<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><img height="72" width="307" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" apple-inline="yes" id="C710C6ED-1F9F-4C76-A2F1-4CCC7C7FA2DE" src="cid:8D51EFA7-A749-49BA-8140-88970B69CECE@Home" class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b class=""><font color="#874efe" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Toronto to Standing Rock: #NoDAPL - 3 minute video<br class=""></font></b>Toronto activist Carrie Lester, Mohawk Land Defender and Water Protector, expresses solidarity from Toronto to Standing Rock/Tkarónto to Oceti Sakowin: #NoDAPL, and sings a Water Song in their honour, at the Standing With Standing Rock, #NoDAPL Solidarity March on November 5, 2016.<br class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-STEq0-cjXo&feature=youtu.be" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-STEq0-cjXo&feature=youtu.be</a><br class=""><br class="">--------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b class=""><font color="#669c35" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Carbon Insanity! Trudeau Now Cheerleader-in-Chief for Oilsands<br class=""></font></b>http://www.boomerwarrior.org/2016/12/carbon-insanity-trudeau-now-cheerleader-chief-oilsands/<br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#e63b7a" class=""><b class="">Frightened by Donald Trump? You don’t know the half of it </b></font></span></font><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">Great piece by George Monbiot. "As usual, the left and centre (myself included) are beating ourselves up about where we went wrong. There are plenty of answers, but one of them is that we have simply been outspent. Not by a little, but by orders of magnitude. A few billion dollars spent on persuasion buys you all the politics you want. Genuine campaigners, working in their free time, simply cannot match a professional network staffed by thousands of well-paid, unscrupulous people."<br class=""><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/30/donald-trump-george-mo" class="">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/30/donald-trump-george-mo</a>nbiot-misinformation<br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#5e30eb" class="">Canada Goose NYC Opening Protest</font></b></font><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">"Canada Goose is motivated by profit. The company doesn't care if coyotes caught in their trappers' steel leg-hold traps attempt to chew off their limbs to get back to their babies. And the company doesn't care if the coyotes writhe in pain for days in the traps, dying from hunger, thirst and pain. Future generations will look back at these protests and asked why the activists didn't do even more to stop these atrocities.” 6 min. video</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvSbHtfBcbI" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvSbHtfBcbI</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#669c35" class="">Vaccine Choice Canada<br class=""></font></b><a href="http://vaccinechoicecanada.com/" class="">http://vaccinechoicecanada.com/</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#ff6251" class="">What is akathisia?</font></b></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">Akathisia is a complex side effect of various psychotropic drugs including antidepressants and antipsychotics. It is often described as a sense of inner restlessness or agitation. Significant symptoms of akathisia occur in: around 20% of people on an antidepressant; at least 50% of people on an antipsychotic. On higher doses, this rises to 80% or more. Agitated depression is a potent predictor of suicidal ideation. This is what Tooker had. Learn more to protect your loved ones.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><a href="http://rxisk.org/akathisia/?utm_source=November+2016+News&utm_campaign=November+News&utm_medium=email" class="">http://rxisk.org/akathisia/?utm_source=November+2016+News&utm_campaign=November+News&utm_medium=email</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" color="#ff6251" class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Autistic Spectrum Disorder and SSRIs during pregnancy</b></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><a href="http://rxisk.org/autistic-spectrum-disorder-and-ssris/?utm_source=November+2016+News&utm_campaign=November+News&utm_medium=email" class="">http://rxisk.org/autistic-spectrum-disorder-and-ssris/?utm_source=November+2016+News&utm_campaign=November+News&utm_medium=email</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#be38f3" class="">Tell Premier Wynne you want a 100% renewable Ontario </font></b></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">Yes! I think Ontario should join the global movement toward 100% renewable energy. More and more communities are shifting to green energy to fight climate change, lower energy bills, create local jobs and end their reliance on risky nuclear power —Vancouver and Victoria as well as Oxford County in Ontario are among them. Their pledge to go 100% renewable sets a shining example for Ontario. But the Ontario government is headed in the opposite direction. It recently announced it is putting the brakes on renewable energy. It’s time to change course. I want Ontario’s next energy plan to empower Ontarians to switch to 100% renewable energy.<br class=""><a href="http://www.100reontario.org/sign.php" class="">http://www.100reontario.org/sign.php</a><br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#0061ff" class="">Helen Caldicott Special Feature</font></b></font></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Times" class="">Helen Mary Caldecott at her most mind-blowing. Physician giving the prognosis of the planet. 