T.O. Greenspiration Events: After the Ballot Box

Sun Oct 27 22:29:29 EDT 2019

Climate Community Declares the Win as Polling Shows Climate Concern Driving Vote

The Canadian climate community is taking a victory lap and getting ready for the hard work ahead, after this week’s federal election largely delivered on the hope that the climate crisis would emerge as a key issue setting the composition of the country’s new government.

https://theenergymix.com/2019/10/24/climate-community-declares-the-win-as-polling-shows-climate-concern-driving-vote/ 

Call on the Liberals, NDP and Greens to form a cooperative government

We need a cooperative, stable government. We need parties committed to collaboration on the priorities important to Canadians - fighting climate change, improving affordability, a strong economy, and so many others. We need a National Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform - so we can finally move beyond the divisive politics of first-past-the-post.

https://act.newmode.net/action/fair-vote-canada/cooperate 

A Historic Climate Victory

Canada's recent election provides much-needed hope that truth can prevail over disinformation. “We got a pretty resounding signal that Canadian voters are on board with climate action. 63% of people voted for parties with very strong climate plans.” At the same time, only 2% voted for the only Canadian party that denies climate change, the right-wing People’s Party of Canada. And climate change “dominated the election,”  adding that the issue “occupied a more prominent space in the election discourse than any previous campaign in Canadian history.”

https://heated.world/p/a-historic-climate-victory

Months of Open Advocacy, Direct Intervention Bring Fossils the Election Outcome They Feared

https://theenergymix.com/2019/10/22/months-of-open-advocacy-direct-intervention-bring-fossils-the-election-outcome-they-feared/

Federal election frustrations for the Greens highlight electoral system flaws — again

https://theconversation.com/federal-election-frustrations-for-the-greens-highlight-electoral-system-flaws-again-125621

What a Liberal minority government means for Canada’s environment

>From the carbon tax to fossil fuel subsidies, here are eight things we can expect from a minority government

https://thenarwhal.ca/what-a-liberal-minority-government-means-for-canadas-environment/

Youths file lawsuit with Federal Court calling Ottawa to develop climate plan

This lawsuit by 15 young Canadians is just one litigation of its kind taking place across the world

https://www.sudbury.com/local-news/youths-file-lawsuit-with-federal-court-calling-ottawa-to-develop-climate-plan-1770934?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Email

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About 41% of the world’s people are under 24. And they’re angry

>From Hong Kong to Chile, young people are rising up to fight injustice and inequality.  Perhaps these protests will one day merge into a joined-up global revolt against injustice, inequality, environmental ruin and oppressive powers-that-be.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/26/young-people-predisposed-shake-up-established-order-protest?CMP=share_btn_link 

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Know Your Drugs - preventing another opoid crisis

Pharmaceutical companies are probably the most active political lobbyists in the world. A good way to pressure governments to improve prescription drug safety is to make sure they receive adverse drug reaction reports from consumers, parents, guardians, and caregivers. 

Here's a message to share with your family and friends that might help - https://knowyourdrugs.org/message/

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Motherload - A crowdsourced documentary about how cargo bikes will save the world.

http://motherloadmovie.com/

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Storage Space available

About 1/4 of a 10 x10 locker/Public Storage/Ossington & Dupont/$100- a mo/only available for approximately 3 months/negotiable. Perfect for someone who just moved here looking for a place/need to free up space while organizing primary one? etc. Call to inquire 416.732.8965

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Day of Action to Win an Ontario for All

Mon. Oct. 28, 7:30 - 11:30 a.m.

