Japanese Canadians: Internment and Dispersal | March 3, 7pm

Japanese Canadians: Internment and Dispersal | March 3, 7pm

Tuesday, March 3, 7:00 p.m.Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil St. During World War II, over 20,000 Japanese Canadians were interned by the Canadian state and displaced from their homes and communities in British Columbia. Their businesses and homes, including a fleet of...
Writing Sex Work History | Feb. 4, 7 p.m., 120 Diner

Writing Sex Work History | Feb. 4, 7 p.m., 120 Diner

Tuesday, February 4, 7:00 p.m.120 Diner, 120 Church St., Toronto ** Note change from our usual location ** Though criminalized and pushed to the margins, sex workers have played critical roles in Toronto’s history, contributing to its economic development and...
Emma Goldman in Toronto

Emma Goldman in Toronto

Tuesday, November 12, 7:00 p.m.Steelworkers’ Hall, 25 Cecil St. The year 2020 will mark the 80th anniversary of the death of anarchist and feminist Emma Goldman in Toronto in May 1940. Deported from the United States in 1919, Goldman spent part of her exile in Toronto...
Workers on Film: An Evening with CLiFF

Workers on Film: An Evening with CLiFF

Tuesday, October 8, 7:00 p.m.Steelworkers’ Hall, 25 Cecil St. Imagine a world where thousands of films are made about workers and the conditions under which they live, work, fight, and succeed in their daily lives! Instead, the world of labour has found it...
Toronto Workers and World War II + Annual General Meeting

Toronto Workers and World War II + Annual General Meeting

Tuesday, September 17, 7:00 p.m.Steelworkers’ Hall, 25 Cecil St. September 20 is the 80th anniversary Canada declaring war on Germany in 1939. The next six years of World War II shook up the lives of workers in Canada and around the world. Mikhail Bjorge, author of...
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