Register for the 2025-2026 Upcoming Sessions:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/54j5rE7vTvmak8P8X3Tobw
Upcoming Sessions
2025/2026 Schedule: First Tuesday of every month! 2025-2026 dates will be: October 7, November 4, December 2, January 13, February 3, March 3, and April 7. Please register for as many as you can attend!
Dec 2 – Building your activist networks & ideas, Activist-ing in Ontario
Jan 13 – Activist Lessons Learned from 2025 and Goals for 2026
February 3 – A discussion of how we navigate AI in our activism
Mar 3 – Strategizing Membership Engagement and Outreach
Apr 7 – Kicking off the growing season: Exploring our Community Gardens and Food Justice initiatives
Sessions that have occurred in 2025-2026 already:
October 7 – SPECIAL EVENT REGISTER HERE: (separate registration for October 7th!)
Get ZAP’d! Launching our Zine Archive Project & DisOrientation Weeks
Nov 4 – Design and Disability Justice
What are Collaboration Lunches?
In 2024, OPIRG Provincial launched a pilot program called Collaboration Lunches to better connect and engage our PIRGS, boards, action groups, volunteers, and the wider community. These are held virtually and monthly to help us better connect and share campaigns, actions, and research work throughout Ontario and beyond! Folks have joined from PIRGs across Kanada – including NSPIRG, APIRG, and QPIRG. We hope to grow and strengthen these connections! We’d love for you to join us in a chill online (Zoom) environment, where you’re welcome to share and listen to what folks are working on. Some ideas can include Cops Off Campus campaigns, Palestinian solidarity support, Free Stores, Labour organizing, environmental justice, local community work and campaigns, and so much more! Please bring your ideas, and current work, and be ready to share (in the way that feels best to you) – with folks across the province.
Transparent and Accessible Programming:
- No specific topic or preparations needed
- Safer space policy guidelines in place for sessions
- Rotating facilitator and minute takers/documentation as needed or requested
- Zoom automatic closed captions
- Breaks at any time as needed!
Full details will remain updated here: https://ontariopirg.org/collab-lunches
Background
The OPIRG Provincial Network is a decentralized body that supports, connects, and strengthens collaboration between Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs) across the province. Each PIRG operates independently in their day-to-day operations but share common mandates and values. They also provide tools, resources, and support for students, community members, and Action Groups – including but not limited to, funding, organizing space, outreach, and volunteer support for events and campaigns.
Many PIRGs link their action groups with broader community efforts focused on social and environmental justice. These collective campaigns and events spotlight urgent issues and help build coalitions that advance ongoing struggles for justice, promote coalition building to work towards ongoing struggles for justice. These campaigns and events thematically highlight the most pressing issues of our times so as to keep our communities engaged with the social justice landscape of our communities and cities.
Feedback
The OPIRG Provincial Board continually reviews how best to shape future programming.
Your feedback is valuable to us. It informs how we grow and adapt our work to reflect the needs and priorities of our chapters and communities!
If you attended a session and would like to provide feedback, please email: opirgprovincialcoordinator@gmail.com
