T.O. Greenspiration Events: Let's Grow Food
Angela Bischoff
greenspi at web.ca
Mon May 19 19:26:52 EDT 2014
T.O. Greenspiration Events
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Zero. It is the number of people permitted to die in Swedish traffic, according to national law. That's Swedish law, since 1997, and they've reduced traffic deaths by 50%. NYCity has committed to zero traffic deaths by 2024. Now that's vision.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/13/nyregion/de-blasio-looks-toward-sweden-for-road-safety.html?smid=fb-share
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The Rise of Protected Bike Lanes in the U.S.
Fantastic movement towards bike-friendly streets! 4-minute video
http://vimeo.com/93261795
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Compilation: CON JOB - Part 3
Problems with IPCC reports, and why the supposed +2°C danger threshold / carbon budget frame is ALREADY catastrophically assured to be the greatest collective fraud / betrayal ever perpetrated against humanity and most life.
http://www.ecosanity.org/blogsanity/compilation-con-job-part3
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Confront Injustice: Know Your Rights Film Launched
No One Is Illegal - Toronto is proud to announce the launch of our newest film Confront Injustice: Know Your Rights. The 25 minute film is a compilation of strategies that migrants can use to defend themselves against detention and deportations and is accompanied by a downloadable PDF guide.
Watch it here: http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/knowyourrights
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Provincial Election Fact Sheets
The Ontario provincial election will take place on Thursday, June 12. Social Planning Toronto has produced 16 fact sheets on important provincial issues. The fact sheets are short and sweet, providing information and analysis on key topics. Please read them, SHARE them, and don’t forget to vote!
http://www.socialplanningtoronto.org/reports/spt-launches-provincial-election-fact-sheets/
How, when, where and why to vote: Check Elections Ontario for all the details: www.wemakevotingeasy.ca
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Tell the Senate to reject the Unfair Elections Act!
http://canadians.org/action/tell-senate-reject-unfair-elections-act
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Volunteer Eco-Actors Call-out
Pollutia's Rage is a skit about environmental toxins and their impact on Mother Nature. http://100in1day.ca/toronto/?page_id=420#/?id=260
They are in need of 8-10 actors. The script will be shared with those interested in participating. The skit is about 10 minutes in length.
Contact Kerri Brock at 416 303-0841 or kerribrock at gmail.com. RSVP by May 23rd. A meet n' greet is set for May 25th to review the script and details of the day. Letters of reference for volunteer hours for high school students can be earned with this project.
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Cycle York and Regenesis at York are in need of volunteers for its first semiannual cyclist count
This initiative, taking place at York University on the following dates: Thurs. May 22, Mon. May 26, Tues. May 27, Wed. May 28
The data collected will be used to help measure the impact of cycling initiatives on campus.
Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fvi5THatXvol63AAVvtWXUkz3-_IVt6YbVO2Y_AYTIQ/edit?pli=1
More deets here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mYItAHcgAQ62yI0xV9_kBhVs9S_-5lHXU3aTYXJPFTQ/edit?pli=1
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Improving Health by Design
We need to build physical activity back into people’s lives - so say the Medical Officers of Health in the Greater Toronto-Hamilton Area.
http://climatesolutionscentre.com/
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Cycle Tour Employment Info Session
Tues. May 20, 6 p.m.
Tour d'Afrique, 196 Spadina
Info session for those interested in working on cycling tours abroad. Free.
416-364-8255
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Gender-Bending Chronic Pollution In Sarnia's Chemical Valley
Lecture by Dayna Nadine Scott
Tues. May 20, 7 pm.
Annette Library, 145 Annette, Free.
416-393-7692, torontopubliclibrary.ca.
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Let's Grow Food: Worms – Making Black Gold For Your Garden Workshop
Tues. May 20, 5:30 - 8:30 pm.
FoodShare, 90 Croatia
$75 (sliding scale avail). Pre-register 416-363-6441 ext 247, angela at foodshare.net.
