T.O. Greenspiration Events: Stop Enbridge, OPG and Ford's gas expansion

Sun Mar 8 22:12:54 EDT 2020

'We are rising': Thousands march in downtown Toronto on International Women's Day

“Although things have been cut and although we know that Doug Ford is taking away women’s rights and women’s issues and even the rape crisis centres, we are not giving up.”

https://www.iheartradio.ca/newstalk-1010/news/we-are-rising-thousands-march-in-downtown-toronto-on-international-women-s-day-1.10644132

Women Fighting Climate Change Are Targets For Misogynists

Rude jokes, hate mail and violent threats—for climate experts, it’s all part of the job. That’s especially true for the women. “A massive amount of the heavy lifting around the world on this matter is being done by women. You see more women on panels. You see more women in the negotiating spaces. You see more women in leadership positions on climate.”

https://www.chatelaine.com/news/women-climate-change-attacks/ 

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Stop Enbridge's proposed Fracked Gas line in Hamilton 

Ontario aims to ramp up natural gas electrification 300% by 2025 with a new pipeline through Hamilton bringing fracked gas up from the US - we must stop them. (See event below Thur. Mar. 12)

https://www.cleanairalliance.org/stop-gas-pipeline/

Tell Canada to support the Green New Deal  

https://act.leadnow.ca/green-new-deal-canada/ 

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Nuclear power in Ontario is not worth the risk of a catastrophic accident or the high cost - we have safer, lower cost, renewable alternatives

Op Ed in the Toronto Star by me, Angela Bischoff vs. a nukeboy. Please vote.

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/thebigdebate/2020/03/03/the-big-debate-should-we-fear-nuclear-energy.html

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Let’s make war a thing of the past! 

#NoWar2020: Divest, Disarm, Demilitarize - Conversion for a peaceful, green and just future

May 26-31, 2020

Ottawa

We're converging on Ottawa for #NoWar2020 to say NO to CANSEC, Canada’s biggest annual weapons expo. There will also be a national peace-anti-war conference. Organized by local Canadian peace groups, World Beyond War and the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. There will also be a big peace action on Parliament Hill and a celebration of the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace’s 60th anniversary. #CancelCANSEC           

https://worldbeyondwar.org/nowar2020/ 

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Visit the Wet’suwet’en Supporter Toolkit for ways you can support #frontlines resistance to the #CoastalGasLink LNG pipeline. #WetsuwetenStrong #DefendTheYintah #solidarity

http://unistoten.camp/supportertoolkit2020/

Tell Canada to not fund the Coastal Gas Link 

https://350.org/no-public-money-for-the-coastal-gaslink-pipeline/

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A doctoral student in Social Justice Education at OISE (U of T) looking for housing in Toronto

A Canadian citizen and her son (9) currently living in Croatia are looking for alternative renting options such as house or pet sitting in Toronto from September 2020 till June 2021. Experienced in implementing social justice initiatives with youth. Nice and reliable people with an interest in nature, animals and social justice activism. Home swap an option. References available upon request.

Contact: nanagulic at gmail.com 

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Radioactive Roads: Transporting Nuclear Waste through Ontario

Monday, March 9, noon

Webinar

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/v5ckd-yrpz4ulL_OZSWuL6eV84D7yDelWQ

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Anti-Oppression and Inclusivity in the Arts 

Mon. March 9, 3 - 6 p.m.

Toronto Media Arts Centre, 32 Lisgar Street

Join this workshop on anti-oppression and inclusivity principles and practices for arts workers. This training will be tailored to arts educators, programmers, administrators and anyone else involved in contributing to arts spaces and programs in the city.

https://workmanarts.com/being-scene-events/anti-oppression-and-inclusivity-in-the-arts-workshop/ 

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The Muslim Justice Collective Presents: The Struggle Against Empire on Turtle Island and Beyond, a facilitated dialogue

Mon. March 9, 6 - 8 pm

U of T Faculty of Social Work, Room 702

We seek to unpack how imperialism is a vehicle of capitalism and the means through which we must disrupt it in order to foster the conditions for liberation, to any degree. We are all bound by experiences of imperialist machinery and its violence. Let's try to understand how our shared experiences can contribute towards forging solidarity locally and internationally.

https://www.facebook.com/events/724542888071729/

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Celebrate #IWD 

Monday, March 9, 6 pm

Oakham Lounge, 63 Gould Street, Ryerson

With feminist, activist Judy Rebick, author of Heroes in my head and Emmy Award-winning actor and LGBTQ+ advocate Joanne Vannicola, author of new memoir All we knew but couldn't say.

https://twitter.com/RyeSJChair/status/1234589188441415681

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The Need to GROW - Free screening and discussion

Tues. March 10, 6:15 - 8:15 p.m.

