CONTENTS

1. CALLS TO ACTION
2. EVENTS
3. ARTICLES
4. EMPLOYMENT

End Corruption; Fund the City

In the wake of a corruption scandal, linking Toronto Police Services to data breaches, organized crime, drug trafficking and murder plots, TPS is set to receive a budget increase of $93.8-million.

The budget committee has tied Toronto to 5 consecutive years of increased funding for the police as crime falls and corruption reins, even as everyday Torontonians struggle to make ends meet, and essential city services are shuttered and underfunded.

Toronto’s police budget is made up of a staggering 90% in salaries including officers who are suspended with pay. Tax payer funds go towards police propaganda supporting budget increases all while Torontonians struggle to house, feed and care for themselves.

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Community Drop-in

When: February 12th, 5:30pm
Where: 720 Bathurst St (formerly CSI)

The City of Toronto has purchased 720 Bathurst St., the former site of the Centre for Social Innovation (CSI), to provide essential services and culturally appropriate supports for Indigenous people experiencing homelessness as they work toward permanent housing.

The shelter is part of the City’s Council-approved Homelessness Services Capital Infrastructure Strategy, which aims to open up to 20 new shelters citywide by 2033.

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Black History Month: Being Black

When: Thursday February 12th, 6pm

We’re living through a global shift, whether culturally, politically, economically or environmentally, but what does that mean for the Black community?

Everyone is invited to join us in a discussion on the importance of acknowledging the impact our choices and actions make, and the continued work being done to end anti-Black racism.

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Booklaunch: Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry

When: February 12th, 7pm
Where: Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave

Join us as we celebrate the launch of Notes Toward a Digital Workers Inquiry, a brand new book full of first-hand accounts from the tech sector’s resurgent labor movement as artificial intelligence gains ground in every facet of our lives.

As tech billionaires align with Trump, they are also launching a renewed assault on labor through artificial intelligence and alienating tactics. But for now, it still takes workers to make fortunes for the bosses, and collective action is again on the rise. Previously thought to be “unorganizable,” these workers are part of a North American movement that is reaffirming faith in collective revolutionary action through new methods of organizing, new ways of association, and a new synthesis of traditional labor activities with original research.

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Virtual screening: Teresita’s Dream

When: Thursday, February 12th, 8pm

This documentary tells the story of Cuban scientist Teresita Rodríguez, whose journey to find a treatment for Alzheimer’s was inspired by her personal experience caring for her mother.

The film — which is not yet available to stream anywhere online — was produced by Belly of the Beast, an award-winning team that is a collaboration between Cuba and U.S.-based journalists and filmmakers.

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To Palestine, with Love

When: Friday February 13th, 7:30pm

Just over two years ago police raided the homes of the Indigo 11, attempting to scare all those organizing for a free Palestine. Two years later, we’re still fighting and we’ve learned a lot along the way!

Come and hear our thoughts about what the Indigo folks have learned from these two years of struggle on policing of protest, organizing amidst repression and the struggle for a free Palestine. Then we will dance.

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Toronto Palestine Film Festival Winter Gathering

When: February 14th, 7pm

Spend an evening with stories of Palestinian love, resilience, and everyday life under occupation. Support TPFF’s mission to centre Palestinian voices through film, conversation, and community. Reception will be followed by storytelling, live music and short films.

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Introduction to Socialism

When: Sundays, February 15 to April 5

Curious about socialism? Interested about if it is really possible and taking a sober look at the problems it will face? Want to discuss how to begin affecting change right now?

In these uncertain and dangerous times, The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is a space to listen, discuss and challenge the contemporary relevancy of socialism.

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Close Loopholes Now

When: Tuesday February 17th, 4pm
Where: 1202 Bloor St W

We are forcing MP Julie Dzerowicz to pick a side: keep arming warm crimes and genocide or vote yes on Bill C-233! Join us on February 17 @ 4PM at her constituency office on 1202 Bloor St W as part of the National Day of Action to Close the Looopholes Now!

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Close Loopholes Now

When: Tuesday February 17th, 5pm
Where: 1028 Queen St E

This will be a family-friendly event for the community, including speakers from various groups and live art!

Join us in solidarity against Julie Dabrusin’s decision to vote NO on the No More Loopholes Act. No peace for ‘the Minister of Environmental Destruction,’ we demand Climate Justice now.

