REMEMBERING THE HOGG’S HOLLOW TUNNEL TRAGEDY (1960) Tuesday April 16 at 7 pm on Zoom On March 17, 1960, five men working on a watermain under the Don River died when a fire broke out in the tunnel. They were all recent immigrants from Italy, part of the huge of wave...
Michael Lyons began his union involvement at Northern Electric in Bramalea, where he was active in the United Auto Workers (now part of Unifor). In the early 1970s, he was a staff member of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, and in 1977 was hired by the Labour...
Recording The History of Labour Media Tuesday, 19 March, 20247:00 pm (ET) On ZOOM The world of media has been changing at a rapid pace. Unions have been either catching up or staying ahead of the curve. Join us to find out about how labour has used media in the...
In July 1986, I volunteered at Citytv, then 99 Queen Street East, in my last year of high school at Westwood Secondary School, now Lincolon Alexandr in Malton, Mississauga.I had called various television stations to see a sportscast was produced.Because I wasn’t...