Queen's Park circle, Queen's Park Crescent and Wellesley Street 

Labour and community groups are welcoming MPPs back to Queen’s Park by demanding the Conservatives create an Ontario for all, not just the rich. Community champions will surround Queen’s Park circle to voice their demand that MPPs change the agenda, stop hurting families and communities with cuts to public services and instead build an Ontario for all. Be part of the Day of Action on social media by using the hashtags: #Ontarioforall #whileyouwerehiding #powerofmany and #changetheagenda.

https://www.powerofmany.ca/day_of_action_to_win_an_ontario_for_all

https://www.facebook.com/events/1182252731976810/ 

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Social Justice Week - Recipes for Change

Mon. - Fri. October 28 - November 1

Ryerson University

This year’s multidisciplinary week of events brings together students, academics, scientists, artists, writers, community organizers, and the public to reflect on our connection to the Earth and each other, to the food that nourishes us, to the injustices that divide us, and to the changes we need to make collectively for a better world where everyone has a seat at the table.

https://www.ryerson.ca/socialjustice

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Heading for Extinction - A series + chat on the science behind the climate crisis

Tues. Oct. 29 and Nov. 12, 7 p.m.

OISE, 252 Bloor W, Room O12198, U of T

We are facing a climate catastrophe and in the beginning of the world’s 6th mass extinction event. What does it all actually mean? What can you do? Join us for a discussion around the science with Extinction Rebellion + Science for Peace to get up to speed on the latest climate science and how we can prevent ecological + systems collapse. This is a bi-weekly event held at the University of Toronto. Each week we will cover a different topic. They include: Climate and Politics; Potential Solutions; Impacts on People; Impacts on Agriculture; Climate and the Military; Psychological Responses to the Climate Catastrophe

https://www.facebook.com/events/724424651336509/ 

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We Decide - Our Future with a Green New Deal

Tues. Oct. 29, 8 p.m. 

Webinar

Will corporations decide our climate future? Or will it be people and communities? We can weave a Green New Deal together by winning municipal resolutions from coast-to-coast-to-coast. Help win a Green New Deal by turning your community into a Green New Deal Community. Together, we can build a Green New Deal from the ground up. Hosted by Council of Canadians.

https://secure.canadians.org/page/44001/data/1?ea.url.id=4182980&forwarded=true 

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On Fire Book Club #2: Labour Organizing and Strikes

Tues. Oct. 29, 12:15 p.m.

Webinar

No truly bold and visionary social programs — from universal healthcare in Canada, to Social Security and unemployment insurance in the U.S. — have ever been won without social movements backing up politicians and pressuring them to do more.

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ooHTzjxLTaGKny6E_pQ7bA 

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We Do Not Consent

Tues. Oct. 29, 10 a.m.

Queens Park (College and University)

Peaceful protest against mandatory vaccinations.

https://vaccinechoicecanada.com/ 

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Launch of Sanctuary Student Solidarity and Support (S4) Collective 

Tues. Oct. 29, 6 - 9 p.m.

Mustard Seed, 791 Queen Street East Toronto

The Sanctuary Students Solidarity and Support (S4) Collective is excited to announce our official launch! Please join us for an evening of community building and celebration. This event honours the work and aspirations of a group of precarious migrant students and allies toward increased and more equitable access to secondary and post-secondary education in Ontario.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/launch-of-the-sanctuary-students-solidarity-and-support-collective-tickets-73570622713 

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Haiti: Political Crisis and the Culture of Resistance

Tues. Oct. 29, 6:30 pm

A Different Booklist, 777-779 Bathurst Street

Join the Caribbean Solidarity Network for a discussion about what is at the root of Haiti’s current political crisis, who are the key forces on the ground, and what is Canada’s role in all of this. We will be joined by Jean St. Vil and several members of the Solidarité Québec-Haiti, who recently occupied Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s election office in order to protest the Canadian government’s unwavering support for the deeply corrupt, illegitimate administration of Jovenel Moise.

https://www.facebook.com/events/411398049571401/ 

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After the Ballot Box: Organizing in the Post-Election Moment

Wed. Oct. 30, 6 p.m.

Webinar

Thousands of people worked their hearts out for insurgent left candidates in the Canadian election. Many organizers from community and climate justice struggles like Our Time threw down behind candidates who campaigned on the need for ambitious action on climate, racism, inequality, and a Green New Deal. Now we have a minority government -- an election result that is mixed and its meaning contested, and a need to keep pushing on the levers of change. Join The Leap, Democractic Socialists of America (DSA), Momentum UK, and newly elected Member of Parliament for Hamilton Centre, Matthew Green for a webinar on organizing at the intersection of social movements and the electoral sphere.

