<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b><font color="#0061ff">T.O.</font> <font color="#4f7a28">Greenspiration</font> <font color="#e63b7a">Events</font></b></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Pass this onto a friend… -a</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></font></div><font face="Times New Roman"><br><b><font size="4" color="#e32400">Volunteer 3 hours to get Olivia elected!<br></font></b><font size="2"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1tR8jbf2opDTTY3_lOIIrtFQjv7c3TiMbgyY1HFv2tSY/viewform">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1tR8jbf2opDTTY3_lOIIrtFQjv7c3TiMbgyY1HFv2tSY/viewform</a></font><br><br><font size="2">Joint Statement: Women Endorsing Olivia Chow</font><br><font size="2">"As women dedicated to advancement of women and girls, equality and diversity and the eradication of poverty, we proudly endorse Olivia Chow as the next Mayor of Toronto.”</font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://www.oliviachow.ca/women_endorsing_olivia">http://www.oliviachow.ca/women_endorsing_olivia</a></font><br><br><font size="2">And let’s work to get a cycling champion to City Hall - <b><font color="#e32400">Albert Koehl</font></b> - 3 hours can make a difference. Thanks.</font></font><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.votealbertkoehl.com">http://www.votealbertkoehl.com</a></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">---------------------------------------<br>--------------------------------------- <br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#be38f3" size="4"><b>How Green are the Council Candidates? </b></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">TEA has just released our <font color="#be38f3"><b>Mayoral Report Card </b></font>on the environment based on candidate responses to the Green Action Agenda Survey. <br><a href="http://toenviro.nationbuilder.com/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.torontoenvironment.org%2Fsites%2Ftea%2Ffiles%2FReportCardSummary-mayor-top3.pdf&utm_campaign=cw_oct_9_2014&n=2&e=4316595780be3aa5d6d6144082df2596686d7fcc&utm_source=toenviro&utm_medium=email">toenviro.nationbuilder.com/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.torontoenvironment.org%2Fsites%2Ftea%2Ffiles%2FReportCardSummary-mayor-top3.pdf&utm_campaign=cw_oct_9_2014&n=2&e=4316595780be3aa5d6d6144082df2596686d7fcc&utm_source=toenviro&utm_medium=email</a><br>Find out how <b><font color="#be38f3">Council candidates </font></b>in your ward answered TEA's Green Action Agenda survey. <br><a href="http://www.torontoenvironment.org/vote2014/candidatereportcards/surveyresults">http://www.torontoenvironment.org/vote2014/candidatereportcards/surveyresults</a></font><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><font face="Times New Roman"><b><font size="4" color="#0061ff">Safe Bike Lanes for Toronto Now! #MinimumGrid<br></font></b><font size="2">Please sign the petition.</font></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Toronto_Mayoral_Candidates_Support_Minimum_Grid_100km_protected_lanes_100_km_bike_blvds_by_2016/?buLrXbb&v=44920">https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Toronto_Mayoral_Candidates_Support_Minimum_Grid_100km_protected_lanes_100_km_bike_blvds_by_2016/?buLrXbb&v=44920</a></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#669c35"><b>Naomi Klein - This Changes Everything</b></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">An excerpt</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">"Slavery wasn’t a crisis for British and American elites until abolitionism turned it into one. Racial discrimination wasn’t a crisis until the civil rights movement turned it into one. Sex discrimination wasn’t a crisis until feminism turned it into one. Apartheid wasn’t a crisis until the anti-apartheid movement turned it into one.<br>In the very same way, if enough of us stop looking away and decide that climate change is a crisis worthy of Marshall Plan levels of response, then it will become one, and the political class will have to respond, both by making resources available and by bending the free market rules that have proven so pliable when elite interests are in peril...</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Because, underneath all of this is the real truth we have been avoiding: climate change isn’t an “issue” to add to the list of things to worry about, next to health care and taxes. It is a civilizational wake-up call. A powerful message—spoken in the language of fires, floods, droughts, and extinctions— telling us that we need an entirely new economic model and a new way of sharing this planet. Telling us that we need to evolve."