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Karen Ward, president of CUPE Local 1943 and a member of the Peterborough Health Coalition, (Peterborough Regional Health Services) has been awarded the prestigious Dan Benedict Award by the Ontario Health Coalition for her work defending quality health care in her community.
The award is given annually to the person or persons the Coalition feels exemplify Dan Benedict, a lifelong supporter of working people who was instrumental in establishing the Canadian Autoworkers Paid Education Leave (PEL) program, the largest single adult educational program for working men and women in Canada.
A founding member of the Ontario Health Coalition, he served as its co-chair and was also on the Board of Directors of the Ontario Coalition of Senior Citizens’ Organizations.
The award named after him is presented to the person or persons working with one of the local health coalitions who best embodies Dan Benedict’s spirit of extraordinary community activism and commitment to the protection and extension of public medicare.
