T.O. Greenspiration Events: Occupy Toronto!

Angela Bischoff greenspi at web.ca
Mon Oct 10 23:36:48 EDT 2011


Toronto Greenspiration Events

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Bike Messenger Appreciation Day
Tuesday, October 11, 10 am - 2 pm
Roy Thomson Hall, King St. 

Our Dear Leader, Rob Ford, has defied expectations and continued tradition by officially proclaiming October 9, 2011 as Messenger Appreciation Day. In doing so, Rob joins Mayors throughout North America in paying respect to thehard-working and fearless (fearsome?) men and women who cycle Toronto's streets for a living.

We've brought together the Toronto Cyclist Union, Roy Thomson Hall, CLIF Bars, Mountain Equipment Co-op, Orontas, Charlie's Freewheels, Urbane Cyclist, Trelock, Community Bike Network, BikeSauce, ING Direct, and many more to ply Toronto's 500+ messengers with free caffeine, energy bars, and great bike swag.

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=149206271842314


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Solar Power your Portfolio: Investing in SolarShare Community Bonds
 
Tues. October 11, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
CSI Spadina, Innovation Lab, 215 Spadina Ave.
 
Are you a solar enthusiast without a south-facing roof or capital to start your own solar project? Do you want to support green energy while also investing ethically and locally? Find out how easy it is to participate in community solar power projects across Ontario by becoming a member of the SolarShare Co-operative and investing in a Community Solar Bond… read more

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Building Resilience Workshop Series

Tuesday, October 11, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Carrot Green Roof, 348 Danforth Ave.
Cost:  $20-30 on a sliding scale
Register:  Zora at artdecos at rogers.com or 416-463-9031

Join Carrot Green Roof's Zora Ignjatovic and Courtney Raponi as they lead you through a wide range of wild local, neighbourhood plants while demonstrating how they can be useful in improving food security and one's healthy diet.  These bi-weekly sessions will teach us about identifying and using common "weeds" for our benefit, methods of preparation, medicinal uses, recipes, ethical wild harvesting practices, and much more.  

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Early Exposures to Hazardous Chemicals/Pollution and Associations with Chronic Disease: A Scoping Review

with Kathleen Cooper, Senior Researcher, Canadian Environmental Law Association

Wed. Oct. 12, 4:10 p.m.   
40 St. George Street, Bahen Centre for Information Technology, Rm. 1190
 
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Pueblito Salsa Extravaganza
 
Wed. October 12, 8 pm - 2 am
Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas St. West
 
Pueblito will be hosting a salsa night at Lula Lounge. Join us for a silent auction, raffles and door prizes, dancing, salsa lessons, live music and more! Proceeds go towards Pueblito's programs to support access to education and sustainable development in Latin American communities… read more
 
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Days of Indigenous Resistance in Latin America 

Wednesday, October 12 · 6 pm - 9 pm - Free
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St. (Bathurst subway)

This event is the first of a week-long (Oct-12 to Oct-17) program showing films and discussion about Indigenous Resistance across countries of Latin America. The program includes:
- Indigenous Ritual
- Screening of Documentary: Abajo el Colonialismo/Venezuela
- Discussion

Info: www.barrio-nuevo.org / www.lacsn.weebly.com / www.casamaiz.org 
Facebook event page: http://on.fb.me/rdau86

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From the Arab Spring to Global Austerity 
How new transnational struggles are shaping Toronto protests

with Jesse Rosenfeld

Wednesday, October 12, 7 pm
150 College Street, Rm 139, Fitzgerald Building

From Athens to London, New York to Toronto, people are rising up in resistance to global austerity measures. Unsurprisingly, activists around the world are drawing from the tactical lessons of the Arab Revolutions, seizing symbolic targets to demand popular democratic control and using online media to mobilize.

The latest wave of mobilization - inspired by the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City - is coming to Canada. In Toronto, there's a tremendous opportunity to unite the energies of this new wave of protest with the efforts of established grassroots organizations. Join us for a discussion about how these global struggles are impacting us at home.