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Sustainability News And Networking
Green Enterprise Toronto forum on green energy.
Tues. May 20, 6:30 p.m.
Roundhouse, 255 Bremner. Free
getoronto at bell.net
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Ride of Silence
Wed. May 21, 7 p.m.
Meet at Bloor and Spadina parkette
Cyclists will take to the roads around the world in a silent procession to honor cyclists who have been killed or injured while cycling on public roadways. Although cyclists have a legal right to share the road with motorists, the motoring public often isn't aware of these rights, and sometimes not aware of the cyclists themselves. Wear black armbands if possible. Ride will end in the vicinity of City Hall.
https://www.facebook.com/events/789060321113004/?notif_t=plan_user_invited
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Volunteer Leaflet Blitz - Green Energy, Not Nuclear
Wed. 6 - 9 p.m.
Davenport riding
This is the leaflet we're distributing this election to propose the replacement of the Darlington rebuild project with lower cost and renewable water power imports from Quebec.
http://www.cleanairalliance.org/files/qbhydro.pdf
If you can spend a few hours distributing these in your neighbourhood, door to door in mailboxes, or if you'd like to join one of our blitzes, let me know! Thanks...
Contact Angela at cleanairalliance.org or phone 416 260 2080 x 1.
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Unions Matter: Advancing Democracy, Economic Equality, and Social Justice
Wed, May 21, 4 – 5:30 pm
Library Room (Main Mezzanine level), Royal York Hotel, 100 Front St.
Income inequality has risen rapidly over the past three decades. In Canada it is now at its highest level since 1928. One of the root causes: the consistent chipping away of labour rights. The labour movement has been left unable to maintain membership levels and incapable of narrowing the income gap through collective bargaining, with profound implications for Canadians. Labour rights are human rights. They provide a powerful democratic counterweight to the growing power of corporations and the wealthy, and are key to a functioning democracy. Book launch co-sponsored by the Canadian Foundation for Labour Rights and the Global Labour Research Centre
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Min Fami: Arab Feminist Reflections on Identity, Space and Resistance - book launch
Wednesday, May 21, 6 pm
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham (near Bloor and Bathurst)
Edited by Ghadeer Malek and Ghaida Moussa, Min Fami: Arab Feminist Reflections on Identity, Space, and Resistance is an anthology that cradles the thoughts of Arab feminists, articulated through personal critical narratives, academic essays, poetry, short stories, and visual art. It is a meeting space where discussions on home(land), exile, feminism, borders, gender and sexual identity, solidarity, language, creative resistance, and (de)colonization are shared, confronted, and subverted.
http://beitzatoun.org/event/min-fami-arab-feminist-reflections/
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The world unites against Chevron
Wed. May 21, 5 p.m.
Dundas Square (Yonge and Dundas)
People around the world are joining together to bring attention to the atrocities committed by Chevron. For over three decades, Chevron chose profit over people in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The multinational coldly decided that saving $3 per barrel was more important than the welfare of Indigenous communities living there. After years of legal battles, the Indigenous Ecuadorian people finally won a $9.5 billion dollar lawsuit against Chevron. But, instead of facing justice, Chevron slickly pulled all its properties out of Ecuador. Since Chevron has an operating subsidiary in Canada, the Canadian Supreme Court has now agreed to “collecting on the debt” for the affected communities. But Chevron continues with dirty maneuvering instead of standing accountable, acting responsibly and cleaning up one of the world’s worst oil-related disasters in one of the world's most important rainforests.
https://www.facebook.com/events/437711166366538/
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A Just Society is Possible - Critical Pedagogy and the Citizen-Student
Thursday May 22, 9:30 am - 4 pm (lunch included)
George Brown College (St. James Campus), 200 King St. East - Main Lobby Registration Fee: $50 (limited student /no wage subsidy available)
The all-day event of breakout sessions, interactive exhibits, and a closing community forum will open with a message from Shirley Douglas and a keynote address by journalist and social activist, Judy Rebick.
