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Provincial Elections 2011

The provincial election this October 6th, 2011 is important for all Ontarians. This document highlights the main issues for this election and provides some information about each issue. We hope you use this document to inform yourselves, your friends and neighbours about what is at stake this October. We encourage you to get in touch with your local candidates and ask them how they plan to support the needs outlined below. After the election, use this document to work with your MPP to implement strategies to achieve these goals.

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Community Recreation in Toronto

What’s happening to access to our community centres and recreation programs?
It’s getting harder and harder to get into our community centres. The Parks, Forestry and Recreation (PFR) subsidy program, the Welcome Policy, is difficult to access and unavailable for months at a time. The city has increased user fees, introduced new user fees (like leisure swim in indoor pools) and cut many free programs. And if we don’t take action right now, it’s about to get much worse.

Community Recreation for All is a group of community workers and residents working to improve access to recreation programs and community centres in Toronto. We can be reached at communityrecreationforall(at)gmail.com

To learn more about Community Recreation for All, click here.

You can find more information about community recreation in Toronto here. if you would like to get involved in promoting better access to community recreation in Toronto, please go here.

Welcome Policy Campaign

Welcome Policy campaign has been initiated by members of the Bathurst-Finch Network steering committee and others to improve access to community recreation in Toronto and make Antibes Community Centre a priority ‘free’ centre. Endorsers include Family Service Toronto, Griffin Centre, Jewish Family and Child, JIAS Toronto, North York Women’s Centre, LAMP Community Heath Centre, Stonegate Community Health Centre and others.

Click here to read more about Welcome Policy in Toronto Star.

Bill C-49, the Human Smuggling Act

Take urgent action to protect the health of our communities!

Unison is asking our co-workers, community partners, clients, friends and neighbours to write to your Member of Parliament and ask them to vote against Bill C-49. For more information about Bill C-49, please click here. For a sample letter, please click here. Please do this today – the vote on Bill-49 could happen any day!

Mayoral Advocacy Initiative

The main goal of the initiative is to encourage the Unison community to vote. We have put together a brochure for staff, clients and community members outlining issues for the municipal election on October 25th. It has information about how to vote and why voting is important. The brochure also contains responses from the top three mayoral candidates telling Unison how they would spend municipal tax dollars supporting our vision of healthy communities. Please see the brochure for more information and feel free to pass it along.