<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;"><img height="141" width="600" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" apple-inline="yes" id="94FFD5A1-E017-420F-A26E-EE2336AFA173" src="cid:2B045BBE-CC84-46C6-A21A-B3F7266A7C4A@Home"><font face="Times"><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#be38f3">Bill C-51 doesn't introduce disruption -- it legalizes 'dirty tricks'</font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">This is really scary. "Eyes-on-surveillance" (essentially organized stalking), break-ins, demagnetization of bank cards, vandalism, smear campaigns, installing rootkits and vicious malware on computers,overwhelming a vehicle's electronics to cause malfunction and injecting metallic noise onto a home's powerlines resulting in sleep deprivation are all tactics used in disruption. The end game in disruption is a "sting." Hence agent provocateurs are brought in to try to dupe the target into committing a crime or acting "dangerous."”</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2015/05/bill-c-51-doesnt-introduce-disruption-it-legalizes-dirty-tric">http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2015/05/bill-c-51-doesnt-introduce-disruption-it-legalizes-dirty-tric</a></span></font><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="4" color="#be38f3"><b>Tell Your Senator to Stop Bill C-51</b></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://stopc51.ca">https://stopc51.ca</a></font></div><div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><br></div><div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#00a3d7">Shredding documents can't paper over environmental problems in the tar sands<br></font></b><span style="font-size: 14px;">Wild! Two independent commissioners have now announced a joint investigation into the illegal destruction of documents by the outgoing PC government in Alberta!!! What do you think the Conservatives are trying to hide? "The PC government forgot that those documents belong to the people of Alberta, not their party."</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/Blogentry/shredding-documents-cant-paper-over-environme/blog/52890/">http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/Blogentry/shredding-documents-cant-paper-over-environme/blog/52890/</a></span></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br>---------------------------------------<br></font></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Times;">---------------------------------------</span></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="4" color="#77bb41"><b>Make the Rich Panic - By Chris Hedges</b></font><div><font face="Times"><span style="font-size: 14px;">“When dying regimes collapse, they do so with dizzying speed. Upheaval is coming. The people must be prepared. If we are, we will have a chance."</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/make_the_rich_panic_20150503">http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/make_the_rich_panic_20150503</a> </span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#ff6251">Aamjiwnaang First Nation surrounded by Chemical Valley is seeking support to test water samples<br></font></b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/aamjiwnaang-water-project#home">https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/aamjiwnaang-water-project#home</a></span></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times"><br><b><font size="4" color="#be38f3">Etobicoke Creek oil spill</font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/hazmat-crews-called-to-clean-up-etobicoke-creek-oil-spill-1.2374562">http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/hazmat-crews-called-to-clean-up-etobicoke-creek-oil-spill-1.2374562</a></span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><br></font><b style="font-family: Times;"><font size="4"><font color="#3a88fe">Remove the Gardiner Expressway East -Petition</font><br></font></b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.change.org/p/toronto-city-council-remove-the-gardiner-expressway-east">https://www.change.org/p/toronto-city-council-remove-the-gardiner-expressway-east</a></span><br style="font-family: Times;"><br style="font-family: Times;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br style="font-family: Times;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#669c35">Notley’s False Majority: Why It's Time to Fix Canada’s Electoral System</font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">While progressives across Canada relish the NDP victory in Alberta last week, an inconvenient truth about the election results has been largely overlooked: Rachel Notley secured her majority government with just 41 per cent of the popular vote. Electoral reform is fundamentally about fixing an outdated, undemocratic system and making each vote count — and that’s something people of all political stripes should be able to get behind.</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.desmog.ca/2015/05/10/notley-s-false-majority-why-now-time-fix-canada-s-electoral-system">http://www.desmog.ca/2015/05/10/notley-s-false-majority-why-now-time-fix-canada-s-electoral-system</a></span></font></div><div><font face="Times"><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#ff6a00">Fight for $15 and Fairness</font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Join the fight for decent work</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://15andfairness.org/">http://15andfairness.org/</a></span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#9929bd">Broken Covenant: Blistering report on 9 years of Harper agenda<br></font></b><span style="font-size: 14px;">Maude Barlow’s new report outlines the damage done to all aspects of Canada’s democracy under Harper’s watch. A scathing indictment of nine years of the Harper agenda, Broken Covenant examines the Harper government’s impact on our democratic institutions, families and workers, women, First Nations, the environment, health care, arts and culture, farmers, human rights and social equality.