It's better in a union ✊

This #AsianHeritageMonth , Canada’s unions are recognizing and celebrating Asian-Canadian leaders and activists, past and present, who have helped shape the labour movement and Canada as a whole.

Stay tuned and join us in our celebration of their activism. #AHM2024 #CDNpoli

🚨New poll:
👉62% believe unions make life better
👉80% of young workers see barriers to organizing
👉70% want govt to remove barriers

Politicians must commit to protect & enhance workers' rights & crack down on union-busting employers.
#CanLab #CdnPoli

canadianlabour.ca/canadians-back…

NO DEBATE.

Labour rights are human rights. ✊

#LabourDay #LabourDay 2024 #MayDay2024

Can we grow up and stop thinking we can 'leave it to the market'?
canadiandimension.com/articles/view/…

Turns out healthcare isn't a profitable biz. Who knew?

Walmart to shutter all 51 health center locations supermarketnews.com/health-wellnes…

Stay tuned for details on actions here in Newfoundland and Labrador! #NLPoli #RainbowEquality

I'm hearing disturbing reports that students face suspension if they don’t end their peaceful protests in #Columbiauniversity in the USA. This is a clear violation of their right to peaceful assembly

I echo everything that Leah ProudLakota (she/her) said here. Pierre Poilievre removing Karen Vecchio from the chair of the Status of Women committee shows that working collaboratively across party lines and making Parliament responsive to the voices of women is punished in the Conservative…

Read Alex Neve's sharp rebuke of Ontario's banning of the keffiyeh in Parliament.

'That it's a racialized, disabled woman, who's already been isolated + shunned w/in the legislature, who stands up to a white man, + decades of rules + attitudes set largely by white men, speaks…

Child Care Now Nova Scotia is very concerned to learn that Minister Becky Druhan, Minister of NS Education and Early Childhood Development, has petitioned the federal government to allow the Province of Nova Scotia to provide federal funding to expand for-profit child care centres.

I'm re-reading #budget2024 and this is maybe the most offensive paragraph in any budget I've ever read.

Why?

Pleased to be at George Brown College for their Summer Institute with Atkinson Foundation on early childhood education. Always great to hear from longtime child care champion Olivia Chow #childcarenow #cdnecec #canlab

Critical research by Elliot Haspel exposes a cascade of risks associated with corporate consolidation and continuous profit growth in childcare(the biz model): eroding quality of care, crushing working conditions, and rising risk of system collapse for whole markets as workers flee.

Is your community on the list? Check rainbowequality.ca/events to find out

If not, why not host a rally against rising hate and for freedom and equality for all? Rainbow Week of Action May 11 to May 17.

Cree daycares integrate new culture and language programming thespec.com/news/canada/cr… via @thespec

this was a great session!

We'll be there! #CanLab #SolidarityandPride #CanQueer

'Department of Finance officials said Wednesday financial eligibility for the Canada Disability Benefit will be determined based on household income, not the applicant’s income'.

The devil is in the details. If this is true, it is even more troubling.
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'A colossal failure' -- Member of federal #Disability Advisory Group resigns in protest of inadequacy of newly created Canada Disability Benefit, Mark Ramzy thestar.com/politics/feder… via @torontostar Michael J. Prince #CDB