Punch Up Collective

Centretown Tenant Power Official Launch
2025-10-26 13:30 - 15:30 (America/Toronto)
Are you a tenant in Centretown? Are you tired of feeling powerless against rising rents and bad landlords? Join Centretown Tenant Power (CTP) in building our own power to challenge landlords and the exploitative housing system!
Inspired by our neighbours, the Tenants of Sandy Hill (TOSH), we recognize the need for neighbourhood-based tenant organizing that is responsive to conditions in Centretown.
Join us at our official launch the afternoon of October 26 to find out how we plan to build tenant power in Centretown, and how you can get involved!
Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeXq6p10W9rOXpLvhJLTrzZK7_r8VhEeTGPAIkph_om_dLybQ/viewform

Film screening: The Disappearance of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
2025-10-27 18:00 - 20:00 | Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Dr., Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6, Canada
Join us for a powerful documentary screening of “The Disappearance of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya”, about the imprisonment of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, a prominent doctor and chief of Kamal Adwan hospital in Gaza who has been detained in Israeli prison for over 10 months.
We will also be holding a discussion with Carleton University Professor Iyas Abu-Hajiar, who will be sharing his lived experiences in Gaza and his work in supporting hospitals.
When: Monday, October 27th at 6pm
Location: Nideyinàn 231 (Porter Hall), Carleton University
Registration here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdqx9zd1AzKCI_8pZNkUSCWFBWfGR9fVrduYWYFAb74u784Zw/viewform

Book launch: We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System:
2025-10-27 19:00 - 20:00 | Octopus Books, 116 Third Ave, Ottawa, Canada
The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is honoured to welcome longtime organizer Jonathan Rosenblum to Ottawa for the launch of his brand new book, We’re Coming for You and Your Rotten System: How Socialists Beat Amazon and Upended Big-City Politics.
“Jonathan Rosenblum’s illuminating account of Kshama Sawant’s decade as Seattle’s first and only socialist city councilmember … is a model for how to build working-class power through class struggle.” —Robin D.G. Kelley
Monday Oct 27th, 7:00pm – 8:00pm. Doors open at 6:30pm.
Octopus Books, 116 Third Ave.
Read more & RSVP

Science for the People 'Canada' The Social Production of Science online reading group
2025-10-27 20:00 - 21:30 | Online
This reading group continues SftP’s tradition of running a reading group alongside our local organising, and the goal of this series is to better link our collective education with collective action, bringing together members to deepen our shared understanding of science, power, and liberation.
Developed and maintained by the Science for the People – New Haven Chapter, this curriculum investigates how Marxism, science, and capitalism intersect — and how these forces shape both knowledge and the material conditions of our world. Through discussion and reflection, we’ll consider what it means to reclaim science as a tool for social transformation.
Science for the People ‘Canada’ has grown, both in number of chapters and membership, and now is a crucial moment to clarify our strategic goals and direction. This series is one way we can do that together.
All members, new and old, are warmly invited. Each module will include two readings; participants are encouraged to complete both, and facilitators will provide summaries to guide discussion. Note:
To help foster an atmosphere of comradely curiosity:
Please come prepared with:
– One open-ended question about the readings to share with the group
– One response or connection to organizing you have done or would like to do locally
Module meetings will occur monthly on Monday evenings at 8pm EST.
Follow Register link for more details!

Seeking Justice for Hassan Diab. Almost 20 years of Violated Human Rights
2025-10-29 08:00 - 17:00 | Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 290 Lisgar Street, Ottawa
The keynote speaker is Alex Neve, 2025 CBC Massey Lecturer and the former Secretary General for Amnesty International Canada.
There will also be a presentation by Don Bayne, Lawyer for Hassan Diab who will speak about the sham French trial, held in absentia, the declared Dr. Diab guilty.
There will be a Q & A.