26 min. video interview. She addresses the dangers of nuclear power, nuclear weapons and climate change.</font></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;" class=""><font color="#1d2129" face="Times" class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuvZqvDXzi4" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuvZqvDXzi4</a></font></span></div><div class=""><br style="font-family: Times;" class=""><span style="font-family: Times;" class="">---------------------------------------</span><br style="font-family: Times;" class=""><span style="font-family: Times;" class="">---------------------------------------</span></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" color="#669c35" class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class="">The Apology</b></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">Dec. 4 - 12</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">Hot Docs Cinema (506 Bloor W.)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">Local filmmaker Tiffany Hsiung made waves with her debut feature at this year’s Hot Docs with The Apology, chronicling the inspirational story of “comfort women” fighting in their 80s and 90s. These women were forced into sexual slavery in Japan during World War Two and are now seeking justice and—yes—an apology. Affectionately referred to as “grandmas,” the film follows Grandma Adela, whose greatest regret is that she never told her husband about her past; Grandma Cao, who rose above her tragedy to adopt a daughter; and Grandma Gil, who tirelessly travels Asia to tell her story. Meet these indomitable women and discover a story too often untold.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><a href="http://boxoffice.hotdocs.ca/WebSales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=58130~fff311b7-cdad-4e14-9ae4-a9905e1b9cb0&" class="">http://boxoffice.hotdocs.ca/WebSales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=58130~fff311b7-cdad-4e14-9ae4-a9905e1b9cb0&</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#e63b7a" class="">What would it be like to live in a Toronto laneway? You decide<br class=""></font></b>Mon. Dec. 5, 7 - 9 p.m.<br class="">Evergreen Brick Works<br class="">Evergreen in partnership with Lanescape, Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon (Ward 32, Beaches-East York) and Councillor Ana Bailăo (Ward 18, Davenport) are hosting citywide consultations. The session will start with short presentations from three experts on the opportunity for laneway suites in Toronto and followed by an interactive design workshop with Crazy Dames to consider what laneway suites should look like. <br class=""><a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/citywide-laneway-suites-consultation-tickets-293" class="">https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/citywide-laneway-suites-consultation-tickets-293</a>32365896?mc_cid=2356843495&mc_eid=7eb5cb97ae<br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#4d22b3" class="">Fidel Is Fidel</font></b></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">Mon. Dec. 5, 8 - 9:30 p.m.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">OISE, 252 Bloor W. Rm 2-198</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">Film screening to honour Fidel Castro, one of the greatest revolutionaries ever. Pwyc donation. Sponsored by Socialist Action.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#0061ff" class="">Burstow Takes On Psychiatry<br class=""></font></b>Tues. Dec. 6 , 6:30 - 8:30 pm.<br class="">Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge St.<br class="">Are you worried about psychiatry's power? About its validity as a science? About it actual efficacy? About what it is doing to people in the name of care? In this public lecture Dr. Bonnie Burstow, long time Toronto activist, University of Toronto professor, and author of the ground-breaking book Psychiatry and the Business of Madness makes the case that psychiatry’s tenets are unfounded, that psychiatry intrinsically harms, and she calls on society to admit that the turn to psychiatry was a colossal misstep. This event is an opportunity for people at all levels in their understanding of psychiatry to deepen their knowledge, to come across critical others with whom they can ally, and if they have not done so already, to join the Antipsychiatry Revolution.<br class=""><a href="http://bit.ly/2fiCZVT" class="">http://bit.ly/2fiCZVT</a><br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#669c35" class="">Eco Trivia Night<br class=""></font></b>Tues. Dec. 6 Doors: 6:30 pm. Quiz Time: 7 - 9 pm<br class="">The Firkin on King, 461 King St. W.<br class="">From music to movies and ice burgs to islands, Eco Trivia has it all! Join us for a classic pub quiz with an eco twist. Presented by TREC Education (Toronto Renewable Energy Coop), this semi-annual event brings out teams of awesome people for a good old time.<br class="">https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/eco-trivia-night-winter-edition-tickets-24572519066?mc_eid=8ea4ab9e24&mc_cid=40d22e76a6<br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#ff4013" class="">To the Ends of the Earth<br class=""></font></b>Tues. Dec. 6, 6:30 p.m.<br class="">Bloor Hot Docs, 506 Bloor (at Bathurst)<br class="">An all-star panel takes the stage following a special Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema member–only screening of To the Ends of the Earth. This compassionate doc follows concerned citizens living at the frontiers of extreme oil and gas extraction; as they denounce the rise of extreme energy, they also envision the new world that is taking shape in its stead, at the end of the fossil fuel era. Featuring an in-depth panel discussion with Avi Lewis (host of Fault Lines, CounterSpin), Joanna Kerr (head of Greenpeace Canada) and David Lavallee (director of White Water Black Gold, To the Ends of the Earth).