Protecting Renters Townhall
2025-11-09 14:30 - 16:30 (America/Toronto) | 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 | Ontario
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 | Ontario
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 | Ontario
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.

Queer SWANA Stories
2025-11-23 18:30 - 21:30 | Club SAW, 67 Nicholas St, Ottawa, K1N 7B9
A live storytelling showcase in Ottawa–Gatineau, by and for queer SWANA artists.
Step into a night of powerful, moving, and unapologetic stories from the queer SWANA community. This is a space where oral histories, personal journeys, and cultural truths come alive—told in our voices, on our terms.
Queer SWANA Stories isn’t just an event—it’s a celebration of resilience, creativity, and self-expression, highlighting the rich, diverse narratives that often go unheard. Join us for an evening that honors our identities, our experiences, and our communities.
Because our stories shouldn’t be written about us without us. 🖤

Module 2 - Science as Proletarianizing and Proletarianized
2025-11-24 08:00 - 21:30 | Online
This is module 2 of a reading group series. Follow Register link for more details!
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.

OPS Budget Protest
2025-11-24 16:00 - 17:00 | Human Rights Monument, 220 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
The Ottawa Police Service is set to receive an increase of $26.1 million in 2026 bringing their total net operating budget to an astounding $414.9 million. Meanwhile, social services and community supports that are necessary for building safe and equitable communities are left detrimentally underfunded in this city.

For example, the Ottawa City Budget 2026 allocates increases of:
•     $2.2 million for essential health and social supports;
•     $2 million for social housing;
•     $1.4 million (inflationary increase) for the Ottawa Community Housing Safer Communities, Homelessness Prevention Program, emergency shelters and facility costs.

This is mere pennies compared to the nearly half billion dollars we will funnel into the OPS next year.

In response, we are holding a protest at the Human Rights Monument on November 24th at 4pm to demand that the city of Ottawa reconsider the 2026 OPS Budget and begin to build real community safety through the reallocation of the $26 million increase proposed for police into stable housing, accessible care, community support, and meaningful investment in people.

Please see the attached poster for event details and feel free to share within your networks. Also, please check out our Instagram post.

We hope to see you on November 24th to demand that the OPS and city of Ottawa start funding our community, not cops!

Arms Embargo Now Volunteer Meeting & Strategy Session
2025-11-24 18:30 - 20:00 | Ontario
Join us on Monday, November 24, at 6:30PM for a volunteer meeting and strategy session to discuss the next steps towards a full arms embargo.

Although a ceasefire is in place, the people of Gaza and across Palestine are still being injured, displaced, and murdered as a result of the Zionist occupation. Despite countless examples that prove a genocide is being committed, the latest Arms Embargo Now report proves that Canada is using loopholes to continue profiting off the blood of our people. This government thinks they can distance themselves from their crimes but we know the truth and together, we have the power to put an end to it.

RSVP for location

Contre-culture et mouvement de la jeunesse au coeur de l'antifascisme
2025-11-24 19:00 - 20:30 | Atelier of the Mauril-Bélanger Social Innovation Workshop, at Saint Paul University, 65 Clegg Street, Ottawa, K1S 1C4
Cette conférence sera donnée par la militante Jacynthe LaFlèche qui racontera l’histoire du collectif Anti-fasciste Action Ottawa.
Bio: Bébé d’Hull, Vanier grrl, Jacynthe est franco-descendante ayant grandi majoritairement près de la Kichi-sibi, le territoire Algonquin de la rivière Ottawa. Fin 1980/début 1990, c’est par le biais des concerts all-ages de la scène musicale punk d’Ottawa qu’elle découvre des ressources antifascistes dans certains ‘zines, participant et démarrant des collectifs avec des camarades. Ayant passé une saison à Minneapolis, berceau du 1er A.R.A (Anti-Racist Action), elle s’investit dans l’organisation communautaire autonome. Elle a été membre du comité éditorial du journal du réseau nord américain Love&Rage/Amor y Rabia et plus tard du collectif EXILE Infoshop. Elle est aussi bénévole pour Families of Sisters in Spirit (familles des femmes autochtones disparues) et le réseau des survivants de la rafle des années 60, Sixties Scoop Network car pour elle l’antifascisme se doit d’avoir une lentille anticoloniale. Elle s’intéresse aux archives communautaires et la mémoire collective de mouvements autonomes et anarchistes.