</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://canadians.org/broken-covenant">http://canadians.org/broken-covenant</a></span></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"> <br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="4" color="#0061ff"><b>Ontario First Province in Canada to Set 2030 Greenhouse Gas Pollution Reduction Target </b></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">"Establishing a 2030 greenhouse gas emission reduction target of 37 per cent below 1990 levels sends a clear signal to Canada and the world that Ontario is committed to creating a lasting legacy of a better environment and a stronger low-carbon economy for future generations." — Glen Murray, Minister of the Environment and Climate Change<br><a href="http://bit.ly/1GjG7dF">http://bit.ly/1GjG7dF</a></font><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#00c7fc">Canada announces climate commitment and it’s weaker than it looks</font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">On Friday, Canada announced it will cut carbon pollution by 30% below 2005 levels by 2030 as part of this year’s international climate negotiations in Paris. While any action regarding Canada’s efforts to reduce its carbon emissions is an improvement over its current situation, the proposed target is far weaker than pledges from the US and EU. The Canadian plan fails to address the Alberta tar sands—the nation’s largest source of carbon emissions—and relies on questionable carbon accounting</span></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://climateactionnetwork.ca/2015/05/15/canada-announces-climate-commitment-and-its-weaker-than-it-looks/">http://climateactionnetwork.ca/2015/05/15/canada-announces-climate-commitment-and-its-weaker-than-it-looks/</a></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="4" color="#669c35"><b>Information Commissioner warns of dangerous precedent in RCMP long-gun registry case</b></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">16 min. CBC interview. Canada's Information Commissioner says she's never seen anything like this. Following a long investigation, Suzanne Legault concluded that the RCMP illegally destroyed records related to the long-gun registry.</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thehouse/how-will-canada-meet-its-new-emissions-reduction-target-1.3074096/information-commissioner-warns-of-dangerous-precedent-in-rcmp-long-gun-registry-case-1.3074098">http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thehouse/how-will-canada-meet-its-new-emissions-reduction-target-1.3074096/information-commissioner-warns-of-dangerous-precedent-in-rcmp-long-gun-registry-case-1.3074098</a> </font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#ff4013">Did you know...</font></b><br></font><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Household cleaners;<br></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Compact fluorescent lights;<br></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Electronic cigarettes; and<br></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Medications and vitamins<br></font></div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">… are hazardous waste and should never go in garbage, recycling or organics. Proper disposal options include Community Environment Days and Drop-Off Depots. Check Hazardous Waste – Where does it go? or the Waste Wizard for more information.<br><a href="http://app.toronto.ca/wes/winfo/search.do">http://app.toronto.ca/wes/winfo/search.do</a><br>http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=57cd433112b02410VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD<br></font><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br></font></div><div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#be38f3">Tell the city you LOVE libraries</font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">The Toronto Public Library is in the process of creating its next Strategic Plan 2016-2019 to guide service delivery and programs over the next 4 years. We invite you to a roundtable session to tell us about the needs and interests of your client group and to help us set priorities.</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Thursday, May 21 from 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. at the Fairview Branch (Sheppard & Don Mills)</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Monday, May 25 from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. at the Runnymede Branch (Bloor & Runnymede)</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Tuesday, May 26 from 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. at the Northern District Branch (Eglinton & Yonge)</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Register via e-mail by May 15 indicating the session you plan to attend: <a href="mailto:strategicplanconsultation@torontopubliclibrary.ca">strategicplanconsultation@torontopubliclibrary.ca</a></span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#00a3d7">Raise the Rates Week of Action Against the Liberal Government’s ‘Invisible Austerity’ War on the Poor</font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">May 18 - 25</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">The Raise the Rates Campaign is calling on local communities to challenge MPPs during the week of May 18. During that week, they will be in their constituency offices and this is an ideal time to challenge the austerity and growing poverty that is being imposed in this Province. For more information or to sign on to participate in the Week of Action, contact via the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP): E-mail: <a href="mailto:ocap@tao.ca">ocap@tao.ca</a> Phone: 416-925-6939 Twitter: @ocaptoronto</span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#669c35">Oil '(In)dependence'? Petroleum Work in Mexico and Canada After the US Shale Boom<br></font></b><span style="font-size: 14px;">Tues. May 19, 1 - 3 p.m.