T.O. Greenspiration Events: Sisters Make Noise
Angela Bischoff
greenspi at web.ca
Mon May 18 19:51:02 EDT 2015
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Bill C-51 doesn't introduce disruption -- it legalizes 'dirty tricks'
This is really scary. "Eyes-on-surveillance" (essentially organized stalking), break-ins, demagnetization of bank cards, vandalism, smear campaigns, installing rootkits and vicious malware on computers,overwhelming a vehicle's electronics to cause malfunction and injecting metallic noise onto a home's powerlines resulting in sleep deprivation are all tactics used in disruption. The end game in disruption is a "sting." Hence agent provocateurs are brought in to try to dupe the target into committing a crime or acting "dangerous."”
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2015/05/bill-c-51-doesnt-introduce-disruption-it-legalizes-dirty-tric
Tell Your Senator to Stop Bill C-51
https://stopc51.ca
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Shredding documents can't paper over environmental problems in the tar sands
Wild! Two independent commissioners have now announced a joint investigation into the illegal destruction of documents by the outgoing PC government in Alberta!!! What do you think the Conservatives are trying to hide? "The PC government forgot that those documents belong to the people of Alberta, not their party."
http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/Blogentry/shredding-documents-cant-paper-over-environme/blog/52890/
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Make the Rich Panic - By Chris Hedges
“When dying regimes collapse, they do so with dizzying speed. Upheaval is coming. The people must be prepared. If we are, we will have a chance."
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/make_the_rich_panic_20150503
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Aamjiwnaang First Nation surrounded by Chemical Valley is seeking support to test water samples
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/aamjiwnaang-water-project#home
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Etobicoke Creek oil spill
http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/hazmat-crews-called-to-clean-up-etobicoke-creek-oil-spill-1.2374562
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Remove the Gardiner Expressway East -Petition
https://www.change.org/p/toronto-city-council-remove-the-gardiner-expressway-east
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Notley’s False Majority: Why It's Time to Fix Canada’s Electoral System
While progressives across Canada relish the NDP victory in Alberta last week, an inconvenient truth about the election results has been largely overlooked: Rachel Notley secured her majority government with just 41 per cent of the popular vote. Electoral reform is fundamentally about fixing an outdated, undemocratic system and making each vote count — and that’s something people of all political stripes should be able to get behind.
http://www.desmog.ca/2015/05/10/notley-s-false-majority-why-now-time-fix-canada-s-electoral-system
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Fight for $15 and Fairness
Join the fight for decent work
http://15andfairness.org/
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Broken Covenant: Blistering report on 9 years of Harper agenda
Maude Barlow’s new report outlines the damage done to all aspects of Canada’s democracy under Harper’s watch. A scathing indictment of nine years of the Harper agenda, Broken Covenant examines the Harper government’s impact on our democratic institutions, families and workers, women, First Nations, the environment, health care, arts and culture, farmers, human rights and social equality.
http://canadians.org/broken-covenant
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Ontario First Province in Canada to Set 2030 Greenhouse Gas Pollution Reduction Target
"Establishing a 2030 greenhouse gas emission reduction target of 37 per cent below 1990 levels sends a clear signal to Canada and the world that Ontario is committed to creating a lasting legacy of a better environment and a stronger low-carbon economy for future generations." — Glen Murray, Minister of the Environment and Climate Change
http://bit.ly/1GjG7dF
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Canada announces climate commitment and it’s weaker than it looks
On Friday, Canada announced it will cut carbon pollution by 30% below 2005 levels by 2030 as part of this year’s international climate negotiations in Paris. While any action regarding Canada’s efforts to reduce its carbon emissions is an improvement over its current situation, the proposed target is far weaker than pledges from the US and EU. The Canadian plan fails to address the Alberta tar sands—the nation’s largest source of carbon emissions—and relies on questionable carbon accounting
http://climateactionnetwork.ca/2015/05/15/canada-announces-climate-commitment-and-its-weaker-than-it-looks/
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Information Commissioner warns of dangerous precedent in RCMP long-gun registry case
16 min. CBC interview. Canada's Information Commissioner says she's never seen anything like this. Following a long investigation, Suzanne Legault concluded that the RCMP illegally destroyed records related to the long-gun registry.
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thehouse/how-will-canada-meet-its-new-emissions-reduction-target-1.3074096/information-commissioner-warns-of-dangerous-precedent-in-rcmp-long-gun-registry-case-1.3074098
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Did you know...