JESSE ROSENFELD is a journalist who has covered social struggle in North America, Europe and the Middle East. From 2007 until March 2011, he reported from the Middle East, primarily based in Ramallah and Tel Aviv. Rosenfeld, who covered last year's G20 protests, was recently in London, Athens and New York City and seeing first hand how the protests have been shaped by the global events. He has written for The Nation, The Guardian, Le Monde Diplomatique, Al Jazeera English, The Irish Times, Ha’aretz, Foreign Policy, and Alternet.org, among others.

This event is sponsored by OPIRG-Toronto, www.opirgtoronto.org.  Endorsed by The Centre for Social Justice, Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid, Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, New Socialist Group, No One Is Illegal-Toronto, Toronto Stop the Cuts Network, and Upping the Anti.

We regret that this venue is not wheelchair accessible due to very limited space availability. For more information, please write to opirg.toronto at gmail.com.


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Planet in Focus Film Festival 

Catch the latest and best Environmental Documentary Films
Wed. - Sun. October 12 – 16 


Royal Ontario Museum, JCC Miles Nadal, Tiff Bell Lightbox

The 12th Annual Planet in Focus Film Festival will include stories and explorations of urban and rural spaces; wildlife; social, cultural and political environments; farming; First Nations perspectives; public health; climate change; human displacement; war; globalization; water; forests; food security and other creative interpretations of the theme “environment.”

In addition to our regular public screenings, the Festival features two days of industry panels, workshops and pitch sessions devoted to the subjects of film production, distribution and funding; a school program for elementary and secondary students focused on environmental education; and free entertaining and inspiring children and youth programs.

More info: http://www.planetinfocus.org/

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Native Bus Tour of Toronto
 
Thur. October 13, 9:30 am - 4 pm
Begins at Native Canadian Center, 6 Spadina Road; ends at 215 Spadina Ave.
 
The event will start with the Native Canadian Centre’s three hour bus tour to learn more about indigenous history and presence in Toronto through some pre-contact and historical landmarks that are still relevant to and used by Aboriginal people living in this city today. Some of the highlights of the tour include Lakeshore, High Park, Casa Loma, Yonge Street, Rouge Hill, Old Fort York and more… read more
 
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Future of Hope

Canadian Premiere - Director: Henry Bateman
Iceland / 2010 / 75 min / Documentary
 
Thur. Oct. 13, 5:15 p.m.
Royal Ontario Museum (Avenue Road and Bloor)
 
Situated on a volcanic island rich in natural resources is the vast and beautiful Iceland, a country whose citizens struggle to make ends meet in an economy that is suffering from a debt-system collapse. Bateman enters into the lives of Icelanders who have faced unemployment, financial insecurity and an uncertain future and have found new approaches to making a living, including sustainable developments in organic farming, business, innovation and renewable energy.
 
With a fantastic soundtrack by Biggi Hilmars and a wonderful cast of characters, Future of Hope explores how a country survives after a financial collapse and how Icelanders have found innovative and sustainable ways to live in the future.
 
Official Selection, Green Screen Documentary Award, International Documentary Festival Amsterdam. Special Jury Mention, Energy Film Festival, Switzerland
 
Tickets for this screening are $5. Early Bird Passes are now available for purchase online at www.planetinfocus.org, by phone at 416-599-TIFF (8433) or in person at the TIFF Bell Lightbox Box Office, 350 King Street West.
 
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On Coal River - doc film about coal and mountain top removal

Thur. Oct. 13, 9:30 p.m. 
Al Green Theatre (Bloor and Spadina)

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An Examination of Current Issues Facing Indigenous Peoples in Ontario

Thursday October 13, 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Fifth Webinar in a series of six  in our "Sharing Culture, Mother Earth's Gifts, and Our Responsibility to Her Through Diversity" project

Facilitated by Larry McDermott, Executive Director Plenty Canada ( www.plentycanada.com )
Co-facilitator, Peigi Wilson, Plenty Canada Board Member (http://www.cier.ca/about-us/board-of-directors/default.aspx?id=706 )

http://oen.ca/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=1159&cntnt01dateformat=%25b%20%25d%2C%20%25Y&cntnt01returnid=75

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Al Gore - Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis. 
 
