Tag: Retired Members
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Region 2 Retired Members Spring Meeting, featuring strategies on retirement finance
It’s that time again and the Region 2 Retirement Members Division Executive has set the Spring General Meeting for Monday April 24, 2023 at 11:00 A.M. The meeting will be held at the Hamilton OPSEU/SEFPO Regional Office at 505 York Blvd., second floor. Our guest speaker will be our favorite financial advisor Leony deGraaf Hastings…
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Region 3 Retired Members Division 2023 Regional Meeting and Election Notice
Date: Monday June 5, 2023 Time: Registration to start at 10.30. Meeting to start at 11.00 a.m. Location: Peterborough OPSEU/SEFPO Regional Membership Centre – 1840 Lansdowne Street West, Peterborough, Ontario. K9K 2M9 A light lunch will be provided. Please contact your Regional Executive below to confirm your attendance and identify any food allergies. Ethel LaValley…
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Seniors for Social Action Ontario (SSAO) Challenges the Ontario Human Rights Commission to Act
Seniors for Social Action Ontario (SSAO) sent this Open Letter to the Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission. It has two “asks” – that the Commission comment publicly on the human rights implications of Bill 7, and that it undertake a public inquiry into the unjustifiable mass institutionalization of older adults and people…
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Region 6 Retirees Meeting – Friday May 6th 2022
OPSEU/SEFPO Region 6 Retirees Meeting – May 6, 2022 Our first live meeting, of the OPSEU Region 6 Retirees, since Covid-19shut us down in 2020, will be held at the: OPSEU Membership Hall 866 Newgate Avenue, Greater Sudbury, ON P3A 5J9 – 705-585-2984 May 6/2022 – Start time is 09:30 It will be…
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UPDATE – Retired Members Division Meeting and Executive Committee Election Call
May 2, 2022 To: All Retired Members, Retired Members Division RE: UPDATE – Executive Committee ELECTION CALL Listed below are the dates, times and locations of the 2022 Retired Members Division meeting and Executive Committee elections for each region. Please make an effort to attend the meeting in your region. Region 1 Wednesday, May…
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UPDATE – OPSEU/SEFPO Region Five Retirees Meeting Notice
Wednesday, May 11 at 11 a.m. at the new OPSEU/SEFPO office, 155 Lesmill Road, Toronto, across the street from OPSEU/SEFPO head office. Please contact one of the following for more information: Yasmin Damani 647-234-3555; Sam Chopra 647-234-3555; Rob Field 416 527-1373; Perminder Grewal 416-560-8055; Zamiruddin Bashiruddin (647-405-1066); or Fannie Lee. Please confirm your attendance. Lunch…
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Retired Members Division Regional meeting/elections dates and locations
Find below the meeting/election dates and location for each region. Region 1 – https://opseu.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Region-1-Retirees-Notification-for-meeting-and-Elections-May-4th-2022-1.docx Region 2 – https://opseu.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Region-2-Retirees-Notification-for-meeting-and-elections-April-25-2022.docx Region 3 – https://opseu.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Region-3-Retirees-Notification-for-meeting-and-elections-May-11th-2022.doc Region 4 – https://opseu.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Region-4-Retirees-Notification-for-meeting-and-elections-May-18-2022.docx Region 5 – https://opseu.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Region-5-Retirees-Notification-for-meeting-and-Elections-May-11-2022.docx Region 6 – https://opseu.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Region-6-Retirees-Notification-for-meeting-and-elections-May-5-2022.docx Region 7 – https://opseu.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Region-7-Retirees-Notification-for-meeting-and-elections-May-17-2022.docx
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Retired Members Division meetings and Regional Elections
Region6retiredmembersfallmtg (1) (002) April 11th 2022 To: All Retired Members, Retired Members Division RE: Executive Committee ELECTION CALL Listed below are the dates, times and locations of the 2022 Retired Members Division meeting and Executive Committee elections for each region. Please make an effort to attend the meeting in your region. Region 1 Wednesday, May…
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Autumn View Spring Edition, 2021
A message from the chair Right from the get-go, Premier Ford has made it clear that he is no friend of the environment, and that business has top priority. He has done so both in his comments and actions. His comments concern me, but his actions have been devastating. In April 2019, he made two…
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Autumn View Edition 2, 2020
A message from the chair Well in these days of COVID we are finally putting together another Autumn View for your reading pleasure. Since your Regional Retired Member Chairs met in January 2020, we have all been facing the COVID Pandemic and have had our worlds turned upside down. All of us collectively have been…
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The death of an era
By Joe Grogan/retired OPSEU Member-Region 5 Decades of cuts to the Ontario public health care system In my own lifetime but especially beginning in the mid-1990s, Ontario Provincial Conservative and Liberal Governments have had the responsibility for restructuring the health care system. They have tried to turn the Universal Public Health Care System more and…
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Autumn View Edition 4, 2019
A message from the chair Thanks to the October 2019 election and the new minority government, Justin Trudeau has a golden opportunity to bring about some creative and mid to left of center legislation, for the betterment of himself his party and this country. Any student of either history or politics can verify that some…
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Autumn View Edition 1, 2020
A message from the chair Canada needs a single payer universal prescription drug plan. In doing so we will have cheaper drugs, drugs that are affordable and better control over their distribution. Canada is the only developed country in the world with universal health care that doesn’t include universal drug coverage. This despite a multitude…
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Region 1 Retired Members Meeting Minutes: October 9, 2019 – Windsor
Spring 2020 OPSEU Region One Retirees Meeting of 09 Oct 2019, Windsor Region One Office, 130-3005 Marentette Ave, Windsor, ON, N8X 4G1 Meeting commenced at 10:30 a.m. 1.0 Statement of Respect read by Chair, Brian Sharp 2.0 Statement of Aboriginal Land Awareness read by Chair 3.0 Moment of Silence for brother Bob Petrie who passed…
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Autumn View Edition 2, 2019
A message from the chair As I put this to paper, it’s mid-May and, sadly, black clouds are on the horizon – and it’s not just from the rainy weather we’ve been experiencing. A few weeks ago, the Premier and his Conservative cohort passed Bill 74, a massive health care restructuring document. I’m sure most…
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Autumn View Edition 1, 2019
A message from the Chair We are the stewards of this earth and it is our obligation to do what we can to protect and in fact do what we can to make it better. In spite of this, we in our complacency, blatantly ignore what is taking place around us and all around the…
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Autumn View Edition 4, 2018
A message from the chair Since just before the Ontario election, those who think left-of-centre politically have been concerned that Doug Ford is Mike Harris incarnate. Based on the short time he’s been in power, they have every reason to be apprehensive. If you recall the Harris years, the plan was pretty straight forward: Create…