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ARM DISTRICT 9 EXECUTIVE 2018 - 2019PRESIDENT

BRUCE AWAD

VICE PRESIDENT JACQUES AHARONIAN

MEMBER SERVICES OFFICERBRUCE AWAD

RECORDING SECRETARYTONI MICHALCZUK

TREASURERDAN EBERWEIN

COMMUNICATIONS OFFICERvacant

POLITICAL ACTION OFFICERMARGARET VILLAMIZAR

MEMBERSHIP OFFICERBRIAN ROBINSON

PROGRAM CO-ORDINATORJACQUES AHARONIAN

MEMBERS AT LARGESCOTT HUNT

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2018OCT/NOV

Volume 20 #2

meaning: brought back; revived

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

District 9 ARM President Bruce Awad walks on Labour Day with fellow OSSTF members and many other unions. Thank you to all who made it out on this blisteringly hot day!

HERE WE GO AGAIN

Remember the 1995 to 2003 era?

You know what I’m talking about - the last time we had a conservative provincial government AKA Mike Harris - Ernie Eves. History sometimes repeats itself, doesn’t it?

Now we have Doug Ford and the conservatives in power with a majority and a very similar theme.... cuts to public services, hea l thcare , educa t ion , the environment etc. etc. etc.

Back in 2003 after 8 years of conservative governing, OSSTF and ETFO put out a newsletter outlining why we should not vote conservative with a headline reading:

“24 REASONS NOT TO VOTE FOR THE TORIES”

Here is what it said:

1. Walkerton2. Dudley George3. School closures

4. Hospital closures5. Emergency room wait time

6. Bill 1607. Bill 748. Bill 80

9. Hydro deregulation10. Increased user fees

11. HWY 407 privatization12. Power outages

13. Private school tax credit14. School Board takeovers

15. Layoffs of nurses

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:President’s Message.........................Calendar/Save these Dates..............Rally and Health Care Info .................December Luncheon.........................Peter Bering........................................Toni Pecaski.......................................Endorsements ....................................Armistice 100 Invitation ...................ARM members photos .....................CURC report from Scott Hunt...........OFL report on Bill 148.......................Candidate Lists Municipal Election....

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DATES TO SAVEFIRST FRIDAY BREAKFASTS:

DATES FOR FRIDAY

BREAKFASTS:

SEPTEMBER 2018 - JUNE 2019

NOVEMBER 2

(WED. DECEMBER 5th- fundraising luncheon see ad in this newsletter)

JANUARY 4, 2019FEBRUARY 1

MARCH 1(APRIL - luncheon TBA)

MAY 3JUNE 7

NOVEMBER

OCTOBER22nd Municipal Elections

27th Celebrate 100 years of Armistice 10 am to 3 pm at the Canadian Historical Aircraft Hangar see page 11.

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2nd First Friday Breakfast at Lumberjack Restaurant 9:00 a.m

DECEMBER5th Fundraising Luncheon at Ciociaro Club 11:30 a.m (see ad page 3)

Lumberjack Restaurant 475 Tecumseh Road East

Windsor N8X 2R7

Breakfasts are at 9 a.m.Hope to see you there!

16. Layoffs of teachers17. Doctor shortages18. Funding formula19. Double co-hort

20. Corporate tax credit21. College of Teachers

22. Teacher appraisal legislation 23. PLP’s (teacher re-certification)

24. Standardized testing.

Here is what Doug Ford has done in his first 100 days as premiere:

1. Cut Toronto’s city council using the “not withstanding clause”

2. Rolled back the 2015 sex-ed-curriculum

3. Investigating the province’s deficit blaming the previous government

4. Cancelled the cap-and-trade and Green Energy Act

5. Halted the opening of safe injection sites

6. Cancelled Ontario’s basic income pilot project

7. Fired the CEO and Board of Hydro One

8. Scrapped the Fair workplace and Better Jobs Act (minimum wage and labor law improvements)

9. Rolled back Pharmacare

10. Opened the door to private marijuana sales

11. Scrapped Indigenous curriculum review

12. Invested part of the $1.9 million for mental heath into police and first responders training

13. Created council on “Improving Healthcare and Ending Hallway Medicine

14. Scrapped Drive Clean program

15. Implemented buck-a beer

16. Fired Ontario’s chief scientist Molly Shoichet

17. No longer helping with federal refugee resettlement

18. Delayed police oversight law

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20. Delayed doctor ’s vacc ine repor t ing requirements

21. Delayed implementing resale concert tickets price cap

22. Changed provincial ministry structures

23. Froze hiring in public sector

One can only wonder why the voters of Ontario would vote for such damaging ideology.

