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A very kind thank you to the CBC Calgary's / Calgary Eyeopener's Elizabeth Carson for joining us for an exceptional luncheon at the The Ranchmen's Club!

#cdnclub #cdnclub yyc #yyc #yyc eats

This is the season for family, for giving and for being present in one's community.

Guess what - I got to be on the news again. This time addressing safety on transit and the need to address the underlying social issues we see on transit - youtu.be/2xJ3ygREz7s?si…

This year's #VeteransWeek theme is #UNPeacekeeping . More than 125,000 Canadian Armed Forces members have served in international peacekeeping efforts in dozens of countries over the years.

🔗: veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembranc…

Today and every day, #CanadaRemembers .

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

#LestWeForget

Today is National Indigenous Veterans Day. The Assembly of First Nations is an advocacy org representing 630 First Nations communities across Canada.
AFN has been supported by the Veteran and Family Well-Being Fund to improve services for Indigenous Veterans & their families(1/2)

(1/2) Every year, #IndigenousVeteransDay is recognized on November 8 to pay tribute to First Nations, Inuit and Métis veterans for their military service and sacrifice.

#SenCA #CanadaRemembers

The new #yyc living wage was released today!  $23.70 is what is needed just to have a modest standard of living and it’s more than $8 more than our minimum wage, which hasn’t been raised since 2018. Learn more here: enoughforall.ca/action/calgary…

'We realize that 85 per cent of workers earning $20 an hour and under are adults and 36 per cent of those adults have children,' said Meaghon Reid when explaining that living wages are essential for keeping Calgarians housed

calgary.citynews.ca/2023/11/08/cal…

YYC Lawyers: Court Robe Bank inventory is not being returned in a timely manner, or at all. Please spread the word to encourage colleagues to return borrowed robes. We would like to maintain the honour system...and we can't handle that YEG is better at this than we are. 😲

Join us in November for this special remembrance talk: 'Ghosts in the Machine: Ethical AI and the Transformation of Veteran Cemeteries.'

#cdnlcub #yycevents #WeRemember #LestWeForget

canadianclubcalgary.ca/ryan_mullens_n…

Well. Air Canada left my chair in Toronto. I’m now without my essential equipment. Independence taken away. I’m furious. Unacceptable. #RightsOnFlights

Have you booked your booster yet? Albertans are booking their flu vaccines and covid-19 boosters next week.

#Covid19 #Covid19 AB #BookYourBooster #yyc #CalgaryTakesAction

Book your booster now:
alberta.ca/covid19-vaccine

Hey.

You.

Have you booked your booster yet?

#BookYourBooster #abhealth #Covid19AB

Thank you to Darrel Janz, veteran newscaster, for sharing your 60 years of knowledge of Canada's journalism landscape, stories from a storied career and for taking the lunch hour to share your journey!

#CdnClub

In this week's newsletter, we highlight a victory on affordable housing, what's next, and an invite to our foundations of community organizing training!

#yyc cc #CalgaryTakesAction #yyc

Please read the newsletter below: team.calgarycommongood.org/september_18th…

Good job council.

Calgarians, don't let up on the pressure.

#yyccc

Affordable Housing passed . Great work everyone.