<html><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="#9929bd">T.O. </font><font color="#4f7a28">Greenspiration</font> <font color="#00a3d7">Events</font></b></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Pass this onto a friend!</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">-a</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#ff4013">Saving the Planet, One Meal at a Time </font></b><font size="2">- By Chris Hedges</font><br><font size="2">With animal agriculture as the leading cause of species extinction, water pollution, ocean dead zones and habitat destruction, and with the death spiral of the ecosystem ever more pronounced, becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species. </font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/saving_the_planet_one_meal_at_a_time_20141109">http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/saving_the_planet_one_meal_at_a_time_20141109</a></font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#77bb41">Lessons from B.C.’s carbon tax</font></b><br><font size="2">British Columbia’s carbon tax has been in place for six years, and all available evidence shows it’s working: per capita fuel use covered by the tax has dropped by 16 per cent in the province relative to 2008 (the year the carbon tax came into effect), and so too has carbon pollution. That’s good for the environment. Meantime, B.C.’s economy has outpaced the rest of Canada’s over the same period. That’s great for jobs and the economy</font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://www.pembina.org/blog/lessons-from-bcs-carbon-tax">http://www.pembina.org/blog/lessons-from-bcs-carbon-tax</a></font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#008cb4">Some Very Initial Thoughts on the US-China Climate Deal<br></font></b><font size="2">Good news on the climate front according to Naomi Klein</font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://thischangeseverything.org/some-very-initial-thoughts-on-the-us-china-deal/#more-1209">http://thischangeseverything.org/some-very-initial-thoughts-on-the-us-china-deal/#more-1209</a></font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#9929bd">Woman Who Bore British Undercover Officer’s Child Is to Get Settlement<br></font></b><font size="2"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/25/world/europe/british-undercover-officer-settlement.html?_r=1">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/25/world/europe/british-undercover-officer-settlement.html?_r=1</a></font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font></font><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#d95000"><b>Sign On to Open Letter to John Tory</b></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">We demand safe spaces now! Accessible shelters! Affordable, accessible housing for all!</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/a-call-for-safe-spaces-accessible-shelters-and">http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/a-call-for-safe-spaces-accessible-shelters-and</a></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#669c35">Veggielicious<br></font></b><font size="2">Celebration of gourmet vegetarian cuisine with prix-fixe menus at restaurants and bakeries throughout the city. $15-$35. </font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://www.veggielicious.ca">http://www.veggielicious.ca</a></font></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="#008cb4">How to face the global mess we're in and co-create a new story for humanity<br></font></b><font size="2">Mon. Nov. 17, 6:30 - 9 p.m.</font></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2">OISE Peace Lounge, 7th floor, 252 Bloor St. W.</font><br><font size="2">This series will inform, empower, and help equip you to play your part in bringing the next society into being. Join us to explore: What are the challenges and opportunities of this time? How can our fear and grief empower us to be the change? What can we do to bring about a sustainable, fulfilling future? Come to any or all of the sessions!</font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://www.unifytoronto.ca/events">www.unifytoronto.ca/events</a></font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#7b219f">Even It Up report and campaign launch with Oxfam<br></font></b><font size="2">Monday Nov. 17, 6:30 – 10 pm</font><br><font size="2">Hart House Music Room, U of T</font><br><font size="2">Join us in Toronto for an evening of dynamic speakers, moderated by Rabble founder Judy Rebick, to celebrate the Canadian launch of Oxfam's campaign to end global inequality. You’ll hear from leading economic thinkers and Oxfam Canada's newly appointed executive director. And we want to hear from you, too. Bring your questions about how we can shrink the gap between rich and poor, and let us know how inequality is affecting your communities. Join us to unpack inequality and discuss how we can Even It Up.</font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://www.oxfam.ca/even-it-up-launch">http://www.oxfam.ca/even-it-up-launch</a></font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#e32400">War Resisters Support Campaign - Community Dinner and Update<br></font></b><font size="2">Take Action to support US Iraq War resisters</font><br><font size="2">Mon. Nov. 17, 6 p.m.