<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;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><img style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';" apple-inline="yes" id="E0B962B1-20A0-4873-B3D4-DC5358B6300C" height="68" width="288" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:0A75553C-35BB-49E0-BC47-9B951B239A3D@Home"><font face="Times"><br><br></font></span><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#e32400">There is actually a way to guarantee Harper’s defeat<br></font></b>We found 16 special ridings that will change the outcome of the election. In these ridings: the conservative candidate is ahead, one of the progressive candidates is a close second, while the other is a distant third but still has enough support to impact the result.<br><a href="https://medium.com/@kashani/there-is-actually-a-way-to-guarantee-harper-s-de">https://medium.com/@kashani/there-is-actually-a-way-to-guarantee-harper-s-de</a>feat-here-s-how-11ca79cec748<br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#9929bd">Leadnow </font></b>needs help in this final week of the election to defeat Finance Minister Joe Oliver. Help if you can!<br>http://we.leadnow.ca/eglinton_events</font><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><font color="#9929bd">Vote Together</font></b> has breakdowns of the ridings and where strategic voting is important</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.votetogether.ca">http://www.votetogether.ca</a></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><font color="#9929bd">All candidates </font></b>need your help in this final week of the election. Pick your favourite and volunteer a few hours.<br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br><b><font color="#00a3d7">Why The F*ck Aren’t We Talking About Tar Sands Expansion This Election?<br></font></b><a href="http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/why-the-fuck-arent-we-talking-about-tar-sands-expansion-this-election">http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/why-the-fuck-arent-we-talking-about-tar-sands-expansion-this-election</a><br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#669c35">Open Letter to Canadian Party Leaders: 12 Top Peace Priorities<br></font></b>By the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace - Please sign<br>http://vowpeace.org/open-letter-to-leaders-12-top-peace-priorities/<br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#d95000">Harper's Security Overreach</font></b> at the expense of your humanity can end if you want it to. Print a Monitor Buddy and take the Monitor Buddy Challenge.<br>http://cavitysearch.ca/<br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><font color="#9929bd">Renewable Energy & the Federal Election</font></b><br>A summary of the information released and promises made by each of the four parties. By SolarShare.<br><a href="http://bit.ly/1WPY7Cl">http://bit.ly/1WPY7Cl</a></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br><b><font color="#00a3d7">Nature Rx - Ask your doctor if nature is right for you</font></b><br>Nature Rx is a grassroots movement dedicated to entertaining and informing people about the healing and humorous aspects of nature. Watch the spoof commercials.<br><a href="http://www.nature-rx.org/">http://www.nature-rx.org/</a> <br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#669c35">ISIS Slave Market Puts Women and Girls on Same List as Cattle</font></b><br>This is a painful ready by Eve Ensler (author of the Vagina Monologues and more), but she ends with love. "I am thinking of Shock and Awe and how it helped unleash Rape and Behead. I am thinking of religious fundamentalism and how many women have been raped in God's name and how many massacred and murdered. This led me to love, thinking about love, how the failure of this century is a failure of love. Who will be the brave, furious, visionary authors of our manual of revolutionary love?" <br><a href="http://www.alternet.org/gender/isis-slave-market-puts-women-and-girls-same-list-cattle?akid=13556.290405.hUS-nU&rd=1&src=newsletter1043696&t=7">http://www.alternet.org/gender/isis-slave-market-puts-women-and-girls-same-list-cattle?akid=13556.290405.hUS-nU&rd=1&src=newsletter1043696&t=7</a><br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#ff6a00">Bike Lanes on Bloor ever-elusive for Toronto planners and cyclists</font></b><br>To cycling advocates, it’s a step toward a key piece of infrastructure that’s been the subject of debate and analysis for decades. “It’s a big step forward, and it’s about time,” Angela Bischoff said about the pilot project. A member of Bells on Bloor’s organizing team, Bischoff was married to the late activist Tooker Gomberg, memorialized in “Take the Tooker” group rides and advocacy calling for bike