Policing Black Lives (2nd ed) - Book launch with Robyn Maynard
2025-10-29 19:00 - 21:00 | SAW Gallery, 67 Nicholas Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N7B9, Canada
WHO AND WHAT?
Join us for an evening with award-winning and best-selling author and scholar Robyn Maynard (@policingblack) as she launches the revised and expanded edition of her book “Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present” (published @fernpub) on unceded and unsurrendered Algonquin Anishinaabe Territory | in Ottawa.
Following her talk, she will be joined by local anti-Black racism and police defunding organizers Nhora Aust (@justiceforanthonyaust), Robin Browne (@black_hubnoir), and police violence survivor Anthony Marriott for a roundtable discussion moderated by Sheryl-Ann Simpson (Planning for Abolition) on the state of Black freedom struggles and their visions for futures beyond surveillance, policing, and imprisonment.
WHY?
While all levels of government across the country have committed to ending anti-Black racism, it persists, including through increased investments in institutions and practices such as policing and imprisonment. In a local context where the Ottawa Police Service is proposing a massive 6.5% / $25 million increase to their operating budget for 2026 and is trying to get their cops back in schools, and at a time when children warehoused at the William E. Hay youth detention centre routinely face harm and the Government of Ontario has announced a series of jail infrastructure projects that, if all built, will increase our province’s human caging capacity by 1,601 beds to the tune of nearly $3 billion for construction alone, there is a need to collectively reimagine what is possible and organize towards achieving real safety and liberation for all.
EVENT ORGANIZERS:
@cpepgroup, @cappontario & the #NOPE | No Ontario Prison Expansion campaign
EVENT CONTACT:
justin.piche@uottawa.ca

Political Ecology with Dr. Karena Shaw (Zoom)
2025-10-30 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
Join us on October 30 as we welcome Dr. Karena Shaw to discuss political ecology and her most recent research.
Register: https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/U5mu565bSIeAQ91Ndl1UEg#/registration

ACORN's Renoviction Bylaw Consultation with City Staff
2025-10-30 18:00 - 19:00 | 404 McArthur Ave, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Landlords in Ottawa are kicking out long-term tenants under the false excuse of “renovations”— just to jack up the rent. That’s a renoviction! Thanks to tenant organizing by ACORN members across the province, Ottawa is finally developing a bylaw. So, to make sure this bylaw protects us where it counts, ACORN is consulting with the City on October 30th at 6PM. Come out to tell the City what YOU think should be in a Renoviction Bylaw and fill out this questionnaire: http://bit.ly/4nFMKPp BEFORE OCT. 30TH, 2025 to fight for tenant protections and affordable housing!

Book launch: Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism
2025-10-30 18:00 - 20:00 | Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 290 Lisgar Street, Ottawa
Join Carleton University’s Department of History for a talk by Cynthia Miller-Idriss as she discusses her latest book, Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism.
What two things do most violent extremists have in common? Most of us know the first: they are almost always men or boys. But the second? They are almost always virulent misogynists, homophobes, or transphobes. Yet, despite all evidence, misogyny is barely acknowledged by the media. Miller-Idriss, a leading expert on extremism, addresses this crucial oversight head-on.
Thursday Oct 30th, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper St.
Read more & RSVP

Ottawa South Chapter to Protest Hazelview Properties
2025-11-04 13:00 - 14:00 | 2850 Cedarwood Drive, 2850 Cedarwood Drive
Renters who live in Hazelview Properties run rentals are fighting back against lack of repairs, frequent elevator shutdowns, pest issues and more!

Film Screening: The Encampments
2025-11-05 19:00 - 21:15 | University of Ottawa, 75 Laurier Ave East, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N6N5, Canada
An urgent look at America’s student movement, sparked at Columbia University, as students protested ties to the genocide in Gaza.