</font><br><font size="2">Steelworkers Hall 25 Cecil</font><br><font size="2">It has been a busy fall in the campaign for asylum for U.S. Iraq war resisters. Please join us for a fundraising evening, featuring an update with: Alyssa Manning, lawyer representing U.S. war resisters in Canada; </font><br><font size="2">Jane Orion Smith, CFSC (Quakers) General Secretary; and a US war resister.</font><br><font size="2">$20 suggested donation.</font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://resisters.ca">http://resisters.ca</a></font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#669c35">SPIN</font></b><br><font size="2">Starring The Bicycle as Muse, Musical Instrument and Agent of Social Change By Evalyn Parry</font><br><font size="2">Nov. 17 - 23, Tuesday thru Saturday @ 8 pm, Sunday @ 2:30 pm (PWYC)</font><br><font size="2">Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (near Yonge and Dundas)</font><br><font size="2">One week only!! SPIN returns to Buddies by popular demand, playing the main space </font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://evalynparry.com/spin/">http://evalynparry.com/spin/</a></font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://buddiesinbadtimes.com/tickets/">http://buddiesinbadtimes.com/tickets/</a></font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#00a3d7">Growing Cities - A Film About Urban Farming<br></font></b><font size="2">Wed. Nov. 19, 6:30 p.m.</font><br><font size="2">Bloor Hot Docs (Bloor and Bathurst)</font><br><font size="2">Growing Cities is a film about urban farming in America. Get an inside look at how growing amazing food in cities is producing stronger and more vibrant communities. Key people and organizations growing food in Toronto will inform and inspire you! Funds raised go to Greenest City programs. $12</font><br><font size="2">Trailer: <a href="http://www.growingcitiesmovie.com/the-film/">http://www.growingcitiesmovie.com/the-film/</a></font><br><font size="2"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/674010896045492/">https://www.facebook.com/events/674010896045492/</a></font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#9929bd">Food Fight Toronto<br></font></b><font size="2">Wednesday, November 19, 5 – 8 p.m.</font><br><font size="2">Centre for Social Innovation Regent Park, 585 Dundas Street East, 3rd floor</font><br><font size="2">Food Fight Toronto will bring together innovators, researchers, producers, entrepreneurs, other disruptors and YOU to showcase and taste the future of food. Join us in a celebration that showcases dozens of visionaries for a sustainable food system. These are the people and organizations that are looking for your help in redefining the future of food. Discover the ideas, practices, products and services that will change the way you relate to your dinner plate.</font><br><font size="2"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/286656664858042/?utm_source=Innovators&utm_campaign=0d53250e5f-">https://www.facebook.com/events/286656664858042/?utm_source=Innovators&utm_campaign=0d53250e5f-</a>Innovators_Oct_2110_21_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_690d89cb87-0d53250e5f-48016037</font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#ff6a00">Education for Security Leaders: A Global Survey and Research Agenda<br></font></b><font size="2">With Lt. Col. (ret.) David Last, Associate Professor of Political Science, Royal Military College</font><br><font size="2">Wed. Nov. 19, 4 – 6 p.m.</font><br><font size="2">Room 140, University College, 15 Kings College Circle, U of T</font><br><font size="2">Hosted by Science for Peace</font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#4f7a28">Powering the Future: Insights from the Co-operative Energy Transition<br></font></b><font size="2">Wednesday, November 19, 7 – 9 p.m</font><br><font size="2">YWCA Elm Centre, 87 Elm St.</font><br><font size="2">Join the Federation of Community Power Co-operatives and GTA-based energy co-operatives for an evening of learning, sharing and celebration. Find out more about local and international activities in community power and the growing trend of green energy impact investing. Special Guest: Dr. Andreas Wieg, Head of the German Office for Energy Cooperatives, whose work supports the almost 900 thriving renewable energy co-operatives in Germany. After hearing insights from Germany’s experience, stay to learn more about community power co-operatives operating in the GTA or get a crash course on the fundamentals of community power in Ontario.</font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/powering-the-future-insights-from-the-co-operative-energy-transition-tickets-14026755403">http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/powering-the-future-insights-from-the-co-operative-energy-transition-tickets-14026755403</a></font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#008cb4">Stranded Assets owned by the world's Oil, Coal and Gas industries<br></font></b><font size="2">Wednesday, Nov. 19, 7 pm</font><br><font size="2">Metro Hall, 55 John Street (at King Street West), Room 308</font><br><font size="2">A one hr (approx) presentation by Michael Brothers on how and why the world's oil, gas and coal producers are exploring for and developing far more fossil fuel reserves than can ever be used, if the world is to avoid catastrophic global warming. What are the implications of this to Canada and the rest of the world if indeed we have to close down our carbon-based energy producers and move to renewable resources?