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Jan 14, 2026 - Performance: The Battle for a Shorter Working Day

When: January 14, 15, and 16th, 7:30pm
Where: Steelworkers' Hall, 25 Cecil St

There was a time when workers sweated through ten or twelve-hour working days. How did we end up with more time off the job? By unions demanding it, again and again.

It all began in 1872. That year a movement for a nine-hour day burst onto the public stage in cities and towns across central Canada. Toronto was the site of one of the most famous incidents in that campaign when the printers went on strike against almost all the city's newspapers.

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Jan 13, 2026 - Indigenous Perspectives on the Global Critical Minerals

When: Tuesday, January 13th, 10am

The first webinar in this series will bring together five Indigenous speakers from around the world to discuss global, regional, and local fights for justice related to the global push for "critical minerals" extraction. Panelists will discuss specific harms and rights violations they are facing, what a "just" energy transition might look like, and what civil society groups working on related issues should know.

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