Enough of the bad news... what can we do now? The Ontario Health Coalition is organizing a massive rally at Queen’s Park on Tuesday October 23, 2018 at noon. Please read the full article on page 4 of this newsletter.

The Ontario Federation of Labour is fighting back Ford’s plan to scrap the Fair Workplaces and Better Jobs Act (Bill 48). Bill 48 includes important rights for workers: 5 paid days for domestic and

sexual violence survivors, 2 paid sick days, 10 days of personal emergency leave days, two of which are paid, and other important workplace protections. Please read the OFL’s full article on page 14 of this newsletter.

Scott Hunt attended the CURC (Congress of Union Retirees of Canada) Triennial conference last month. Please read Scott’s summary of the conference on page 13 of this news letter for some interesting comments on social housing, healthcare, pharmacare and pensions (Bill C27).

Please see complete list of city and county candidates starting on page 15. Also see the candidates endorsed by Labour Council on page 10. Note that no trustees have been endorsed.

Thank you for reading and as always your comments and suggestions are welcome.

Yours in Federation Bruce Awad, President

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ANNOUNCEMENTS, UPDATES, COMMUNICATIONS This article by Natalie Mehra is long - but critically important to read!Our friends at the Ontario Heath Coalition are also asking for our help on October the 23rd, 2018.

SAVING PUBLIC HEALTH CARE & PUBLIC SERVICES UNDER THE

DOUG FORD GOVERNMENTby Natalie MehraSeptember 11, 2018

Since Doug Ford’s election there has been a lot of glib talk about Ford as a buffoon, a Trump-north, an almost contemptible figure. But this ignores the fact that the brain trust behind Ford is not ridiculous at all. They are clever – diabolical even – and they are deeply ideological. These people have collectively spent decades working against our social safety net and public programs, public health care included. They are sophisticated and experienced in government. And they have a clear mission. A raft of Harper strategists and staffers populated both Ford’s nomination campaign and his election team. Now in government, Harper’s former chief of staff has been appointed as Ford’s principle secretary.

Doug Ford did not reveal an election platform but there is definitely a clear plan that is being rolled out day after day across Ontario.

In fact, Gordon Campbell, arch-privateer, former B.C. premier, and a really bad man in my personal opinion, has been appointed to do a review of Ontario’s finances. Ironic, since Campbell as B.C. premier ran his province from a surplus into a deficit and increased the debt substantially. But this doesn’t matter for the anti-government ideologues. What matters is that Campbell accomplished the deepest cuts of any premier, perhaps in Canada’s history. (He’s in a dead heat with Mike Harris for this dubious distinction). Campbell cut every government ministry; gutting environmental programs, closing rural schools and hospitals, chopping social assistance and arts, closing women’s services. He fired hospital support staff en masse and privatized their services forcing them to re-apply for their old jobs in private companies at minimum wage or drastically cut rates, rolling back fifty years of hard-won labour improvements for those workers and their families. He laid off 11,700 civil servants in one day and called it “thoughtful” and “innovative”. He cut public hospital and health services and then contracted private for-profit clinics. Then he turned a blind eye as those clinics started to charge user fees for surgeries and diagnostic tests in the thousands of dollars to patients, in violation of the Canada Health Act. This summer, he agreed to testify for the private clinics in their court challenge in

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B.C. as they try to wipe out the laws that protect single tier public medicare in Canada. (You see what I mean? Evil.) Oh—and he overstated the fiscal “crisis” in B.C. (in fact there had been a surplus) in order to soften up the public for his “innovative” cuts.

So, it seems predictable....seems the plan is for Gordon Campbell’s financial review to paint a picture of fiscal crisis in Ontario. The report has already been received by the Ford government and is secret for now. Then, on September 21 the other major report -- a service review being done by Ernst and Young will be received by Ford. (This is a tactic used by the pro-privatization forced in municipalities over the last decade to bring in consulting firms to look at all services and recommend to councils program cuts and privatization.) So over the next few weeks we will see Phase II of the attack on social and environmental gains. They will roll out a set of media messaging that will be echoed up and down the country about the dire financial situation. They will use this -- instead of raising the revenue through fair taxes and the like – to justify draconian cuts to public services and programs. And they will, at the same time, implement their own tax cuts that benefit, primarily, the wealthiest among us.