</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Toronto Reference Library, Elizabeth Beeton Auditorium (on Spadina, north of Bloor)</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">The unexpected drop in oil prices in late 2014 was met with trepidation by analysts. The fall in prices arises, in part, from a significant increase in US domestic energy production due to that country's boom in shale oil and gas production, and concerns regarding security of investment in hydrocarbon energy sources. What are the implications of this significant shift in the geopolitics of North American energy for work, daily life and elite accumulation in Mexico and Canada - key sources of US oil for the past decade? With Anna Zalik, Associate Professor, York U</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT188569&R=EVT188569">http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT188569&R=EVT188569</a></span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#e32400">A World Beyond the Tar Sands - The Fight for Climate Jobs</font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Tuesday May 19, 7 p.m.</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Steelworkers Hall (25 Cecil St)</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Public Forum with Toronto Socialists</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.socialist.ca">www.socialist.ca</a></span></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/813976151989036/">https://www.facebook.com/events/813976151989036/</a><br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#be38f3">Can A Simple Sticker Help Us Act On Climate Change?</font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Wed. May 20, 6 - 7:30 pm</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Centre for Social Innovation (Annex), 720 Bathurst St.</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">On January 26, 2015, West Vancouver unanimously passed a resolution “... that all vendors of retail petroleum products in Canada be legislated to provide warning labels on all pump handles...”. Since that vote, over 50 communities have endorsed the concept. Join Robert Shirkey as he explores the psychology, economics, and law behind what might be the world’s lowest cost climate intervention and yet the most impactful.</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.ourhorizon.eventbrite.com">www.ourhorizon.eventbrite.com</a></span></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#3a88fe">Climate Change & Climate Resiliency</font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Wed May 20, 6:30 - 8:30 pm</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Metro Hall, 55 John St., Room 310</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">This presentation, organized by Live Green Toronto Volunteers’ Coordinator Megan MacLean, will focus on the biggest global environmental issue - climate change - and what the City of Toronto is doing to address this massive problem.</span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#669c35">May Green Drinks</font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Wednesday May 20, 6 - 8:30 pm </span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Grace O’Malleys, 14 Duncan Street (near Adelaide and University)</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">We have a lively mixture of people from NGOs, academia, students, government and business. Come along and you'll be made welcome. Just say, "are you green?" and we will look after you and introduce you to whoever is there. It's a great way of catching up with people you know and also for making new contacts. Everyone invites someone else along, so there’s always... a different crowd, making Green Drinks an organic, self-organising network. These events are very simple and unstructured, but many people have found employment, made friends, developed new ideas, done deals and had moments of serendipity. Everyone Welcome - No Admission Charge.</span></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="4" color="#ff4013"><b>Nepal Relief Fundraising Dinner</b></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Wed. May 20, Reception 6:30 pm, dinner 7 pm.</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Dim Sum King 421 Dundas W, 3rd floor</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Scadding Court Community Centre benefit for Nepal rebuild and relief efforts. Dinner, pop up vendors, performances, silent auction and more with MC Jojo Chintoh. $50. </font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">416-392-0335 ext 237</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br></font></div><div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#d357fe">Hudbay Minerals Hurts Us All</font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Thursday, May 21, 6 – 9 p.m.</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Friends House, 60 Lowther (St. George subway)</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">An international forum with representation from communities near all of Hudbay's mines. For the first time, communities from across the Americas impacted by Canadian company Hudbay Minerals are coming together. On the evening before Hudbay's annual shareholders' meeting, join us as we gather to share stories and hear testimonies.