Join us for a free screening of “The Encampments”a film which offers an urgent, intimate portrait of America’s student movement, ignited at Colombia University, as students protested their universities’ ties to the genocide in Gaza. Screening to be followed by a panel.
Location: Tabaret Hall (TBT) Room 333, University of Ottawa, 550 Cumberland St.
Time:7pm
Screening sponsored by: Faculty for Palestine – University of Ottawa, Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) Carleton, Insaf uOttawa, and Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) Carleton
Film and event will be in English

All Out for El-Fashir
2025-11-07 17:30 - 19:30 | Human Rights Monument, 220 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
No business as usual while El-Fashir and Darfur face genocidal violence at the hands of the Emirati and American backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The last couple of days have seen some of the most brutal and unimaginable violence carried out in the name of the RSF’s campaign of ethnic cleansing and the larger imperialist war on Sudan.
WE MUST STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF EL-FASHIR, DARFUR, AND SUDAN.

Speed Dating and Speed Friending for Progressives (Fall Edition!)
2025-11-07 18:30 - 21:00 | Nostalgica Pub, 601 Cumberland St,
Mark your calendars!
More details to come soon

A Sonic Bridge: Florence-Delphine Roux (live) / Paul Jasen (talk)
2025-11-07 19:00 - 21:30 | Carleton Dominion Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper St, Ottawa, K2P 0G6
Access your electromagnetic imagination through an evening of radio art
Join us to explore the Art of Transmission with an evening of groundbreaking radio art and performance presented in partnership with CUAG. Explore the radical potentialities of analog radio through the work of artist and author Paul Jasen and media and sound artist Florence-Delphine Roux.
Artist and author Paul Jasen (A People of Oscillators) will discuss his project The ether is free, a “fictive radioscape” released as an audio recording, radio transmitter kit and text. Discover the electromagnetic wilderness of natural radio, the interventions of pirates and shortwave spies, and consider how accessible DIY media might help new collectivities take root beyond the reach of The Platform.
Florence-Delphine Roux will present her performance Chronique d’Ether where she captures, perturbs and reveals radiophonic and electromagnetic frequencies in an interactive dialogue between space, antennas and her body. Through electronic craft and electromagnetically responsive sculpture, Roux cultivates an environment of attentive listening, unsettled by the noise of the world.
This event is part of CUAG’s Stonecroft Semester series themes “The Art of Transmission”. The event is free and open to everyone. No registration is required. Non-alcoholic beverages will be provided.

Queer/Sex/Work
2025-11-08 15:30 - 17:30 | Arts Court, Studio B, 2 Daly Ave, Ottawa
A program of rarely- or never before-screened short videos by Canadian queer and trans sex worker activists, or interviews featuring them, from the 1970s-1990s. This program foregrounds queer and trans sex workers’ own voices, speaking candidly to one another about their experiences, or engaging with straight media to explode myths and bust stigma faced by sex workers. This program is presented by the “Sex Worker Self-Authoring in the Canadian Women’s Movement Archive” project at Carleton University in collaboration with Ottawa Independent Companions, C.O.R.A.S., and Maggie’s Toronto Sex Worker Action Project. The screening will be followed by a brief talkback with programmers and co-presenters.

Protecting Renters Townhall
2025-11-09 14:30 - 16:30 | Jack Purcell Community Centre, 320 Jack Purcell Lane, Ottawa, Ontario, K2P1M4, Canada
Join us for a community townhall discussion about your rights as a tenant, how you can exercise those rights, and what tools you have at your disposal to stay secure as a renter.
Where:
Jack Purcell Community Centre, Room 203
320 Jack Purcell Ln, Room 203

