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What does the Political Action Committee do?
The Political Action Committee monitors
local and provincial politicians and politics as they relate to public
education issues and makes recommendations to the Membership about those
which are "education friendly".
 | The Politics page includes information
about the Thames Valley District School Board Trustees, the Provincial
Government, the Liberal and NDP parties, and Kids Voting Canada. |
 | The News Links page contains links to
media release pages and newspapers. |
 | The Issues page contains links to the
OSSTF position on a wide variety of issues pertaining to or affecting
education or education workers. |
The mandate
of the Political Action Committee is described in the District
Constitution.
2006-2007 Meeting Dates:
Political Action
Committee meetings are held at
4:15pm at the District Office on the following dates:
 | Wednesday September 20, 2006 |
 | Wednesday October 25, 2006 |
 | Wednesday December 6, 2006 |
 | Wednesday February 7, 2007 |
 | Wednesday March 28, 2007 |
 | Wednesday May 9, 2007 |
Links:
 | Official
Reports of Debate in the Legislature (Hansard) |
 | Elections Ontario Main
Page |
 | Elections Canada Main Page |
 | Statistics
Canada Electoral Districts Main Page |
 | Election Prediction
Project |
 | Canadian Labour Congress
 | Day
of Mourning (April 28) Information |
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 | Ontario Federation of Labour |
 | Our Times: Canada's Independent
Labour Magazine |
 | London and District Labour Council |
 | Oxford Regional Labour
Council |
 | People for Education |
 | The Canadian Centre for Policy
Alternatives offers an alternative to the message that we have no
choice about the policies that affect our lives. We undertake and
promote research on issues of social and economic justice. We produce
research reports, books, opinion pieces, fact sheets and other
publications, including The Monitor, a monthly digest of progressive
research and opinion." |
 | Council of Canadians |
 | The Centre for Social
Justice is an advocacy organization that seeks to strengthen the
struggle for social justice. |
 | Ontario Health Coalition |
 | rabble.ca
is a new kind of publication, one built on the efforts of
progressive journalists, writers, artists and activists across the
country. |
 | Common Dreams
(Alternative news source) |
 | UNESCO’s
mission is to promote education as a fundamental right, to improve the
quality of education, and to stimulate experimentation, innovation and
policy dialogue |
 | Rethinking Schools |
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Teachers
Institute for Canadian Parliamentary Democracy |
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Make Poverty History |
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Education
Disinformation Detection and Reporting Agency (American but
excellent!) |
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