</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1633716630185446/">https://www.facebook.com/events/1633716630185446/</a></span></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#3a88fe">De-escalation and Non-violent Communication</font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Thursday, May 21, 6 - 9:30 pm </span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">University of Toronto campus, exact location to be emailed to participants </span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">The purpose of this workshop is to provide techniques for de-escalating conflicts, and communicating in thoughtful, non-reactive ways, in order to build healthy organizations and movements. Topics to be covered include conflict resolution styles, triggers and grounding techniques, and de-escalation strategies. </span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/de-escalation-and-nonviolent-communication-workshop-tickets-16430894247">https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/de-escalation-and-nonviolent-communication-workshop-tickets-16430894247</a> </span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#669c35">Stop Liberal Austerity and the War on the Poor - Rally</font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Thursday, May 21, 12:30 pm</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Office of Glenn Murray, MPP, 120 Carlton (at Jarvis)</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Join with OCAP and OPSEU as part of the Ontario-wide Raise the Rates week of action, as we send a message to Queen's Park that our communities won't accept their austerity agenda! The Liberal Government's increasing austerity means an attack on public services and the workers who deliver them. Raise the Rates is holding a week of action across Ontario to build the fight back in communities against this agenda and the war on the poor that is at the heart of it. Free meal served!.</span></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://ocap.ca">ocap.ca</a></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#ff6a00">Pack the Committee: Oppose T.O. police doing immigration enforcement</font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Thur. May 21, 9:30 am </span></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Toronto City Hall (Queen and Bay)<br>The Toronto Police Services is presenting a report to Toronto City Hall's Community Development and Recreations Committee saying that their practices of racial profiling, carding, and handing over non-status migrants to immigration enforcement is in line with ensuring access without fear for undocumented Torontonians. Well, we don't think so. Join a broad range of grassroots Toronto groups on to insist that this report must be rejected and that the City of Toronto needs to step in and demand an end to racial profiling, and police collusion with immigration enforcement. If you have an Access Without Fear or Solidarity City t-shirt, please wear it. Otherwise, yellow, red and black are beautiful colours to rock on that day. If you would like to depute, please get in touch with No One Is Illegal - Toronto at <a href="mailto:nooneisillegal@riseup.net">nooneisillegal@riseup.net</a>.</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#be38f3">Canadian Journalists and Coverage of The Gaza War</font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Thursday, May 21, 7pm</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham (Bloor and Bathurst)</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Veteran investigative reporter Andrew Mitrovica explores how the recent war in summer 2014 was covered by Canadian journalists. Andrew Mitrovica is a writer and journalism instructor. For much of his career, Andrew was an investigative reporter for a variety of news organizations and publications including the CBC’s fifth estate, CTV’s W5, CTV National News — where he was the network’s chief investigative producer — the Walrus magazine and the Globe and Mail, where he was a member of the newspaper’s investigative unit. He is a columnist with iPolitics. During the course of his 23-year career, Andrew has won numerous national and international awards for his investigative work.</span><br></font><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://beitzatoun.org">beitzatoun.org</a></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#3a88fe">Inclusionary Zoning: Solutions for Below Market Housing</font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Thursday, May 21, 10 a.m. - 12 noon</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">College Street United Church, 452 College Street (College and Bathurst)</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">A forum to discuss the opportunities and challenges presented by an Inclusionary Zoning program for the City of Toronto. It is a proven tool to provide much needed affordable housing. All interested people are invited including affordable housing advocates, developers, planners, policy analysts and community builders. Free.</span></font></div><div><font face="Times"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://inclusionaryzoning.eventbrite.ca">http://inclusionaryzoning.eventbrite.ca</a></span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#669c35">Education & Activism: Rethink Resist Reclaim with Chris Hedges </font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">The 3rd Annual Tommy Douglas Institute</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Thursday May 21, 9:30 am – 4 pm</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">George Brown College, 290 Adelaide St. E., 4th Floor</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">$55 (regular)* / $20 (with student/low wage subsidy)*</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">The one-day event welcomes communities, students, faculty, activists, admin, community workers and the public to share in provocative discussions, interactive exhibits and a community forum featuring an intergenerational panel of activist-educators. Join us in discussing Education & Activism.