<br class="">http://boxoffice.hotdocs.ca/WebSales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=58148~fff311b7-cdad-4e14-9ae4-a9905e1b9cb0&<br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#9929bd" class="">Women Won't Forget Vigil</font></b></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">Tues. Dec. 6, 6 - 8 p.m.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">Philosopher's Walk, Bloor and Avenue Rd (behind the ROM)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">December 6 is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada. This annual candlelight vigil mourns and remembers the 14 women killed because of their gender at l'École Polytechnique de Montréal in 1989. Event includes a Native healing ceremony, speakers and musical and spoken word performances. Bring a rose and candle. </font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><a href="http://womenwontforget.org" class="">http://womenwontforget.org</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#9929bd" class="">Remembrance Ceremony for the 14 Women Killed in Montreal<br class=""></font></b>Tuesday, Dec. 6, 11 am - 1:15 pm<br class="">George Brown College, St James Campus, 200 King Street East, Main Lobby<br class="">Wheelchair accessible, ASL interpretation provided<br class="">Sponsored by the Assaulted Women's Counsellor/Advocate Program, and Diversity, Equity and Human Rights Services George Brown College</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class=""></font></div><font face="Times" class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#9929bd" class="">National Day of Remembrance and Action to Prevent Violence Against Women<br class=""></font></b>Tues. Dec. 6, 1:30 - 8 p.m.<br class="">Central Neighbourhood House - 349 Ontario St<br class="">This event will commemorate the anniversary of the Montreal massacre where 14 women were murdered at the L’École Polytechnique de Montreal and to honour, support and express unity for women and children affected by gender-based violence. Highlights of the event this year include: an informative community fair comprised of local non-profit agencies from downtown Toronto; thought provoking and engaging workshops for women, youth and children; a panel discussion about violence against women and the important current issues women face; and a delicious community dinner in the evening.<br class=""><a href="http://cnh.on.ca/" class="">http://cnh.on.ca/</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" color="#0061ff" class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Human Rights For All</b></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">Tues. Dec. 6, 7 - 9 p.m.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">St Barnabas Church, 361 Danforth, Enter at 171 Hampton Street gate.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">Join Amnesty International Group 164 for their monthly meeting with discussion, letter writing and event planning. 7-9 pm. Free. </font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><a href="mailto:ai164toronto@gmail.com" class="">ai164toronto@gmail.com</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#669c35" class="">The Divide<br class=""></font></b>Wed, December 7, 7 pm<br class="">The Royal Cinema, 608 College Street<br class="">The Divide tells the story of 7 individuals striving for a better life in modern day US and UK - where the top 0.1% owns as much wealth as the bottom 90%. By plotting these tales together, we uncover how every aspect of our lives is controlled by one factor: the size of the gap between rich and poor. <br class=""></font><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/film-screening-the-divide-tickets-28925202058" class="">https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/film-screening-the-divide-tickets-28925202058</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" color="#ff6a00" class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Speaking out for a 100% Renewable Ontario</b></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">Dec 7, 7 p.m.<br class="">Join members of the 100% Renewable Ontario Coalition to learn more about Ontario's energy plan, what it means for out future, and how we can stand for renewables together. <br class=""><a href="https://zoom.us/webinar/register/daaa2a2b1b87cae44ac87b605f06faf5" class="">https://zoom.us/webinar/register/daaa2a2b1b87cae44ac87b605f06faf5</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#9929bd" class="">EcoBunk Awards<br class=""></font></b>Wed. Dec. 7, Doors 6:30 Show at 8 p.m.<br class="">Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas St. West<br class="">Since 1990, Torontonians have come to EcoBunk to poke fun at the most outrageous corporate “green” advertising of the past year. We present nominated ads under different environmentally themed categories and reveal the winner of each category. A fundraiser for the Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA).<br class=""><a href="http://www.torontoenvironment.org/ecobunk_2016" class="">http://www.torontoenvironment.org/ecobunk_2016</a><br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#5e30eb" class="">Combined Solar PV and Energy Storage Solutions for Residential Installations<br class=""></font></b>Wed. Dec. 7, Breakfast seminar<br class="">250 Yonge St.