Thur. Oct. 13
Roy Thompson Hall
Tix from $39,50
Order Online Click Here to Order
Order by Phone   416.872.4255
 
Our Choice gathers in one place all of the most effective solutions that are available now and that, together, will solve the climate crisis. 

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Canada: A Climate Criminal?

With Margrit Eichler, Professor Emerita of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education,OISE/UT
Thur. Oct. 13, 4-6 pm
University College, Rm. 179, U of T.
All  welcome. No charge
 
Co-Sponsored  by University College Health Studies Programme, Canadian Pugwash Group, Science for Peace, and Voice of Women for Peace
 
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Downtown East Stop the Cuts Meeting

Thursday, October 13, 6:30 - 8:30pm
Wellesley Community Centre (corner of Sherborne and Wellesley), Room B
(http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=220006511396333)

*TTC Tokens available

We  urge everyone to not only attend this meeting but to bring others as well...the fight is far from over despite a temporary victory of sorts in getting the cuts put off for now. The cuts WILL be back on the table all too soon, and rather than cutting existing services, we need IMPROVEMENTS to those services!

On Thursday we will talk about the new city time-line for these cuts, as well as proposed actions and events in the Downtown East between now & the larger city-wide STOP the CUTS actions.

Contact: TorontoDTE at gmail.com
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Haiti Beyond the Headlines 

Thur. 13 October , 7 - 9 pm
Sidney Smith Hall, University of Toronto, Room #2135, 100 St. George Street
Free

Speakers:
• Roger Annis, coordinator of the Canada Haiti Action Network in Vancouver and director of a ten-day fact-finding and solidarity mission to Haiti in June, 2011
• Rosena Joseph, learning coach in Toronto, member of CUPE Local 3393 and member of the fact-finding mission 
• Kim Ives, documentary filmmaker, journalist and editor of Haiti Liberté, a news weekly based in Brooklyn and Port au Prince 
• Kevin Edmonds,THAC member and co-author of "Stabilizing Haiti: Mission Accomplished?" - Forthcoming report on the UN role in Haiti

Topics:
• Eyewitness reports on weak and inadequate post-earthquake reconstruction 
• Paralysis of the presidency of Michel Martelly
• Wikileaks documents exposing role of U.S. government and its allies in subverting Haiti’s sovereignty and development 
• Crimes of UN intervention and Haitian resistance to UN military occupation 

For more information:  www.thac.ca  www.canadahaitiaction.ca  torontohaitiaction at gmail.com
Sponsored by Caribbean Studies Program, New College and Toronto Haiti Action Committee

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Spin

Thursday, October 13 · 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Tranzac Club, Brunswick and Bloor
Award-winning Toronto artist Evalyn Parry takes her audience on an innovative theatrical and musical journey in her tour-de-force performance celebrating the Bicycle. Inspired by the incredible true tale of Annie Londonderry – first woman to ride around the world on a bicycle in 1894 – Parry weaves a web of stories that deftly travel from 19th century women’s emancipation to 21st century consumer culture, from the political to the personal. 

Parry’s “co-star” is a vintage bicycle. Suspended on a mechanic’s stand and connected to electronic effects, the bicycle is played – from fenders to spokes to bells – by percussionist Brad Hart, conjuring a unique and astonishing sonic accompaniment to Parry’s captivating SPIN.

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=263366553702184

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International Festival of Poetry of Resistance

Dedicated to Oppressed People Everywhere

Toronto, October 14-16

http://www.poetryofresistance.org/index.html

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Guilty Until Proven Innocent 

48 minutes, 2011. 
A look at the mistreatment of Arabs by the Canadian gov't. Film producers Gaby Andraos and Bruce Livesey speak..
Friday, October 14 - 7 p.m. 
OISE, 252 Bloor St. West, Room 2-212, at the St. George Subway Station. 
Everyone welcome. $4 donation requested. 

Please visit: www.socialistaction-canada.blogspot.com or call 416 – 535-8779.

