The Canadian Centre For Gender and Sexual Diversity (CCGSD) wants YOU to join us in creating safer spaces for LGBTQ+ Youth. We are going to be in Toronto from November 15-16, 2017.
The CCGSD intersectionally promotes diversity in gender identity, gender expression, and romantic and/or sexual orientation in all its forms, through services in the areas of education, health, and advocacy. We run programming across Canada to help build allyship and uplift the LGBTQ+ community. We are also a proud leader in the International Day of Pink, where we encourage millions of people to wear pink and stand up to bullying.These programs and campaigns are possible due to the hard work of our volunteers, who allow us to reach 250,000 people annually. We encourage you to find out more about CCGSD & the International Day of Pink, and get involved in making your community a safer and more diverse place.
We are in your community running a regional LGBTQ2+ Youth Forum this year, and we need your help to create safer spaces!
This regional forum will work with hundreds of youth and educators to help them understand issues of homophobia, transphobia, transmisogyny, bullying, intersectional violence, and discrimination, and give them new tools to make their schools & community safer. Our conferences are a collaboration between local organizations and the CCGSD’s national resources, allowing us to provide a full day of workshops and training specifically designed to suit the needs right here. The training, workshops, and resources we are able to provide at our forums encourage the creation of sustainable networks within the community as well as skill-building on an individual level. We hope to provide diversity training and workshops in as many communities as possible.
However, to run each Forum, we need to raise $7000.
As such, we need your help. We hope that you would consider providing the CCGSD with a gift that would allow us to continue our forums and anti-discrimination work in your community:
If you donate $25 you can help us bring one youth to an LGBTQ+ Forum
If you donate $50 you help us run a workshop
If you donate $100 you help us pay for a keynote speaker
If you donate $250 you pay for snacks (breakfast for low-income participants)
If you donate $500 you become our HERO and help us cover the cost of travel for a school of youth to attend
If you donate $1000 you allow us to cater the event for our participants at no cost to them
If you want to donate more, let us know, and we are happy to tell you what you can do!
To say thank you for your donation, you will be featured on our website, your logos & a mention will be featured at the event, and we, of course, will invite you to participate.
With your donation, we can help change lives and encourage LGBTQ2+ youth to be themselves. It will also encourage allies to help create and support safer spaces for marginalized communities.
Please contact us at info@ccgsd-ccdgs.org to organize making your donation, or donate by sending a cheque to: The Canadian Centre for Gender & Sexual Diversity, 440 Albert St, Suite C304, Ottawa, ON K1R 5B5.

Hello Sisters and Brothers/ Bonjour consœurs et confrères,

As members stand firm on the picket line at the CAMI plant in Ingersoll, and NAFTA renegotiations are set to resume next week, I sat down with the Financial Post to discuss Unifor’s positions on the auto sector and trade.  You can watch the interview here (English only)

In Solidarity

Jerry Dias

National President

Poster Nov 2, 2017 (1)

Letter on Women and SK Public Transit

Friends,

Please read and share the attached and linked letter to Federal Minister of Justice, Jody Wilson-Raybould and Federal Minister of Transport, Marc Garneau over the closure of the STC by the Sask Party government.

The letter has been written and endorsed by a number of groups concerned about womens’ safety flowing from this arbitrary and short-sighted action by the government.

https://safetyofsaskatchewanwomen.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/july-4-2017-letter-re-women-and-public-transit.pdf

 

Larry Hubich

President

Saskatchewan Federation of Labour

BNN interviewed Jerry Dias earlier today re: NAFTA, please find link below to view the video:

http://www.bnn.ca/video/no-twists-or-tweaks-unifor-wants-wholesale-changes-to-nafta~1165341

Budgets are about choices.

The Saskatchewan government promised “transformational change.” Instead we got a mean-spirited austerity budget that requires sacrifices from the many and delivers benefits to the few. It doesn’t have to be this way. For a government that prides itself on making “tough choices” this doesn’t seem that tough.

Please share on Facebook and retweet!

This video was made possible by donations from supporters. Please donate what you can so we can continue making these kinds of projects happen.

SaskForward releases video challenging budget cuts

SaskForward, a coalition of Saskatchewan-based civil society groups, has released a new video that challenges the Saskatchewan government’s claim that deep cuts to public services and programs are inevitable. By reversing the 1% corporate tax cut announced in the last budget, the video shows that $67.5 million could be recuperated and used to restore funding to many services and programs including the STC, a variety of post-secondary education programs, funeral services, parks, the hearing aid plan and much more.

In the winter of 2017, SaskForward heard from over 100 individuals and organizations as part of its consultations on the Saskatchewan government’s promised ‘transformational change’. In these consultations, groups proposed numerous ideas that could reshape public services through new investments while avoiding austerity budgets that harm the most vulnerable in our province. The new video exposes the government’s deliberate decision to increase the profits of corporations at the expense of the services and programs that Saskatchewan residents cherish.

Peter Gilmer, of the Regina Anti-Poverty Ministry, a participating organization in SaskForward, is enthusiastic about the message in the video.  “It is encouraging to know that we could maintain so many needed benefits and services for Saskatchewan people by simply reversing the 1% corporate tax cut. I believe that such a return would be in line with the values of the vast majority of Saskatchewan residents” he says.

The video can be viewed online at:

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For more information about SaskForward see: https://saskforward.ca/

 

Media Contact:

Peter Gilmer

306-550-8949

rapm@sasktel.net

Care Worker Locked Out

Came across this online poll:  “Has the SK Party government become arrogant and heavy handed?”

So far the YES vote is winning. Let’s put it over the top!

http://www.yorktonthisweek.com/

Saskatchewan Federation of Labour

To all Local Unions and National Staff Representatives Dear sisters and brothers, I am writing to you today with important news that reflects the stature and strength of our union. The voice of Unifor is well-respected and it is an important one that continues to help shape both political dialogue and government action in Canada and on an international scale. I know this, because today I held a private meeting with the U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross in Washington. On behalf of Unifor members I relayed concerns about the current state of affairs with bilateral trade relations between Canada and the United States. This meeting was timely as trade tensions continue to escalate. I delivered a message of urgency to Mr. Ross. With the recent re-introduction of duties on Canadian softwood lumber exports that will endanger upwards of 25,000 good jobs in nearly every region of the country, action is needed right now. I urged Mr. Ross to help play a role to ensure a fair trade pact is settled On NAFTA renegotiation, I made clear that any resulting deterioration of jobs and work standards – for all workers across the continent – will not be tolerated. I also spoke to Mr. Ross about the challenges facing the highly-integrated auto industry, and the need for greater balance within North American, and with the rest of the world. Despite some of the current challenges before us, there is an opportunity to fix the imbalances in trade relations with the renegotiation of NAFTA, and today I sent an important message to an arm of the U.S. government to do just that. In the days and weeks ahead our union will continue to push for a fair trade future. I will continue to take the voices and needs of Unifor members and all Canadian workers to decision-makers in both Canada and the U.S with one message – better trade deals must begin with putting workers and communities first. There is much work to do, but I am confident that together our union can continue to lead the way and make a difference for workers. In solidarity, Jerry Dias National President