This summer Doug Ford’s hidden agenda was laid bare. Huge policy changes were announced that were never once mentioned in the election campaign. But it was done in the steamy days of summer when many Ontarians were relaxing over backyard barbecues or at the lake. So Phase I was accomplished, and with the exception of the attempt to wipe out half of Toronto City Council, much of it was done without most Ontarians even knowing about it.

So Phase I is done and now Phase II is coming. This is where we come in.

The ultimate plan is to shrink the size of “government” – in reality, the public services and programs that we all

rely upon to lift our standard of living and protect against the vagaries of the market. Many will not immediately understand that this is not about finding efficiencies. It is about killing off programs run as public interest and non-profit services so that private for-profit businesses can move in and take them over. It is about removing protections so that the workforce is more flexible and compliant. It is about power, and fundamentally it will mean greater inequality and more hardship for many. They have done it in the Harris government of the 1990s and in the Harper government more recently.

The lessons from those eras is that when we have stood up and fought back we have pushed them back. The public does not support the agenda of cuts, lower standards and privatization, by and large, and public health care is one of the most cherished programs in the country. The last thing we should do is let the cuts go by invisibly, waiting until people need the service only to find it is gone. What we need to do now is make the hidden agenda visible; to illuminate the cuts for all to see and to expose what they mean for all of us, for our communities. At the same time, importantly, we need to show people a way to stand up.

In the Ontario Health Coalition we have a start. We are organizing a massive rally at Queen’s Park at noon on Tuesday October 23. We know that there are thousands coming. Let’s make it many many thousands. Let’s make it big enough that the forces that would like to see our public health care dismantled, cut and privatized, know that it will be politically impossible to do so.

Doug Ford’s biggest weakness is this: he has no mandate. His agenda was shielded from public scrutiny through the election. The people of Ontario believed him when he said he would “solve hallway medicine” which, to most of us, means reopening closed and

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privatized services and restoring cut beds. His party said they would support improved care standards in long-term care. Our local coalitions even taped Ford at a rural donut shop promising them that he wouldn’t privatize.

So let’s hold him to that. Let’s organize in a way that cannot be ignored. Let’s be fully aware of what is happening behind the scenes, but let’s never drop the call for what we really need: a reopening of public hospital beds and services; improved access to long-term care and a real improvement in the levels of care in the homes for seniors; and a public home care system for all of us.

Years ago, former Alberta Premier Ralph Klein called public health care the “electric third rail” of Canadian Politics. He was referring to the ground rail on a railway or subway that carries the power. If you touch it, you get electrocuted. I like that. I see our job as to electrify that third rail. Let’s make them afraid to touch public health care with their plan of dismantling, cuts and privatization, so that we can protect it for all Ontarians for generations to come.

1 https://www.theglobeandmail.com2 https://www.thestar.com/.../doug-ford-steals-a-page-from-step...) 3 https://ipolitics.ca/.../ex-harper-mps-and-staffers-win-big-.../4 https://thetyee.ca/Views/2005/04/20/CampbellMisledPublic/5 https://www.ctvnews.ca/.../doug-ford-s-plan-is-furthest-away-...

Thank you to ARM Chapter 11 for allowing us to use this article from their September newsletter.

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MOVING? NEW PHONE NUMBER? NEW ADDRESS? NEW EMAIL?

Be sure to send your new information to our OSSTF ARM office:

Attn: ARM547 Victoria Avenue

Windsor, ON N9A 4N1

or email to: armchapter9@outlook.com

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ANNOUNCEMENTS, UPDATES, COMMUNICATIONS

SAVE THIS DATE!!

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 11:30 a.m.ARM ANNUAL WINTER LUNCHEON

CIOCIARO CLUB, 3745 NORTH TALBOT ROAD - SALON ‘D’Salon D is located on the main floor, north side of the building, between the 2 entrances. The

entrance closest to the back parking lot has a number of handi-reserved parking spots.

