CUPE 1263 donates ‘everyday essentials’ to Niagara Region’s community support agencies

WELLAND, ON – On Monday, December 21, long-term care workers, retirement homes workers and community support workers from the Niagara Region, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) 1263, will donate hundreds of ‘everyday essentials’ to seven local community support agencies that help the community’s most vulnerable residents. “Our members are front line…

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Frontline child protection workers sound the alarm on CPIN at coroner’s inquest

TORONTO, ON – Child welfare workers worry that the province’s flawed new computer system could endanger children and youth under their care. The workers will seek to have their concerns about the Child Protection Information Network (CPIN) addressed today as part of the Toronto inquest into the death of seven-year-old Katelynn Sampson in 2008. Jordan…

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Federal government must restore Local Programming Improvement Fund to help keep CHCH afloat: Hamilton hospital staff

HAMILTON, ON – “The federal Liberal government needs to take a broad approach to funding infrastructure and step in now to restore the Local Programming Improvement Fund, cut this year by the CRTC, which pumped between 5 and 8 million dollars annually into CHCH television in Hamilton,” say the presidents of two of Hamilton’s largest community…

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