<br class="">Solar PV combined with battery storage solutions provide home owners with as much self-sufficiency as possible. Decreasing battery prices contribute to making storage financially attractive especially when feed-in tariffs are being phased out. The Canadian German Chamber of Industry and Commerce is delighted to deepen the Canadian German dialogue in this promising sector.<br class="">http://energyefficiency.org/event/combined-solar-pv-energy-storage-solutions-residential-installations/<br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" color="#0061ff" class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Committee On Monetary and Economic Reform (COMER)’s Hearing Appeal </b></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">Wed. Dec. 7, starts 9:30 a.m. promptly</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">Federal Court of Appeal, 180 Queen Street West<br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Two individual Canadians and COMER have confronted the global financial powers in the Canadian federal court. Proceedings began in 2011.</span> If we want any reforms; access to real education, reparations, restorative justice, green transformation, a basic income... anything worthwhile from our governments - we need to <b class="">control our public revenues</b> and have our social programs and infrastructure investments managed by our own public bank. The Bank of Canada was set up (as stated in our constitution) to issue money and keep the economy that supports our society healthy, fair and balanced without causing unsustainable debt. </font><span style="font-family: Times;" class="">We cannot afford to be robbed by endlessly compounding debt imposed by allowing private banks to continue rip off our people and our nation(s). </span><font face="Times" class=""><br class=""></font><font face="Times" class=""><a href="http://www.comer.org/content/FederalCourt_7Dec16.htm" class="">http://www.comer.org/content/FederalCourt_7Dec16.htm</a><br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#669c35" class="">Ontario’s Action on Climate Change</font></b></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">With Dianne Saxe, Environmental Commissioner of Ontario</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">Wed. Dec. 7, 4:10 p.m. </font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">U of T, Room ES 149 (basement), 5 Bancroft Avenue, Earth Sciences Building<br class="">Refreshments will be served prior to each seminar at around 3:45pm in Rm. ES 1042, 5 Bancroft Avenue, Earth Sciences Building. In the interest of sustainability, we encourage you to bring your own mug. Free. No registration or fee required; all are welcome. <br class=""><a href="http://www.environment.utoronto.ca/SeminarSeries.aspx" class="">http://www.environment.utoronto.ca/SeminarSeries.aspx</a> </font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class=""></font></div><font face="Times" class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#ff6251" class="">Reframing our Perspective: Equity and Diversity in Practice<br class=""></font></b>Wed. Dec. 7, 6:30 - 9:30 p.m.<br class="">Metro Hall - 55 John St, Room 309<br class=""></font><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">We hear a lot about diversity, but what does it look like in practice? How does bias get in the way? And, how can we foster equity and inclusion in the artist community? Using experiential learning methods, this workshop will engage participants in learning about the importance of recognizing and managing bias and creating an environment in which all feel respected, reflected, understood, and welcomed. PWYC ($10 suggested)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><a href="http://www.universe.com/harmonymovement" class="">http://www.universe.com/harmonymovement</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#e63b7a" class="">Toronto's Poor: Toronto Book Launch<br class=""></font></b>Thurs. Dec. 8, 6:30 - 8 p.m.<br class="">St. Luke's United Church, 353 Sherbourne Street<br class="">Join Bryan D. Palmer and Gaétan Héroux for the launch of "Toronto’s Poor: A Rebellious History.” Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how the homeless, the unemployed, and the destitute have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present. It is about men, women, and children relegated to lives of desperation by an uncaring system, and how they have refused to be defeated. In that refusal, and in winning better conditions for themselves, Toronto’s poor create the possibility of a new kind of society, one ordered not by acquisition and individual advance, but by appreciations of collective rights and responsibilities. Written by a historian of the working-class and an anti-poverty activist, this rebellious history links past and present in an almost two-hundred year story of struggle and resistance, inspiring a sense of what can be accomplished when poor people fight to win.<br class=""><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/704610589691902/" class="">https://www.facebook.com/events/704610589691902/</a><br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#9929bd" class="">Youth Rights in the 61X</font></b><br class="">Thurs. Dec. 8, 5:30 - 7 pm<br class="">St. Alban's Boys and Girls Club, 843 Palmerston Avenue<br class="">Can police talk to me whenever they want? when can I be searched by police? what can I do if I think my rights have been violated? Find out the answers to these questions and more at a free workshop for<br class="">youth, ages 13 to 18 with a lawyer from Justice for Children and Youth. Presented by Frankel Lambert Community Outreach and St. Alban's Boys and Girls Club.