Email/Registration: tdouglasinstitute at georgebrown.ca / 416-415-5000 ext. 2555 (voice-mail)
Info: georgebrown.ca/TommyDouglasInstitute or facebook.com/TommyDouglasInstitute
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Volume: Sisters Make Noise
Thur. May 22, 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas Street East
A night of performances by young Muslim women in poetry, spoken word, music and dance
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Women Of Distinction Plaque Presentation
Heritage Toronto and Toronto Legacy Project honour Amelia Earhart, Emma Goldman and Joyce Wieland
Thur. May 22, 11 am.
University College, rm 179, 15 King's College Circle, U of T
Free. Pre-register heritagetoronto.org.
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Berkshire Conference on the History of Women
Thur. - Sun. May 22 - 25
U of T
For the first time ever, the triennial Berkshire Conference on Women’s History will be held in Toronto. The very extensive program includes many presentations and sessions covering the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa and the Global South in general. Among key-note presentations, Margaret Randal will be featured, honouring her many years of documenting Latin American people and events. As a recent interviewer noted, it was difficult not to be swept up by the enthusiasm of UofT professor and conference president Franca Iacovetta, in describing the expansive international program and all of the accompanying cultural events that will take place over the four days.
http://berks2014.com
http://berks2014.com/2013/09/03/programme-2/
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Ontario, Quebec and Electricty - Time for a new Relationship?
Friday, May 23, 8:30 – 11 a.m.
Osgoode Professional Development Centre, 1 Dundas St W, Suite 2602 (at Yonge)
The availability of cheap natural gas as a result of the fracking boom in the United States has significantly weakened the market for hydroelectricity exports from Quebec to its US neighbours. At the same time Ontario is looking for storage capacity to balance the growing amounts of intermittent renewable energy sources connected to its grid and, potentally, cost-effective alternatives to nuclear refurbishments. Is it time for a neighourly chat? With panelists Jack Gibbons Chair, Ontario Clean Air Alliance and more. Free, but registration is required due to limited space. Also, there are some live webcast spaces.
http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ontario-quebec-and-electricty-time-for-a-new-relationship-tickets-8718785121
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Faith Communities = Neighborhood Resilience Hubs
Friday, May 23, 10 - 11am
Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen St. W., Committee Room #2
Presentation on faith communities acting as neighbourhood emergency centres during extreme weather events. Faith & the Common Good and our Greening Sacred Spaces Program is exploring how to enhance the capacity of our local communities to better withstand the negative impacts of climate-induced extreme weather events (ex. heat, storms, flooding) by identifying, training, and mobilizing neighborhood faith groups to act as local resilience sites.
Registration: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GJVFCWG
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All Through The House: A Night Of Feminist Art & Culture
Fri. May 23, 8 pm.
Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle
Performances by artist Rebecca Belmore, the Jubilate Singers and others plus workshops. $15.
berks2014.com/friday-night.
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Socialism 2014: Capitalism is Organized Crime
An International Educational Conference
Fri./Sat. May 23-24
OISE, 252 Bloor St. W. Room 2-212
Speakers from USA, Mexico, Quebec and English Canada discuss 'Capitalism Damns the Environment', 'Scandals, Repression and Corporate Dictatorship', 'Science for People, or for Profit?', 'When Labour Won', 'Is Inequality Inevitable?', and 'What Would Socialism Look Like?'
https://www.facebook.com/events/701129236592949/
http://www.socialistaction.ca/
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Champs Canada
Fri - Sun, May 23 - 25
Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W
Counter-culture trade show, with with seminars on the North American medical cannabis movement, breeder panels, parties, glass-blowing competition and more.
