T.O. Greenspiration Events: 1 down, 2 to go

Angela Bischoff greenspi at web.ca
Sun Jun 15 23:18:16 EDT 2014 

T.O. Greenspiration Events
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One Election Down... 2 to go
% of Ontarians who voted: 51.7%
% of those who voted who voted Liberal: 38.7%
% of Ontarians responsible for electing a Liberal majority government: 19%
So, 19% of Ontarians = 100% of the power / majority government.
“...with proportional representation, Liberals would have 42 seats (rather than 59, a majority of seats, with just 38.7 per cent of the vote), the Conservatives would have 33 (not 27), the NDP 26 seats (not 21), and the Greens would have won 6 seats (rather than 0).”
Furthermore, with PR more people would have voted, and more would've voted honestly, not strategically. 
One should be as critical of this as we all were of the Harper win in 2011, when he secured a majority gov with 25% of eligible voters.
Thanks Glenn MacIntosh of EcoSanity for the stats.

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To determine the best model of Proportional Representation
for Canada, we call on federal parties and candidates to commit to:
	• Conducting a citizen-led consultation process immediately following the next federal election.
	• Implementing the model in time for the following election.
Sign the Declaration here: 
http://www.fairvote.ca/

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73% of Torontonians say the lack of cycling infrastructure in this city is holding them back from riding more.
Which candidates for Mayor or City Councillor support creating a Minimum Grid of connected bike lanes across the entire city of Toronto?
http://minimumgrid.ca/
 
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Come to NYC
Toronto350 plans to send buses to NYC for the People's Climate March in September 2014. The march coincides with the UN Climate Summit (link is external) that has been called for by Ban Ki-Moon. Toronto350 is in the preliminary stages of organizing this trip. They intend to provide transportation primarily for students and youth (18 to 30 years). They are also encouraging other groups to organize additional buses.
If you are interested in coming, please fill out the form at toronto350.org/events/2014/nyc.php
facebook.com/events/301805359975258/ (link is external)
There will also be an anti-nuclear contingent. Let Angela at cleanairalliance.org if you'd like to be part of that.

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People' Social Forum
Aug. 21 - 24, Ottawa
This August, a convergence unlike any other will descend upon the Capital of the territory known as Canada. Activists, students, unions, Indigenous peoples, youth, environmentalists, and thousands of ordinary individuals from every region will unite to oppose the current political and economic direction, and propose a plurality of alternative paths towards a better world.
http://us3.campaign-archive2.com/?u=30e872c9bf4b31b87ea642f97&id=b50e5a5b85

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Ride For A Cause™ is an annual cycling fundraiser that partners with local and international charities to raise funds for initiatives in support of at-risk youth and
the needy. July 5.  60 or 100 km rides.
http://www.rideforacause.org

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Bike Month: May 26 – June 26
A celebration of cycling in the Greater Toronto Area with hundreds of community events including rides, races, tours, festivals, and more.
http://bikemonth.ca/

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Trinity-Spadina Federal By-Election - Candidates Debate on Climate Policy
Monday June 16, 7 - 9 p.m.
OISE. 252 Bloor St. West, Room 5250 (St. George subway)
With: Adam Vaughan-Liberals; Joe Cressy-NDP; and Camille Labchuk-Green Party
Let's give a heads up to the federal parties that CLIMATE ACTION matters to us!  So whether you live in Trinity Spadina or not, please come! Hosted By:Toronto350.org. All welcome!