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Resist WAR and MILITARISM: Building a movement for peace and justice

Fri. October 14 to Sunday October 16
Ryerson University, 55 Gould 
 
Panel discussion Afghanistan: Ten years of war and resistance - Fri. 7 p.m.
An assessment of the anti-war movement over the last decade and discussion about next steps by anti-war movement activists from across the continent.

Bi-annual convention of the Canadian Peace Alliance. Featuring panel discussions and workshops on Afghanistan, Canada and NATO, the 'war on terror,' war resisters, the Arab Spring, Palestine, civil liberties, Islamophobia and racism, indigenous sovereignty, militarism and society, nuclear disarmament, war and climate change, war and austerity, and much more!

http://www.acp-cpa.ca/en/Convention2011.html
 
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Zeitgeist Toronto chapter in collaboration with several non-violent activist groups in Toronto, we are pleased to invite you to:
 
Confronting Global Crises: A Non-Violent Perspective
 
Fri. October 14th and Sat. Oct. 15th
OISE, 252 Bloor St. (St. George subway station)
 
This conference will provide an in-depth, interactive look at non-violent tools available to grassroots activist groups and those looking to make positive change in a world where economic and environmental crises are becoming the norm. Along with keynote speakers who will inspire action, conference attendees will participate in interactive workshops focusing on the implementation of non-violent methods such as boycotts and direct strategic action campaigns as well as theoretical discussions on the limitations, benefits and effectiveness of non-violence and non-violent conflict resolution.

http://www.nonviolence.zeitgeist-toronto.com/
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=272069372817351 
http://nonviolenceconference.eventbrite.com/

Tickets are $20 for students and $25 for non-students, this price includes lunch and entrance to 2 workshops, 2 keynote lectures and a panel with our experts. 

Keynote lecture by Dr. Ramin Jahanbegloo, one of the leading authors and theorists on non-violent resistance in the world
Friday October 14, 7pm
OISE, 252 Bloor St.
Pay what you can
 
Workshops all day Saturday featuring:
Lee McKenna --  Non-violence from the kitchen to the commons,  the streets to the battlefield
James Loney --  Non-violence: Struggling with the Questions
Alex Speers-Roesch --  The Power of Boycotts
Jessica Bell --  Strategic Direct Action
Lyn Adamson -- Strategies for Non-Violent Action: The Power of Symbols
and many others !! 

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Media Arts as a Social Justice Tool - Skill Building Event
 
Fri. October 14, 3 pm - 6 pm
CSI Spadina, 4th floor, 215 Spadina

The Skill Building Event, "Media Arts as a Social Justice Tool", is grounded in the realities and experiences of girls/young women themselves including the adult allies working with and for them! The overall objective of the workshop is to improve your skills in applying media arts for social justice within a gender specific lens in your lives, projects and programs!... read more

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Life Coaching Certification & Personal Development Course
 
Fri. October 14 - March 4, 2012
CSI Annex, 720 Bathurst St.
 
This course is intended for people who are interested in personal development and want to learn more about it from a neuroscience, psychology, yoga, meditation, and mindfulness perspective. The course is a 5-month program with a maximum of 15 students accepted into each session… read more

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Occupy Toronto

Sat. Oct. 15, King and York Street
Are you part of the 99%? 

https://www.facebook.com/OccupyToronto
http://occupyto.org/

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Documentary: Enjoy Your Meal!: How Food Changes the World and The Past As Future

Saturday, October 15, noon
Royal Ontario Museum (Bloor and University)
Info and tickets:  http://planetinfocus.org/festival-films/enjoy-your-meal-how-food-changes-the-world/

COG Toronto is co-presenting this screening.  Enjoy Your Meal! is a Canadian Premiere of a film from The Netherlands and Belgium with director, Walter Grotenhuis.  Taking a gourmet dinner party as its launching point, this documentary follows each course through the food chain to discover the origin and local impact of its ingredients. Expounding on the costs and consequences concealed by grocery store packaging, the film ventures beyond the ecological implications of mass production to examine how the conditions of production affect local businesses, population health and cultural sustainability.  While advocating conscientious consumerism, Enjoy Your Meal! acknowledges the minefield of ethical dilemmas connected to it.
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Powerful - Energy for Everyone and 
From Chernobyl to Fukuhima: A Campaigner’s Journey and 
Leonids Story 

3 documentary films about renewable and nuclear energy

Saturday October 15, 2:45 p.m.
Al Green Theatre (Bloor and Spadina), Toronto

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Tweed Ride

Sat. Oct. 15, meet at Trinity Bellwoods Park (gates on Queen St.) at 3 p.m.

