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Jan 1, 2010 through Dec 31, 2010
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Students will learn effective, accessible interventions for identifying and working with diruptive somatic patterns, disturbedcognitive andemotional processing,and the fragmented sense of self experienced by so many traumatized individuals.

Time:  12:00 - 6:30 pm
Venue:  Ryerson U, London-Paris Room
Location:  240 Jarvis St., Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.sensorimotorpsychotherapy.org
For information contact:  Judy Langmuir judy.langmuir@wchospital.ca
Phone:  416-323-6400 ex.4127
Categories:   Health/Health Care; Education; Skills & Training

This lecture will provide an overview of bio-diversity statistics, threats to biodiversity and what you can do to help.

Venue:  UBC Botanical Garden Reception Centre
Location:  Vancouver, BC
Website:  http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org
Categories:   Environment; Education; Nature & Outdoors

Michael Ignatieff, Leader of the Liberal Party will handle questions from students, regarding environment, education, youth in politics.

Time:  3:30 - 5:00 pm
Venue:  Concordia U., Hall Bldg. 7th floor
Location:  1455 De Maissoneuve, Montreal, QC
Categories:   Environment; Politics & Political Organizations; Labour, Workplace, Unions

This event is a promotion of Greg Mortenson's bestseller: "Stones Into Schools".
Tickets will be sold on behalf of Central Asia Inst. and the Toronto public library foundation.

Time:  7:00 pm
Venue:  Reference Library, The Bram and Bluma Appel Salon
Location:  789 Yonge St., Toronto, QC
Website:  http://penguin.ca/StonesintoSchools
Categories:   Children & Youth; Education; International

The relationship between business and society has never been more influential or important. What actions are businesses taking with respect to environmental challenges and concerns? Where are they leading and where are they struggling?

Time:  7:00 pm
Venue:  J.S. Wood Library
Location:  1801 Lansdowne Avenue, Saskatoon, SK
Website:  http://www.environmentalsociety.ca
For information contact:  info@environmentalsociety.ca
Phone:  306-665-1915
Categories:   Business & Economics; Environment

Dance reformance as inspired by the diverse tales from Indian mythology. The performance will incorporate a lecture about Indian dance.

Time:  6:30 PM
Venue:  Textile Museum of Canada
Location:  55 Centre Avenue, Toronto, ON
For information contact:  info@textilemuseum.ca
Phone:  416-599-5321 ext.2221
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Education; International

Speakers will include representatives from Bosch Canada, HP-Eco-Solutions, Walmart Sustainability, Terra Choice, Leader of Green Party, Aboriginal Chief of Ontario. Topic will be the examination of the traditional economic model vs the environment.

Venue:  U of Guelph
Location:  Guelph, PE
Website:  http://www.uoguelph.ca
For information contact:  envsymp@uoguelph.ca
Categories:   Environment; Economic Development; Education

Rafe will be the keynote speaker for the evening, focusing on his views of civil liberties and free speech during the upcoming Olympic Games.

Time:  6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Venue:  Sala Thai Restaurant
Location:  3364 Cambie St., Vancouver, BC
Categories:   Education; Skills & Training; Social Policy

Support of local artists: bring your best piece of art to Olivia Chow's office and share it with your friends and neighbours.

Time:  2 - 4 pm
Venue:  Olivia Chow's Constituency office
Location:  144 Augusta Avenue, Toronto, ON
For information contact:  chowo1c@parl.gc.ca
Phone:  416-533-2710
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Economic Development; Hobbies

A night of creative, comedic, academic, grassroots, and musical responses to the topic of feminism and money.

Time:  8:00 pm
Venue:  TheTransac
Location:  Toronto, ON
For information contact:  ladyfesttoronto@gmail.com
Phone:  416-536-4621
Categories:   Women; Arts & Culture; Performing Arts

more than 1000 scientists, students, educators, policymakers and educated citizens will converge on a highly interactive platforms Speakers and topical symposia to explore how to move toward a true green economy.

Location:  Washington, DC, USA, ON
Website:  http://www.ncseonline.org/conference/economy
For information contact:  conference@ncseonline.org
Categories:   Environment; Economic Development; Science & Technology

Environmental risk is acknowledged by corporate executives to be one of the most significant of all emerging risks to impact financial forecasts and bugdets. A Panel of corporate and public sector experts will discuss and speak.

Time:  8:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Venue:  Hart House, Debates Room
Location:  7 Hart House Circle, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.learn.environment.utoronto.ca
Categories:   Environment; Economic Development; International

Three Canadian MPs joined a Canadian led delegation to the West Bank and Gazato document living conditions of Palestinians and to witness the devastation of Israel's war on Gaza.

Venue:  Oakham House, Ryerson U
Location:  63 Gould Street, Toronto, ON
For information contact:  info@nowar.ca
Categories:   International; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; Human Rights, Law, Legal

Three Canadian MPs joined a Canadian-led delegation to the West Bank and Gaza from August 7-14, 2009, to document the living conditions of Palestinians, and to witness the devastation of Israel's war on Gaza.

Please join us to hear them report their findings, and to discuss strategies for peace in the region. Discussion will follow the MPs' presentations. All are welcome to participate.

Featuring:
Libby Davies, MP for Vancouver East (New Democratic Party)
Richard Nadeau, MP for Gatineau (Bloc Quebecois)
Borys Wrzesnewskyj, MP for Etobicoke Centre (Liberal Party)

To read the MPs' report, please visit: http://bit.ly/4Tk50b

Hosts: Code Pink, CAW-Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy, Toronto Coalition to Stop the War

Media Sponsor: rabble.ca
Endorsed by: Canadian Arab Federation, Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid, Independent Jewish Voices, Not In Our Name, Palestine House, Ryerson Students' Union

Time:  7:30 pm
Venue:  Oakham House, Ryerson University
Location:  63 Gould Street, Toronto, ON
For information contact:  info@nowar.ca
Categories:   International; Human Rights, Law, Legal; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

The Conservation Council of Ontario is unique in being a cross-sectoral council of organizations, businesses and municipalities that are working cooperatively.

Location:  Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.weconserve.ca
For information contact:  Chris Winter
Phone:  416-533.1653 ext.1
Categories:   Environment; Economic Development; Nature & Outdoors

No prorogue Rally.

Time:  1:00 pm
Venue:  Stephen Harper's riding office
Location:  1600-90th Avenue SW, Calgary, Calgary, MB
Website:  http://www.noprorogue.ca/calgary
Categories:   Human Rights, Law, Legal; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; Politics & Political Organizations

No Prorogue Rally

Venue:  Province House
Location:  1726 Hollis Street, Granville side, Halifax, NS
Website:  http://www.noprorogue.ca/halifax
Categories:   Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; Sexuality; Politics & Political Organizations

No Prorogue Rally

Time:  1:00 pm
Venue:  Dundas Square
Location:  Yonge/Dundas, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.noprorogue.ca/toronto
Categories:   Human Rights, Law, Legal; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; Politics & Political Organizations

No prorogue rally.

Time:  1:00 pm
Venue:  Vancouver Art Gallery, march to Victory square
Location:  Vancouver, BC
Website:  http://www.noprorogue.ca/vancouver
Categories:   Human Rights, Law, Legal; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; Politics & Political Organizations

No Prorogue Rally.

Time:  12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Venue:  Victoria Park - Richmond and Central Entrance
Location:  London, ON
Website:  http://www.noprorogue.ca/london
Categories:   Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; Human Rights, Law, Legal; Politics & Political Organizations

No prorogue rally.

Time:  11 a.m.
Venue:  Parc Emilie-Gamelin vers le Carre Plilips
Location:  Montreal, QC
Website:  http://www.noprorogue.ca/montreal
Categories:   Human Rights, Law, Legal; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; Politics & Political Organizations

One of the world's greatest composers, Krysztof Penderecki, speaks with Canadian composer Norbert Palej about composing music in communist Poland.

Time:  7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Venue:  The Gardiner Museum
Location:  111 Queen's Park Ave., Toronto, ON
For information contact:  allisonm@soundstreams.ca
Categories:   Music; Politics & Political Organizations; International

Top three topics:
1) Understand the regulatory framework of the Green Energy Act and its impact on your organization.
2) Learn how to use the Feed-In Tariff Program (FIT) to your advantage.
3) Gain insights into the approval process for renewable energy projects

Location:  Toronto, ON
Website:  http://infonex.ca
For information contact:  infonex
Phone:  1-800=474-4829
Categories:   Environment; Economic Development; Education

There is much debate in the province as to how much power is required, what is a fair price for new power and the environmental impact of new power projects.
BC Power: A Forum for Discussion and Debate

Venue:  Vancouver
Location:  Vancouver, BC
Website:  http://www.canadianinstitute.com
Phone:  877-927-7936
Categories:   Economic Development; Environment; Government & Public Sector

The In the Dead of Winter festival is an acoustic based festival that will be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada annually on the last weekend of January. The goal of the festival is to bring a diverse group of acoustic musicians together to not only perform but to also meet one another in a professional environment. The festival aims to showcase the diversity of acoustic music in the Atlantic Region, Canada, and the United States. It is of particular importance to the festival to not only celebrate the excellence of our musicians but to also provide venues for artists who have not yet had the opportunity to perform their music to a wider audience.

The In the Dead of Winter Music Festival is organized by a small group of musicians and event producers. The festival was founded by Heather Gibson with Halifax musicians Jill Barber, Rose Cousins, Jenn Grant, and Amelia Curran. The 2010 festival is being organized by Heather Gibson and Halifax musicians Amelia Curran, Tanya Davis, and Don Brownrigg.

Venue:  various - see website
Location:  2367 Maynard Street, Halifax, NS
Website:  http://www.inthedeadofwinter.com/index.html
For information contact:  hgibson@inthedeadofwinter.com
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

Dirt! The movie tells the ammazing tells the amazing story of the earth we stand on every day and how we depend on it for life. One teaspoon of earth has billions of good critters that make life possible every day.

Time:  6:30:00 - 8:30 pm
Venue:  Bloor Str. Cinema
Location:  506 Bloor St. W., Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.foodcycles.org
Phone:  416-845-0818
Categories:   Environment; Education; Health/Health Care

Simultaneous Live and Online Bidding on premium high-quality domain names.

The live auction will be followed by the Moniker Extended Premium Auction with Online Bidding Only
Thursday, January 28, 2010 to Thursday, February 4, 2010.

Time:  2:00 - 6:00 pm PST
Venue:  Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows
Location:  101 Wilshire Boulevard, Santa Monica CA USA
Website:  http://www.moniker.com
Categories:   Computers; Business & Economics; Marketing, Advertising, Public Relations

Topics include: youth farming,organic seeds and biodiversity, worm ranching,edible weeds, friendly fungi, biodynamics and an organic response to climate change challenge.

Venue:  Guelph University Centre
Location:  Guelph, ON
Website:  http://www.guelphorganicconf.ca
Categories:   Environment; Farming; Education

Exhibition addresses how Canadian based women artists are contributing to contemporary culture: considered to be hot-headed or intelectually tempestous.

Time:  9 am - 5 pm
Venue:  McMaster Museum of Art
Location:  McMaster University, 1280 Main St.W., Hamilton, ON
Website:  http://www.mcmaster.ca/museum
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music; Women

Inaugural Event at New Toronto Art and Culture Venue - Beit Zatoun
A dramatic reading of a searing, personal account of bombing of Gaza

This performance piece for three voices is adapted from a diary kept during the Israeli assault on Gaza in December 2008 into January 2009. The diarist is Khulood Ghanem, a 27 year-old woman living in Khan Younis in central Gaza. Written in Arabic, the first seven days were translated into rough but clear English by the diarist.

This adaptation employs half the diary text for those seven days. Interspersed are excerpts selected by Mr. Mast from published reports issued during the last year by respected information sources or human rights organizations.

By donation - suggested $20; unwaged $5
Proceeds shared with a fund for Khulood Ghanem

Time:  6:00 pm
Venue:  Beit Zatoun
Location:  612 Markham St. (Bathurst subway), Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.beitzatoun.org
For information contact:  Sandra Ruch
Phone:  (647) 726-9500
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Media, Entertainment, News, Communications; Journalism, Writing, Literary, Language

The Centre for Civic Governance at the Columbia Inst. is presenting a forum for all sectors on: Making Green Jobs Happen.

Venue:  Direct Energy Centre
Location:  Exhibition Grounds, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.civicgovernance.ca/ontario
Phone:  416-531-7265
Categories:   Environment; Economic Development; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

A celebration of the choral music of Krysztof Penderecki, one of the world's greatest living composers who will conduct his favorite choir - the Polish Chamber of Gdansk.

Time:  8:00 - 10:00 pm
Venue:  Metropolitan United Church
Location:  56 Queen St. East, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://allisonm@soundstreams.ca
Categories:   Music; Education; International

63 Years On, by award winning Korean director Kim Dong Wong introduces 5 international survivors of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery. Experiences of approximately 200,000 sex slaves from 13 different countries who were used by the Japanese soldiers during second world war.

Time:  7 - 9 pm
Venue:  OISE Auditorium
Location:  252 BloorSt. West, Toronto, ON
For information contact:  cwse@utoronto.ca
Phone:  416-926-4771
Categories:   Women; Military; International

A public forum with with Justin Podur and Dan Freeman-Maloy.

On January 12, Haiti was hit with an earthquake 7.0 on the Richter scale, leaving possibly 200,000 dead and 3 million affected. Much of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, is now living in makeshift camps with their water, food, and health at risk. While many countries around the world responded with aid, the US and Canada also quickly deployed troops.
This talk will discuss current events and press coverage in the context of the past decade of Western policy towards Haiti, as well as the prospects for constructive relief and solidarity work.

Justin Podur is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at York University and a member of the Pueblos en Camino Collective. He visited Haiti in 2005 to study the UN occupation and the government after the 2004 coup.

Dan Freeman-Maloy is a Toronto-based activist and writer. He studied Canadian media coverage of the 2004 Haiti coup and has written for ZNet and other publications.

Sponsored by the Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG)
Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid
Socialist Project
Toronto Haiti Action Committee
Toronto New Socialist Group
U of T Equity Studies Students' Union
Upping the Anti: A journal of theory and action

The Centre for Social Justice is wheelchair accessible.

Time:  7:00 - 9:00
Venue:  Centre for Social Justice
Location:  489 College Street, Suite 303, Toronto, ON
Categories:   International

This event will be a talk on biofuel gasification and its uses in B.C.'s diversified energy portfolio.

Time:  7:00 - 9:00 pm
Venue:  Vancouver City Hall
Location:  Vancouver, BC
Website:  http://www.bcsea.org
For information contact:  soullie.mo@shaw.ca
Categories:   Environment; Science & Technology; Economic Development

This conference aims to enrich our conversation about Africa, highlighting good news stories from Africa, and drawing on lessons learned, projecting trends, and focusing on the many ways in which Canada–-Africa relations support innovation on the continent.

Venue:  Fairmont Château Laurier
Location:  1 Rideau Street, Ottawa, ON
Website:  http://www.idrc.ca/AfricaNewFrontier
For information contact:  AfricaNewFrontier@idrc.ca
Categories:   Economic Development; Education; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

The conference will explore early childhood, family and community development through the lens of Child Rights.

Venue:  The Victoria Conference Centre
Location:  720 Douglas Street, Victoria, BC
Website:  http://www.interprofessional.ubc.ca
Phone:  1-877-328-7744
Categories:   Children & Youth; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; Human Rights, Law, Legal

Since 2005, the people of Bil'in, a farming village in the West Bank, have been demonstrating non-violently against the ever-expanding illegal Israeli settlements and the separation wall which encroaches on and divides their land. The village has organized weekly protests with active participation from both Israeli and international peace activists and has become an internationally celebrated symbol of non-violent resistance.

The Israeli occupation forces have been trying to destroy the resistance with a series of night raids targeting the leaders of the village, as well as ordinary residents as young as 14 years old.

One of the people arrested, Abdallah Abu Rahmah, a schoolteacher from Bil'in wrote from his prison: No army, no prison and no wall can stop us.
We will be there in solidarity with the people of Bil'in and the Palestinian people in their quest for human dignity and self-determination- Palestinians, Jews and others. We say as well we refuse to be enemies.

February 5th 2010 marks the 5th anniversary of the non-violent action in Bil'in and we will be celebrating this on that day by having a lively action in front of the Israeli consulate at 180 Bloor St W. From 5 to 6pm.

Time:  5:00 - 6:00 pm
Venue:  Israeli consulate
Location:  180 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.bilin-village.org
For information contact:  Miriam Garfinkle
Phone:  416-897-0008
Categories:   Human Rights, Law, Legal; International; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

Singer/Songwriter Ben Sures - Friday February 5, 2010

Italian Gormet Lasagna Dinner 6:30pm
$15 CFG Members, $20 non-members

Concert 7:30 pm
$10 CFG Members, $15 non-members

Tickets for both Dinner and the Concert must be reserved in advance.
Seating is limited. These events usually sell out so reserve early by phoning: 250-748-3975

Venue:  Providence Farm
Location:  1843 Tzouhalem Road, Duncan, BC
Website:  http://www.folkfest.bc.ca/
For information contact:  info@folkfest.bc.ca
Phone:  250-748-3975
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

A search of Ecological Goods and Services and as they relate to privately owned forests is the main topic.

Time:  8 am - 7pm
Venue:  Nottawasaga Inn
Location:  6015 HWY 89, Toronto, ON
For information contact:  forestry@oforest.ca
Phone:  416-493-4565
Categories:   Environment; Forestry, Lumber, Paper; Education

This event is important to raise awareness about man-made threats to our future food supply, i.e. GM seeds, etc.

Time:  8:00 - 10:15 pm
Venue:  Vanvouver Unity Church
Location:  5840 Oak St., Vancouver, ON
Website:  http://www.biofield.ca
For information contact:  Raoul Bedl
Phone:  604-437-5683
Categories:   Food & Beverage; Science & Technology; Economic Development

Artisanal and Small Scale Gold Mining in developing countries is the largest remaining intentional use of mercury on the planet. Mercury is a highly toxic pollutant.

Time:  7:00 - 9:00pm
Venue:  Crowne Plaza Ottawa
Location:  101 Lyon Str., Ottawa, ON
Website:  http://www.pollutionprobe.org
For information contact:  pprobe@pollutionprobe.org
Categories:   Environment; Science & Technology; Social Policy

The Conservative, Liberal , NDP, Green Parties of Canada were invited to answer questions relating to poverty caused by the recent recession and its harsh impact on impoverished communities.

Time:  12:00 - 3:00 pm
Venue:  Church ofHoly Trinity
Location:  10 Trinity Square, Toronto, ON
For information contact:  ronzig@recession-relief-coalition.org
Categories:   Government & Public Sector; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; Human Rights, Law, Legal

A discussion of the topic of addiction as perceived by the author..

Time:  11 a.m.
Venue:  Scarborough College, U of Toronto
Location:  1265 Military Trail, Lower Level, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.utsc-leaderscircle.ca
Phone:  416-208-4760
Categories:   Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; Information, Libraries, Research; Human Rights, Law, Legal

The presentationswill elaborate on funding tactics, regulatory barriers to innovation, the role of government, the private sector and other actors in the transition process.

Time:  7:30 am - 9:30 am
Venue:  Ridea Club
Location:  99 Bank Str., Toronto, ON
For information contact:  dianne.gravel@ppforum.ca
Phone:  613-238-7858 ext:233
Categories:   Environment; Science & Technology; Education

This talk will examine the damage that oil sands development has brought to Alberta and how Saskatchewan can avoid this fate. Also ideas will be presented as to how Saskatchewan could benefit from renewable energy generation.

