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Power of Many: Take Back Ontario Conference

The Ontario Federation of Labour is hosting a province-wide conference at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre that will bring together labour leaders, activists and community allies to build our base and our strategies of escalating actions.

Protect Public Health Care for all Canadians: Stop Private Clinics and Unlawful User-fees and Extra-billing of Patients

Town Hall Meetings
Join us as we learn more about the People's Health Act . Discuss we can do to protect our local health services and to make health care decisions more accountable to us - the people.

The Ford government is proposing massive restructuring to hospitals, long-term care, community care, mental health etc. It calls for mega-mergers of health systems, privatization of health services and gives new powers to the Cabinet and the Minister of Health to make changes to the Act on their own.

As you know, the PC government has proposed legislation to privatize and radically restructure health care in Ontario. We know that when this government talks about “efficiencies”, it often means job losses.

On Wednesday, February 27th, join unionists and activists from across the province in rallying for education and in protesting the Ford government's cuts to classroom cap size and funding.

The Fight for $15 and Fairness Provincial Strategy Meeting will be taking place on:

Saturday, February 23rd: 8:30 am to 5 pm

Sunday, February 24th: 8:30 am to 3 pm

Location: The Thomas Lounge (first floor) of the Ryerson Student Centre & Oakham House, 63 Gould Street in Toronto, M5B 1E9

Come celebrate International Women's Day! The United Way is hosting Tampon Tuesday on March 5th. The aim is to collect at least 6 000 boxes of menstrual hygiene products!

For more information, please visit 

https://www.unitedwayniagara.org/events/ 

Four Niagara-based organizations – the Canadian Association of Retired Persons (CARP) Niagara; Council of Canadians (CoC) South Niagara Chapter; Niagara Health Coalition/Ontario Health Coalition and The Retired Teachers of Ontario (RTO/ERO) District 14 Niagara — have teamed up to host candidates’ debates on healthcare in the