T.O. Greenspiration Events: Walk and Bike for Justice and Safety

Sun Mar 25 19:26:46 EDT 2018

Hacking of Ontario's nuclear plants "a very serious question," says Premier 

The growing range of threats to aging, high-risk facilities like the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station now includes cyber attacks. Op Ed in NOW Magazine by Angela Bischoff, OCAA.

https://nowtoronto.com/news/hacking-ontario-nuclear-plants-a-very-serious-question/ 

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Offshore drilling not worth the risk: Protect communities, fisheries, tourism and climate from Big Oil

No more offshore drilling off Nova Scotia's coast! BP was responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf Coast and is now approved to drill at twice the depth of the Deepwater Horizon in offshore Nova Scotia. Not worth the risk!

https://secure.canadians.org/page/20746/petition/1 

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Ban Fracking in Ontario

http://secure.gpo.ca/banfrackingontario 

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Sign the petition for the seven-stop Scarborough LRT

http://scarboroughtransitaction.ca/petition-for-eglinton-east-lrt/ 

Ten reasons why Lawrence East SmartTrack/GO station will hurt Scarborough transit riders

http://scarboroughtransitaction.ca/2018/03/17/ten-reasons-why-lawrence-east-smarttrack-go-station-will-hurt-scarborough-transit-riders/ 

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8 Years of Mental Health Research Distilled to 4 Infographics

4 infographics on the risks and limitations of antidepressants, antipsychotics and benzodiazepines that "paint a troubling reality of psychiatric drugs."

https://www.madinamerica.com/2018/03/8-years-mental-health-research-4-infographics/ 

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Kathleen, Doug & Andrea: Please support fair debates

Ontario taxpayers pay millions of dollars to four political parties every year through per-vote funding: the Liberals, Progressive Conservatives, NDP and the Green Party. Voters and taxpayers deserve to hold all four of these political parties accountable. Please sign the petition calling for televised leaders debates to include all 4 parties. 

https://www.change.org/p/kathleen-doug-andrea-please-support-fair-debates 

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4 best decentralized social networks to use in 2018 

Facebook be gone!

https://windowsreport.com/decentralized-social-networks/   

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Why aren’t Conditions of Life for First Peoples a National Emergency?

https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/why-arent-conditions-of-life-for-first-peoples-a-national-emergency 

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6 Minutes and 20 Seconds that Could Change the World

Thanks to young people, especially those of color, this time might be different. Parkland high school shooting survivor Emma Gonzalez galvanized a student revolt against gun violence with a fiery speech calling out NRA-bought politicians, just a few days after a disturbed young man murdered 17 of her peers—in six minutes and 20 seconds. At Saturday’s March For Our Lives in Washington, Gonzalez galvanized a movement with silence.

https://www.thenation.com/article/6-minutes-and-20-seconds-that-could-change-the-world/

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Loblaw has comported itself badly with its fixing of bread prices -- ripping off people for 14 years. 

http://www.macleans.ca/economy/economicanalysis/14-years-of-loblaws-bread-price-fixing-may-have-cost-you-at-least-400/ 

The corporation’s price fixing has had a disproportionate impact on people who live in poverty/are ill/disabled. Anyone can apply for the $25 “mea culpa for bread price fixing” (gift) Card.

You need to apply before May 1, 2018. https://www.loblawcard.ca/  It takes up to 12 weeks to get the card.

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The Warriors and the Watch House

Stop Kinder Morgan!

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/03/25/opinion/warriors-and-watch-house 

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Room Available in Artist Loft Building for summer (Ossington & Dupont) 
Charming cozy private room in Authentic Artist's Warehouse - last chance, hood/bldg transitioning. Starting April 1st (min. 3 month stay). $875 / month. For specifications and more details with pictures:

https://toronto.craigslist.ca/tor/roo/6542758339.html

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A call to protest pedestrian deaths and injuries

Monday, March 26 

5:45 pm - Gather at the Peace Garden (west side of Nathan Phillips Square behind the bandstand).