Annette Branch Public Library, 145 Annette St.

The United Nations estimates that at the rate we are depleting our farmland, we have fewer than 60 years of farmable soil left on Earth. Can we feed the world without destroying the planet? The answer depends on what we do now! The good news is, there ARE solutions.

https://green13toronto.org/event/need-grow-free-screening-and-discussion 

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A celebration of community climate action

Wed. March 11, 6 - 9 p.m.

Centre for Social Innovation, 192 Spadina

Join us to celebrate the success of Carbon Conversations TO together. Hear stories from fellow Torontonians about their personal climate change journey and get inspired to start or continue your own actions toward tackling climate change.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ccto-presents-a-celebration-of-community-climate-action-tickets-92810477637

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Community Forum on the Climate Crisis

Wed. March 11, 7 pm 

252 Bloor St W, Room 3311

In this time of uncertainty, it is more important than ever that we connect with one another. Address your climate anxiety, overcome your despair. Connect with your community, learn about the climate and what you can do. With Extinction Rebellion Toronto, Science for Peace and Toronto350

https://www.facebook.com/events/477721436254475/

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E-Waste Impacts In Our “Always On” Society

Wed. March 11, 4:10 - 7 p.m.

Room SS1071, Sidney Smith Building, St. George Street

E-waste contains a wide range of hazardous substances, many of which are essential to product functioning. E-waste collection is mandated for high income countries. However, some e-waste finds its way to low income countries either in whole or in dismantled components and low income countries are producing their own e-waste. We have found that e-waste dismantlers in Ontario and Quebec, working in “formal” e-waste facilities, can have higher exposure to flame retardants than e-waste dismantlers in low income countries working in “informal” settings. However, families and communities in low income communities that handle e-waste are all exposed to hazardous substances due to uncontrolled burning and dumping of e-waste residuals. Much effort has gone into controlling the environmental carnage caused by e-waste. Ultimately, e-waste producers need to take responsibility for their devices rather than externalizing the human health and environmental costs of the growing mountain of e-waste.

https://environment.utoronto.ca/events/all/environment-health-seminar-e-waste-impacts-in-our-always-on-society/ 

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Central American Migrants in Limbo

Wed. March 11, 5 pm

Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge Street, Beeton Hall

The Winter 2020 Michael Baptista Lecture: Transit Experiences and Grassroots Responses. With the Trump administration's hardline policies at the US-Mexico border, the challenges faced by migrants fleeing violence and poverty in northern Central America have been making global headlines. This event highlights the transit experiences of Central Americans as they attempt to cross multiple borders and the response of grassroots humanitarian organizations in Mexico and the United States. 

https://allevents.in/toronto/central-american-migrants-in-limbo/200019246531457#

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Understanding the Cosmos—and Our Place Within It

Wed March 11, 7:30 p.m.

Bloor Hot Docs, 506 Bloor W

Explore humanity's search for meaning in an evolving universe with the world-renowned physicist and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene.

https://boxoffice.hotdocs.ca/WebSales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=113827~fff311b7-cdad-4e14-9ae4-a9905e1b9cb0

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OPG & Enbridge vs. Our Climate and Our Pocketbooks

Thur. March 12, 7 p.m. 

Friends House, 60 Lowther (St. George subway station)

Doug Ford wants to ramp up the output of our gas-fired power plants by more than 300% by 2025.

To help fuel this massive increase in fossil fuel electricity generation, Enbridge wants to import fracked gas from Pennsylvania by building a giant pipeline in Hamilton -- a pipeline that would degrade Hamilton's Beverly Swamp provincially significant wetland and raise Enbridge’s gas rates by $120 million.

If Doug Ford and Enbridge get their way, Ontario will blow way past its 2030 Climate Protection target.

Fortunately, we don’t need to import fracked gas from Pennsylvania to keep our lights on. We can lower our electricity bills and our climate impact by importing clean water power from Quebec and by investing in energy efficiency and Made-in-Ontario renewable energy.

It’s time to protect our climate and our pocketbooks by phasing-out our gas-fired power plants and moving Ontario toward a 100% renewable electricity future.

Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/173270727262687/     

More info: https://www.cleanairalliance.org/stop-the-polluting-hamilton-pipeline/     

Petition: https://www.cleanairalliance.org/stop-gas-pipeline/    

Co-hosted by Ontario Clean Air Alliance, ClimateFast, Voice of Women for Peace, Toronto East End Climate Collective, Just Earth, Toronto 350, and Wilderness Committee.

