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Dave Coles was acclaimed as president of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada at its convention in Toronto this week. Gaétan Ménard, was acclaimed as CEP Secretary-Treasurer, Peter Murdoch as Vice-President Media, and Michel Ouimet as Executive Vice-President, Quebec.

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Delegates showed their generosity and hard work on behalf of the Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Association of Canada (SBHAC) as they donated more than $100,000, raised since last convention for the charitable group.

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This year’s Woman of Distinction award was given posthumously to Joy Langan, and it was renamed in her honour. Sister Langan, who passed away a year ago, was a proud trade unionist, activist, leftist politician and Member of Parliament, tireless advocate for women’s rights and a defender of the underdog.

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Delegates called on CEP to continue to push for a national Pharmacare plan, supporting an emergency resolution that referred to a new study from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and l`Institut de recherche et d`informations socio-économiques that shows that a universal public drug plan, with proper cost controls and the capacity to bargain for lower prices, would be up to $10.7 billion less expensive than our current mix of public and private programs.

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Barb Dolan, CEP Administrative Vice-President, Ontario Region, presented this year’s Neil Reimer Award to the Labour Community Services of Toronto. Faduma Mohamed, director for the group, accepted the award.

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The convention has adopted a new constitution article that allows CEP members in good standing with observer status to now sit with their Local delegates and alternates.

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