Annual General Meeting, 2021

The Agenda for the meeting and related documents will be posted here in the days prior to the meeting. At the bottom of this page please find links to the following documents:

• the ARM Chapter 12 Toronto Constitution
• the AGM package, including minutes of past AGM’s, reports, motions etc.

Keynote Speaker: Linda McQuaig

Journalist and best-selling author Linda McQuaig has been a rare voice of dissent within the mainstream media. Since 2002, she has written an op-ed column in the Toronto Star, challenging the prevailing economic dogma and championing a more equal and inclusive society. Winner of a National Newspaper Award, she is also author of eight national best-sellers, including Shooting the Hippo: Death by Deficit and Other Canadian Myths, which was selected one of the 25 most influential books of the past 25 years by the Literary Review of Canada. Her latest book is The Sport & Prey of Capitalists: How the Rich Are Stealing Canada’s Public Wealth.

About Linda’s new book: The Sport & Prey of Capitalists: How the Rich Are Stealing Canada’s Public Wealth

For years we’ve been told – by business, government and the media – that the private sector always does things better. In fact, however, Canada has a long history of creating impressive public services and enterprises. As we’ve privatized them in recent years, we’ve been left poorer as a nation and increasingly dominated by the private greed that rules the marketplace. The pandemic has certainly highlighted this, showing how privatization has turned our Long-Term Care homes into death traps while the privatization of Connaught Labs, once the world’s leading vaccine producer, has left Canada with no vaccine production capacity. Along with the coming climate crisis, the pandemic underscores the urgent need to expand – not shrink – our public sphere.

AGM 2021 Documents, in order:

1. The Constitution
2. Zoom Instructions
3. The AGM Package