A Cycling Tour of Historical Toronto, bedecked in Tweed! Participants take in some our cities finest landmarks, breaking for prize photo ops and high tea with Urbane Cyclist, and ending the day with a smashing two-floor big band, swing dancing party.

Tweed Ride Toronto is a fund-raiser for Bikes Without Borders, a Toronto non-profit organization dedicated to using bikes and bike related solutions as a tool for development in marginalized communities. It is organized by BikingToronto.com and Bikes Without Borders.

https://www.facebook.com/TweedRideTO
http://tweedridetoronto.com/

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How To Start A Revolution

Saturday October 15, 7:30 p.m.
OISE, 252 Bloor
Pay what you can

This award winning film documents the life of Dr. Gene Sharp, the leading expert on non-violent revolution. The film takes the viewer through some of most recent revolutions triggered by Dr. Sharp's work including Serbia and Ukraine as well as more recently in Egypt and the on-going campaign in Syria. As groups across North America take part in occupy campaigns such as "Occupy Wall St." in dozens of cities (occupation is another method documented by Dr. Sharp), this message is as timely and important as ever. The film premiered at the Boston Film Festival in September and took home the Best Documentary honour. For more information and to see the trailer please visit the film's website here: http://howtostartarevolutionfilm.com/. Director Ruaridh Arrow will be in attendance and will participate in a post-film Q&A.


Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=294840187209503

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Media Strategy Workshop 201 

Sat. Oct. 15, 1pm – 5pm
Location: University of Toronto St George Campus (Room location is given upon registration.)

You have already written a number of successful press releases, and done interviews for your group. You know what it takes to get media for an event, but you want to step back and look at the larger picture. This workshop will look at the bigger picture questions that go into developing a media strategy for a long term initiative.  The training will cover framing, story-based narrative analysis, social media, understanding the media story cycle, and building relationships with reporters. 
 
Trainer: Jen Angel is co-founder of media strategy, publishing and tour management agency, Aid and Abet Booking, and former editor of Clamor Magazine.

Suggested donation: organizations and wage-earners, $20; unwaged, $10. No one turned away for lack of funds.  Proceeds go to running the Tools for Change program, including honorariums for trainers.

Register: http://www.toolsforchange.net/2011/08/14/media-strategy-201/
 
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Tree Tenders Volunteer Training (York Region)

Saturday, October 15, 2011 
Registration required
Rouge River Community Centre, 120 Rouge Bank Drive, Markham
This multi-day program is designed for individuals who want to gain tree-related knowledge and skills. If you’ve ever wanted to learn more about trees, and how to properly care for them then this course for you!

Each session provides basic arboriculture training which includes a combination of indoor and outdoor instruction. The final day of the course includes a group tree planting, putting the knowledge learned to practice.

Click here for detailed course dates and times.


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Connecting Across Differences for Social Action 
2 hour Intro Workshop - morning of Sat. Oct. 15 - Toronto - Facilitated by Henry Wai

Do you experience differences with others as a wall or a doorway in your community or social action?  Would you like to hear the productive "Yes" behind a frustrating "No"? Whether we’re engaging with the public, strategizing with allies, persuading decision-makers, or dialoging with opponents, it really helps to have a way to connect – to understand and respect where everyone is coming from. Your ability to be present to others with care, focus, and minimal reactions can make the difference between a breakdown and a breakthrough.
 