Time:  7 :00 pm
Venue:  J.S. Wood Library
Location:  1801 Lansdowne Ave., Saskatoon, SK
Website:  http://www.environmentalsociety.ca
For information contact:  Sask. Environmental Soc.
Phone:  665-1915
Categories:   Environment; Economic Development; Education

Winterfolk was formed to entertain, educate, enlighten, engage and encourage our community about various folk music styles including roots, blues, folk and more. Winterfolk is presented by The Association of Artists for A Better World, a registered Non-Profit Organization, in the Province of Ontario, Canada. Winterfolk folk has no paid employees, and maintains no staff. Funds received from submissions are used towards festival expenses, the majority of which is paid to the artists.

Venue:  various - see website
Location:  Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.abetterworld.ca/p-winterfolk-viii/
For information contact:  brian@winterfolk.com
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

First Nations are an important ally and key player in protecting the native plant species and habitata from urban sprawl and poor planning.

Time:  7:30 - 9:30 pm
Venue:  Garden Hall, Toronto Botanical Garden
Location:  777 Lawrence Ave. W., Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.nanps.org
For information contact:  harbersmith@sympatico.ca
Categories:   Environment; Economic Development; Education

The childs concerns will be addressed from preconception through to child health.

Time:  all day
Location:  Toronto, ON
For information contact:  beststart@healthnexus.ca
Phone:  416-408-2122
Categories:   Health/Health Care; Children & Youth; Social Policy

Over 20,000 visitors last year. North American Solar Solutions is new solar business suported by government.

Venue:  Toronto International Centre
Location:  Toronto, ON
Website:  http://nasolarsolutiond.com
For information contact:  D.P. Moonen solarsolutions@bmts.com
Phone:  705-443-0705
Categories:   Environment; Economic Development; Farming

This community education event is open to the public and it is for families, friends, educators or anyone struggling with an addiction.

Time:  7 pm - 9 pm
Venue:  Toronto Botanical Garden
Location:  777 Lawrence Ave. East, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.bellwood.ca
Phone:  416-847-0752
Categories:   Education; Health/Health Care; Disability Issues

It was way back in 1979 when organizers of the very first Frostbite Music Festival had the crazy idea of bringing musicians up to the Yukon in the dead of winter. Now, 32 years later, Frostbite can lay claim to having brought some of the most exciting acts way north of 60. From Parachute Club to Ani Difranco, Skinny Puppy to the Rheostatics, Frostbite knows that the music has to be piping hot to sear through the darkest depths of winter.

Venue:  Yukon Arts Centre, Yukon College
Location:  P.O. Box 31283, Y1A 5P7, Whitehorse, YT
Website:  http://www.frostbitefest.ca
For information contact:  info@frostbitefest.ca
Phone:  867-668-4921
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

A homeless person dies every 12 days in BC. Between the early 1970s and 1990s Canada had one of the best housing programs in the world. The UN now calls Canada's housing crisis a "national emergency".

Time:  12:00 - 2:00 pm
Venue:  North Side of Vancouver Art Gallery
Location:  750 Hornby Street, Vancouver, BC
Categories:   Human Rights, Law, Legal; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; Social Policy

This conference will celebrate a forward thinking company taking GMOs off its shelves and a man who has fought against the odds. Be inspired by how the organic sector perseveres in producing the healthiest, safest food possible.

Time:  9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Venue:  University of Toronto Conference Centre
Location:  89 Chestnut St., Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.cogtoronto.org
Phone:  416-466-4420
Categories:   Farming; Food & Beverage

A Fundraiser will be put on for the Women's Toronto Bookstore andthaday will befilledwith programming, performances, music, art, food.


Family friendly event

Time:  1:00 - 5:30 pm
Venue:  TRANSAC
Location:  292 Brunswick Avenue, Toronto, ON
Categories:   Women; Arts & Culture; Journalism, Writing, Literary, Language

John Dillon, an economist and prolific writer is examining this issue based on many years of following economic stories and analyzing national and international economic outcomes.

Time:  7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Venue:  Dovercourt Baptist Church
Location:  1140 Bloor St. West, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://info@davenport4peace.ca
Categories:   Economic Development; Education; Journalism, Writing, Literary, Language

This Argentinian composer shows us his world of music including tango, Jewish liturgical and klezmer music mixed with latino create a vibrant musical texture.

Time:  7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Venue:  Gardiner Museum
Location:  111 Queens's Park, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://allisonm@soundstreams.ca
Categories:   Music; Environment; International

The Conference is designed to promote continued awareness of air quality issues and to address new matters that relate to transboundary air pollution, health and climate change. Featured speakers include the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario.

Time:  8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Venue:  Hamilton Convention Centre
Location:  1 Summers Lane, Hamilton, ON
Website:  http://www.cleanair.hamilton.ca
For information contact:  Brian Montgomery
Phone:  905-546-2424 ext.1275
Categories:   Environment; Economic Development; Education

The purpose of the panel discussion and meeting is to foster growth in the environmentally friendly business community.

Time:  6:30 - 10:00 pm
Venue:  The National Club
Location:  303 Bay St., Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.torontogreenhouse.com/events.html
For information contact:  Randy Tyrell
Phone:  416-278-9275
Categories:   Environment; Economic Development; Manufacturing

Famed Argentinian composer Osvaldo Goliov teams up with world famous soprano Dawn Upshaw to showcase Goliov's soul stirring There is Wind and there are Ashes.

Time:  7:00 - 11:00 pm
Venue:  Jane Mallett Theatre
Location:  27 Front Street East, Toronto, ON
For information contact:  info@soundstreams.ca
Categories:   Music; Education; International

This seminar will outline a systemativ approach to an effectice energy management, demonstrate the use of infrared thermography and identifying payback periods identifying the "low hanging fruit" in energy conservation.

Time:  5:30 - 7:30 pm
Venue:  Lambton College
Location:  1457 London Rd. Rm. N105, Sarnia, ON
Website:  http://www.bluewatersustainabilityinitiative.ca
For information contact:  Cheryl Veary
Phone:  519-542-7751 Ext.3587
Categories:   Environment; Science & Technology; International

Keynote speaker Christina Zeidler has operated the historic Gladstone Hotel. All are invited to meet customers, contacts and collaborators in an environment of high-octane, female energy.

Time:  12 pm - 4 pm
Venue:  C'est What?
Location:  67 Front Street East, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.torontocreatives.ca
For information contact:  info@torontocreatives.ca
Categories:   Women; Management; Marketing, Advertising, Public Relations

Conference Segments are Following:

1) Training for Emerging Farmers
2) Community Food Security
3) Strengthening Regional Economies
4) Sustaining Food Production

Venue:  Kitchener Delta
Location:  Kitchener, ON
For information contact:  bringfoodhome@sustainontario.com
Phone:  647-348-0235
Categories:   Environment; Farming; Food & Beverage

Seminar leaders will help the discussion of the following type of topics:
1) What is a therapeutic relationship.
2) The use of play as communication
3) the nature of child work vs adult work etc

Time:  7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Venue:  Hincls Dellcrest Centre
Location:  114 Maitland Street, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.tcpp.ca
Phone:  416-690-5464
Categories:   Children & Youth; Education; Health/Health Care

This festival takes its inspiration from the Ghandian philosopphy that "you must be the change you wish to see in the world." in this case regarding environmental issues.

Venue:  Two venues: Neatby-Timlin and Roxy Theatres
Location:  Saskatoon, SK
Website:  http://www.econet.sk.ca
For information contact:  sen@link.ca
Phone:  306-652-1275
Categories:   Environment; Education; Media, Entertainment, News, Communications

This conference focuses on child development in such a way that the children will recognize that cutural or physical differences do not mean that humans are any different due to those parameters.

Location:  Morelia, Mexico, ON
For information contact:  info@wacecemail.org
Phone:  34-91-501-87-46
Categories:   Children & Youth; Education; Human Rights, Law, Legal

The main focus of the conference is clean technology as it applies to green buildings, renewable energy and the "base of the pyramid".

Location:  Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.GreenEdgeConference.com
For information contact:  Mikail Goussev - mikhail.goussev@gmail.com
Phone:  416-738-3073
Categories:   Education; Environment; Economic Development

A unique perspective on the landscape of the Alberta Tar Sands. This exhibition is being hosted at galleryDK in Toronto.

Website:  http://www.canadiandimension.com/7days
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Environment

This meeting includes insights to strategic thinking on Environment Sustainability Initiatives- Brain of the Firm, articulating and championing the vision of environmental sustainability and to design the business strategy,

Location:  Bali, Indonesia
Website:  http://www.greenceosummit.com
For information contact:  Grace Sabandar
Phone:  +62 21 2685 0001
Categories:   Environment; International; Economic Development

Conference Work Shops will aim to promote healthy living in Aboriginal Communities as well as providing education to Aboriginal youth on the environment and climate change.

Location:  Vancouver, BC
Website:  http://www.bcaafc.com/content
For information contact:  rsteinhauer@bcaafc.com
Phone:  1-800-990-2432
Categories:   Native Peoples; Health/Health Care; Economic Development

Hyuk-Joo Kwun was born in Korea but moved to Russia at age of 10 yrs. 19 yr old pianist Sangwook Park, also from Korea, has won a number of chamber music competitions. These two musicians are the guest soloists.

Time:  8:00 - 11:00 pm
Venue:  Glenn Gould Studio
Location:  250 Front St. West, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://sinfoniatoronto@gmail.com
Categories:   Music; Arts & Culture; Education

Keynote speaker is Prof. Grace Edward Gabaluzi followed by a multi racial panel discussion.

Time:  6: 00 pm
Location:  215 Spadina Ave., Suite 120, Toronto, ON
For information contact:  sabrina@narcc.ca
Phone:  416-703-6607 ext.5
Categories:   International; Education; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

This film festival will include cshorts, animations, documentaries, super 8, features, installations and art films. Deadline for submissions is Feb. 8, 2010.

Venue:  Hart House, U. of Toronto
Location:  Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.uoftfilmfest.ca
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Media, Entertainment, News, Communications; Communications Industry & Technology

This Intensive Self-Employed Artist's Course concentrates on enabling the artist to treat his work as part of a business enterprise and will teach marketing techniques pertinent to artistic endevour.

Time:  6:00 to 8:30 pm
Venue:  Beaver Hall Gallery
Location:  29 McCaul Street (Queen & University), Toronto, ON
Website:  http://MorenaMedia.com
For information contact:  info@morenamedia.com
Categories:   Economic Development; Arts & Culture; Education

Dr. Ryan Gregory from U of Guelph returns for the second in our new series of fireside chats on evolution.

Time:  7:00 - 8:30 pm
Venue:  Administration Centre
Location:  1679 Blair Rd., Cambridge, ON
Website:  http://raresites.org
Phone:  519-650-9336
Categories:   Education; Biotechnology; Science & Technology

Urban Shaman: Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Marvin Francis Media Gallery presents

Becoming Unwritten by artist John Hupfield

Artist Statement:

daapin ezhi-bmaadziwaad mtigook – Take the life of the trees

daapinan ezhi-bmaadiziimgak nwewin – Take the life of the language

daapinan zhitwaawinan – Take the life of the ceremonies

An exploration of loss and gain, of taking away and of picking up, can we ever really reclaim the things lost to us before being born into this world? Using stop-frame animation, digital images and digital video, the ebb and flow of language and culture as witnessed by a young anishinaabe man comes to the fore, John Hupfield is Becoming Unwritten.

John Hupfield is a writer, filmmaker and member of the hip hop-spoken word collective Red Slam. Born of mixed Dutch/English/Anishinaabe heritage and a member of Wasauksing First Nation, Hupfield uses new media - digital video, animation, sound/music software - to situate himself in the world and engage society with the agency of his indigenous roots. Recently completing a New Media Residency at OBORO in partnership with NIMAC, Hupfield has screened work at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto and the Weeneebeg Film Festival in Moose Factory. His shorts “Clear Cut” and “Birch Bark” were both selected for imagineNATIVE’s Northern Tour in 2006 and 2009.

Venue:  Urban Shaman: Contemporary Aboriginal Art
Location:  203-290 McDermot Ave, Winnipeg, MB
Website:  http://canadiandimension.com/7days
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Native Peoples; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

Urban Shaman: Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Main Gallery presents

Writing Home the art of Bonnie Devine, curated by Faye Heavyshield

Curatorial Statement:

“In this work Devine remodels the act of ‘writing home’ into an actualization of her correspondence with home, specifically Serpent River. Through photographs, sound, and impressions cast in glass, the artist presents her home, replete in texture and history. Writing and text have always figured in Devine’s practice; words and their meanings, their ‘look’ on the surface of the paper akin to the stitching of red thread on a white surface. The stitches become legible as memory and the handwritten letters are missives to her place in this landscape. Each of the components in this body of work is indicative of the immersive process the artist employs with her material and medium. In this way “Writing Home” merges absence and presence… words become threads and the rock transformed into the lens of glass remains the rock.”

“Drawing with and from rock, Devine gives us privy to a conversation of human geography. This is writing and this is home.”

Artist Statement:

“This work began on the rocks of my childhood home. Driving west from Sudbury on Highway 17, tracing the great spine of Lake Huron and crossing the La Cloche Range of ancient mountains, you come into the land of the Ojibwa; Laurentia. You cross over the ancient precipitous place where two continents noisily mated eons ago. And if you are on foot, you wander where their roots remain, exposed in secret places; the trusses and ligatures of the earth. Laurentia.

The rocks tell a story ages old.

Geologists and prospectors saw and read it early on and gouged fathom-deep pits in answer, looking for rare earths and minerals. Everywhere you see their restless scratches. Even as the drawings and peckings, the noble stories of the old Ojibwa, fade and expire under their feet.

The work in this exhibition was created in response to Sandy Wabageshik, Michel Mitch, Andrew Blackbird, William Blackbird (PeTaw Wan E), William Warren, Dr John Jeremiah Bigsby and the seventeen signators of the Robinson Huron Treaty, all of whose stories appear beside the portraits of the rocks; all of whom wrote home.”

Bonnie Devine, a member of the Serpent River Ojibway First Nation in Northern Ontario, is an artist, curator, writer and educator. Her primary interests are installation and sculpture and the development of contemporary Aboriginal culture. They are central to her art practice and teaching career and inform her work as an independent curator. Her most recent exhibitions include BadLand at the IAIA Museum, Santa Fe, NM; Medicine River at AxeNeo7, Gatineau, QC; and Writing Home at Gallery Connexion, Fredericton, NB. Devine’s latest curatorial project, The Drawings and Paintings of Daphne Odjig: A Retrospective Exhibtion, finished it’s tour at the National Gallery of Canada. Devine studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design and York University.

Venue:  Urban Shaman: Contemporary Aboriginal Art
Location:  203-290 McDermot Ave, Winnipeg, MB
Website:  http://canadiandimension.com/7days
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Native Peoples; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

Films include: Age of Stupid, The End of the Line, H2Oil, Food, Inc, and Feast or Famine

Time:  all day
Venue:  Mahone Bay Centre
Location:  Mahone Bay, NS
Website:  http://earthdreamfilmfest.wordpress.com
Phone:  527 2928
Categories:   Education; Environment; International

To mark World Water Day! Lecture: A Watersshed of Change: A glodal look at water issues by Dr. Mark Servos, Scientific Director of the Canadian Water Network.

Time:  7:00 pm
Venue:  Biosphere
Location:  Montreal, QC
Website:  http://www.biosphere.ec.gc.ca
Phone:  514-283-5000
Categories:   Education; Environment; International

Wildlands League ia charitable conservation organizationwhose mandate is to protect Ontario's wild lands and natural areas. Thin ice is a campaign to preserve terrestrial carbon in order to save the polar bears.

Time:  6:30-9:00 pm
Venue:  Hotshot
Location:  181 Augusta Ave., Toronto, ON
Categories:   Education; Nature & Outdoors; Environment

More than just an advocate for the environment, Kennedy is an architect and agent of change in the modern world".

Time:  6:15 pm
Venue:  Alumni Hall, U. of Western Ontario
Location:  Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.kennedyatwestern.ca
For information contact:  Marcia Steyaert
Phone:  519-661-2111
Categories:   Education; Environment; International

The Conference will focus on Climate Change and Energy, Finance and Sustainability, Better Cities, Automobile Industry. About 1200 participants are expected.

Location:  Vancouver, BC
Website:  http://wwwglobe2010.com
For information contact:  info@globe2010.com
Phone:  604-775-7300
Categories:   Environment; Economic Development; International

Prof. Blai Feltmate, formerly of Ontario Power Generation and now at the University of Waterloo, will deliver the opening lecture to be followed by the rest of the symposium.

Time:  9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Venue:  Guelph City Hall
Location:  London, ON
For information contact:  hls@uoguelph.ca
Phone:  519-824-4120 x52661
Categories:   Economic Development; Environment; Education

The symposium will encompass two events: The Third Annual SENSE Synposium and a celebration of work done by community groups.

Time:  Open Fri. night, Saturday: all day
Venue:  Four Points Sheraton
Location:  1496 Hollis Str. Halifax, Halifax, NS
For information contact:  stockljl@gov.ns.ca
Phone:  424-6261
Categories:   Awards, Scholarships, Prizes; Environment; Economic Development

The Cottage Show draws more than 27,000 people. North American Solar Solutions is a part of this event.

Location:  Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.nasolarsolutions.com
For information contact:  Dillen Moonen
Phone:  705-443-0705
Categories:   Economic Development; Education; Design

In this area of extremesof both wealthy and poverty, how much is fair and enough for you, your neighbours, other creatures and future generations.

Time:  8:30 a.m., start
Venue:  Tatamagouche Centre
Location:  Rocklyn Rd., Tatamagouche, NS
Website:  http://www.tatacentre.ca
For information contact:  tatacent@tatacentre.ca, Katja
Categories:   Education; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; Human Rights, Law, Legal

Eidane
عیدانه

A celebration of Nowrouz and the arrival of Spring

Join us for an intimate performance of classical and folk music from different regions of Iran celebrating Nowruz and the arrival of spring.

Nowruz (نوروز meaning 'New Day') is the traditional and ancient Iranian festival and the first day of Iranian "New Year". Nowruz also marks the first day of Spring and rebirth of nature. Being with family, gift-giving, setting a symbolic haft-sin table, spring cleaning, visiting elders and relatives, and picnics in nature are among the traditions observed by many Iranians on this day.

The Sarv Ensemble (سرو meaning 'Cypress') is devoted to playing traditional Persian music. Its members are experienced professional performers and teachers of traditional Iranian music and love to work together, practice, and share this music.

The Sarv Ensemble is:
Shahin Fayyaz (Tar, Robab)
Kousha Nakhaie (Kamanche)
Parisa Ferdousian (Tar)
Araz Pashayee (Tombak, Udo)
Shabnam Sahraie (Daf)

Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=254290864943#!

Time:  8:00pm - 10:00pm
Venue:  Beit Zatoun
Location:  612 Markham Street, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.beitzatoun.org
For information contact:  info@beitzatoun.org
Phone:  647.726.9500

Beit Zatoun is pleased to host Yoga Day for Human Rights in support of Amnesty
International.

Join us to help raise vital funds to benefit human rights across the globe. This year, Amnesty International’s Yoga Day will be shining the spotlight on human rights and environmental defenders in province of Cabañas, El Salvador.

Cabañas environmental and community activists have been killed and threatened for speaking out against the gold exploration activities of a Canadian company and for defending their right to protect their environment.

Bring your mat and donate at the door. Tax receipts available from Amnesty International for donations greater than $10.

Your instructor is Donna Hanson who has been studying yoga for more than a decade. She has completed a 200-hour teaching program recognized by the Yoga Alliance. Donna teaches at studios across the GTA.

To sign up please e-mail us or go to our facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=355532986191

Prizes and refreshments will be available for participants.
Don’t forget, Good Karma awaits you at Beit Zatoun.

