T.O. Greenspiration Events: Know Your Neighbour - GE Exposed
Angela Bischoff
greenspi at web.ca
Sun Nov 10 18:19:45 EST 2013
T.O. Greenspiration Events
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NOW Toronto’s Best Activist
Hey friends, it's an honour to have been recognized with this award. Thanks for all your votes!
We all make a difference, and it's a blast changing the world. Thanks for all YOU all do! Special thanks to Jack Gibbons and Tooker Gomberg.
xoxo and peace...
http://www.nowtoronto.com/fbApps/bestof/winners.cfm?category=159
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The 2014 TTC budget looms: tell Council to properly fund the TTC today
Toronto Environmental Alliance has partnered with TogetherToronto and Social Planning Toronto to issue this call to action. With future TTC fare and service levels up for decision later this month, there are only a few days for riders to weigh-in. According to insiders, fares will almost certainly increase. For regular transit riders the fare hike could be worth as much as an extra $100/year. Meanwhile, service will remain woefully inadequate. Send a message here:
http://www.ttcriders.ca/the-2014-ttc-budget-looms-tell-our-elected-officials-to-properly-fund-the-ttc-today/
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Send a quick letter to the Russian Embassy to free our activists and end Arctic drilling for good
http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/campaigns/Energy/Arctic/Get-involved/free-our-activists/
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Light for Africa
LightSeed Energy is raising funds through this Indiegogo campaign to send solar lamps to students in Zambia.
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/light-for-africa
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Please Sign MP Olivia Chow's truck sideguards petition
Truck sideguards have been shown to reduce cyclist and pedestrian fatalities in countries that mandate them, but neither Transport Canada nor the federal government has moved on the issue. Sign MP Olivia Chow's truck sideguards petition and speak with your MP. No more preventable deaths.
http://www.oliviachow.ca/truck_sideguards_petition
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Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival
Nov 11 - 16
TIFF Bell Lightbox (350 King W) and Workman Hall (651 Dufferin)
$12 or pwyc ($2 min)
Shorts and features that touch on mental illness and addictions plus panel discussions, exhibits and more.
rendezvouswithmadness.com.
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White Peace Poppies
Monday Nov 11, 5 pm.
Yonge Dundas Square
Join Voice of Women for Peace in distributing white poppies for peace
http://vowpeace.org/white-poppy-campaign/
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The Human Scale
playing daily through Nov. 17
Bloot Hot Docs Cinema (Bloor and Bathurst)
It’s a ticking time bomb. The number of people living in cities will nearly double in the next 40 years, and there isn’t enough time to build the needed infrastructure. According to revolutionary Danish city planner Jan Gehl, even the largest of mega cities must be re-thought and re-designed on a small scale: the human scale. Around 1950, Gehl argues, city planning took on a very specific direction: "bird shit architecture." Driven by the rapid influx of cars, cities were designed to look good from a plane, ignoring the needs of humans below, the needs that can only be observed at eye level. The Human Scale travels around the world to explore how Gehl’s vision of a human megacity—intimate, lively, safe, sustainable and healthy—is being implemented in places like New York, Chongqing and Christchurch.
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Saving the Sacred Headwaters – Triumphs and Challenges in the battle to protect Canada’s northern wilderness
With Annita McPhee
Monday, Nov. 11, 6 - 7 pm
Room 110, Ramsay Wright Building, U of T, 25 Harbord Street
The Sacred Headwaters is the birthplace of three of the content's great salmon rivers, the Stikine, Skeena and Nass. Unblemished by dams, clearcuts or mines, and with an abundance of wildlife, including grizzly bears, wolves, caribou and the world's largest population of stone sheep, the Sacred Headwaters has been called the Serengeti of Canada's North. Last year, Annita and the Tahltan First Nation managed to protect the area from a massive coal-bed methane project proposed by Royal Dutch Shell. However, the region is still threatened with coal and other development. Annita is the President of the Tahltan Central Council, who have played a critical role in keeping one of Canada's most precious regions of boreal forest intact.
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Who is the working class? Why do socialists talk about them?
