{"id":1378,"date":"2014-06-25T14:30:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T14:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/?p=1378"},"modified":"2014-06-25T14:31:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T14:31:02","slug":"update-bbq-cancelledlacroix-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/update-bbq-cancelledlacroix-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Annual Toronto BBQ postponed\/Lacroix announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Dear Members,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>Once again we are banding together to\u00a0hear\u00a0yet another round of difficult news.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>CBC President Hubert Lacroix\u00a0will hold another\u00a0Town Hall meeting,\u00a0Thurs June 26th\u00a0at 12 noon. He is expected to announce\u00a0more in cuts to the already\u00a0beleaguered\u00a0CBC \u00a0budget\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As\u00a0fate\u00a0would have it, the annual\u00a0Toronto\u00a0CMG barbeque was scheduled for the sametime. For obvious reasons we are\u00a0going to postpone it until September.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Following the Town Hall, CMG representatives from the local and national levels will be available to speak with you from\u00a0<strong>2:00 &#8211; 5:30\u00a0in Room 1B315<\/strong>. That\u2019s in the conference centre on the first floor, beside the\u00a0burgundy elevators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>We are keen to hear\u00a0what you think\u00a0about the announcement and\u00a0what\u00a0issues you see as priorities. We will try to answer questions based on what we know\u00a0at this time.\u00a0But input from\u00a0you helps us\u00a0gather\u00a0valuable information. We\u00a0can\u00a0then share it with those at the National Level and use it to try to\u00a0minimize\u00a0the impact on\u00a0CMG members\u00a0here\u00a0at CBC.\u00a0It also helps the CMG\u00a0refine\u00a0our ongoing\u00a0campaign\u00a0to make\u00a0our concerns and the vulnerability of CBC known to politicians AND voters across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>This is a time of\u00a0uncertainty; it\u2019s difficult to stay motivated\u00a0when so many of us are directly\u00a0affected. But\u00a0you are not alone and we are here to help.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>If you\u00a0can\u2019t attend on Thursday, we\u00a0still want to hear from you.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Please contact us or email us with your concerns<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>It is\u00a0in\u00a0times of crisis that we prove our mettle, our strength, our solidarity. Help us stand together, ready to\u00a0fight for\u00a0the\u00a0CBC and\u00a0for our\u00a0CMG members.\u00a0Let&#8217;s make our voices heard.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Members, \u00a0Once again we are banding together to\u00a0hear\u00a0yet another round of difficult news.\u00a0 CBC President Hubert Lacroix\u00a0will hold another\u00a0Town Hall meeting,\u00a0Thurs June 26th\u00a0at 12 noon. He is expected to announce\u00a0more in cuts to the already\u00a0beleaguered\u00a0CBC \u00a0budget\u00a0\u00a0 As\u00a0fate\u00a0would have it,&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/update-bbq-cancelledlacroix-announcement\/\">Read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1381,"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions\/1381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}