DONATIONS FOR OUR FUNDRAISING RAFFLE ARE GRATEFULLY ACCEPTEDTHIS YEAR’S FUNDRAISING IS FOR: Windsor Residence for Young Men

If you have an item to donate, please do any of the following:•bring it with you to the Friday breakfast at the Lumberjack

•drop it off at the OSSTF office on Victoria Avenue•contact the ARM office and leave a message

*contact Judy or Pauline

TICKETS ARE NOW AVAILABLE @ $22 eachcontact either Toni Pecaski, Judy Tenzer, or Bruce Awad

or call the office to leave a message 519-948-7570 ext 234.We need to notify Ciociaro of our numbers by December 1.

This year’s scrumptious menu: Rolls, Butter (on tables at beginning), Parmesan Cheese, crushed chilies

Non-alcohol Punch available at a special stationIf you would like coffee or tea prior to dessert, please ask your server.

ON BUFFET: (access on both sides of buffet tables)Gemelli Pasta with meat sauce

Country Baked ChickenRoast Potatoes, Green Beans (garlic)

Garden Salad - Choice of 3 Salad Dressings ranch, french and oil/vinegar Dessert - Pastries brought to each table

Coffee carafes brought to each table with dessert (or request sooner from your server)Tea and decaffeinated coffee will be available at a special station

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ANNOUNCEMENTS, UPDATES, COMMUNICATIONSMANITOULIN MEMORIES #21

MOTHER EARTHPeter Bering

28” x 32” Pencil Drawing on Arches Paper 12/12/1980

Artist’s Comment:

With the ‘Season of Giving’ approaching, Audrey and I are so grateful that we p u r c h a s e d o u r L a k e Manitou lot. It was the best possible gift we could have gotten for each other and the children. Being a part of the natural elements and doing things together for two months every summer closely knit our love for each other.

As I do, our native Ojibway peop le a lso ce lebra te Mother Earth.

Everything emerges from Mother Earth and nothing exists without her. Even the birds of the sky must eventually return to her. Note how she is knit in with air, plants and ground - how she steps on and ignores pearls and diamonds.

Mother Earth is attached to the young girl, symbolic of the new generation. The youngster is not concerned about the lizard or the ants at her feet. She is more concerned with the primordial forests (tree stumps) that are cut down to make room for the haphazard commingling of fruits.

She is more concerned with the rapid development of our nuclear age and technology (represented by the combine harvester and clouds of dust). Even the animals, domestic horse, and animals in the wild are controlled and managed by humanity. Mother Earth is losing control.

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Hey---THERE’S A BANANA IN MY BANANA SPLIT!When I was a child my parents worked in a bakery. Immigrant life was hard. When my mother and father went to work, my sister and I were asleep and alone in the middle of the night.

But on the plus side, we reveled in a bounty of baked goods. There were pink coconut snowballs; sticky, sweet cinnamon buns; cream-filled chocolate jellyrolls, and all those other tooth-rotting, stomach-aching, frenzy-inducing moments of bliss.

But, sometimes, as immigrants, there were things that were new to us. One day, my mother brought home a banana split she’d picked up on the way home. Now, I’d heard of THE “banana split”, that most revered of all ice cream creations, and my imagination was piled high with lofty expectations.

But imagine my dismay, when I saw a pedestrian piece of fruit as the centerpiece. A banana! (Surprisingly, the thought hadn’t occurred to me.)

And one time, when my mother brought home a lemon meringue pie, I was intrigued by its dome of fluffy, frothy white---surely the sweet, rich, creamy “nectar” of the gods.

“Egg whites! It’s made with egg whites!”, my child’s high expectations deflating as quickly as a falling soufflé.

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And predictably, in other aspects of our lives, there were many times when we felt moments of cultural disconnection. But, when Santa didn’t stop at our house, my sister and I played with the Sears Catalogue---paper people with paper furniture and all the luxuries of a paper world.

And when we saw neither hide nor hair of the Easter Bunny with his elusive eggs, we contented ourselves with our little Easter baskets (although mine got rifled by the neighbour’s daughter, who left a tell-tale trail and ushered in the era of locked doors).

And, when we didn’t get to go to the movies and do other things Canadian children did, we were happy to sit in front of the T.V. and sing along with the old MGM musical extravaganzas of a bygone era.

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Yes…immigrant life was hard. But…I had my imagination…that sweet, rich inner world that could transform a lowly piece of fruit into a wondrous thing and an old Sears Catalogue into a magical playground.

And…on the plus side…these many years later, I still know the words to those old musicals.

…I’m singin’ in the rain, just singin’ in the rain…something,

something, something, something………I’m happy again…. just-

singin’-in-the-rain.

Boy…they sure don’t make educational programming like that anymore!