$15, both days $20.
champsca.com
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March Against Monsanto - Requiem for Bees
Saturday. May 24, 11 am
Queen’s Park (College and University)
The March Against Monsanto is a global call to action aimed at informing the public and calling into question the long-term health and environmental effects of genetically modified foods. Beekeepers will open the Toronto edition of the international March Against Monsanto at Queen’s Park, with a Requiem for Bees, by dumping a coffin filled with hundreds of thousands of bees that have died over this past winter to illustrate the increasing numbers of Ontario bee deaths linked to the use of agricultural neonicotinoid pesticides.
https://www.facebook.com/events/422692497830818/
http://www.sierraclub.ca/en/bees-need-us
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Toronto GMO-free Festival - Requiem for Bees
Sat, May 24, 12 - 6 pm
Christie Pitts Park (Bloor and Christie)
Thousands of citizens will gather at Christie Pits Park to learn and educate themselves about GMOs and explore alternatives to the industrial food system.This will be Toronto’s first GMO-free festival, and will feature great high-profile speakers, entertaining musicians and performers, info tables on crucial health and environmental issues, and a wide variety of non-GMO munchies to sample or purchase.
http://www.torontonongmocoalition.org/www.torontonongmocoalition.org/Welcome.html
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Violence No More
Sat. May 24, 5:30 - 9 p.m.
Native Canadian Centre of Toronto, 16 Spadina (north of Bloor)
Join No More Silence Families of Sisters in Spirit and The Native Youth Sexual Health Network to discuss community based responses to violence. Join us in community to honour the lives of missing and murdered Indigenous women and on the path of decolonization towards a world free of global oppression!
https://www.facebook.com/events/519315198174252/?notif_t=plan_user_invited
http://nationsrising.org/it-starts-with-us/
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North Scarborough Green Loop
12km cycling loop - Opening Event
Sat. May 24, 1 - 4 p.m.
L'Amoreaux Recreation Centre, 2000 McNicoll Ave (intersection with Kennedy Road)
Bike safety checks, guided ride and more. The trail goes through an area bordered approximately by McCowan, McNicoll, Birchmount and Huntingwood Avenues. It originated as a spontaneous idea of a local resident: connect existing paths and low-traffic streets, mark the route with its official signs and tell folks about this new way to get around in the neighbourhood.
https://www.facebook.com/nsgreenloop or email erhard.interlog at gmail.com
In case of rain, the event will be held indoors: https://www.facebook.com/pages/North-Scarboroughs-Green-Loop/384703554924747
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Doors Open Toronto
Sat. and Sun, May 24 and 25
Walks, docs, tours, and a complete list of new and returning buildings
http://www.toronto.ca/doorsopen
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Toronto ABC Letter-writing Night
Sunday, May 25, 6 pm
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham (near Bloor and Bathurst)
Toronto Anarchist Black Cross monthly night of conversation and letter writing.
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The Magic Of Nature
Sun. May 25, 3 p.m.
North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge
Gnostic Cultural Centre talk. Free.
torontopubliclibrary.ca.
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Pedestrian Sundays In Kensington Market
Sun. May 25, noon - 7 p.m.
Kensington Market, Augusta and College
Celebrate summer with music, street theatre and more on streets closed to traffic.
pskensington.ca.
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Seedling Sunday
A seed swap, plants and info on gradening in the city.
Sun. May 25
Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. Free.
harbourfrontcentre.com.
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Sustainable Urban Beekeeping Day
Sun. May 25, 10 am - 5 pm.
Bento Miso, 862 Richmond W.
Presentations on urban beekeeping for novices. $20/presentation, 2 for $35, full day $50.
Pre-register bentomiso.com/events.
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Bike Month
May 26 – June 26
A celebration of cycling in the Greater Toronto Area with hundreds of community events including rides, races, tours, festivals, and more.
http://bikemonth.ca/
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Hot Docs
Bloor Cinema (Bloor and Bathurst)
http://bloorcinema.com/
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NOW magazine hosts a very comprehensive online events listing
http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/listings/
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