Time:  11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Venue:  Beit Zatoun
Location:  612 Markham Street, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.beitzatoun.org
For information contact:  info@beitzatoun.org
Phone:  647.726.9500
Categories:   Human Rights, Law, Legal

Venture4Change is a summit for people with powerful ideas. Learning, sharing fresh ideas, making connections with like-minded people who are passionate about social change, and play a role in developing our social economy.

Time:  8 am to 6pm
Venue:  Whistle Bear Golf Club
Location:  1316 Dickie Settlement Rd., Cambridge, ON
Website:  http://www.venture4change.com
For information contact:  Jennifer King
Phone:  519-513-2606
Categories:   Education; Environment; Business & Economics

Strategies government and corporate purchasers are usingto buy more environmentallyand socially responsible goods and services.

Time:  10-11:30 am
Venue:  Online
Website:  http://www.sustainabilityprofessionals.org
Phone:  250-721-9991
Categories:   Environment; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; Consulting & Consultants

In collaboration with Earth Day Canada, Tafelmusik presents a one-of-a-kind Earth Day celebration entitled Forces of Nature!

Time:  3:30 pm
Venue:  Trinity St. Paul Centre
Location:  427 Bloor St. W., Toronto, ON
For information contact:  info@tafelmusik.org
Phone:  416-964-6337
Categories:   Music; Arts & Culture; Environment

The awards consist of a number of categories: a) community focused b) technology focused c) printing and packaging focused, d) company focused

Venue:  Eglinton Grand
Location:  Toronto, ON
Categories:   Awards, Scholarships, Prizes; Marketing, Advertising, Public Relations; Communications Industry & Technology

Captivating and Ethereal Latin Rhythms!

Martha Mazzoleni, born in Montevideo, Uruguay started harp lessons at age four. By age nine she was a pupil of master harpist, Venicio Godoy from Paraguay. In her career, Martha has performed at leading theatres in Montevideo and made appearances on radio and TV. She also represented the Paraguayan and Chilean embassies. In Canada, Martha has performed at many festivals and events, and also at the Lula Lounge.

Join by The Martha Mazzoleni Ensemble, the evening's repertoire includes music from Venezuela, Cuba, Argentina and other Latin American countries. For this performance, we are pleased to have as special guest: vocalist Adis Rodriguez from Cienfuegos, Cuba.

The Paraguayan harp is the national instrument of Paraguay, and similar instruments are used elsewhere in South America. It is a diatonic harp with 32, 36, 38 or 40 strings. Made from tropical wood with an exaggerated neck arch, it is played with the fingernails.

The Martha Mazzoleni Ensemble:
Rodrigo Chavez - Guitar
Adis Rodriguez - Vocal
Amhed Mitchel - Percussion
Juan Pablo Dominguez - Bass

Non-alcoholic refreshments available.
Tickets $20 (limited number)
Info Cassava: 647-896-5516

Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=358665784595

Time:  8:00pm - 10:00pm
Venue:  Beit Zatoun
Location:  612 Markham Street, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.beitzatoun.org
For information contact:  info@beitzatoun.org
Phone:  647.726.9500

What is Filk?

. . . A subject of some argument: ongoing, loud and opinionated argument at that.

The easy answer is that it is science fiction folk music, which may explain nothing! Okay, so it's music based on themes in science fiction and/or fantasy writing; or on the space program, modern technology, computers, cats, food... or just about any subject people in SF fandom like to talk about.

It's also primarily "folk"-ish in style: mostly the lyrics are important and have something to say that is worth hearing. But the musical style may be anything from "trad" to last week's top of the chart. Not surprisingly, there is a strong influence of popular music.

In Southern Ontario the quality of filk thus far is pretty high and we're proud of our local filk community, aka UFO.

Location:  c/o 98- 145 Rice Avenue, L9C 6R3, Hamilton, ON
Website:  http://www.filkontario.ca/index.html
For information contact:  conchair@filkontario.ca
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

The ONN is holding its annual province wide forum for non-profits and charities in Ontario. This conference helps to coordinate the various non-profit organizations.

Location:  Toronto, PE
Website:  http://www.ontariononprofitnetwork.ca
For information contact:  Constance Exley
Phone:  416-642-5786
Categories:   Human Rights, Law, Legal; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; Health/Health Care

The only cabaret in town where politics and art come together an irreverant, humorous, shameless celebrartion of women's success.

Time:  8:00 pm
Venue:  Brigantine Room
Location:  235 Queen's Quay, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.nightwoodtheatre.net
Phone:  416-944-1740 ex. 8
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Media, Entertainment, News, Communications; Women

The Ontario Nonprofit Network is holding its annual province-wide forum for nonprofits and charities in Ontario. This is a chance to come together and collaborate with your nonprofit colleagues on broad, cross-sectoral issues.

The Ontario Nonprofit Network (ONN) is a network of networks that helps to build communication and coordination amongst nonprofit organizations working for the public benefit in Ontario.

Location:  Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.ontariononprofitnetwork.ca
For information contact:  info@ontariononprofitnetwork.ca
Phone:  416-642-5786
Categories:   Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

NI is holding a live cross-Canada webcast on Apr.14. The tools presented here will assist in obtaining the funding necessay for various green programs.

Time:  11:00 - 11:30 am
Venue:  NationalInstruments
For information contact:  morgan.mckinney@ni.com
Phone:  512-683-6593
Categories:   Environment; Science & Technology; Economic Development

Ruth Zaugg will be sharing a presentation on how to cut down a little on our meat and dairy consumption. Recipes and sample foods will be available.
Other speakers will appear re: other green topics, re: disposal of computers and accessories.

Time:  7:00 - 9:15 pm
Venue:  Palgrave United Church
Location:  34 Pine Ave, Palgrave, ON
For information contact:  Patti Foley
Phone:  905-951-0625
Categories:   Environment; Food & Beverage; Computers

About Ian McEwen's new novel "Solar", it is a darkly comic, satirical look atclimate change - a stylish new work by one of the world's greatest living writers.

Time:  7:30 - 10:15 pm
Venue:  St Andrew's Wesley United Church
Location:  Burrard at Nelson, Vancouver, BC
Categories:   Environment; Journalism, Writing, Literary, Language; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

A benefit for the Fund for Authentic Journalism.

If you can be in New York City on April 17 and can contribute or raise $100 for The Fund for Authentic Journalism before then, you’ll be invited to our Tenth Anniversary Celebration in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. (You are also invited to sponsor the event with a $500 donation, or be a renaissance patron with a generous gift of $1,000.)

There, many of us who are graduates of the School of Authentic Journalism have plotted to each work up a five-minute presentation to share that will be both informative and entertaining. So far, these j-school grads confirmed to show up that night include:
Johanna Lawrenson * Bill Conroy * Katie Halper * Josh Bregman * Erin Rosa * Bruce Miller Earle * Milena Velis * RJ Maccani * Marine Lormant * Richard Bell * Mariana Simoes * Barrett Hawes * Ter Garcia * Al Giordano *

There will be food and drink, lots of authentic conversation, and a special toast at midnight to ring in the next ten years.

Even if you can’t physically attend, please consider donating to The Fund for Authentic Journalism so that we can enter our second decade with the minimal resources we need to keep investigating, reporting and training the next generations of authentic journalists.

You can contribute via this link:
http://www.authenticjournalism.org

Or send a check via snail mail to:
The Fund for Authentic Journalism
PO Box 241
Natick, MA 01760

Venue:  Fort Greene
Location:  Brroklyn NY USA
Website:  http://narcosphere.narconews.com
Categories:   Media, Entertainment, News, Communications; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

This is Niagara's Third Annual Trade Show of environmental products and services benefitting the planet, alternative products and those that can be purchased lically.

Venue:  Niagara College,
Location:  135 Taylor Rd., Niagara on the Lake, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON
For information contact:  can.info@cogeco.net
Phone:  289-820-6440
Categories:   Education; Environment; Science & Technology

Inspired dancers, DJ's and musicians are gathering to celebrate Steve Reich " the father of DJ culture", and one of today's most choreographed composers.

Time:  7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Venue:  The Gardiner Museum
Location:  111 Queens Park Ave., Toronto, ON
Website:  http://allisonm@soundstreams.ca
Categories:   Music; Arts & Culture; Education

Like our brilliant colleagues in Lillehammer, we are aiming for a hundred panels, workshops, roundtables and plenary conferences. We are going to place a focus on the financial and economic crisis and some famous panelists, familiar with the obscure matter of hedge funds and tax havens, have already accepted to be amongst us in 2010.

The investigation in sport stories is also going to be a focus, as we will be just a few months from the football World Cup in South Africa. We are going to take advantage of the fact that major sport organisations have their headquarters in Switzerland, to focus our attention on this sometimes secretive world.

Finally, with many being based in Geneva, we will undoubtedly devote time and attention to international organisations, and namely in the most controversial investigative fields such as human rights and environment.

During this Conference, we are also going to dedicate more room to investigation in television and the net. In addition, as the crisis is hitting all of us very hard, we think it is going to be a must to offer state of the art panels devoted to new business models in investigative journalism, and a few panels to media executives, as many of us are becoming our own boss!

Location:  Geneva, Switzerland
Website:  http://www.gijc2010.ch
Categories:   Journalism, Writing, Literary, Language; Media, Entertainment, News, Communications; Investment, Finance, Insurance

The London Lesbian Film Festival is held every year in London, Ontario and aims to portray the richness and diversity of lesbian experiences as well as strengthening lesbian & gay communities. Held throughout 3 days, with 2-3 hours of screening time, films presented within the Festival project images, challenge various politics, and reflect upon the lives of the lesbian community.

Venue:  Various
Location:  London, ON
Website:  http://www.llff.ca/index.html
For information contact:  London Lesbian Film Festival
Categories:   Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual; Media, Entertainment, News, Communications; Women

Local family oriented day based on educational, environment focused activities, businesses, groups etc.

Time:  9:00-3:00 pm
Venue:  Carleton Place Arena
Location:  75 Neelin Street, Carleton Place, ON
For information contact:  denacomley@gmail.com
Phone:  613-250-0484
Categories:   Business & Economics; Children & Youth; Health/Health Care

Procession of the Species is a community arts-based Earth Day celebration where people flood the street to flaunt their favorite species.

Venue:  Kitchener-Waterloo
Location:  Kitchener, PE
Website:  http://www.kwprocession.ca
Phone:  519-662-6064
Categories:   Nature & Outdoors; Tourism & Hospitality Industry; Economic Development

Join the audience for two evenings showcasing solo percussion virtuosos in the laid back funkiness of Hugh's Room.

Time:  8:00 - 11:00 pm
Venue:  Hugh's Room
Location:  Toronto, ON
Phone:  416-366-7723
Categories:   Music; Arts & Culture; Performing Arts

This event will demonstrate the effects the tar sands development has on the people downstream of the greatest project on earth.

Time:  7:00-8:30 pm
Venue:  St. Andrews United Hall
Location:  6036 Coburg Rg., Halifax, NS
For information contact:  gretchenf@sierraclub.ca
Phone:  902-444-3113
Categories:   Education; Environment; Health/Health Care

The TLC of BC offers some woderful documentaries such as: Wild Wonders, Nature's Great Events, Wetlands and Wonder, Disturbance.

Time:  7 - 9 pm
Venue:  Nelson United Church
Location:  602 Silica St., Nelson, NB
Website:  http://www.conservancy.bc.ca
Phone:  250-354-7345
Categories:   Education; Environment; Nature & Outdoors

A comprehensive overview of bio-diesel manufacture; why pilot trials are necessary and what other details need to be addressed.

Time:  5:30 - 7:30
Venue:  Lambton College
Location:  1457 London Rd., Sarnia, ON
Website:  http://www.bluewatersustainabilityinitiative.ca
Phone:  519-542-7751 ex 3587
Categories:   Education; Environment; Science & Technology

Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is North America's largest documentary festival, conference and market. Each year, the Festival presents a selection of more than 150 cutting-edge documentaries from Canada and around the globe. Hot Docs, running April 29 - May 9, 2010, will feature Canadian and international competitive programs, an international documentary market, The Doc Shop, and the Toronto Documentary Forum (May 5 & 6). Hot Docs also presents the renowned Toronto Documentary Forum (TDF) and Doc Soup. Screenings will be held in venues all over central downtown Toronto area.

Venue:  Various
Location:  Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.hotdocs.ca/festival/
For information contact:  Hot Docs
Phone:  416-203-2155
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Media, Entertainment, News, Communications

A Benefit Concert for Beit Zatoun

Beit Zatoun is profoundly grateful to CASSAVA LATIN RHYTHMS for donating the entire performance to benefit Beit Zatoun in recognition of the Palestinian influence in Latin America. This is especially true in Chile as proven by the following adage: "Every small village in Chile is sure to have three things: a priest, a policeman and a Palestinian." link: http://www.vivatravelguides.com/south-america/chile/chile-articles/palestine-in-chile/.

CASSAVA LATIN RHYTHMS will make you want to dance to hot Latin sounds, learn about amazingly diverse cultures and transport you to fascinating lands.

Toronto-based CASSAVA performs music to reflect the colour and flavor of the many Latin styles including Salsa, Cha cha-cha and Bolero from Cuba, Bossa Nova and Samba from Brazil, Cumbia from Colombia, as well as contemporary Latin-Jazz and Fusion.

Need to know:
- Admission $20
- Advance tickets available; purchase at Beit Zatoun
- for regular hours - call 647-726-9500 or visit website
- Doors open at 7:30 pm
- Sorry, not wheelchair accessible
Tasty refreshments (non-alcoholic) and oliveoil+za'atar dipping, included in admission.

Beit Zatoun is a culture and art venue providing gallery and performance space for the justice and human rights community in Toronto. It aims to raise awareness and create greater understanding as the ultimate means to peace, through art and culture.

Time:  8:00pm to 10:00pm
Venue:  Beit Zatoun
Location:  612 Markham Street, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.beitzatoun.org
For information contact:  info@beitzatoun.org
Phone:  647.726.9500
Categories:   Music; Arts & Culture

This film exposes an immoral and greed motivated scenario where fish from Africa is traded for weapons for insurgencies in the interior of Africa etc. Russian pilots and even Tanzanian prostitutes enter the picture.

Time:  11:15 am- 1:15 pm
Venue:  Isabel Bader Theatre
Location:  93 Charles Street West, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.darwin's nightmare.com
For information contact:  mwhitmore@hotdocs.ca
Categories:   Economic Development; Environment; International

This program is an opportunity to provide a forum for young professionals to network with successful persons involved in the green industry.

Venue:  Kananaskis Wilderness Hotel
Location:  AB
Website:  http://www.albertaacts.ca
For information contact:  allag@albertaacts.ca
Categories:   Economic Development; Education; Environment

Part of the Doors Open Ontario 2010 series of events.

Location:  Whitby, ON
Phone:  416-325-5000
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Architecture

This is a family friendly march to commemorate the plight of workers around the globe.

Time:  Start i pm
Venue:  St Jamestown at Wellesley
Location:  Toronto, ON
Website:  http://shelter.sanctuary.status@gmail.com
Categories:   Education; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; Human Rights, Law, Legal

An amusing story of young man trying to find the tree he planted in the Rainforest twenty years prior to the event of planting.

Time:  12:00 pm- 1:00 pm
Venue:  ROM Theatre
Location:  100 Queen's Park, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://iboughtarainforest.com
For information contact:  mwhitmore@hotdocs.ca
Categories:   Environment; International; Media, Entertainment, News, Communications

Shawn McKnight will share in his extraordinary and exceptional exploits and accomplishments in the environmental projects that he participated in.

Time:  5:30 - 7:30 pm
Venue:  Lambton Inn - Ballroom A
Location:  1457 London Rd., Sarnia, ON
For information contact:  cheryl.veary@lambton.ca
Phone:  519-542-7751 x3587
Categories:   Education; Environment; Science & Technology

Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta talks about her book, Refusing to be Enemies: Palestinian and Israeli Nonviolent Resistance to the Israeli Occupation, which presents the voices of over 100 practitioners and theorists of nonviolence. The vast majority are either Palestinian or Israeli reflecting on their own involvement in nonviolent resistance and speak about the nonviolent strategies and tactics employed by Palestinian and Israeli organizations, both in separate and in joint initiatives.

Copies of a special early paperback edition will be available for purchase (commercial paperback not available until late 2010).

White's film, Refusing to be Enemies: The Zeitouna Story is a 58-minute documentary about a group of twelve women living in Michigan calling themselves “Zeitouna,” the Arabic word for "olive tree." Six Palestinians and six Jews, "some of the women are American-born, others are immigrants; one is a Holocaust survivor, another is a survivor of the Nakbah’s terror; their ages span 40 years. Filmmaker Laurie White is a founding member of Zeitouna. The film does not attempt to answer questions of right and wrong, or how to break the deadlock of the Middle East conflict. Instead it offers living proof of how the journey of personal transformation may pave the way to socio-political transformation and peace."

Admission by donation - $5 suggested

Time:  7:00pm to 9:00pm
Venue:  Beit Zatoun
Location:  612 Markham Street (by Bathurst subway), Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.beitzatoun.org
For information contact:  info@beitzatoun.org
Phone:  647.726.9500
Categories:   Education; Politics & Political Organizations

Maxine Kaufman Lacosta talks about her book: Refusing to be Enemies which projects the voices of Isreali and Palestinian opponents to Israeli occupation. There is also a showing of the film of the book.

Time:  7:00 - 9:00 pm
Venue:  Beit Zautun
Location:  612 Markham Str., Toronto, ON
Website:  http://info@beitzatoun.org
Categories:   International; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; Human Rights, Law, Legal

Reception: Friday May 7, 7pm to 9pm

Exhibit open from May 5 to May 15

Marvel at the beauty of original art wall hangings by Artesania Sorata, a well-known fair trade cooperative based in La Paz, Bolivia. Now over 25 years old, the group has a workshop in La Paz, working almost exclusively with alpaca wool. Artisans spin the wool by hand and use vibrant natural dyes for all materials used in the wall hangings.

The wall hangings depict rural scenes, using the Andes mountains as the backdrop of daily life of the indigenous people. The hangings express both the honest simplicity of agrarian life as well as the indigenous belief that they are stewards of Mother Earth.

Using bold alpaca stitching to depict vegetation and appliqué techniques to create the mountainous terrain, each piece is an original work of art. The rich dyes express a breathtaking vibrancy.

Expereince indigenous Bolivian art and creativity. Indigenous Crafts from Bolivia has been importing alpaca products from Artesania Sorata to North America since 2004.

Need to know:
- By Free Donation (proceeds to Amalia Mamani, injured Bolivian knitter)
- Doors open at 6:45 pm
- Sorry, not wheelchair accessible

Tasty refreshments (non-alcoholic) and oliveoil+za'atar dipping.

Time:  7:00pm - 9:00pm
Venue:  Beit Zatoun
Location:  612 Markham Street, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.beitzatoun.org
For information contact:  info@beitzatoun.org
Phone:  647.726.9500

Beit Zatoun is hosting World Fair Trade Day which falls on the day before Mother's Day - surprise! Guaranteed - you will find something for your Mom and/or yourself.

The fair is organized by Faces of Fair Trade, a collection of small, independent vendors bring you delightful fairly traded crafts from around the world. Types of items available:


Silk purses from Cambodia
Finger puppet sets from Bolivia
African jewelry and artifacts
Mexican dresses
Baskets from Rwanda
Silver jewelry from Thailand
Crafts from India and Columbia
Olive oil and other items from Palestine
also participating:
Ten Thousand Villages
The YWCA International Boutique


Faces of Fair Trade is a group of socially-concerned individuals who support low-income artisans around the world by purchasing and selling their crafts. Each works as an independent entrepreneur supporting fair trade values and maintains a direct trading relationship with the artisans. Faces of Fair Trade makes it easy for consumers to make ethical purchases creating "caravans" or small fair trade marketplaces in and around Toronto, especially around key dates.