• Household cleaners;
• Compact fluorescent lights;
• Electronic cigarettes; and
• Medications and vitamins
… are hazardous waste and should never go in garbage, recycling or organics. Proper disposal options include Community Environment Days and Drop-Off Depots. Check Hazardous Waste – Where does it go? or the Waste Wizard for more information.
http://app.toronto.ca/wes/winfo/search.do
http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=57cd433112b02410VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD
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Tell the city you LOVE libraries
The Toronto Public Library is in the process of creating its next Strategic Plan 2016-2019 to guide service delivery and programs over the next 4 years. We invite you to a roundtable session to tell us about the needs and interests of your client group and to help us set priorities.
Thursday, May 21 from 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. at the Fairview Branch (Sheppard & Don Mills)
Monday, May 25 from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. at the Runnymede Branch (Bloor & Runnymede)
Tuesday, May 26 from 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. at the Northern District Branch (Eglinton & Yonge)
Register via e-mail by May 15 indicating the session you plan to attend: strategicplanconsultation at torontopubliclibrary.ca
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Raise the Rates Week of Action Against the Liberal Government’s ‘Invisible Austerity’ War on the Poor
May 18 - 25
The Raise the Rates Campaign is calling on local communities to challenge MPPs during the week of May 18. During that week, they will be in their constituency offices and this is an ideal time to challenge the austerity and growing poverty that is being imposed in this Province. For more information or to sign on to participate in the Week of Action, contact via the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP): E-mail: ocap at tao.ca Phone: 416-925-6939 Twitter: @ocaptoronto
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Oil '(In)dependence'? Petroleum Work in Mexico and Canada After the US Shale Boom
Tues. May 19, 1 - 3 p.m.
Toronto Reference Library, Elizabeth Beeton Auditorium (on Spadina, north of Bloor)
The unexpected drop in oil prices in late 2014 was met with trepidation by analysts. The fall in prices arises, in part, from a significant increase in US domestic energy production due to that country's boom in shale oil and gas production, and concerns regarding security of investment in hydrocarbon energy sources. What are the implications of this significant shift in the geopolitics of North American energy for work, daily life and elite accumulation in Mexico and Canada - key sources of US oil for the past decade? With Anna Zalik, Associate Professor, York U
http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT188569&R=EVT188569
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A World Beyond the Tar Sands - The Fight for Climate Jobs
Tuesday May 19, 7 p.m.
Steelworkers Hall (25 Cecil St)
Public Forum with Toronto Socialists
www.socialist.ca
https://www.facebook.com/events/813976151989036/
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Can A Simple Sticker Help Us Act On Climate Change?
Wed. May 20, 6 - 7:30 pm
Centre for Social Innovation (Annex), 720 Bathurst St.
On January 26, 2015, West Vancouver unanimously passed a resolution “... that all vendors of retail petroleum products in Canada be legislated to provide warning labels on all pump handles...”. Since that vote, over 50 communities have endorsed the concept. Join Robert Shirkey as he explores the psychology, economics, and law behind what might be the world’s lowest cost climate intervention and yet the most impactful.
www.ourhorizon.eventbrite.com
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Climate Change & Climate Resiliency
Wed May 20, 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Metro Hall, 55 John St., Room 310
This presentation, organized by Live Green Toronto Volunteers’ Coordinator Megan MacLean, will focus on the biggest global environmental issue - climate change - and what the City of Toronto is doing to address this massive problem.
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May Green Drinks
Wednesday May 20, 6 - 8:30 pm
Grace O’Malleys, 14 Duncan Street (near Adelaide and University)
We have a lively mixture of people from NGOs, academia, students, government and business. Come along and you'll be made welcome. Just say, "are you green?" and we will look after you and introduce you to whoever is there. It's a great way of catching up with people you know and also for making new contacts. Everyone invites someone else along, so there’s always... a different crowd, making Green Drinks an organic, self-organising network. These events are very simple and unstructured, but many people have found employment, made friends, developed new ideas, done deals and had moments of serendipity. Everyone Welcome - No Admission Charge.
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Nepal Relief Fundraising Dinner
Wed. May 20, Reception 6:30 pm, dinner 7 pm.
Dim Sum King 421 Dundas W, 3rd floor
Scadding Court Community Centre benefit for Nepal rebuild and relief efforts. Dinner, pop up vendors, performances, silent auction and more with MC Jojo Chintoh. $50.
416-392-0335 ext 237
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Hudbay Minerals Hurts Us All
Thursday, May 21, 6 – 9 p.m.