<br><a href="http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/one_way_or_another_everything_changes_20140917">http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/one_way_or_another_everything_changes_20140917</a> <br><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#b51a00"><b>Fight for Fare Free Transit in Toronto</b></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.socialistproject.ca/leftstreamed/ls234.php">http://www.socialistproject.ca/leftstreamed/ls234.php</a></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><font face="Times New Roman"><b><font size="4" color="#7b219f">Kill the Messenger</font><br></b><font size="2">Trailer <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU4IJiGwqZM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU4IJiGwqZM</a></font></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Cineplex Cinemas Yonge-Dundas<br>10 Dundas Street East, 12:25 3:05 5:45 8:20 10:55<br>This is a dramatic thriller based on the remarkable true story of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb. Webb stumbles onto a story which leads to the shady origins of the men who started the crack epidemic on the nation's streets...and further alleges that the CIA was aware of major dealers who were smuggling cocaine into the U.S., and using the profits to arm rebels fighting in Nicaragua. Despite warnings from drug kingpins and CIA operatives to stop his investigation, Webb keeps digging to uncover a conspiracy with explosive implications. His journey takes him from the prisons of California to the villages of Nicaragua to the highest corridors of power in Washington, D.C. - and draws the kind of attention that threatens not just his career, but his family and his life. <br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">---------------------------------------<br>--------------------------------------- </font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font><div><div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><b><font size="4" color="#0061ff">Raise the Rates Week of Action October 13-17<br></font></b><font size="2">The minimum wage has been set at a level that leaves people in poverty. Those on Ontario Works (OW) and ODSP are living on incomes that leave them unable to feed themselves and pay the rent. The real value of social assistance payments has fallen by some 55% since 1994 and people have continued to get poorer during the years the Liberals have been in office. The vital Community Start Up benefit that kept people housed has been taken away. Many people on ODSP are now facing medical reviews that threaten to take away their income. The Raise the Rates Campaign, a coalition of poor people fighting back along with community and union allies, is not buying into Kathleen Wynne’s ‘social justice austerity’. We are demanding living wages, decent income, the reversing of cutbacks and adequate and secure ODSP benefits. From October 13-17, we’ll be going to MPP’s and provincial offices throughout Ontario with our demands. </font><font size="2">For updates visit <a href="http://raisetherates.ca">raisetherates.ca</a> or <a href="https://www.facebook.com/RaiseTheRates?ref=hl">https://www.facebook.com/RaiseTheRates?ref=hl</a></font><br><font size="2">If you want to be part of an action in your community during October or want to help build one, email <a href="mailto:raisetheratescampaign@gmail.com">raisetheratescampaign@gmail.com</a>, call OCAP at 416 925 6939</font><br><font size="2"> </font><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><b><font size="4" color="#4f7a28">Disruption</font></b><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Tues. Oct. 14, 6:30 p.m.<br>Jane Dundas Library - 620 Jane Street<br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Join us for a free screening of Disruption, a new, fast-paced cinematic journey through the wild world of climate change: the science, the politics, the solutions, and the stories that define this crisis at this pivotal point in human history. The movie is about an hour long, and after we watch it we'llhave a discussion about what we can all do together on this imprtant issue.<br><a href="http://www.green13toronto.org/event/disruption-free-screening-and-discussion">http://www.green13toronto.org/event/disruption-free-screening-and-discussion</a><br> <br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#e32400"><b>Occupy Economics Workshop </b></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Tues. Oct. 14, 6:30 - 8:30 pm. </font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil (near Spadina and Coillege)</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Looking at whether capital accumulation in unregulated funds is a threat to democracy. Free. <a href="mailto:info@occupyeconomics.ca">info@occupyeconomics.ca</a>.</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></font></div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#7b219f"><b>Elizabeth May - The Green Party leader talks about her memoir/manifesto </b></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Who We Are in an onstage interview.</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Tues. Oct. 14, 8 pm. $10. </font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen W</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://pages-unbound.com">pages-unbound.com</a>.</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br></font><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#0056d6"><b>Real City Matters: Can’t We All Just Get Along?<br></b></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Tues. Oct. 14, Doors 7 p.m.; Panel 7:30 p.m.