6:00 pm - Die-in: In solidarity for the victims of traffic violence

6:30 pm - Social at the Duke of York (Queen and Bay)

Nathan Phillips Sq, Queen and Bay

Are you outraged by the number of pedestrian deaths and injuries in Toronto? Are you fed up with City Council’s lack of strong action to create safer streets for people on foot? It’s time for pedestrians to make their presence felt at City Hall. Join Walk Toronto, Friends and Families for Safe Streets, and other allies in a Die-In for Safe Streets in Nathan Phillips Square

https://www.facebook.com/events/196155814449036/ 

Memorial Bike Ride

Mon, March 26, 6:15, leaving from Nathan Phillips Sq.

This ghost bike ride is coordinated with the pedestrian Die-in at City Hall. We will start from there at about 6:15 and ride about 22 km to the crash site (Don Mills). Make sure you have adequate lighting. On the return, there will be bailout options for either Victoria Park, York Mills or Eglinton subway stations (via buses). 

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/27066871

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2084 Live Fashion

Monday, March 26, 7 - 10 pm 

Love Child Social House, 69 Bathurst Street

>From live music to an art installation, this event is perfect for those interested in the future of business, fashion, and sustainability. Come network with like-minded individuals, learn from leaders in the fashion industry, and join the conversation about designing a better tomorrow. This evening will leave you thinking big as you grow your own venture: business, non-profit, creative, and beyond. $10

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/2084-podcast-live-fashion-vol-iii-tickets-44143748139 

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Busted: An Illustrated History of Drug Prohibition in Canada

Book Launch with author Susan Boyd

Monday, March 26, 7 pm

U of T, Sidney Smith Building, 100 St. George Street, Room 1072

Discussion with Susan Boyd, with guest Donald MacPherson of the Canadian Drug Coalition. Drawing from over 170 archival and contemporary drawings, paintings, photographs, film stills and official documents from the 1700s to the present, Susan Boyd shows how Canada’s drug prohibition policies evolved and were shaped by race, class and gender discrimination. This history demonstrates that prohibition and criminalization produces harm rather than benefits, including the arrest of thousands of Canadians each year for cannabis-related offences, and the current drug overdose crisis. Hosted by Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy

https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/busted

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A talk with Yves Engler

Mon. March 26, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Rogers Communications Centre, Gould St 80

Yves Engler will be joining us from Montreal for a talk about Apartheid and the situation in Palestine. 

https://www.facebook.com/events/1735007313211956/ 

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☢ Shut the Pickering reactors down!

Tuesday, March 27, 8:30 - 9:30 pm

Green Beanery, 565 Bloor St. West (corner of Bathurst)

Shawn-Patrick Stensil of Greenpeace presents why we need to shut down the Pickering nuclear station.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1624872410939842/ 

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Sardine Ride & Rally

Tuesday, March 27, 11:30 – 1 pm

Meet at City Hall (Queen and Bay). Pack on the TTC and head to Queen's Park. 

It's time for Kathleen Wynne and our MPPs to fairly fund the TTC in the upcoming provincial budget, so riders get better service and lower fares. 

https://www.facebook.com/events/377519316056678/ 

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An intro to Graphic Facilitation and Graphic Recording

Tuesday, March 27, 6 - 9 pm

George Brown College, Casa Loma Campus, 142 Kendal Avenue, Rm E111

A hands-on workshop on how to improve your graphic designing and recording. The recording is also useful to be able to document your progress as you continue in the future. No experience is required but bring your sketchbook. 

https://toolsforchange.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=93fc295adc37a22f7f3b68bb9&id=eeb84f2030&e=4acd91924b 

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These Are the Sensors in My Neighbourhood

Tuesday, March 27, 4 – 6 pm

Centre for Ethics, Rm 200, Larkin Building, 15 Devonshire Place, U of T

As almost everyone knows by now, we share a lot of highly-revealing and sensitive data with companies. But what those companies do with that data, whether they share it or not with third parties, and just how much of it they collect and retain, is still largely a mystery. Drawing from Citizen Lab reports, in my talk I will review the exploding universe of “big data” collection, the accumulating fine-grained sensors that facilitate it, and the public policy, security, and privacy issues that accompany it. With Ronald Deibert, Director, The Citizen Lab, University of Toronto

https://www.facebook.com/events/135140973968339/ 

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Dr. Stephanie Seneff Lecture – Glyphosate, Sulfate Deficiency & Degenerative Diseases

