<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;"><img apple-inline="yes" id="6981723C-2A05-4C4B-9B7C-88E0386AC943" height="96" width="409" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:71042439-7ED7-4127-B9BC-4C9350C98710@Home"></font></div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><font color="#ff4013">Please send a message</font> </b>to the Provincial Government and Metrolinx calling for the Union Pearson train to be turned into a mass transit line for Toronto. </font><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.change.org/p/give-us-ttc-fares-on-the-union-pearson-train-line">https://www.change.org/p/give-us-ttc-fares-on-the-union-pearson-train-line</a></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;"><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><font color="#be38f3">Over 70 groups urge Justin Trudeau to reject new pipelines</font></b><br>More than 70 North American groups are urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Canada’s premiers to turn away from new pipeline and fossil fuel projects in order to meet the country’s international climate change commitments.<br><a href="http://www.nationalobserver.com/2016/01/27/news/over-70-groups-urge-justin-trudeau-reject-new-pipelines">http://www.nationalobserver.com/2016/01/27/news/over-70-groups-urge-justin-trudeau-reject-new-pipelines</a><br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#3a88fe">10 Things They Won't Tell You About The Flint Water Tragedy. But I Will.<br></font></b>Here are ten things that you probably did not know about the crisis because the media can only process so much. Read about how the greater public has only been told the bare minimum of what has happened in Flint from a Michigan resident.<br>http://michaelmoore.com/10FactsOnFlint/<br> </font><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;"><br><b><font color="#669c35">Stop The Great Lakes Nuclear Dump Delivers 184 Resolutions to Minister Catherine McKenna<br></font></b>The Great Lakes Nuclear Dump delivers 184 resolutions representing 22 million people to Minister of Environment and Climate Change McKenna, Prime Minister Trudeau and the Federal Cabinet. Delivery of the resolutions follows the January 19th submission to Minister McKenna of the Stop The Great Lakes Nuclear Dump petition signed by over 92,000 people opposing OPG’s plan.<br><a href="http://bit.ly/1StHwVQ">bit.ly/1StHwVQ</a></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;"> <br><b><font color="#ff4013">10 nuclear rebuilds for Ontario, or water power from Quebec? </font></b></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;">Don’t let the nuclear elephant crush renewable power in Ontario! You can win an energy kit. Vote now.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.cleanairalliance.org/choice/">http://www.cleanairalliance.org/choice/</a><br> </font><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;"><br><b><font color="#5e30eb">Great Bear Rainforest agreement creates 'a gift to the world’<br></font></b>An area bigger than Vancouver Island is now under complete protection from industrial logging.<br><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/great-bear-rainforest-bc-agreement-1.3426034">http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/great-bear-rainforest-bc-agreement-1.3426034</a></font><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;"><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#00a3d7">The Ottawa Shootings that Led to Bill C-51: Why Is the Government Not Interested in Solving the Crime?<br></font></b>Tues. Feb, 16, 7 pm<br>Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St. (1 street west of Bathurst TTC station)<br>Graeme MacQueen, Director of the Centre for Peace Studies at McMaster and author of "The 2001 Anthrax Deception”, speaks about how Bill C-51 has jeopardized the civil rights of Canadian citizens. <br><a href="http://beitzatoun.org/event/the-ottawa-shootings-that-led-to-bill-c-51/">http://beitzatoun.org/event/the-ottawa-shootings-that-led-to-bill-c-51/</a><br> <br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br> <br><b><font color="#e63b7a">Hot Stuff</font></b><br>Tues. Feb. 16, 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.<br>Supermarket, 268 Augusta (Kensington Mkt)<br>The planet is heating up - hot hot hot and that's bad bad bad! Let's keep it hot in our dating lives and cool on the planet! For the Valentine's Day edition, 416 Dating Stories is taking your money and donating it to Toronto350.org.<br>https://www.facebook.com/events/806916219413262/<br> <br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br> </font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;" color="#4f7a28"><b>Restoring our Relationship with Indigenous Peoples</b></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;">Tues. Feb. 16, 10 a.m. - noon</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;">Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;">Canadian Perspectives Lecture Series presents a talk by Joelle Morgan. $15.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;"><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;" color="#e32400"><b>Requiem for the American Dream: The Definitive Noam Chomsky</b></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;">Tues. Feb. 16, 9 p.m.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;">Bloor Hot Docs (Bloor and Bathurst)</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;">Widely regarded as one of the most important thinkers alive, Chomsky takes on the unprecedented level of inequality gripping the U.S. with his signature cool and devastating intellectual power. </font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://boxoffice.hotdocs.ca/WebSales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=46069~fff311b7-cdad-4e14-9ae4-a9905e1b9cb0&">http://boxoffice.hotdocs.ca/WebSales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=46069~fff311b7-cdad-4e14-9ae4-a9905e1b9cb0&</a></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><font color="#be38f3">Animal Rights Academy</font></b><br>A free university lecture series on animal rights philosophy and related readings.<br>Tuesdays 7-9 pm, U of T<br>Please check the lecture schedule for full details. Also, videos of past lectures are archived here.