It’s time for a change and so we have a new venue this year! On Wednesday, December 2, 2026 the CSA Retirees’ Club Annual Christmas Luncheon will be held at the Islington Golf Club at 45 Riverbank Drive, Etobicoke M9A 5B8. All CSA Group retirees are invited to attend this event with 1 guest. Once again we’re subsidizing the event and you will pay only $55 each for you and your guest. CSA Retirees over 80 attend for FREE!

The Islington Golf Club is tucked away at the Northwest corner of Dundas & Islington. Once again we’ll have a buffet lunch with a festive salad bar, turkey and all the fixings, baked salmon with mustard & dill cream sauce, spinach & ricotta cannelloni in tomato sauce, herb roasted potatoes, maple glazed vegetables and finishing with bread pudding, mini cakes, fruit, coffee & tea. Please tell us if you have any dietary restrictions and we’ll ensure that you are accommodated. Doors open at 11 am.

Notify us of your intention to attend ASAP by emailing Terri Smith at TerriSmith991@gmail.com with your name and your guest’s name, Please note that this is a different email address from last year. The deadline for your reply and payment is noon Saturday, November 28, 2026.  Click for more for information on payment, directions, accessibility, and how to e-transfer:

We’ll be meeting for lunch at Wally’s on Tuesday, November 10th at 11:30 am. There’s always lots to talk about whenever we get together. Have lunch or just drop by for coffee. Can’t wait to see YOU and hear what’s on your mind.

We meet for lunch at a restaurant in Rexdale on the 2nd Tuesday of every month, at 11:30 am. We’ll always post our location 1 week before lunch to confirm our location.

Don’t know where Wally’s is? Although Wally’s address is 123 Rexdale Blvd., it’s actually on the east side of Kipling, south of Rexdale.  It’s behind (south) of the Royal Bank.  It’s accessible from Kipling or through the Shoppers Drug Mart (next to the bank) parking lot.

We hold an Annual General Meeting (AGM) each year to bring members of the CSA Retirees’ Club up-to-date on what we’ve been doing over the year. We missed holding an AGM for 2024-2025 (note our fiscal year runs October 1 – September 30). And now it’s time for the 2025-2026 AGM. So, we’ll be holding both AGMs at the same time.

You are invited to participate in the CSA Retirees’ Club 24-25 & 25-26 Annual General Meeting (AGM) to be held through a Zoom session on Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 2pm.   

At the meeting we’ll present the Financial Report, summarize past events and re-elect/elect club directors. The meeting is expected to last about 1.5 hours. After we’ve completed the “business” part of the meeting you’re welcome to hang around to chat.

Participation in the AGM is voluntary, but we look forward to your input.

How to Register for the AGM:  You must indicate your intention to participate by either:

• sending us an e-mail at csaretirees.info@gmail.com,
• sending a message through the “Contact Us” page on this website,
• or by submitting a “Comment” on this post. 

Please be sure to include your name and email address in the e-mail.  You will receive an invitation to the meeting by e-mail from Susan Morley prior to the event date. 

Looking forward to “seeing” you soon.

Many thanks to the people who participated in our March 6, 2025 AGM via Zoom. We were reporting on our October 2023 – September 2024 fiscal year. It was a small group, but we covered lots of ground.

Here are some notes from the meeting:

• Terri Smith, Susan Morley and Daniel Barbini were renewed as directors for another 2 year term.
• Mel Doig stepped down as director after being part of the executive for many years. THANKS MEL! Mel did a fabulous job organizing events (like the Grand River Lunch Cruise, Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum and several others) and patiently produced minutes of our meetings.
• Dave Zimmerman was appointed as a director of the Retirees’ Club.
• We reviewed our finances and are in good stead to continue to hold and subsidize events for our members.
• We held (or supported) 7 events in FY 23-24 with 216 attendees (members and guests).
  • EMBA XMAS Dinner & Dance
  • Weston XMAS Lunch
  • Chicago (the musical)
  • Mandarin Lunch
  • Formula 1 Exhibition
  • Banksy Art Exhibit
  • YYZ Airside Tour followed by lunch at Arizona’s
• We continue to organize lunch on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at various restaurants with 8-18 people attending.
• We’re currently planning our annual lunch at the Mandarin with a date to be announced soon. And we’ve already held (or supported) 4 events in FY 24-25
  • Come From Away (the musical)
  • EMBA XMAS Dinner & Dance
  • Weston XMAS Lunch
  • The Lion King (the musical)

Thanks to all who were able to join in on the meeting.

A group of CSA Retirees meet at the Swiss Chalet in Bolton at noon on the last Monday of each month. Gary Holloway organizes this lunch and you must check in with him to reserve your seat at the table. Please contact Gary at gbholloway@bell.net for further information and/or to be included.

Sixteen of us attended the tour of FESTI the Fire and Emergency Services Training Institute on July 5, 2023. We didn’t get to see the plane ablaze as in the photo above, but we got lots of great pictures of ourselves, the firefighters and the facilities. Check out the “EVENT PICTURES” tab on this website to see our photos. After the tour many of us went to Zet’s Restaurant on Airport Rd. No photos, but we had great food!

To find out more about FESTI check out the FESTI website.

Your Retiree Executive have just extended our Zoom subscription for the rest of the year.  This will allow us to continue to run Zoom Socials on a regular basis.

On January 13^th, 15 people joined our Zoom Social, spending almost 2 hours sharing their views on various topics.  We even had 2 of our nonagenarians (that’s someone in their nineties) telling tales of CSA days of yore.  Did you know that some CSA staff were once housed in a former Planter’s Peanuts factory?  You needed to protect your lunch (think camping) as not all of the previous inhabitants had left.

Zoom is easy to use and requires little preparation.  To be able to use Zoom, you’ll need a smartphone, tablet or computer with a camera and microphone.  Don’t have a computer?  That’s okay, we have the ability for people to call in by phone.

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Keep an eye out for an announcement on our February Zoom Social.