</font></div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Revival, 783 College<br></font><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">How do we talk about—or fail to talk about—race, class, and geography in a sprawling and diverse megacity? And how can we learn to talk about those things better?</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://torontoist.com/realcitymatters/">http://torontoist.com/realcitymatters/</a></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><b><font size="4" color="#77bb41">Challenges Ahead for Kosovo<br></font></b><font size="2">With Robert Austin, Ph.D. Undergraduate Program Coordinator, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, U of Toronto</font><br><font size="2">Wed. Oct. 15, 4 – 6 p.m.</font><br><font size="2">Room 140, University College, 15 Kings College Circle, University of Toronto</font><br><font size="2">Hosted by Science for Peace</font><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><font face="Times New Roman"><b><font size="4" color="#ff4013">War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning<br></font></b><font size="2">Wed. October 15, 6:30 pm</font><br><font size="2">ENG 103, George Vari Engineering Centre, 245 Church Street, Ryerson U</font><br><font size="2">Chris Hedges, award-winning veteran foreign correspondent who has spent two decades covering conflicts throughout much of the world. For fifteen years he was both the Middle East bureau chief and the Balkan bureau chief with the New York Times. In 2002 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize along with a team of reporters for his work covering global terrorism. Among his fourteen books is the critically acclaimed War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Award for Nonfiction, and Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (2012), which was on the New York Times best-seller list. CBC Radio One will be recording the event for the show Ideas With Paul Kennedy.</font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://iid.kislenko.com">iid.kislenko.com</a></font></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">---------------------------------------<br>--------------------------------------- <br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><font face="Times New Roman"><b><font size="4" color="#7b219f">WiRE Meet-up</font></b><br><font size="2">Wed. October 15, 5:30 - 7 pm (please arrive before 6 pm)</font><br><font size="2">5:30 - 6 pm Introductions & Networking</font><br><font size="2">6 - 6:30 pm Speaker tba</font><br><font size="2">6:30 - 7 pm Networking</font><br><font size="2">The Imperial Pub, 58 Dundas St E. (2 Blocks East of Yonge)</font><br><font size="2">All women in renewable energy (WiRE) welcome. </font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://womeninrenewableenergy.ca/meet/">http://womeninrenewableenergy.ca/meet/</a></font></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></font></div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><b><font size="4" color="#0061ff">Bold As Love </font></b><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">is a new music series at the intersection of art performance by and for Indigenous and other folks of colour<br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Wed. October, 15, 7 pm – 1 am<br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">The Rivoli, 334 Queen Street West<br>Tickets: Tickets are available at the Door! $10-$12. Everyone is welcome.<br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#4f7a28"><b>Cheat Sheet To A TED Talk </b></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Wed, Oct. 15, 6:30 - 9 pm. </font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Workshop on effective public speaking. $19-$29. </font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">pre-register <a href="http://eventbrite.ca/e/12313081759">eventbrite.ca/e/12313081759</a>.</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#ff4013"><b>Eco-Home Renovations </b></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Wed. Oct. 15, 6 pm. </font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Conservation Council of Ontario, 215 Spadina</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Panel discussion on ways to save money and reduce energy demand in your home. $5. </font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">pre-register 416-533-1635, <a href="http://weconserve.ca">weconserve.ca</a>.</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#d357fe"><b>Keep Neighbourhood Legal Clinics </b></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Wed. Oct. 15, 6 p.m.</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Scadding Court Community Centre 707 Dundas W.</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Public meeting to discuss how to prevent the closing of 14 neighbourhood legal clinics. Free. <a href="mailto:keepneighbourhoodlegalclinics@gmail.com">keepneighbourhoodlegalclinics@gmail.com</a>.</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The New Black </b></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Wed. Oct. 15, 6 - 7 p.m.