</font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://tcan.ca/event/stranded-assets-owned-worlds-oil-coal-and-gas-industries">http://tcan.ca/event/stranded-assets-owned-worlds-oil-coal-and-gas-industries</a></font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#7b219f">Save Our Community Hospitals<br></font></b><font size="2">Wednesday Nov. 19, 10 am</font><br><font size="2">Parkdale Community Health Centre, 1229 Queen St. W.</font><br><font size="2">With guest speaker Natalie Mehra, OHC Executive Director</font><br><font size="2">The government of Ontario is undertaking an aggressive plan to dismantle community hospitals and contract-out hospital surgeries and diagnostics to private clinics. In the most aggressive cuts plan that we have ever seen, after more than five years of budget slashing, they plan to close all of the outpatient services that they can and hive them off to private clinics, cut acute care beds, maternity and local care services and cut chronic care beds by as much as 50% even though there is nowhere for these patients to go. Every piece of hospital care that is being cut from our local community hospitals is being privatized and subject to new user fees for patients when they are sick and elderly and least able to pay. We are organizing a giant rally at the Ontario Legislature to stop this and we have been organizing and planning events in every community that we can. It is time for regular Ontarians from every part of our province to stand up and tell our government to stop the destruction of our community hospitals that we have funded and built for a hundred years.</font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca">www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca</a></font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#e32400">Regent Park Film Festival </font></b><br><font size="2">Nov 19 to 22, Wed. - Sat.</font><br><font size="2">Daniels Spectrum 585 Dundas E</font><br><font size="2">Screenings, panel discussions, workshops and talkbacks that reflect inner-city communities like the Regent Park Community. Free.</font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://regentparkfilmfestival.com">http://regentparkfilmfestival.com</a></font></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="#669c35">Future of Nuclear within Ontario’s Energy Mix - Pro and Anti Panel<br></font></b><font size="2">Thur. Nov. 20, 6:15 p.m.</font><br><font size="2">Sanford Fleming Building, Room 1105,10 King's College Road, U of T</font><br><font size="2">Pro- and Anti-nuclear panel with Jack Gibbons of OCAA, Shawn-Patrick Stensil of Greenpeace, and others. Free.</font><br><font size="2"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/university-of-toronto-energy-fair-nuclear-panel-discussion-tickets-">https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/university-of-toronto-energy-fair-nuclear-panel-discussion-tickets-</a>14251152581</font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#008cb4">Liz Marshall on her emergence into vegan consciousness </font></b></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2">and how she came to make ground-breaking AR documentary film The Ghosts in our Machine</font><br><font size="2">Thur. Nov. 20, 7 - 9 p.m.</font><br><font size="2">OISE, 252 Bloor St. W. room 2281</font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://animalrightsacademy.org/lecture-schedule/">http://animalrightsacademy.org/lecture-schedule/</a></font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#9a244f">Discussion of This Changes Everything<br></font></b><font size="2">Thursday, Nov. 20, 6:45 - 8:45pm</font><br><font size="2">Community Centre 55, 97 Main St.</font><br><font size="2">Naomi Klein’s prizewinning new book on climate change is gaining praise and provoking controversy among all those concerned with the environment. The Canadian writer and activist presents a vision of a movement to end our national petroleum addiction, develop a renewable energy economy, and halt global climate change. Come to talk about these issues at an introductory discussion of Naomi Klein's book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate. Everyone welcome. Sponsored by East End Against Line 9</font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://tcan.ca/event/discussion-changes-everything">http://tcan.ca/event/discussion-changes-everything</a></font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#d95000">Orchestrating Austerity<br></font></b><font size="2">Thursday, Nov. 20, 7pm</font><br><font size="2">Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave.</font><br><font size="2">Edited by Donna Baines and Stephen McBride.</font><br><font size="2">The economic stimulus which followed the 2007-08 global financial crisis have been succeeded by what we now call "austerity" measures -- characterized by a renewed assault on public spending and further restructuring of social and labour market policies., Claiming no viable alternatives exist, neoliberal politicians are selling austerity to the public as a virtuous necessity in the face of government deficits. With insights and inspirational stories of resistance, from a range of scholars, as well as labour organizers and activists, Orchestrating Austerity tries to determine if there is something new in this era of austerity or if it is a continuation and intensification of earlier forms of neoliberalism.