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Solving Gridlock Forum 
Mon. June 16 
Hilton Hotel, Toronto
Includes mayoral hopefuls debate plus many speakers from around the world presenting transportation research and case studies focusing on congestion measures, project appraisal frameworks and communication strategies. 
www.transportfutures.ca/gridlock

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The Market deSade – and bioethics.
Euthanasia; compassionate or cost-effective? Our taxes are being stripped from healthcare to pay interest to the banks.
With Sydney White, investigative journalist - Studies in Propaganda
Mon. June 16, 6 p.m.
Rm. #140 University College, 15 Kings College Circle, U of T
A Free-U-of-T event. For more info: 416 787 0592

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Highland Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant Biosolids Management
Mon. June 16, Drop-in between 3:30pm and 8:30pm
Royal Canadian Legion, 45 Lawson Road
The Highland Creek Treatment Plant is one of the city’s largest polluters. Scarborough’s air contains toxic substances because the plant burns sewage waste. It doesn't have to be this way. The City is holding a public consultation on the future of this plant. TEA (Toronto Environmental Alliance) will be there to promote non-toxic solutions. Join us and have your say! 
http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=7f5411b440eb5410VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD

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Income Inequality: Where Economics and Social Justice Collide
Monday June 16, 10 am - noon
Room C, Osgoode Hall Law School Professional Development Centre, 1 Dundas Street West, 26th Floor
Income inequality affects us all, and the gap between the very wealthy and everyone else is currently on the rise throughout North America and Europe. The Institute of Public Administration of Canada and the Institute for Social Research at York University will seek to examine some of the causes and concerns of our existing economic landscape.
Topics of discussion:
* Is income inequality the historical norm or is it something that comes and goes, driven by events and changing economic trends such as globalization? Is it an inherent outcome of free market capitalism? What is inevitable and what can be changed?
* Is the problem income inequality, poverty – or both? What measures/indicators do we use and are they measuring what we think they are?
* Can public policy narrow the inequality gap? What are the best levers?
* Can one country act effectively or must there be coordinated action?
* Do Canadians care about income inequality, or is it, as some have argued, an academic preoccupation?

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Refugee Healthcuts
Monday, June 16, noon
74 Victoria Street at the offices of the Immigration and Refugee Board
Show your continued opposition to the Federal Conservative government's cuts to refugee health care. Many groups, representing a broad segment of Canadian society, have publicly opposed the cuts. These include national health care organizations, all provincial health ministers, faith based groups and artists among others. A court challenge is in place. The Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care has challenged Minister Chris Alexander to a public debate. The Government continues to ignore the request from the health care community for a dialogue on the impact of these cuts.
http://www.doctorsforrefugeecare.ca/

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Help Shape the City of Toronto’s Long Term Waste Management Strategy
Monday, June 16, 6:30 pm - 9 pm
North York City Centre, Memorial Community Hall (Burgundy Room), 5110 Yonge St. (Yonge Street north of Sheppard Ave.)
Subway: Yonge Line to North York Centre
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Tuesday, June 17, 6:30 pm - 9 pm
Metro Hall (Rotunda), 55 John St. (John & King St. W.)
Subway: University Line to St. Andrew
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Wednesday, June 18, 6:30 pm - 9 pm
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 3819 Bloor St. W. (just west of Kipling)
Subway: Bloor/Danforth Line to Kipling
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City staff are developing a Long Term Waste Management Strategy for Toronto to provide a framework for solid waste management policy decisions over the next 30 to 50 years. The Strategy will recommend waste management policies and programs, including how to manage any leftover garbage remaining after making use of recycling, composting and reuse options. All options and best practices for new and emerging waste diversion and disposal methods will be considered and evaluated. Our goal is to find solutions that are cost-effective, socially acceptable and environmentally sustainable. Share your ideas - join us at a public consultation session
http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=caf34bb70baf4410VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD&vgnextchannel=03ec433112b02410VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD
 
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Exploring the degrowth alternative
a conversation with Richard Swift and Wayne Ellwood
Tues. June 17, 6 – 8:30 pm
The Supermarket, 268 Augusta Avenue (Kennsington Market). Free
The world’s addiction to economic growth continues with barely any recognition that this is a problem. People are crying out for an alternative but are continually told that one does not exist. Wayne Ellwood (author of the new The No-Nonsense Guide to Degrowth) joins Richard Swift (author of recently released S.O.S: Alternatives to Capitalism) in a discussion about the alternative of economic degrowth.
info at btlbooks.com.  Media sponsor: rabble.ca

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Real Food For A Change 
Tues. June 17, 1 p.m.
Reference Library, 789 Yonge (near Bloor)
Talk on the problems facing our food industry and potential solutions by professor Rod MacRae. Free. 
torontopubliclibrary.ca.