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GrbnK-2DTeCkutDJIzEkbQ

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City of Toronto TransformTO Climate Action Strategy

Wed. Oct. 30, 6:30 - 8:45 p.m.

Metro Hall, 55 John St, 3rd floor, Room 308/309

In 2017, Toronto City Council unanimously voted to pass TransformTO, the City’s climate action strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent of 1990 levels by 2050. To reach this target, Toronto needs to make transformative changes to the ways we travel, build, use energy, and manage waste— and the City needs your input on the next set of short-term climate actions from 2021-2023 that will support those transformations. You are invited to a public meeting to provide input to help inform the TransformTO Implementation Plan to 2023.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/public-meeting-city-of-toronto-transformto-climate-action-strategy-tickets-71540492539 

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Environment Seminar: The Food-City Nexus in An Era Of Climate Change                                                          

Wed. Oct. 30, 12:10 - 2:00 p.m.                                                                                                                                  

Room UC 140, University College Building, 15 King’s College Circle, U of T

Food is at the centre of the planetary crisis. The current industrial food system produces about one third of all GHGs, and is a major contributor to the breakdown of our planetary life support systems. In an increasingly urbanized world, cities are where the climate crisis is coming home to roost. The urgency of the climate crisis is creating a new food-city nexus and a need for “people-centred food policy.” In this seminar, I will identify six pillars of “critical food guidance” that are at the heart of the food-city nexus, and offer some suggestions for citizen engagement and people-centred food policy in an era of climate emergency.

https://www.environment.utoronto.ca/events/environment-seminar-the-food-city-nexus-in-an-era-of-climate-change/ 

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Vampires vs. The People: An XR Halloween

Thur. Oct. 31, 8:30 - 10 p.m.

Barbara Hall Park, 519 Church St.

Extinction Rebellion Toronto will take to Toronto's biggest Hallowe'en party in the Gay Village (Church and Wellesley) and perform a skit that is both haunting and close to home. The skit pits the vampires, seemingly hell-bent on sucking every last drop of oil, water and life out of this planet vs. the rest of us: the land, the plants, animals and people who call this place home. Join us.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1349268701918520/ 

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Hands off Venezuela - Cancel Arms Sales To Saudi Arabia

Fri. Nov. 1, 3 - 4 p.m.

Bloor and Spadina

The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) will be delivering a letter and holding a rally outside the office of MP Chrystia Freeland's constituency office (344 Bloor West) to object to her/the Canadian government's stance on and sanctions against Venezuela, orchestrating a coup against the Venezuelan government and selling arms to Saudi Arabia.

https://vowpeace.org/

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Inside Lehman Brothers 

Fri. Nov. 1, 7 p.m. 

OISE 5-240, 252 Bloor St w, U of T

2018 • Documentary. Over 10 years after losing her job as an account executive for a Lehman Brothers subsidiary, Sylvia Vega-Sutfin still lives in fear of her former employer. This film chronicles the fascinating story of the mostly female whistleblowers who paid a steep price in the 2008 American subprime mortgage crisis, while many of the top-positioned men remained untouched. 

https://www.eventbrite.ca/o/toronto-socialist-action-httpssocialistactionca-27394821737 

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Protest NATO Fundraiser with Paul Martin: NATO shouldn't be celebrated, it should be abolished 

Fri. Nov. 1, 6 - 7 p.m.

Globe & Mail Centre, 351 King Street East, Suite 1600

The former Prime Minister Paul Martin is the keynote speaker at $250 ticketed fundraiser for the NATO Association of Canada. We will protest outside this event to “celebrate NATO”. We say NATO shouldn’t be celebrated; it should be abolished. The event is to raise money for the NATO Association of Canada, which also receives funding from US weapons giants Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics. This year is the 70th anniversary of this male-dominated military alliance and Cold War relic that threatens our security with weapons and war. NATO puts intense pressure on the Canadian government to increase military spending and is preventing Canada from joining the UN Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons. VOW is calling for the Canadian government to withdraw from NATO and work through the United Nations on disarmament and the Sustainable Development Goals that will bring genuine human security. No to NATO; yes to peace, nonviolence and sustainability! Organized by the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace

https://www.facebook.com/events/2486578671600933/ 

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Toronto Know Your Rights Workshop