<br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#3a88fe" class="">Developing the 2017 LTEP (Ontario Long Term Energy Plan) </font></b></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">Webinar with Environmental Commissioner, Dr. Dianne Saxe </font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">Thurs. Dec. 8, 2:30 pm<br class="">The Ministry of Energy is now preparing its next Long-Term Energy Plan or LTEP (expected to be released in early 2017), which will set the course for the province’s energy landscape for the next 20 years. On December 6, 2016, the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario, Dr. Dianne Saxe, will be tabling to the Ontario Legislature a Special Report: Developing the 2017 Long-Term Energy Plan. We invite you to discuss some important questions our report raises, including: • What is the connection between the LTEP and Ontario meeting its climate targets? • Will the LTEP provide adequate opportunities for meaningful public participation? • Will the LTEP use evidence-based, transparent decision-making to compare the costs, risks, and environmental impacts of our energy options? • Will conservation be considered first in the LTEP? The government is accepting public comments until December 16, 2016 (via the Environmental Registry) at:<br class=""><a href="http://www.ebr.gov.on.ca/ERS-WEB-External/displaynoticecontent.do?noticeId=MTMwNTE1&statusId=MTk3NzQ0" class="">www.ebr.gov.on.ca/ERS-WEB-External/displaynoticecontent.do?noticeId=MTMwNTE1&statusId=MTk3NzQ0</a><br class="">Register for the webinar here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4495174448740079873 <br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#669c35" class="">Gender, Carding And Racial Profiling</font></b></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">Thur. Dec. 8, 6 - 8 p.m.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">OISE, 252 Bloor W, Rm 2212</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">Urban Alliance on Race Relations presents a panel discussion with legal experts and human rights advocates on the status of carding in the city and the impact of racial profiling on racialized women and gender diverse people. </font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><a href="http://uarr-human-rights.eventbrite.ca" class="">uarr-human-rights.eventbrite.ca</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" color="#ff4013" class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Rally: Free Mumia – Abolish the Racist Death Penalty</b></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">Fri. Dec. 9, 6 - 7 p.m.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">US Consulate, 360 University</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">Meet on the 35th anniversary of the police frame-up of the radical black journalist. </font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><a href="http://facebook.com/events/1609036902736817" class="">facebook.com/events/1609036902736817</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""></font></div><font face="Times" class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#e63b7a" class="">Stop Plastics<br class=""></font></b>Fri. Dec. 9, 6 - 8 p.m.<br class=""></font><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">Metro Hall, 55 John St., Room 305</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">Meeting of the group dedicated to stopping the use of single-use plastic. </font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">RSVP to <a href="mailto:contact@stopplastics.ca" class="">contact@stopplastics.ca</a>.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#9929bd" class="">Jayu 5th annual Human Rights Film Festival<br class=""></font></b>Fri. - Sun. Dec. 9 - 11</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">Various venues including Bloor Hot Docs<br class=""><a href="http://www.jayu.ca/festival16/" class="">http://www.jayu.ca/festival16/</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" color="#669c35" class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class="">All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone</b></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">Dec. 9 - 15</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">Bloor Hot Docs, 506 Bloor W.<br class="">What role has a complacent media played in spreading misinformation, creating false equivalencies and spreading ideologically-driven messages, without checking the facts? This exciting, eye-opening documentary from Vancouver-based filmmaker and TV news veteran Fred Peabody follows the journalistic mavericks who are exposing government and corporate deception, regardless of intense and increasing personal risk. Independent journalists Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! (who was recently at the centre of a controversial legal case), Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Matt Taibbi and others are changing the face of journalism with a keen and expert eye. “The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy,” says Goodman. “It's not our job to cozy up to power.”</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><a href="http://boxoffice.hotdocs.ca/WebSales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=58138~fff311b7-cdad-4e14-9ae4-a9905e1b9cb0&" class="">http://boxoffice.hotdocs.ca/WebSales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=58138~fff311b7-cdad-4e14-9ae4-a9905e1b9cb0&</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#ff4013" class="">End Detentions, Surround TIHC<br class=""></font></b>Sat. Dec. 10, 3:15 - 5 pm<br class="">TIHC (Toronto Immigration Holding Centre), 385 Rexdale Blvd </font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">Buses leave Kipling Subway Station at 3:15pm </font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">RSVP for the bus: <a href="http://bit.ly/surroundTIHC" class="">http://bit.ly/surroundTIHC</a><br class="">Racisms abound. Our families are displaced globally. They are denied status here in Canada. Our Black and Brown families are locked up without charges or trial. Indefinitely. In max-security Ontario prisons. 