Original sentence: Both locals are based in Toronto
Edited sentence: Abbie Bakan.At U of T, IS supporter Alex Kerner became president of the Students Administrative Council (SAC), representing U of T undergraduates, for a partial term following a by-election in 2001.Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist).His only opponent in the election campaigned as a rabbit-like sock puppet.However, since 2003 the group's influence has declined markedly and it now retains only its union positions, although as a registered campus group it continues to use U of T facilities for meetings and its annual Marxism conference.IS has been particularly active at the University of Toronto and Carleton University in Ottawa.IS steering committee member Pam Frache is Ontario Campaigns and Government Relations Coordinator for the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), a left-leaning umbrella organization for Canadian student unions.Kerner went on to become a member of the executive of the Graduate Students Union (GSU) at U of T in 2004-05 but has since left the GSU executive.Later Kerner attracted widespread criticism when, as student council president, he refused to participate in the university's Remembrance Day ceremonies.Local 1998 represents non-academic support staff at the University of Toronto.Local 8300, based in Toronto, incorporates many small, widely scattered units in Ontario.New Socialist Group.Other IS activists joined The Varsity, a student newspaper, CIUT, the campus radio station, and the Association of Part-time Undergraduate Students (APUS).The greater part of IS recruitment and activism has been concentrated on university campuses, so much so that many consider the organization a student group led by Professor Abbie Bakan of Queen's University.Together with IS supporters in the USWA (representing non-academic support staff) and CUPE (representing teaching assistants), the IS appeared to be playing a concerted but secretive role at the university.USWA Local 1998.Voter turn-out was even lower than usual