ANNOUNCEMENTS, UPDATES, COMMUNICATIONS

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VOTE FOR CANDIDATESWHO SUPPORT WORKERS

KingsvilleCouncillor – Kim DeYong

Town of EssexMayor – Ron RogersDeputy Mayor – Phil PocockWard 1 – Randy VoakesWard 1 – Joe GaronWard 2 – Kim VerbeekWard 3 – Rod HammondWard 4 – Sherry Bondy

LakeshoreDeputy Mayor – Tracey BaileyWard 2 – Len JanisseWard 3 – Kelsey SantarossaWard 4 – John Kerr

Amherstburg

Councillor – Marc RenaudCouncillor – Lori Wightman

Mayor – Aldo DiCarloDeputy Mayor – Leo Meloche

WindsorMayor – Matt MarchandWard 1 – Darcie RenaudWard 3 – Rino BortolinWard 4 – Chris HoltWard 5 – Joey Wright

Ward 7 – Irek KusmierczykWard 8 – Patti HayesWard 9 – Kieran McKenzie

Ward 6 – Jeff Denomme

Ward 10 – Jim Morrison

LeamingtonMayorHilda MacDonaldCouncillorHeather LatamTim Wilkinson

LasalleCouncillorMichael AkpataAnita Riccio-Spagnuolo

TecumsehDeputy Mayor – Joe BachettiWard 4 – Brian Houston

Election Day

Monday, October 22Authorized by the Windsor and District Labour Council

ANNOUNCEMENTS, UPDATES, COMMUNICATIONSCHARITABLE DONATIONS - YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS

If a member of ARM Chapter 9 has the name of a charity that you would like the Executive to consider for the 2019-2020 fiscal year, we encourage you to submit your request as per the Donations Policy by December 31st, 2018, to the President of ARM 9, Bruce Awad. All requests submitted as per the Donations Policy will be then be brought to the ARM Executive for their consideration. The Chapter 9 Executive will then determine, which charitable organizations will be supported by our Chapter for the 2019-20 fiscal year.

The Policy States that “Charitable donation requests received prior to December 31st in any year will be considered by the Executive to be included in the following fiscal year’s budget”.

CANDIDATES ENDORSED BY WINDSOR ESSEX LABOUR COUNCIL, FOR OCTOBER 22

MUNICIPAL ELECTION

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The Brick Remembrance Ceremony was held on Friday September 7, 2018 at the Udine Fountain in downtown Windsor.

Four members were honored this year: David Scott, Patricia Gail Bondy, Gerry Dimmick and Inez Harrison.

Pauline Gaudette (standing centre) has continued quilting and donating to our Veterans.The recipient was Colonel Sol Bal t imore who is on the International Armed Forces Council Committee. In the picture are his family members and some Korean vets. On the far right is ARM member John Tomlinson who also is a member of the MIW (Military Institute of Windsor)

Gerry and Janine Strong John Tomlinson and Rita Citron

ARM members attended the MIW (Military Institute of Windsor) Summer Social 2018. At the Roseland Golf and Curling Club.

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The presentations by the speakers were excellent. The first speaker was John Anderson. He detailed the social housing crisis. 17,360 people in Ontario are on a waiting list for social housing. One third of the list are seniors. 200,000 are experiencing homelessness. A senior housing strategy is needed now.

Natalie Mehr spoke about the state of our health care system. The cuts to health care by governments will force the provinces to privatize health care because they will not have the funds from government to pay for the services. She says that we need to make government afraid to touch health care.

Elizabeth  Bellerman gave us a talk on pensions. We should be opposing Bill C27 which switches public service pensions from a defined benefit plan to a targeted pension plan.

Marc Andrew Fleury from Carleton University spoke about Pharmacare. Social assistance people have a reason not to work. If they take a job and have to pay for prescriptions for certain conditions, it will cost them more than what they are earning. His position is that prescription drugs should be included in the Canada Health Act. Pharmacare will increase the disposable income for all Canadians.

Suze Morrison NDP/MPP from Hamilton said that Ford will cut $22 billion in one year. Harris cut $15 billion over 4 years.

CURC Election results:

President- Bill Chedore1st Vice President -Louisette Hinton2nd Vice President-Janice BernierRecording Secretary-Janice GaireyTreasurer-Lucienne BahuaudMember At Large Women-Lena SuttonMember At Large Minority - Irma Mohammond

Recommendations:1. I think that we should send a delegate to the next Triennial. It was very worthwhile.2. We should get involved in the Pharmacare Campaign.3. Work with local retirees groups to establish a CURC Chapter in Windsor.