Friends House, 60 Lowther (St. George subway)
An international forum with representation from communities near all of Hudbay's mines. For the first time, communities from across the Americas impacted by Canadian company Hudbay Minerals are coming together. On the evening before Hudbay's annual shareholders' meeting, join us as we gather to share stories and hear testimonies.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1633716630185446/
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De-escalation and Non-violent Communication
Thursday, May 21, 6 - 9:30 pm
University of Toronto campus, exact location to be emailed to participants
The purpose of this workshop is to provide techniques for de-escalating conflicts, and communicating in thoughtful, non-reactive ways, in order to build healthy organizations and movements. Topics to be covered include conflict resolution styles, triggers and grounding techniques, and de-escalation strategies.
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/de-escalation-and-nonviolent-communication-workshop-tickets-16430894247
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Stop Liberal Austerity and the War on the Poor - Rally
Thursday, May 21, 12:30 pm
Office of Glenn Murray, MPP, 120 Carlton (at Jarvis)
Join with OCAP and OPSEU as part of the Ontario-wide Raise the Rates week of action, as we send a message to Queen's Park that our communities won't accept their austerity agenda! The Liberal Government's increasing austerity means an attack on public services and the workers who deliver them. Raise the Rates is holding a week of action across Ontario to build the fight back in communities against this agenda and the war on the poor that is at the heart of it. Free meal served!.
ocap.ca
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Pack the Committee: Oppose T.O. police doing immigration enforcement
Thur. May 21, 9:30 am
Toronto City Hall (Queen and Bay)
The Toronto Police Services is presenting a report to Toronto City Hall's Community Development and Recreations Committee saying that their practices of racial profiling, carding, and handing over non-status migrants to immigration enforcement is in line with ensuring access without fear for undocumented Torontonians. Well, we don't think so. Join a broad range of grassroots Toronto groups on to insist that this report must be rejected and that the City of Toronto needs to step in and demand an end to racial profiling, and police collusion with immigration enforcement. If you have an Access Without Fear or Solidarity City t-shirt, please wear it. Otherwise, yellow, red and black are beautiful colours to rock on that day. If you would like to depute, please get in touch with No One Is Illegal - Toronto at nooneisillegal at riseup.net.
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Canadian Journalists and Coverage of The Gaza War
Thursday, May 21, 7pm
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham (Bloor and Bathurst)
Veteran investigative reporter Andrew Mitrovica explores how the recent war in summer 2014 was covered by Canadian journalists. Andrew Mitrovica is a writer and journalism instructor. For much of his career, Andrew was an investigative reporter for a variety of news organizations and publications including the CBC’s fifth estate, CTV’s W5, CTV National News — where he was the network’s chief investigative producer — the Walrus magazine and the Globe and Mail, where he was a member of the newspaper’s investigative unit. He is a columnist with iPolitics. During the course of his 23-year career, Andrew has won numerous national and international awards for his investigative work.
beitzatoun.org
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Inclusionary Zoning: Solutions for Below Market Housing
Thursday, May 21, 10 a.m. - 12 noon
College Street United Church, 452 College Street (College and Bathurst)
A forum to discuss the opportunities and challenges presented by an Inclusionary Zoning program for the City of Toronto. It is a proven tool to provide much needed affordable housing. All interested people are invited including affordable housing advocates, developers, planners, policy analysts and community builders. Free.
http://inclusionaryzoning.eventbrite.ca
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Education & Activism: Rethink Resist Reclaim with Chris Hedges
The 3rd Annual Tommy Douglas Institute
Thursday May 21, 9:30 am – 4 pm
George Brown College, 290 Adelaide St. E., 4th Floor
$55 (regular)* / $20 (with student/low wage subsidy)*
The one-day event welcomes communities, students, faculty, activists, admin, community workers and the public to share in provocative discussions, interactive exhibits and a community forum featuring an intergenerational panel of activist-educators. Join us in discussing Education & Activism.
facebook.com/TommyDouglasInstitute
http://georgebrown.ca/TommyDouglasInstitute
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Volume - Sisters Make Noise
Thur. May 21, 6 - 9 p.m.
Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas Street E.
Join us as we imagine our Muslimah futures through poetry, spoken word, song and music. The evening will also feature the launch of our third poetry anthology: Homebound III.
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/volume-sisters-make-noise-tickets-16726562599
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United Against Hudbay: a protest at Hudbay's shareholder meeting
Fri. May 22, 10:30 a.m.