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Should Surveillance Scare You? 
Tues. June 17, 7:30 p.m.
NOW Lounge, 189 Church (near Queen)
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression panel discussion on the role and significance of digital surveillance with Citizen Lab's Chris Parsons and Toronto Star national security reporter Michelle Shephard. Free. 
eventbrite.ca/e/11660672385.

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Toy Time With Tynan 
Tues. June 17, 7 - 9 p.m.
Anarres Apothecary, 749 Dovercourt (at Bloor)
Try warming edible massage oil, check out readings from queer writer Christine Malec and magic realism writer SK Dyment and more at this pre-Pride party launch. Free.  tynan at anarreshealth.ca. 

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Ricochet launch party
Tuesday June 17, 5 - 8 pm
Bovine Sex Club, 542 Queen Street West
Ricochet is a new model of media: bilingual, independent and crowd-funded. It will pay its writers and reach a large and mainstream audience, from coast to coast. With a focus on investigative journalism and high-profile opinion, and no corporate owners, Ricochet is an attempt to return journalism to its roots: speaking truth to power.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1489865367914341/

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Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom
Wed. June 18, screening at sunset
Neptune Gazebo, 145 Neptune
Pop Up Movie Night .TIFF Special Delivery Program and Art Starts present an outdoor screening. Free. 
artstarts.net.

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Apathy and Overdose
A public forum on accidental drug overdose - a major health crisis
Wednesday June 18, 7 p.m.
College Street United Church (northwest corner of College & Bathurst Streets)
A panel of people including a parent, a former paramedic, a youth worker and a person who has illicit drug use experience, all of whom have witnessed or experienced an accidental overdose, will talk about the impact on them, their families and the community. There are steps that can be taken to prevent overdose deaths. This FREE public event is being presented by the Canadian Harm Reduction Network (http://canadianharmreduction.com), in cooperation with Jac's Voice (http://jacsvoice.com) the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition (http://drugpolicy.ca/), Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network (http://aidslaw.ca/), John Howard Society Toronto (ttp://johnhowardtor.on.ca), Patients Canada (http://patientscanada.ca/), and Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy (http://cssdp.org/).
“The people using and abusing opioids (and dying as a result) are not all stereotypical ‘junkies' shooting up in alleys. They are also grandmothers who take too many painkillers, labourers who get addicted after treatment for a back injury, teenagers who raid their parents' medicine cabinet, kids who mistake pills for candy and recreational users who can be anyone from Bay Street brokers to squeegee kids." (Andre Picard, Globe and Mail healthcare correspondent) Opioids, the class of drug that is potentially the most lethal, include illicit drugs such as heroin and a full range of common prescription painkiller drugs including OxyContin, Codeine, Percocet, Fentanyl and Oxycodone.
 
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Green Drinks
Wednesday June 18, 6 - 8:30 p.m.
Grace O'Malleys, 14 Duncan Street (near King and University)
Everyone Welcome - No Admission Charge
We have a lively mixture of people from NGOs, academia, students, government and business. Come along and you'll be made welcome. Just say, "are you green?" and we will look after you and introduce you to whoever is there. It's a great way of catching up with people you know and also for making new contacts. Everyone invites someone else along, so there’s always... a different crowd, making Green Drinks an organic, self-organising network. These events are very simple and unstructured, but many people have found employment, made friends, developed new ideas, done deals and had moments of serendipity.
 