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Film Screening: Suffragette

Thursday, March 12, 2 pm

Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge Street

Sarah Gavron's 2015 film about the political movement in early 20th-century Britain.

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Illusions of Control, Film Screening and Discussion

Thursday, March 12, 7:30 pm

At The Redwood Theatre, 1300 Gerrard St. East

This film unfolds in landscapes irrevocably shaped by human attempts to dominate them. Five women confront unbearable crises: Silvia searches for her missing daughter in the deserts of northern Mexico; Yang attempts to hold back the expanding desert in China; Kaori mobilizes mothers as citizen-scientist to monitor radiation in Fukushima, Japan; Stacey builds on Indigenous knowledge to confront toxic legacies in Yellowknife; and, Lauren stands at the crossroads of a terminal cancer diagnosis in Chicago. What opportunities does ecological instability offer for imagining new ways of relating to each other, to the places we inhabit, and to our collective future?

https://tdndp.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=110cab8bce92e20c92628e86f&id=dd7575ec1c&e=ddbe8da26c 

https://www.facebook.com/events/594544344723053/ 

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Rally for Real Rent Control

Thursday, March 12, 1 pm

Ministry of Housing, 777 Bay Street

Join ACORN members and allies from across Ontario to demand real solutions to the housing crisis. Rents are rising out of control - we need rent control on all buildings, and protections on the rent between tenancies so landlords can't evict tenants then jack up the rent.

https://www.facebook.com/events/205811730577530/ 

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Harriet

Fri. March 13, 7 p.m.

OISE 252 Bloor W, Rm. 5-250

Rebel Films screens the 2019 film (D: Kasi Lemmons, 125 minutes), an extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery. Guest speaker Kareen Marshall will discuss the significance of "Harriet" for struggles against racism and inequality today. $4 or pwyc. 

http://socialistaction.ca  //  socialistaction at gmail.com 

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Jewish Resistance Under Nazi Occupation: Lessons for Today

Friday, March 13, 7 - 9 pm

New College, 40 Willcocks Street, Wilson Hall, Room 1017, U of T

Talk and discussion with Suzanne Weiss, author of "Holocaust to Resistance: My Journey." Beginning her life as a hidden Jewish child in Vichy France, Suzanne Weiss takes us on a journey from Nazi-Occupied France to the U.S. and her life as a dedicated activist in struggles ranging from women's liberation to struggles for racial and economic justice to Indigenous rights to the struggle in Palestine.

https://www.facebook.com/events/211846419988837

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Green Living Show

Fri. - Sun. March 13 - 15

Metro Toronto Convention Centre (John and Front)

Canada’s largest consumer show dedicated to simple solutions for leading a healthy and sustainable lifestyle.

https://www.greenlivingshow.ca/

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Green Is Not White: Exploring Environmental Racism

Saturday, March 14, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Public Service Alliance of Canada

90 Eglinton Ave E Suite 608, Toronto

https://www.facebook.com/events/808286509637222/

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Decolonizing the Heart 2-DAY Workshop

Saturdays Mar. 14 and 21

Come together for Deep Learning and Deep Change. Reconciliation requires building relationships. Building relationships requires more than coming together over issues. Where do we begin?

Day 1 provides the foundation - a grounding in our own stories, the theory, and an introduction to the Decolonizing the Heart (DTH) Toolkit.

Day 2 focuses on putting the theory and new skills into practice with DTH original scenarios and films.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/decolonizing-the-heart-2-day-workshop-mar-14-mar-21-tickets-94562385641 

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Toronto Green Business Incubator

Saturdays March 14 and 21

Centre for Social Innovation (Spadina), 192 Spadina Ave

Pitch It Green’s three-day Green Business Incubator is a free event for entrepreneurial minded high school students interested in starting their own green businesses. Throughout the incubator, students will develop their skills, cultivate their passions, uncover their values, and set their goals in order to create their vision of a sustainable future.

https://www.facebook.com/events/486466435394123/

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Lost Rivers Walk: Garrison Creek

Sun. March 15, 2 p.m.

Christie Pits Park (off Bloor)

Meet in front of the Christie subway station for an 8K walk. Free.

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

http://theenergymix.com/ 

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Centre for Social Innovation Events

https://socialinnovation.org/community/events/    

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Green Neighbours Network - Events

Repair cafes, fix-it days, and more.

https://greenneighboursnetwork.ca/events/ 

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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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