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Oct 29, 2026 - Rally for Childcare

When: October 29th, 12pm
Where: Queen's Park, South Lawn

Ontario has signed a four-year extension to their child care agreement, but advocates are slamming the new plan for freezing wage improvements, stalling fee reductions, and making no new commitments to make affordable child care available for more families. The Ford government is finally back at Queen's Park at the end of October, and we'll be ready! Join the OCBCC, the AECEO, the OFL, CUPE Ontario, Parents for Child Care, and more of our members, partners and allies for a rally on Thursday, October 29th, at noon on the South Lawn of Queen's Park. We'll be calling on the Ford government to immediately deliver raise ECE wages, and deliver on affordability, decent work, and end the waitlist crisis for families.

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Oct 29, 2026 - Building Canada Strong Act and the right to strike

When: October 29th, 3:30pm

The Supreme Court of Canada has declared workers' right to strike constitutionally-protected. But Mark Carney's "Building Canada Strong" Act proposes to make it easier for the Minister of Labour to intervene in the federal jurisdiction.

Stephanie Ross is an associate professor at the School of Labour Studies, McMaster University. Her research and teaching engage the theme of how ordinary people make social change through collective action in the face of powerful forces to the contrary.

Eric Tucker is a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. He has published extensively on the history and current state of labour and employment law.

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Oct 29, 2026 - Booklaunch: Austerity and Resistance

When: Thursday October 29th, 4pm
Where: York University, 590 Kaneff Tower

With author Paul Kellogg.

- Judy Rebick, author of Heroes in My Head (House of Anansi Press, 2018)
- Esther Reiter, author of A Future Without Hate or Need (Between the Lines, 2016)
- Herman Rosenfeld, retired national staff, Canadian Auto Workers (Unifor)
- Moderated by Phil Henderson, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at GLRC.

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Oct 30, 2026 - Peace Train Canada

When: October 30, 31
Where: Ottawa

Oct 30, 8:30am -12:30pm: Community Dialogue on Peace Education, St. Andrew's Church. The Canadian Institute for Conflict Resolution (CICR) will pose question(s) emerging from the Oct 29 Workshop and facilitate dialogue on how to increase peace education in Canadian schools.

Oct 30, 7-9pm, Panel Presentation, Christ Church Cathedral, 414 Sparks St. Title: "Canada's Military Spending Spree: The Real Cost to Canadians." Panelists: Alex Neve, International Human Rights Lawyer; Sandra Wiens, Government Relations Representative, Canadian Friends Service Committee; Jennifer Pedersen, Policy and Legislative Advisor to NDP MPs; Walter Dorn, Professor of Defence Studies, Royal Military College and Canadian Forces College.

Oct 31, 11am-3pm: Rally for Peace and Peacekeeping, Walking from the Peacekeeping Monument to Rally on Parliament Hill.

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