</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">U of T Art Centre, 15 King's College Circle</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Screening of the Yoruba Richen documentary about the intersection of gay rights and civil rights in the U.S. Free. <a href="http://utac.utoronto.ca">utac.utoronto.ca</a>.</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><b><font size="4" color="#3a88fe">Celebrating Vanessa’s Law<br></font></b><font size="2">Thursday October 16, 7 - 9 pm</font><br><font size="2">Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario ((near Dundas and University)</font><br><font size="2">Adverse reactions to prescription drugs are the 4th leading cause of death behind cancer, heart disease and stroke. To illustrate that integrative medicine is safer than many predominant prescription drug approaches to treating health conditions, PRIM (People’s Right to Integrative Medicine) will be hosting “Celebrating Vanessa’s Law”, a panel discussion to make Canadians more aware of the importance of Bill C-17 (Vanessa’s Law) … “potentially one of the most significant reforms to federal drug safety legislation in 50 years” (Diana Zlomislic, Toronto Star, May 30, 2014).</font><br><font size="2">Vanessa’s Law: Empowers Health Canada to recall an unsafe prescription drug without obtaining consent from the pharmaceutical company; Increases fines for pharmaceutical companies that are, for example, convicted of illegally promoting prescription drugs from $5,000 to $5,000,000 a day and imprisonment of people for up to 2 years for criminal negligence; Forces pharmaceutical companies to be transparent with clinical trial data. In June 2014, Bill C-17 was passed in the House of Commons and passed its first reading in the Senate. Panelists:</font><br><font size="2">- Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Terence Young - driver behind Vanessa's Law</font><br><font size="2">- Dr. David Healy, CEO, <a href="http://RxISK.org">RxISK.org</a> - world leading expert on the side effects of prescription drugs.</font><br><font size="2">- Blair Hamrick - former sales rep for GlaxoSmithKline in the US. Whistleblower. Blair will share his inside knowledge of illegal practices of sales representatives.</font><br><font size="2"> </font><br></font><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></font></div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#77bb41"><b>Will GM Crops Feed The World? </b></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Thur. Oct. 16, 7 - 8:30 p.m.</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Big Carrot, 348 Danforth</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Discussion with Taarini Chopra of the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network and Seeds of Diversity on experiences with GM food and the risk of introducing new GM crops. Free. </font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">416-466-2129.</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><b><font size="4" color="#ff4013">Paul York on an introduction to animal rights philosophy, </font></b><font size="2">covering the distinction between rights and welfare, animal ethology, and parallels with other forms of discrimination.</font><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Thur. Oct. 16, 7 - 9 p.m.<br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">OISE, 252 Bloor St. W. room 2281<br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://animalrightsacademy.org/lecture-schedule/">http://animalrightsacademy.org/lecture-schedule/</a><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></font></div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#be38f3"><b>Unify Toronto Dialogue: A New Story </b></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Fri. Oct. 16, 6:30 - 9 pm. </font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">OISE Peace Lounge, 7th flr, 252 Bloor W.</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Series with discussion on how to face the global mess we're in and how to move forward to a sustainable fulfilling future. Suggested donation $10-$20. </font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://unifytoronto.ca/events">unifytoronto.ca/events</a>.</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><b><font size="4" color="#0061ff">Community Arts Jam</font></b><br><font size="2">Friday, October 17</font></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Island: 9am (Ferry meet up) – Event ends at 4pm<br>A day long retreat style gathering and skill share on Toronto island for community-engaged artists, creative facilitators, artist-educators and community arts leaders interested in exploring themes of race & equity in community based programming, arts education & organizational development.<br>Register before Oct. 12. Space is limited! – <a href="http://communityartsjam.eventbrite.ca">communityartsjam.eventbrite.ca</a> </font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Tuition $40 includes ferry ticket and food (subsidies and scholarships available.) <br>For more information contact : Ella Cooper : <a href="mailto:ella@torontoarts.org">ella@torontoarts.org</a><br>@NANToronto @SketchToronto #communityartsjam<br> <br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><b><font size="4" color="#4f7a28">Assistance Mortelle (Fatal Assistance)<br></font></b><font size="2">Haiti, NGOs, Imperialism 99 min, 2013</font><br><font size="2">Friday, October 17 – 7 p.m.