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PSI Canada Statement on CETA and ICS

April 11, 2016 - 11:29am

The backroom re-negotiation of CETA that resulted in changes to the Investor State Dispute Mechanism (ISDS), now referred to as the Investment Court System (ICS), do not in any way “fix” CETA as the Canadian Government has claimed. Foreign corporations will still have unprecedented power to sidestep the domestic courts and can sue our government if a public policy decision is deemed to prevent future profit. We continue to believe our public court system is the fair and accountable way to handle any disputes about government policy.

International Day of Pink

April 5, 2016 - 11:49am • Human Rights

Held annually on the second Wednesday, this year, “International Day of Pink” will be celebrated on April 13, 2016.

This event was an initiative of two heterosexual High School students in Nova Scotia who saw a gay student being bullied because he was wearing a pink shirt. They decided to buy pink shirts and encouraged everyone at their High School to wear them and stand together in solidarity against bullying.

Solidarity with Black Lives Matter - Toronto

April 4, 2016 - 1:41pm

For more than two weeks now, protesters with Black Lives Matter - Toronto have been camped outside the Toronto Police headquarters after the province's Special Investigations Unit (SIU) cleared a Toronto police officer in the shooting death of Andrew Loku, a black man shot dead last summer. 

PSAC Ontario stands in solidarity with Black Lives Matter – Toronto tent city movement, which has been advocating for justice for all people who have been marginalized by a system that is meant to serve and protect. 

Please sign on to the petition to support affordable internet access for low-income Canadians.

April 1, 2016 - 11:50am

PSAC is a proud supporter of ACORN Canada’s Internet for All campaign. ACORN Canada is an independent national organization of low and moderate income families with over 80,000 members across Canada.

The Internet for All campaign is meant to provide access to cheap internet access for low-income families to help them in their search for work, for their kids to do homework, and to access government services and forms. 

Sign the Open Letter to the Premier on Child Care Changes

April 1, 2016 - 10:58am

In Ontario, the Liberal government is proposing changes to staffing, child ratios and group sizes in Ontario child care centres that will negatively impact child care.

Please sign on to the open letter to Premier Kathleen Wynne to demand that these proposed changes not be implement. 

2016 Federal Budget

April 1, 2016 - 10:01am

“Federal public service workers want to deliver on commitments made in the federal budget. That requires departments having the resources they need to serve Canadians,”  Robyn Benson, PSAC National President.  Read more

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