Stand Up for Wildlife- Stop Nuclear Waste!
2025-11-12 12:00 - 14:00 | 90 Sparks Street, 90 Sparks Street, Ottawa, K1P
We’re back in court on November 12 to defend the Kichi Sibi and our watershed from a nuclear waste megadump! Concerned Citizens of Renfrew County and Area, Kebaowek First Nation, Sierra Club Canada and the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility took Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) to court and WON . . . but CNL has appealed.
JOIN US as CNL’s appeal is heard, and citizen groups and First Nations again argue before a judge why the law must be respected.
A judge said that Environment Canada should not have issued a “Species at Risk Permit” for the radioactive waste dump to be built on CNL’s chosen site near the Ottawa River, where it will destroy habitat for protected and endangered species. CNL is a creation of and funded by the federal government – so it’s the feds fighting citizens in Federal Court.
Join us from Noon to 2 PM in front of 90 Sparks St. Do it for the endangered bats, songbirds, turtles, Eastern wolves and bears living on the site of the future radioactive megadump!
Many of these animals are sacred to Indigenous peoples, as is the Kichi Sibi. Read more about the unique biodiversity and threatened species at the Chalk River site:
https://concernedcitizens.net/…/ottawa-river…/
https://raventrust.com/…/radioactive-waste-away-from…/
BACKGROUND:
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has approved construction of a seven-storey radioactive mound beside the Ottawa River at Chalk River Laboratories, a federal nuclear research facility 180 km north-west of Ottawa.
The waste facility construction will remove 10,000 mature trees and destroy vital habitat for endangered bats, the Canadian Warbler, the rare Golden-Winged Warbler, Blanding’s Turtles, endangered Eastern Wolves and active Black Bear dens.
The megadump will hold one million tonnes of radioactive and other hazardous waste, threatening the drinking water of millions of Canadians. Ten of the 11 Algonquin First Nations are opposed to the project, and a Federal Court judge agreed that free, prior and informed consent was not respected.
More than 140 municipalities are also opposed. Canadian taxpayers are footing the multi-billion-dollar bill, but a corporate consortium is calling the shots. The waste needs to be cleaned up, but there are better ways to do so.
Ten things Canadians need to know about the giant radioactive waste mound coming to the Ottawa River

The Palestine tribunal on Canadian Responsibility
2025-11-14 09:00 - 2025-11-15 17:00
PURPOSE
To document the multiple ways that Canadian entities – including government bodies, corporations, universities, charities, media, and other cultural institutions – have enabled and continue to enable the settler colonization and genocide of Palestinians, and to articulate what justice and reparations would require. Disrupting the victim/expert dichotomy, testimonies by survivors from Palestine will be woven throughout the hearings as a source of expert knowledge on what justice would entail. A Panel of Eminent Elders will be invited to listen to the witness testimonies and draft a report outlining the Tribunal’s findings.
DATE & LOCATION
November 14 and 15, 2025; Ottawa (specific location will be sent to registered attendees before the hearings). Hearings will also be live-streamed on event website.
SPEAKERS
Witnesses from Palestine, as well as leading Canadian and international legal experts, academics, journalists, and human rights advocates
For evidence/brief submissions, organizational endorsements, media inquiries, or any other questions, email palcan.tribunal@protonmail.com
Watch Senator Yuen Pau Woo’s speech mentioning the tribunal: https://senatoryuenpauwoo.ca/en/parliamentary-activities/speeches/motion-on-the-risk-of-canada-s-complicity-in-the-gaza-genocide/

Stop the Cuts: A People's Assembly
2025-11-14 18:00 - 20:30 | Bronson Centre, 211 Bronson Ave, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
On Nov 4th, the federal government is promising deep cuts to healthcare, education, and climate action. And for what? Billions for weapons of war and tax cuts for the rich.

Want to do something about it? Join the Council of Canadians on Nov. 14 at 6pm in Ottawa.

Register here https://canadians.org/event/a-peoples-assembly/

Seeking Justice for Hassan Diab
2025-11-14 18:00 - 20:30 | Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 290 Lisgar Street, Ottawa
The Hassan Diab Support Committee Presents
Seeking Justice for Hassan Diab
Almost 20 Years of Violated Human Rights
Canada Must Act to Protect Hassan Diab
Keynote speaker: Alex Neve, 2025 CBC Massey Lecturer, Former Secretary General for Amnesty International Canada.
Presentation and Q&A: Don Bayne, Lawyer for Hassan Diab
Doors open at 5:30pm / Event starts at 6pm
Event is free and open to the public.
Light refreshments will be served