Music! Rain or Shine! Entrance is free!

Time:  10:00am - 4:00pm
Venue:  Beit Zatoun
Location:  612 Markham Street (by Bathurst subway), Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.beitzatoun.org
For information contact:  info@beitzatoun.org
Phone:  647.726.9500
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Fashion, Clothing, Textiles; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

This is a reception at the Rotunda of Toronto City Hall. The occasion of this event is the celebration of the "World's Freedom of the Press Week"..

Time:  6:00 - 9:30 pm
Venue:  City Hall
Location:  100 Queen St. West, Toronto, ON
For information contact:  saras@nepmcc.ca
Categories:   Communications Industry & Technology; Education; Media, Entertainment, News, Communications

Dr. Sharon Hope will provide a day of training about the SpeciaLink Early Childhood Inclusion Quality Scale. Lunch will be provided.

Time:  8:30 - 4:00 pm
Venue:  Ryerson U
Location:  Toronto, ON
For information contact:  events4ece@ryerson.ca
Phone:  416-979-5000 ex.4153
Categories:   Children & Youth; Education; Social Services

Founded in 1995, Flicks produces the only annual film festival exclusively for young people in the province of Saskatchewan. Now entering its 15th year, Flicks represents a opportunity for children and youth to view international films they would otherwise not have the opportunity to see, as well as the opportunity to participate in hands-on workshops taught by industry professionals. As a mature organization, Flicks has proven its commitment to the media arts in Canada as an industry, an educational tool, a cultural practice and a community-building endeavor. The Festival is dedicated to: exposing children and youth to diverse multicultural films; enhancing educational experiences in the media arts; and celebrating international cinema for young people.

Venue:  Broadway Theatre
Location:  715 Broadway Avenue, Saskatoon, SK
Website:  http://www.flicksfilmfest.org
For information contact:  Flicks: Saskatchewan International Youth Film Festival Office
Phone:  306-956-3456
Categories:   Fashion, Clothing, Textiles; Arts & Culture; Media, Entertainment, News, Communications

Over the past ten years Peace Theatre provided arts-based peace-building programming to 10,000 at-risk children and youth in Toronto. We can't allow it to close. Come out for this charity event!

Time:  7:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Venue:  Revival
Location:  783 College St., Toronto, ON
For information contact:  info@peacetheatre.org
Categories:   Children & Youth; Skills & Training; Media, Entertainment, News, Communications

The Kaiser Foundation is pleased to call for nominations for the2010 National Awards in mental health and addictions initiatives. The categories are:
1) Excellence in Aboriginal Programming 2) Excellence in Community Programming
3) Excellence in Leadership 4) Excellence in Media Reporting
5) Excellence Mental Health and Substance Use Programming

Venue:  Vancouver
Location:  Vancouver, BC
For information contact:  kaiserassistant@kaiserfoundation.ca
Phone:  604-926-9767
Categories:   Health/Health Care; Science & Technology; Awards, Scholarships, Prizes

This will be an intensive all-day workshop to increase the knowledge of health and addiction professionals about prenatal use of alcohol, tobacco, cocaine etc.

Time:  8:00 am - 5:30 pm
Venue:  Four Points Sheraton
Location:  1150 Wellington Road South, London, ON
For information contact:  bernadette.garrity@mlhu.on.ca
Phone:  519-663-5317 ext.2272
Categories:   Education; Health/Health Care; Pharmaceuticals/Drugs

Our Vision
* Preserve and promote our Canadian musical and dance heritage, specifically fiddling and stepdancing.
* Provide leadership by encouraging our younger citizens to take an interest in the art of fiddling and stepdancing.
* Provide an opportunity to showcase local talent.
* Encourage local competitors of all ages.
* Promote tourism in the City of Greater Sudbury.
* Organize special events in keeping with our mission.
* Organize and host the annual Chelmsford Fiddle and Stepdance Festival.

Location:  4972 Fiddleworks, P0M 1L0, Chelmford, ON
Website:  http://www.fiddleworks.cjb.net
For information contact:  info@fiddleworks.net
Phone:  705-855-0248
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

This is a free event with static displays of hybrids, ev conversions, electric bikes, advanced prototypes, etc.There are various individual projects.

Time:  10:00 am- 4:00 pm
Venue:  Canada Science and Technology Museum
Location:  1867 St. Laurent Blvd., Ottawa, ON
Website:  http://www.evco.ca
Phone:  613-746-7685
Categories:   Automotive & Cars; Environment; Manufacturing

This event will involve professionals, to students, to artists in order to design the most modern trash can and raise environmental awareness.

Location:  Milton, ON
Website:  http://www.trashfusion.ca
Phone:  905-836-6600
Categories:   Environment; Education; Design

Showcase of F/M body products (fragrance plus creams and makeup) manufactured acc. to DROM latest patented pureganic(R)oils process. Presentation re: "Hygiene, Allergies and History of Perfume".
Limited buying of provided samples is allowed.

Time:  7:00 - 9:00 pm
Venue:  Trinity St. Paul Centre
Location:  427 Bloor St. W., Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.fmgroupcanada.com
Phone:  416-439-2232
Categories:   Environment; Economic Development; Health/Health Care

A talk by Dr Jacalyn Duffin, Hannah Chair, History of Medicine, Queen’s University.
Modern culture may separate medicine and miracles, but their histories are closely intertwined

Time:  7 p.m.
Venue:  Canada Science and Technology Museum
Location:  1867 St. Laurent Blvd, Ottawa, ON
Website:  http://sciencetech.technomuses.ca
For information contact:  Visitors Services
Phone:  613-991-3044
Categories:   Education; Health/Health Care; Museums

In this talk, Diana will espouse the intrinsic values of particular trees and explain her hopes of reforesting the planet.

Venue:  Toronto Botanical Garden
Location:  777 Lawrence Ave. E, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://torontobotanicalgarden.ca
Phone:  416-397-1362
Categories:   Environment; Education; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

An Evening with Alana Mitchell, environmentalist, information from the top down, the story of why the CO2 issue has fizzled out in the media.

Time:  7:00 - 9:00 pm
Venue:  Lawrence Park Community Church
Location:  2180 Bayview Ave., Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.womenshealthyenvironments.ca
Categories:   Environment; Politics & Political Organizations; International

The summit's theme is "Universities and Communities: transition to a sustainable future." The proposition is that the oil and pharmaceutical industries are the problem and that universities are serving the interest of corporations and not communities.

Time:  May 21, 3:00 pm
Venue:  Vancouver Art Gallery
Location:  750 Homby St., Vancouver, BC
Website:  http://www.vcmn.resist.ca
Categories:   Education; Economic Development; Politics & Political Organizations

There is a child care wait time crisis at Canadian post-secondary institutions. There are 1500 children on the waiting list for access to childcare at U. of Br. Columbia.

Venue:  University of British Columbia
Location:  Vancouver, ON
For information contact:  childcareconference@ams.ubc.ca
Categories:   Children & Youth; Education; Social Policy

Accoding to Peter Steven the news media is suffering from a massive crisis in basic quality. Also the myths and prospects for on-line news.

Time:  7:30 pm
Venue:  Gladstone Hotel
Location:  1214 Queen St. E., Toronto, ON
Categories:   Media, Entertainment, News, Communications; Journalism, Writing, Literary, Language; Publishers & Publishing

Future issues with drinking water purity need to be studied in the face off population growth and increasing variety of pollutants. Pollution of ocean waters is of serious concern.

Time:  8:30 am -12:00 noon
Venue:  Hart House Music Room
Location:  7 Hart House Circle, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://learn.environment.utoronto.ca
Categories:   Environment; Health/Health Care; Nature & Outdoors
Event is recurring

This event consists of a Workshop the first day and a Policy Dialogue the second to discuss technical details offered by experts and also how these change environmental policy.

Venue:  International Development Research Centre
Location:  Ottawa, ON
Website:  http://pembina.org
Phone:  613-216-1976 x23
Categories:   Environment; Economic Development; Human Rights, Law, Legal

Longterm sustainability, growth and prosperity for Northern communities is a critical component of Northern Strategy and is importantfor future successful development.

Venue:  Whitehorse
Location:  Whitehorse, YT
For information contact:  marketing_info@CanadianInstitute.com
Phone:  1-877-927-7936
Categories:   Environment; Economic Development; Investment, Finance, Insurance

Established in 1947, The Yorkton Film Festival is the self-proclaimed oldest film festival in North America, presenting a variety of shorts, documentaries and videos from Canadian & International filmmakers. In the 63 years of its existence, the Festival has developed a tradition of recognizing excellent films and providing great professional development and learning opportunities. The Festival recognizes outstanding Canadian short films and rewards the very best with the annual Golden Sheaf Awards.

Venue:  TBA
Location:  Yorkton, SK
Website:  http://www.yorktonshortfilm.org/
For information contact:  Yorkton Film Festival
Phone:  306-782-7077
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Media, Entertainment, News, Communications; International

Through Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers and later, the Fairytales Presentation Society, the Fairy Tales International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival will be seeing it's 12th year in the upcoming month of May. The three main objectives the Festival sets to accomplish are: to bring a rich selection of seldom-seen films to the Calgary and Southern Alberta region audience; to support the work of local, national and international filmmakers; and to create an atmosphere of respect and tolerance, within and outside, of the gay and lesbian community through culture. Fairy Tales Gay & Lesbian Festival is currently the only LGBT film festival in Alberta.

Venue:  Plaza Theatre
Location:  1133 Kensington Road NW, Calgary, AB
Website:  http://www.fairytalesfilmfest.com/film-festival/
For information contact:  Fairy Tales Presentation Society
Phone:  403-244-1956

Categories:   Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual; Arts & Culture; Media, Entertainment, News, Communications

A world class scholarly event, the the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciencesis a national celebration of intellectual life and scholarly work in Canada. Each year over 8,000 researchers, graduate students, practitioners and policy makers from across the country gather to share research and opinions.

Venue:  Concordia U.
Location:  1455 deMaisonneuve Blvd., Montreal, QC
For information contact:  Congree2010@concordia.ca
Phone:  514-848-2424 ext. 5022
Categories:   Children & Youth; Journalism, Writing, Literary, Language; Arts & Culture

Israel has used military force on the peaceful flotilla taking humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip. Israel has murdered several unarmed civilians (at least 10 confirmed so far). Again we see the Israeli apartheid state acting with full impunity outside the boundaries of international law while the Harper government welcomes Prime Minister Netanyahu with open arms.

We will be out today to tell Israel and all its supporters it can not get away with its crimes against humanity without worldwide protest.

Bring noise makers! Bring flags! Tell your family and friends.

Organized by:
Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA)
Toronto Coalition to Stop the War
Gaza Freedom March Committee

Time:  5:00 - 7:00 pm
Venue:  Israeli Consulate
Location:  180 Bloor St. West, Toronto, ON
For information contact:  endapartheid@riseup.net
Categories:   International; Military; Human Rights, Law, Legal

West Bank Graphic Novel Stories is a graphic novel featuring twelve stories drawn and written by university students of An-Najah National University in the city of Nablus, Palestine.

The Toronto-based volunteer editor, Rebecca Cox, will be speaking about her experience teaching and working with the students to compile this graphic novel. This phenomenal piece of work was produce wholly by Palestinian youth in the West Bank under the program organized by Project Hope.

The collaborative graphic stories cover a wide range of experiences from the rural, urban and refugee perspective. Taking place over May-June 2009, the students were provided with an introduction to the genre of graphic novels and the advantages of its use for cross-cultural communication, as well as the technical know-how on how to create a graphic novel - the stories are their own.

Time:  7:00pm - 9:30pm
Venue:  Beit Zatoun
Location:  612 Markham St (by Bathurst subway), Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.beitzatoun.org
For information contact:  info@beitzatoun.org
Phone:  647.726.9500
Categories:   Arts & Culture

Canadian and International Shortlist of Poems:
The Certainty Dream, Kate Hall. Canadian
A Village Life, Louise Gluck, International

Time:  7:30 pm
Venue:  Koerner Hall
Location:  273 Bloor St. W., Toronto, ON
Phone:  416-408-0208
Categories:   Journalism, Writing, Literary, Language; Arts & Culture; International

Reception: Thursday, June 3, 7:00 to 9:00 pm
Exhibit until Wednesday, June 23

Co-sponsored with Trinity St. Paul’s United Church and Winchevsky Centre

For more than thirty years, Sima Elizabeth Shefrin, has made quilts about real people and their struggles and celebrations. She aims to create art work that is honest, hopeful and beautiful.

The exhibit brings together a range of projects and workshop facilitated by Sima centred around Palestine and Israel. The most recent is a series of three workshops held in spring 2007 in which children and women created fabric self-portraits along with messages they wished to send to their North American counterparts.

Sima Elizabeth Shefrin is an artist and quilter who has been researching and practicing political stitchery for over 25 years. In 1999 she was the artist-coordinator of the Middle East Peace Quilt which has toured all over North America. She has worked for 18 years teaching and participating in peer counseling and listening projects. She is a member of the Palestinian/Jewish women for peace dialogue group.

Co-sponsor websites: www.winchevskycentre.org and www.trinitystpauls.ca

Space is limited, to register online please visit our reservations page

Need to know:
- Admission is free (donations gratefully accepted)
- Doors open at 6:45 pm
- Sorry, not wheelchair accessible

Tasty refreshments (non-alcoholic) and oliveoil+za'atar dipping.

Time:  7:00pm - 9:00pm
Venue:  Beit Zatoun
Location:  612 Markham Street, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.beitzatoun.org
For information contact:  info@beitzatoun.org
Phone:  647.726.9500

Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish is the doctor from Gaza whose three daughters were killed during the War on Gaza in January 2009.

He is a remarkable man who despite much suffering by him, his family and his people brings a message of forgiveness and love while advocating passionately for dignity and justice.

Dr. Abuelaish shares his story, his life in Gaza, working as a fertility specialist inside Israel and the terrible period in 2009 which has focused the world on the ongoing tragedy in Gaza and Palestine.

He will take questions following the talk and reading. Book signing will follow.

This is Dr. Abuelaish's first book. He lives in Toronto with his five remaining children. He is an associate professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.

Need to know:
- Admission is free - Donations to Beit Zatoun gratefully accepted; $10 suggested
- Doors open at 7:15 pm
- Sorry, not wheelchair accessible
Tasty refreshments (non-alcoholic) and snacks with olive oil + za'atar dipping.

Time:  7:30pm - 10:00pm
Venue:  Beit Zatoun
Location:  612 Markham Street, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.beitzatoun.org
For information contact:  info@beitzatoun.org
Phone:  647.726.9500
Categories:   Human Rights, Law, Legal

A whole lot of nature related activities such asbird watching, exploring, monarch butterfliesinsects, reptiles, wilderness hikes.

Venue:  Carden
Location:  30 minutes from Orillia, Orillia, ON
Website:  http://www.cardenguide.com
Phone:  705-326-1620
Categories:   Education; Environment; Nature & Outdoors

Bring in your old electric appliances and get free exchanges and gift certificates. This is to upgrade to new, more efficient models.

Time:  10 am - 5pm
Venue:  Nearest Home Depot, RONA or Walmart
Location:  Toronto, NU
Website:  http://www.summerhillgroup.ca
Phone:  416-922-2448 ext.281
Categories:   Education; Environment; Housewares, Home Furnishings & Maintenance

WHEN is an organization which warns women of potential dangers to homebound chemical products and other environmental concerns. This fair is related to safety, environment, kids, family.

Time:  10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Venue:  Trace Manes Community Centre
Location:  110 Rumsey Rd., Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.women'shealthyenvironments.ca
Categories:   Education; Environment; Women

Open House at the only environmental museum in North America! Ecological Solar House. Six giant moving screens. What you can do as an eco-citizen.

Venue:  Environment Museum
Location:  160 Chemin Tour de l'isle, Montreal, ON
Website:  http://www.biosphere.ec.gc.ca
Phone:  514-283-5000
Categories:   Environment; Education; Economic Development

Focus is on clean energy from wind turbines, financing and maintenance of wind farms, learning from the experience of those who have constructed wind farms.

Time:  7 - 9 pm
Venue:  Roundhouse Community Centre
Location:  182 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver, ON
Website:  http://www.bcsea.org
Categories:   Science & Technology; Education; Environment

Alberta is the only province in Canada without a Green Energy Strategy and the only province which does not subsidize wind power initiatives. Its time to rethink this lack of future foresight.

Time:  6:30 - 9:00 pm
Venue:  Kerry Wood Nature Centre
Location:  Red Deer, AB
For information contact:  Rene Michalak info@rethinkReddeer.ca
Categories:   Environment; Mining & Petroleum; Science & Technology

2010 Green Party of Ontario Annual General Meeting/Policy Conference Details

Venue:  Algonquin College
Location:  1385 Woodroffe Ave., Ottawa
Website:  http://www.ppo.ca/agm
Phone:  416-977-7476
Categories:   Politics & Political Organizations; Environment; Economic Development

The festival will include short workshops and forums, information, demonstrations, solar and wind power demos, reducing waste, etc.

Location:  Barrie, ON
Website:  http://ecofestbarrie.ca
For information contact:  producer@ecofestbarrie.ca
Categories:   Education; Environment; Science & Technology

Celebration of the importance of the tree: annual tree tour, performances, eco art, green market, tree planting.

Time:  10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Venue:  Franklin's Turtle Gardens
Location:  Centre Island, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.toronto.ca/parks/treefestival.htm
For information contact:  torontotreefest@toronto.ca
Categories:   Education; Environment; Food & Beverage

This is a community based and community focused event to encourage teamwork in environmental design leading to a $1000 prize.

Location:  Barrie, PE
Website:  http://www.trashfusion.ca
Phone:  905-836-6600
Categories:   Awards, Scholarships, Prizes; Design; Environment

World Oceans Rally on Parliament Hill. Celebration of the Oceans in a family day of arts, crafts, games, music, speakers.

Time:  12:00 to 2:00 pm
Venue:  Parliament Hill
Location:  Ottawa, ON
Website:  http://www.worldoceansday.ca
Phone:  613-599-3112
Categories:   Education; Environment; International

Seven years after the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq, Hadani Ditmars returned to a land she last visited in 2003 when she went to research her book, "Dancing in the No-fly Zone".

Time:  6 pm - 8 pm
Venue:  Rhizome Cafe
Location:  377 East Broadway, Vancouver, ON
For information contact:  hadan@newint.org
Phone:  604-733-8593
Categories:   Education; Military; International

The BC Branch of CWRA is planning this event. The conference will explore: watershed management, aquatic habitat, modelling and analysis, policy and governance.

Venue:  Hyatt Regency Hotel
Location:  Vancouver, Vancouver, BC
Website:  http://www.cwra.org
Categories:   Environment; Economic Development; Nature & Outdoors

This presentation will deal with the basic concepts of Community Power, discuss the structure and progress for establishing this Co-op and a speaker from another Renewable Ontarion Energy Coop.

Venue:  Lambton College
Location:  1457 London Rd., Sarnia, ON
For information contact:  cheryl.veary@lambton.on.ca
Phone:  519-542-7751 ex3587
Categories:   Environment; Science & Technology; Education

Join leaders from business, government and civil society to help shape Canada's water future.

Venue:  International Centre
Location:  Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.watersummit.ca
For information contact:  izabela@innovolve.com
Phone:  416-364-0050 x106
Categories:   Environment; Nature & Outdoors; Politics & Political Organizations

Several different types of tolling methods are used on highways around the world to collect revenue, reduce climate change and reduce congestion. Many distinguished experts will appear from Canada and the US.

Time:  7:30 am - 5:30 pm
Venue:  Metropolitan Hotel
Location:  108 Chestnut Street, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.transportfutures.ca
For information contact:  adavision@transportfutures.ca
Categories:   Economic Development; Environment; Transportation & Travel

NCF fundraiser in Grande Prairie December 12.. at Better Than Fred's admission $5.00 and the bands will start after the UFC Pay Per View.