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Canadian Seamen’s Union (CSU)

When: Tuesday, February 17th, 6pm

What happens when a militant, democratic union takes on powerful shipping interests and wins? What happens when those interests try to take their power back?

Join us on Tuesday, Feb. 17 at 6:00 p.m. (special start time) for a gripping look at the rise (and demise) of the Canadian Seamen’s Union, and the explosive 1949 strike that shook waterfronts from Halifax to Vancouver.

We’re thrilled to welcome Benjamin Anderson (University College Dublin), who will be joining us live from Dublin (11:00 p.m. his time!) to share his research and insights.

We’ll also screen excerpts from Betrayed, the powerful documentary by Elaine Brière, which captures the voices and legacy of the seamen who fought back.

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U.S. healthcare comes to Canada

When: February 18th, 12pm

Drs. David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler are Distinguished Professors of Public Health at the City University of New York’s Hunter College AND co-founders of Physicians for a National Health Program, which advocates for single-payer healthcare in the United States.

They join Andrew Longhurst, Senior Health Policy Researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, in a discussion of Alberta’s Bill 11 and the dangers it poses to public health care in Canada. They expose Bill 11’s creation of a private health insurance market for publicly insured services under the Canada Health Act and its encouragement of US investment interests to establish a for-profit health care system in Canada.

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Oil, Capitalism, and Climate

When: Friday February 27th, 7pm
Where: College Street United Church, 454 College St

All are invited to join us for the annual Leo Panitch Winter Lecture! We are honoured to welcome esteemed author and academic Adam Hanieh back to Toronto to deliver this year’s talk. This event marks the fourth edition of the school’s annual lecture, held in the memory of the late Leo Panitch.

Adam Hanieh will discuss how understanding oil’s place in world capitalism is key to grasping geopolitical dynamics and global finance, reviving vital climate struggles, and challenging the structural interests underpinning the system itself. He will also explore the connections between our fossil-fuel centred world and the contemporary politics of Palestine and the wider Middle East.

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Fascist Aesthetics Has Come Back with MAGA Politics

By Henry A. Giroux

What is most revealing about the MAGA aesthetic is its studied ugliness. On one side stands the grotesque excess of beauty-pageant femininity, plastic smiles, puffy lips, lacquered beach-wave hair, sharpened jawlines, and a hyper-sexualized nostalgia masquerading as “traditional values.” US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem exemplifies this aesthetic as a badge of cruelty. Carefully styling herself in a Barbie-doll register of hyper-femininity, she delivers media performances staged in front of prisons and other sites associated with the punishment and terrorization of immigrants. The effect is chilling: a glossy, pornographic aesthetic fused with images of confinement, state violence, and racialized cruelty. Beauty here does not soften power; it aestheticizes domination and makes authoritarian violence appear natural, even glamorous.

Source: The Bullet No. 3258

The San Carlos Declaration: The founding declaration of ‘Nuestra América’

Reaffirming the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, including the sovereign equality of states, the prohibition on the use of force, and the sacred right of all peoples to self-determination. Recognizing these as the principles that animated Simón Bolívar in his struggle for a free continent, José de San Martín in his vision of an independent and sovereign Americas, Benito Juárez in pursuit of lasting peace between its nations, and Jose Martí in his call to defend it from imperialist intervention.

Source: The Bullet No. 3259

Organizing Amazon: An Interview with Amazon Worker Solidarity

Milla Vodello is the pseudonym of an organizer with the Amazon Worker Solidarity (AWS) group in Toronto. Amazon Worker Solidarity is an independent grassroots organization of trade unionists, community activists, researchers, and workers at Amazon who recognize the fight against Amazon must be led by Amazon workers. It serves as a research and communications hub that disseminates analysis, research, and knowledge to support organizing happening on the ground at Amazon facilities in Ontario. Amazon is at the forefront of the current technological assault against workers, and since the mid-2010s, has been a core target for labour politics throughout Europe and North America.

Source: The Bullet No. 3260

TEA: Executive Director

Attention non-profit leaders and changemakers: The Toronto Environmental Alliance, a nationally recognized leader at the intersection of local environmental advocacy, social inclusion and well being is recruiting for a new permanent, full-time Executive Director to lead the organization into its next phase.

TEA offers competitive, non-profit compensation. This is a full-time position with a starting salary of $104,000 per annum plus benefits.

Review of applications will begin on February 19, 2026 and continue until the position is filled.

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