Laylit @ Gridwrks
2025-11-14 21:00 - 2025-11-15 02:00 | Gridwrks, 221 Rideau Street, Ottawa, K1N 5X8
Laylit is a platform and collective celebrating music and artists from the Arab/SWANA region and its diaspora. Over the last four years their dance parties in New York City and Montreal have carved out an unmatched place in North American nightlife, becoming an anticipated social gathering and unique musical experience.
Each party takes you on a genre-spanning journey, highlighting the incredible musical diversity, depth and richness that comes out of the region. Laylit has established its place on the scene with a signature electronic sound blending shaabi, dabke, mahraganat, Arabic pop and hip-hop with contemporary, boundary pushing dance music (techno, breakbeat, hyperpop…) inspired by New York and Montreal’s thriving underground clubs. Featured in multiple publications including the New York Times and Pitchfork, Laylit recently celebrated its 5-year anniversary with a Boiler Room event in NYC and a tour across multiple North American cities. Laylit values inclusivity and unity across cultures, languages, dialects, religions, identity and sexual orientations.

Candles for COP30
2025-11-15 15:00 - 17:00 | Knox Presbyterian Church Ottawa, 120 Lisgar, Ottawa, Canada
From November 10–21, world leaders, civil society, Indigenous peoples, grassroots movements and others will gather at the COP30 United Nations Climate Change Conference(opens in a new tab) in Belém, Brazil, to advance action on addressing the climate emergency. Delegates from The United Church of Canada will be attending as part of the KAIROS delegation(opens in a new tab).
Together with fellow members of For the Love of Creation, The United Church of Canada invites groups to host candlelight vigils in their own communities on the weekend of November 14–16, 2025.
OTTAWA: SATURDAY NOVEMBER 15TH, 3PM
KNOX PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH – PARLOUR ROOM
120 LISGAR ST ( @ ELGIN)
There is much reason to gather, pray, and witness.
Despite increasing evidence of the climate emergency and compounding threats to democracy, environmental, and human rights, leaders across the world and particularly in Canada are failing to take the decisive action needed to protect our world, and particularly the most vulnerable members of the global community. Canada has yet to reduce our national emissions, and our government continues to approve and subsidize new fossil fuel infrastructure; most recently, it violated Indigenous rights and environmental protections by pushing through Bill C-5.
Meanwhile, the global debt crisis is compounding climate impacts in the Global South where countries are spending more on interest payments than on health, education, and climate adaptation. Wealthy and high-emitting countries like Canada have a responsibility to do their fair share by reducing our emissions faster and providing robust financing to support the transition to clean energy in the Global South.
You can read more, find prayers, and see vigil locations on the For the Love of Creation webpage. At this event, we’ll have the Jubilee 2025 petition available for signing.
Let us use this opportunity to draw attention to local and regional concerns regarding climate change, and national and global ones too.
Let us join together, act, and pray that the voices of the people most affected by climate change and those most marginalized from the conversations at COP30 are heard, movements strengthened, and commitments implemented.
Additional worship and prayer resources are available on our Climate Change Worship page. Please post invitations to join your vigil and photos of your vigil on social media using the hashtags #UCCan.