Fri. Nov. 1, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Tea Base, 222 Spadina Ave - unit C15

Learn about what your rights are, as well as what to do if you they are being violated. Hosted by Fight for $15 and Fairness.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1429108433905313/ 

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The (re)Making of a Movement: New Perspectives on the 1960s Counterculture by Angela Davis

Sat. Nov. 2, 9 a.m.

Fleck Dance Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, 207 Queens Quay West

Angela Davis is an international icon known for her ongoing work to combat all forms of oppression in the United States and abroad. Her work as an educator has always emphasize the importance of building communities of struggles for economic, racial and gender equality. As part of the 6th Annual Humber College Liberal Arts & Sciences Conference at TIFA, Davis will be delivering the Keynote on The (re)Making of a Movement: New Perspectives on the 1960s Counterculture.

https://festivalofauthors.ca/events/the-remaking-of-a-movement-new-perspectives-on-the-1960s-counterculture-by-angela-davis 

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Understanding the landscape of nuclear challenges for Canada - Is the Dragon Sleeping in the House? 

Sat. Nov. 2, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Markham

Speakers include: Angela Bischoff on Canada's dead-end nuclear plans and alternatives. Others will address the nuclear arms race; Great Lakes radiation; radiation and public health; and more.

https://www.globalnuclearawareness.org/copy-of-conferences 

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A Bold Peace: Costa Rica’s Path of Demilitarization

Sat. Nov. 2, 7 p.m.

Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave.

Catch this inspiring film about a country that abolished its army over 70 years ago. Costa Rica demilitarized in 1948 and it announced this year it will be the first country to completely decarbonize – find out why peace and disarmament are essential to tackling the climate crisis. Screening will be followed by a discussion of the Canadian context led by Tamara Lorincz.

http://vowpeace.org 

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Voice of Women for Peace AGM + Panel

Sat. Nov. 2, 3 - 7 p.m.

Friends House 60 Lowther

Voice of Women for Peace presents panel discussion on the Challenge of Peace in the 21st Century; the contribution of women to building peace and security. With Janis Alton, Tamara Lorincz and Lyn Adamson, followed by AGM and shared supper. Screening the film A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path To Demilitarization at 7 pm. Pwyc.

https://vowpeace.org/

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Growing up Green

Sat. Nov. 2, 10 - 11:30 a.m.

Allan Gardens, 19 Horticultura

Family drop-in morning with kid-friendly gardening and composting activities, scavenger hunts, nature crafts and story time suited for 2-8 years (younger siblings welcome). Suggested donation of $2-$5 per child. Parental supervision is required. http://friendsofallangardens.ca/#!/blog/growingupgreenfall2019   

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EcoFair at the Barns

Sun. Nov. 3, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St

The EcoFair is a FREE, family-friendly event that informs and inspires greener choices in our homes and communities.  Learn about and celebrate the exciting programs, products and services of over 40 environmental not-for-profit organizations and eco-friendly businesses.

https://ecofairtoronto.org/ 

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Made By Feminists Holiday Market

Sun. Nov. 3, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen W, ballroom

Handmade goods and natural products made by people who identify as feminist. Free admission. Presented by The Feminist Art Collective (FAC).

Http://facebook.com/events/1370225376869972   

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For the best Canadian climate and energy news, read and subscribe to the Energy Mix newsletter

http://theenergymix.com/ 

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Centre for Social Innovation Events

https://socialinnovation.org/community/events/      

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Toronto Public Libraries host Our fragile Planet, free environmental and community events

https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/search.jsp?N=4288100025&Ns=p_pub_date_sort&Nso=0  

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Hot Docs

Bloor Cinema (Bloor and Bathurst)

https://hotdocscinema.ca/ 

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NOW magazine hosts a very comprehensive online events listing

https://nowtoronto.com/search/event/community-events/      

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