Scott Hunt

REPORT FROM THE CURC TRIENNIAL CONFERENCE- Congress of Union Retirees of Canada -

ANNOUNCEMENTS, UPDATES, COMMUNICATIONS

ARM COUNCILhttp://www.armcouncil.osstf.ca. 

CHAPTER 9 ARM WEBSITE http://d9activeretiredmembersarm.webs.com

CURChttp://unionretiree.ca/

DISTRICT 9 OSSTFhttp://www.osstf9.com

EDUCATORS FINANCIAL GROUP (EFG)https://educatorsfinancialgroup.ca/

EDVANTAGEhttp://www.edvantage.ca

OFL Newsletterhttp://ofl.ca

OMERShttp://www.omers.com

ONTARIO HEALTH COALITIONwww.ontariohealthcoalition.ca

ONTARIO TEACHERS PENSION PLANhttps://www.otpp.com

OTIPhttps://otip.com

OTIP'S CAREPATH PROGRAMhttp://otip.carepath.ca/

SCOOP NEWS & VIEWShttp://scoopwindsor.ca

UNITED WAYhttps://www.weareunited.com

SPECIAL WEBSITE ADDRESSES

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ANNOUNCEMENTS, UPDATES, COMMUNICATIONS

Premier Doug Ford told the legislature that he would scrap paid sick days, as provided in the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, known as Bill 148.

Paid sick days and the other reforms in the Act from the legislated increase in the minimum wage to $15 to unpaid personal emergency leave and regulations that protect wages when workers face contract flipping, are improvements for workers across the province.

“There is no part of this Act that can be scrapped without hurting workers across this province. The reforms under Bill 148 improved conditions for workers across the board, updating shamefully outdated labour and employment laws. For our government to answer the call of big business by hurting the people he has promised to defend is shameful. The workers of this province will not rest until these protections in the workplace are guaranteed,” said Ontario Federation of Labour President Chris Buckley.

The Ontario Federation of Labour and community partners The Fight for $15 and Fairness held a press conference Friday which laid out the need to keep and enhance workers’ rights across the province, hearing from a minimum wage worker that the increase to a $14 minimum wage has meant pulling herself out of deep poverty, a doctor who spoke about the health benefits of decent work, and an Imam who talked about the benefit of fairer employment and labour laws on the members of his congregation.

The government has not introduced any legislation or regulation that would cancel Bill 148. There is still time to change their plan.

“It’s going to take more than a statement in the legislature to take away the rights that Ontarians have fought for,” said Buckley. “Workers in this province are entitled to the same rights that they were yesterday, and that includes the fact that the increase in the minimum wage increase is still scheduled to happen on January 1.”

Bill 148 includes important rights: 5 paid days for domestic and sexual violence survivors, 2 paid sick days, and 10 days of personal emergency leave days, two of which are paid, and other workplace protections.

“Big business wants to increase its profits on the backs of workers in this province,” said Buckley. “Our Premier should be looking after vulnerable workers in this province by respecting Bill 148. Those gains in Bill 148 provide a direct benefit to the workers that Doug Ford calls ‘the little guy.’ Cancelling Bill 148 will hurt, not help workers in Ontario.”

The OFL encourages the Premier to change his mind on Bill 148 and asks that Ontarians act by calling PC MPPs to tell them to keep Bill 148, or email MPPs by going to myrights.ca.

ONTARIO FEDERATION OF LABOUR REPORT ON BILL 148

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Mayor of WindsorFor this office, you are entitled to vote for 1 (one) candidate.Candidates:

Drew Dilkens incumbentFranz (Frank) DyckTom HenselErnie LamontMatt Marchand

Councillor Ward 1For this office, you are entitled to vote for 1 (one) candidate.Candidates:

Matt (Matthew) FordFred Francis incumbentKrysta Glovasky-RidsdaleWiquar HusainDarcie Renaud

Councillor Ward 2For this office, you are entitled to vote for 1 (one) candidate.Candidates:

Fabio CostanteJohn Elliott incumbent

Councillor Ward 3For this office, you are entitled to vote for 1 (one) candidate.Candidates:

Rino Bortolin incumbent Helmi CharifSteve Palenkas

Councillor Ward 4For this office, you are entitled to vote for 1 (one) candidate.Candidates:

