T.O. Greenspiration Events: Playing for Keeps

Sun Jan 13 23:41:32 EST 2013

T.O. Greenspiration Events

Still here! Got some feedback on ways to move forward with this list in a more collaborative way, but still looking for more. Email me with your ideas. Thanks.
Angela  - greenspi at web.ca

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Five cent TTC fare increase?  That’s a staggering $30 yearly increase for us regular users!
Tell your City Councillor to say no to this unfair TTC fare increase. 

Dial 311 and speak to your City Councillor or send City Hall an email message.
http://www.ttcriders.ca/tell-your-city-councillor-to-say-no-to-the-fare-increase/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Tell_City_Council_to_say_no_to_the_unfair_fare_increase;_become_a_lifetime_TTCriders_member

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2013 Toronto City Budget: ACTION ALERT

1.      Call or e-mail your City Councillor today and express your concerns about the impacts of cutting programs and services in your community (see below). To find out who your councillor is, enter your address here:http://app.toronto.ca/im/council/councillors.jsp
2.      Check the Commitment to Community website for community and councillor budget meetings:http://commitment2community.org/?p=943
3.      Sign the Together Toronto petition to protest against cuts to all housing and emergency sheltershttp://togethertoronto.ca/campaigns/homelessness
4.      Come out and show your support at City Hall on January 15th, anytime between 9:30am and 9pm, when the Council starts their final debate on the 2013 Capital and Operating Budget! 
5.	There will be a Stop the Cuts budget breakfast on Tues. Jan. 15, 8 - 9:30 a.m. at T.O. City Hall. Come!

https://www.facebook.com/events/152507964898746/

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The House I Live In

Jan. 11 – 16
Bloor Hot Docs (Bloor and Bathurst)

As America remains embroiled in conflict overseas, a less visible war is taking place at home, costing countless lives, destroying families, and inflicting untold damage on future generations of Americans. For over forty years, the war on drugs has accounted for more than 45 million arrests, made America the world’s largest jailer, and damaged poor communities at home and abroad. Yet for all that, drugs are cheaper, purer and more available today than ever before. Filmed in more than twenty states, The House I Live In captures heart-wrenching stories from individuals at all levels of America’s war on drugs. From the dealer to the grieving mother, the narcotics officer to the senator, the inmate to the federal judge, the film offers a penetrating look inside America’s longest war, offering a definitive portrait and revealing its profound human rights implications.

http://bloorcinema.com/movies/The-House-I-Live-In/

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Beautiful City presents:
Collections: Art Jam and Town Hall

On the Eve of 2013 City Budget Going to City Council - Monday Jan. 14, 6 - 9 p.m.
City Hall, 100 Queen Street West , Committee Room 1

Live paintings, speakers, performances and jam session. Bring your instruments, songs, dancing feet and voice to join in on a collective, hour-long jam session.
In 2009 we united for the first town hall and in response Council acted on the billboard tax for art. In 2010 we held the 'InVoice' Town Hall, and Council voted yes to art to competitive levels of art investment but needed a year. In 2011, a new Council confirmed the commitment, but dropped the ball when it came to real action. Come to the jam, make your voice heard and bring it home.

Facebeast Info Updates: http://tinyurl.com/collectionsjam   
Updated video: http://vimeo.com/56199788 
Take Action: http://www.beautifulcity.ca/bcbf.asp?id=23  
Policy doc: http://beautifulcity.ca/Budget2013.pdf  
BeautifulCity.ca Town Hall 1: http://vimeo.com/5639645  
InVoice Town Hall: http://tinyurl.com/invoiceTHvideo 

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RxISK.org and the Patients' Association of Canada are co-hosting a panel discussion:
You And Your Meds:  Are they Safe? 

Tuesday January 15, 7 p.m.
Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario
Free

The panelists are: 
	• Terence Young, Conservative MP and author of Death by Prescription
	• Dr. David Healy, CEO of RxISK.org and author of Pharmageddon
	• Dr.Sholom Glouberman, President of the Patients’ Association of Canada and author of My Operation 
To wrap up the event, Dr. Joel Lexchin, MD, will provide a summay perspective on the panel discussion and audience Q & A.  Joel is a Professor in the School of Health Policy and Management at York University and an Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. We are leaving plenty of time for questions from the audience.

You can register here: http://rxisk.eventbrite.com

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Grand Central Radiation station – GE's Lansdowne Uranium Secret

Tuesday, January 15, 7 – 9 p.m.
Davenport-Perth Community Centre, 1900 Davenport Road
Meeting for anyone resolved to shut GE's Uranium Processing Plant!