Join us for a practical introduction to the Nonviolent CommunicationTM (NVC) process for clarifying needs and choices and handling conflicts. It is a simple yet transformative process which facilitates productive and empathic dialogue. Around the world, more and more people are using NVC to support everyday peacemaking, empowerment, conflict transformation, healing and more. NVC is practiced in 37 countries in activism, family, workplace, social service, education, mediation, prison, and government settings. 

To learn more about NVC:
- Read an introductory chapter www.cnvc.org/node/393
- See how it is applied www.nonviolentcommunication.com/freeresources/article_archive.htm

Tuition: $20         Info: Henry Wai   416-913-8861   wai_renooy at sympatico.ca
 
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The Work that Reconnects: Reconnecting to Purpose, Greening our Spirits - workshop

Saturday, October 15, 9:30 a.m.
Rainbow room, Trinity-St. Pauls United Church, 427 Bloor Street
Free, suggested donation $10

Presented by the Green Awakening Network
The “Work that Reconnects" is a transformative process developed by Joanna Macy to awaken us to - and root us in - the source of our collective power to effect change: The compassion and insight that enable us to experience our interconnection with all life.
Registration required and limited to 25 people.
Any other questions can also be addressed to Ron Ewart at networkcoordinator at tucc.ca or call 905.771.5124 ex. 31.

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Marketing 101 for Holisitic Practitioners 
with Tad Hargrave

Saturday, October 15th (9:30am - 6:00pm)
Inner Garden, 401 Richmond (at Spadina)
Pay what you want at the end of the day.
Click Here for more info or to register.
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Greening Sacred Spaces presents:
Pollinator Garden Workshop - Creating a Community Garden

Sat. Oct. 15

Salvation Army Agincourt Church, 3080 Birchmount Rd., Scarborough


Come out to learn how to create a beautiful garden to attract butterflies and birds to your sacred spaces. From pitching the idea to your faith community, to finding the funds, to actually putting a garden project in the ground, you will learn to create a pollinator garden from the ground up. After a light lunch, participants will head outside to put in a garden bed in a new public park on the Salvation Army church grounds. 

Register for this FREE workshop at www.trcastewardshipevents.ca.  Snacks and a light lunch will be provided. 

This special event is being put on by the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, with support from partners including Environment Canada and Grow Wild. 


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Act on Climate Change, or Ignore It? We'll see you in Court!

Sunday, October 16, 2 p.m.
OISE, 252 Bloor Street West (at St. George Subway)

Our climate Justice Tribunal will test an indictment of the governments, corporations, and people of Canada for climate crimes against Nature and humanity.

We are bombarded by news of global warming and environmental destruction. Yet the world's governments, who will meet November 28 in Durban, South Africa, in another climate ghange conference, are masters of inaction. Canada is called one of the worst carbon-emission offenders. And we, the people of Canada, are we carrying through on our responsibility to restore harmony with nature?

As a participant in our mock trial on October 16, you will compare the conflicting agendas of the government, corporations, and the people of Canada. You will weigh how their and our actions and inaction could make all of us climate criminals.

For more information: www.Boliviaclimatejustice at gmail.com See our blog: www.t.grupoapoyo.org
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=195935420470486

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Foodstock - Melancthon Township

Sun. October 16th, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Honeywood, ON

70 chefs come together to fight a mega-quarry. On October 16th, over 70 of Canada’s top chefs will gather in Honeywood Ontario to celebrate food and raise money to support the fight against the Melancthon mega-quarry. Find out more. 

This event will celebrate Ontario’s bounty of food and water and the connection between producers and consumers of local food.
To get more information or for tickets visit: http://canadianchefscongress.com/

Buses from Toronto http://www.ndact.com/index.php/events/43-sun-october-16-2011-foodstock

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Hurricane Hazil Tree Tour
 
Sunday, October 16 - 10:30a.m. - 12:00p.m.
$5 donation
Registration recommended
Étienne Brûlé Park Parking Lot, Old Mill Dr. at Catherine St. (Walking distance from Old Mill subway station), Toronto