Tuesday, March 27, 11 am - 12:45 pm

Glenview Presbyterian Church, 1 Glenview Avenue (Yonge and Lawrence)

An extraordinary speaker, researcher, scientist and advocate for human health, Dr. Stephanie Seneff will share important insights about significant environmental toxins that appear to be underlying many modern diseases, including Autism, heart disease and other neurological problems. Live streamed. 

https://bit.ly/2G8vKNh 

Stephanie Seneff, PhD on Glyphosate (RoundUp) Poisoning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYC6oyBglZI

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Faux Real: How Fake News Undermines Democracy and What We Can Do About It

with Elizabeth Renzetti, Columnist, The Globe and Mail

Wed. March 28, 7 pm

Room 140, University College, 15 King's College Circle, U of T

We will also be broadcasting this lecture live on Facebook at facebook.com/pg/science4peace/videos/. You don't need to have a Facebook account to watch the livestream; but if you do, you can also submit questions for the Q&A session at the end of the lecture.

http://scienceforpeace.ca/vital-discussions-of-human-security-current-series

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Introduction to Project Drawdown: How we can reverse global warming

Wed. March 28, 7 – 9 p.m.

OCAD, 100 McCaul Street, Main auditorium, room 190

There is a research-based project underway to actually reverse global warming - to pull carbon out of the atmosphere, as opposed to merely slowing down the rate of emissions. It is not only possible, but feasible and eminently practical. It’s called Project Drawdown. 

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/introduction-to-project-drawdown-how-we-can-reverse-global-warming-tickets-43377210404?mc_eid=48c86714b8&mc_cid=bf9b0f4c79 

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AI Sustainable Futures Summit

Wed. March 28, 8 am - 8 pm

Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas Street East

This is a one-day action-focused exchange where forward-thinking leaders, entrepreneurs and experts from business, finance, science, cities and civil society come together to discover opportunities for advancing our future sustainability— with a special focus on how AI, Digital Technologies and other Transformative Innovations. And, to forge new partnerships with fellow trailblazers for getting to the next level of future readiness.

http://rethinksustainability.ca/rsi-summit-2018/ 

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Home is Toronto? Making Toronto’s Neighborhoods a Home for All

Wed. March 28, 5:30 - 9pm 

William Doo Auditorium, 45 Wilcock's Street 

The event will explore issues of neighbourhood gentrification, access to affordable housing, how cities change, who gets excluded when communities become less affordable and the effective and innovative ways that residents are organizing and forging change to keep Toronto's neighbourhoods a home for all. Contrasts and comparisons will be drawn between Brooklyn and Toronto. 

https://www.studentlife.utoronto.ca/ccp/home-is-toronto-registration-page 

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Green Career Workshop

Wed. March 28, 6:30 - 8:30 pm

North York Memorial Community Hall, 5110 Yonge St. (1-min walk from the North York Centre Subway Station)

Are you looking to build your career in the Environmental Field? Are you new to Ontario and or a member of an Ethno-cultural group? Would you like to be inspired by success stories and learn about valuable programs and resources for green job-seekers? Here we invite you to join us to hear a great panel of environmental professionals and employment specialists who will share their insights from their experience in the environmental employment field.  Fees: $10. Light refreshments will be served.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/green-career-workshop-tickets-43887867794 

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☢ Health Risks of Nuclear Power

Thursday, Mar 29, 2 - 3 pm EDT. 

Webinar

Some people are proposing that nuclear power be included among the "renewable" energy sources to replace fossil fuels. That's shockingly, dangerously wrong. Nuclear power isn't renewable, and it isn't safe. From mining the ore to dealing with the wastes, nuclear power exposes us to radioactive and carcinogenic substances that remain potent for thousands of years. Join us on this webinar with PSR (Physicians for Social Responsibility) to learn exactly why nuclear is not a solution to climate change.

https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/6211048115900885763 

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☢ Reactor license renewals for Pickering and Bruce Nuclear Stations 

Thur. March 29, noon EST

Webinar

Presenter Shawn-Patrick Stensil, Senior Energy Policy Analyst with Greenpeace Canada, will outline key issues with the upcoming reviews by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission of applications to extend the operating licenses for the Bruce and Pickering Nuclear Stations.

