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Judy Darcy started out as an enthusiastic public speaker and leader in her kindergarten days in Sarnia, Ontario, and has never looked back. Judy was very active in the student movement and in the women's movement, including being on the Abortion Caravan in 1970. This activism set the stage first for her rank-and-file involvement with CUPE as a library worker in Toronto, then leading her local union, eventually heading the Metro Toronto CUPE Council, and then sitting on the CUPE National…

John Calvert was born in Oshawa, Ontario and grew up in London, Ontario. In his late teens, he obtained a commercial pilot's license, which meant that he could help pay for his post-secondary education by working as a bush pilot during the summers in Northern Ontario. John attended the University of Western Ontario for his bachelor's and master's degrees and then moved to London, England where he obtained his doctorate at the London School of Economics. His thesis was on industrial democracy…