</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://facebook.com/TommyDouglasInstitute">facebook.com/TommyDouglasInstitute</a> </span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://georgebrown.ca/TommyDouglasInstitute">http://georgebrown.ca/TommyDouglasInstitute</a></span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#ff6251">Volume - Sisters Make Noise</font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Thur. May 21, 6 - 9 p.m.</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas Street E.</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Join us as we imagine our Muslimah futures through poetry, spoken word, song and music. The evening will also feature the launch of our third poetry anthology: Homebound III.</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/volume-sisters-make-noise-tickets-16726562599">https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/volume-sisters-make-noise-tickets-16726562599</a></span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#874efe">United Against Hudbay: a protest at Hudbay's shareholder meeting<br></font></b><span style="font-size: 14px;">Fri. May 22, 10:30 a.m.</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">150 King St. W.</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">From Guatemala to Manitoba, from Arizona to Peru, Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities are mobilizing to seek justice and reparations for the crimes, violations and harms carried out by Hudbay Minerals, for the acts of colonization carried out by their mines. They are organizing in defense of their land and in favour of a fair and just development model. Join us as we gather outside of Hudbay's shareholder meeting to confront the company and hold Hudbay Minerals accountable! Let's make sure Hudbay knows that these visitors from impacted communities don't stand alone!</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/879953212070402/">https://www.facebook.com/events/879953212070402/</a></span></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font><div><font face="Times" size="4" color="#00c7fc"><b>Weather and climate influences of the Great Salt Lake</b></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Live on CIUT 89.5FM - Friday May 22, 11 am </font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">With Dr. Daniel Bedford, Professor from Weber State University</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#00c7fc">New 2-min Climate Cartoon: The Future Looks Awesome</font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.greenmajority.ca/climate_cartoons">http://www.greenmajority.ca/climate_cartoons</a></span></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#669c35">The Beauty of Difference </font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">9th annual fundraiser for 416 Community Support for Women</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Friday May 22, 6 - 9 pm</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">519 Church Street Community Centre</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.416community.com">http://www.416community.com</a></span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#ff6a00">Spicing Up the Conversation: Talking Race in Toronto's Food Movement<br></font></b><span style="font-size: 14px;">Friday, May 22, 6 pm </span></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">York University, HNES bldg, room 140 <br>Why is the mainstream food movement so white? What does racism in the food movement look like, and what is at stake when we fail to critically think about race in doing this work? What does anti-racism actually look like in the work of organizations struggling for food justice? What does the rest of the food movement still have yet to learn? Free.<br>Email <a href="mailto:gita@foodshare.net">gita@foodshare.net</a></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/482358775247886/">https://www.facebook.com/events/482358775247886/</a></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#be38f3">Socialism 2015: This changes everything</font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">an International Educational Conference </span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Fri./Sat. May 22-23 </span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Woodsworth Residence, U of Toronto, 321 Bloor St. W., Room 20 (lower level) @ St. George </span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.socialistaction.ca">www.socialistaction.ca</a></span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#3a88fe">March Against Monsanto</font></b></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Sat. May 23, 11 a.m.</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Queen’s Park (College and University)</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Global Day of Action to raise awareness of the health and environmental risks associated with GMOs (genetically modified organisms). We will march en mass to Christie Pits for a festival of non-gmo food.</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="4" color="#3a88fe"><b>Celebrate Farm to Fork</b></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Sat. May 23, 1 - 6 p.m.</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Christie Pits Park (Bloor and Christie)</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Toronto’s 2nd annual GMO-Free Festival and Farmers’ Market. Speakers, music, non-gmo vendors, organic farmers’ market. A celebration of ON’s rapidly growing non-gmo organic food movement.</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.torontonongmocoalition.org">www.torontonongmocoalition.org</a></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#669c35">Annual Plant Exchange</font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Saturday, May 23, 11 am - 3 pm</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Karma Coop, 739 Palmerston (in the alley)</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">A Karma Coop tradition that lets people share their cuttings, seedlings, plants, and gardening hopes and dreams! Finished worm compost from our vermicomposting bins will be available for Karma members to take home to their gardens. Free.