Start Location: From Old Mill TTC Station go north on Old Mill Trail then east on Old Mill Rd. Walk for about 5 min, past the Old Mill Inn & Spa, over the bridge.
End location: South of Dundas St. W near St. Marks Rd.
Difficulty Level: Medium (long route but well paved)
In October of 1954, Hurricane Hazel slammed into Toronto causing 81 deaths and rendering nearly 2,000 people homeless. With strong winds and over 200mm of rain Hazel caused extensive flooding throughout the GTA with the Humber Valley watershed being hardest hit.  Join Amanda Gomm (LEAF), Gaspar Horvath (Black Creek Project) and Madeleine McDowell (Chair, Humber Heritage Committee) as we examine the transformative impact this storm had on a treasured part of Toronto’s urban forest. We’ll learn what the forest and surrounding area looked like originally, how the hurricane changed both the landscape and the people who lived here as well as efforts made to regenerate this crucial watershed.

Opportunity for coffee and tea afterwards at historic Lampton House http://yourleaf.org/event/2011-10-16/hurricane-hazel-tree-tour



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GMO - Right2Know Rally!
Sunday, October 16, 1 - 5 pm
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St. (at Bathurst subway)
Canadian Organic Growers Toronto and Ruth's Foods are holding a rally against genetically modified organisms (GMOs).  As part of Organic Week, October 15-22 and non-GMO month, and in support of the Right2Know March from New York to Washington, D.C., we will 'live stream' speakers from the conclusion of the march in Washington from Percy Schmeiser to Vandana Shiva.  Monsanto and other biotech companies have been foisting their genetic engineering technology on an unsuspecting and unwilling public.  Dangers to the environment and our health are clear.  Despite numerous polls and protests clearly showing the public's support of at least labeling food that contains GMOs, these companies and the politicians that support them need to be told again and again what we want.  Let's make this a North America-wide shout out against GMOs and a demand for labeling so people can make the choice for good, safe food.  There will be local speakers, a new film on GMOs and music.
Make your voice heard!

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PeaceWorks Course: Communication in Action

PeaceWorks offers a certificate course in Active Peacebuilding.   The first series is Communication in Action, and starts October 24th.   Sessions are from 6:30 to 9:30 pm at the Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave.  (1 block north of St. George subway station, Bedford exit). 

The fee is $150 and a $25 deposit will hold your spot.  There are some sliding scale spaces, please inquire.  

The series will cover: listening skills,  raising a concern,  team building,  introduction to mediation and basic facilitation skills. The winter series starting January 23rd will cover Nonviolent Social Transformation – successful case studies in social change.  The spring series on activist skills starts March 19th.  You can register for one series, or for all three.  To register, send a $25 cheque made out to Toronto Monthly Meeting and send to 60 Lowther Ave, Toronto, M5R 1C7, with PeaceWorks training in the memo line, or register on-line.

Trainer:  Lyn Adamson is a mediator and trainer in communication and conflict resolution, with twenty-five years of experience.  Lyn is a Quaker, Co-Chair of Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, and an experienced activist and nonviolence trainer. 
For more information contact Lyn Adamson – 416-731-6605, peaceworks at primus.ca, or go to www.peaceworkstmm.org.

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Transport Futures - Mobility Pricing Stakeholder Forum
November 22, 2011 @ Metropolitan Hotel, Toronto
http://www.transportfutures.ca/stakeholder
 
Progressive governments use road tolls, parking fees, gas and carbon taxes to reduce traffic congestion, fight climate change and generate revenue for transportation infrastructure. However, mentioning any one of these mobility pricing measures often elicits strong reactions from Canadian businesses, non-profits and media, who, in turn, influence political and public acceptance. What is the rationale for their views? Under what implementation conditions would their opinions change? Join us at Transport Futures to discover the answers and help create a meaningful outreach strategy with these leading stakeholders and international experts:
 
Register now to take advantage of our Early Bird Rates. Visit http://www.transportfutures.ca/stakeholder for full program details.

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Room for Rent in Artists' Loft

Ossington/Dupont, shared space
$625/mth, available Nov. 1
Community/activist oriented
Contact: Petra <pei.czech at gmail.com> 647 342 1964

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