Andrew Cash went through official channels to request a new hearing to include proper public consultation, he got shot down (see the story in the News-Articles-Announcements section below) now it's up to us to build the pressure and by build the pressure I mean organize a blockade, but you may have different ideas and we need to do this together!

https://www.facebook.com/events/453702944695268/

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Forks Over Knives
- screening and discussion

Tues. Jan. 15, 6:15 p.m.
Annette Library, 145 Annette St. 
PWYC/Free

Forks Over Knives examines the profound claim that most, if not all of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods. The major storyline in the film traces the personal journeys of a pair of pioneering yet under-appreciated researchers Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn. Dr. Campbell, a nutritional scientist at Cornell University, was concerned with producing "high quality" animal protein to bring to the poor and malnourished areas of the third world. While in the Philippines, he made a life-changing discovery: the country's wealthier chilrden, who were consuming relatively high amounts of animal-based foods, were much more likely to get liver cancer. Dr. Esselstyn, a top surgeon and head of the Breast Cancer Task Force at the world renowned Cleveland Clinic, found that many of the diseases he routinely treated were virtually unknown in parts of the world where animal-based foods were rarely consumed. 

Organized by Green 13  http://green13toronto.org/

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News and events from Cycle Toronto

Bike27 and the Ward 28 team are collecting Feedback on Sherbourne cycling tracks! Whether you were there at the audit ride, cycle on the new Sherbourne regularly, or have made a deliberate trip there to check out the new infrastructure, we'd like to hear from you! Fill in our Sherbourne feedback form. Deadline: Monday, 21 Jan at noon! 

Our Joint Ward Group meeting for wards 19, 20, 27 and 28 will be on:
Tues. Jan. 15, 7-9pm
Centre for Social Innovation Annex, 720 Bathurst Street (just south of Bloor) Meeting Room #1 (2nd floor) 
Note: the door will be locked. At the entrance, look out for a note from us for a cell phone number you can dial to get one of us to let you in!

Discussions will include
·  Sherbourne cycle tracks (a.k.a. separated bike lanes) feedback 
·  Richmond-Adelaide cycle tracks proposal
·  Hoskin-Harbord cycle tracks request status
·  Ward groups activity updates 
·  Bike Parking new ideas 

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Taking the Big Step to a Smart Grid 
with Gord Miller, Ontario's Environmental Commissioner

Tues. January 15, 6:30 – 8 p.m. 
Ryerson, 80 Gould St. RCC2 (near Dundas and Church)

Achieving a truly smart grid which utilizes all the technological opportunities available will create a sea change in the electrical system of Ontario. It will substantially increase the resilience of the system, resolve our peaking and bases load issues and properly integrate distributed renewable energy generation. A smart grid is the solution we seek but are we on a path to get there? Although the government seems to indicate that it is the goal we are pursuing, there are many remaining barriers to overcome and institutional mandates to re-align. This presentation will examine what is required for Ontario to take the Big Step to a Smart Grid.

http://www.cue.ryerson.ca/cue/news/articles_2011/event_gordmiller.html

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Workers Rising from Walmart to Marikana

Tuesday, January 15, 7 pm - 8:30 pm
OISE, room 8220, 252 Bloor Street West

Speakers:
* Elizabeth Clinton, OUR Walmart campaigner from Texas
* Ritch Whyman, International Socialists

While governments around the world try and push austerity and force the working class to pay for the economic crisis, workers continue to resist. Showing that workers in some of the lowest paid service-sector jobs can organize and fight back, workers from Walmart and McDonald's have held protests, wildcat strikes and campaigned for better wages. In South Africa, miners have bravely faced down police bullets in their struggle against their employers and government. Workers across Ontario are preparing to protest a Liberal government that is trying to impose wage freezes and cut their benefits. Join a discussion on working class resistance, where we have been and where we are going.

Organized by the U of T International Socialists | Info: reports at socialist.ca

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Vigil for Planet Earth

Wed. January 16, 6:30 p.m.
Church of the Holy Trinity (behind Eatons Centre, off Bay, south of Dundas)

Lament, thanksgiving, prophetic action. With Aboriginal Bishop Mark MacDonald and environmental author Alanna Mitchell. This event will include readings, prayers, and an appeal for Canada to develop a strategy to address climate change. It will feature a strong First Nations focus. All welcome. 