North Country Fair 2010 will be held at the North Country Community Association Land in the Beautiful Driftple Valley. Opening Ceremonies 5:30(ish) PM Friday. Closing Circle 4:30 PM Sunday

Adult Weekend Pass $TBA Advance/ $TBA at the gate Youth $TBA

Time:  Opening Ceremonies 5:30(ish) p.m. Friday - Closing Circle 4:30 p.m. Sunday
Venue:  Community Association Land
Location:  Bag 1, Joussard, T0G 1J0, Driftpile Valley, AB
Website:  http://lslncca.ca/
For information contact:  info at lslncca
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

The 2010 People's Summit is civil society's alternative 'Counter Summit' happening the week before the G8 and G20 Summits in Huntsville and Toronto this June 25th - 27th. Together we will create a space where diverse local and international movements can democratically organize to advocate and educate for global justice.

Community organizers, activists, non-governmental organizations, independent media, workers, impacted communities, artists -- the people -- converge this June to work together to educate, empower and ignite the positive change we would like to see in our world.

People's Summit will feature work shops, seminars, teach-ins about globalization, decent work, social justice and the environment.

Venue:  Ryerson University, with Allied Events at the University of Toronto.
Location:  Toronto, ON
Website:  http://peoplessummit2010.ca
Phone:  416-441-2731
Categories:   Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; Environment; International

Nestled in the heart of the Village on a 100 acre farm formerly owned by the Abrams Family, the Tottenham Conservation Area provides the perfect setting for our Festival. The natural ampitheatre surrounding the beach provides the only venue large enough to hold this music, the outdoors. Weekend visitors will appreciate the comforts of our campground, from the manicured lawns of the rough camping (included with a weekend ticket) to the fully serviced lots. All with garbage, shower and sanitary facilities serviced around the clock. The swimming at the sandy beach on the pond can be most inviting on a hot day and we're told that a wee trout or two could be had late in the evening or early in the morning. Over the years our constant attention to security has meant that everyone can enjoy their weekend in a safe, restful family atmosphere.

Venue:  Tottenham Conservation Area
Location:  P.O. Box 922, L0G 1W0, Tottenham, ON
Website:  http://www.tottenhambluegrass.ca
For information contact:  cofac@eol.ca
Phone:  905-936-4100
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

Kevin Neish from Victoria, B.C., witnessed the Israeli Commando raid on the six ships carrying 600 activists and 10,000 tons of humanitarian aid.

Time:  7 pm - 9 pm
Venue:  Vancouver Public Library
Location:  350 West Georgia Str., Vancouver, ON
For information contact:  sphr.ubc@gmail.com
Phone:  604-379-4050
Categories:   International; Military; Human Rights, Law, Legal

An open forum

Time:  9:00 - 6:00
Venue:  Medical Science Building, Room #2158
Location:  1 King’s College Circle, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Categories:   Labour, Workplace, Unions; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; Business & Economics

NGO's, trade unionists, artists, impacted communities and anyone else who cares will protest various issues of global significance in front of G-20.

Venue:  Ryerson and U of Toronto
Location:  Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.peoplessummit2010.ca
For information contact:  g82010canada@gmail.com
Categories:   Environment; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; Human Rights, Law, Legal

Leaders in Canada's oil industry have acknowledged that the industry's environmental record is "not good" and that it has a big problem. Several speakers will address this issue.

Venue:  St Lawrence Town Hall
Location:  Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.fgl-society.org
For information contact:  davidmitrovica@gmail.com
Categories:   Environment; Mining & Petroleum; Science & Technology

The outside world remains highly indifferent to the plight of civilians struggling for survival and basic human rights in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine. This plight is the centre of focus for many journalists.

Time:  7 pm - 10 pm
Venue:  Beit Zatoun
Location:  612 Markham Str., Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.stopwar.ca
Categories:   International; Military; Economic Development

Come to Canadas Arctic and celebrate the arts under the midnight sun!

The Alianait Arts Festival is in its sixth year and this year promises to be more diverse and exciting.

No less than ten days (and nights) of art, music, film, storytelling, circus arts, dance and theatre.

Alianait is an Inuit expression of joy and celebration and to celebrate our sixth annual festival, the theme for Alianait 2010 is Cultural Fusions, and will feature musicians, artists & performers from across Nunavut and around the world.

Location:  P.O. Box 568, X0A 0H0, Iqaluit, NU
Website:  http://www.alinait.ca
For information contact:  heather@alinainait.ca
Phone:  867-979-6468
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

Established in 2001, the Nickel Independent Film Festival continues to support local, Canadian and even foreign short films, features, documentaries and music videos. In addition to screenings of films and videos, the festival stages actor's workshops, question and answer periods with filmmakers, showcases local theatre pieces and features local music and readings between screenings. The Festival takes place in St. John's, Newfoundland throughout 4 days in the upcoming month of June.

Venue:  Various
Location:  St. John's, NL
Website:  http://www.nickelfestival.com/
For information contact:  Nickel Festival Info & Tickets
Phone:  709-576-3378
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Media, Entertainment, News, Communications; Music

The screening of this important documentary film dealing with two vital issues: water quality world-wide and oil depletion/pollution, esp. in ocean environments.

Time:  6 pm
Venue:  Fundy Model Forest Bldg.
Location:  Sussex, NB
For information contact:  yoana@cinemapolitica.org
Categories:   Education; Environment; Economic Development

Speakers include Maude Barlow, Leo Gerard, Amy Goodman, John Hilary, Naomi Klein, Vandana Shiva, Pablo Solon, Clayton Thomas-Mueller.
Tickets: $14 for Council of Canadians members, $20 for non-members (incl. 1 year membership).

Time:  6:00 - 9:00
Venue:  Massey Hall
Location:  Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.canadians.org
Phone:  1-800-387-7177
Categories:   Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

Justice for our Communities!
No to G8/G20! Yes to Taking Back our City
Rally. March. Block Party. Tent City.
From June 25th and 27th, 2010, the world’s twenty richest countries (the G8 and G20) will send their ruling elite, along with heads of the IMF and World Bank, to meet in Huntsville and then in Toronto, to talk exploitation, wealth, and greed.
These ‘leaders’ have shredded the public sector and social spending, criminalized the poor, immigrants and racialized communities, continued to plunder Indigenous lands and trash the environment, deported our families and friends, gutted the unions, and closed hospitals and schools while they grant tax cuts to the rich and corporations and boost police and military budgets. These disgusting policies have enacted devastation around the world and are reflected right here in Toronto.
For full callout and details visit http://25june.wordpress.com

Time:  2:30 pm
Venue:  Allan Gardens
Location:  Carleton St. and Sherbourne St, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.g20.torontomobilize.org
For information contact:  http://25june.wordpress.com
Categories:   Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

The seventh annual festival will take place June 25-27, 2010.

Kick off is the Riverboat Revival at Hugh's Room on Friday evening, June 25th.
This is followed by the FREE weekend at the Distillery Historic District June 26th and 27th.

Toronto City Roots Festival remains one of the scene's great treasures. Saturday and Sunday, at least three stages offer a variety of acts that are sure to please everyone.

It is a truly urban roots-music festival that attracts superb acts of a wide variety of sub-genres of roots music, including aboriginal, folk, world, bluegrass and country.

And it's FREE!

Toronto City Roots Festival celebrates favourite established artists and introduces you to emerging stars.

Visit the past performers page and watch short flash films of past festivals to see and hear samples of what you can expect at the 2010 Toronto City Roots Festival.

See you there!

Venue:  various locations - see website
Location:  Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.torontocityroots.com
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

Troops out of Afghanistan NOW!
Money for Human Needs - Not for War
Join the peace rally at the G8/G20 meetings in Toronto
The Canadian Peace Alliance is calling on peace groups and individuals to join us for a rally and march during the G20 meetings on June 26th. We will be meeting at a rally organized by our friends in the labour, environmental and social justice movements at Queens Park for a mass march through downtown Toronto.
The G20 countries are some of the biggest arms dealers in the world, responsible for more than 85 per cent of global military spending and 95 per cent of global arms production. They will spend $1.2 trillion on the military this year. The CPA is demanding this money be re-allocated for food, education, green jobs, environmental programs, health-care and to improve the lives of the people of the world.
Poverty and environmental degradation are chief causes of conflict in the world. Spending massive amounts on the military, rather than addressing the root causes of conflict is wasteful and counter-productive. True security comes when the people of the world can meet their basic needs for a happy, healthy life.
It is time for the people to stand up to the G20 war mongers. Join us to raise the voice of peace at the G20 meetings this June.
For CPA members groups in Eastern Canada, please make every effort to join us in Toronto. For those groups that are unable to make it to the main rally we request that you organize solidarity actions in your region.

Time:  1:00 - 3:30
Venue:  Queen's Park
Location:  Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.g20.torontomobilize.org
Categories:   Military; International; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

Right in the middle of G-20 conferences rallies and demonstrations are planned to demonstrate in favor of human rights, decent jobs, social justice.

Time:  1 pm
Venue:  Queens Park to Trinity Bellwoods
Location:  Toronto, PE
Website:  http://canadianlabour.ca
Phone:  416-441-3710
Categories:   Economic Development; International; Human Rights, Law, Legal

Speakers
Jesse Rosenfeld: The Guardian, Independent Journalist
Amy Miller: Alternative Media Centre, Independent Journalist
Adam MacIsaac: Alternative Media Centre, Independent Journalist
Sharmeen Khan: Toronto Community Mobilization Network
Adonis el-Jamal: Toronto Community Mobilization Network

The Alternative Media Centre, Toronto Community Mobilization Network and Movement Defence Committee will hold a joint press conference to present first hand accounts of the events that have been taking place in recent hours involving mass arrests, police violence and intimidation across the city.

Our speakers will highlight the ongoing and politically motivated targeting of journalists and community organizers, as well as the profiling of people on the basis of clothing type, for carrying phone numbers of the legal aid hotline or for residing in certain neighbourhoods. We will also report on the cruel and brutal conditions under which people are being detained, arrested and imprisoned.

Media packets with raw video footage will be distributed at the Press Conference.

Time:  10:00 am
Venue:  Alternative Media Centre
Location:  318R Harbord Ave., Toronto, ON
For information contact:  Justin Saunders - justin@rabble.ca
Phone:  647 235-2445
Categories:   Human Rights, Law, Legal; Law Enforcement & Corrections; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

Gary Kinsman and Patrizia Gentile provide a startling history of queer surveillance and regulation in Canada in The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation, while in Losing Control: Canada's Social Conservatives in the Age of Rights Tom Warner discusses the progress and status of our recent struggles for queer rights, and reveals how today’s social conservatives are attempting to reverse this progress.

Free admission; cash bar; wheelchair accessible.

Sponsored by: Between the Lines, Glad Day Bookstore, Queer Ontario, UBC Press, and Xtra! Magazine.

Time:  7:00 - 10:00
Venue:  The Croissant Tree
Location:  625 Church Street, Toronto, ON
Categories:   Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual; Human Rights, Law, Legal; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

A rally in solidarity with the Toronto 900 and against police brutality.

Time:  5:00
Venue:  Hamilton Police Headquarters
Location:  155 King William Street, Hamilton, ON
Categories:   Law Enforcement & Corrections; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

A rally in solidarity with the Toronto 900 and against police brutality.

Time:  6:00 pm
Venue:  London Police Headquarters
Location:  601 Dundas St (Dundas and Adelaide), London, ON
Categories:   Law Enforcement & Corrections; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

A rally in solidarity with the Toronto 900 and against police brutality.

Time:  5:30 pm
Venue:  Ottawa Police station
Location:  474 Elgin Street, Ottawa, ON
Categories:   Law Enforcement & Corrections; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

A rally in solidarity with the Toronto 900 and against police brutality.

Time:  6:00
Venue:  Windsor Police Headquarters
Location:  150 Goyeau Street, Toronto, ON
Categories:   Law Enforcement & Corrections; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

Face à la violence policière, aux attaques contre notre résistance et aux arrestations sans précédant des manifestantEs anti-G20, la Convergence des luttes anticapitalistes – CLAC 2010 - appelle l’ensemble des mouvements sociaux à se mobiliser en solidarité avec les victimes de l’appareil répressif tombéEs aux mains de l’armée policière.

Plus de 900 arrestations ont eu lieu durant la fin de semaine à Toronto par kidnapping, profilage politique, raids dans des résidances privées et lieux d’hébergement, violence, brutalité, inditimidation et harcèlement.

Time:  noon
Venue:  Carré St-Louis à Montréal
Location:  Montreal, QC
Categories:   Law Enforcement & Corrections; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

Our Chief of Police misinformed the public as to laws that were passed. Our police arrested innocent and peaceful protesters. Those protesters were held in detention centres with little food or water.

Are you outraged? WE ARE! Come join us for a peaceful protest!

Time:  5:30 pm
Venue:  Queen's Park in front of Legislature
Location:  Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.canadaparticipates.ca/drupal/rally-public-inquiry-concerning-actions-g20
Categories:   Law Enforcement & Corrections; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

It's not often that the memory of one man can motivate an entire town to come together and build on a dream. But Stan was no ordinary guy - his commanding baritone voice and his incredible legacy as a songwriting craftsman, have been etched within the Canadian and Maritime landscape - and within the memories of legions of fans - old and new.

In his all-too-brief lifetime, Stan managed to influence a whole generation of performers, while contributing to the emerging popularity of the East Coast Music scene. Stan wasn't born a Maritimer - yet the Ontario-based songwriter's family ties - and his love for the people and places of Nova Scotia's Northeastern Shore, made him a frequent visitor to Canso and Guysborough County. These visits inspired Stan to write songs like The Jeannie C., Guysborough Train and Fogarty's Cove - and they also earned Stan a place in the local folklore of the town and the region.

Some of the finest songwriters and performers in North America gather at this festival, to celebrate Stan's lasting contributions to folk music. A new generation of powerful songwriters also come together with Stan's family members, friends and associates not just to share remembrances - but to create new songs and stories.

Location:  Queen Street Extension, P.O. Box 46, B0H 1H0, Canso, NS
Website:  http://www.stanfest.com
For information contact:  info@stanfest.com
Phone:  888-554-7826
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

During the G20 Summit in Toronto this weekend, 40,000 people reclaimed the streets and shutdown the city. Over 900 were brutally arrested and detained, most without criminal charges.

Arrestees reportedly have been denied access to lawyers, telephones, food and water (for upwards of 35 hours), and held in deplorable conditions in makeshift steel cages. Many have been beaten in the streets and in their homes; shot at with rubber bullets and tear gas; some have been sent to hospital with severe injuries.

Time:  2:00 pm
Venue:  China Creek Park South
Location:  West of Clark on Broadway, Vancouver, BC
Categories:   Law Enforcement & Corrections; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

The Winnipeg Folk Festival is…

a) one of North America’s premier outdoor music festivals, happening the second weekend of every July in Birds Hill Provincial Park, Manitoba, Canada

and

b) a year-round arts organization in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, presenting the best in live music, music training, and arts events, and operating a year-round music store in Winnipeg

The Winnipeg Folk Festival is incorporated as a not-for-profit charitable organization.

Venue:  Main Stage
Location:  203 - 211 Bannatyne Avenue, Winnipeg, MB
Website:  http://www.winnipegfolkfestival.ca/wp/
For information contact:  info@winnipegfolkfestival.ca
Phone:  204-231-0096
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

Yes THREE DAYS of LIVE MUSIC and all FREE!

Saturday workshops with the artists

Food vendors, crafters, beer garden, dance stage, open stage and children's area.
A Family Event you just can't miss!

Our Mission

To promote an annual folk festival of music, dance, arts and crafts for the enjoyment of all people of the Town of Ingersoll, Ontario and surrounding area, while providing opportunities for families, young people and senior citizens from all walks of life to enjoy, participate in and gain from festival activities, at no cost to themselves. To encourage and promote a Folk Festival to be held in Ingersoll, Ontario on an annual basis, that enhances Canadian and Multicultural works and crafts. To provide opportunities for the performance of music and dance by and for enjoyment and entertainment of members, friends and the general public. To introduce young people to the performance of music and dance. To provide opportunities for senior citizens to enjoy, participate in and gain from festival activities. This organization shall be carried on without purpose of gain for it's members, and any profits or other gains shall be used in promoting its objectives.

Location:  122 Innes Street, N5C 2R5, Ingersoll, ON
Website:  http://www.canterburyfolkfestival.on.ca
For information contact:  Ted Comiskey - ejc@rogerc.com
Phone:  519-485-6337
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

Mariposa Folk Foundation is a member-based, registered charitable arts organization.
Our Mission
The promotion and preservation of folk art in Canada through song, story, dance and craft.
Our Proud Affiliations
Mariposa Folk Foundation is a proud member the Ontario Council of Folk Festivals, the Archives Association of Ontario, and the Orillia and District Arts Council.

Location:  37 Mississauga Street West, L3V 3A5, Orillia, ON
Website:  http://www.mariposafolk.com
For information contact:  mff@mariposafolk.com
Phone:  705-326-3655
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

What could be more relaxing than a weekend in the park, listening to music that touches your soul, and enjoying good food and drink with family and friends. Children laugh and the stars shine overhead. A brief rain shower doesnt dampen the spirits, but under the umbrella, it brings everyone a little closer together. After the final encore, the feeling is unanimous: That was the best time ever.

Since 1972 NLFB has happened each summer on the shores of Ramsey Lake in Downtown Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Three days of music, art, workshops and fun represent the wide array of cultures in our community. We are pleased to present popular music artists as well as a huge selection of Roots, Traditional, Modern Indie, World, Americana and more... Please navigate your way around our pages, contact us, view our past and check back every once in a while to watch for our upcoming information and to watch our archives grow with our rich history.

Venue:  Ramsey Lake
Location:  19 Grey Street, Suite 3, P3E 3L2, Sudbury, ON
Website:  http://www.nlfbsudbury.com
For information contact:  nlboffice@gmail.com
Phone:  705-674-5512
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

Vancouver Island MusicFest has been bringing great roots and world music to the Comox Valley and Vancouver Island since 1995. Produced by the Comox Valley Folk Society, MusicFest is a not-for-profit, cost recovery, volunteer driven event with over 1100 volunteers and 300 community sponsors who combine forces to bring this first rate music festival to life.

Over the years Vancouver Island MusicFest has grown in attendance but has remained true to its original vision; a rural, family friendly, sustainable and successful music event that puts the Comox Valley on the cultural map and involves thousands in a rich celebration of music and community!

Venue:  Comox Valley Exhibition Grounds
Location:  Vancouver Island, BC
Website:  http://www.islandmusicfest.com
For information contact:  info@islandmusicfest.com
Phone:  For tickets:1-866-898-8499
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

Today is a day of action for civil liberties. There will be a mass demonstration and march at Queen's Park in Toronto. Community members and organizations in other regions are encouraged to organize their own local events on the same day, to pressure all levels of government to support civil liberties.

During the G20 Summit in Toronto, more than $1.2 billion was spend on a reported 20,000 police and security offiers, a 5-metre fence, and new weapons designed to stifle dissent and silence public opposition.

Under the pretext of stopping vandalism, the police descended upon peaceful protestors and confused passers-by with force that was disproportionate, arbitrary and excessive, and included raids, rubber bullets, tear gas and pre-emptive detentions. In total, more than 900 people were detained based on dubious charges, in the largest mass arrest in Canadian history.

Demonstrate your opposition to the excessive use of police force and the unprecedented curtailment of civil liberties.

Endorsing organizations include: Canadians Advocating Political Participation, Canadian Arab Federation, Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Canadian Federation of Students, Canadian Labour Congress, Canadian Peace Alliance, Canadian Union of Public Employees, Council of Canadians, Ontario Federation of Labour.