</font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://fernwoodpublishing.ca">fernwoodpublishing.ca</a></font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#9929bd">Girl Rising</font></b><br><font size="2">Thur. Nov. 20, 7:30 p.m.</font></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Bloor Hot Doc, 506 Bloor W. (at Bathurst)</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Screening of the documentary about the power of education to celebrate the International Day of the Girl. Panel discussion, Q&A to follow screening.</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="#669c35">Engaging In-Between Spaces - Summit on Laneways <br></font></b><font size="2">Thursday, Nov 20, 6 - 10 pm</font><br></font><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">The Great Hall, 1087 Queen St W</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Toronto has more than 2400 publicly owned laneways. Often under-used, deteriorating, and viewed as unsafe, these ‘in-between’ spaces have the potential to become an integral part of our public realm. Moderated by CBC’s Mary Wiens, 5 speakers will give short presentations on the potential of our city’s laneways:<br></font><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• How we can transform our laneways into more vibrant, safe, and people-friendly spaces.<br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Laneways as transportation corridors, green infrastructure, and community gathering spaces<br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• The cultural and economic potential of laneways<br></font></div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Planners, designers, policy makers, artists, community organizers and laneway lovers from across the City are invited to attend. $10</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.thelanewayproject.ca/events">http://www.thelanewayproject.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>---------------------------------------<br><br></font></div><font face="Times New Roman"><b><font size="4" color="#008cb4">Understanding Ingredients in Pre-packaged Food <br></font></b><font size="2">Thur. Nov. 20, 7 - 8:30 p.m.</font></font><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Big Carrot, Danforth<br>Talk on what food claims mean and how to shop as an informed consumer. Free.<br><br></font><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#4d22b3"><b>Reel Awareness Film Festival </b></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Thur. - Sun. Nov. 20 - 23</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton (at Yonge)<br>Amnesty International's festival of international documentaries on human rights. $10, opening night $15. </font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://aito.ca/reelawareness/">http://aito.ca/reelawareness/</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="#ff6a00"><b>Trans Day of Remembrance</b></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Thur. Nov. 20</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">3 p.m. - flag raising at City Hall</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">4 - 6 p.m. - film screening of Mosaic and vegan dinner, George Brown College, 200 King E, Rm. 165 B</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1558622801020000">https://www.facebook.com/events/1558622801020000</a> </font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">7 p.m. - 519 Church St. Community Centre <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/602493306471492/">https://www.facebook.com/events/602493306471492/</a></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="#b92d5d">Is Paris Burning?</font></b><br><font size="2">Thur. Nov. 20, 7 pm. </font></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Alliance Française, 24 Spadina Rd,<br>Screening of the René Clément film in French with English subtitles. Pwyc.<br><br></font></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">---------------------------------------</span><br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">---------------------------------------</span></div><div><br></div><h1 style="margin: 8px 0px 0px; line-height: 28px; padding-bottom: 5px;"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: normal;"><font size="4" color="#669c35">More Than Honey</font></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Fri. Nov. 21, 6 - 9 pm.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></font><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">MaRS, College and University</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">In the past 5 years, billions of honeybees globally have vanished for reasons still obscure. If the bees keep dying at such an alarming rate, it will trigger a global crisis: more than 1/3 of our food production depends on pollination by honeybees. Our survival is linked to theirs! Join us for a screening of award-winning documentary, More Than Honey, and a panel discussion with Dr. Amro Zayed & Melanie Coates; learn more about this phenomenon and support a local cause: The Honeybee Project at MaRS.