This event was planned by Rev. Canon John Hill, a great Anglican liturgist, Diane Marshall, and Phyllis Creighton, with the help of Creation Matters, the diocesan environmental working group. For more info contact Rev. John Hill john.w.b.hill at sympatico.ca 

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Tools for Change presents a workshop:
Online Organizing and Making Social Media Count 

Wednesday, January 16, 6 - 9 p.m.
University of Toronto, St. George Campus.  Exact campus room location given to registrants a week before the event.

This workshop explores how to do effective online campaigning & maximize social media strategies in your projects and campaigns. Participants will explore the benefits and challenges of different online and social media tools, be given useful information about managing online campaigns & social media platforms as well as mobilizing different audiences and tracking results

Trainer: Anil Kanji works as the Supporter Communications Coordinator for Greenpeace Canada, with a focus on digital mobilisation, storytelling, and fundraising. Anil has over 16 years of communications and marketing experience in both the for-profit and no-profit sectors. He has trained with the New Organizing Institute, SmartMeme, and is part of the global Web of Change community.

To register: http://www.eventbrite.ca/event/4808754113/eorg#

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Court support for Safer Cycling in Toronto - more not less bikelanes - Jarvis St. Bike lane Arrest

Thursday, January 17, 2 pm - 4 pm 
Courtroom 505, Ontario Court of Justice, 444 College St. (College Park at Yonge)

https://www.facebook.com/events/147426348741368/

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Toward a Billion More Trees in Ontario
With John Bacher, Preservation of Agricultural Land, Ontario.

Thur. Jan. 17, 7 – 9 p.m.
University College, 15 Kings College Circle, U of T, Rm. 144
All welcome. No charge.

Co-Sponsored by University College Health Studies Programme, Canadian Pugwash Group, Science for Peace, and Voice of Women for Peace.
 http://www.scienceforpeace.ca/toward-a-billion-more-trees-in-ontario

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Toronto Resists the Omnibus Crime Bill

Thursday, Jan 17 @ 6:30 pm
Beit Zatoun 612 Markham Street (just south of Bloor, near Bathurst subway station)

Bill C-10 is now law, but we can resist!  The Law Union of Ontario is hosting a meeting for Torontonians to meet and brainstorm ways to prevent the implementation of this bill and stop Harper's unjust law and order agenda.  In March 2012, the federal Conservatives passed the Omnibus Crime Bill C-10, despite the protests of thousands of Canadians that the bill would greatly increase the prison population, would not prevent crime, would cost billions of dollars and would have a devastating impact on already marginalized communities, particularly Aboriginal communities who are already drastically over-represented in Canadian prisons.  Speakers: Jules Koostachin of Elizabeth Fry Society.  Mike Leitold of Law Union of Ontario. 

http://beitzatoun.org/cms/events/view/13-01-17/Toronto_Resists_the_Omnibus_Crime_Bill.aspx

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Playing for Keeps and Hopscotch: Toronto and Detroit boldly use play to create healthier communities

Thursday, January 17 - Doors open at 6 pm for refreshments; program starts at 6:30 pm
Daniels Spectrum, Ada Slaight Hall, 585 Dundas Street E.
Free Admission

Join us for a discussion on building social capital and innovation in our community. We’ll be taking a look at two interesting initiatives - Playing for Keeps and Hopscotch Detroit. Ideas about how to bring Torontonians together in imaginative ways and growing a community of engaged citizens. 

Hopscotch Detroit transformed the sidewalks of Detroit temporarily, but moreover, it transformed the way that people interact with the sidewalk. It was a reminder that sidewalks are not restricted to being a path from point A to point B, but that they can be a place to play, create, and meet people. Being outside, and playing outside, created the opportunity for communities to come together, meet one another, and engage in their city.

Playing for Keeps is another, made in Toronto, initiative of this kind. Playing for Keeps is a  unique collaborative model that uses “play” to develop healthier, more active and better connected communities. It brings together newcomers, youth, and long-time residents. It aligns objectives between the private, public, and philanthropic sectors and leverages existing assets. Playing for Keeps Neighbourhood Games are locally organized, playful and joyful activities that bring people together to share an experience, have fun and play. They are multi-generational and cover a full range of activities such as sports, arts, music, and food – everything from basketball tournaments to hopscotch, from community gardens to grandma and tot walks, from street dancing to mega glee clubs.  

