CONTENTS

1. CALLS TO ACTION
2. EVENTS
3. ARTICLES

Oppose Bill C-9

Whereas:

– Section 2 (b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
– Section 2 (c) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees freedom of peaceful assembly;
– Section 1 (e) of the Canadian Bill of Rights guarantees freedom of assembly and association;
– Article 12:1 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples upholds the right of Indigenous peoples to practise their own ceremonies, such as the Round Dance, in public spaces;
– Organizations including the Canadian Civil Liberties Association have opposed Bill C-9 and related legislation as a threat to democratic institutions and processes, unrelated to the curtailment of hate speech; and
– Section 319 of Canada’s Criminal Code already names public or wilful incitement of hatred or antisemitism as indictable offences

We, the undersigned, citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the House of Commons to 1. Oppose Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, and any future limitation of the right to protest…

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Flyer for better transit

When: Thursday, March 19th, 5:30pm (also Saturday, March 21st at 2pm)
Where: Bathurst Station

We’ll be handing out flyers and talking to riders at Bathurst Station about the federal by-election and advocate to the by-election candidates on how they can take action to call on the federal government to invest in a better TTC. No experience required, just show up!

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Concert for Marcelo Puente

When: Friday, March 20th, 7pm
Where: Transac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave

An evening to celebrate the life and legacy of Marcelo Puente.

For those familiar with the Chilean solidarity community in Toronto, you may know of Marcello Puente who passed away recently. He performed years ago at the fabled Trojan Horse Cafe and, of course, at various events marking the anniversary of the 1973 coup.

Featuring: Jeronimo Acuña, Constanza Duran, Nano Valverde, Nancy White, Claudio Saldivia, Fotis Tubanos and members of Companeros, Heather Chetwynd, Alejandra Alvarado, Oriana Barbato, Stefanos Xatzistefani, Ken Kakoullis, Sikuris St. Lawrence, Juan Dino Toledo, Pablo Gutierrez, Hector Alvarado, George Vasiliou, and more…

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Justice for Hassan Diab

When: March 20th, 8pm

Hear from Professor Hassan Diab and his lawyer, Don Bayne, about how Diab experienced two decades of injustice and imprisonment for a crime he did not commit. Learn more about how you can become involved in the campaign.

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Performance: “Two Birds One Stone”

When: Saturday, March 21st, 2pm
Where: Small World Centre, 180 Shaw St.

When Palestinian theatre maker Rimah Jabr moved to Toronto she became friends with Natasha Greenblatt, a Jewish Canadian playwright. They decided to make a play together… and it’s mostly true. Two Birds One Stone asks complicated questions about identity, privilege, and the search for home. First created in 2016, Natasha and Rimah are now returning to their autofictional play with the support of director, Guillermo Verdecchia, and Common Boots Theatre. What does it mean to tell these stories, together, in the face of genocide?

Tickets are free, but please register here (in person and zoom).

Unblock Cuba

When: March 21st, 3pm
Where: 24 Cecil St

US threats to impose tariffs on any other country that sends oil to Cuba has so far impeded Mexico.

Join this evening of solidarity.

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Labour Zionism and the struggle for Palestine

When: March 22nd, 1pm

Forum with labour activists and academics, Dan Freeman-Maloy, Larry Haiven and Elizabeth Ha, to discuss the history of Zionist organizing in Canada, including in the labour movement, and how this informs Labour for Palestine’s organizing today.

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Defend Our Schools

When: March 23rd, 11:30am
Where: Queen’s Park

When education fails children with disabilities, it fails everyone. Autistic students are the canary in the coal mine, warning us of the accelerating collapse of Ontario’s public education system.

Join the Ontario Autism Coalition as they head to Queen’s Park to demand that the Ford government repeal Bill 33 and stop the underfunding of education and related social services.

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Democratic Socialism and Marxism

When: Monday March 23rd, 4pm
Where: York University, Ross Bldg S701

Booklaunch: Analytical Marxism and Democratic Socialism in the 21st Century. Revisiting G.A. Cohen

Discussion with editors Ben Burgis and Matt McManus, and contributors Lesley Jacobs and Christine Sypnowich.

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Countering Hate By Building Worker Power

When: March 23rd, 7pm
Where: USW Hall, 25 Cecil St

Join the Toronto & York Region Labour Council, the Urban Alliance on Race Relations, Community Solidarity Toronto, and allies from Toronto City Council and community in an important discussion to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

Following years of rising racist, xenophobic, and hateful sentiments and movements in Canada and the world over, this year’s IDERD will focus on unifying working people of all backgrounds around a common platform which builds worker power and rejects hate.

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Hands Off Our Education

When: March 24rd, 1:30pm
Where: Queen’s Park

Join CFS Ontario // FCÉÉ Ontario, CUPE Ontario, and Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) (outside of working hours), as Ontarians say NO to the cuts, NO to privatization – and YES to supporting students.

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The Radical Labour of Care

When: Tuesday March 24th, 2pm
Where: George Brown Polytechnic, 200 King St. E., St James Campus, Room SJA 455E

How can we reimagine the systems that continue to fail the city’s most vulnerable people through radical approaches to care? In an increasingly hostile and unaffordable city where housing, healthcare, and other basic needs are increasingly inaccessible, this Transformation Café explores the everyday/night labour of care work through decolonial and intersectional feminist perspectives.