Time:  1:00 pm
Venue:  Queen's Park
Location:  Toronto, ON
Categories:   Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; Human Rights, Law, Legal

The Harrison Festival Society produces:
Harrison Festival of the Arts
An internationally acclaimed event entering its 31st year.
Season of Performing Arts
Ten to twelve professional performing arts events between September and May each year.

The Society has also developed many community partners and works closely with other organizations, businesses and institutions.

Venue:  Harrison Hot Springs
Location:  Box 399, 98 Rockwell Drive, Harrison Hot Springs, BC
For information contact:  info@harrisonfestival.com
Phone:  604-796-3664
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

Mission Statement

The Ness Creek Cultural & Recreational Society is a not-for-profit organization that exists primarily to create an annual Festival to celebrate Music, Arts, Community and Ecology in the boreal forest.

Mandate

To meet our Mission Statement:

"We support and encourage Canadian arts; we provide an audience for upcoming Saskatchewan artists by maintaining a minimum 50% ratio of Saskatchewan talent; we support our youth; we promote our Festival, our organization and its goals; we support community development; we support Cross-Cultural awareness and growth; and we support the Saskatchewan north."

History

The Ness Creek Music Festival was built on the legacy of a smaller event called "The Ecological Fair" which was held in 1989 and 1990 near the current Festival site. These were small gatherings that featured ecological workshops and displays, and a small evening stage featuring local musicians. In 1991 the first Ness Creek Music Festival was held in its current location.

What began as a Friday/Saturday Festival with 7 bands and 200 people steadily grew over the years to include a variety of events that take place over 4 days, filled with over 20 Main Stage performances, Workshop stage, Eco-Village, Community Kitchen, Children's Area, Drum and Dance Circle, Community Sharing Circle, Chill Tent and over 2700 attendees. The Festival's current audience is an even mix of urban and rural, young and old.

The Ness Creek Cultural & Recreational Society is a volunteer run organization. To learn more about being a volunteer or who the current Board of Director's are call 652-6377.

Location:  804 Dufferin Avenue, S7H 2B8, Saskatoon, SK
Website:  http://www.nesscreek.com/index.php
For information contact:  306-652-6377
Phone:  306-652-6377
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

The Dawson City Music Festival is a multi-disciplinary, multi-venue music festival, taking place in Dawson City, Yukon each July. Christened "Canada's tiny, perfect festival" by the Georgia Straight, our festival has been successfully run by volunteers since its inception in 1979.

Past acts include: Bruce Cockburn, the Good Brothers, The Sadies, Joel Plaskett, Jane Siberry, the Barenaked Ladies, Crash Test Dummies, Final Fantasy, the Skydiggers, Quartette, Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, Bell Orchestre, Old Man Luedecke, the Handsome Family, Justin Rutledge, Rheostatics and Natalie MacMaster.

Some festival patrons like to book a few extra days to go fishing on the Blackstone River, hiking in the Tombstones Mountains or to take an evening paddle down the Klondike River under the midnight sun.

Venue:  various locations - see website
Location:  Box 456, Y0B 1G0, Dawson City, YT
Website:  http://www.dcmf.com/index.html
For information contact:  info@dcmf.com
Phone:  867-993-5584
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

Folk on the Rocks has come a long way since founder Rod Russell and his band of folkie go-getters re-booted a small outdoor gig on the shores of Frame Lake, and transported it over to long Lake in the summer in 1980.

The two-day weekend event (plus the Friday opening gala Warm the Rocks) has grown into one of Canada's top summertime music and cultural festivals, drawing musicians from the NWT and Nunavut and across the globe for the North's biggest party under the midnight sun.

More than 24 hours of programming on five stages, including a children's area, cultural area, and beer garden promises fun and enjoyment for all ages. Along with the music, crowds can savour international and traditional cuisine at the food fair, and buy Northern creative works in the Art on the Rocks area.

Then over the weekend, come see performers from all over Canada and the world collaborate with Northern talent in what promises to be the biggest jam party the North has ever seen or heard.

Folk on the Rocks is supported by over 300 volunteers. If you wish to volunteer there are over 20 fun areas you can donate your time and energy. The dedication of volunteers makes Folk on the Rocks the success that it is. come be a part of the most exciting event in the North!

Location:  Box 826, Yellowknife, NT
Website:  http://www.folkontherocks.com/home.php
For information contact:  info@folkontherocks.com
Phone:  867-873-6535
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

Home County Folk League, a non-profit organization, was formed in 1973 to produce the Home County Folk Festival. For the past 35 years, the festival has grown to be Londons largest FREE admission musical and arts festival as well as one of the last few FREE admission folk festivals in Canada. Showcasing local, regional, national and some international talent the event in July attracts up to 150,000 patrons from London, region, Ontario and the United States. The combination of folk musicians, dancers and artistic talent with 6 stages for performances and over 150 juried craft artisans and food vendors, people of all ages come together in one large celebratory family event. There is also a Small Folk Fun Area so bring your children and be prepared to laugh, dance, sing and smile. Over the course of the year and during the festival, Home County Folk Festival also hosts ticketed folk music concerts to showcase upcoming artists and to foster the growth of Canadian talent.

Venue:  Victoria Park
Location:  c/o Community Resource Centre, 115-652 Elizabeth Street, L5Y 6L3, London, ON
Website:  http://www.homecounty.ca
For information contact:  info@homecounty.ca
Phone:  519-432-4310
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

South Country Fair is held at the FISH & GAME PARK, on Lyndon Road. Once in Fort Macleod, 25th Street (the West bound one way). Just as you are leaving town, take the Golf Course turn (right) onto Lyndon Road, and go down the hill and past the Golf course, about a mile. The Fair is on your right at THE FISH & GAME PARK - you cant miss it!

Venue:  Fish & Game Park - Lyndon Road
Location:  South Country Fair Association, Box 1251 T0L 0Z0, Fort Macleod, AB
Website:  http://www.scfair.ab.ca/
For information contact:  visitor.constantcontact.com
Phone:  403-388-4414
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

Heritage Perth has majestic stone buildings, beautiful parks and superb shopping and entertainment. Downtown Heritage Perth has over seventy fine restaurants and great shops all within five square blocks. Explore the unique gift stores, antique shops and galleries with work by local artisans or take a break and relax on an outdoor patio. Perth is in Eastern Ontario in the middle of beautiful countryside and hundreds of lakes. Perth has a strong agricultural history and is located in Lanark County, the Maple Syrup capital of Ontario.

Perth was established in 1816 as a strategic defensive outpost in the Rideau corridor after the War of mexis.jpg1812. Perth became the social, judicial and administrative capital of the region. Industrial booms punctuate its history, and evidence of this can be seen in architecture - from converted 19th century mills and factories to the Victorian shop fronts of downtown and the grand homes complementing tree-lined boulevards. In 2004, Perth was the proud recipient of the Prince of Wales Award a national heritage award for architecture preservation. In recent times, Perth has shifted from an industrial based economy to one rooted in heritage and cultural tourism.

Perth has retained its small-town friendliness and rural charm despite being located within commuting distance of both Ottawa and Kingston. Perth is famous for its relaxed atmosphere and its motto is "Make Haste Slowly". The enthusiasm of the community shows itself in the active service clubs and the number of high quality annual festivals and year round cultural events.

For more background and special event information visit:

Town of Perth www.perthcanada.com

Location:  34 Herriott Street, K7H 1T2, Perth, ON
Website:  http://www.stewartparkfestival.ca
For information contact:  613-264-1190
Phone:  613-264-1190
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

The struggle continues! Keeping up the pressure to fight provincial cuts to the arts.

Ironic isn’t it? Vancouver’s 2009 “Best Local Music Festival” along with over 6000 other arts & culture, heritage, parents, teachers, hot lunch programs, libraries, amateur sports, AIDS relief centres, health centres, emergency preparedness, music and summer camps for blind kids across the province continue to try to come to grips with the current and prospective results of the BC government’s unprecedented level of cuts to funding.
For those of you who missed our last newsletter, the Festival was notified after this year’s event that its 2009 gaming grant of $80,000 was denied – having received no notice in advance – and is now facing the prospect of further drastic and draconian provincial cuts in the months and years to come.

We are, as they say, girding our collective loins in the face of these major challenges – and remain committed to working toward another successful festival in 2010. Mark July 16-18 on your calendars! Thanks to everyone who has taken this opportunity to send us some of their hard earned dollars. Your donations and support are deeply appreciated – every cent is important. We welcome any and all donations to help us keep the festival thriving. With your support we will carry on.

Venue:  468 – 411 Dunsmuir Street
Location:  468 – 411 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver, BC
Website:  http://thefestival.bc.ca/
Phone:  604-602-9798
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

The Memoire & Racines Festival laid down roots at Saint-Jean-Bosco Park in Saint-Charles-Borromée, Quebec in 1995 and has not moved since then. It is a magnificent open green space, spotted with shady trees and situated along side the winding Assomption River. This association with Bosco Park allows the Memoire & Racines Festival to offer a wonderfully unique and very pleasant location to enjoy a musical weekend at our festival.

Venue:  various locations - see website
Location:  200 rue de Salaberry, Joilette, bureau 123, J6E 4G1, Quebec, QC
Website:  http://www.memoireracines.qc.ca
For information contact:  festival@memoireracines.qc.ca
Phone:  450-752-6798
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

Get your annual music and culture fix at the 31st annual Calgary Folk Music Festival July 22-25, 2010 at Prince's Island Park. See over 62 artists from 13 countries on 7 stages.

The Festival is Calgary's largest, most prominent annual gathering of original, independent artists in a creative, multi-faceted artistic program that combines some of the finest: roots, world music, country, alternative, blues, funk, dub, bluegrass, celtic, traditional (and more) artists from our own backyard and the globe. From influential artists who began making music in the ‘60s and ‘70s to innovative artists whose music was created in the last decade, it's an ear-opening journey into the heart and soul of the roots and evolution of the music we like to call folk.

It's a festival of discovery with a relaxed atmosphere and an incredibly cool vibe. The site features a family area with interactive activities and entertainment, an international craft market, global culinary delights, a record tent and tree-shaded beer garden. We have plate and cup recycling to composting, secured bicycle parking and are wind-powered. There's plenty of shade and covered viewing areas for seniors and the disabled.

Come early, set up your tarp, blankets and chairs in front of mainstage daily for your evening viewing pleasure. During the day, take in our ever-evolving programming on 6 stages in the park, where musicians collaborate in unpredictable, exquisite songwriter-in-the-round and themed sessions.

Venue:  Prince's Island Park
Location:  414 Memorial Dr. NE, Calgary, AB
Website:  http://www.calgaryfolkmusicfestival.com
For information contact:  info@calgaryfolkfest.com
Phone:  403-233-0904
Categories:   Arts & Culture

This Festival includes a large exhibitor and trade show, great local food, two workshop tents, children's programs and an entertainment tent.

Time:  10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Venue:  Middleville Fairgrounds
Location:  4189 Wolf Grove Road, Lanark, ON
Website:  http://www.artofbeinggreen.com
For information contact:  Beth Peterkin
Phone:  613-267-5340
Categories:   Environment; Arts & Culture; Food & Beverage

Hillside began in 1984 as local gathering of musical friends in Guelph, Ontario. Today, it is one of Canada's best-loved music festivals with over 50 musical performances on five stages over three days during the last weekend in July.

Held at Guelph Lake conservation area on an "island" connected to the mainland by a narrow causeway, the festival is anchored by the Hillside Community permanent main stage, a dramatic outdoor performance space with a living roof and gracefully arched acoustical wooden ceiling.

Hillside is renowned for its artistic lineup, a flavourful blend of up-and-coming Canadian performers, world artists, and local talent. The program is always richly diverse and highly entertaining.

While music is the focus, the Hillside experience also includes:

* Spoken word
* Hand drumming
* Aboriginal circle
* Children's activities and events
* International food pavilion
* Artisan Market
* Healing arts workshops
* Environmental expo
* Youth tent
* Community workshops



Hillside is a not-for-profit corporation, administered by a board of directors, a small year-round staff, and more than 1,000 volunteers.

Venue:  Guelph Lake Island
Location:  123 Woolwich Street East, N1H 3V1, Guelph, ON
Website:  http://www.hillside.on.ca
For information contact:  hillside@hillsidefestival.ca
Phone:  519-763-6396
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

Divers/Cité is an event whose mission is to present an arts and music festival that illustrates and celebrates the value of diversity in a spirit of sharing, solidarity and openness with the world. Eighteen years of constant growth and expansion has established Divers/Cité as an internationally recognized festival.

Most of the programming is outdoor and free. Our programming also follows set themes that cover a wide range of artistic tendencies that address widely varying audiences. The event proudly showcases modern dance, blues, jazz, pop, Latin, rock, world, funk, ambient, techno and electronic concerts, drag queen performances and an outdoor cinema. The 2010 edition, from July 26th to August 1st, will offer more than 47 hours of free outdoor performances spanning 7 days.

Please help us reduce our carbon footprint by following the recycling instructions on the festival site.

Location:  Montreal, QC
Website:  http://www.diverscite.org
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

This year's Blueberry Bluegrass & Country Music Festival is on July 30, 31 and August 1, 2010 at the Homecoming Park (formerly Stony Plain Exhibition Park) in beautiful Stony Plain, just minutes from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Bring your Family, Friends & Lawnchairs

Every year, we have a weekend full of activities for the whole family including:
# Great music on our main stage
# Workshops
# Slowpitch Jam
# Food Concessions & Craft Tables
# Kids Corner
# Festival Souvenir Table
# Sunday Morning Gospel
# Parking/Camping available
# Parking Lot Picking
# Open Stage
# 24 Hour Security & First Aid
# Jamming all Weekend

Venue:  Homecoming Park
Location:  4202 - 50 Street, Stoney Plain, AB
Website:  http://www.blueberrybluegrass.com
For information contact:  info@blueberrybluegrass.com
Phone:  780-922-4973 or 780-999-6877
Categories:   Arts & Culture

The festival runs on Friday from 7pm to 11pm, Saturday from 1 pm to 11pm, and Sunday from 1pm to 11pm.
This free festival, now in its sixteenth year, is patterned after European festivals whereby the days events are held on numerous outdoor stages in the town core. Traditional forms of folk music and dance are the festivals theme with emphasis placed upon the various cultures present in Cambridge and surrounding area. Arts, crafts, and an excellent choice of food and refreshments are also available at the festival site and from the many fine eating establishments in downtown Cambridge. Local and internationally renowned performers, are selected each year to reflect a most diverse and entertaining mixture of musical cultures.

Venue:  Downtown Cambridge
Location:  Galt Centre Postal Outlet, P.O. Box 22148, N1R 8E3, Cambridge, ON
Website:  http://www.millracefolksociety.com/festival.htm
For information contact:  mill_race@yahoo.com
Phone:  519-621-7135
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

Canmore's appetite for music led to the formation of the Canmore Folk and Blues Club in the early 1970s". The Club was incorporated under the Societies Act on May 6th, 1975. It is a Registered Charity, #0857516-22. The Club, through the Canmore Folk Music Festival and its outreach program in the local schools, achieves its goals and objectives to:
1. Educate and cultivate an appreciation for, and enjoyment of, the folk music of Canada and other countries
2. Educate and provide opportunities for children to become familiar with folk music and the musical instruments of many countries
3. Provide opportunities for national and international folk performers to become known in the area
4. Stimulate international understanding through a common interest in folk music

Venue:  Stan Rogers Stage
Location:  Box 8098, Canmore, AB
Website:  http://www.canmorefolkmusicfestival.com
For information contact:  info@canmorefolkmusicfestival.com
Phone:  403-678-2524
Categories:   Arts & Culture

Folklorama began in 1970 as a one time multicultural event to celebrate Manitoba's Centennial. It was so successful it has returned every year since then.

Three programs have grown out of the festival's success, each one working to fullfill our mission of "Celebrating diversity and promoting cultural understanding":

* Folklorama Talent brings multicultural and contemporary performers to special events and conventions throughout the year.
* Folklorama Teachings bring story tellers and performers into schools and daycares.
* Folklorama Travel works to bring both tours and individuals not only to the festival, but to the city of Winnipeg year round.

Location:  Winnipeg, MB
Website:  http://www.folklorama.ca/home
For information contact:  rybachukk@folklorama.ca
Phone:  1-204-982-6210
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

The Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival brings the best in traditional and contemporary folk music to the beautiful UNESCO World Heritage Site of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. We are Nova Scotia's longest-running folk festival and have showcased great Nova Scotian, Canadian, and international talent during our 23 years. We are proud to have introduced many of the Maritimes' best-loved musicians to a wider audience on our stages.

Venue:  various locations - see website
Location:  P.O. Box 655 Lunenburg, B0J 2C0, Lunenburg, NS
Website:  http://www.folkharbour.com/index.php
For information contact:  info@folkharbour.com
Phone:  902-634-3180
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

Edmonton Folk Music Festival, staged in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in beautiful downtown Gallagher Park, happens each year in the second weekend in August. We thank the many sponsors who support this event and enable us to offer world-class music at affordable prices.

Venue:  Gallagher Park
Location:  P.O. Box 4130, Edmonton, AB
Website:  http://www.efmf.ab.ca
For information contact:  tickets@efmf.ab.ca
Phone:  780-429-1999
Categories:   Arts & Culture

Great Woods Park www.greatwoodspark.com and GWMF Music Society will proudly present the 14th annual indoor-outdoor Blues/Rock/Roots music festival in a beautiful 120-acre park and campground on the banks of the Brokenhead River, at a very unique venue, The Moonrise Cabana on August 6-9, 2009.

A dedicated group of volunteers is helping to stage and promote this astounding music festival, which contributes to the cultural life of the communities of Manitoba. Thousands of people from United States and Canada have enjoyed the festival in the past and we look forward to a larger attendance this year as the reputation for the quality of this festival continues to grow.

Great Woods Music Festival is extending an invitation and opportunity to you to participate in this prestigious event with a Sponsorship package for this special Blues/Rock/Roots festival. The package offers a variety of sponsorship levels and we are assured your organization will select one that best represents your business needs and marketing plan. We believe this event will provide an excellent opportunity to reward your valued customers and employees, to promote your business and support the cultural life of Manitoba. For further information, phone (204) 268-2814 or email park@greatwoodspark.com

Venue:  The Moonrise Cabana, Great Woods Park
Location:  Beausejour, MB
Website:  http://www.greatwoodspark.com/
For information contact:  park@greatwoodspark.com
Phone:  204-268-2814
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

Nova Scotia Nature Trust, the province’s leading land conservation organization, is very pleased to invite you to a special celebration on Friday, August 6th, at 10:30 am at the Vogler’s Cove Community Centre (8544 Highway 331, Vogler’s Cove).

Join the Nature Trust in celebrating the permanent protection of 300 acres of undeveloped coastal property on Great and Selig Islands - the largest island conservation ever accomplished off mainland Nova Scotia.

Members, supporters and the public are welcome to attend a brief reception ceremony to honour the local family who has made this generous commitment to protecting Nova Scotia’s natural legacy and are invited to join a walk on Cherry Hill Beach afterwards.

Time:  10:30 AM
Venue:  Vogler’s Cove Community Centre
Location:  8544 Highway 331, NS
Website:  http://www.nsnt.ca
For information contact:  ROBIN LEVY
Phone:  (902) 425-LAND
Categories:   Environment

The aim of the Goderich Celtic Roots Festival and Celtic College is to foster the preservation and continuation of traditional Celtic art forms through exposure, participation and education. Forming new generations of artists and participants is absolutely essential to the survival of these living traditions. The Festival, College and Celtic Kids Day Camp, therefore, create and support year-long educational and participatory programmes, as well as instrument loans to help bring forward the new generations that will live and participate in our valued traditions. If you share our goals, you can participate by helping us to fund the charitable organization we have created to finance these programs.