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Fair Wages Now!
Ministry of Labour Rally and Delegation Visit
Wednesday June 18, noon
Ministry of Labour office, 400 University Ave.
Our fight for a $14 minimum wage continues no matter who gets elected!  Join the Campaign to Raise the Minimum Wage on June 18 in front of the Ministry of Labour for a rally and community delegation visit. Let's show the new Minister our fight for fair wages cannot be ignored!  There are too many of us – about a million – struggling to get by on inadequate wages and we’re not going away.
http://on.fb.me/1kHr5yo
www.raisetheminimumwage.ca

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Female Eye Film Festival 
June 18 to 22
Royal Cinema, 608 College
Provocative and controversial shorts, documentaries and feature films as seen through the eyes of women directors. 
femaleeyefilmfestival.com. 

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Line 9 and climate change in Toronto
with Franz Hartmann, Toronto Environmental Alliance
Thursday, June 19, 7 - 9 p.m.
Danforth Mennonite Church, 2174 Danforth Ave., east of Woodbine
Join in discussing A Climate Change Agenda for Toronto. Last year our city suffered major damage from two torrential rainstorms. Power was out; trees came down; the total cost: more than $1 billion. Yet an official City of Toronto study tells us that because of climate change, in 20 years, such extreme downpours will be more than twice as severe. Such storms could well rupture the Line 9 pipeline through which Enbridge wants to pump toxic tar sands oil. There is more. The city’s need for air conditioning, the study says, will be almost six times greater. Hear the facts and join in an open discussion of how we and our city government can meet the challenge of climate change.
Sponsored by East End Against Line 9 - info at eastendnotar.org : www.eastendnotar.org
p.s. Sorry to those folks that went last week to an empty house - the date had been changed because of the election but I didn't know of the change. - a

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Participatory Budgeting: Real Power over Real Money
Thursday, June 19, 9:30 a.m. - noon
Social Planning Toronto, 2 Carlton Street, Suite 1001
"Participatory Budgeting" is one strategy to engage communities more directly and effectively in the key decisions that affect residents of our communities and cities. Find out more about how participatory budgeting works, how it has worked in other cities and here in Toronto, and how it might help transform civic engagement in our city.
Speakers include:
- Josh Lerner is Executive Director of the Participatory Budgeting Project <http://www.participatorybudgeting.org/>, 
- Alderman Joe Moore is a member of Chicago City Council. 
- Councillor Shelley Carroll is conducting a pilot participatory budgeting process in Toronto's Ward 33 - Don Valley East, and is a former Budget Chief for the City of Toronto.
- Alina Chatterjee, Director, Redevelopment, Development, Community Engagement at Scadding Court Community Centre. 
To register please go to: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/participatory-budgeting-real-power-over-real-money-tickets-11778209943 or contact Mary Micallef at 416-351-0095x251.

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The Ontario Election And The Future Of The NDP 
Thur. June 19, 7 p.m.
OISE, 252 Bloor W, rm 5-260
NDP Socialist Caucus public forum with speakers Malcolm Buchanan, John Orrett, Boris Rosolak, Barry Weisleder and others. $4 or pwyc. 
ndpsocialists.ca.

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Hacking the Middle East
Friday, June 20, 6 pm - Sunday, 5 pm 
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markhm
HackingME is a Toronto Hackathon for positive social change in the Middle East. Hacking the Middle East is a Toronto Hackathon bringing together software developers, designers, experts in middle eastern politics, history, governance, culture (and many other areas) to build solutions for positive social change in the Middle East. 
http://beitzatoun.org/event/hacking-the-middle-east/

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Bring Back Our Girls – Toronto Artists Concert 
Fri. June 20, 6:30 p.m.
City Hall council chambers, 100 Queen W.
Performances by Waleed Abdulhamid, Naomi Abiola and others plus speakers raise awareness of the female students kidnapped in Nigeria. Free (donations appreciated). facebook.com/africanwomenacting.