</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.karmacoop.org">http://www.karmacoop.org</a></span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#ff4013">Repair Café</font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Sat. May 23, 10 am - 1 pm</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Skills for Change, 791 St. Clair Ave. West, 1st Floor </span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.repaircafetoronto.ca">http://www.repaircafetoronto.ca</a></span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://repaircafetoronto.ca/events/">http://repaircafetoronto.ca/events/</a></span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#be38f3">Violence No More - It Starts With Us</font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Sat. May 23, 6 p.m.</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Native Canadian Centre of Toronto, 16 Spadina Road</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Join No More Silence Families of Sisters in Spirit and The Native Youth Sexual Health Network to honour the legacies of community based organizing to end violence against Indigenous women, trans and two spirit people with an evening of speakers and discussion.</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1591190517813585/">https://www.facebook.com/events/1591190517813585/</a></span></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#3a88fe">Doors Open Toronto </font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Sat. and Sun. May 23 & 24</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">The 16th annual weekend celebration of architecture will offer free and rare access to more than 155 architecturally, historically, culturally and socially significant buildings across Toronto including 55 new participants, an exciting speaker series and city-wide walking tours.</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.toronto.ca/doorsopen">http://www.toronto.ca/doorsopen</a>.</span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#669c35">Toronto Midtown Chapter - The Holistic Chamber of Commerce</font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Sun. May 24, 6 p.m.</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Quench Kitchen, 770 St. Clair Ave. West</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Community group bringing together holistic-minded people, businesses, professionals and practitioners.</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.holisticchamberofcommerce.com/on-toronto-midtown">http://www.holisticchamberofcommerce.com/on-toronto-midtown</a></span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br></font></div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font><div><font face="Times" size="4" color="#ff6251"><b>Bike With Mike</b></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Sun. May 24, noon - 5 p.m.</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Christie Pits park (Bloor and Christie)</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Bike month party with ward 19 Councillor Mike Layton. Cycling advocacy info, trike races, face painting, bike art, barbecue and more. Free.</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/880032365373578/">https://www.facebook.com/events/880032365373578/</a></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times"><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#874efe">Bike Month</font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">May 25 – June 25</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">A celebration of cycling in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area with hundreds of community events including rides, races, tours, festivals, and more.</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.bikemonth.ca/events">http://www.bikemonth.ca/events</a></span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span></font></div><div><font face="Times"><br><b><font size="4" color="#00c7fc">Hot Docs</font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Bloor Cinema (Bloor and Bathurst)</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://bloorcinema.com/">http://bloorcinema.com/</a></span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#669c35">NOW magazine hosts a very comprehensive online events listing<br></font></b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://nowtoronto.com/search/event/community-events/">https://nowtoronto.com/search/event/community-events/</a></span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Eulogies and Condolences for Tooker</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">and Stories of ecology and activism</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.greenspiration.org">http://www.greenspiration.org</a></span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Join my email list by emailing Angela at:</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="mailto:greenspiration@web.ca">greenspiration@web.ca</a></span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Write "subscribe" in the subject line</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">and tell me what city/country you live in.</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Likewise to unsubscribe. </span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Or manage your subscription here: </span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://list.web.net/lists/listinfo/greenspirationto-l">http://list.web.net/lists/listinfo/greenspirationto-l</a></span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<</span><br><br></font></div></div><br></div></body></html>