Janice CampbellChris Holt incumbent

Councillor Ward 5For this office, you are entitled to vote for 1 (one) candidate.Candidates:

Adam CastleLillian B. KruzselyJoe LucierEd Sleiman incumbentMartin A. UtrosaJoey Wright

Councillor Ward 6For this office, you are entitled to vote for 1 (one) candidate.Candidates:

Jeff DenommeJo-Anne Gignac incumbentJosh JacquotTerry Yaldo

Councillor Ward 7For this office, you are entitled to vote for 1 (one) candidate.Candidates:

Barbara HollandIrek Kusmierczyk incumbentAngelo MarignaniAlbert Saba 

Councillor Ward 8For this office, you are entitled to vote for 1 (one) candidate.Candidates:

Giovanni (John) AbatiGemma Grey-HallPatti HayesGary KaschakGreg LemayKathryn MacDonellDavid SundinLisa Valente

Councillor Ward 9For this office, you are entitled to vote for 1 (one) candidate.Candidates:

Alex AggarwalKieran McKenzieHilary Payne incumbent

Councillor Ward 10For this office, you are entitled to vote for 1 (one) candidate.Candidates:

Olivia AshakPaul Borrelli incumbentWally ChafchakMohamed ChamsMark MasanovichJim MorrisonMichael PattersonSadiq Pirani

ANNOUNCEMENTS, UPDATES, COMMUNICATIONSALL CANDIDATES LISTS - CITY AND COUNTY

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Trustee Greater Essex County District School Board

For this office, you are entitled to vote for 2 (two) candidates.Candidates

Wards 1, 2, 9 combined:Patrick HannonSushil JainKim McKinley incumbentLinda QinJessica Sartori incumbentShirley-Lyn Watson

Wards 3, 4, 10 combined:Omar ChafchakSarah CipkarKatrina ElchamiDavid FergusonAlan Halberstadt incumbentBeau HelbertJag Pathak

Wards 5, 6, 7, 8 combined:Cathy CookeGale Simko Hatfield incumbentLaurie KomonHenry LauCheryl Lovell incumbent

Tecumseh/LakeshoreConnie Buckler incumbentRebekah HarrisonAlicia Higgison

Essex/Kingsville/HarrowJulia Burgess incumbentSheri Dzudovich

LaSalle/AmherstburgRon Le Clair incumbent

Leamington and Pelee IslandAimee OmsteadRae-Anne Scratch

Trustee Windsor Essex Catholic District School Board

For this office, you are entitled to vote for 1 (one) candidate.

Wards 1 and 10:Kevin M. HomickJoshua PineseFulvio Valentinis incumbent

Wards 2 and 9:Xavier GonzalezTony Polifroni

Wards 3 and 4:Andrew FurlongBernard Mastromattei incumbentEric Renaud

Wards 5 and 8:Fred Alexander incumbentJason Lazarus

Wards 6 and 7:Kim BouchardJeremy Renaud

LaSalle/AmherstburgFrank DiTomasso incumbentFrancis DucharmeKim Rathbone

Essex/Kingsville/Leamington/Pelee

Mary DiMenna incumbentDerek Thachuk

TecumsehMary Heath (acclaimed)

LakeshoreLisa Soulliere incumbent

Trustee Conseil Scolaire Catholique Providence 

For this office, you are entitled to vote for 1 (one) candidate.Candidates:

City of Windsor Wards 1, 9, Town of LaSalle combined: 

 (Nomination papers to be filed in the Town of LaSalle)

Jacques Kenny   (Acclaimed - Town of LaSalle)

City of Windsor Wards 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10 combined:  

Christian Trudeau   (Acclaimed - City of Windsor)

City of Windsor Wards 6, 7, Tecumseh Ward 1, 2 & 3 

combined:  (Nomination papers to be filed in the City of Windsor)  

Pauline MoraisFrançois Nono

Tecumseh 4, 5 Lakeshore 1, 2, 3, 4

Jean-Francois Gauthier (acclaimed)

Lakeshore 5, 6, Leamington, Pelee

Doris Sauve (acclaimed)

Amherstburg, Essex, KingsvilleDidier Marotte (acclaimed)

Trustee Conseil Scolaire Viamonde

Windsor and County of Essex:For this office, you are entitled to vote for 1 (one) candidate.Candidates