lanes on Bloor-Danforth. “Since his passing there have been so many projects that he spawned that have since come to fruition,” Bischoff said. “I wish he was around to see the legacy of his life.” </font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/10/07/bike-lanes-on-bloor-ever-elusive-for-toronto-planners-and-cyclists.html">http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/10/07/bike-lanes-on-bloor-ever-elusive-for-toronto-planners-and-cyclists.html</a><br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#9929bd">Let's give the Next Prime Minister a Proper Climate Welcome</font></b><br>Climate change demands urgent, decisive action. That’s why, whatever happens this election, we’re planning a series of serious, but gentle, civil disobedience actions starting November 5th to welcome the next Prime Minister and call on him to get to work on real climate action. <br>http://climatewelcome.ca/?utm_medium=email<br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#00a3d7">Sign the LEAP Manefesto</font></b><br>We call for a Canada based on caring for each other and the planet, moving swiftly to a post-carbon future, upholding Indigenous rights, and pursuing economic justice for all.<br>https://leapmanifesto.org/en/the-leap-manifesto/ </font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></font><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br><b><font color="#669c35">Vote!</font></b></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Advance polls Mon. Oct. 12, noon - 8 p.m.<br>Election day Mon. Oct. 19, 9:30 a.m. - 9:30 p.m.<br>You can find your vote location, candidates etc. by entering your postal code here. </font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.elections.ca/Scripts/vis/FindED?L=e&QID=-1&PAGEID=20">http://www.elections.ca/Scripts/vis/FindED?L=e&QID=-1&PAGEID=20</a><br>Additionally, you can vote by mail, and at the Elections Canada office at 316 Bloor Street West (Bloor/Spadina) Mon-Fri 9am to 9pm, Sat 9am to 6pm or Sun 12pm to 4pm. Find out more, like ID required etc. here. <br>http://bit.ly/1JCx0Bs<br><br>---------------------------------------<br></font></div><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Times;">---------------------------------------</span></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><font color="#ff6251">This Changes Everything</font></b><br>Oct. 12-15, 12:10 p.m. and 6:45 p.m.<br>TIFF Bell Lighthouse (King and John)<br>Directed by journalist and filmmaker Avi Lewis (The Take) and produced in conjunction with Naomi Klein's best-selling book of the same name, this urgent dispatch on climate change contends that the greatest crisis we have ever faced also offers us the opportunity to address and correct the inhumane systems that have created it.<br><a href="http://tiff.net/programming/new-releases/this-changes-everything">http://tiff.net/programming/new-releases/this-changes-everything</a><br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#9929bd">The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution</font></b><br>Oct. 12 - 22 <br>Bloor Hot Docs, 506 Bloor Street West <br>The first feature length documentary to explore the Black Panther Party, its significance to American history, its cultural and political awakening for black people, and the painful lessons wrought when a movement derails. <br>http://boxoffice.hotdocs.ca/WebSales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=44563~fff311b7-cdad-4e14-9ae4-a9905e1b9cb0&<br><br>---------------------------------------<br>--------------------------------------- <br><br><b><font color="#3a88fe">Performance: Dance is a weapon in the revolutionary class struggle - A Stop Harper, No to Bill C-51 <br></font></b>Tues, October 13, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm (doors at 7)<br>Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham<br>“Dance is a weapon in the revolutionary class struggle” is a slogan raised by the Workers Dance League, a dance troupe in the 1930’s that created dances with a Marxist message during the great working class struggles in the US during the Great Depression years. The first piece on the program is a revolutionary “Ted” talk highlighting this history and making connections to the similar austerity climate today. The second piece called “The Interview” is based on one of the dancer’s experience being tapped for a CSIS interview while trying to secure a job. The piece makes direct reference C-51 and the possibility that as Russell Brand puts it in the sound track of the piece, “we are all terrorists now.” By donation. Dancers: Pam Johnson and Corrie Sakaluk.<br>http://beitzatoun.org/event/performance-dance-is-a-weapon-in-the-revolutionary-class-struggle/<br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#669c35">Fracking and Its Environmental Hazards</font></b><br>Tuesday, October 13, 7 - 8 p.m.