CONTENTS

1. CALLS TO ACTION
2. EVENTS
3. ARTICLES

Kars4Kids or Kars4Israel?

Another possible abuse of charitable registration which requires investigation to determine eligibility and compliance with Canada’s charities regulations.

It involves an organization named “Kars4Kids Canada” which operates a car donation service in Canada and provides tax-deductible receipts through a separate but related entity named “Oorah Charitable Organization” (807556071 RR0001). It appears that Kars4Kids Canada operates as an arm of a similar service and organization in the U.S., where Oorah Kiruv Rechokim, Inc., the U.S. religious organization, runs day camps exclusively for Jewish children and youth. Oorah/Kars4Kids was founded in 1994 in Lakewood, New Jersey, by Chaim Mintz, and is currently run by his son, Eliyahu Mintz, who is on the board of directors of the Oorah Charitable Organization in Canada.

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Mayworks

When: May 1 to May 31
Where: Various locations

The artists of this year’s festival engage with our world as it is. They bring us into the lives of workers, both local and international: a truck driver in Brampton, a health care worker in Thunder Bay, an activist in Montreal, a miner in Morocco, a sugar cane worker in the Dominican Republic, a guide in Palestine, and a contract worker in Mozambique.

Their works raise issues such as wage theft, labour misclassification, technological displacement, union busting, and incarceration as public policy. They also demonstrate how such issues are interwoven into a network of global supply chains, and how communities are organizing as agents of change.

Presented throughout the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, the diversity of works include live theatre, film, animation, installation, music, and pastry making.

Festival Program

Workers’ Open House

When: May 21st, 5:30pm
Where: The Hub, 2660 Eglinton Ave E

Join us at the Workers’ Open House to get your workers’ rights questions answered and learn what you can do to protect yourself at work. Refreshments will be provided!

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Workers Summit

When: May 22-23

On May 22nd and 23rd, workers from across Toronto will come together for the first ever Toronto Workers Summit — a gathering to build a shared vision for our city and demand that mayoral and council candidates commit to what workers and the communities we serve actually need.

From shelter workers to children’s services, from museum staff to public health — Toronto’s workers are organizing, and we’re just getting started.

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Organizing 101

When: May 23-24

The IWW’s Organizer Training 101 (OT101) is a skill-based training that will teach you how to organize a union at your job, take action and win better working conditions for you and your coworkers.

The training consists of two 8 hour sessions. We’ll contact you closer to the date with location details. Breakfast and lunch will be provided.

To offset some of the costs associated with this training, we encourage participants to pay a registration fee of $15. No worker will be turned away for financial hardship, so please contact us if you can’t make this contribution.

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#Build Communities Not Jails

When: Saturday May 23rd, 1pm
Where: 25 Grosvenor St, Solicitor General Headquarters

Let’s join forces to stop the Ford Government’s costly jail expansion plans!

According to a previously secret plan @cappontario obtained through a freedom of information request mere weeks before the law changed blocking the release of ministerial records, the Ford government is planning to build up to 5,760 new jail beds by 2050.

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People’s Assembly for Housing Justice

When: Saturday May 23, 1:30pm – 7:30pm
Where: Roncesvalles United Church, 214 Wright Ave
Free dinner will be served.

There will be workshops discussions looking to build solidarity and awareness towards housing justice in Toronto and the GTHA.

This year’s theme is Communities, with discussions related to building, preserving, reclaiming, defending, and (re)imagining them.

This year’s assembly is planned by Parkdale Housing Justice Network, Toronto Underhoused and Homeless Union, Toronto Tenant Union (YSW & CJT), Democratic Socialists of Canada, Moss Park Coalition, and 230 Fightback.

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Does This Look Expensive?

When: May 23rd, 2pm
Where: 1213 Bathurst St

Collecting photos of sculptures and plaques taken by @deantomlinsonphotography that Rocky has been installing across Toronto, hidden in plain site for the past 50 years! We’re launching the publication and showing a short CBC doc about Rocky’s work on Saturday, May 23.