Featuring Claire Dion Fletcher, an Indigenous midwife, leader, and educator; Lorraine Lam, a crisis outreach worker, case manager, and advocate in Toronto’s Downtown East; and Grissel Orellana, the Program Director of the Latinx Womyn’s Program at the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape, this conversation will examine how panelists intervene in state cruelty by identifying the gaps and harms within systems that claim to provide care, and how to build practices of mutual aid, community safety, and collective survival.

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FilmSocial: Norma Rae

When: March 25th, 7pm (Doors open at 6:30pm.)
Where: Eyesore Cinema, 1176 Bloor St W

The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is very pleased to present Norma Rae (1979) as the next film in the FilmSocial series of socialist film screenings.

Set in a small-town Southern textile mill, the film follows Norma Rae (Sally Field), a courageous worker and single mother, who becomes politically active in her workplace after meeting Reuben Warshowsky (Ron Liebman), a charismatic New York labour organizer who arrives in town to confront crushing employment conditions at the factory and help workers form their own union. After her father dies suddenly on the mill floor, Norma is thrown deeper into the struggle, risking her job, relationships, and community standing to confront the bosses and organise her often-reluctant coworkers.

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Filmscreening: The Vow From Hiroshima

When: March 26th, 4pm
Where: Trinity College, 6 Hoskin Ave

A moving documentary that reveals the horrors of the atomic bombings in Japan through the lens of a survivor.

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Class Strength in North America Today

When: March 26th, 6:30pm

Join us for a virtual panel discussion between Jay Youngdahl, Sam Gindin, and Adolf Reed Jr. on contemporary issues of class division and strength in North America.

The trio will discuss: where do divisions in the working class come from and who benefits from them? How can solidarity be built between workers across sectors today?

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Amnesty International Toronto Regional Meeting

When: Saturday, April 18, 2026, 10:00am – 5:30pm
Where: Oakham House, Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU)
Tickets: $25 (lunch provided)

Join Amnesty International Toronto Organization (AITO) for our upcoming Regional Meeting on Saturday, April 18, 2026. It’ll be an informative, energizing day with opportunities to learn more about human rights issues, take action, network, and more!

Our keynote speaker will be Alex Neve, former Amnesty International Canada – English Section Secretary General and 2025 Massey Lecturer. We’ll have panel discussions with special guests, Chief Na’Moks and Jesse Stoeppler, Wet’suwet’en First Nation, on land defence and Indigenous rights; and Murray Klippenstein and Cory Wanless, sharing the incredible story of the successful, precedent-setting lawsuits against Hudbay Minerals; a play reading of “The Last Walk of Adolfo Ich”; and lots of petitions and actions.

Registration is now open. The deadline to register is March 28, 2026. Tickets are limited, so don’t wait!

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Closing the Loophole on Canada’s Complicity in Genocide and War Crimes

By Laurel M. Owns

On Wednesday, March 11, MPs will vote on Bill C-233, the No More Loopholes Act. This bill, which is sponsored by NDP MP Jenny Kwan and jointly seconded by Liberal MPs Fares Al Soud and Nate Erskine-Smith, NDP MP Leah Gazan, and Green MP Elizabeth May, would prevent Canadian arms manufacturers from taking advantage of a ‘loophole’ that currently allows them to ship weapons and weapons parts to Israel, as well as numerous other countries, through the US.

Source: The Bullet No. 3269

Trolling the Law Books to Find New Ways to Shut Down Critics of Israel

By Larry Haiven

Outrage and resistance are growing against a vicious campaign to muzzle political speech and action. That campaign aims to silence and punish public criticism of Israel’s actions, especially the genocide in Gaza and the ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. Desperate at their inability any longer to defend Israel’s indefensible activities through traditional propaganda techniques (Hebrew word “Hasbara”), Canadian pro-Israel organizations and the lawyers who work with them have turned to attempting outright silencing (Hebrew word “Hashtakah”). We might call the instigators of Hashtakah Mashtikim.

Source: The Bullet No. 3270

Twin Threats to Public Medicare

By Ontario Health Coalition

The threat to the future of Public Medicare in Ontario and across the country is at an all-time high. After passing legislation to privatize hospitals, the United Conservative Party (UCP) – under the leadership of Premier Danielle Smith in Alberta – passed “Bill 11” in December. The new law creates the legal framework to privatize healthcare, ending single-tier Public Medicare as a national project, enabling doctors to charge patients directly for healthcare and bill the public health system at the same time. Central to the plan, the law creates a market of private for-profit health insurance companies. Doctors choose which patients are charged and for what services. If patients can’t pay, they have to try to find a doctor who won’t charge (or wait/go without care). Bottom line: this legislation is the most direct and grievous attack on Public Medicare in Canada since its inception.

Source: The Bullet No. 3271

International Women’s Day (IWD 2026, Toronto)

RISE AND RESIST! UNITING FOR A NEW WORLD!

Since 1978, IWD Toronto has united diverse communities in a powerful march and rally. Together, we honour women’s struggles, celebrate victories, and demand a more just and equal future. Recorded in Toronto, Saturday, March 7, 2026.

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