Debaser presents Labyrinth Ensemble
2025-11-15 19:30 - 21:30 | Gridwrks, 221 Rideau Street, Ottawa, K1N 5X8
Toronto’s foremost maqam group, the Labyrinth Ensemble, has spent four years dedicated to experimenting with and promoting modal music traditions of Central, West, and South Asia, and the Mediterranean. Coming from various areas of experience and musical backgrounds, the musicians learned to master new ways of hearing, performing, and thinking about music.
Mentored by a rotating roster of international guest musicians, the 12 musicians are a shining representative of Toronto’s unique sonic landscape. The Labyrinth Ensemble boasts a wide range of instruments from santur to gayageum to lyra , forming a rich palette, and opening up unlimited possibilities for creation and collaboration.
Now on their seventh intensive, the Ensemble has become deeply attuned to the idioms of modal music, showcasing each member’s unique voice through improvisation. With this tour, arts presenter Labyrinth Ontario highlights the founder of the original Labyrinth in Crete: Ross Daly and longtime collaborator Kelly Thoma.
This duo has dedicated their lives to the study of modal music, and are recognized as the foremost experts on the island of Crete’s rich musical tradition. Among the greatest exponents of this music in the world today, Labyrinth Ontario is thrilled to bring you a night dedicated to Daly’s contemporary modal music compositions.
The touring members of the Labyrinth Ensemble are Sadaf Amini, Julian Anderson-Bowes, Yang Chen, Burak Ekmekçi, Michael K. Harrist, Roa Lee, Naomi McCarroll-Butler, Sasan Salaseli, Araz Salek, Marta Solek, Tev Stevig, Aysel Taghi-Zada, and Amely Zhou.

Grieving Medically Assisted Deaths - Queer Death Salon
2025-11-18 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
Medically assisted death is becoming more common globally, and yet there are few places to share about this experience. Join us as we discuss our experience and share about our loved ones who chose medically assisted death at the end of their lives.
Some questions to consider:
How does it feel to know in advance when your loved one will die?
How did you support or interact with the decision making around this choice?
What opportunities has this choice opened up?
How did this compare to other deaths you’ve experienced?
Participants are encouraged to bring their own questions, stories, and complexities to share.

What's the winter plan to ensure no one dies in the cold? Rally and petition
2025-11-19 16:00 - 17:30 | 110 Laurier Avenue W, 110 Laurier Avenue West, Ottawa, ON, K1P 1J1, Canada
This past year, the City of Ottawa closed the emergency overnight shelters held at Bernard Grand Maître Arena, Dempsey Community Centre, Heron Road Community Centre, and the Graham Spry Building under the premise of having created capacity within Ottawa’s existing shelter system.
Ottawa’s shelters have approximately 950 beds and Ottawa’s homeless population is nearing 3,000. There are drop-in facilities, including HART Hubs, Belong Ottawa, and Centre 507 but they do not offer places to sleep. Their hours and capacity are also limited and can be inconsistent.
The City’s 10 Year Housing and Homelessness Plan set out to have “no one unsheltered” by the end of 2024. Kale Brown, Ottawa’s Manager of Homelessness Programs and Shelters, insists there is a warm bed for everyone. However, front-line workers and unhoused neighbors know that most of the resources celebrated by the City are simply not enough. In addition, as of October 2025, Ottawa Public Health irresponsibly lists outdated overflow shelters that have been permanently closed. There are currently no clear, dignified solutions to ensure that nobody suffers or dies in the cold.
Local politicians think they will solve homelessness in Ottawa by quoting the City’s false promises instead of listening to the realities of unhoused folks, their loved ones, and front-line workers on the ground. We urgently need multiple warming centres that:
– Remain open from the 20th of December 2025 to the 20th of March of 2026 (staffed by experienced and trauma-informed workers, operated 24 hours 7 days a week)
– Have sleep capacity in the form of beds, cots, or mats (making people sleep on chairs is inhumane)
– Apply the City’s own shelter standards of equity and inclusion to these facilities
Have several accessible locations (with transport available for service users)
Leave no one behind (which means no one turned away)
This winter, without proper emergency solutions in place, our unhoused community members and loved ones will continue to suffer serious injuries or die.
No more unloading of a governmental responsibility onto non-profit and precariously funded organizations. No more empty talk. No more excuses. We need concrete actions and a guaranteed winter plan by November 26th 2025 so we can trust a plan will be operational in time as the weather gets colder.
Join us on Wednesday, November 19 at 4 pm to demand an immediate winter plan and a commitment to opening warming centres from the City of Ottawa. We will meet at 110 Laurier Avenue West, by the Dorothy O’Connell Monument to Anti-Poverty Activism located in the south lawn of Ottawa City Hall.
Enter your information into the Action Network tool to send a petition email to Mayor Mark Sutcliffe, General Manager of Community and Social Services Clara Freire, Manager of Housing and Homelessness Kale Brown, and City Councillors. The tool will ask you for an address. If you don’t have one, or don’t want to share your address, please list the address of a nearby community health centre or library.
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/ottawa-whats-the-winter-plan