<br><a href="http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/savethebees-documentary-film-more-than-honey-tickets-13989347515">http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/savethebees-documentary-film-more-than-honey-tickets-13989347515</a><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><br></div></h1><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">---------------------------------------</span><br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">---------------------------------------</span></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><b><font size="4" color="#00a3d7">Managing Conflict with Angry People<br></font></b><font size="2">Fri. Nov 21</font><br><font size="2">Brush up on your communication skills.</font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://www.sschto.ca/event/workshop---managing-conflict-with-angry-">http://www.sschto.ca/event/workshop---managing-conflict-with-angry-</a>people-nov2014</font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#9929bd">Front Line Workers’ Forum </font></b><br><font size="2">Friday, Nov. 21, 9:15 am – 12 noon</font><br><font size="2">City Hall, 100 Queen Street West (at Bay) in Committee Room 1 (2nd floor)</font><br><font size="2">These presentations will be of interest to people who use drugs and those who provide services to them, as well as to interested members of the public. </font><br><font size="2">- Overdose protocols in agencies serving marginalized populations</font><br><font size="2">- How effective is “AA”?</font><br><font size="2">- Recommendation by the WHO to decriminalize drug use </font><br><font size="2">- What are “study” drugs and who’s using these?</font><br><font size="2">- Phenacetin in cocaine</font></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2">Everyone welcome. There is no need to register. Free. Presented by The Canadian Harm Reduction Network in cooperation with the University of Toronto, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology. </font><br><font size="2"><a href="mailto:harmreductionTO@gmail.com">harmreductionTO@gmail.com</a> - 416.433.0206</font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#e32400">STOP private clinics - SAVE our local public hospitals - Giant Rally <br></font></b><font size="2">Friday Nov. 21, 12 noon</font><br><font size="2">Ontario Legislature, Queen's Park Toronto</font><br><font size="2">The Ontario government is forging ahead with the most aggressive plan ever to cut and privatize community hospital services. Please join me to take action now before our community hospitals are dismantled. The government plans to contract out hospital surgeries and diagnostics to private clinics. Ontario’s hospitals have already suffered deep cuts. Out-patient services such as physiotherapy, lab tests, pain clinics, fertility clinics and more are disappearing. Instead, people are being sent to private clinics where they will be charged user fees and co-payments in violation of the Canada Health Act and the principles of public medicare in Canada. Acute care beds, chronic care beds, maternity and local care services could be cut by as much as 50 per cent, even though there is nowhere for these patients to go. If these cuts go through, you will need to drive further for care as services are removed from your hospital and centralized in one factory-like private clinic per region. It is time to stand up for public health care and our community hospitals. Add your voice for strengthened public health care in Ontario by joining with people from across the province to tell our government that community hospitals deliver the public care people need. Let's send a clear message to the Ontario government that public health care in community hospitals is what's best for our province.</font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca">www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca</a></font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#77bb41">Safe Space Now! Shelter and Housing for All!<br></font></b><font size="2">Fri. Nov. 21</font><br><font size="2">Church of the Holy Trinity, 10 Trinity Square (off Bay, behind Eatons Centre)</font><br><font size="2">Join the Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario (ACTO -<a href="http://acto.ca/">http://acto.ca/</a>) for a National Housing Day Rally and Right to Housing Forum. Free.</font><br><font size="2">noon - 1 p.m. National Housing Day Rally at Yonge-Dundas Square</font><br><font size="2"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/353871381446314">https://www.facebook.com/events/353871381446314</a></font><br><font size="2">2 - 5 p.m. Right to Housing Forum at Church of the Holy Trinity </font><br><font size="2"><a href="https://acto-right2housing-forum2014.eventbrite.ca/">https://acto-right2housing-forum2014.eventbrite.ca/</a></font></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#0061ff">What Makes A Man: White Ribbon Conference<br></font></b><font size="2">Friday November 21, The Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley Street</font><br><font size="2">Saturday November 22, Glenn Gould Studio, 259 Front St West</font><br><font size="2"> #WMAM2014 will be an exciting two-day discussion-focused event exploring how ideas of manhood impact us in everyday life. Open to all genders. A conversation for everyone. More than