Dear CCU-CSC Affiliates,
We are very excited for the next CCU-CSC National Executive Board (NEB) meeting and Labour School being held in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia (Inn at Lauren Point) on February 22 and 23, 2025.
Location:
680 Montreal Street
Victoria, BC
V8V 1Z8
+1 800-663-7667 (Toll Free)
+1 250-386-8721
From the Victoria International Airport by taxi:
http://www.yellowcabvictoria.com/
250-381-2222
http://www.taxicab.com
250-382-2222
The cancellation policy for each individual reservation is 24 hours prior to check-in time to avoid a penalty charge equal to one-night room fee and tax. N.B. Unless alternate arrangements are made PRIOR TO THE MEETING, ALL delegates and guests are responsible for their own room rental fees and/or ancillary charges. Anyone with food intolerances and/or allergies is advised to contact Scarlett ASAP. The meeting agenda will be forthcoming.
Guest Speakers
Kendra Strauss
Kendra Strauss (she/they) is the Director of the Labour Studies Program at Simon Fraser University (SFU) and a Professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology. She is also the co-Director of the Understanding Precarity in BC (UP-BC) project, a community-academic research partnership. Kendra’s research and teaching focus on precarious work, migration, care work and occupational pensions. She is lucky to live as a settler and uninvited guest on the traditional, unceded lands of the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Esquimalt) people, and aims to center relationships between racial capitalism, settler colonialism and precarity in her work.
Read more about Kendra and her work
Eli Enns
Eli Enns is the great grandson of Na’waas’um (historian and public speaker for Wickanninish) from Tla-o-qui-aht on his father’s side. On his mother’s side, Eli is a 2nd generation immigrant from the Netherlands, grandson of Peter Enns (Dutch Mennonite). Eli is a happy father and a grateful grandfather.
Eli is also an internationally recognized expert in bio-cultural heritage conservation and Indigenous economic development. He is a nation builder and Canadian political scientist focused in constitutional law, geopolitics and ecological governance.
Co-founder of the Ha’uukmin Tribal Park in the Clayoquot Sound UNESCO Biosphere Reserve on Vancouver Island, Eli was Co-Chair for The Indigenous Circle of Experts for The Pathway to Canada Target 1 (Aichi Target 11). He is CEO and President of the IISAAK OLAM Foundation and Founder of the Naa’Waya’Sum Gardens in Tofino, Clayoquot Sound.
Stan Boychuk
Stan Boychuk has worked and lived in Saskatchewan, Quebec, Manitoba, Yukon and British Columbia. He has gained an understanding and appreciation of First Nation culture, relationship to the land and the importance of living in balance and harmony with place.
Stan has worked in the public, private and the “not for profit” sectors and most recently was the Executive Director, Clayoquot Sound UNESCO Biosphere Reserve from 2002 – 2007. Boychuk currently resides in Victoria, BC and works as a private consultant, working with organizations to create meaningful relations with First Nation communities, and to create substantive transformational change, providing avenues for creating success in current and emerging markets. Stan chaired the Canadian Commission for UNESCO Man and Biosphere Committee May 2010 till 2016 and was the Canadian representative on the Intergovernmental Coordinating Committee of UNESCO.
Stan currently works as consultant in the field of passive highly efficient buildings and apprenticeship training. In this role Stan has worked with Halalt Flood Recovery Initiative to develop a carpentry Apprenticeship training Initiative which employs 16 indigenous apprentices who receive their classroom training on-site, creating an immediate link between theory and application by employing a Red Seal instructor full time on-site eliminating the need for apprentices to leave the community.
