CONTENTS

1. CALLS TO ACTION
2. EVENTS
3. ARTICLES

Protect the Public Post Office!

For over 150 years, Canada Post has kept Canadians connected. Its role in our communities remains as important as ever. Today, its future is at risk.

Canada Post is talking about cuts to services, closing post offices, ending door-to-door delivery, outsourcing jobs to private franchises, and even eyeing privatization.

Postal workers went on strike last year to defend their rights but also to save a cherished public service. Though the strike was halted by the previous government, no new collective agreements have been reached.

Tell your member of parliament to stand up and protect our public postal service, and its jobs, before it’s too late.

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Support OCEU/CUPE 1750

Premier Ford won’t act unless his MPPs feel the heat. Take 2 minutes to demand your MPP end the WSIB strike.

The WSIB strike won’t end until Premier Ford’s government stops interfering in negotiations. MPPs have the power to pressure Ford—but they’ll only act if they hear from YOU.

OCEU CUPE 1750 workers are the backbone of Ontario’s workplace safety net. They guide injured workers through trauma, ensure families get support, and help people return to work. But with workloads doubling, training slashed in half, and $14.5M sent to Texas, they’re stretched to the breaking point.

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Indigenous Film Festival

When: June 3-9; and June 9-15

Join us to celebrate the milestone 25th anniversary imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival.

imaginenative.org

Mask Off Maersk Power Hour

When: June 12th, 3pm

Join us for a power hour to delve into the findings of the new report, “Maersk’s Central Role in Manufacturing and Maintaining F-35 Fighter Jets for Israel.” The report uncovers how global shipping giant Maersk has been key to transporting F-35 components – including the wings – from manufacturers to Lockheed Martin’s facility in Fort Worth, Texas, and ultimately to Israel.

These jets have played a central role in Israel’s military operations in Gaza, raising urgent questions about corporate complicity in alleged war crimes.

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Bill 5 Explained

When: Thursday June 12th, 5:30pm (registration and mingling); 6pm featured talks
Where: Centre for Social Innovation – Annex, 720 Bathurst St.

Join us for an important and inspiring evening as we explore the impacts of Bill 5. This sweeping legislation threatens environmental protections, Indigenous rights and democratic accountability in Ontario.

What’s at stake? Everything from irreplaceable biodiversity to the basic rules that protect our wild species and wild spaces.

You will hear from Ontario Nature’s new executive director, Andrés Jiménez Monge, and Indigenous Knowledge Holders Becky Big Canoe from Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation and Miptoon from the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation about how we’re rising to meet this challenge and how you can be part of the growing movement to defend nature and justice in Ontario.

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Resistance and Revolution

When: June 13-14, 2025
Where: Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil St.

The Marxism 2025 conference, “Resistance & Revolution – Fighting back in an age of Trump” is two days of talks and panels about ideas to change the world. Join us in Toronto and online for discussion on the global crisis, its causes, and strategies for resistance and revolution.

Sessions include: Building Resistance across Borders with Learie Charles, Novjot Salaria, an eyewitness to the LA uprising, Virginia Rodino & Carolyn Egan | Trump, Trade Wars and Capitalist Crisis with Joseph Choonara | The NDP and the Crisis of Social Democracy with Matthew Green & Ritch Whyman | Disaster Capitalism, Climate Crisis and Indigenous Sovereignty with Mi’kmaq Grassroots Grandmother and water protector Dorene Bernard and Brian Champ.

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Emergency Action

When: June 13th, 6pm
Where: Bay and Front St

The international march to Gaza is being blocked by Egypt, we must raise our voices! As Gaza starves and Zionist bombs fall across the region, people worldwide are marching to break the siege.

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Outreach at Dufferin and Rogers Road

When: June 13th, 6pm
Where: Southeast Corner at Dufferin and Rogers Rd

Let’s show up for Dufferin and Rogers! We’ll be door knocking to talk with residents about the proposed RapidTO transit lanes. This is a crucial moment to build support and we need your help to make sure voices from the community are heard loud and clear. Join us for an evening of meaningful conversations!

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No Arms In the Arts

When: June 13th-15th
Where: OK* Studios. 468 Queen St W; Cinecycle. 129 Spadina Ave

Facemasks are strongly recommended at all indoor events; KN95 masks and sanitizer provided. All donations are going towards venue and equipment costs and future organizing.

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No Tyrants

When: June 14th, 12pm
Where: across the street from the US Consulate, 300 University Ave

Join Democrats Abroad Toronto, concerned US and Canadian citizens and allies around the world on June 14th, 2025, as we stand up for democracy as part of the global No Kings/No Tyrants protest movement!

The Trump administration will be throwing a military parade for Donald Trump’s birthday. In protest, Democrats around the world are gathering to demonstrate what we believe in: that democracy matters and the United States does not belong to a wannabe king. On June 14, we’re showing up everywhere Donald Trump isn’t–to say no to tyrants, no to dictators, no to oligarchs, and no to autocrats.

democratsabroad.org

Peoples’ March for Housing Justice

When: June 14th, 1pm
Where: 214-230 Sherbourne St (Dundas & Sherbourne)

Community rally, lunch, and march!

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BDS Leafletting

When: Every Saturday, 1-2pm
Where: Dufferin Mall, 900 Dufferin St (south entrance by Marshalls)

End the Occupation! Build the Boycott! This is your friendly reminder of D4P’s weekly BDS leafleting taking place every Saturday from 1 to 2 pm at Dufferin Mall. Meet outside south entrance to mall, 900 Dufferin Street by Marshalls. No prior experience necessary! We can buddy you up if it’s your first time.

