College and University Retiree Associations of Canada

The UGRA is a member of CURAC.  CURAC is a not-for-profit federation of retiree organizations at colleges and universities across Canada.

CURAC's objectives are to:

• coordinate activities that promote communication among member associations,
• share information about activities of member organizations,
• provide mutual assistance, and
• speak publicly on issues of concern to the over 20,000 individual college and university retirees across Canada.

For more information about CURAC, visit the CURAC website [1].

• CURAC newsletters are available on the CURAC newsletter page [2]. Recent newsletters of other Retiree Associations across Canada [3] are also available.
• Subscribe to the newsletter [4] if you would like to be notified when new issues are available.

Member Benefits

CURAC has partnered with external organizations to offer services to its members at a discount.
Benefits include:

Travel

• As a member of CURAC you are eligible for travel discounts.  Visit the CURAC travel page [5] for more details.
• Visit the CURAC travel website [6] (password = CURACTM18) to view upcoming trips and to sign-up for the travel e-newsletter.

Insurance

• Travel and extended health insurance at attractive rates is available to all members of retiree groups that are affiliated with CURAC/ARUCC.
• Three excellent insurance plans are available:
  1. Extended Health and Travel from RTO/ERO [7]
  2. Car and Home Insurance from Belairdirect [8]
  3. Health Insurance from MEDOC/Johns [9]

CURAC is entirely volunteer-driven and welcomes new volunteers. Most of its work is done within its committees [10].
If you are interested in becoming a CURAC volunteer, please email info@curac.ca [11] with the following information:

• your name
• the college or university from which you retired
• which committee you would like to join
• your background related to the committee in which you are interested