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/8fb05240c60bdd65cde7dc3c8da9331e 

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Global Figure: Launch Party

Thursday, March 29, 5:30 - 8:30pm

Boro Studios, 16 Soho St.

Global Figure is a youth-led, GTA-based organization working to bridge the disconnect between youth and the environment for a more sustainable future. Through engaging, equipping, and mobilizing young change agents with the necessary resources to act on individual environmental impacts and consumption habits, Global Figure is committed to funding youth-led, grassroots community projects and offering educational initiatives from the sale of affordable, conscious products for the everyday. This event will transform the entire ground floor of 16 Soho into an excitement-filled hub for networking and discovery.

https://www.facebook.com/events/416532945443405/ 

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Priced Out - A Town Hall on Housing Affordability in our City

Thursday, March 29, 7 - 9 pm

Matty Eckler CC, 953 Gerrard Street East

A Town Hall on Housing Affordability in Toronto hosted by Councillor Paula Fletcher and MPP Peter Tabuns. We will be discussing "How did we get here, what can we all do?"

https://www.facebook.com/events/375124269670299/?notif_t=event_calendar_create&notif_id=1520865681089681 

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Book Launch: The Contradictions of Pension Fund Capitalism

Thursday March 29, 7 – 9 pm

Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil Street

At the core of this book is a desire to question the proposition that workers and their organizations can exert meaningful control over pension funds in the context of current financial markets. 

https://socialistproject.ca/event/book-launch-contradictions-pension-fund-capitalism/ 

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Human Flow   

By renowned artist Ai Weiwei, 2 hours 20 minute,s 2017

Thurs. March 29, 7 pm

OISE, 252 Bloor W, Rm # 3-311

Over 65 million people have been forced from their homes in the greatest human displacement since World War II. Human Flow gives powerful expression to this massive human migration and its personal human impact. The film follows a chain of human stories from across the globe in countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, France, Greece, Germany, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, and Turkey. Toronto Socialist Action presents Rebel Films - Spring 2018  

http://www.socialistaction.ca  or call:  647-986-1917 or 647-728-9143 for more information.

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Good Friday Walk for Justice

Friday, March 30, 2 – 5 pm       

Church of the Holy Trinity, 19 Trinity Square (Behind Eaton’s Centre, off Bay, south of Dundas)

This is an annual Ecumenical Good Friday Walk for Justice, exploring contemporary crucifixions of the impoverished, the vulnerable and the exploited at the hands of corporations, government, and the mechanisms of control. Gathering inside for reflection, then walk, then gathering again inside followed by soup/bread.

https://www.kairoscanada.org/event/good-friday-walk-for-justice 

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2018 Liberation Seder

Sat. March 31, 6:30 - 9:30 p.m.

Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil Street 

Presented by Jewish Liberation Theology Institute, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network and Independent Jewish Voices, Hamilton. Price: $25 (more if you can, less if you can't). 

http://www.jelithin.ca or email: info at jelithin.ca   

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For the best Canadian climate and energy news, subscribe to the Energy Mix newsletter

http://theenergymix.com/ 

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The Green Majority

Live Eco Radio Show every Friday from 11 am - Noon CIUT 89.5 FM

www.greenmajority.ca   

Democracy Now

Mon – Fri. 10 – 11 a.m. CIUT 89.5 FM

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Centre for Social Innovation Events

http://socialinnovation.ca/community/events/listing 

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Shape My City Events

http://shapemycity.ca/events.php 

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Hot Docs

Bloor Cinema (Bloor and Bathurst)

https://hotdocscinema.ca/ 

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NOW magazine hosts a very comprehensive online events listing

https://nowtoronto.com/search/event/community-events/ 

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Subscribes, unsubscribes and submissions: mailto:angela at cleanairalliance.org 

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