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Day of Action

When: June 14th, 2:30pm
Where: Scotiabank, 992 Bloor St W

Scotiabank funds Genocide – day of action.

Scotiabank invests $268,000,000 in Elbit Systems. Elbit Systems is Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer. Scotiabank owns 2.5% of Elbit Systems’ outstanding shares, making them among Elbit’s top 5 shareholders. Demand Scotiabank fully divest from Elbit Now!

sbfundsgenocide.ca

International Domestic Workers Day

When: June 16th (register for time/location)

Join care workers in calling the new Immigration Minister, Lena Diab, to demand the reopening of the Care Worker Program — without caps and without unfair requirements.

Care workers look after Canadian children, the elderly, and the sick. Many have left their own families behind to do this essential work.

For decades, care workers have fought for permanent residency and basic rights — and they won. But the government responded with a limited, unfair program full of barriers and a cap on applications.

migrantworkersalliance.org

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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Fund Our Schools – phone zap

When: Tuesday, June 17th, 4:30pm

We want those responsible – the Ford government and his Conservative MPPs – to know that they need to fund our schools adequately and we want trustees to know that our communities will not stand for any more cuts.

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Roza Nozari, All the Parts We Exile

When: Tuesday, June 17th, 7pm
Where: Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge St

Roza Nozari (she/her) is a queer, Muslim, Iranian-Canadian writer, artist, and therapist based in Tkaronto. She joins us to launch her recently released memoir, All the Parts We Exile. The book traces her journey toward radical self-acceptance and of being exiled from her ancestral home. A heartfelt and insightful exploration of the author’s coming-of-age as the daughter of immigrants, her acceptance of her own queer sexuality and quest to understand her own world and attachments in contrast/connection with her mother’s distinct experience growing up in Iran.

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Grandmothers Against Genocide

When: June 18th, 8am
Where: Bay and Bloor St

Peaceful vigil for Gaza. You don’t have to be a grandmother to show your support.

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Policing Palestine

When: June 18th, 7pm

Hear from arrestees and Legal Support Committee members about the tactics used to criminalize the Palestine solidarity movement in Toronto.

This town hall will focus on the tactics used to criminalize the Palestine solidarity movement in Toronto, knowledge sharing through the experiences of those who have been involved in the penal process. Participants will learn the ways in which the penal system has been set up to make the process the punishment.

This is a hybrid event! In person tickets can be used to attend the town hall, location will be sent after registration.

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Blue Collar Empire

When: June 19th, 7pm

Webinar discussion and Q&A with author Jeff Schuhrke on his 2024 book Blue Collar Empire, with a focus on how the CIA used American unions to undermine workers at home and subvert democracy abroad — organized by People’s Voice newspaper and New Labour Press.

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Citizen Mercenaries and the Gaza Genocide

By Richard Westra

It is, of course, nice to see Canada, the UK and France finally developing a conscience over what multiple international institutions and prominent scholarly experts have concluded. That is, the Zionist colonial regime of Israel is committing the crime of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. After all, the evidence of murderous carnage perpetrated upon Gaza and its peoples is robust. Scientists for Global Responsibility show how weapons supplied by the above states, along with Germany and the United States (US), have not only resulted in explosive tonnage bombarding Gaza exceeding that of multiple Hiroshima bombings and destructive World War II campaigns against Hamburg, Cologne, and Dresden, but have produced a casualty count far above that estimated by besieged local authorities cited in mainstream presses.

Source: The Bullet No. 3146

Christopher Hill: Life and Legacy of a Radical Historian

By Ryan Breeden

Christopher Hill looms large in the landscape of British Marxist historiography, perhaps the indispensable historian of the English Revolution for generations on the Left. His name evokes dusty paperbacks passed around student circles, dense arguments about base and superstructure, and crucially, the recovery of England’s own revolutionary tradition – a past “turned upside down” by the common people. Michael Braddick’s new biography, Christopher Hill: The Life of a Radical Historian, offers a timely opportunity to reassess this complex figure, a man whose life spanned the tumultuous twentieth century and whose work sought to make sense of history, not as a pageant of kings and queens but rather as a terrain of class conflict and ideological struggle.

Source: The Bullet No. 3147

Stop European Funding for Israeli Institutions

Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, which has raged for over 19 months, has turned Gaza into hell on earth. Since Israel imposed a total blockade on March 2, 2025, and unilaterally resumed its military offensive in violation of the ceasefire agreement, over 2 million people have been facing the worst levels of hunger, starvation and disability imaginable, amidst relentless bombings. The level of death, destruction and human suffering is apocalyptic. The trickle of aid Israel allowed to enter on May 23 is just a camouflage to avert further international pressure. Ethnic cleansing looms behind the intensified attacks.

Source: The Bullet No. 3148

Rethinking Free Speech

Peter Ives is professor of political science at the University of Winnipeg. He is the author of Rethinking Free Speech (Fernwood, 2024). We need to rethink free speech to better address diverse goals from knowledge production to democratic participation and individual expression. Clashes over free speech rights and wrongs haunt public debates about the state of democracy, freedom and the future. While freedom of speech is recognized as foundational to democratic society, its meaning is persistently misunderstood and distorted.

Source: LeftStreamed