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AGM Speech – TBU President
Chris Clarke, TBU President, AGM Speech 2025 Good evening colleagues, It is a genuine honor to speak with you today as a candidate for President. After more than a decade representing our unit—four of those years as your Vice-President—I come to you with a deep sense of responsibility, gratitude, and…
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Day 16 – Union release
Greetings once again D14. I come to you one last time to wrap our our video diary journey. As I was about to write this, I was reflecting upon the whole journey, and all the conversations I’ve had with folks. The direct feedback I’ve gotten from the rank and file…
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Day 15 – KPRDSB
Well happy days D14 – we’re almost done the campaign! I can only imagine many of you are tired of the posts, the messages and the campaign literature that should appear in your mailboxes by tomorrow. But truly it is all for a greater purpose – to engage the membership…
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Day 14 AM – PACE @ PCVS
Surprise! It’s a before work post! Today I get to go on an adventure. As part of my duties as a OSSTF member, I am currently serving as chair of the Provincial H&S committee, also know as HSWSIAC (best acronym ever). It’s through that committee I’ve had the pleasure of…
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Day 13 – Kenner Collegiate
Greetings everyone! The weekend looms again! I hope that workload pressures as we head into the final few weeks of the semester that often creep up are well managed and more easily navigated than usual. We have heard loud and clear about how the assessment and evaluation policy tends to…
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Day 12 – Crestwood
Hello everyone! Happy Wednesday. I hope that your Wednesday has gone the speed you needed it to be today. Today was a busy day as we spend a large portion of it with KPR’s director, Rita. We have regular meetings that we call “Ears” – perhaps having the ear of…
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Day 11 – Thomas A Stewart
Greetings D14 – I hope you have a lovely Tuesday! A large majority of our day at Federation House was spent doing a dry run of transfer/staffing day. It is always amazing to see Trish Schultz working her magic, pushing the board to do better to make sure the staffing…
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Day 10 – PM – Port Hope High School
Hello again everyone – time for a second post of the day! This entry is from Port Hope High School. Port Hope was the place where I got to do some of my teacher’s college placements, with the wonderful guidance of Jennifer Harden! How amazing is it to have someone…
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Day 10 – Clarke High School
Happy holiday Monday everyone! I wanted to make sure to post today to ensure that every school got a shoutout during the campaign period. We are not a large board compared to some of our neighbours, but we do have a variety of schools, large and small, with staff knocking…
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Day 9 – Northumberland CIS
Happy long weekend everyone! I so appreciate all the conversations I’ve been having over the past few weeks. We are just over the halfway point of the campaign now. I hope you have seen my open letter to the membership that came out in the weekly union email. I believe…
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Day 8 – Courtice Secondary
Happy Thursday everyone – only one more day until a well deserved long weekend. I had a lovely visit with some colleagues at Adam Scott today, and had a great chat with some superstar staff from Kenner. I also spent time helping members with complicated medical situations navigate an ever-complex…
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Day 7 – Clarington Central
Hello everyone, I apologize for the late posting today. I am still at the union office at 530 pm – we had some specific member issues that kept us quite late today. Sometimes that’s what happens though – and if we can get ahead of those problems and make a…
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Day 6 – Cobourg Collegiate
Happy Tuesday everyone. Today was a day where I was very pleased with the response to our hot building data collection campaign. We are working in partnership with ETFO to gather how well (or poorly) our schools are struggling to self-regulate. Hard to believe we had some buildings reporting temperatures…
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Day 5- East Northumberland
Greetings once again everyone. I hope your week has started off as well as it could! The long weekend will approach quickly and we’ll be in the home stretch for this election campaign, and the school year as a whole! For today’s video diary entry, we vist East Northumberland. ENSS…
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Day 4 – Clarington CIS
Happy weekend everyone! I am writing to you from the Golden Horseshoe health and safety summit that runs yearly. I was in my element, learning about other district’s strategies regarding psychosocial hazards in the workplace and the collective strategy required to mitigate it. It gave me some good ideas for…
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Day 3 – Bowmanville (BHS)
Happy Thursday everyone. Another busy day at Federation House, but when I’m done my day, I’m enjoying all the conversations happening behind the scenes here in the campaign. I’m so grateful people are enjoying the videos and are appreciative of my ideas moving forward for the union. Cheers to Carly…
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Campaign Day 2 – Campbellford
Hello again everyone. Today my campaign video diary lands us in Campbellford. Working at this school genuinely saved my career, and changed my life for the better. I am so grateful to have been nominated by Andrea (who is too cool for facebook), and supported by the Branch President Kathy…
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Campaign Vision – Video Diary Day 1: Adam Scott CVI
Greetings again everyone, Daily during the campaign, I am going to be sharing my vision and thoughts about every secondary school in KPR, and beyond. For day one, we visit Adam Scott! I had a lot of fun travelling around the board, reflecting on a decade of service for d14,…
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The Campaign is on! – May 6th
Greetings everyone. The nomination window has closed and the campaign to become the next TBU President for OSSTF d14 has begun. The vote will take place after the TBU AGM, starting the evening of May 28th and ending on May 30th at 330pm. I am so thrilled for this opportunity…
Chris Clarke for D14 TBU President 