Film Screening of 'peace love (unicorns) & communism' by Adeola Egbeyemi
2025-11-26 12:00 - 14:30 | University of Ottawa, 75 Laurier Ave East, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N6N5, Canada
The film follows a student activist at McMaster University.
Join us for the screening of ‘peace love (unicorns) & communism’ by Adeola Egbeyemi.
The film follows a student activist at McMaster University as they cover topics such as the women’s resource centre, divestment, policing, and more. The film is being screened to bring attention to the importance of student activism within and outside of the university institutions.
We will be joined by the filmmaker and two cast crews for the Q&A.
Register at the external eventbrite link available here.
The event is only offered in English.

Community advance screening of Palestine 36!
2025-11-28 19:30 - 21:00 | Ben Franklin Place, 101 CentrePoint Drive, Ottawa
NE NIGHT ONLY – ADVANCED FILM SCREENING

Join us on Friday, Nov 28 at 7:30 pm at Ben Franklin Place (101 Centrepointe Dr) for a special community advance screening of Palestine 36!

Watermelon Pictures has made the film available on an exceptional basis in recognition of the UN International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.

Palestine 36 follows Yusuf in 1936 as he journeys between Jerusalem and his rural home amid rising unrest and a pivotal moment for the British Empire – set against the backdrop of the Palestinian revolt against British colonial rule.

Be among the first to experience this epic film and support a work that brings a powerful, yet long untold, chapter of Palestinian history to Western audiences.

Date: Friday, Nov 28
Doors open: 7:30 pm
Screening: 7:45 pm
Location: Ben Franklin place (101 CentrePoint Drive)

Buy your ticket here: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/palestine-36-advance-film-screening

International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
2025-11-29 14:00 - 17:00 | Human Rights Monument, 220 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
OTTAWA PROTEST – All out for the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
Join us at the Human Rights Monument on November 29th at 2PM as we take to the streets. From wherever we are, we will demand an arms embargo now. We will continue confronting Zionism and holding those in power to account for as long as it takes.
The people of the world have stood with Palestine for over two years, and we’re not stopping. Since the ceasefire announcement, Israel has massacred hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza, attacked the West Bank, and continued its abuse, torture and killing of Palestinian prisoners. Now, the UN has approved an American occupation of Gaza, putting the US at the helm of Gaza’s governance.
A two-way arms embargo is our movement’s unchanged demand, the only guarantee of ending Israel’s mass murder of Palestinians and systematic theft of our land. So long as weapons and aid flow to Israel, the Zionist occupation will carry on with its genocidal, expansionist project in the region.
DATE: Saturday, November 29
TIME: 2PM
PLACE: Human Rights Monument

Workplace organizing workshop - Fight to win series
2025-11-30 14:00 - 16:00 | 135 Eddy street, Gatineau, 135 Eddy street, Gatineau, J8X 2W7
Are you injuring yourself at work? Is your boss harassing you? Are you never sure your salary will be enough to make ends meet?
This is the reality for many people in Quebec, Ontario and elsewhere. And the best chance we have to get out of this situation is to organize ourselves together.
The speakers are members of active and militant unions and will talk about their struggles and how they are fighting them. We should then have a better idea of how to organize and where it could lead us.
– The 135 Eddy street is accessible to wheelchairs
– Food will be offered
– French-English translation will be available
Register through the following link : https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/C8RFIsb7siqq9Yav2J4FC+oFBqx47umqzp3rRcuG-Fs/

Examining Anti-Palestinian Racism in Healthcare
2025-11-30 14:00 - 16:00 | Bronson Centre – 211 Bronson Ave, Bronson Centre (Room 098B - Basement)211 Bronson Ave, Ottawa, K1R 5H6, Ottawa, K1R 5H6
Ottawa health workers and learners join us for a live-streamed presentation and panel discussion. November 30th 2025. For registration and event details see link in our LinkTree.
Ottawa health workers and learners join us for a live streamed expert panel.
Bronson Centre, Room 110

Rally Against Carleton's Gag Order
2025-12-02 14:30 | Richcraft Hall, Carleton University
Join us on Tuesday, December 2 at 2:30PM in front of Richcraft Hall (besides the Gandhi Statue), where the University community will be protesting against the proposed Institutional Impartiality Policy. President Wisdom Tettey and the Governance Committee of the Board of Governors have refused to withdraw or significantly amend the policy, and it will be coming to the Board for approval during the December 2nd meeting.
DATE: Tuesday, December 2, 2025
WHEN: 2:30PM
WHERE: Outside Richcraft Hall, where the Board will be meeting
Media and photographers will be present. If you do not wish to be photographed, please mask up.
The proposed Institutional Impartiality Policy prevents all academic units, including the administration, faculties, departments, institutes, and centres of the University, from issuing any stance on public, political, or academic issues. The matters of debate that will be under the scope of this policy will be decided case by case, but can be assumed to include discussions of Equity, Divestment, and Inclusion; matters related to Israel’s conduct in Gaza and the West Bank; Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; investments in fossil fuels and the climate crisis; and provincial or federal infringement on student and faculty rights, among others.

Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: A conversation with Alex Himelfarb
2025-12-02 19:00 - 20:00 | Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 290 Lisgar Street, Ottawa
Join us for a vital discussion with Alex Himelfarb about his book Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada’s Challenge. Alex will be joined in conversation by Kevin Skerrett from the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University.
For forty years, neoliberalism has dominated political thinking in Canada. But as inequality grows, the climate emergency worsens, and global power shifts, it’s clear that neoliberalism’s basic tenets – privatization, public service cuts, tax breaks for big business, and corporate deregulation – have failed to meet today’s challenges.
In Breaking Free of Neoliberalism, Alex Himelfarb traces how these ideas became entrenched in Canadian governance and explores how we can chart a new course. Drawing on his experience as a public servant and policy thinker, Himelfarb calls for a renewed understanding of the public good and the crucial role government must play in shaping a just and sustainable future.
Co-sponsored by the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University and the Canadian Union of Public Employees.
Alex Himelfarb joined the federal public service in 1981 after a decade teaching at the University of New Brunswick. He was appointed Clerk of the Privy Council in 2002 and served three Canadian Prime Ministers until his appointment as Ambassador to Italy. After his retirement from public service in 2009, he led the School of Public and International Affairs at York University’s Glendon College until 2014. Alex has served on and chaired numerous NGO boards and advisory committees, including the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, the Coalition to End Homelessness, the Atkinson Foundation, and WWF Canada.
This event is free and open to all. Please RSVP to help us know how many guests to expect. Doors open at 6:30pm.

Sudan: A Crisis Ignored
2025-12-03 12:00 | Online
The war in Sudan began in 2023. Half and million Sudanese civilians have been killed and 12 million more made refugees. Human-engineered famine is rampant, and warring parties use sexual violence, executions and kidnappings as weapons of war. The wholesale devastation of infrastructure leaves civilians with collapsing services and little protection.
Where is the international community? Where, specifically, is Canada?
Join us for a live conversation with Amani Khalfan, Inter Pares program manager for Sudan, to hear about the deteriorating situation in the country, what Canada could be (but isn’t) doing to help and how our local partner organizations are managing through it all.
Plus, we’ll talk about what actions you can take to help.
November 26, 2025 12 p.m. EST Facebook livestream

Teach In: The Shaky Gaza Ceasefire Deal
2025-12-03 18:00 | SAW Gallery, 67 Nicholas Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N7B9, Canada
Join us at SAW gallery on Wednesday, December 3, at 6PM for a teach-in and exhibit about the history of prisoner exchanges and their important role in the ceasefire deal.

As we watch this supposed ceasefire in effect, we must understand the role our prisoners play. For two years, we have seen the importance of prisoner exchanges in ceasefire negotiations, but many of us may not understand why. Together, we will learn about these prisoners and why it is important to keep showing up until they are all free.

Register here: https://www.simpletix.com/e/teach-in-the-shaky-gaza-ceasefire-deal-tickets-246475

Collaborative zine making night at the OTL
2025-12-06 14:00 - 17:00 | Ottawa Trans Library, 1104 Somerset St. West, Ottawa, Ontario, K1Y 3C8, Canada
Come work on zines with us as we work on the next issue of The Dragon Flyer, the Ottawa Trans Library’s community zine. Write, draw, scan, cut, and paste with us on our community zine or your own project, or just come hang out with us. We are collecting stories, jokes, poems, art, and more from the trans and non-binary community in Ottawa and our friends and families.
The zine workshop is a collaborative event to discuss, share, and work on zines together.
Come tell your story.We will provide paper, templates, and whatever art supplies we have. No experience necessary. All ages welcome, children under age 13 must be accompanied by an adult.
Masking the day of the event is encouraged. Accessibility note: There are two stairs at the door entrance. We have a ramp we can bring out for the door on request. There’s a washroom but it’s not large enough for many mobility devices.