Transgender Day of Remembrance Vigil
2025-11-20 19:00 - 21:00
Hi everyone, late as always, but maybe it’s queer time. We’re organizing a TDOR vigil on Thursday November 20th at 7pm at the human rights monument. We will be reading the names of the many transgender people who have been killed through violence this past year, and holding space for our community to grieve. Please come and remember them with us.
The night is often very cold, so bring warm clothes and mittens and maybe some hand warmers. We will have tea lights and wax cups for them but we encourage you to bring your own candles if you have them.
If you’re interested in speaking about a loved one you lost or another relevant subject you can use the QR or scan the link in our bio to sign up.
Hope to see you there!

Rally: Tenants Fight Back!
2025-11-22 11:00 - 12:00 | Confederation Park, Elgin and Laurier, Ottawa
Join the tenant unions and Off The Defensive to show the politicians that Ottawa won’t accept Bill 60 or any other threat to our dignity. Rally against:
X Bill 60
X For-profit Evictions
X Attacks on Tenants
Organized by Off the Defensive Ottawa, Tenants of Sandy Hill, Centretown Tenant Power, and the Lowertown Tenant Union

Harmony Circle for Palestine with Albert Dumont
2025-11-22 12:00 - 13:30
For this Harmony Circle, Albert will be in conversation with Maysa Hawwash, a Palestinian leader and a founding member of the Doctors Against Genocide leadership team. We are holding this Harmony Circle at an earlier time in the day as Maysa will be joining us from Palestine (and we needed to account for the seven hour time difference).I met Maysa at the Aug 30th Vigil for Palestinian children. You can watch her powerful speech at that Vigil here: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1338332717809100I hope you can join us.

Organizing Against Above Guideline rent Increases
2025-11-22 14:00 - 17:00 | Bronson Centre, 211 Bronson Ave, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
AGIs (above guideline rent increases) are an exploitative practice that extracts even more rent from tenants. Tenants across Ottawa are organizing to fight their AGIs!
On Saturday, November 22nd 2025 from 2pm-5pm, at the Bronson Center (Nepean Room), come learn about how to fight AGIs, a legal form of expropriation that contributes to housing insecurity by artificially inflating rental prices across the city!
The event will have 3 sections:
Demystifying the LTB process and why organizing within the LTB is not fruitful.
Organizers and tenants who have successfully fought against AGIs will share their experiences resisting AGIs outside the LTB.
Tenants in Ottawa will exchange strategic experiences, ideas, and questions around fighting AGIs outside the limited arena of the LTB process.
Please use this link to confirm attendance: https://tinyurl.com/tenantsfightAGIs
This event has been organized by the Neighbourhood Organizing Center (NOC) together with tenants unions Centertown Tenant Power, Lowertown Tenants Union, and Tenants of Sandy Hill.

International Migrants Alliance: Open Orientation
2025-11-22 16:00 - 19:00 | SEIU Local 2 Office, 303 Waverly St, Ottawa
What is the International Migrants Alliance? We are a global Alliance of grassroots migrant organizations, unions, and advocates fighting for the rights and dignity of migrants, refugees, and displaced peoples. We work to build international solidarity among communities resisting exploitation, imperialism, and systemic oppression from Canada to the Global South.
Join us at the SEIU Local 2 office (303 Waverley St.) on Saturday, November 22 for our open orientation!
This orientation is open to anyone interested in learning more about IMA – our principles, our global work, and how to get involved with local and international movements. It’s a great opportunity for potential migrants and refugee member organizations and allied associate member organizations, or anyone curious about migrant struggles to connect and learn.