Location:  Box 171, N7A 3Z2, Goderich, ON
Website:  http://www.celticfestival.ca
For information contact:  festival@celticfestival.ca
Phone:  519-524-8221
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

The Live From the Rock Folk Festival is a very special event taking place on the northern shore of the world's largest lake the second weekend of every August. Its an amazing gathering of an eclectic group of people who together form a magical community in the park. Many of our supporters come back year after year and camp next to festival friends, joining them around the nightly campfire, listening to music on four stages from morning to midnight, admiring the works of artisans and consuming the great food sold on site by a variety of vendors. Together we celebrate non- commercial alternative music, artists, the north and community! The festival is completely volunteer run and all of us who dedicate countless hours to the caus” do so because we love music and community.
We invite you to join us and become part of the Live From the Rock family. Come to the festival - we do need paying audience members; and bring your family and friends. Apply to be a food vendor or artisan, volunteer or sign up to play on the open stage.

Location:  Red Rock, ON
Website:  http://www.livefromtherock.com
For information contact:  jackiebrewer@northerncu.com
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

The Regina Folk Festival (RFF) was first held way back in 1969 on the Regina Campus of the University of Saskatchewan. Organized by a few individuals, the enthusiasm and support shown for this first event led to the creation of the Regina Guild of Folk Arts (RGFA) Since that time, the RGFA has continued to present both an annual festival (the Regina Folk Festival) and year-round music performances (the Regina Folk Festival Concert Series). For sixteen years RGFA produced and staged the Regina Folk Festival at various indoor venues.

Venue:  various locations - see website
Location:  101 - 1855 Scarth Street, S4P 2G9, Regina, SK
Website:  http://www.reginafolkfestival.com
For information contact:  info@reginafolkfestival.com
Phone:  306-757-0308
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

Calling all residents of the Lower Mainland! Langley Environmental Partners Society and the Langley Agricultural Advisory Committee are organizing a local food fair on Saturday August 7th from 11am – 4pm. This locally focused food fair will be held at the most delightful of venues, The Fort Wine Company.

Langley Eats Local will focus on local farmers and producers as Langley encourages its citizens to eat local and support local businesses. It will be family oriented, provide fun music and entertainment, a kid’s zone, and showcase at least 2 agricultural related movies and a variety of local food producers, farmers and vendors. In addition we hope to have a locally sourced BBQ lunch!


For more information or to RSVP please contact Lina at 604-533-3515 or lazeez@tol.ca . We encourage you to RSVP so as to avoid wastage of prepared food at the event. Event entry is by donation.

Time:  11 AM-4 PM
Venue:  The Fort Wine Company
Location:  26151 84 Avenue, Langley, BC
Website:  http://www.leps.bc.ca/events
For information contact:  Lina lazeez@tol.ca
Phone:  604-533-3515
Categories:   Farming; Environment

20th Anniversary Under The Volcano Festival of Art & Social Change

After 20 years UTV has decided to close this chapter of our history by making our 20th anniversary our final event. For two decades we have organized in solidarity with local and global social justice movements and have staunchly supported marginalized peoples struggles. Come celebrate cultures of resistance, activism and community!

2010 HIGHLIGHTS:

* Naomi Klein and Arthur Manuel: Paying our Debts, At Home and Abroad: A Discussion with the award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author Klein and Secwepemc Nation activist Manuel, moderated by journalist & documentary film-maker Avi Lewis

* Olmeca: Xicano MC returns in support of new album “La Contra Cultura”
* Plus Joey Only Outlaw Band, Delhi2Dublin, Los Migrantes, Veda Hille and many more!

Plus:

Malcolm Lowry Stage, Dragonfly Kid’s Festival, Artisans Market, Community Info Fair, Panel Workshops on various social justice topics and much more!

Venue:  Cates Park
Location:  North Vancouver, BC
For information contact:  volcano@resist.ca
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

Lectures, workshops re: children's education, visits to preschools, primary schools, social activities.
Theme of Congress is "Children, Citizens of a challenged world".

Venue:  Goteborg
Location:  67 Front Street, Goteborg, Sweden
Website:  http://www.torontocreatives.ca
For information contact:  info
Categories:   Children & Youth; Education; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

Are you thinking about a cost-effective, greener, and more efficient way to heat and cool your home? HERE! Halton Enablers of Renewable Energy will be having its first ever Geothermal Information Session and GeoTour in Georgetown on Thursday, August 12 from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. HERE!’s thermal technology specialist will be giving an in-depth presentation on geothermal heating/cooling systems for your home, he will show you an actual geothermal system and its components, and will be answering any questions you may have. There are a limited number of spaces available so registration is required for this event. Please email here.office (at) gmail.com for further information or to register. This event is free and open to the public.

Time:  7:30 pm-9:30 pm
Location:  Georgetown, ON
Website:  http://halton.ourpower.ca
For information contact:  Amanda here.office@gmail.com
Phone:  905-299-2327
Categories:   Environment

Join Ecology Ottawa for a movie under the stars as part of the 10 year anniversary for the Centretown Movies Festival (http://www.csit.carleton.ca/~arya/cm/index.html).

Admission is pay-what-you-can. Don't forget to bring something comfortable to sit on. Suggestions include lawn chairs, camping chairs, blankets, foam mats, bug spray, etc.

Film Summary:
...Radiant City is a National Film Board of Canada film released in 2006 at the Toronto Film Festival, about suburban sprawl and the fictional Moss family who live in the suburbs.

The film consists of two components. One tells of the five member Moss family who have just moved from the city into a brand new suburban development. The narrative is set in the Evergreen suburb of Calgary, Alberta. The family discuss and portray life in the suburbs, and the various flaws and advantages of modern suburban life, with a considerably greater emphasis on the flaws. While the characters and instances in the movie are fictional, the actors that play them all do live in real suburban areas.

Screening Info:
At the earliest, movies will be canceled at 9pm and will not be canceled unless a) weather or other uncontrollable situations do not allow proper screening or b) it is raining at the time of screening AND there is no interest from the audience to continue with the screening.

Venue:  Dundonald Park
Location:  512 Somerset Street West, Ottawa, ON
Website:  http://www.ecologyottawa.ca
For information contact:  Madalyn events@ecologyottawa.ca
Phone:  613-860-5353
Categories:   Arts & Culture

Join us in the beautiful Haliburton Highlands as we celebrate literary artists! Located right in the heart of Minden, the Minden Hills Cultural centre features the Agnes Jamieson Gallery, the Minden Hills Museum (which features many buildings you can discover firsthand from historic Minden) and the R.D. Lawrence Centre, a museum and literary centre dedicated to Ron Lawrence, an author and conservationist whose fascinating life is preserved within our environmentally friendly sustainable building! Ron Lawrence spent his life rescuing and rehabilitating animals and capturing their stories in 30 books, published in 32 countries, in 17 languages. His love of the written word made him a talented, briliant journalist and author of both fiction and non-fiction nature books. The centre strives to nourish the love of literature, and the Literary Festival is an opportunity for creative minds to meet and share!

The festival returns for the second year and will be under the big top tent at the Minden Hills Cultural Centre as part of a three-week cultural festial. The literary festival will run August 13 and 14. There will be activities all day and a gala event on the evening of the 13. On August 14 there will be a children's program in the morning, family activities in the afternoon and on the grounds a concert by Highlands Brass. Also for those interested in playwriting, on the evening of August 14, the Minden Fringe will be happening at Wintergreen. Details will be posted here as the festival schedule is confirmed.

If you are interested in volunteering for the festival, are a writer interested in participating, or would like any further information then please call Sheryl Loucks at 286-2298. For information about last year's festival authors please see the information below.

Venue:  Minden Hills Cultural Centre
Location:  174-176 Bobcaygeon Road, Minden, ON
Website:  http://www.mindenculturalcentre.com
For information contact:  Sheryl Loucks rdlawrenceplace@mindenhills.ca
Phone:  705-286-2298
Categories:   Children & Youth; Arts & Culture

The host for the Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor (COCAL IX) will be the Syndicat des chargées et chargés de cours de l'Université Laval (SCCCUL) which is affiliated with the Fédération des enseignantes et enseignants du Québec (FNEEQ-CSN).

COCAL is a coalition of higher education activists from the North American continent. We are united in working to improve working conditions at colleges and universities for contingent faculty, including adjunct, part-time, and non-tenure track instructors, and graduate teaching assistants.

More info: http://cocalinternational.org/events.html

Time:  August 13 - 9 :00 a.m., August 15, 9:00 a.m.
Venue:  Universite Laval
Location:  Quebec City, QC
Categories:   Education

About Us
Festival History

The Fergus Scottish Festival and Highland Games has enjoyed success since its beginning in 1946. Begun by Alex Robertson, the games have had two locations, Victoria Park and more recently, the Centre Wellington Community Sportsplex (Fergus). The Games exemplify all things Scottish with a focus on heavy events, dancing, piping, clans and family interactive fun.

Venue:  Centre Wellington Community Sportsplex
Location:  550 Belsyde Avenue East, N1M 2P7, Fergus, ON
Website:  http://www.fergusscottishfestival.com
For information contact:  info@fergusscottishfestival.com
Phone:  519-787-0099
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

The Ottawa Folk Festival is held in the middle of August in beautiful Britannia Park in Ottawa's west end. The Festival has been recognized as one of the "Top 50 Ontario Festivals" by Festival & Events Ontario.

Venue:  Brittania Park
Location:  100 - 858 Bank Street, K1S 3W3, Ottawa, ON
Website:  http://www.ottawafolk.org/index.html
For information contact:  festival@ottawafolk.org
Phone:  613-230-8234
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

The Salmon Arm Folk Music Society is a non-profit charitable organization that presents year-round concerts as well as the Annual Roots and Blues Festival the third weekend every August.

To be included on our mailing list to receive our brochure and our e-newsletter, please purchase a society membership in Ticket purchase section on this website. You can also purchase a membership by phone (250-833-4096) or by email: info@rootsandblues.ca

Venue:  490 5th Avenue SW
Location:  490 5th Avenue SW, Salmon Arm, BC
Website:  http://www.rootsandblues.ca/
For information contact:  info@rootsandblues.ca
Phone:  250-833-4096
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

Welcome to the Trout Forest Music Festival!!

Catch The Trout!
It's Music in the Woods!

Join us at the Ear Falls Waterfront Park next August 13th to 15th for the 15th Annual Trout Forest Music Festival.

Location:  P.O. Box 372 Ear Falls, P0V 1T0, Ear Falls, ON
Website:  http://www.troutfest.com
For information contact:  trout@troutfest.com
Phone:  807-222-2404
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

The Sierra Club -- Atlantic Chapter invites you to attend its first ActionH20 Summit on Water Quality and Conservation. Sierra Club Canada has recently launched ActionH20, a national water campaign that provides grassroots groups, community leaders and municipal staff with tools and resources to achieve sustainable water conservation practices in Canadian communities. With issues like water contamination from mining, pesticide-induced fish kills, and concerns over water quality affecting our communities; the protection of our water is more important than ever. This summit offers a unique opportunity to equip its participants with the necessary tools to change how water is managed in Atlantic Canada.

The agenda includes:

* Guided training on water quality testing
* Interactive workshops on water conservation
* Skill-building sessions on planning campaigns, media skills, outreach, technology, and influencing policy
* Regional and Provincial networking sessions with water protection groups
* Sessions led by the Sierra Club Canada’s Executive Director, John Bennett
* Opportunities to explore the beautiful and historic Town of Wolfville (visit http://wolfville.ca/)
* Delicious locally prepared dinner by the head chef of the award winning restaurant The Tempest (with vegetarian/vegan options; visit http://www.tempest.ca/)

If you are interested in attending, please fill out and return the attached registration form by August 3rd at the latest. You can also register online at http://actionh2o.ca/form/registration-atlantic-actionh2o-summit. Registration is limited. The cost of registration for the summit is $20 for Sierra Club Canada members and $40 non-members. Cost of membership is $20.00. Meals will be provided and billeted accommodations will be available. Please make payments out to Sierra Club Canada - Atlantic Chapter and mail to our office in Halifax: Sierra Club Canada - Atlantic Canada Chapter, 1657 Barrington St., Suite 533, Halifax, NS, B3J 2A1. Payment in person at the event is also possible.

Location:  Wolfville, NS
For information contact:  Samantha Munroe samm@sierraclub.ca
Phone:  902-444-3113
Categories:   Environment; Skills & Training

The CWVBIA and Steamworks are proud to announce the 7th Annual Church Street Fetish Fair, a celebration of the leather, fetish and fantasy communities. Over 30,000 people were in attendance last year!!!

The street fair will take place on Sunday August 15th 2010 from noon until 9pm, patios open until 11pm. Enjoy the day and get into the spirit of the event by dressing in your fetish and/or fantasy.

The three-block closure of Church Street will run from Gloucester Street south to Alexander Street.

Some of the features of the day long fair include:

* Extended patio areas for Church Street bars and restaurants
* Three stages: North Stage, South Stage, Fetish Stage
* Street performers
* Marketplace of vendors featuring all things naughty and nice
* Community information booths

The fair is the place to come out and be your most outrageous!

Location:  Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.churchstreetfetishfair.com
For information contact:  info@churchwellesleyvillage.ca
Phone:  416.393.6363
Categories:   Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual; Sexuality

Just 30 minutes North of Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, GF10 is run primarily by volunteers and RAIN OR SHINE it will feature a full spread of natural, organic and local products coupled with many practical and affordable eco-friendly energy saving items and suppliers, with lots of great music and entertainment.

Our Vendors come from a wide variety of backgrounds, from beautiful artisans to alternative energy experts, there is something to interest everyone More.....

Our live Music comes from English, French & First Nation bands from across the Maritimes and beyond. We add more performers regularly to deliver an amazing line up of over 100 bands. The 'BIG' names help attract people to listen to our fantastic local heros. GF10 will focus on the youth with workshops for novices and professionals a like on a range of topics. From established bands to people who have always wanted to play an instument, all are welcome. more.....

Our Entertainment includes talks and presentations on many Green subjects. Plus an music workshops, exhibition area, a beer garden, camping, fun competitions, picnic spots, long and short nature rambles, children's play area, UNICORN rides, treasure trail, face painting, and much more.....

Come and make new friends in a beautiful environment to explore.

Location:  Clairville, NB
Website:  http://www.thegreenfestival.ca
For information contact:  greenfestival@xplornet.com
Phone:  1 (506) 785-6685
Categories:   Environment; Arts & Culture

There are major cuts in education planned for next year and the following years, including possible school closures in the inner-city.

Join Vancouver-Mt. Pleasant MLA Jenny Kwan and a panel of guest speakers to discuss the impacts of education cuts in Vancouver-Mt. Pleasant and ...across the city.

Information - 604-775-0790

Time:  7:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
Venue:  Mt. Pleasant Neighbourhood House
Location:  800 East Broadway, Vancouver, BC
Phone:  604-775-0790
Categories:   Education

H2Oil follows a voyage of discovery, heartbreak and politicization in the stories of those attempting to defend water in Alberta against tar sands expansion. Unlikely alliances are built and lives are changed as they come up against the largest industrial project in human history.

Burlington Central Library - 2331 New Street - Doors open at 6: 30
Films, speakers, free refreshments & eco-prizes !

Please help us host a green event (bring your own mug, carpool/public transit if you can)

$5 admission

Time:  6:30
Venue:  Burlington Central Library
Location:  2331 New Street, Burlington, ON
Website:  http://www.burlingtongreen.org
For information contact:  Dianne Watkins dianne@burlingtongreen..org
Categories:   Environment; Arts & Culture

The Trinity-Spadina riding association and the Toronto Greens are proud to play host to the 2010 Green Party Convention, which will be held in Toronto on August 20-22nd, 2010. This exciting convention will be held at one of the greenest convention facilities in the country, The Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

Some key highlights of the Convention weekend include:

* A lead up week to the convention where Toronto Greens will host a series of policy-focussed events
* A 'Green Lifestyle show' open to the public featuring green businesses, candidates, riding associations, social justice/sustainable environmental advocacy groups
* Training sessions including: organizing in your riding, canvassing training, and candidate training
* Meet and hear members running for the Party's Federal Council and cast your vote
* Policy workshops and a Shadow Cabinet meeting with members
* Community outreach summits: A chance for candidates, organizers and members to interact with members of Canada's diverse communities and listen, learn and engage

Venue:  The Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Location:  255 ST FRONT W, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://greenparty.ca/convention
For information contact:  convention@greenparty.ca
Phone:  1-866-868-3447
Categories:   Environment; Politics & Political Organizations

The Summerfolk site is erected by scores of volunteers and artisans and takes on the appearance of a small village. It features a 4000 seat main stage, five side stages, Over 40 artisans exhibiting their talents in the craft area, more than a dozen food booths, a sandy beach, a children's area with a playground, ample free parking, not to mention the Down by the Bay tent - our licensed beverage area!!
Camping is available nearby and the area offers a wide range of accommodations from quaint bed and breakfasts to luxury hotels. The biggest problem visitors have to contend with is "where to go next?" Pottery, jewelry, woodwork, clothing and instruments are but a few examples of the fine craftsmanship. Canadian artists are combined with acts from North America and beyond with the total number often exceeding 100 performers. The music starts at 11:00 a.m. on stages throughout the park and continues throughout the afternoon. These intimate side stages let the magic happen with the performers backing each other up in unique arrangements. The main stage features performances Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings from 6:00 to 11:00 p.m.. Summerfolk is truly an audience participation festival with ample opportunities to meet the performers, talk with the artisans, renew old acquaintances and make new friends.

Camping is available nearby and the area offers a wide range of accommodations from quaint bed and breakfasts to luxury hotels. The biggest problem visitors have to contend with is "where to go next?" Pottery, jewelry, woodwork, clothing and instruments are but a few examples of the fine craftsmanship. Canadian artists are combined with acts from North America and beyond with the total number often exceeding 100 performers. The music starts at 11:00 a.m. on stages throughout the park and continues throughout the afternoon. These intimate side stages let the magic happen with the performers backing each other up in unique arrangements. The main stage features performances Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings from 6:00 to 11:00 p.m.. Summerfolk is truly an audience participation festival with ample opportunities to meet the performers, talk with the artisans, renew old acquaintances and make new friends.

Summerfolk has grown over the past quarter century and it continues to expand and evolve. In 2001 the Down by the Bay Tent became a second main stage and featured performers d

Location:  Georgian Bay Folk Society, P.O. Box 521, N4K 5R1, Owen Sound, ON
Website:  http://www.summerfolk.org
For information contact:  gbfs@@bmts.com
Phone:  519-371-2995
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

The 27th annual Womyn's Gathering, proudly presented by Twin Oaks.
Threads of Strength: workshops, yoga, meditation, song, dance, DIY, sweats, laughter, and dreams!
$40-$140 Sliding Scale
Open to: womyn, women, trans-womyn, girls, mothers, dykes, grrls, and all non-male ID folks!

Venue:  Twin Oaks
Location:  138 Twin Oaks Road, Louisa VA 23093 USA
Website:  http://www.womynsgathering.org
For information contact:  arizona@twinoaks.org
Phone:  540-894-5126
Categories:   Women

The North Bay Environmental Action committee is proud to bring the 4th annual Can Change Festival to our city’s scenic waterfront!

This yearly environmental festival aims to bring attention to local and global environmental issues, and focuses on local businesses and groups working toward a greener, more socially responsible future.

This all day event will feature live entertainment from local musicians, locally made food, information on environmental issues and how to build a greener tomorrow from local businesses and groups, kids activities and more!

Admission is free for all!

This free family event will begin at 11:00am at the Kiwanis band shell located on North Bay’s beautiful waterfront.