</font><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">OISE, 252 Bloor Street West, Room 5-280 at the St. George Subway Station. <br>Everyone welcome. $4 donation requested. <br>This is a 2-year journey inside the challenging, contradictory and colossal rebuilding efforts in post-earthquake Haiti. The film offers a closeup of the so-far failed efforts to address the aftermath of the catastrophic Haitian earthquake, which destroyed the homes of 1.5 million people, about 15% of the population. A wide variety of Hatians are interviewed, and the interviews are telling and touching. The photography is first-rate, revealing the beauty of the landscape and the horror both of the devastation and the failure to deal with the housing crisis, even after two years. B.C. Holmes of the Toronto Haiti Action Committee will lead off the discussion.<br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></font></div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#ff4013"><b>From Global Mess to Local Stress</b></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><b><font color="#ff4013">Bringing the Impact of Environmental Harm to the Forefront of Public Health</font><br></b>Friday Oct. 17, 8:15 am - 4:15 pm<br>Health Sciences Building, 155 College St.<br>With this conference, we seek to question whether the Canadian and global public health community has considered environmental harm to our planet as a fundamental public health concern. Indeed, could environmental harm be the public health issue our time?<br><a href="http://envirohealthconf2014.com/">http://envirohealthconf2014.com/</a><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><b><font size="4" color="#be38f3">Demonstrate, Dance, Drum Against Poverty on International Day for the Eradication of Poverty<br></font></b><font size="2">Friday, October 17, 4 - 7 p.m.</font><br><font size="2">South East Corner of Jane & Finch </font><br><font size="2">We demand:</font><br><font size="2">- Raise the rates! (<a href="http://raisetherates.ca">raisetherates.ca</a>)</font><br><font size="2">- Raise the Minimum Wage to $14 Now! (<a href="http://raisetheminimumwage.ca">raisetheminimumwage.ca</a>)</font><br><font size="2">- An end to racial profiling and targeting of people of color and youth</font><br><font size="2">- Affordable decent housing, healthy food, prescriptions, childcare, transit</font></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">- An end to environmental racism in our community and a stop to the Line 9 pipeline </font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">- Status for all, and an end to immigrations raids and deportations </font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">- Free education and health care, safe working conditions and benefits for all</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">- End tax cuts benefiting the rich: higher tax rates for the rich and corporations<br><a href="http://JFAAP.wordpress.com">JFAAP.wordpress.com</a><br><a href="mailto:janefinchactionagainstpoverty@gmail.com">janefinchactionagainstpoverty@gmail.com</a><br>Organized by Jane Finch Action Against Poverty and Allies<br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#4f7a28"><b>The Green Majority</b></font></div><div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">This week’s show features the founder of the sustainable living blog "Green Moxie” Nikki Fotheringham.<br></font></div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Toronto's Environmental Radio Show<br>Weekly, Fridays, 11 - noon EST<br>CIUT 89.5FM<br>Listen live or catch the podcasts<br><a href="http://greenmajority.ca/">http://greenmajority.ca/</a><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><b><font color="#669c35">Here’s the link to my clip last week talking’ nukes: </font></b><a href="http://greenmajoritymedia.wordpress.com/2014/10/10/421-measuring-success/">http://greenmajoritymedia.wordpress.com/2014/10/10/421-measuring-success/</a><br><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#0061ff"><b>Songs of Peace and Protest<br></b></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Sat. Oct. 18, 7:30 p.m.<br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Trinity St Paul’s, 427 Bloor W. (west of Spadina)<br>Featuring evalyn parry, James Gordon, Len Wallace, Faith Nolan and more <br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">tickets $15 <br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://trinitystpauls.ca">trinitystpauls.ca</a></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><b><font size="4" color="#e32400">Visioning the Future with Toronto <a href="http://350.org">350.org</a><br></font></b><font size="2">Sat. October 18, 1 - 6 p.m.