<br><a href="http://animalrightsacademy.org/">http://animalrightsacademy.org/</a><br> <br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><font color="#3a88fe"><b>Open New Emergency Shelters Now<br></b></font>Wed. Feb. 17, 11 am<br>Queen and Sherbourne<br>Soup Provided. Anyone who tries to find a bed within the Toronto homeless shelter system is fully aware that it is in a crisis of overcrowding. During the week of January 18, OCAP members and allies visited the City warming centres and interfaith Out of the Cold shelters that function as a back up for the overloaded system. We spoke to people using these places and volunteers in them. What we found more than confirmed our worst fears. People are being packed into spaces that, despite the best efforts of those running them, are unable to meet the need. The facilities are inadequate, the demand for them is too great, and people are being turned away.<br>ocap.ca </font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><font color="#4f7a28">Radioactive Roads: Transportation of High Level Nuclear Waste <br></font></b>Thursday, Feb. 18, 12 - 1 p.m. EST<br>Webinar with Brennain Lloyd of Northwatch. She will provide an introduction to the transportation of nuclear waste, sharing international analysis and outlining possible routes and potential hazards for the shipment of high level radioactive waste in Canada.<br><a href="https://www.anymeeting.com/AccountManager/RegEv.aspx?PIID=EC53D98281463A">https://www.anymeeting.com/AccountManager/RegEv.aspx?PIID=EC53D98281463A</a> <br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#ff4013">Gentrification: Talking About Social Justice</font></b></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;">Thur. Feb. 18, 6 pm</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;">St Luke's United Church, 353 Sherbourne</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;">Join OCAP for a new speaking series on topics central to organizing around poor peoples' issues. This month's topic looks at how and why poor people are pushed out of neighbourhoods. Free. Snacks, childcare, wheelchair access & tokens provided.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://ocap.ca">ocap.ca</a></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;"><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#b92d5d">Meet Dianne Saxe, The New Environmental Commissioner of Ontario (ECO)<br></font></b>Thurs. Feb. 18, 5 - 6 pm<br>Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina Avenue (Ground Floor Connector)<br>This is your chance to meet Ontario’s new Environmental Commissioner Dianne Saxe, in an informal after-work setting! Dianne is looking forward to this opportunity to connect with old and new friends in the environmental community, and welcomes not only staff and volunteers of environmental groups, but also board members.<br><a href="http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/?u=75269a84af55792a8e18fa98a&id=c2323a34da&e=5c42f3a4c2">http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/?u=75269a84af55792a8e18fa98a&id=c2323a34da&e=5c42f3a4c2</a><br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br> </font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;" color="#5e30eb"><b>Sprawl Brawl Round 2: Transit vs. Highways</b></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;">Thur. Feb. 18, 7 p.m.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;">Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex, U of T<br>Join us for an evening of lively discussion about what's the best use of transportation dollars to relieve traffic congestion in the GTHA? How do pending provincial decisions about the shape and growth of our cities impact what is possible for public transit? Journalist John Lorinc referees a debate with panelists Pamela Blais (Metropole Consultants); Cherise Burda (Ryerson City Building Institute); Carol Layton, former Deputy Minister, Ontario Ministry of Transportation; Ed Levy, Transportation Planner. Free. </font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://environmentaldefence.ca/sprawl-brawl-round-two-what’s-cure-gridlock-in-gtha-transit-vs-highways">http://environmentaldefence.ca/sprawl-brawl-round-two-what’s-cure-gridlock-in-gtha-transit-vs-highways</a></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;"><br>---------------------------------------<br>--------------------------------------- </font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;" color="#008cb4"><b>Bill C-51: What does it mean for you and Canada?</b></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;">Fri. Feb. 19, 6:30 p.m.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;">Reference Library, 789 Yonge, Hinton Learning Theatre (3rd floor)</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;">Talk by veteran investigative reporter Andrew Mitrovica. Free. </font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------<br>--------------------------------------- <br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><font color="#4f7a28">Organic: A Solution That Works<br></font></b>Saturday, Feb. 20, 9 - 5 pm<br>U of T Conference Centre, 89 Chestnut St.<br>Join us for a day of discovery and inspiration at Toronto’s largest, most diverse gathering of people committed to, or curious about, organic food.<br><a href="http://www.cogtoronto.org">www.cogtoronto.org</a>.<br> <br>---------------------------------------<br>--------------------------------------- </font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;"> <br><b><font color="#e32400">This Changes Everything<br></font></b>Sunday, Feb. 21, noon<br>Humbercrest United Church (West Hall), 16 Baby Point Road<br>Free screening of This Changes Everything, inspired by Naomi Klein’s international non-fiction bestseller, and directed by Avi Lewis. The powerful portraits of seven frontline communities illustrate the consequences of excessive greenhouse gas emissions in the air, and of the economic system that put them there. <br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#4d22b3">PR Campaign 101 and Unpacking Ranked Ballots<br></font></b>Webinar with Fair Vote Canada<br>Sun. Feb. 21, 7 - 9 p.m. EST<br><a href="https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8389464307873379841">https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8389464307873379841</a><br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#008cb4">Shape My City Events<br></font></b>http://shapemycity.ca/events.php<br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#669c35">Beit Zatoun Events</font></b><br>http://beitzatoun.org/events/<br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#e63b7a">Hot Docs<br></font></b>Bloor Cinema (Bloor and Bathurst)<br>http://bloorcinema.com/<br><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#874efe">NOW magazine hosts a very comprehensive online events listing<br></font></b>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><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<br><br></font></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>