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Ladies Army 6 International Women's Bike Polo Tournament 
Fri 9 am to Sun 1 pm. Jun 20 to 22. 
Dufferin Grove Park, 875 Dufferin south of bloor
Battle for global championship by 32 women & trans bike polo teams. 
bikepolo.to.

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Leslieville Tree Festival
Saturday, June 21, noon - 4 p.m.
Leslie Grove Park, 1158 Queen St E. (corner of Queen St E and Jones Ave)
Featuring green groups and vendors, exciting live performances, a kids’ zone, native plants, local artists and woodworkers, a ceremonial tree planting and tasty local food, this fun-filled celebration of our urban forest includes activities for the whole family.
http://www.yourleaf.org/event/2014-06-21/leslieville-tree-festival

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A Leaf in the Wind
a narrated mystical journey accompanied by acoustic guitar, cello, percussion and harp.
Sat. June 21, 8 p.m.
Toronto Heliconian Club, 35 Hazelton Ave, in Yorkville
A fundraiser for two charities: one targets helping kids and parents learn about healthy lifestyles and mental health; the other specifically helps people struggling with opioid addiction, many of whom became addicted through poor prescribing practices by doctors.  In memory of Ryan and the many other kids/friends/family members who have lost their lives from wrongly prescribed drugs. And to help people/kids stay away from Rx drugs.
Tickets are $20 each and are available from markbattenberg at rogers.com, hicksbri at gmail.com and mollyamelia at hotmail.com
Mindful Charity www.mindfulcharity.ca 
Breakaway Addiction Services  www.breakawayaddictions.ca
Ryan's story is at www.cpso.co
If you feel opioid drugs are widely over prescribed, sign the Advocates for the Reform of Prescription Opioids (ARPO) petition against the over prescribing of opioid narcotics. http://www.rxreform.org/help/petitions/cn-petition/
 
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Yogathon 
Sat. June 21, 9 am - 5 pm.
Distillery District, 55 Mill
Yoga enthusiasts welcome summer at specially themed outdoor classes for all levels. Free (bring yoga mat). 
omto.ca.

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Climate Emergency Countdown
Sunday, June 22, 1 - 5 pm
Metro Hall, 55 John St (King & John), room 308.
Please join us for an informative afternoon of frank, heartfelt presentations on the climate change EMERGENCY that will convey vital facts and insights about the latest dire reports and the life-or-extinction urgency to mobilize ahead of critical, fast-approaching international climate negotiation summits this September (in New York City) and December (in Lima, Peru).  Speakers, videos, Q & A, FREE admission, food and refreshments. Sponsored by EcoSanity.
http://www.ecosanity.org/content/climate-emergency-countdown-toronto
https://www.facebook.com/events/672013369531002/

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Inequality's a Drag
Sunday, June 22, Doors open at 7:30 pm.
Lee's Palace, 529 Bloor Street West (near Bathurst)
Tickets are $25 in advance or $35 at the door.
World Pride is taking place in Toronto from June 20th to 29th, and Oxfam will be hosting eight LGBTI activists who are making history in Cuba, Mozambique, Pakistan, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe. Join Oxfam partners, supporters and staff at events throughout the week and this show.
Tickets: http://www.oxfam.ca/get-involved/take-action/events/inequality-is-a-drag?utm_source=oxf.am&utm_medium=oc-iad&utm_content=redirect

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Urban Beekeeping 
Sun. June 22, 1 p.m.
Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview
Workshop on keeping bees in your backyard with beekeeper Jozef Winter. 
Pre-register 416-596-1495, evergreen.ca.

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Eco-Art-Fest 
Jun 22 to Sep 21
Todmorden Mills 67 Pottery
Outdoor art, heritage and cultural festival, with sustainable architecture and animal habitat workshops, watercolour painting, art tours, an exhibit and more.
416-644-1019. 

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Hot Docs
Bloor Cinema (Bloor and Bathurst)
http://bloorcinema.com/

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NOW magazine hosts a very comprehensive online events listing
http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/listings/
 
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