday January 29th, 7pm
Where: Another Story Bookshop, 315 Roncesvalles Ave

Join us for the Toronto launch of Alan Sears’ Eros and Alienation: capitalism and the Making of Gender Sexualities. With a panel discussion. Masks required and provided.

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Assisting Death Without Supporting Life

By John Clarke

The BC Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) has taken a position with regard to Canada’s system of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) that is of great importance for those who approach this complex issue from any broadly progressive position. A December 19 article in the National Post notes that the BCCLA is raising very serious concerns about how MAID is being implemented despite the fact that it is the body that brought forward the constitutional challenge that led to “the 2015 decriminalization of physician-assisted suicide in Canada.”

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Fire Weather

By Chris Hedges

The apocalyptic wildfires that have erupted in the boreal forest in Siberia, the Russian Far East and Canada, climate scientists repeatedly warned, would inevitably move southwards as rising global temperatures created hotter, more fire-prone landscapes. Now they have. The failures in California, where Los Angeles has had no significant rainfall in eight months, are not only failures of preparedness – the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, decreased funds for the fire department by $17-million – but a failure globally to halt the extraction of fossil fuel. The only surprise is that we are surprised. Welcome to the age of the “Pyrocene” where cities burn and water does not come out of the hydrants.

Source: The Bullet No. 3086

Smeared and Harassed: Hassan Diab’s Long Road to Freedom

By Michelle Weinroth

You know him well by now. His story is notorious. For almost two decades, and in collaboration with Canada’s Ministry of Justice, France has raked him over the coals for a crime he did not commit. Since 2007, French authorities have been on a relentless persecution campaign, conceived to scapegoat him and bring closure to the 1980 Copernic attack in Paris. This innocent Canadian citizen has been subjected to an agonizing ordeal at the hands of a foreign state that wrongfully sentenced him in 2023 to life in prison. His name is Hassan Diab.

Source: The Bullet No. 3087

Communications & Data Coordinator

The Toronto & York Region Labour Council has an opening for a permanent position on its small and dynamic staff team. Reporting to the President, the successful candidate will lead and implement the Council’s communications programs and presence, contribute to strategic oversight and content development, manage related data, and support our diverse campaigns.

This role is suitable for a pro-active and creative pace-setter with significant communications experience who is comfortable working as part of a small inter-dependent staff team.

The starting rate for the position is $1,479.17 per week (currently under negotiation) and a generous benefits package is provided.

Applicants are invited to send their resume and a short cover letter that highlights their relevant experience by Tuesday, February 4, 2025 at 12:00 pm noon to campaigns@labourcouncil.ca. This position is within the bargaining unit of COPE Local 343.

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