A socialist discussion group
Monday, November 11 , 6:00pm
Library Building, 350 Victoria Street - Room 868 (8th floor), Ryerson (near Yonge and Dundas)
While politicians talk about a shrinking middle class and fight each other over who the authentic representative of the middle class is, socialists, anarchists and other radicals often talk about the working class. Who is the working class? Who is the middle class? Who makes up the 99%? What power do they hold? How can this group change the world? This meeting is open to anyone and everyone interested in discussing the topic. The session will be lead off by a short 10 minute interactive introduction of the topic followed by an open discussion. Please let us know if plan to attend. Thanks!
Ryerson International Socialists www.socialist.ca
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Know Your Neighbour: GE-Hitachi's 1025 Landsdown Uranium Secret EXPOSED!
Oss Talk with Zach Ruiter
Tues. Nov. 12, 7 p.m.
The Ossington, 61 Ossington, back room (N. of Queen), Toronto
Free, all welcome.
Opening musical act - solo guitarist Cory Sillaots
Main interview with Zach Ruiter - Toronto anti-nuclear, enviro justice and animal-rights agitator
https://www.facebook.com/events/231256777039290/
Zach Ruiter is leading the charge to shut down GE-Hitachi's Toronto plant. As a video-activist, writer and organizer, he's also engaged in numerous other campaigns including First Nations solidarity, campaigns to shut down Marineland and Ripley's Aquarium, gay rights, and more. http://www.youtube.com/user/fightpollution/videos
Yellowcake uranium powder is processed into CANDU fuel pellets at GE-Hitachi's west-Toronto location (Lansdowne and Dupont). The plant has been in operation for almost 50 years, releasing radioactive dust into our atmosphere and discharging uranium into our sewage system. There is no safe level of exposure to ionizing radiation. Low doses can have significant long-term genetic consequences causing genetic instability, resulting in an increased risk of cancer, lymphoma and leukemia.
Learn more about GE-Hitachi's uranium secret here: http://ge-uraniumsecrettoronto.blogspot.ca/.
Learn more about the upcoming public meeting with CNSC here: http://andrewcash.ca/ge-hitachi-public-meeting-date-announced
http://ge-uraniumsecrettoronto.blogspot.ca/
To volunteer your talent or for more info contact: angela at cleanairalliance.org
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Gasland II
Free/PWYC screening and discussion
Tues. Nov 12, 6 p.m. sharp
Runnymede Library, 2178 Bloor Street West
GASLAND PART II , which premiered at the 2013 ribeca Film Festival, shows how the stakes have been raised on all sides in one of the most important environmental issues facing our nation today. The film argues that the gas industry's portrayal of natural gas as a clean and safe alternative to oil is a myth and that fracked wells inevitably leak over time, contaminating water and air, hurting families, and endangering the Earth's climate with the potent greenhouse gas, methane. In addition, the film looks at how the powerful oil and gas industries are in Fox's words "contaminating our democracy". Citizens in Quebec are awake at the wheel, and have been able to bring about a moratorium on fracking. France has banned fracking. What about Ontario?
www.green13toronto.org
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Ma Vie Reelle
Magnus Isacsson / Canada / 2012 / 90 ' / French / S.T. English
Tuesday, Nov. 12, 6:30 pm
Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor Street West
Suggested donation $2-10
Join us for the Toronto premiere of the last film by committed political documentary veteran Magnus Isacsson, who peels apart the layers of oppression and marginalization to reveal the story of Montreal-Nord teenagers whose "real life" is framed by the structural forces of poverty. MA VIE RÉELLE is a raw, sincere and personal portrait that manages to be full of life, music and the undeniable spirit of youth. Filmmakers, special guests and friends of Magnus will be in attendance.
cinemapolitica.org/bloor
https://www.facebook.com/events/204932296354278/
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Self-Care for Anxiety: A Traditional Chinese Medicine Approach
Free Workshop + Dinner + Acupuncture
Tuesday, November 12, 6 - 9 pm
Doors open @ 5:45 pm: Grab a plate of free dinner!
6 pm: Workshop starts
8 pm: Ear acupuncture or acupressure (optional)
Centre for Women and Trans People at U of T, 563 Spadina Avenue, Room 100 (North Borden Building)
Come learn and share tools for managing everyday anxiety. Includes a healthy calming dinner, tips from traditional Chinese medicine, self-acupressure points, and free ear acupuncture treatment. This workshop is open to women, genderqueer/ gender non-conforming people and trans people.