Panelists Include:
Claire Nelson, Creative Director, Urban Innovation Exchange (UIX), Detroit
Rosalyn Morrison, VP, Community Initiatives, Toronto Community Foundation
Facilitated by Peter MacLeod, Principal, Mass LBP 

All are welcome.  Light refreshments will be provided.  
Register: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHh0NXJyOGttOEtKdkxNdlJqUm1fT1E6MA#gid=0

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Join in Discussing Strategy and Coordination against Enbridge's Line 9

Thursday, January 17, 7 p.m.
OISE, 252 Bloor Street West, room 5260

The organizing committee for the Nov. 17th 'Tar Sands Come to Ontario' event is inviting you to attend an open and honest discussion on strategies for resisting the reversal and stopping tar sands crude oil from being pumped through Line 9. Very quickly, Line 9 has become an important issue in Toronto and beyond and we would like to ensure that each organization, individual and community feels supported, informed and focused in taking action against Line 9. 

For more info: Boliviaclimatejustice at gmail.com

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The Economics of Happiness
Documentary film screening featuring Vandana Shiva, Bill McKibben, Rob Hopkins and others exploring gross national happiness, globalisation, localisation and solutions. 

Saturday, 19 January, 7pm
The Hub, Beach Business Hub, 2181 Queen St. East, #301. Elevator access for visitors with mobility devices. 
$15 adults, $10 children under 13 – includes popcorn :) 

Space is limited so RSVPs are required to: Martina, info [at] beachbusinesshub.ca, or 647.748.1311

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Vegan Potluck and Speaker/Film

Saturday, January 19, 5:30 pm potluck, 7 p.m. speaker or film
St. Thomas's Anglican Church hall, 383 Huron St. in the Annex 

https://www.facebook.com/events/119306041574411/

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Wanna see a casino on the Toronto waterfront?

Take the survey https://surveys.dpra.com/casino/CasinoSurvey.aspx to weigh in on the debate. You can read background reports, provide comments or learn more about the consultations online at www.toronto.ca. 

Community Discussions will be held:
Saturday, January 19: Bluma Appel Salon at Reference Library, 789 Yonge St. 1 - 4 pm

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Putting Racism to Rest: A Rally against the Toronto Sun media!

Saturday, 19 January, 2 - 4 p.m.
We will be gathering at St. James park at the S/W corner of King and Jarvis at 2 pm then march on to the Toronto Sun.

This is a rally against the Toronto Sun and their Anti-Native rhetoric and propaganda. We the Aboriginal people are sick and tired of the Toronto Sun and its news channel portraying Native people in a bad light and promoting hatred towards our people. This has been going on for many years and don't report on real Native issue's. One example: The over 600 hundred missing & murdered aboriginal women. Reject the Racist Myths! This is a peaceful protest so bring your hand drums, placards and signs. Also all people of every nation are invited. This is not just a Native thing its a Canadian thing!

FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/306733236113831/

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Beyond Toronto's Transit Crisis - Toward a red-green vision for our city

Sunday, January 20, 2013 -- 1pm to 3:30pm
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St. (near Bloor and Bathurst)

* How can our campaign contribute to Toronto's transit movement and help transform the city?
* How could our demand for free and accessible public transit promote environmental justice and sustainability, housing, jobs and social equality?
* How can we move forward the GTWA Free and Accessible Transit Campaign?

www.workersassembly.ca/node/210

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Communication in Action! 

Thursdays Jan 24 to Feb 28, 6:30 – 9:30 pm
Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave. (2 bl. n. of Bloor St., 1 block e of St. George at Bedford Ave)

With Lyn Adamson and Henry Wai - Nonviolence trainers. Develop effective strategies for interpersonal and group communication in a series of evening workshops:
- Explore your conflict style
- Become a better listener
- Learn how to raise concerns – without raising hackles
- Learn the principles of conflict resolution
- Skills for de-escalating conflict
- Facilitation basics

Cost: $100 for first four sessions –  deep listening, raising concerns, learn your personal style and how to work effectively with other styles, role play practice
$150 for 6 sessions – includes intervening in conflicts and facilitation in groups (sliding scale spaces available, please get in touch)
Please email: peaceworks at primus.ca Or Call 416-731-6605 to register www.peaceworkstmm.org

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2 Rooms available in Studio 404
One large, one small both available almost immediately but some flexibility possible depending on circumstances. Located in a Loft, 4th fl walk up, at the corner of Ossington and Dupont. Please write and/or phone for more details and schedule a viewing. Community orientated, green and politically focused - welcoming your interest and inquiry.
416.732.8965

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