Reminder Educational Weekend with Ontario Health Coalition

Ontario Health Coalition

4 Weeks Away: Weekend Educational and Annual Action Assembly

Saturday January 29 & Sunday January 30 2022

(All events will be held virtually via Zoom and offered at no cost to participants)

Saturday January 29, 2022

One-Day Educational

 

Our Derrell Dular Memorial School was created from an endowment made in memory of Derrell Dular who was a board member of the Ontario Health Coalition for more than twenty years until his passing on November 30, 2018. Derrell had a lifelong commitment to Canada’s public services and public health care.  His devotion to social justice and protection for everyone was unflinching and tireless.  His extraordinary passion, dedication and endeavours to the cause has been memorialized with the establishment of the school, with the aim of providing people with the skills and tools needed to inspire their members and the public to action to protect and enhance our public health care system and social programs and to educate citizens about the significant health care and public issues.

This educational is set up as a train-the-trainer session. Participants can join and participate in the workshops and any who are able to do their own educational sessions will be able to take materials to help. All members and supporters are welcome.

AGENDA

 9:30 a.m. OPENING PLENARY

10:30 a.m. Morning session (choice of one)

•  Taxes and Public Services 101: Everything you wanted to know about fair taxes, growing inequality and how we pay for public services
•  Why Not Privatize 101: Public health care and privatization what we know and why we need to stop it
•  Building the Movement to Protect and Expand Public Health Care: What we can do to build a movement that cannot be ignored

 

12 p.m. Lunch

12: 45 p.m. Afternoon session

(participants will continue in the same workshop as the morning session)

1:45 p.m. CLOSING PLENARY

2 p.m. ADJOURNMENT

Saturday evening: Virtual Pub Night

5 – 7 p.m. Featuring Music of Resistance and Social Change

We will be joined by musicians sharing stories and music of the struggle for social justice – civil rights, labour movement history, the struggle for equity all told through song.

People are welcome to bring a drink of their choice and join for music, stories and conversation online.

Sunday, January 30, 2022

Annual Action Assembly

This is our annual meeting where we gather to share what happened in the last year, what we accomplished, what is coming up, and set an action plan going forward. It is our most important meeting of the year. All members and supporters are welcome.

AGENDA

10 a.m. OPENING PLENARY

Annual Report

Report in from local coalitions and member groups

11 a.m. SETTING THE POLITICAL CONTEXT

Where we are at on the key issues leading into the provincial election, with a key focus on privatization. What is the status of our national issues? Presentation and question & answer session.

11:30 a.m. AWARDS & ELECTIONS

12 p.m. LUNCH

12:45 p.m. PROPOSED ACTION PLAN DISCUSSION & DEBATE

1:45 p.m. CLOSING PLENARY

2 p.m. ADJOURNMENT

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