<br>Annette Street library, 145 Annette Street </font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Fracking is an extreme energy method to extract underground natural gas. It is rapidly expanding in almost every province across Canada. Communities are uniting to oppose fracking because of its high water use, its high carbon emissions, its impacts on human health, the disruption it causes to wildlife, and the danger it poses to groundwater and local drinking water. Tara Seucharan, Council of Canadians, Toronto Chapter, will speak about this important environmental issue.<br><a href="http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT205325&R=EVT205325">http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT205325&R=EVT205325</a><br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#ff6a00">Thinking about joining MISN? Come to our New Members' Orientation<br></font></b>Tues. Oct. 13, 7 - 9 p.m.<br>OISE, 252 Bloor W, Rm. 2227</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Do you sometimes wonder how Canadian mining companies get away with the harms that they cause all over the world? Do you care about resisting capitalism & colonialism and see mining injustice as a critical intersection between these systems of exploitation? Are you interested in solidarity-based community organizing that's fun, creative, and grounded in relationships? Then join us at the Mining Injustice Solidarity Network's upcoming new members' orientation. <br><a href="http://us5.campaign-archive1.com/?u=d015a98e627cd64ec47d63481&id=212f3261ba&e=36953bf813">http://us5.campaign-archive1.com/?u=d015a98e627cd64ec47d63481&id=212f3261ba&e=36953bf813</a><br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#be38f3">Willowdale All-Candidates Meeting - Hosted by Stop Line 9 Toronto</font></b></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Wed. Oct. 14, 7 - 9 pm <br>North York Civic Centre, Council Chamber, 5100 Yonge Street<br>All candidates in the upcoming federal election in the Willowdale Riding have been invited to participate in this public meeting. We will discuss the threat posed to the health, safety, and property values of residents living or working near the Line 9 pipeline. The October 1 announcement that the National Energy Board has approved the startup of Line 9 makes this issue an immediate threat. <br><a href="http://us8.campaign-archive1.com/?u=b4b8b7a90b6a52505f5ac167f&id=f1f71c63de&e=99c4f818a4">http://us8.campaign-archive1.com/?u=b4b8b7a90b6a52505f5ac167f&id=f1f71c63de&e=99c4f818a4</a><br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#00a3d7">Indigenous National Day of Action Oct. 14</font></b><br>On October 14, in cities and towns around the nation, people will be engaging in a National Day of Action to once again call attention to the urgent need for bold steps to be taken to address the global climate crisis. Initiated by the People’s Climate Movement (PCM), these actions are being organized by local groups and organizations from the wide range of diverse constituencies and communities.<br>http://www.ienearth.org/indigenous-national-day-of-action/<br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#669c35">ImagineNative Film and Media Arts Festival</font></b><br>Oct. 14 - 18 </font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">TIFF Bell Lighthouse and Bloor Hot Docs theatres<br>Original. Indigenous. <br><a href="http://www.imaginenative.org/home/">http://www.imaginenative.org/home/</a><br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#ff4013">Safe Rail Communities Fundraiser featuring Van Django </font></b><br>Wed, Oct. 14, 7:30 pm - 10 pm <br>Latitude 44 Gallery. 2900 Dundas Street West <br>Vancouver-based Van Django is a gypsy jazz quartet. Since 1998, the foursome has toured extensively in Canada as well as in the U.S., Europe. and China. Their music is powerful, dynamic, and creative, influenced by many genres. Participating in Pocket Concerts allow Van Django to offer an intimate, more interactive concert. Reception with wine and appetizers to follow.<br>http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/safe-rail-communities-fundraiser-featuring-van-django-tickets-18588577937<br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#be38f3">Climate Change and Renewable Energy in Canadian Federal Politics</font></b></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">What party will have the greatest impact on Canada's climate change record and energy future?</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Wed. Oct. 14, 7 p.m.