Wheelchair accessible via Bancroft Ave. For more information. You must register to attend:
http://paulinehwang.ca/anxietyworkshop or call 416-890-7770
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Idle No More: Histories of Indigenous Women’s Resistance
a lecture by Wanda Nanibush, Anishinabe-Kwe Image and Word Warrior, Curator-in-Residence at JMB Gallery, Idle No More Organizer
Tues. Nov. 12, 7 pm
George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire Place
Reception to follow
www.oise.utoronto.ca/cwse
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American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
Tues. Nov. 12, 7 p.m.
School of Image Arts, 122 Bond Street, Ryerson University
What does it mean to be an American revolutionary today? Grace Lee Boggs is a 98-year-old Chinese-American woman in Detroit whose vision of revolution may surprise you.
http://americanrevolutionaryfilm.com
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Building a Passive House - The Practical Low-Down
Free BCSEA Webinar
Tuesday, November 12, 3 – 4 p.m. EST
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/727309002
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Natural Heritage Symposium – a roundtable discussion
Tues. Nov. 12, 7 – 9 p.m.
Historic St. Lawrence Hall, 157 King E. (at Jarvis)
Join us for a discussion about Natural Heritage in Toronto. Areas that will be discuss include trees as natural heritage resources, what the average citizens can do to conserve natural heritage in the context of our natural ecosystems, the City of Toronto's Natural Heritage Study and the management of natural heritage resources related to water. With:
Franz Hartman, Toronto Environmental Alliance
Barbara Heidenreich, Ontario Heritage Trust
Jane Weninger, City of Toronto
Carolyn Woodland, Toronto and Region Conservation Authority
Free. Pre-register at http://naturalheritage.eventbrite.ca or call Rachel Ostep (416) 338-0682.
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My Real Life - with filmmakers and special guests in attendance
Tuesday, Nov. 12, 6:30 pm
Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor Street West
Suggested donation $2-10
MY REAL LIFE is an intimate look at a group of teenagers who find joy and hope in the raw, potent rap music of disenfranchised communities in the neighbourhoods of Montreal North. The late social justice documentarian Magnus Isacsson elicits a raw, sincere and personal portrait that manages to be full of life, music and the undeniable spirit of youth. Special guests and friends of Magnus will be in attendance.
cinemapolitica.org/bloor
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Public Forum on Policing and Mental Health Issues
Wed. Nov. 13, noon
Corner Drop-in, St. Stephen's Community House, 260 Augusta Ave. (Kensington Mkt)
Join us to discuss how police can better engage with people who have mental health issues.
With Speakers: John Sewell, Jennifer Chambers, Corner's Member Advocacy Committee, and more
For more info: Helen Armstrong, 416 531 4631 x 235, ahelen at sschto.ca
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The Save Toronto Rally
Wed., Nov. 13, noon
Nathan Phillips Square (Queen and Bay, T.O. City Hall)
It’s time for Rob Ford to step down and seek help. He has compromised the authority of his position.
• Wed. is the date for the next council meeting where Rob Ford and councillors will be in City Hall
• it is during lunch break (stop by for a bit, grab food from a foodtruck!)
• it is sooner than later
http://savetoronto.ca/
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Inequality for All
Wed. Nov. 13, 6:30 p.m.
Bloor Hot Docs Cinema (Bloor and Bathurst)
Charting America’s latest decline into inequality, Reich presents an engaging and well-researched argument on how the gap in personal incomes throughout the country is not a result of the current economic state but of democracy itself.
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Natural Body Product Gift-Making Lab Workshop
Wed. Nov. 13, 7 - 8:30 p.m.
Karma Coop, 739 Palmerston
$5 per item
Workshop to craft homemade body scrubs, massage oils, face masks, mineral blushes and more.
Pre-register 416-534-1470, manager at karmacoop.org
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Regent Park Film Festival
Nov 13 to 16
Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E.
Screenings, panel discussions, installations and performances that reflect the diverse perspectives of the Regent Park community. Free.
regentparkfilmfestival.com.
