Lana Payne

Sisters and siblings, March 8 marks International Women’s Day, a day to celebrate our power, our progress, and our solidarity. To mark International Women’s Day 2026, we are proud to adopt the United Nations theme: Rights. Justice. Action . We champion this theme in celebration of our victories, and in recognition of the critical work needed to ensure gender justice is not eroded. In this work, we honour the legacies of the feminists that came before us and carry their momentum into the...

On Nov. 2, 2025, Unifor marks the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists to shine a spotlight on how journalism is essential to free societies and functioning democracies. Journalists give a voice to the voiceless, they tell our stories, and they hold the powerful to account, but too often they pay a high price for this work through threats, harassment, physical attacks, legal intimidation, sometimes even death, with little or no justice and impunity for...

Friday, October 10 is World Mental Health Day. Everyone struggles with mental health or mental illness at some point in their lives, if...