The Global Labour Research Centre (GLRC) at 91ŃÇÉ« in Toronto, Canada, in partnership with the SSHRC-funded Re-Imagining Workers’ Education in the 21st Century project, is launching a new virtual Speaker Series on workers’ education. The broader project seeks to renew understandings of radical workers’ education as a vital social project, strengthen connections among workers, labour educators, community activists, practitioners and scholars, and bring together experiences from workers’ education initiatives in different contexts.
The aim is to build a broad network of people committed to advancing radical workers’ education
Learning from the Prairie School
November 3, 2026 | 6:30–7:45 PM ET
Our first Speaker Series event, Learning from the Prairie School, features Barb Byers, with commentary from Donna Smith.
Barb Byers is a long-time labour and social justice activist and former Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Labour Congress. A former President of the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour and recipient of the Order of Canada, Byers has dedicated her career to advancing workers’ rights, gender equality and social justice. She continues to support labour education, Indigenous youth leadership and community organizing.
Donna Smith is a longtime Prairie School collaborator and staff at Saskatchewan Federation of Labour, with emphasis on queer rights
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