News in Events
Reminder: December 10: Forum on housing as a human right
Date December 10, 2010
Time 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Where 155 Dalhousie St. (5 minute walk east of Dundas Subway station, north of Dundas behind the gas station at Church and Dundas)
Participants at this forum on International Human Rights Day will hear about how low-income people and their allies are claiming the right to housing and how people can support the right to housing in their communities.
December 3: NO to Quebec Provincial Bill 94
Date December 3, 2010
December 3 is a Day of Action against Bill 94, proposed legislation in Quebec, which, if approved, would deny essential government services, public employment, educational opportunities, and health care to Muslim women who wear the niqab (face veil).
December 9: Community Leadership and Action Project Symposium
Date December 9, 2010
Time 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Where Robertson Building, Alterna Savings Room, 4th floor, 215 Spadina Avenue Toronto
Meet the project leaders and learn more about the projects that aimed to build community capacity to address violence against women, the first of its kind in Canada and North America.
December 10: Working With Deaf Survivors of Violence
Date December 10, 2010
Time 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Where Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 252 Bloor Street West, Room 7-162, Toronto
This workshop is for hearing professionals who work with Deaf women who have experienced violence.
December 2: Golden Weasel Award Presentation
Date December 2, 2010
Time 11 a.m.
Where In front of the Queen's Park Legislature, Toronto
The Parkdale Tenants Association (PTA) invites you to the presentation of the Golden Weasel Award to … Premier Dalton McGuinty and his government for weaseling out of his promise to bring back Rent Control.
November 25: Press conference on CBSA directive and women surviving violence
Date November 25, 2010
Time 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Where Toronto Rape Crisis Centre, 17 Phoebe Street, Toronto
This press conference will discuss a new Canada Border Services Agency directive prohibiting CBSA officers from entering or waiting outside of places where women surviving violence seek services and support.
November 30: Workers' Centres: Agricultural, Migrant and Undocumented Workers
Date November 30, 2010
Time 6 p.m.
Where All Saints Church, 330 City Hall Square West, Windsor
Guest speakers on the topic of "Workers' Centres: Agricultural, Migrant and Undocumented Workers: The Way Forward' are featured at this fundraising dinner.
November 24: Temporary Visas, Permanent Precariousness?
Date November 24, 2010
Time 6 p.m - 7:30 p.m.
Where Room 209, West Block, Parliament Hill, Ottawa
Subtitled "Examining the Policies, Practices and Realities of Temporary Migration to Canada's 'Low-Skilled' Jobs," this workshop looks at Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program.
February 23 & 24: National PLEI Conference
Date February 23, 2011 to February 24, 2011
Where Vancouver, BC
The conference is aimed at those who provide and support public legal education and information (PLEI) and want to improve how the Internet and emerging technologies can be used to deliver PLEI.
December 1: Release of report on secondary education and low-income students
Date December 1, 2010
Where Online
May Wong, Executive Director of The Omega Foundation and designer of the SmartSAVER project, will release a new report that explores the opportunity to improve low-income students' participation in post-secondary education through better use of education savings.