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The Industrial Diet in Three Meals
With Tony Winson, Professor and Associate Chair, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph
Thursday Nov 14, 7-9 pm
Room 179, University College, 15 Kings College Circle, University of Toronto
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/vital-discussions-of-human-security-fall-2013-spring-2014
If you miss it, the video podcast will be available on the SfP YouTube channel within 1-2 weeks after the talk.http://www.youtube.com/user/Science4Peace
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TTC Riders training and campaign briefing
Thursday November 14, 6 pm – 9 pm
Metro Hall, 55 John St. (at King)
Want to give a presentation at the TTC Commission Meeting or volunteer to speak about our Fair Deal for Riders campaign at events across the city? Register to attend TTCriders' training and campaign briefing here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/event/8999753505
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Two Row Times Indigenous Resurgence and Grassroots Media
Thur. November 14, 7 pm - 9:30 pm
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham (near Bloor and Bathurst)
Jon Garlow (publisher and owner of the Two Row Times) and Nahnda Garlow (renowned “Scone Dogs and Seed Beads” columnist of the Two Row Times), will speak on Indigenous resurgence and grassroots media, and their vision for the Two Row Times newspaper.
http://beitzatoun.org/event/two-row-times-indigenous-resurgence-and-grassroots-media/
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Meeting to discuss the Day of Action against Enbridge pipeline @ Queen's Park
with Lela Gary
Thur. Nov. 14, 7 pm
Toronto City Hall, Room # 4
Air Pollution Coalition
www.ecopolitics.ca
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Animal Rights Academy
With Erika Ritter, former CBC broadcaster, animal activist, author of The Dog by the Cradle, The Serpent Beneath: Some Paradoxes of Human-Animal Relationships
Thursday Nov. 14, 7:10 p.m. - 9:15 p.m.
100 St. George (Sidney Smith building), University of Toronto, room 2105
The first hour is the lecture, and the second hour an open discussion.
Free and open to the public. Animals are welcome provided they are relatively quiet.
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European Union Film Festival
Nov. 14 – 27
The Royal Cinema, 608 College
Free
http://www.eutorontofilmfest.ca/
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The Radical Business Intensive With Tad Hargrave
Thur. - Sun, Nov 14 - 17
Learn more and sign up here: http://theradicalbusinessintensive.yolasite.com/
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Shut it Down! GE-Hitachi plant at Lansdowne and Dupont
GE-Hitachi Public Meeting Announced for Dec. 10 and 11 in Toronto. Written submissions and requests to speak must be sent to the CNSC by Fri. November 15.
Find out more and make sure your voice is heard.
http://andrewcash.ca/ge-hitachi-public-meeting-date-announced
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1025Lansdowne/
http://ge-uraniumsecrettoronto.blogspot.ca/
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The Decline of War with Gwynne Dyer
Friday, November 15, 7 p.m.
JJR Macleod Auditorium (MS 2158), Medical Sciences, University of Toronto, 1 King’s College Circle
Tickets: $10 / $5 for students
Science for Peace and the Canadian Pugwash Group are proud to host the Eric Fawcett Memorial Forum with special guest Gwynne Dyer, author, freelance journalist, columnist, broadcaster and lecturer.
http://www.scienceforpeace.ca/
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The Syrian Tragedy: Global Design, Regional Maps and an Invisible Revolution
A public and free lecture by Professor Yasser Munif (Emerson College)
Friday Nov. 15, 6 p.m.
Multi Faith Centre, 569 Spadina Avenue
The Syrian revolution is going through the most critical period since its outbreak 31 months ago. The violence of the regime has been steadily increasing and while a new chemical attack is unlikely, the Syrian army has developed and been using a new weapon of mass destruction. It is starving the population on a massive scale by besieging entire regions and forcing residents to leave their houses. At the international level, the United States and Russia are facing each other in the Syrian arena and are each trying to impose their world-views on Syrians. Regional players such as Iran, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Israel, and Turkey have been confronting each other by arming and funding different local players. Finally, al-Qaeda opened a second front in the North to undermine the revolutionary process and turn it into a clash of civilization between Muslims and infidels. Despite these global designs and regional geostrategies, the Syrian people are keeping their revolution alive. Yasser Munif will talk about his recent visit to Northern Syria by focusing on everyday struggles, participatory democracy, and local governance.
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Education for Activists Conference
Fri/Sat. Nov. 15-16
OISE, University of Toronto, 252 Bloor Street West (St. George Subway Station) Room 2-214.
$10 for the weekend, $5 per session or PWYC
Security, Surveillance and the Strong State
How Revolutionary Youth Movements have changed the world
What is the Labour Bureaucracy – and what should be done about it?
