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CUPE’s 2009 long-term care tour might be making a stop at a city near you.
- Download: Residential long-term care in Canada: our vision for better seniors’ care 101 page research paper on the state of long term care in Canada
- Meet CUPE’s long-term care workers
- Download a report on the Long-Term Care Tour events
At tour events, we’ll make the connection that better staffing and working conditions result in better quality care in long-term care facilities. And that privatization is not the solution to improving care for seniors.
Let’s strengthen our existing campaigns and work to achieve a federal residential long-term care program, extending medicare to seniors’ care.
CUPE is sponsoring long-term care advocates Pat Armstrong and Toby Edelman to share their expertise along with CUPE participants and coalition partners.
Tour Dates:
November 10, 2009
Sydney, Nova Scotia/Toby Edelman
Contacts: Louise Riley – kid [at] ns.sympatico.ca (kid[at]ns[dot]sympatico[dot]ca)
Kelly Murray – kmurray [at] cupe.ca (kmurray[at]cupe[dot]ca) or (902) 455-4180
November 12, 2009
St. John’s, Newfoundland/Toby Edelman
Contacts: Sherry Hillier – sherryhillier [at] nl.rogers.com (sherryhillier[at]nl[dot]rogers[dot]com)
Brian Farewell - bfarewell [at] cupe.ca (bfarewell[at]cupe[dot]ca) or (709) 753-0732
November 19, 2009
Regina, Saskatchewan/Toby Edelman
Contacts: Gordon Campbell – cupehealthcarecouncil [at] sasktel.net (cupehealthcarecouncil[at]sasktel[dot]net)
Mike Keith – mkeith [at] cupe.ca (mkeith[at]cupe[dot]ca) or (306) 525-5874
November 24, 2009
Winnipeg, Manitoba/Pat Armstrong
Contact: Wally Skomoroh – wskomoroh [at] cupe.ca (wskomoroh[at]cupe[dot]ca) or (204) 942-0343
January 19, 2010
Burnaby, British Columbia/Toby Edelman
Contact: Stephen Buckley - sbuckley [at] cupe.ca (sbuckley[at]cupe[dot]ca)
January 20, 2010
Kamloops, British Columbia/Toby Edelman
Contact: Stephen Buckley - sbuckley [at] cupe.ca (sbuckley[at]cupe[dot]ca)
January 21, 2010
Victoria, British Columbia/Toby Edelman
Contact: Stephen Buckley - sbuckley [at] cupe.ca (sbuckley[at]cupe[dot]ca)
January 25, 2010
Calgary, Alberta/Pat Armstrong
Contact: Jack Simpson – jsimpson [at] cupe.ca (jsimpson[at]cupe[dot]ca) or (403) 329-0266 and Bonnie Ferguson - bferguson [at] cupe.ca (bferguson[at]cupe[dot]ca)
January 25, 2010
Charlottetown, PEI/Toby Edelman
Contact: Bill McKinnon - bmckinnon [at] cupe.ca (bmckinnon[at]cupe[dot]ca)
January 26, 2010
Fredericton, New Brunswick/Toby Edelman
Contact: Gordon Black - gblack [at] cupe.ca (gblack[at]cupe[dot]ca)
February 1st, 2010
Peterborough, Ontario/Pat Armstrong
Contact: Luanne Roy - blroy [at] nexicom.net (blroy[at]nexicom[dot]net) or (705) 743-0600
April 13, 2010
Montreal, Quebec/Louis Plamondon, Ghyslaine Tremblay (Commissioner of complaints for the Montreal Social Services Agency) and Gaétan Cousineau (Head of the Quebec Human Rights Commission)
Contact: Roberto Fortin - fortain [at] videotron.ca (fortain[at]videotron[dot]ca)
For more information on the tour contact: Mary Catherine McCarthy mmccarthy [at] cupe.ca (mmccarthy[at]cupe[dot]ca)