Mar 21, 2025 | Events & Presentations
🎥 Video Podcast Event Recording UPDATE – CIBC announced in the summer of 2025 that the unionized Visa centre in Toronto will be closed in early 2026, thus bringing an end to more than 40 years of unionization for these employees, who had to strike for a first...
Feb 1, 2025 | Book Launch, Events & Presentations
Book Launch Wednesday, February 19th, 2025 @ 7:00 PM (ET) Steelworkers Hall | 25 Cecil St. Join author Steven High and special guests for the launch of The Left in Power: Bob Rae’s NDP and the Working Class. Based on extensive archival research and interviews...
Jan 8, 2025 | Events & Presentations
Tony Leah: The Truth Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 @ 7:30 PM (ET) Immediately following our AGM at 7:00 Join us as Tony Leah, longtime union activist and member of Local 222 in Oshawa, discusses his fascinating new book on the strike of 1937: THE TRUTH: About the ’37...
Dec 25, 2024 | Events & Presentations
AGM: Join the TWHP Executive Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 @ 7:00 PM (ET) Immediately before our AGM at 7:00 TWHP is always looking for new recruits to join our Executive Committee – people with great ideas and good connections to help build our programs. A commitment...
Nov 6, 2024 | Events & Presentations
Join us for a public celebration of artist Carole Condé (1940 – 2024) on Saturday, November 9, 2024, 2 – 5 pm Location: A Space Main Gallery Exhibit Runs: November 9 – January 2, 2025 Carole Condé was a visual artist who, along with partner and collaborator Karl...
Nov 6, 2024 | Events & Presentations
Recording September 2024 marked the 75th anniversary of the fire that destroyed the passenger ship S. S. Noronic in the early morning of Sat. Sept. 17th, 1949, while it was docked at the old Pier 9 in Toronto harbour. Of the 524 passengers on board, 119 died. The...
Oct 20, 2024 | Events & Presentations
Vincenzo Pietropaolo has been a dedicated chronicler of Toronto for more than fifty years. In 2023, he published a landmark book called Toronto as Community: Fifty Years of Photographs. The photographs are grouped around 40 short essays that explore Vince’s particular...
