CSJ Newsletter
June 11, 2026
CALLS TO ACTION
Support workers at OXFAM CanadaWe are members of CUPE 2722 who work at OXFAM Canada. We have been engaged in negotiations with our employer, but despite our commitment and dedication to OXFAM's values of fighting inequality and patriarchy to end poverty and injustice, we are facing an employer that has refused to move on key issues that reflect not just fair compensation, but feminist principles the employer claims to support. We are now facing a strike deadline and need your support to reach a fair deal.
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EVENTS
OPSEU Strike Support
When: while the strike is on
There will be a picket line beginning at 7am each day at Sistering, at 962 Bloor Street.
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What do Canadians really think about climate change?
When: June 11th, 12pm
Do some Canadians really believe climate change is a hoax?
It's hard to believe, but in 2025 this was a legitimate question for up to 34 per cent of Canadians. It's a deeply worrying trend that speaks to shifting national conversations around economic security and national unity. And it's put Canadians in a double bind: Canadians support cleaner energy at home, but feel the country's broader economic future—thanks in part to sustained political and industrial messaging—depends on fossil fuels.
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Keep Water Public
When: June 11th, 7pm
This meeting is part of CUPE Ontario's Keep Water Public campaign and is intended for executives of locals representing Regional Water/Wastewater Workers. We recognize there are significant legislative changes happening in Ontario related to the ownership, governance, and delivery of water and wastewater infrastructure and services. Thess include Bill 98 and Bill 100, alongside the creation of Public Water Wastewater Corporations. Despite the name, these changes open the door to increased privatization, fragmentation, and loss of public accountability within Ontario's water systems.
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UJPO at 100
When: June 11th, 7pm (doors open at 6:30pm)
Where: Trinity St. Paul's United Church, 427 Bloor St W
The United Jewish People's Order, Canada's Home for the Jewish Left, is thrilled to announce our official Centenary Celebration Event: Joy and Struggle – 100 years of UJPO!
To properly mark this incredible milestone, we have put together a truly amazing show, featuring, live and in-person:
· Author and internationally lauded activist, Naomi Klein
· The return of the legendary Toronto Jewish Folk Choir
· From Vancouver, punk-folk legend Geoff Berner
· From Montreal, beloved singer-songwriter Rae Spoon
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Reclaim the Game
When: June 12th, 2pm
Where: Queen and Gwynne (west of Dufferin)
Who: You, who loves football/soccer and hates FIFA and corporate interests.
What: 4v4, 10-15mins games.
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Indigenous and Workers of Colour Conference
When: Saturday, June 13th, Time: 8:30AM (reg); 9:30AM (conference)
Where:: IBEW Hall, 1377 Lawrence Av E
Cost: $100 per registrant
The annual Indigenous Workers of Colour Conference – a joint project by the Labour Council's staff team and Equity Committee – is just weeks away!
This is an event a space to learn and connect. This year's theme is Think Global; Act Local: Our Voices, Our Choices, Our Lives. Come join us for a day of education, training, good speakers, good food and an overall good time!
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Open It Up
When: Saturday June 13th, 1pm
Where: Meet in Allan Gardens (Carlton & Sherbourne)
214-230 Sherbourne has sat vacant for 18 years. This is a disgrace in a neighbourhood that desperately needs housing. Kingsett Capital, a multi-billion dollar private equity company, intends to build yet another luxury condo on the site.
Social housing should be created on this land. To drive this home, right in the middle of the FIFA World Cup, 230 Fightback is going to march to 214-230 Sherbourne to use the site as a place where local people can gather and watch the match between Qatar and Switzerland at 3.00 PM.
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Climate Talks for Everyone
When: June 14th, 2pm
Climate talks for everyone presents monthly across the globe talks from across the planet on the climate problem and solutions.
Katja Kircher, Associate Professor, presents on future mobility, “Hot take – cycling research is in fact pro car”. Much of the research around cycling research is concerned with incremental improvements to cycling. However, the car-centric system remains untouched. This is illustrated with examples. Ostacles for transitional research are discussed.
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Iran and the Bomb
When: June 15th, 5pm
Where: 60 Lowther Ave
Cesar Jaramillo is Executive Director at SANE Policy Institute, Chair of the Canadian Pugwash Group. His work focuses on arms control and disarmament, multilateral diplomacy, emerging military technologies, and the protection of civilians in armed conflict. He is former Executive Director of Project Ploughshares and has engaged broadly in UN and treaty-based processes.
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Honouring Patronella Verna Johnston
When: Jun 16th, 7pm
Elder and mentor to hundreds of Aboriginal youth in Toronto and her home community of Neyaashiinigmiing at Cape Croker, Ontario. Verna was a core volunteer in the building of many Indigenous NGOs in Toronto, including the Native Canadian Centre of Toronto, Anduhyaun women's shelter and Wigwamen housing agency.