</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Revival Bar, 783 College</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">With federal elections quickly approaching, we're looking to provide an opportunity for students, young professionals and members of the community to learn about the different federal party platforms and their stance on renewable energy and climate change. A debate with Jim Harris and the U of T Hart House Debate Club, $6 students, $10 others.</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://elsecanada.ca">http://elsecanada.ca</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" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><font color="#00a3d7">Pollution Probe and the Survival Day Time Capsule: A Brief History</font></b> and</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><font color="#00a3d7">Building the Climate Justice Movement on University Campuses</font></b><br>Wed, Oct. 14, 4:10 pm - 6 pm <br>Rm. 149, basement, 5 Bancroft Ave, Earth Sci Bldg, U of T<br><a href="http://www.environment.utoronto.ca/Events/1">http://www.environment.utoronto.ca/Events/1</a>)Pollution.aspx<br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#669c35">Fight For Your Parks</font></b><br>Weds, Oct. 14<br>Show your support for stopping commercial development in our national parks by joining our Day of Action! <br><a href="http://cpaws.org/fight4parks/home/oct-14-day-of-action/">http://cpaws.org/fight4parks/home/oct-14-day-of-action/</a><br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#ff6a00">Why Should i Care About Electoral Reform in Canada and Abroad?</font></b></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Wed. Oct. 14, 7:30 - 9 p.m.<br>The Rose and Crown 2335 Yonge<br>It has been argued that Canada’s current electoral system leads to strategic voting, youth abstention and “wasted votes”. Various municipalities are exploring the option of using ranked ballots in their elections; do we also need to overhaul the federal electoral system? Can changing the electoral system lead to a more fair, engaged and representative democracy?<br><a href="http://whyshouldicare.ca">http://whyshouldicare.ca</a><br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#9929bd">Flight and Freedom: Stories of Escape to Canada</font></b><br>Thurs, Oct. 15, 6:30 – 8:30 pm <br>Koffler Gallery, 180 Shaw Street<br>The global number of people currently displaced from their home country—more than 50 million—is higher than at any time since World War II. Yet in recent years Canada has deported, denied, and diverted countless refugees. Is Canada a safe haven for refugees or a closed door? In Flight and Freedom, Ratna Omidvar and Dana Wagner present a collection of thirty astonishing interviews with refugees, their descendants, or their loved ones to document their extraordinary, and sometimes harrowing, journeys of flight. Free.</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://kofflerarts.org/programs-events/2015/09/17/freedom-stories-of-escapes-to-canada/">http://kofflerarts.org/programs-events/2015/09/17/freedom-stories-of-escapes-to-canada/</a><br><br>---------------------------------------<br>--------------------------------------- <br><br><b><font color="#008cb4">World Food Day: All-candidates Dialogue and Debate</font></b><br>Thurs. Oct. 15, 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm <br>45 Willcocks St<br>Do you care about food? Celebrate World Food Day at New College, University of Toronto by joining Food Secure Canada Executive Director Diana Bronson and candidates from the riding of University-Rosedale at an All-Candidates Dialogue and Debate about Food and Equity. Help make food an election issue. </font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://thebigcarrot.ca/about-us/calendar/?tx_cal_controller%5Byear%5D=2015&tx_cal_controller%5Bmonth%5D=10&cHash=2d84fe609e1403b5cd7170bf31bb50d5">http://thebigcarrot.ca/about-us/calendar/?tx_cal_controller%5Byear%5D=2015&tx_cal_controller%5Bmonth%5D=10&cHash=2d84fe609e1403b5cd7170bf31bb50d5</a><br><br>---------------------------------------<br>--------------------------------------- <br><br><b><font color="#669c35">Preparing Your Faith Community for an Extreme Weather Event </font></b><br>Thurs, Oct. 15, 6:30 - 9:30 pm <br>Christ Church Deer Park, 1570 Yonge St.