Owen HeroldYogen NoyadooGuillaume Teasdale incumbent

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ANNOUNCEMENTS, UPDATES, COMMUNICATIONSMunicipalities of Essex County: 

AMHERSTBURGMayor

Aldo DiCarlo (incumbent)Glenn Swinton

Deputy MayorRick FryerLeo MelocheDiane PougetBob Rozankovic

Council (five to be elected)Frank CleminsonPeter CourtneyPauline GemmellElizabeth (Libby) KeenanJason Lavigne (incumbent)Lina LazanjaDonald McArthurJohn MennaGregory MooreMichael PrueMarc RenaudPatricia SimoneRon SutherlandLori Wightman 

ESSEXMayor

Katie McGuire-BlaisRon RogersRob ShepleyLarry Snively

Deputy MayorRichard Meloche (incumbent)Phil Pocock

CouncilWard 1 – two to be elected

Morley BowmanJoe GaronFred GrovesTom HollandRandy Voakes (incumbent)

Ward 2 – one to be electedTerry BrockmanKim VerbeekMark Williams

Ward 3 – two to be electedSteve Bjorkman (incumbent from Ward 1)Rodney HammondChris Vander Doelen

Ward 4 – one to be electedSherry Bondy (incumbent)Paul Innes 

KINGSVILLEMayor

Nelson Santos (acclaimed)

Deputy MayorGord Queen (acclaimed)

There are 15 candidates for five council seats.

Two incumbents weren’t on the unofficial list Friday leaving room for new councillors.Council voted last year to use vote by mail this election and voter kits will be mailed out near the end of September.

Council candidates (Five to be elected)

Kevin BlackGloria CavenagoKim DeYongTony Gaffan (incumbent)Kim GillilandCorey GosselinJackie KerrMichael LabaJohn LeinLaura LucierTed MastronardiLarry Patterson (incumbent)Paul LariviereThomas Neufeld (incumbent)Barry Wilson

 LAKESHOREMayor

Tom Bain (incumbent)

Deputy MayorTracey BaileyAl Fazio (incumbent)Sean Gabriele

Council – one elected in each ward

Ward 1John-Mark JurakSteven Wilder (incumbent)

Ward 2Lana DrouillardLen Janisse (incumbent)Samantha Russell

Ward 3Steve ColasantiRay HollandKelsey SantarossaKevin St. Pierre

Ward 4Romeo BeaulieuSteven BezairePaddy ByrneSusan DozoisJohn KerrJennifer-Jane Poisson

Ward 5Dan Diemer (incumbent)Rolf KellerTim McDermottWayne RoseKirk Walstedt

Ward 6Linda McKinlay (incumbent) 

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ANNOUNCEMENTS, UPDATES, COMMUNICATIONS

LASALLEMayor

Gary BaxterMarc Bondy

Deputy MayorCrystal Meloche

Council – Five councillors will be elected:

Michael Akpata (incumbent)Adrien BezaireTerry Burns (incumbent)Mark CarrickSue Desjarlais (incumbent)Russ HazaelJeff Renaud (incumbent)Anita Riccio-SpagnuoloSam Sleiman 

LEAMINGTONMayor

Hilda MacDonaldBruce MedcalfJohn Paterson (incumbent)

Deputy MayorDharmesh PatelLarry Verbeke

Council candidates (five to be elected)

Bill Dunn (incumbent)Derek FriesenDonald W. HaggithJohn Hammond (incumbent)John Jacobs (incumbent)Trevor JonesHeather LatamMarlon OrdonezOscar RamirezBrian ScottMark SimpsonKyle SousaPaul TiessenTim Wilkinson (incumbent) 

PELEE ISLANDMayor

Ray Durocher

Four councillors to be elected:

David DawsonDavid DeLellis (incumbent)Bruno FriesenDayne Malloch (incumbent)Sherri Smith-OuelletteChristopher Watson 

TECUMSEHTecumseh will use Internet and telephone voting.

MayorGary McNamara (incumbent)

Deputy MayorJoe Bachetti (incumbent)Leo DemarceRita Ossington

Council candidates:Ward 1Andrew Dowie (incumbent)

Ward 2William Altenhof (incumbent)

Ward 3Dwayne EllisRick Tonial

Ward 4Brian Houston (incumbent from old Ward 3)Adam IbrahimMichael Ristovski

Ward 5Tania Jobin (incumbent from old Ward 4)

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