The event will feature readings from Verna's book,
Tales of Nokomis by Indigenous activists from the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).
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This Mine Stops Here
When: June 16th, 7pm
Join us as we celebrate nine continuous years of peaceful resistance of the Xinka People in Eastern Guatemala. Their valiant efforts and organization strategies have successfully kept the Escobal Mine closed in their territories since 2017, as they exercise their right to self-determination and territorial autonomy. This event will be an opportunity to learn more about how they have worked together despite efforts of criminalization and persecution, while also honoring the nine-year milestone of their continued resistance.
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Labour and the Fight Against Trumpism
When: June 17th, 9am
The Trump administration isn't just America's problem; it's everyone's. The consequences of Donald Trump's governance extend far beyond US borders, and so must resistance. This online panel, hosted by the Global Labour University, brings together labor and social movement activists from the US and abroad to ask: what does genuine international solidarity look like in this moment, and how do we build it?
Speakers: James Hernández, Frank Hoffer, Eric Blanc, Julia Soul, Meagan Day.
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Mask off Maersk
When: June 17th, 12pm
Two years ago, the Palestinian Youth Movement launched Mask off Maersk: a campaign to expose and end logistic giant Maersk's enablement of the genocide of the Palestinian people. Since then, our work has grown into the People's Embargo for Palestine, a movement taking action in pursuit of a global arms embargo against Israel. Join us on Thursday, June 17th to learn about our latest reports and campaigns, from Italian and French shipments of military components to Israel, to crude oil flowing through Turkey.
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Know Your Rights Workshop
When: Wednesday, June 17th, 6pm
Where: WAC, 720 Spadina Ave, Unit 202
Have you ever had a problem at your job? Join our free and confidential workshop to learn about your rights, how to protect yourself, and how to take action if you're having an issue at work!
workersactioncentre.org
Water Privatization?
When: June 18th, 6:30pm
Where: Vic Johnston Comm. Centre, 335 Church St, Mississauga
Join KeepWaterPublic.ca in Mississauga for a town hall on the future of Ontario's water. Hear directly from experts about how new legislation could impact public control of our water systems.
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Booklaunch: Renovictions
When: June 18th, 6:30pm
Where: Queen Books, 914 Queen St E
Countering the narrative that the renovicting landlords are just a few bad apples acting in bad faith, this book exposes the structures of displacement enabled by the state and perpetuated by rental housing reforms.
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Colonialism, Capitalism, and Canada
When: June 20th, 7pm
Where: College Street United Church
The Leo Panitch School is thrilled to host renowned historian and author Bryan Palmer for a celebration of his three-volume history of
Canada, Capitalism, and Colonialism!
This monumental work offers readers access to a clear-eyed understanding of Canada's past, explaining how recently-acknowledged dark facts about our history are tied to the creation of a richly endowed, wealthy but very unequal first world country.
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ARTICLES
People's Summit for a Fossil Free Future
By Fossil Free Future
The People's Summit for a Fossil Free Future is the civil society counterpart to the historic First International Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, taking place in Santa Marta from 24-29 April 2026. The People's Summit was held from the 24 to 26 of April and serves as a critical space for self-organized civil society to unify our demands and build collective power from the ground up. It is based on a global process for deepening and widening broad movement consensus on a more comprehensive agenda for a rapid, equitable, and just energy transition, culminating in the adoption of three key papers: the Principles; the Demands; the People's Roadmap.
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A Tale of Two YMCAs (Part One)
By Larry Haiven
This is a tale of two YMCAs in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Actually, it's the same YMCA, but divided by time. One in 2025, failing in its community outreach by succumbing to pressure groups; the other, thirty years before, establishing a gallant stand on the same issue. Unfortunately, that 1995 project has been all but forgotten. That story begs to be told. What was the Y's shameful act in 2025? We'll deal with that first and then turn to a very different Y three decades earlier.
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The Bullet No. 3296
A Tale of Two YMCAs (Part two)
By Larry Haiven
Thirty years ago, we saw a different YMCA. Despite the then miniscule Muslim and Arab presence in Nova Scotia, the Halifax YMCA launched a daring and unique program in the mid-90s. The program was a partnership with the Y's counterpart in Palestine, something almost unprecedented for the organization at the time. The project was an exchange of personnel between Halifax's YMCA and the Y on the Nablus Road in East Jerusalem and its satellites in Beit Sahour (a Christian suburb of Bethlehem), Jericho, and Ramallah. (It also had a branch in Gaza, since closed.)
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The Bullet No. 3297
SR26: American Empire in Crisis? Palestine, Trade Wars, and “World Order”
Building upon more than a half century of sustained analysis of the evolving political economy of contemporary capitalism – and in particular the challenges it poses to the left –
Socialist Register 2026: Late-Stage Capitalism? Accumulation in the Ruins puzzles through the rubble left behind after decades of rampant neoliberalism.
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