Janice Best - Director
Shortly after COPE Ontario was formed, the Executive Board decided that a Youth Sports Sponsorship was a way of reaching out to our members and their children and their communities. We established a sponsorship for youth teams, divided evenly between summer sports and winter sports. Each year we receive more applications than our budget allows [...]
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Glenn Wheeler Legal Counsel
I’m just back at my desk after spending most of last week at the Canadian Labour Congress convention. The CLC is the national house of labour – the body that represents most of the labour unions in Canada. It was a more interesting affair than these things usually are, mostly because the CLC has summoned [...]
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Janice Best - Director
Congratulations to Jack Layton and the New Democrats for breaking all records and being elected to the official opposition in Ottawa. The party more than doubled its seats in the May 2 election. At what cost is the success of the N.D.P.? Stephen Harper managed, very skilfully, to split the votes in the all important [...]
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