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Oct 29, 2025 - Canada, First Nations, Mexico and the US

When: Wednesday October 29th, 7pm

How Do We Resist a War on Good Jobs?

Great speakers from CUPW, Attiwapiskat First Nation, Mexico and US labour movements. How can we fight to defend ourselves and build solidarity and unity?

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Oct 29, 2025 - FilmSocial: Wall Street

When: Wednesday October 29th, 6:45pm
Where: Eyesore Cinema, 1176 Bloor St W.
Free/PWYC

The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is excited to present Wall Street (1987) as the final installment in our special series of film screenings on the topic of money.

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Oct 29, 2025 - Fill the Legislature Galleries

When: Wednesday October 29th, 9am
Where" Queen's Park

At stake is our single-tier public medicare and the services and funding in our local public hospitals. Don't let Ford destroy them.

We cannot let two-tier medicare and the charging of patients thousands of dollars for surgeries and diagnostic tests to become normalized. We are on the cusp of it now. If we don't fight back, we are going to lose public medicare.

Please spread the word. Please come out if you can, and if you do not live close to Toronto, please host a Legislature Watch event in your community and invite the media. Speak out. Do everything you can to pour on the pressure.

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Oct 28, 2025 - Fighting Back Against Wage Theft in Ontario

When: October 28th, 7pm

Wage theft is happening across Ontario, when employers don't pay what they owe, take tips, or refuse to pay overtime and vacation pay. While the Ford government makes it easier for bad employers to get away with it, workers are standing up and fighting back.

The Workers' Action Centre is launching a new Wage Theft Report that exposes how widespread the problem is and what needs to change. The webinar will feature workers who have experienced wage theft and are organizing for justice.

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Oct 27, 2025 - Booklaunch: We’re Coming for You and Your Rotten System

When: Monday, October 27th, 7pm
Where: Octopus Books, Ottawa

The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is honoured to welcome longtime organizer Jonathan Rosenblum to Hamilton for the launch of his brand new book We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System!

From inside Kshama Sawant's historic tenure in Seattle City Hall comes a blueprint for twenty-first-century socialists, a counterpoint to the common strategies of mainstream progressives today.

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Oct 27, 2025 - 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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Oct 26, 2025 - Resistance Until Total Liberation

When: Sunday, October 26th, 2pm
Where: Bay and Front St

Join us for a protest in Toronto to call for immediate aid to enter Gaza and for a full two-way arms embargo. As we enter a new phase of the genocide, one that is more silent, more hidden, and disguised by the perpetrators "ceasefire". However, Palestinians continue to be murdered daily. Since the implementation of the "ceasefire," 23 Palestinians have been killed. Continue to resist until the siege is lifted, until every Palestinian political prisoner is free, until the occupation crumbles, until total liberation!

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Oct 25, 2025 - Booklaunch: We’re Coming for You and Your Rotten System

When: Saturday, October 25th, 7pm
Where: Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave

The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is honoured to welcome longtime organizer Jonathan Rosenblum to Hamilton for the launch of his brand new book We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System!

From inside Kshama Sawant's historic tenure in Seattle City Hall comes a blueprint for twenty-first-century socialists, a counterpoint to the common strategies of mainstream progressives today.

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Oct 25, 2025 - [Hamilton] We’re Coming for You and Your Rotten System

When: Saturday, October 25th, 1pm
Where: Solidarity Place, Hamilton

The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is honoured to welcome longtime organizer Jonathan Rosenblum to Hamilton for the launch of his brand new book We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System!

From inside Kshama Sawant's historic tenure in Seattle City Hall comes a blueprint for twenty-first-century socialists, a counterpoint to the common strategies of mainstream progressives today.

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Oct 25, 2025 - No To Hate; Everyone Belongs

When: October 25th, 11:30am
Where: Queen's Park (Museum subway south exit)

"Canada First" are bringing their hate to Queen's Park on October 25th. They seek to spread vicious hate, blaming immigrants for crises in housing, jobs and social services. This far-right group, which looks to UK fascist Tommy Robinson for inspiration, is promoting "remigration" - a call for mass deportation of people of non-European or non-Christian descent.

This is part of a growing threat around the world from the far-right. Over the years, wherever white supremacist and Islamophobic hate groups reared their heads in Toronto's public spaces, they have been challenged. On October 25th, bring your flags, placards, banners and energy - Solidarity not hate! No to racism and Islamophobia!

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Oct 25, 2025 - CUPW Solidarity

When: October 25th, 11am
Where: 47 Densley Ave

A press conference followed by direct door-to-door outreach to residents in Toronto and Scarborough.

How: CUPW members and volunteers will leaflet assigned neighbourhoods and drop notices in individual mailboxes. Volunteers will walk door-to-door to deliver these notices.

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Oct 25, 2025 - Kidical Mass TO

When: October 25th, 10:00am
Where: 155 Bayview Ave

Kidical Mass is an international movement for child- and cycling-friendly cities. Kidical Mass rides are an all-ages and abilities celebration of cycling which also highlights the need for healthier cities. Cycle Toronto is proud to be powering the return of KidicalMassTO on the last Saturday of every month until October.

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Oct 24, 2025 - Fundraiser for Medical Aid in Gaza

When: Friday October 24th 6:30pm
Where: 58 Cecil St
Tickets: $100

Join us for an evening of solidarity and support. All proceeds will go to Medecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to provide lifesaving care in Gaza.

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Oct 23, 2025 - Bill 5s and Critical Minerals

When: Thursday, October 23rd, 12:30pm

Please join us for another installment of our Critical Minerals Seminar Series entitled The Bill 5s and Critical Minerals: The Implications for Indigenous Sovereignty.

This roundtable will feature interventions from Dr. Dayna Scott (Osgoode), Dr. Gabrielle Slowey (Politics, York), and Ryan Fleming (Political Science, U of T). Dr. Anna Zalik (FEUC, York) will chair the session.

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Oct 23, 2025 - OPSEU Rally

When: Thursday October 23rd, 12pm
Where: 10 Armoury St

Over the past year, community and social services workers in OPSEU and CUPE Ontario have been organizing and building power. Now, the Worth Fighting For campaign is taking the heat straight to Queen's Park!

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Oct 23, 2025 - Raise the Rates! Freeze the Rent!

When: October 23rd, 11am
Where: Queen's Park

Tell Doug Ford it's time to raise the rates, freeze the rents & bring in FULL rent control!

After a 4-month summer break, MPPs are heading back to Queen's Park -- and we'll be there to welcome them back to work.

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Sep 18, 2025 - Workers' Justice

When: Thursdays, September 18 to November 6th

Organized by the Jane Finch Education Action Group, Jane/Finch Centre and the Global Labour Research Centre at York University.

This is a free course for those who live or work in the Jane-Finch/Rexdale/Northwest Toronto communities. Participants will receive a certificate of completion from the Global Labour Research Centre at York University.

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Sep 8, 2025 - Fighting To Win

When: Monday September 8th, 6pm

A Ten-Week Course for Union and Community Activists Facilitated by John Clarke, former organizer with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP).

Unions and social movements today are operating in a very challenging situation. There is great economic uncertainty, the worsening impact of climate change and a global situation marked by the growing threat of conflict and war. When workers strike or communities under attack take to the streets, it seems that victories are much much harder to win, and past gains more difficult to defend.

This course will grapple with these questions by looking at the forms of exploitation and oppression that exist in society and the means by which the power structure acts to limit and contain our struggles. The course will move towards a discussion of how our movements can overcome the factors that hold them back and to fight to win!

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