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@ns.sympatico.ca
Kelly Murray – kmurray@cupe.ca or (902) 455-4180
November 12, 2009
St. John’s, Newfoundland/Toby Edelman
Contacts: Sherry Hillier – sherryhillier@nl.rogers.com
Brian Farewell - bfarewell@cupe.ca or (709) 753-0732
November 19, 2009
Regina, Saskatchewan/Toby Edelman
Contacts: Gordon Campbell – cupehealthcarecouncil@sasktel.net
Mike Keith – mkeith@cupe.ca or (306) 525-5874
November 24, 2009
Winnipeg, Manitoba/Pat Armstrong
Contact: Wally Skomoroh – wskomoroh@cupe.ca or (204) 942-0343
January 19, 2010
Burnaby, British Columbia/Toby Edelman
Contact: Stephen Buckley - sbuckley@cupe.ca
January 20, 2010
Kamloops, British Columbia/Toby Edelman
Contact: Stephen Buckley - sbuckley@cupe.ca
January 21, 2010
Victoria, British Columbia/Toby Edelman
Contact: Stephen Buckley - sbuckley@cupe.ca
January 25, 2010
Calgary, Alberta/Pat Armstrong
Contact: Jack Simpson – jsimpson@cupe.ca or (403) 329-0266 and Bonnie Ferguson - bferguson@cupe.ca
January 25, 2010
Charlottetown, PEI/Toby Edelman
Contact: Bill McKinnon - bmckinnon@cupe.ca
January 26, 2010
Fredericton, New Brunswick/Toby Edelman
Contact: Gordon Black - gblack@cupe.ca
February 1st, 2010
Peterborough, Ontario/Pat Armstrong
Contact: Luanne Roy - blroy@nexicom.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@videotron.ca
For more information on the tour contact: Mary Catherine McCarthy mmccarthy@cupe.ca