<br>Due to climate change, we are experiencing more extreme weather events. Faith communities have expressed an interest in becoming one of the groups in the community that respond. They want to learn how to be prepared, so they can help others. <br>http://tcan.ca/event/preparing-your-faith-community-extreme-weather-event<br><br>---------------------------------------<br>--------------------------------------- <br><br><b><font color="#d95000">After the Sands: Energy and Ecological Security for Canadians </font></b><br>Book launch with author Gordon Laxer<br>Thurs, Oct. 15, 7 pm<br>Centre for Social Innovation, 720 Bathurst (near Bloor)<br>Hailed as a "myth-destroyin</font><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;"><font>g blockbuster book" by Ralph Nader, After the Sands outlines a vision and road map to transition Canada to a low-carbon society: a plan lacking within all of Canada´s major parties. The book is critical reading for anyone concerned rising sea levels, pipeline and tanker spills, climate change chaos and Canada's future in a carbon restricted world. <br></font><a href="http://rabble.ca/whatsup/toronto-book-launch-after-sands-gordon-laxer">http://rabble.ca/whatsup/toronto-book-launch-after-sands-gordon-laxer</a></font></div><div><font><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;"><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font><br><br><b style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14px;"><font color="#be38f3">Hurricane Hazel Walk</font></b><br><font face="Times"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Thursday, Oct 15, 10 am – noon</span></font><br><font face="Times"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Meet at Old Mill Subway</span></font><br><font face="Times"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Sixty-one years ago on October 15, Hurricane Hazel changed the face of Toronto, leaving us a green legacy of ravines and river valleys at the cost of eighty-one lives. Follow part of the path of one of the greatest natural disasters in Canadian history.</span></font><br><br><font face="Times"><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span></font><br><font face="Times"><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span></font><br><br><b style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14px;"><font color="#00a3d7">How to Align and Unite Activists using Theory U </font></b><br><font face="Times"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Thursday, October 15, 7 - 9 pm </span></font><br><font face="Times"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham </span></font><br><font face="Times"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Theory U & the Inner Dynamics of Change. As divisions between organizations, groups, and individuals harden, new approaches for working together on social challenges is critical. Theory U is such an approach and is applied in complex, multi-stakeholder situations where agreements, relationships, and solutions must be forged across these divides. In this talk, participants will learn about Theory U, the processes that underpin its application, and how it can be used to align activists in their common mission. Throughout, participants will be encouraged to share their experiences creating social change and reflect on how Theory U may assist them in their social change practice. Julian Roberts is a certified Project Management Professional.</span></font><br><font face="Times"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://beitzatoun.org/event/how-to-align-and-unite-activists-using-theory-u/">http://beitzatoun.org/event/how-to-align-and-unite-activists-using-theory-u/</a></span></font><br><br><font face="Times"><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span></font><br><font face="Times"><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span></font><br><b style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14px;"><font color="#77bb41"><br>Climate Change & Canada<br>Causes, consequences and Canada's role in the global effort to address this escalating global phenomenon</font></b><br><font face="Times"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Thurs Oct. 15, 7 - 8:30pm</span></font><br><font face="Times"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Essentia, 2180 Queen St E.</span></font><br><font face="Times"><span style="font-size: 14px;">A presentation by the Step Up, Canada! campaign, led by <a href="http://Toronto350.org">Toronto350.org</a> & the People's Climate Movement, in partnership with the Climate Reality Project.</span></font></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.StepUpCanada.ca">www.StepUpCanada.ca</a></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#e32400">Election forum on Basic Income</font></b><br>Thur. Oct. 15, 7 - 9 p.m.<br>St. Luke's United Church, 353 Sherbourne St.</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">All parties invited to state their position on Basic Income - “An income adequate for a dignified existance granted to all without conditions.” $5</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://livingrant.ch/event1.html">http://livingrant.ch/event1.html</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" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><font color="#77bb41">Join GreenPAC at the Political Pre-game Party</font></b><br>Fri. Oct. 16, 8 pm<br>The Cameron House, 408 Queen St. W.