Board of Directors
2007/2008

Maude Barlow
Ottawa, Ontario
Author and national chairperson, the Council of Canadians.

 Leticia Adair
Saint John, New Brunswick.
Coordinator, Immigrant and Refugee Support Services, Diocese of Saint John.

Bob Ages
Delta, British Columbia
Social entrepreneur and social activist. Formerly active in the union movement and the fight against the free trade agreement - currently the anti-war movement and War Resisters Support Campaign. Member of the Delta/Richmond chapter.
 
Morna Ballantyne
Ottawa, Ontario
Long-time social activist, managing director of the Canadian Union of Public Employees'' union education and development services. 

Pina Belperio
Whistler, British Columbia
Researcher, community activist, writer, and journalist. Founder of citizen watchdog group Whistler Watch.

Roy Brady
Peterborough, Ontario
Community activist, retired elementary schoolteacher, former Chair of the Peterborough Health Coalition.

Leo Broderick
Charlottetown, P.E.I.
Community activist, retired teacher, past president of the P.E.I. Teachers’ Federation, and former vice-president of the Canadian Teachers’ Federation.

Robert Chernomas
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Professor of Economics, University of Manitoba. 

Andrea Furlong
St. John''s Newfoundland
Youth Care Worker and former special projects officer with Conservation Corps Newfoundland and Labrador. Studied community and economic development in Zimbabwe.

Garry John
Shalalth, British Columbia. An aboriginal rights activist who spent many years serving his community in an elected capacity and continues to strive for solidarity with social justice groups and aboriginal peoples. 

Gordon Laxer
Edmonton, Alberta
Political economist at the University of Alberta and Director of the Parkland Institute. 

Claire McNeil
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Legal aid lawyer and educator, works with individuals and groups on a range of low-income issues in the area of mental health, law, housing and income support. 

Marion Moore
Bridgewater, Nova Scotia
Librarian and community activist, former chair of Lunenburg County Project Ploughshares and Bridgewater Amnesty International group. 

Garry Neil

Toronto, Ontario
Policy issues management consultant working in all cultural industries, media commentator and former general secretary of ACTRA and vice-president of the Canadian Conference of the Arts. 

Martha Robbins
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Former prairies organizer for the Canadian Federation of Students and youth president of the National Farmers Union. Works with Via Campesina, the international peasant movement.

Steven Shrybman
Ottawa, Ontario
Practices international trade and public interest law in Ottawa, Ontario. 

Louise Vandelac
Montreal, Quebec
Professor in the Sociology Department and the Environmental Sciences Institute at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

Angela Vardy
Edmonton, Alberta
Former Fredericton chapter organizer. Registered social worker with a focus on social advocacy, empowerment and activism.
 
Fred Wilson
Ottawa, Ontario
Trade union and community activist, assistant to the president, Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada.