<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><font face="Times" size="4"><b><font color="#e32400">T.O. </font><font color="#669c35">Greenspiration</font><font color="#e32400"> </font><font color="#00a3d7">Events</font></b></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br></font></div><font face="Times"><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#9929bd">All Forms of Life Are Sacred<br></font></b><font size="2">Another zinger by Chris Hedges. "If you are a feminist and you consume dairy you are confused." </font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/all_forms_of_life_are_sacred_20150104">http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/all_forms_of_life_are_sacred_20150104</a></font></font><div><font face="Times"><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font color="#ff4013" size="4">Wynne and Tory: say no to the $93 fare hike and yes to more TTC service<br></font></b><font size="2">Please sign the petition.</font><br><font size="2"><a href="https://www.change.org/p/wynne-and-tory-say-no-to-the-93-fare-hike-yes-to-more-ttc-service">https://www.change.org/p/wynne-and-tory-say-no-to-the-93-fare-hike-yes-to-more-ttc-service</a></font></font><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br></font><div><font face="Times" size="4" color="#669c35"><b>Raise the Unis'tot'en Blockade: Stop the Pipelines</b></font><div><font face="Times" size="2">Calling for helpers to raise the pipeline blockade! Freda Huson, Chief Toghestiy, the Unis'tot'en Clan, and allies are blocking tar sands and fracked gas projects on their territory near Smithers BC. Help build a permanent gate to keep the intruders out!</font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><a href="https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/2tHr8">https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/2tHr8</a> </font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br></font></div><div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#00a3d7">Bikes vs Cars</font></b><br><font size="2">This is premiering around Europe right now. Can't wait till it comes to North America. The trailer opens with Rob Ford.</font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://vimeo.com/116966445">http://vimeo.com/116966445</a></font></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br></font></div><div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#be38f3">Toronto Pig Save: Bear Witness</font></b><br><font size="2">Events, vigils, links and more here:</font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://www.torontopigsave.org/slaughterhouse-vigil/">http://www.torontopigsave.org/slaughterhouse-vigil/</a></font></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br></font></div><div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#d95000">Sixteen Building Blocks of a Green, Entrepreneurial, Cooperative Economy</font></b><br><font size="2">The transition from a capitalist to a cooperative economy could be one of the defining achievements of the 21st century. By Guy Dauncey</font><br><font size="2"><a href="https://guydauncey.wordpress.com/2014/12/18/sixteen-building-blocks-of-a-green-entrepreneurial-cooperative-economy/">https://guydauncey.wordpress.com/2014/12/18/sixteen-building-blocks-of-a-green-entrepreneurial-cooperative-economy/</a></font></font><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br></font></div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#4f7a28">RxISK </font></b><font size="2">is a free, independent drug safety website where you can explore the good and bad of drugs</font></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><a href="https://www.rxisk.org">https://www.rxisk.org</a></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#00a3d7">Toronto's Taxing Question</font></b><br><font size="2">Toronto's budget consultation process is beginning. Before the debate descends into the annual "we can't afford public services" line, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' Ontario Senior Economist Sheila Block equips you with everything you need to know about Toronto's revenue problem – and how to fix it. </font><br><font size="2"><a href="https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/torontos-taxing-question">https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/torontos-taxing-question</a></font></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br></font></div><div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#be38f3">Room available </font></b><font size="2">Feb 1st in this unique authentic live/work artist's LOFT warehouse, cr Ossington & Dupont.</font><br><font size="2">Seeking third person to share an open concept arrangement with 2 mature women. Available short term through February (day rate, please inquire) Ideal person interested in long term starting Feb. 1st. Please inquire for March 1st starting date.</font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://toronto.craigslist.ca/tor/roo/4844719723.html">http://toronto.craigslist.ca/tor/roo/4844719723.html</a></font><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="4" color="#ff6a00"><b>Trick or Treaty?</b></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">Mon. Jan. 26, 6 - 9 p.m.</font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">Hart House, U of T</font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">Screening of the 2014 film by Alanis Obomsawin. This documentary explores the tangled history of Treaty No. 9, the 1905 agreement in which First Nations communities allegedly relinquished sovereignty over their traditional lands.</font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="4" color="#669c35"><b>War Resisters Support Campaign - Let Then Stay Week</b></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">The War Resisters Support Campaign is calling on Canadians to speak out against this attempt by the Harper government to remove remaining U.S. war resisters from Canada. During the pan-Canadian week of Action, "Let Them Stay Week" from January 25 to 31, 2015, let federal Minister of Immigration Chris Alexander know that you support a provision for US war resisters to stay in Canada, and that you oppose any attempt to deport them.</font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><a href="http://us7.campaign-archive2.com/?u=7f3b429c1b1bc4ec3631c2286&id=52ca7bbc36&e=3c36593920">http://us7.campaign-archive2.com/?u=7f3b429c1b1bc4ec3631c2286&id=52ca7bbc36&e=3c36593920</a></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="4" color="#00a3d7"><b>Billy Bishop Airport Runway Environmental Assessment - Feedback Session</b></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">Monday, January 26, 6:30 - 9:30 pm<br>Metro Toronto Convention Centre North Building, Room 106, 255 Front Street West<br>The Toronto Port Authority (TPA) is undertaking an environmental assessment of the proposed introduction of jet aircraft and extension of the main runway at the Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport (BBTCA). Based on a review of background information and participant feedback to date, the TPA has developed a preliminary list of the potential effects of the proposal and the proposed methods for assessing impacts. Public feedback welcomed.<br></font><div><font face="Times" size="2"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/362972390549646/">https://www.facebook.com/events/362972390549646/</a></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br></font></div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#be38f3">Documentary Media MFA</font></b><br><font size="2">Tues. Jan. 27, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.</font><br><font size="2">Ryerson School of Image Arts, 122 Bond, Rm B22</font><br><font size="2">Find out more about the Masters of Fine Arts in Documentary Media at Ryerson University. Free.</font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://ryerson.ca/graduate/documentarymedia/">http://ryerson.ca/graduate/documentarymedia/</a></font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#ff4013">Art Creates Change</font></b><br><font size="2">Tuesday, January 27, 7 pm</font></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">Dylan Miner’s artistic practice, based on social relationships and an interdisciplinary sensibility, explores issues of migration, mobility, labour, economics, individual and collective identity, as well as Indigenous and community history. Miner, is a Wiisaakodwinini (Métis) artist and scholar who exhibits widely. He is founding member of Justseeds and was awarded an Artist Leadership Fellowship from the National Museum of the American Indian. “I come to my work as an artist from my position as an activist. I am unapologetic about making my work political.” Free. </font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><a href="http://www2.ocadu.ca/event/6583/art-creates-change-dylan-miner-public-talk">http://www2.ocadu.ca/event/6583/art-creates-change-dylan-miner-public-talk</a><br></font><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="4" color="#669c35"><b>Tracking the Clean Energy Revolution - Boutique Goes Big</b></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">Tues. Jan. 27, 3 p.m. EST</font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">Free Webinar</font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">Clean energy jobs are growing incredibly quickly. In 2013, 37% more Canadians worked in the renewable energy industry than in 2009. As a result, by 2013 the clean energy sector—encompassing manufacturing, power production, energy efficiency, and biofuels—accounted for more direct Canadian jobs than the oil sands. At the end of 2014 Clean Energy Canada released a pair or reports titled Tracking the Energy Revolution Global and Tracking the Energy Revolution Canada. The reports are full of maps, charts and graphics that tell the story of how plunging equipment costs, strong investor interest and government and business leadership are driving a global shift to renewable energy sources such as wind, sun and water. During the webinar, Jeremy Moorhouse – Clean Energy Canada’s Senior Analyst and co-author of both reports – will review the findings of each report and answer audience questions.</font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><a href="https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8967879983286746625">https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8967879983286746625</a></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br></font></div><div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#0061ff">Putting a Price on Carbon</font></b><br><font size="2">Tuesday, January 27, 7:30 - 9 p.m.</font><br><font size="2">Isabel Bader Auditorium, 93 Charles Street West, U of T</font><br><font size="2">What’s the best way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while stimulating the economy? Join Stephen Lewis and an expert panel on how to effectively put a price on carbon in Canada. Two methods are frequently proposed – Cap and Trade and a Carbon Tax. Our Forum Panelists will present the case for each of these methods. Sponsored by For Our Grandchildren, Citizens’ Climate Lobby, School of the Environment, U of T. The event is sold out, but it will be live streamed on Google+ <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/c0j5g7eu7q70j35erdljrda8h80">https://plus.google.com/events/c0j5g7eu7q70j35erdljrda8h80</a> or YouTube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jIyF0zVqXw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jIyF0zVqXw</a> . Anytime after the 27th, viewing will be on YouTube only. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jIyF0zVqXw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jIyF0zVqXw</a></font></font></div><div><font face="Times"><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#e63b7a">Toronto Green Homes Summit</font></b><br><font size="2">Tues. January 28, 7:45am - 4:30 pm</font><br><font size="2">Black Creek Pioneer Village, 1000 Murray Ross Parkway, Toronto</font><br><font size="2">Led by local expert builders and developers, this Summit will focus on residential construction, covering both single-family homes (including townhomes and various attached styles) and multifamily projects up to the mid-rise level (up to 12 storeys), and will include sessions on many regional energy and green building standards.</font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://www.cagbctoronto.org/28-news-a-events/575-green-homes-summit">http://www.cagbctoronto.org/28-news-a-events/575-green-homes-summit</a></font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br></font></div><div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#be38f3">The cold war and nuclear strategies </font></b><font size="2"> </font><br><font size="2">With Ambassador Marius Grinius</font><br><font size="2">Wed. Jan 28, 4 – 6 p.m.</font><br><font size="2">University College, U of T, Room 179</font><br><font size="2">Free weekly public lectures on public health in a nuclear age.</font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://us7.campaign-archive1.com/?u=65bd52daac4a78ce50293dec4&id=a0aa6cbe60&e=7d6e129e1a">http://us7.campaign-archive1.com/?u=65bd52daac4a78ce50293dec4&id=a0aa6cbe60&e=7d6e129e1a</a></font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#669c35">The Future of First Nations People in Canada</font></b><br><font size="2">Wed. January 28, 6:30 - 8:30 pm</font></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">ENG 103 (George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre), 245 Church St. (corner of Gould and Church), Ryerson<br>With Phil Fontaine: former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations for an unprecedented three terms. Amongst many distinctions he is a Member of Order of Manitoba, and, most recently, was named to the Order of Canada. He is also winner of the National Aboriginal Achievement Award, the Equitas Human Rights Education Award, the University of Ottawa Distinguished Leadership Award, and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Award. He currently serves as director of numerous private and public companies, as a special advisor to the Royal Bank of Canada, and as a Distinguished Visiting Faculty with the Centre for Indigenous Governance in the Faculty of Arts at Ryerson University.<br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#00a3d7">Boost Your Immune: Combat Colds and Flus</font></b><br><font size="2">Wed. Jan. 28, 7 - 9 p.m.</font><br><font size="2">Mainstream healthcare often ignores diet and proper digestion as a key part of aiding & maintaining the body’s immune system. This lecture will discuss both dietary & supplementary protocols for preventing & addressing immunity from a holistic perspective. Natural remedies for both chronic & acute coughs will also be addressed. </font><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: pre;"> </span><font size="2">• Which nutrients are an absolute must for healthy immunity</font><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: pre;"> </span><font size="2">• Herbal remedies which aid in cold & cough elimination</font><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: pre;"> </span><font size="2">• Root Causes of poor immune system function</font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://bit.ly/1FI5kPP">http://bit.ly/1FI5kPP</a></font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#be38f3">Renewable is doable. Become a renewable energy champion @ work</font></b><br><font size="2">Wednesday, January 28, 8:30 - 10:30 a.m.</font><br><font size="2">Steam Whistle Brewing, The Roundhouse, 255 Bremner Blvd (The Mezzanine Room)</font><br><font size="2">WWF and Bullfrog Power invite you to a fun, informative and interactive breakfast panel discussion and Living Planet @ Work champion networking event to show you that renewable IS doable! Learn how your company can make a meaningful impact to the energy landscape in Canada and make renewable energy Canada's main source of power for the next generation.</font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://atwork.wwf.ca/EN/events/Renwableisdoablepanel.cfm">http://atwork.wwf.ca/EN/events/Renwableisdoablepanel.cfm</a></font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#ff4013">West End Against Line 9</font></b><br><font size="2">Wed Jan. 28, 7 – 9 pm</font><br><font size="2">Trinity St Paul, 427 Bloor St West (west of Spadina), Garden Room</font><br><font size="2">The movement against Line 9 delayed the pipeline in 2014, let's make 2015 the year we stop it entirely. Come to the next meeting of West End Against Line 9 to discuss the movement against Line 9 and how we can take action locally.</font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/TorontoWestEndAgainstLine9">http://www.facebook.com/TorontoWestEndAgainstLine9</a></font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#669c35">Pickering Airport threat to the Greenbelt</font></b></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">Wed. January 28, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.<br>Brougham Hall<br>3545 Brock Road, Brougham Ontario, (North Pickering)<br>Farmland and forests in Ontario's Greenbelt are at risk of being paved over. Land Over Landings and the Ontario Greenbelt Alliance are co-hosting a Townhall in Brougham. Ask questions and hear from experts about how inappropriate development, a proposed Pickering airport and the dumping of contaminated soil, put our farmland, nature, drinking water and climate at risk. Ajax Mayor Steve Parish will be the moderator, with panelists from the OGA, renowned environmental lawyers, and soil specialists.<br><a href="http://www.greenbeltalliance.ca/events">http://www.greenbeltalliance.ca/events</a><br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font><div><font face="Times"><br><b><font size="4" color="#00a3d7">Microplastics: They’re in a Waterway Near You</font></b></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">Wed. Jan. 28, 4:10 pm - 6 pm<br>Room ES 149 (basement), 5 Bancroft Avenue, Earth Sciences Building, U of T<br>With Paul Helm, Senior Research Scientist, Great Lakes, Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, Adjunct Professor, School of the Environment, University of Toronto<br><a href="http://www.environment.utoronto.ca/SeminarSeries.aspx">http://www.environment.utoronto.ca/SeminarSeries.aspx</a> <br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br></font></div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#be38f3">THIS Magazine: Social Justice All-Stars Issue Launch </font></b><br><font size="2">Wed. Jan. 28, 8 p.m.</font><br><font size="2">Supermarket, 268 Augusta (Kensington Market)</font><br></font><div><font face="Times" size="2">This Magazine launches the January/February 2015 issue – Social Justice All-Stars – with This Is Not A Ted Talk! featuring Sheila Sampath, Farrah Khan and Nayani Thiyagarajah. $5 (includes issue).</font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/936526459698439">https://www.facebook.com/events/936526459698439</a></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#e63b7a">Red Square on a Black Board</font></b><br><font size="2">Thursday, January 29, 7 pm</font><br><font size="2">Koffler House, Room 108, U of T</font><br><font size="2">Free Event. Free Popcorn</font><br><font size="2">Sponsored by Cinema Politica - UofT </font><br><font size="2">Red Square on a Blackboard takes us into the heart of the 2012 student crisis to experience from the inside one of the most important social movements in Quebec history. In cinema verité style, the camera stays with the members of the largest student organisation, the CLASSE, as the crisis unfolds. We follow Maxime, Victoria and Justin, as well as the two official spokespersons Gabriel and Jeanne through the dramatic ups and downs of the strike. We have privileged access behind the scenes to experience with them the intense public debate that raged for weeks during the so-called the Maple Leaf Spring (Printemp érable): executive committee meetings, media strategizing, press conferences, huge student assemblies, debates, votes, street demonstrations, negotiations, demands, as well as the exhaustion, discouragement… and doubts. Red Square on a Blackboard traces the day-by-day anatomy of the student resistance and its main actors to reveal a militant movement of committed and inspired youth. </font><br><font size="2"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/692479854204652/">https://www.facebook.com/events/692479854204652/</a></font></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br></font></div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#669c35">Climate Vegan Teach-In</font></b><br><font size="2">Thursday, January 29, 7 – 10 pm</font><br><font size="2">OISE, 252 Bloor W. Rm. 5280</font><br><font size="2">We will be doing participatory exercises: a primer on climate change, its impacts, and the vegan connection. We'll be presenting a Climate Vegan Action Plan and soliciting your help to co-create this document which will ultimately involve dozens of ideas and practical initiatives that can be used in a decentralized way worldwide. Optional pre-assigned reading and videos to prime you in our group exercise:</font><br><font size="2">• Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret</font><br><font size="2">• Extreme Ice: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgpbtJbbogU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgpbtJbbogU</a></font><br><font size="2">* Becoming a veg is the single best thing an individual can do to combat climate change says Dr. James E. Hansen, the world's most famous climate scientists and author of Storms of my Grandchildren. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfbxeAFk8mY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfbxeAFk8mY</a></font><br><font size="2">• Only 9 Percent of Public Ready to Eat Less Meat to Fight Climate Change <a href="http://www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/commentary/data/00314">http://www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/commentary/data/00314</a></font><br><font size="2">For more info: Paul York: 647-680-5560 or Anita Krajnc: 416-825-6080</font><br></font><div><font face="Times" size="2"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1525171634414917/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular">https://www.facebook.com/events/1525171634414917/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular</a></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#00a3d7">In Search of the Steadfast Olive - A Journey of Hope to the Holy Land</font></b><br><font size="2">Thur. Jan. 29, 7 - 9:30 p.m.</font><br><font size="2">Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham (Bloor and Bathurst)</font><br><font size="2">In the land sacred to three faiths, a group of Canadian Christians on a peace and justice pilgrimage search for signs of hope. An important eleement of the Kairos Palestine document (2011) is an open invitation to visit the Holy Land to witness the reality of life for Palestinians under military occupation. There are many tours, formal and less formal, offered by grassroots organizations, faith-based or not, in Canada and US. This is such a one taken in November 2014 and led by Father Bob Holmes with a small group mostly from Toronto. Once back home, sharing their witness and impressions is a large part of the experience and mission. With Bob Holmes, Briditte Hutter Schmidt, and Ted Schmidt. $5</font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://beitzatoun.org/event/in-search-of-the-steadfast-olive/?mc_cid=b14f543a08&mc_eid=8320353111">http://beitzatoun.org/event/in-search-of-the-steadfast-olive/?mc_cid=b14f543a08&mc_eid=8320353111</a></font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#be38f3">ChocoSol Chocolate Workshop</font></b><br><font size="2">Thursday, January 29, 6:30 - 9 p.m.</font><br><font size="2">1131 St Clair Ave W</font><br><font size="2">Join our Lead Production Animator, Laura Gisonni, and learn how ChocoSol makes artisanal chocolate! This 2½ hour chocolate workshop provides interactive bean-to-bar chocolate education (including discussions on the history and cultural teachings of cacao, chocolate making techniques, horizontal trade and forest garden permaculture), a tour of the kitchen, hands-on ingredient preparation, and chocolate tastings. $35 per person</font><br><font size="2"><a href="https://www.uniiverse.com/events/chocosol-chocolate-workshop-tickets-toronto-5RJBD">https://www.uniiverse.com/events/chocosol-chocolate-workshop-tickets-toronto-5RJBD</a></font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#d95000">Migrants: Know Your Rights</font></b><br><font size="2">Protecting yourself from immigration arrest & detention at home, on the street, and at work</font><br><font size="2">Film Screening & Workshop (with Dinner) in St. James Town</font><br><font size="2">Thursday, Jan 29, 5 pm - 8 pm </font></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">St. James Town Community Corner (200 Wellesley Street East)<br>Do you live in St. James Town? Then join us for the very first community screening of our public legal education film Migrants: Know Your Rights in your neighbourhood. The screening will be followed by a theatre-based legal workshop by members of the Immigration Legal Committee (ILC) and Collaborative Legal Play (CLAY). This is a great opportunity to come together with your neighbours, learn your legal rights (and their limits), and assert collective power! Migrants Know Your Rights is a 25 minute film produced by No One Is Illegal-Toronto with contributions from local activist organizers and based on legal materials produced by the Immigration Legal Committee of NOII-TO and the Law Union of Ontario. This film and the corresponding legal guide are resources meant to address options to protect community members from immigration arrest, raids, and detention - and to strategize and mobilize against racial profiling and anti-immigrant laws and policies. This event is made possible by our community partners St. James Town Community Cafe and Low Income Families Together. This event is free and the space is wheelchair accessible</font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><a href="http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/screenings">http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/screenings</a><br>https://www.facebook.com/events/1046163178742746/</font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times"><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#669c35">What is “Barbaric"? Feminist Reflections on Religion and Equality</font></b><br><font size="2">Thursday, January 29, 5:30 pm</font><br><font size="2">Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil Street</font><br><font size="2">On Nov. 5 2014, the federal Minister of Citizenship and Immigration tabled the Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act. If this highly inflammatory and xenophobic bill is passed, it will deepen institutional barriers to immigrant and racialized women reporting violence and will prevent them from accessing support and services. In the interest of discussing this and other issues related to violence, religion, culture, equality, discrimination and women’s rights, LEAF presents a community panel featuring:</font><br><font size="2">* Alia Hogben Executive Director, Canadian Council of Muslim Women (CCMW)</font><br><font size="2">* Dawnis Kennedy Anishinabe Law Scholar</font><br><font size="2">* Farrah Khan Coordinator of the Outburst! Young Muslim Women’s Program, Counsellor and Advocate at the Barbra Schlifer Clinic</font><br><font size="2">* Shareen Gokul Manager, Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)</font><br><font size="2">* Moderator: Sonia Lawrence Director of the Institute for Feminist Legal Studies at Osgoode Hall Law School</font><br><font size="2">Sponsored by Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF)</font></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><font face="Times"><br><b><font size="4" color="#00a3d7">Tour d'Afrique - Film Screening and Info Night</font></b><br><font size="2">Thursday January 29, 6:30 - 9 p.m.</font><br><font size="2">Sweet Pete's Bike Shop,1204 Bloor St. West</font><br><font size="2">With Speaker: Shanny Hill - Tour d'Afrique Ltd. Free. Info, Movie, Q&A and Prizes. Screening of 'Where Are You Go’. The documentary film following the annual Tour d'Afrique cycling expedition. A 12,000 km, 4 month cycling tour across Africa from Cairo to Cape Town. </font></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NpubbAzKSY&feature=youtu.be">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NpubbAzKSY&feature=youtu.be</a> </font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">RSVP by emailing <a href="mailto:info@sweetpetes.com">info@sweetpetes.com</a> or call 416-533-4481. </font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="4" color="#be38f3"><b>Hands On: Artists/Activists Discuss State and Police Violence</b></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">Thur. Jan. 29, 7 p.m.</font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">Ryerson School of Image Arts, 122 Bond</font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">Forum as part of Hacking The Culture: A Speakers' Series on Media Activism and Social Justice with documentary filmmaker Amar Wala, new media artist Cheryl L'Hirondelle, and others. Free.</font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#ff6a00">CRIP Interiors</font></b><br><font size="2">Thur. and Fri, Jan. 29 and 30, 7 - 9 pm</font><br><font size="2">Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw Street</font><br><font size="2">A provocative, painful and enchanting demonstration of disability art activism, CRIP INTERIORS asks the public to engage with innovative art from the disability justice movement – including people who make art about the ways they negotiate accessibility in the city - heralding a loud call for more improved forms of access built on disability justice terms. The collective of artists, non-artists, disability activists and community members will showcase an abstract series of cubical structures that represent hidden, interior experiences of disability, madness, chronic illness, the corporeal and spiritual, which often remain concealed and obscured in their everyday lives. Local project participants use the word</font><br><font size="2">‘Crip’ in an effort to reassign reclaimed meaning to the word ‘Cripple’ - a derogatory word historically used to describe disability or embodied difference. But, by ‘Crip’, they mean to expose, with desire, the ways disability and difference disrupt the everyday in creative, productive ways.</font><br><font size="2"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/836787236372633/?source=1">https://www.facebook.com/events/836787236372633/?source=1</a></font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br></font><div><font face="Times" size="2">---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#669c35">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 <a href="http://greenmajority.ca/">http://greenmajority.ca/</a></font><br><font size="2">Subscribe to the podcast here: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/green-majority-radio/id941159945">https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/green-majority-radio/id941159945</a></font><br><font size="2">Green Majority now has a once-a-month mailing list to get updates on all our various projects, learn more here: <a href="http://www.greenmajority.ca/mailing_list">http://www.greenmajority.ca/mailing_list</a></font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#00a3d7">Staying Alive - Family Nature Walk</font></b></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">Sat. Jan. 31, 1:30 - 3 pm.</font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">High Park Nature Centre 440 Parkside</font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">Learn how critters survive the cold. Kid-Friendly, Outdoor $2.</font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><a href="http://www.highparknaturecentre.com">http://www.highparknaturecentre.com</a></font></div><div><font face="Times"><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#9929bd">Coldest Day of the Year Ride</font></b><br><font size="2">Sat. Jan. 31,11:45 a.m. - 2 p.m.</font><br><font size="2">Meet at the southern gates of Trinity Bellwoods Park (Queen and Strachan). We're heading to Metro Hall, followed by some refreshments at the Elephant and Castle at King and Simcoe.</font></font></div><div><font face="Times"><font size="2">Celebrate and support winter cycling by joining us for a short, comfortable, car-free group ride.