ever, we need more positive examples and role models for a healthier idea of masculinity. </font><br><font size="2"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/what-makes-a-man-2014-the-white-ribbon-conference-tickets-13378008985?ref=estw">https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/what-makes-a-man-2014-the-white-ribbon-conference-tickets-13378008985?ref=estw</a></font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://www.whatmakesaman.org">www.whatmakesaman.org</a></font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://www.whiteribbon.ca">www.whiteribbon.ca</a></font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#4f7a28">The Green Majority</font></b><br><font size="2">Toronto's Environmental Radio Show</font><br><font size="2">Weekly, Fridays, 11 - noon EST</font><br><font size="2">CIUT 89.5FM</font><br><font size="2">Listen live or catch the podcasts</font><br><font size="2">This week The Green Majority is happy to present live in studio TVO's the Water Brothers, along with corespondent Tim Nash the Sustainable Economist for another clean-tech market update. Also, we have a shiny new website with a TON of new content. Finally, thanks to SoundCloud we're back on iTunes! Check it all out here: <a href="http://www.greenmajority.ca">www.greenmajority.ca</a></font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">--------------------------------------- </font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#9929bd">Trotsky School - Education for Activists Conference<br></font></b><font size="2">Fri. Sat. November 21-22 </font><br><font size="2">OISE, 252 Bloor</font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://socialistaction.ca">socialistaction.ca</a></font><br><font size="2"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/293255150859704/">https://www.facebook.com/events/293255150859704/</a></font></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">--------------------------------------- </font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#e32400">Repair Café</font></b><br><font size="2">Saturday, Nov. 22, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.</font><br><font size="2">Skills for Change, 791 St. Clair Ave. West, 2nd Floor (see below for directions)</font><br><font size="2">Free (Donations are welcome!)</font><br><font size="2">At this monthly gathering, we will have volunteer fixers available for computers, electronic devices, small appliances, clothes, jewellery and book binding, among others. For whatever you need fixing, bring it on! You can learn how to fix it while enjoying a cup of coffee or tea.</font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://repaircafetoronto.ca/events/">http://repaircafetoronto.ca/events/</a></font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">--------------------------------------- </font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#4f7a28">Cheap & Crazy Symposiums: Mobilizing Strategic Conversations<br></font></b><font size="2">with The Empowerment Council, a voice for clients of CAMH</font><br><font size="2">Sat. Nov. 22, noon - 6 p.m.</font><br><font size="2">1001 Queen Street West (CAMH Grounds), Community Centre Area</font></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">The purpose of this symposium is to bring people together who are interested in collaborating and having conversations about needed strategic direction for future human rights organizing in the mental health system. Bills of clients’ rights, madness, addictions, law and the future of advocacy. <br>416 535-8501 Ext 33013 </font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://ontario.cmha.ca/events/cheap-crazy-symposiums-mobilizing-strategic-conversations-november-22-2014/#.VGlL8r7lf8s">http://ontario.cmha.ca/events/cheap-crazy-symposiums-mobilizing-strategic-conversations-november-22-2014/#.VGlL8r7lf8s</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="#008cb4">EcoFair at the Barns </font></b><br><font size="2">Sunday, Nov. 23, noon - 4 pm</font><br><font size="2">Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie Street</font><br><font size="2">EcoFair at the Barns is a fun, family-oriented event that informs and inspires people to make greener choices in their homes and communities.</font><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: pre;"> </span><font size="2">• Eco exhibits, interactive demos and workshops</font><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: pre;"> </span><font size="2">• Skate swap and eco-themed book swap</font><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: pre;"> </span><font size="2">• Electric car test drives</font><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: pre;"> </span><font size="2">• Kids activities</font><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: pre;"> </span><font size="2">• Good food!</font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://ecofairtoronto.org/">http://ecofairtoronto.org/</a></font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">--------------------------------------- </font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#7b219f">Dance Theatre: Bombing Instead of Negotiating<br></font></b><font size="2">Sunday, Nov. 23, 3 - 5 pm</font><br><font size="2">Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham (at Bloor)</font><br><font size="2">$ 10/PWYC</font><br><font size="2">A Bread and Puppet production. The Lubberland National Dance Company was formed 10 years ago with the help of local volunteers as an urgent dance revolt against unbearable new of circumstance and is the revival of the “Gruppe Fuer Neuen Tanz” which Peter Schumann founded 60 years ago in Munich, Germany. The dances are created from simple instructions, either as a result of a short or directly as public participation dances.