Advocating for Rights
December 10th is Human Rights Day. Please take some time today to reflect and learn about human rights, and to act – even if you just have a few minutes. The Amnesty International Write for Rights event provides a way...
Category: Human rights
Remembrance and Action
Each year Canada mourns and remembers the misogyny-driven murders of 14 women at Polytechnique Montreal on December 6, 1989. We remember them by holding vigils and saying their names. They are: Look for a vigil in your community. In addition...
End New HIV Cases by 2030
The World Aids Day organization is running a momentous campaign. The goal: to take the final steps in ending new HIV cases. From the 1980s — when AIDS first became well-known — to today, medical progress and social progress has...
Trans Day of Remembrance
November 20 is the Trans Day of Remembrance. Today we commemorate and mourn transgender, two-spirit and non-binary people who have lost their lives to transphobia and hate crimes. It’s also an occasion to reflect on the strength and resilience of...
Poverty Can be Stopped
It is the International Day for the Eradication of poverty. As a union we’re part of the global fight against poverty in many ways: Worldwide, countries with higher union density tend to have better measurements of economic equality, in statistical...
World Food Day
It’s World Food Day, and access to food is grossly unjust at home and abroad. This can be because of war and occupation, or due to systemic inequities in distribution systems. We can do better, by applying our collective power...
World Day for Decent Work
On the World Day for Decent Work 2025, we join the global labour movement in acknowledging some big gains and some big setbacks for workers. The International Trade Union Confederation’s Global Rights Index reports that worker rights and union rights...
The Fifth National Day of Truth and Reconciliation
We are more than ten years into the Truth and Reconciliation process, yet sometimes it feels like we are just beginning. It falls to all of us, whether Indigenous or not, to learn, unlearn, and act in better ways –...
International Pay Equity Day
It’s 2025 and we are still working to end gendered pay inequity. Removing gendered divisions between workers is a core objective of labour – better equity leads to better unity, and vice versa. At the same time, it helps that...
Pride = Solidarity, Solidarity = Power
While June is generally viewed as Pride month, Canada’s various Pride events take place throughout the summer months. From the Festival Fierté Val d’Or, Dryden, and Okotoks Pride in early June, to Calgary and Ottawa in late August, the calendar...