</font><br><font size="2">location to be announced</font><br><font size="2">Join us for <a href="http://Toronto350.org">Toronto350.org</a>'s first vision and values seminar for the upcoming 2015 year. This is a great way to get more involved with the group, as we'll be launching new campaigns, and creating strategic plans for our existing campaigns.Through a series of breakout workshops and "assemblies" we you will set operational goals for 2015. Together, we will plan out the path for achieving strategic objectives on the road to a better, greener future. </font><br><font size="2"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/703842516336492/">https://www.facebook.com/events/703842516336492/</a></font><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><b><font size="4" color="#d357fe">Repair Café </font></b><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Saturday, October 18, 12 – 4 p.m.<br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Toronto Public Library – Cedarbrae Branch in Scarborough (near Lawrence Ave East and Markham Road), Program Room, 1st Floor, 545 Markham Road<br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Bring your broken computers and electronics, small appliances and furniture, clothes, jewellery, books, gardening tools and bikes - volunteer fixers will try to fix them!<br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.repaircafetoronto.ca/">http://www.repaircafetoronto.ca/</a><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#00a3d7"><b>Poetry Politics Revolution<br></b></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Sat. Oct. 18, 4 - 6 p.m.<br>Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham (near Bloor and Bathurst)<br>Free all ages <br>Join us for radical political poetry with Kaushalya Bannerji, Cheran, and Himani Bannerji. <br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></font></div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><b><font size="4" color="#4f7a28">Health Action Assembly & Annual Conference<br></font></b><font size="2">Ontario Health Coalition's annual information sharing, strategy-setting meeting.</font><br><font size="2">Assembly on Saturday, October 18 (10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.) </font><br><font size="2">Conference on Sunday, October 19 (9 a.m. - 1 p.m.)</font><br><font size="2">St. Stephen's Community House in Kensington Market, 91 Bellevue Ave. </font><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca">www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca</a><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></font></div><div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><br><b><font size="4" color="#ff6251">Seed Saving Workshop <br></font></b></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Sun. Oct. 19, 1 - 4 p.m.<br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Evergreen Brick Works 550 Bayview<br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Get tips and techniques for harvesting, packaging and storing seeds and learn why saving seeds is important to saving genetic diversity. $30. <br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">pre-register <a href="http://evergreen.ca">evergreen.ca</a>.<br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">---------------------------------------<br>--------------------------------------- </font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><b><font size="4" color="#9929bd">Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in Without Going Crazy<br></font></b><font size="2">Sat. Oct. 25 9:30 - 5 p.m., Sun. Oct. 26, 10 - 5:30 p.m.</font><br><font size="2">Bartley Place, 160 Bartley Dr., North York</font><br><font size="2">A weekend workshop in the Work that Reconnects, designed to help us in this time of planetary emergency and the resulting overwhelm and despair that many of us feel. You will come away with a sense of the bigger picture and a context for action.</font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://www.thelivingcentre.com/cms/the-work-that-reconnects-how-to-face-the-mess-we-re-in-not-go-crazy">http://www.thelivingcentre.com/cms/the-work-that-reconnects-how-to-face-the-mess-we-re-in-not-go-crazy</a></font><br><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">---------------------------------------<br>--------------------------------------- </font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><b><font size="4" color="#0061ff">Hot Docs</font></b><br><font size="2">Bloor Cinema (Bloor and Bathurst)</font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://bloorcinema.com/">http://bloorcinema.com/</a></font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#669c35">NOW magazine hosts a very comprehensive online events listing<br></font></b><font size="2"><a href="http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/listings/">http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/listings/</a></font><br><font size="2"> </font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font></font></div></div></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<br>Eulogies and Condolences for Tooker<br>and Stories of ecology and activism<br><a href="http://www.greenspiration.org">http://www.greenspiration.org</a><br><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<br>Join my email list by emailing Angela at:<br><a href="mailto:greenspiration@web.ca">greenspiration@web.ca</a><br>Write "subscribe" in the subject line<br>and tell me what city/country you live in<br><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<</font></div></div></div></body></html>