Toronto events and actions

[angela bischoff]

PUT YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD ON THE MAP!

Our goal is to create an online interactive map of Toronto made up of your
submissions. This website (secrecyistoxic.ca) will demonstrate the
community concern about toxic pollution and the need for full disclosure
and safe solutions.

http://secrecyistoxic.ca/

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The Brunswick Theatre is offering the following titles completely FREE
during September.

*Brunswick Theatre is Toronto's Documentary Cinema, located at 296
Brunswick Ave, at Bloor, just W of Spadina.
Info: <http://www.brunswicktheatre.ca> www.brunswicktheatre.ca  OR 
647-282-3627

Films and speakers this month that are FREE:

Black Gold - about fair trade certified coffee
Talking to Americans - with Rick Mercer from CBC show 22 Minutes.
Fraud in 2004 US Elections - talk by Professor Steven Freeman
Commander 'N Thief - Canadian premier of a new film on electoral fraud
Occupation 101 - new film on the Occupation of Palestine
No Logo - a film featuring Naomi Klein, based on her book
Jesus Camp - Academy Award Nominee about evangelical summer camps
The God Delusion - a film by Richard Dawkins, based on his book
End of Suburbia - about the coming oil crisis
Big Bucks, Big Pharma - pushing drugs and marketing disease

ALL above titles are FREE all month long. See showtimes, trailers and
blurbs at <http://www.brunswicktheatre.ca>http://www.brunswicktheatre.ca
*DONATIONS or the purchase of popcorn would be very much appreciated

Please tell all your friends and show up early to get a seat!

More info: <http://www.brunswicktheatre.ca>www.brunswicktheatre.ca

PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!!!

Brunswick Theatre
296 Brunswick Ave, 2nd Floor
Toronto, ON
<mailto:brunswicktheatre at gmail.com>brunswicktheatre at gmail.com
(647) 282-DOCS

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TAKE BACK THE NIGHT 2007

DATE: Sat. September 8, 2007, 5:30 p.m.
PLACE: Allan Gardens Community Park, Sherbourne and Gerrard St. E.
INFO: 416-597-1171 ext 230, cdev at trccmwar.ca, www.trccmwar.ca

5:30 p.m. - Community Fair - Community Organizations Display
7:00 p.m. - Rally - Speakers and Performers
8:00 p.m. - MARCH - Women and Children Only

The Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape
(TRCC/MWAR) and community partners from Regent Park host the 27th Annual
Take Back The Night protest.  This year's theme is, "We Demand Our
Rights."  Take Back The Night is about bringing visibility and exposure to
the impact of sexual violence in women's lives.  It's a space created to
ensure our voices are heard.

The level of violence against women in the downtown east is startling. 
This summer we have witnessed an escalation of violence.  Every year many
women are raped, tortured, assaulted and harassed on River Street alone. 
"The Toronto Police Sex Crimes Unit suggests that 68 sex workers are
assaulted every night in the City of Toronto, with the majority of
assaults coming from the east end of Toronto," says Wendy Babcock with the
Bad Date Coalition of Toronto.

We demand our rights to equal status for all women, Aboriginal rights,
safe affordable housing, rights for sex trade workers, decriminalized
prostitution, safe shelters, health care, child care, education,
employment, physically accessible services and resources, raise social
assistance rates by 40%, and raise the minimum wage now.  We as survivors
demand lives free of sexual violence, murder, living in poverty, police
injustice and any violence that is directed towards women and children.

Food and refreshments will be provided at the fair.
Wheelchair Accessible, ASL Interpretation, Transpositive Event, Child Care
available.

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From: "TFPC - Toronto Food Policy Council" <TFPC at toronto.ca>

Meeting in Toronto on Paying Farmers for Environmental Services

Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen Street West at Bay Street
Committee Room #1, 2nd floor
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Free

ALUS: Rethinking Agricultural Policy And The Environment

Join us for a roundtable discussion on compensating farmers for ecological
goods and services through the Alternative Land Use Services (ALUS) program.

Mike Schreiner, Vice President of Local Food Plus (LFP) will moderate the
panel.

Participants include:

*    Bob Bailey, VP of Policy for Canada Delta Water Fowl Foundation
*    Bryan Gilvesy of YU Ranch, an LFP certified beef producer and
demonstration farm for the ALUS program in Norfolk County
*    Dave Reid, the Ministry of Natural Resources land stewardship
coordinator for Norfolk County

This event is a great opportunity to learn how ALUS can inform integrated
policy development as well as build bridges between rural and urban folks,
by compensating farmers for environmental goods and services that benefit
all Canadians.

Sponsored by:
Local Food Plus, the Coalition for a Green Economy, the Toronto Food Policy
Council, Grassroots Environmental Products/GrassrootsStore.com, GET Toronto,
Sierra Club and Everdale Environmental Learning Centre

For more information, contact:
Michael Berger -- 416.782.4589 --
<mailto:michaelberger at sympatico.ca>michaelberger at sympatico.ca

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Bring on the Referendum!
What You Need to Know

Monday Sept. 17, 2007 7:30-9:30 p.m.

OISE Auditorium*, 252 Bloor Street West, St. George Subway Stn.
*We return to the newly renovated StLC in October.

Free Admission

On October 10 you will be asked a referendum question that could change
the course of politics in Ontario.  You will be asked how you would like
to elect provincial politicians in future – either the way we do it now,
called first-past-the-post, or a new way called mixed-member proportional.
Don't know what that is? Now is your chance to find out!

Speakers representing diverse views and coming from different parts of the
political spectrum will discuss the benefits and risks of changing how we
elect politicians. What do you value? Majority governments with the
ability to pass legislation more easily or minority governments that build
coalitions? At the end of the evening you'll come away with a clearer
understanding of which system will deliver the type of political
representation and accountability you would like to see at Queen's Park.

 with

Rick Anderson: Campaign Committee Chair, vote for MMP; former chief
advisor to former Reform Party Leader Preston Manning; Director, Fireweed
Democracy Project.

Catherine Baquero: recent University of Toronto graduate; former member of
the Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform mandated by the government to
assess Ontario's electoral system.

Jonathan Rose: Academic Director, Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform;
Associate Professor of Political Science, Queen's University.

Edelgard Mahant: Senior Scholar, Glendon Research Group in Public and
International Affairs; Co-founder of the No MMP campaign.

Elections Ontario will present an introductory video.

Presented by the St. Lawrence Centre FORUM and endorsed by Equal Voice,
Fair Vote Canada, Vote for MMP, No MMP




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