</font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://beitzatoun.org/event/bombing-instead-of-negotiating/?mc_cid=23aa4d9c90&mc_eid=98329828f0">http://beitzatoun.org/event/bombing-instead-of-negotiating/?mc_cid=23aa4d9c90&mc_eid=98329828f0</a></font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">--------------------------------------- </font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#e32400">United Against Raids & Detentions: Rally in Solidarity with Migrant Detainees<br></font></b><font size="2">Sun. Nov. 23, Meet at 2:30 pm at Christie Pits Park. Buses leave at 2:45 pm sharp.</font><br><font size="2">Rally at 3:30 pm. 385 Rexdale Boulevard.</font><br><font size="2">A day of joyful protest in solidarity with migrants jailed at the Toronto Immigration Holding Centre, demanding justice for migrants, refugees, and migrant workers. The Canadian immigration system is a pipeline of exclusion. Many are forced to leave their homes around the world, then are denied permanent residency and dignity here. Those of us who stay without papers are denied services. Our families are racially profiled, as we saw in the August raids enabled by the Ontario government - adding to the 100,000 people who have been deported by this government. Fearing their deportations, some like Lucia Jimenez Vega, are forced to their deaths. A report launched in June revealed that in 2013, thousands of detainees were locked up in 146 prisons across the country with no end in sight, and every year they have fewer chances of getting released. One of the biggest detention prisons in the country is right here in Toronto. So on Nov. 23rd, we gather to show our solidarity with people imprisoned and deported, with their families and our communities. We raise our voices and fists as one: No One Is Illegal! Dignity over Deportation! Worker Control Not Immigration Controls! Access Without Fear! Status for All! Struggle and Solidarity Not War and Austerity!</font><br><font size="2">RSVP here: <a href="http://bit.ly/Nov23Rally">http://bit.ly/Nov23Rally</a></font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/node/894">http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/node/894</a> </font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#4f7a28">Green Energy </font></b><br><font size="2">Sun. Nov. 23, 12:45 pm. </font><br><font size="2">Bullfrog Power presentation on how to reduce your production of greenhouse gases and what it might cost. Free.</font><br><font size="2"><a href="mailto:tmm@web.net">tmm@web.net</a></font><br><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#008cb4">Cannibis Evolution and Your Health </font></b></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Sun. Nov. 23, 2 p.m.</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Medical Sciences Bldg, 1 King’s College Circle, JJR Macleod Auditorium, U of T</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Lecture by professor Lesley Campbell. Free. </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="#9929bd">What's the Plan for Ontario's Aging Nukes, and the Alternatives?<br></font></b><font size="2">Mon. Nov. 24, 7 - 9 p.m.</font><br><font size="2">Metro Hall (King and John St.), Rm. 310</font><br><font size="2">Did you know Ontario plans to rebuild 10 of our aging nuclear reactors, locking us into nuclear for another 4 or more decades? This will cost taxpayers upwards of $60 billion, to say nothing of the radioactive waste and risk of catastrophic accident on one of our Great Lakes. Did anyone ever ask you if you'd rather your $$ go to a renewable future? Conservation, water power, wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, biogas - the options are endless, more affordable, and infinitely safer. Join Angela Bischoff and Jack Gibbons of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance to find out more, ask questions, and learn how you can get involved. Free.</font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://www.cleanairalliance.org">www.cleanairalliance.org</a> </font><br><font size="2"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/858797924139021/">https://www.facebook.com/events/858797924139021/</a></font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#ff4013">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="#4f7a28">NOW magazine hosts a very comprehensive online events listing<br></font></b><font size="2"><a href="http://nowtoronto.com/search/event/community-events/">http://nowtoronto.com/search/event/community-events/</a></font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br></font><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<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>greenspiration@web.ca<br>Write "subscribe" in the subject line<br>and tell me what city/country you live in<br><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<</font></div></div></div></body></html>