150 King St. W.
From Guatemala to Manitoba, from Arizona to Peru, Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities are mobilizing to seek justice and reparations for the crimes, violations and harms carried out by Hudbay Minerals, for the acts of colonization carried out by their mines. They are organizing in defense of their land and in favour of a fair and just development model. Join us as we gather outside of Hudbay's shareholder meeting to confront the company and hold Hudbay Minerals accountable! Let's make sure Hudbay knows that these visitors from impacted communities don't stand alone!
https://www.facebook.com/events/879953212070402/
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Weather and climate influences of the Great Salt Lake
Live on CIUT 89.5FM - Friday May 22, 11 am
With Dr. Daniel Bedford, Professor from Weber State University
New 2-min Climate Cartoon: The Future Looks Awesome
http://www.greenmajority.ca/climate_cartoons
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The Beauty of Difference
9th annual fundraiser for 416 Community Support for Women
Friday May 22, 6 - 9 pm
519 Church Street Community Centre
http://www.416community.com
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Spicing Up the Conversation: Talking Race in Toronto's Food Movement
Friday, May 22, 6 pm
York University, HNES bldg, room 140
Why is the mainstream food movement so white? What does racism in the food movement look like, and what is at stake when we fail to critically think about race in doing this work? What does anti-racism actually look like in the work of organizations struggling for food justice? What does the rest of the food movement still have yet to learn? Free.
Email gita at foodshare.net
https://www.facebook.com/events/482358775247886/
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Socialism 2015: This changes everything
an International Educational Conference
Fri./Sat. May 22-23
Woodsworth Residence, U of Toronto, 321 Bloor St. W., Room 20 (lower level) @ St. George
www.socialistaction.ca
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March Against Monsanto
Sat. May 23, 11 a.m.
Queen’s Park (College and University)
Global Day of Action to raise awareness of the health and environmental risks associated with GMOs (genetically modified organisms). We will march en mass to Christie Pits for a festival of non-gmo food.
Celebrate Farm to Fork
Sat. May 23, 1 - 6 p.m.
Christie Pits Park (Bloor and Christie)
Toronto’s 2nd annual GMO-Free Festival and Farmers’ Market. Speakers, music, non-gmo vendors, organic farmers’ market. A celebration of ON’s rapidly growing non-gmo organic food movement.
www.torontonongmocoalition.org
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Annual Plant Exchange
Saturday, May 23, 11 am - 3 pm
Karma Coop, 739 Palmerston (in the alley)
A Karma Coop tradition that lets people share their cuttings, seedlings, plants, and gardening hopes and dreams! Finished worm compost from our vermicomposting bins will be available for Karma members to take home to their gardens. Free.
http://www.karmacoop.org
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Repair Café
Sat. May 23, 10 am - 1 pm
Skills for Change, 791 St. Clair Ave. West, 1st Floor
http://www.repaircafetoronto.ca
http://repaircafetoronto.ca/events/
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Violence No More - It Starts With Us
Sat. May 23, 6 p.m.
Native Canadian Centre of Toronto, 16 Spadina Road
Join No More Silence Families of Sisters in Spirit and The Native Youth Sexual Health Network to honour the legacies of community based organizing to end violence against Indigenous women, trans and two spirit people with an evening of speakers and discussion.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1591190517813585/
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Doors Open Toronto
Sat. and Sun. May 23 & 24
The 16th annual weekend celebration of architecture will offer free and rare access to more than 155 architecturally, historically, culturally and socially significant buildings across Toronto including 55 new participants, an exciting speaker series and city-wide walking tours.
http://www.toronto.ca/doorsopen.
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Toronto Midtown Chapter - The Holistic Chamber of Commerce
Sun. May 24, 6 p.m.
Quench Kitchen, 770 St. Clair Ave. West
Community group bringing together holistic-minded people, businesses, professionals and practitioners.
http://www.holisticchamberofcommerce.com/on-toronto-midtown
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Bike With Mike
Sun. May 24, noon - 5 p.m.
Christie Pits park (Bloor and Christie)
Bike month party with ward 19 Councillor Mike Layton. Cycling advocacy info, trike races, face painting, bike art, barbecue and more. Free.
https://www.facebook.com/events/880032365373578/
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Bike Month
May 25 – June 25
A celebration of cycling in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area with hundreds of community events including rides, races, tours, festivals, and more.
http://www.bikemonth.ca/events
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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
https://nowtoronto.com/search/event/community-events/
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