events: market; housing; mental health; green roofs; tooker memorial; drug ads
angela bischoff
greenspi at web.ca
Wed Feb 20 12:59:51 EST 2008
Inorganic Market!
Bring your unwanted computer equipment!
Working components will be Reused
Non-working will be 100% Recycled
Brave the cold and take part in saving the environment by joining us on
Sunday February 24 at Nicholson’s nofrills
2187 Bloor Street West, Toronto
10 A.M. – 3 P.M.
Please support the development of our social innovation to address the
growing electronic waste crisis through community engagement, education
and local economic development. We are placing this in the hands of
citizens, individuals, neighbourhoods and communities.
Visit <http://www.inorganicmarket.ca/>www.InorganicMarket.ca
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Toxic Trespass (2007, 80 min) presents an intrepid investigation of the
effects of the chemical soup all too common in industrialized countries.
With special guest Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg, Producer. and Faculty in the
Department of Theory and Policy Studies in Education at OISE/UT.
Tues. February 26
Arbor Room at Hart House. Doors open at 6:30 pm, screening begins at 6:45
pm. Snacks will be served. Screenings are free. All welcome!
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Panel & Discussion on Affordable Housing & Homelessness
Tues. Feb. 26, 2008 / 7:00 p.m. U. of A. Tory Bldg. Basement, Room B-87
Everyone is welcome to this free event. Dessert reception follows.
Keynote Speaker: Gordon Laird, Author of Shelter - Homelessness in a
Growth Economy. Other Key Guests include: Jay Freeman, City of
Edmonton/EJPCH & Linda McKay-Panos (ACLRC): International and Charter
Rights to Housing.
For more information, please contact: Mandy Siu
John Humphrey Centre for Peace & Human Rights
T: 453-2638 (or) E: <mailto:mandy at jhcentre.org>mandy at jhcentre.org
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George Brown Mental Health Conference
9th Annual Mental Health Conference
Youth Violence “Mental Health Issue or Criminal Behaviour?” - A Public
Health Discussion for Prevention
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Toronto, Ontario
8:00 am - 4:00 pm
An educational forum presented by George Brown College’s Centre for
Preparatory & Liberal Studies in partnership with the Centre for Addiction
and Mental Health.
About the conference
This year's theme, Youth Violence “Mental Health Issue or Criminal
Behaviour?” – A Public Health Discussion for Prevention will explore how
youth violence is a multifaceted problem that grows over the lifetime of a
child as a result of many influences. Risk factors contributing to
violent behaviour in the community are poor individual social skills,
experiences of loss and devaluation. George Brown and CAMH recognize that
service providers and practioners struggle to respond to these challenging
conditions when providing services that include primary and secondary
prevention.
For adolescents, the strongest predictors of youth violence have to do
with interpersonal relations. Lack of positive social ties with adults
and involvement with antisocial peers (gang membership) are clearly
associated with youth violence. Poor academic performance and dropping
out of school are also strongly associated.
This conference will explore an emerging frame of reference for youth
violence that may prove useful to individuals, agencies and the broader
social service system. As well, a special youth panel will conduct a
discussion that will represent their views and recommendations.
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Green Roofs and Roof Gardens - workshop
Sat. March 1, 2008
10 am - 4 pm FEE $85
It will be held at the Barbara Frum Library Room "B", 20 Covington Rd.
(Bathurst and Lawrence) in Toronto
http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/hou_az_bf.jsp to see a map.
with Carolyn Moss, B.Arch, OAA, LEED AP, Principal Architect, MOSS SUND inc.
and Terry McGlade, Horticulturalist and president of Gardens in the Sky,
recipient of many gardening awards including 2007 City of Toronto Green
Roof Award. Terry has been instrumental in bringing greenroof technology
into its own in Canada.
Join us for this day long workshop to learn how to create a green roof or
roof garden on both new and existing buildings. Rooftop gardens improve
air quality and reduce CO2 emissions, delay storm water runoff, increase
habitat for birds, reduce the heat island effect, reduce cooling costs and
increase the value of buildings. From structural issues to plant
selection, costs to permits - this workshop looks at the planning and
implementation of green roofs on both residential and larger buildings.
Please bring your own lunch.. everdale will supply tea and coffee.
For more info and to register go to
<http://www.everdale.org/index.php?module=Everdale&func=displayMenu&menuId=17>www.everdale.org/in
the city
This workshop is proudly presented to you by Everdale
<http://www.everdale.org>(www.everdale.org) and the Toronto Green
Community. (http://www.ntgc.ca/)
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*** Tooker Memorial ***
Join us for a remembrance of Tooker Gomberg's strengths on the 4th
anniversary of his passing. We'll celebrate his contributions through
ritual, activist workshop and videos, and good food and camaraderie!
Monday Mar. 3, 7 p.m.
Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave. (St. George Subway, two blocks north of
Bloor, two blocks east of St. George)
Free.
Together we'll review the piece Tooker and Angela wrote called
The Ten Commandments for Changing the World
http://www.greenspiration.org/environ/articles/TenCommandments.htm
If you have a chance to read them before the event, that would be good
prep for the workshop. If you're not able to attend, we encourage you to
read them on your own in Tooker's honor.
Hope to see you on Mar. 3.
For more info, <greenspi at web.ca> or 647 342 1964.
Love and peace,
Angela, Shannon, Melanie, Lyn, Petra
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DRUG ADS:
Is Corporate Free Speech More Important Than Your Health?
* Who profits from prescription drug advertising?
* What are the implications of direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) of
prescription drugs on health care in Canada, especially for women?
* Join us on March 4th when we will examine the CanWest MediaWorks Charter
Challenge to the prohibition of DTCA: are we ready for American-style
health care (and costs)?
SPEAKER: Dr. John Abramson, Harvard Medical School Clinical Instructor and
author of "Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine"
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS: Dr. Nancy Olivieri
DATE: Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
TIME: 7:30 pm
LOCATION: Hart House Theatre, 7 Hart House Circle, University of Toronto
campus, Toronto
Event presented by Women and Health Protection, the Canadian Union of
Public Employees and the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions.
The ad hoc coalition of interveners in the Charter Challenge case are:
Canadian Health Coalition
Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions
Canadian Union of Public Employees
Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada
Medical Reform Group
Society for Diabetic Rights
Women and Health Protection
Terence Young
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