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Standing Against Hate

When: Saturday May 23rd, 4:30pm
Where: International Mother Language Monument, Dentonia Park (near Sibley Ave and Dentonia Park Ave)

The Shahid Minar, or International Mother Language Monument, honours the 1952 Bangla language movement and, since 2000, stands as a symbol of cultural and linguistic diversity globally. Over the past year it has been the target of hateful vandalism, which is an attack on the inclusion and community values the monument represents.

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New Strategies Against Austerity

When: May 23rd, 7pm
Where: Friend’s House, 60 Lowther Ave

Ontario’s higher education sector is at a breaking point. From the systematic marketization of colleges and universities to the sustained attack on labour rights, the provincial government’s strategy is clear: treat education as a commodity rather than a social good.

Join us for a political discussion as we analyze the Ford government’s maneuvers — including the devastating shift from OSAP grants to loans, the manufactured “international student crisis,” and the broader austerity agenda threatening social equality.

We will explore strategies for a labour and community-led response, highlighting ongoing student and labour fightbacks and providing a direct opportunity for attendees to plug into the organizing work necessary to defend, expand, and decommodify our public institutions.

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Build a fighting Socialist movement

When: May 24th, 9am to 6pm

Capitalism Can’t Be Fixed is a conference to bring together supporters, organizers, and activists who want to build on the momentum of the recent leadership campaigns. Capitalism is in deep crisis and the major political parties can’t fix it. Capitalism can’t be fixed.

The crises we face are only deepening: war, inequality, climate breakdown, colonialism. Our political system will only perpetuate the crises. The militarization of society is no solution. Canada’s aggression and role in supporting US imperialism must be countered.

This conference is a chance to take stock of what we’ve built, hear from speakers, discuss the road ahead and help shape the next phase of organized socialist and anti-imperialist politics in Canada. There must be a united movement for socialism.

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Rally for Hybrid Work

When: May 26th, 12noon
Where: 505 University Ave

The first hearing at the Ontario Labour Relations Board on Doug Ford’s 5-day return-to-office order and the violation of the freeze provisions is taking place on May 26th, and workers across Ontario are mobilizing!

Ford’s government imposed a unilateral full-time return-to-office mandate during active bargaining, forcing OPS-Unified and other public sector workers back into the office 5 days a week, all while Ford himself regularly works remotely.

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FilmSocial: Finally Got the News

When: May 27th, 7pm
Where: Eyesore Cinema, 1176 Bloor St W

The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is very pleased to present Finally Got The News (1970) as the next film in the FilmSocial series of socialist film screenings.

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Get On The Tracks!

When: May 28th, 12pm
Where: Gather outside Union Station, then march up to Queen’s Park for a giant protest.

Stop Ford’s Hospital Privatization Train Wreck giant protest.

On Thursday May 28, we will gather outside Union Station in Toronto at 12 pm for a rally, then march up to Queen’s Park for a giant protest. Folks from across the province will be coming in via train, and you can reserve your spot on the train by registering (link below).

Seats are first come, first served. After you register, we will send you an email with all of this information and more.

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Film Shorts: Local Heroes

When: May 28th, 6:45pm
Where: TIFF Lightbox

From eye appointments to sex appointments, cheating boyfriends to dancing dogs, this collection of local shorts puts Toronto filmmakers in the spotlight in the way only Inside Out knows how to do. We are here, we are Queer, and we’ve brought you these incredible, strange, and unforgettable local stories.

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Rethinking Free Speech

By Peter Ives

The analogy that free speech acts as a “marketplace of ideas” originated with Justice Holmes’s comparison to speech being valued like a consumer buys products, functioning as commodities for sale on the open market, as was expressed in his dissenting opinion in Abrams v. United States in 1919: “But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas – that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out.”

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Feminism in Spain

Clara Serra is a philosopher and feminist from Madrid, Spain. In 2013, she was a representative of Podemos in the Madrid Assembly until 2019. She is a member of the feminist network Alianzas Rebeldes. Clara has written on a number topics, including feminist strategy, politics, and most recently, consent.

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