Joan Westcott was the executive director of the Federation of Women Teachers Associations of Ontario (FWTAO) when the two elementary unions amalgamated. She had held that position since 1987. She was local president of the Waterloo women teachers during the one-day...
Menno Vorster was a Toronto inner-city teacher who rose to become the Toronto Teacher Federation (TTF) president in the mid-1970s. He explains the unique structure of the Toronto local which originally included the Ontario Public School Men Teachers’ Federation...
ARE YOU:• a social justice activist?• a labour/union supporter?• a lover of community theatre? and• Indigenous, Black, or a Person of Colour? Then the Toronto Workers’ Theatre Group WANTS YOU!!! It’s been a long wait to get back on the boards and the theatre group of...
Tuesday 12 October 7 pm on ZOOM A new federally sponsored child-care program is unfolding across Canada. This initiative didn’t fall from the sky – it’s the result of decades of agitation by child-care activists in Toronto and the rest of the country. We are bringing...