<br>With the upcoming Federal election, GreenPAC wants to bring together a network of like-minded eco-conscious citizens to celebrate their Green 18 candidates: a list of political potentials that have been carefully selected by GreenPAC's panel of experts as having Canada's environmental policy as a top priority. So come and join our green community and get into the political pre-game with great beer and music. Cover is $15 at the door.<br><a href="http://www.greenpac.ca/greenpac_political_pregame_party?utm_campaign=pregame_invite&utm_medium=email&utm_source=greenpac">http://www.greenpac.ca/greenpac_political_pregame_party?utm_campaign=pregame_invite&utm_medium=email&utm_source=greenpac</a><br><br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#e63b7a">Red Square on a Black Board </font></b></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Fri. Oct. 16, 7 p.m.</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">OISE, 252 Bloor W, Rm.4-424</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">This powerful documentary 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. $4 or pwyc</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://socialistaction.ca/rebel/">http://socialistaction.ca/rebel/</a></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#9929bd">Repair Café </font></b><br>Sat. Oct, 17, 12 - 4 p.m..<br>Don Mills Branch - Toronto Public Library<br>Get broken household items fixed for free and learn while doing it. We´ll have fixers available for computers and other electronics, small appliances and furniture, clothing, jewellery, book and paper repair, and more. For whatever you need fixin´, bring it on!</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://repaircafetoronto.ca">http://repaircafetoronto.ca</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" style="font-size: 14px;" color="#00a3d7"><b>The Syrian Refugee Crisis: What can we do? What should we do?</b></font></div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Saturday, October 17, 1:30 – 3 p.m<br>OISE, 252 Bloor St. west, Room 8-170<br></font><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Suzanne Silk Klein is a former university professor and retired provincial civil servant. Much more germane to this talk, she is co-chair of the Congregation Darchei Noam Syrian Refugee Sponsorship Committee, a learning opportunity that has generated a lot of activity lately. She will give a little background to this Syrian crisis and tell us what she and her group are doing to help make things better. </font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://humanisttoronto.blogspot.ca">http://humanisttoronto.blogspot.ca</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" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><font color="#669c35">Our Terrible Country - Syria </font></b><br>Sun. October 18, 4 p.m.<br>Centre for Social Innovation, Whole Connector Room, 215 Spadina Ave.<br>This film Our Terrible Country depicts the current state of the Syrian civil war, and the refugee movement. <br><a href="http://www.SYFF.ca">www.SYFF.ca</a><br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#ff6a00">Election Day - Vote!</font></b><br>Mon. Oct. 19, 9:30 a.m. - 9:30 p.m.<br>You can find your vote location by entering your postal code here. <br>http://www.elections.ca/Scripts/vis/FindED?L=e&QID=-1&PAGEID=20<br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#be38f3">Cycle Toronto Rides Bloor Danforth</font></b><br>Cycling is the best way to get around Toronto but we need safer streets. On Saturday Oct 24 at 4 pm Cycle Toronto Rides Bloor Danforth, a fundraising ride to support Cycle Toronto’s advocacy work. Sign up here.<br>https://www.cycleto.ca/cycle-toronto-rides-bloor-danforth<br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#00a3d7">Planet In Focus<br>16th Annual Environmental Film Festival </font></b><br>October 21 - 25<br>Get your tickets now!<br>http://planetinfocus.org<br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#669c35">Shape My City Events</font></b><br>http://shapemycity.ca/events.php<br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#ff6a00">Beit Zatoun Events</font></b><br>http://beitzatoun.org/events/<br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#be38f3">Hot Docs</font></b><br>Bloor Cinema (Bloor and Bathurst)<br>http://bloorcinema.com/<br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#00a3d7">NOW magazine hosts a very comprehensive online events listing </font></b><br>https://nowtoronto.com/search/event/community-events/<br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><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>Likewise to unsubscribe.<br>Or manage your subscription here:<br>http://list.web.net/lists/listinfo/greenspirationto-l<br><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< </font></div></div></div></body></html>