15 detainees have died since 2000, 3 of them in the last 6 months. The Toronto Immigration Holding Centre is being expanded, as are jails across the country. On December 10th (International Human Rights Day), join us and join hands around this prison. Against Detentions. Against Prisons. Not just for rights but for Freedom. For Freedom to Move, Return, Stay. For our families. With Love.<br class="">#surroundTIHC #EndDetentions<br class=""><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1879692195583542/" class="">https://www.facebook.com/events/1879692195583542/</a><br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" color="#e63b7a" class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class="">How Corbyn Won – Lessons For The NDP Left</b></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">Dec. 10, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">OISE, 252 Bloor W, Room 5-280</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">Michael Chessum, a key member of Jeremy Corbyn's re-election team, is the opening speaker for the NDP Socialist Caucus national conference, held in conjunction with NDP Momentum. Noon. Registration from 11 am. Pwyc donation. </font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#9929bd" class="">What Is the World’s Carbon Budget? Delivering on 2 Degrees<br class=""></font></b>Sun. Dec. 11, 7 pm Doors open at 6:30 pm<br class="">Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave <br class="">Delivering on 2 Degrees: The recent Paris Agreement on climate change focused on limiting the global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average. A world committed to a 1.5 C limit will need to phase out the burning of coal before 2030, and to have de-carbonized transport systems before 2050. But is 1.5 C even possible? And what will it take for us to get there? In Delivering on 2 Degrees, Professor Kevin Anderson, Deputy Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, talks about the Paris commitments in the context of climate science. He reveals what is needed to limit global warming to 2 or even 1.5 degrees C. With guest speaker Patricia Warwick, Climate Action Now.<br class=""><a href="http://www.tcff.ca/about/" class="">http://www.tcff.ca/about/</a><br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#0061ff" class="">Sunday Indigenous Marketplace</font></b></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">Sun. Dec. 11, 11 am - 4 pm. </font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">Native Canadian Centre, 16 Spading Rd (N. of Bloor)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">Sale by local artisans including moccasins, beadwork, honey, hand-drums, carvings and more. Free.<br class=""><a href="http://facebook.com/events/1164873496942123" class="">facebook.com/events/1164873496942123</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#e63b7a" class="">Pickering City Council Meeting<br class=""></font></b>Mon. Dec. 12, 7 pm</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class="">Pickering City Hall<br class="">Make a deputation, attend as a witness, or send them an email. Tell them you want the Pickering Nuclear station dismantled immediately after shutting down, rather than waiting 30 years. <br class=""><a href="http://www.cleanairalliance.org/pwaterfront/" class="">http://www.cleanairalliance.org/pwaterfront/</a><br class="">And please sign the petition to Close Pickering in 2018 when its current licence expires: </font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><a href="http://www.cleanairalliance.org/close-pickering/" class="">http://www.cleanairalliance.org/close-pickering/</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#669c35" class="">The Green Majority<br class=""></font></b>Live Eco Radio Show every Friday from 11 am - Noon<br class="">CIUT 89.5 FM<br class=""><a href="http://greenmajority.ca" class="">greenmajority.ca</a><br class=""><br class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#be38f3" class="">Three Women</font></b><br class="">Feminist Radio every Monday 4 - 5 p.m.<br class="">CIUT 89.5 FM<br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#ff6251" class="">Centre for Social Innovation Events<br class=""></font></b>http://socialinnovation.ca/community/events/listing<br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#3a88fe" class="">Shape My City Events<br class=""></font></b>http://shapemycity.ca/events.php<br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#669c35" class="">Hot Docs<br class=""></font></b>Bloor Cinema (Bloor and Bathurst)<br class="">http://bloorcinema.com/<br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#e63b7a" class="">NOW magazine hosts a very comprehensive online events listing<br class=""></font></b>https://nowtoronto.com/search/event/community-events/<br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<br class="">Join my email list by emailing Angela at:<br class="">greenspiration@web.ca<br class="">Write "subscribe" in the subject line<br class="">and tell me what city/country you live in.<br class="">Likewise to unsubscribe.<br class="">Or manage your subscription here:<br class="">http://list.web.net/lists/listinfo/greenspirationto-l<br class=""><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<==</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""></div><br class=""></div></body></html>