The Democratic Party – Death trap for U.S. Blacks – The case for independent Labour/Black political action
http://socialistaction.ca/2013/10/18/education-for-activists-conference-november-15-16/
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Veggielicious
Nov 15 - 30
Celebration of gourmet vegetarian cuisine with prix-fixe menus at restaurants and bakeries throughout the city.
veggielicious.ca.
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Socialism and Feminism
Sat. November 16, 7 pm - 9:00 pm
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham (near Bloor and Bathurst)
Second in a 3-part series of Coffee Houses organized by the Education Committee of the Greater Toronto Workers’ Assembly (GTWA).
http://beitzatoun.org/event/socialism-and-feminism/
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Defend our Climate, Defend our Communities
Sat. Nov. 16, 2 – 3:30 p.m.
Meet in the South-East corner of Toronto City Hall's courtyard. We'll spell out our opposition to Line 9 using our bodies and banners.
On Nov. 16, Canadians from coast to coast will stand up to demand an energy future that protects our communities and our climate. In Toronto, joinEnvironmental Defence Canada and others who are saying No to Enbridge's risky Line 9 pipeline plan to ship dirty tar sands oil through Toronto. On #Nov16, you can help build a cross-Canada united wall of opposition to pipelines, reckless tar sands expansion and runaway climate change. Please RSVP so we know you'll be joining us.
https://www.facebook.com/events/196011303916176/
Find out more about #DefendOurClimate actions in other cities: http://www.defendourclimate.ca/
To learn more about the risks of Enbridge's Line 9 tar sands pipeline plan, visit: http://noline9.ca/
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An Open Streets Summit: Getting More Out Of Our Streets
Sat. Nov. 16, 9:30 a.m. - noon
Room ENG130, 245 Church Street, the George Vari Engineering & Computing Centre
Open Streets are programs where the streets are temporarily opened to people for physical and social activities. They are free, regularly occurring programs, and offer communities the opportunity to experience streets in a whole new way. The goal of many of these programs is to provide space for people of all ages to participate in physical activity, making Open Streets an easy and effective tool to promote healthy and active lifestyles. You can find more information about open streets programs here http://www.streetfilms.org/summer-streets-2008-nyc/ andhttp://vimeo.com/34649520.
The Summit will be an innovative discussion to hear how Toronto can use existing city streets to encourage active and healthy living.
http://openstreetssummit.eventbrite.ca/
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Yoga Open House Open house and free yoga classes with Diane Bruni
Sat. Nov. 16, 10 am - 3 p.m.
80 Gladstone
80gladstone.com
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The Work that Reconnects
How to Face the Mess We're in Without Going Crazy - with Natalie Zend
Sat/Sun. Nov. 16-17
The Work that Reconnects is a map for personal empowerment and transformation, deepening our capacity to act for the sake of Life on Earth. Drawing from deep ecology, systems theory and spiritual traditions, the Work That Reconnects (WTR) builds motivation, creativity, courage and solidarity for the transition to a vital Earth Community.
http://www.thelivingcentre.com/cms/the-work-that-reconnects-how-to-face-the-mess-we-re-in-without-going-crazy
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Water Power or Re-built Nuclear?
With Jack Gibbons, Ontario Clean Air Alliance
Wed. Nov. 20th, 7 p.m.
8th floor, OISE (252 Bloor St. W, St. George subway), U of T
Free, all welcome
The province of Ontario is moving forward with re-building 4 reactors at Darlington, which would lock us into a high-cost risky centralized power system until 2050. The Ontario Clean Air Alliance (behind Ontario’s successful coal phase-out) contends that we can lower our energy bills and move to a 100% renewable electricity grid by 2030 by a combining energy conservation and efficiency with water power from Quebec. Join us in an active discussion about the pros and cons of nuclear vs. water power, and find out how you can plug in to help shape Ontario energy policy.
For more info: angela at cleanairalliance.org
Read our report here: http://www.cleanairalliance.org/files/hydroimports-oct2.pdf
Read our leaflet here: http://www.cleanairalliance.org/files/qbhydro.pdf
Event co-sponsored by Ontario Clean Air Alliance and Alumni for a Free U of T
https://www.facebook.com/events/1419222181640430/
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NOW magazine hosts a very comprehensive online events listing
http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/listings/
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