</font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://cycleto.ca/event/2015/01/14/coldest-day-year-ride-2015">http://cycleto.ca/event/2015/01/14/coldest-day-year-ride-2015</a></font><br><font size="2"><a href="http://dandyhorsemagazine.com/blog/2014/12/26/still-we-ride-a-ryerson-journa">http://dandyhorsemagazine.com/blog/2014/12/26/still-we-ride-a-ryerson-journa</a>lism-student-checks-out-critical-mass-in-toronto/ </font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#b92d5d">José Martí Dinner and Dance</font></b><br><font size="2">Saturday, Jan 31, 7 pm</font><br><font size="2">AUUC Hall, 1604 Bloor St. W.</font><br><font size="2">Celebrate the birth of José Martí, Cuba's national hero and father of independence.</font></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><a href="http://ccfatoronto.ca/?mc_cid=d87720c94f&mc_eid=98329828f0">http://ccfatoronto.ca/?mc_cid=d87720c94f&mc_eid=98329828f0</a></font></div><div><font face="Times"><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#d95000">Environmental Justice, the Tar Sands, and Indigenous Rights</font></b></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">Sun. Feb. 1, 2 - 5 p.m.</font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham (Bloor and Bathurst)</font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">Learn about the different processes of extraction of tar sands, the chemicals involved, the controversial tailings ponds, and the resultant contamination of land and water, impacts on surrounding communities, and contribution to global climate change. You will also learn about Treaties in the area and Indigenous rights in general, as well as an assessment of the larger oil sector picture in Canada. Speakers:</font></div><font face="Times" size="2">• Heather Milton Lightening, Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign<br>• Keith Stewart, Climate & Energy Campaign Coordinator, Greenpeace Canada<br>• Anna Zalik, Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University</font><div><font face="Times" size="2">Sponsored by: Centre for Social Justice, Greater Toronto Workers’ Assembly, Socialist Project</font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><a href="http://beitzatoun.org/event/environmental-justice-the-tar-sands-and-indigenous-rights/">http://beitzatoun.org/event/environmental-justice-the-tar-sands-and-indigenous-rights/</a></font></div><div><font face="Times"><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#669c35">Toronto ABC - Letter Writing to Prisoners</font></b><br><font size="2">Sun. Feb. 1, 6 - 9 p.m.</font></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham (Bathurst and Bloor)<br>Learn about and write to the Cleveland 4, imprisoned Occupy activists. Vegan meal provided. Free.</font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><a href="http://beitzatoun.org/events/">http://beitzatoun.org/events/</a></font></div><div><font face="Times"><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#00a3d7">Burying Nuclear Waste in Ontario?</font></b><br><font size="2">Sat. Feb 7, 1 - 3 p.m. speakers, 3 – 5 p.m. breakout groups</font><br><font size="2">St. Stephens in the Field Church (On College, just west of Spadina, north end of Kensington Mkt)</font><br><font size="2">There has been much concern and mobilization to stop the plan to bury low and intermediate level nuclear waste next to Lake Huron. But what about the high level nuclear waste? Industry hopes to bury it too, they just don’t know where yet.</font><br><font size="2">Currently, there are 13 communities in ON and SK involved in the ‘Learn More’ process with the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO), including one just NW of Toronto. The final promise is a $20 billion dollar construction project to bury at least 4.6 million used fuel bundles. There are significant critiques about burying nuclear waste, and a history of failures for the industry. Come hear from frontline voices who have been resisting both the creation of nuclear waste, and the burial.</font> <font size="2">Speakers include:</font><br><font size="2">- Brennain Lloyd, Northwatch</font><br><font size="2">- Lorraine Rekmans, Serpent River First Nation</font><br><font size="2">- Chris Peabody, Brockton Town Councillor</font><br><font size="2">- Angela Bischoff, Ontario Clean Air Alliance</font><br><font size="2"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/572832252851041/">https://www.facebook.com/events/572832252851041/</a></font><br><font size="2"><a href="mailto:angela@cleanairalliance.org">angela@cleanairalliance.org</a></font><br><font size="2"> </font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="4" color="#9929bd"><b>Beit Zatoun Events</b></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><a href="http://beitzatoun.org/events/?mc_cid=d87720c94f&mc_eid=98329828f0">http://beitzatoun.org/events/?mc_cid=d87720c94f&mc_eid=98329828f0</a></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="2">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times"><br><b><font size="4" color="#e32400">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="https://nowtoronto.com/search/event/community-events/">https://nowtoronto.com/search/event/community-events/</a></font><br><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">---------------------------------------</font><br><br></font></div></div><div><div><font face="Times" size="2"><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>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></div></div></div></body></html>