We are still looking for musicians to play at this year’s festival. If you are interested please email can.change@hotmail.com

Time:  11 AM
Venue:  North Bay’s waterfront
Location:  North Bay, ON
For information contact:  Jes Roy can.change@hotmail.com
Categories:   Environment; Children & Youth; Business & Economics

Green Lifestyle Show : Small is possible, We are the Solution.
Metro Toronto Convention Centre August 21st 2010
Tickets $10 CAA Members FREE

Its a Party & You are invited!
Are you interested in a healthier lifestyle.
Want to positively impact climate change & the environment?
Start with the power of your individual choices!

Attend the green lifestyle show on August 21st @ Metro Convention Centre 11 - 9 pm.

Come out & meet Elisabeth May & Mike Schreiner Leader of the GPO
Free Samples of Organic Food & Beverages
Meet Not for Profit Orginazition & learn how you can get involved
Fashion Show Featuring WES MiSENER, Modrobes & More

For More Info & tickets go to: www.GreenLifestyleShow.ca

Time:  11 AM- 9 PM
Venue:  The Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Location:  255 ST FRONT W, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.greenlifestyleshow.ca
For information contact:  Stefan Premdas spremdas@gmail.com
Phone:  647 346 4277
Categories:   Food & Beverage; Environment

Come and celebrate Toronto's first community orchard in a park with free food, music, information booths, a free raffle and children's activities. The event is being produced by local gardening group Growing for Green, the founders of the orchard, in partnership with Parks, Forestry and Recreation. Learn how planting fruit trees can help build communities and make them more sustainable. For more information visit www.communityorchard.ca .

Time:  5 PM- 8 PM
Venue:  Ben Nobleman Park
Location:  Eglinton just south of the Eglinton West subway station, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://communityorchard.ca
For information contact:  growingforgreen@gmail.com
Categories:   Environment

On August 27, 2010, Ottawa Riverkeeper, in cooperation with the National Capital Commission (NCC), will be hosting an exciting one-day summit in Canada’s Capital Region to bring leaders together to discuss the health and future of the Ottawa River and its tributaries. The Summit will bring together elected officials and municipal staff from large and small communities from the provinces of Québec and Ontario to create a shared awareness of the watershed and to promote the restoration and protection of our incredible shared resource – the Ottawa River.

The Summit will encourage First Nations leaders, elected officials and municipal staff from communities throughout the watershed to share information, experiences and successes, and to work cooperatively on river-related issues. The agenda for the Summit includes an overview of the current state of the Ottawa River, and a round table discussion about key watershed projects and initiatives, and a review of opportunities for collaboration on research and monitoring. Furthermore, the Summit aims to promote the sustainable use of river resources, increase public participation in decision-making that affects our lakes and rivers, and above all, to create a shared vision for the future of the Ottawa River.


For more information or to register:
http://ottawariverkeeper.ca/programs/ottawa_river_summit_2010_1/

Location:  Ottawa, ON
Website:  http://ottawariverkeeper.ca/programs/ottawa_river_summit_2010_1/
Categories:   Environment

The Art of Being Green Festival is a family-friendly event showcasing products and services to help you save energy and save money. The festival includes a large vendor/exhibitor trade show, two workshop tents, Canadian entertainment, children's programming and great local food. We are located just 45 minutes from downtown Ottawa on good paved roads. Plenty of parking located nearby.

"A Celebration of Renewable Energy, Adaptation and Green Lifestyles"
Art of Being Green is a success story from the Ontario Ministry of Tourism

The Art of Being Green is pleased to be a TOP 100 Winner from Festivals and Events Ontario in both 2008 and 2009.

For more information, shedule, directions, etc:
http://artofbeinggreen.ca/

Venue:  Middleville Fairgrounds
Location:  4189 Wolf Grove Road, Lanark Highlands, ON
Website:  http://artofbeinggreen.ca/
Categories:   Environment

The Eaglewood Folk Festival is dedicated to presenting exciting and diverse original folk/roots music while promoting arts & culture, ecological awareness, multiculturalism and health & wellness in a sustainable environment of unity, positive energy and artistic excellence.


Mandate

While music is the focus, The Eaglewood Folk Festival also highly values and gives special emphasis to:
* Original, innovative traditional and contemporary folk roots music
* Orchestrating an annual three day summer-time event
* Hosting several winter and spring series concerts, featuring a blend of local talent
* Canadian and Aboriginal singer songwriters, and the inclusion of one International act per year
* Development of local artists and new talent
* Celebrating diversity awareness and inclusion with emphasis to Indigenous arts & culture, tradition and ceremony
* Providing handicapped-accessible venues, sites and programs
* Youth programming and family-friendly activities

* Raising awareness of and exercising ecological and environmentally-friendly living practices
* Sponsors and community partners who are our co-leaders in providing unique opportunities for community building of economy, arts and culture
* Providing positive quality of life through community involvement and development
* To sustain an environment of humour, unity and inclusion
* Our volunteers who are the lifeblood of the organization

Location:  9715 Morning Glory Road, L0E 1N0, Pefferlaw, ON
Website:  http://www.eaglewoodfolk.com
For information contact:  info@eaglewoodfolk.com
Phone:  1-888-817-3655
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

What Is Burning Man?
Once a year, tens of thousands of participants gather in Nevada's Black Rock Desert to create Black Rock City, dedicated to community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance. They depart one week later, having left no trace whatsoever. Learn more about this incredible experience through our First Timers' Guide, our mission statement and Ten Principles.

What Isn't Burning Man?
Burning Man isn't a "festival" as most people know them. There is no "main stage," and other than burning the Man on Saturday night, the Burning Man Project doesn't book and schedule any entertainment whatsoever. Instead, Burning Man is an entirely participant-driven event, and therein lies its novelty.

Location:  Nevada Black Rock Desert
Website:  http://www.burningman.com

The goBeyond Youth Action Gathering, supported by the Sierra Youth Coalition (SYC), the Sustainable High Schools Project, and the BC Campus Climate Network, is taking place from August 31st to September 5th, 2010. We are inviting high school and post-secondary
participants to register, and we are offering opportunities for workshop facilitators, youth steering committee members, and other volunteers who would like to be part of this amazing experience.
goBeyond is a youth-led project which works to educate, inspire, engage and support our peers in taking climate action at British Columbia's schools, colleges and universities. We believe our campuses can goBeyond climate-neutral by taking responsibility for social and ecological impacts while taking the opportunity to create
climate change solutions for our communities. The Sustainable High Schools Project aims to improve the economic, social, and environmental sustainability of Canada’s high schools by engaging students and empowering them to measure and improve their schools’ level of sustainability.

The 2010 Youth Action Gathering will allow you to develop your grassroots organizing and leadership skills, network and bond with fellow students, and engage in fun activities in the great outdoors while enjoying great cooking!

Location:  North Vancouver, BC
Website:  http://www.go-beyond.ca
For information contact:  Tessa Taylor yag@campusclimatenetwork.org
Categories:   Environment; Children & Youth

The Ashkenaz Festival is the largest Jewish cultural event in Canada, and among the largest events of its kind internationally. The Festival takes place biennially at Toronto's Harbourfront Centre and satellite locations throughout Toronto. Each edition of this multidisciplinary event showcases approximately 50-75 acts from Canada and around the world, including 200+ artists and performers working in music, theatre, dance, film, literature, craft, and visual arts. The Festival draws a diverse, multicultural audience of over 40,000 people.

Venue:  various
Location:  Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.ashkenazfestival.com
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

Break the day’s fast in community with others and help raise emergency funds for the victims of the devastating floods in Pakistan.

Organized by Islamic Relief Canada and hosted by Beit Zatoun, the Iftar is meant to bring together individuals in solidarity and caring for people in flood-ravaged Pakistan.

Islamic Relief is an international relief and development charity which envisages a caring world where people unite to respond to the suffering of others, empowering them to fulfill their potential. We are an independent NGO founded in the UK in 1984 by Dr. Hany El Banna.

With over 100 branches worldwide, working in some of the most remote areas of the World, Islamic Relief is striving to end poverty.

All contributions will be received by Islamic Relief Canada, a registered charity in Canada. Tax-deductible receipts will be issued for all contributions. Learn more at: www.islamicreliefcanada.org

Tasty food is donated by local restaurants to help maximize fundraising proceeds.

Need to know:
- No charge
- doors open at 7:30
- Sorry, not wheelchair accessible

Healthy and tasty Iftar meal provided by supporting restaurant. Also refreshments (non-alcoholic) and snacks with oliveoil+za'atar dipping.

Donations for flood relief accepted by Islamic Relief Canada, a registered charity in Canada - number 82189 6875 RR0001. Receipts issued for all contributions.

Time:  7:00pm - 9:30pm
Venue:  Beit Zatoun
Location:  612 Markham Street (by Bathurst subway), Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.beitzatoun.org
For information contact:  info@beitzatoun.org
Phone:  647.726.9500

The MONTREAL FETISH WEEKEND returns for its 6th consecutive annual edition on September 3-4-5, Labor Day Weekend 2010. VIP PASSES are now available at the reduced price of $150 cad.

With 3 grand themed events : Kabaret Kink - Latextacy - Night of Masks & Vampires; activities : workshops, the Fetish Art & Photo Exhibit, after-parties, shopping and more, the Montreal Fetish Weekend is a true celebration of the fetish lifestyle.

Isn't it time to discover the magic and join us for a weekend-long fetish odyssey!

Location:  Montreal, QC
Website:  http://www.fetishweekend.com/
Categories:   Sexuality

The Shelter Valley Folk Festival celebrates music, juried art, wellness, sustainable living and harvest food in the heart of Northumberland County through an annual Labour Day Weekend festival.

Venue:  Henkel Farm, Northumberland County
Location:  Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.sheltervalley.com/home.htm
For information contact:  festival@sheltervalley.com
Phone:  905-355-1244
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

Thunder Bay and Northwestern Ontario residents are invited to the first-ever Go Green Expo to learn new ways to make their homes and workplaces more eco-friendly, while saving money and helping the environment.

The Expo, scheduled to be held at the Canadian Lakehead Exhibition in Thunder Bay on Sept. 10 - 12, 2010, will feature everything to help locals live in “greener” ways under one roof and includes tours of local green facilities.

From tips on how to make a home more eco-friendly, to building a rain garden and presentations from local eco heroes, the expo promises to offer something for everyone who is making changes, both big and small, to reduce their carbon footprint and help the environment.

Venue:  Canadian Lakehead Exhibition
Location:  Thunder Bay, ON
Website:  http://www.thunderbay.ca/gogreenexpo
For information contact:  skerton@thunderbay.ca
Phone:  807-625-2411
Categories:   Environment; Economic Development

NOW in TORONTO at BEIT ZATOUN
Following showings in Montreal, New York, Beyrouth, Jbeil, Zahleh, Copenhagen, Amman, Tripoli, Paris, Tyre and Casablanca.

Imagine a young country where multiculturalism is part of the mental landscape and where differences are life enriching.

Imagine a much older country on the other side of the planet where 19 religious communities are at home on a territory only 1/10 the size of Southwest Ontario.

The link between these two countries is “Hyphen Islam-Christianity”, a multidisciplinary project which voyages into the heart of Lebanon but also into human memory of sharing and diversity.

For Canadians grappling with "reasonable accommodation" among its diverse population groups we can learn much from the example of Christians and Muslims living side by side in Lebanon for more than a thousand years.

Be our guest for a guided tour by the artist who brings her native country in 100 stunning photographs to Canada which welcomed her as one of its own.

Nada Raphael is the photographer and producer of Hyphen Islam-Christianity. Nada studied in Beirut and Montreal and received a Bachelor’s degrees in audiovisual studies, in communication and in journalism. She has variously worked as a photographer, a camera woman, a journalist, a theater director and a project manager.

Nada created a production company named “Electrochocks Productions” in 2003 in Montreal, her adoptive home. She co-produces and directs documentaries covering different topics.

As a photographer she takes a human outlook on events in the Middle East, most specifically in her native Lebanon.

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Need to know:
- No admission (donations accepted)
- Exhibition hardcover book and show postcards for sale
- Doors open at 6:45 pm
- Sorry, not wheelchair accessible
Tasty refreshments (non-alcoholic) and oliveoil+za'atar dipping.

Time:  Opening night: 7:30pm to 9:00pm
Venue:  Beit Zatoun
Location:  612 Markham Street (by Bathurst subway), Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.beitzatoun.org
For information contact:  info@beitzatoun.org
Phone:  647.726.9500

From kids with training wheels to avid cyclists, this event allows you to experience rural hospitality, savour fresh, local food and explore that Ontario's Greenbelt has to offer - natural beauty, cultural diversity and engaging recreation. Re-discover the joy of a leisurely bike ride and come explore Ontario's Greenbelt, 1.8 million acres of protected land wrapping around the Golden Horseshoe.

Come enjoy Tour de Greenbelt 2010!
Visit www.tourdegreenbelt.ca for more information and to register.

Location:  Niagara Region, ON
Website:  http://www.tourdegreenbelt.ca
For information contact:  Elissa Hermolin
Phone:  416-960-0001
Categories:   Environment; Hobbies; Food & Beverage

Living Green simply means being informed about what you eat, wear, drive and buy and how those choices affect the earth and your health. Join us at this fun, fashionable and family oriented event and discover information, products, services and resources from a local and national experts ready to help you live a healthy, delicious and eco friendly lifestyle in Winnipeg.

Location:  406-63 Albert Street, Winnipeg, MB
Website:  http://www.winnipeggreenshow.com
For information contact:  stacy@nemg.ca
Phone:  204 415 3976
Categories:   Environment; Economic Development; Nature & Outdoors

The short documentary film is an integral part of a project which produced a 800-plus photographs collected in the book by the same name. It offers a more dynamic and fast-moving testimony of ordinary people, Christians and Muslims, living together in peace in what has been at various times a war-torn country.


The documentary presents interviews with people from many parts of Lebanon through the personal experience of the filmmaker in her country of origin. Individuals speak of their life with neighbors, friends, family members, who happen to be of the "other" religious persuasion.


Through interviews, viewers glimpse landscapes, personal and family stories that help to create a country's history and identity. The documentary presents an opportunity to have a closer relationship with the people interviewed and their reality which often conflicts with the images transmitted in the West of irreconcilable and deadly differences.

Video - 26 minutes followed by conversation with Filmmaker, Nada Raphael.

Nada Raphael is the photographer and producer of Hyphen Islam-Christianity. Nada studied in Beirut and Montreal and received a Bachelor's degrees in audiovisual studies, in communication and in journalism. She has variously worked as a photographer, a camera woman, a journalist, a theater director and a project manager.

Time:  2pm-4pm
Venue:  Beit Zatoun
Location:  612 Markham Street (by Bathurst subway), Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.beitzatoun.org
Phone:  647.726.9500

The IUAPPA World Clean Air Congress will bring together specialists from academia, industry, consulting, environmental advocacy groups, and government to present innovative ways to improve air quality, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and minimize environmental impacts. The technical program will address the Congress theme, “Achieving Environmental Sustainability in a Resource Hungry World,” covering fundamental issues related to four focus areas: science, policy, industry, and sustainability.

The Congress will also feature presentations from industry leaders including Mike Harcourt, Former Premier of British Columbia, Mayor of Vancouver, and City Councillor; Martin Williams, Chairman of the Executive Body of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe’s Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution; Edith Ardiente, Vice President, Environmental and Energy Affairs of Navistar, Inc.; and Miriam Lev-on, Executive Director and co-founder of the LEVON Group, LLC.

Visit www.iuappa2010.com for more information.

Venue:  Westin Bayshore Conference Centre
Location:  Vancouver, BC
Website:  http://www.iuappa2010.com/
Categories:   Environment; Economic Development; Nature & Outdoors

A rally to demand to end of the discriminatory, wasteful, anti-secular and UN-reprimanded tax-payer funded separate catholic school system!

This event will take place on the first day of a two-day international summit on education "The Building Blocks for Education: Whole System Reform" held by the Ministry of Education. This is an ideal opportunity to, in front of the world, demand action from our government.

Sponsored by the Centre for Inquiry and the Canadian Secular Alliance join Humanist Canada, the
Canadian Centre for Progressive Christianity, the Hindu Advocacy group, civil rights, trustee and teacher associations, and other member groups of the vast One School System Network

Time:  12 noon - 2:00 pm
Venue:  outside Fairmont Royal York Hotel
Location:  100 Front Street West, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://action.centerforinquiry.net
Categories:   Education; Religious; Human Rights, Law, Legal

The Best International Festival Experience on Canada's East Coast!

Fredericton comes alive for six days each September as hundreds of world class performers appear on dozens of stages, all conveniently located in Fredericton's beautiful and historic downtown.

Whether you want to dance all night at a spicy Cajun party, listen to the raw sounds of electric blues, sway to some smooth jazz or just get your funk on, you'll find something to tempt every musical taste, all at a price that's easy on the wallet.

Known internationally for presenting the best in established and up-and-coming talent, great musical memories and a touch of the unexpected are what the Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival are famous for.

Venue:  various - see website
Location:  Fredericton, NB
Website:  http://www.harvestjazzandblues.com/index.html
For information contact:  info@harvestjazzandblues.com
Phone:  506-454-2583
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Music

A public event on climate science and climate justice with the world’s foremost climate scientist and author of "Storms of My Grandchildren", Dr. James Hansen; the author of "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism", Naomi Klein and Indigenous Environmental Network’s Tar Sands Campaigner, Clayton Thomas-Muller. Moderator: Dr. Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux (U of T, Aboriginal Studies and Social Work).

5:30pm – 6:30pm Science presentation by James Hansen
6:30pm – 7:00pm Intermission
7:00pm – 8:45pm Climate Reality: A Conversation with Dr. James Hansen, Naomi Klein & Clayton Thomas-Muller, moderated by Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux.

Time:  5:30 pm to 8:45 pm
Venue:  McMillan Theatre, Edward Johnson Bldg (North)
Location:  80 Queen’s Park, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.scienceforpeace.ca/james-hansen-on-climate-change-15-sept
For information contact:  Science for Peace Office
Phone:  416-978-3606
Categories:   Environment; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

Pedalling to Parliament - "Pedal for the Planet" hits Ottawa
Tuesday, September 15

12:15 - 1 pm:
Pedal for the Planet Rally on Parliament Hill. Join the rally to call for action on climate change. Welcome Pedal for the Planet riders as they converge on Parliament Hill, riding from cities across Canada. Bring your bike, and cheer on the riders!

1 - 2 pm:
Pedal for the Planet Ride: From Canada to Copenhagen. Climate cycling tour starts on Parliament Hill, 1 pm. Join the search for Canada's missing climate action plan. The ride is a virtual world tour from embassy to embassy, searching for clues for climate action. We will relay our findings to members of the Environment Committee who are debating Bill C-311, the Copenhagen climate bill. Let's help Members of Parliament design a climate action plan for Canada.

7 pm:
Pedal for the Planet Celebration with Marabou at the Rainbow Bistro, 76 Murray Street (doors open at 6:30 pm).

For information about other Pedal for the Planet events and rides, visit: www.kyotoplus.ca/pedal

Venue:  Parliament Hill
Location:  Wellington, Later at 76 Murray St, Ottawa, ON
Website:  http://www.kyotoplus.ca/pedal
Categories:   Environment; International

The Tyee Fellowship Funds are a way for readers to make tax deductible donations, and give independent journalists from all over B.C. the support they need to work on longer series that relate to important issues of public interest. The support to file freedom of information requests, run up phone bills, and travel to where the stories are unfolding.

Two funds, and why

* The Tyee Investigative Fellowship Fund
* The Tyee Solutions Fellowship Fund

Their names tell you a lot. The investigative fund provides resources for reporters wanting to research and document unfolding, possibly hidden problems facing BC. The solutions fund provides support for journalists seeking to report on and explain promising experiments that might lead to solving those problems.

Location:  Vancouver, BC
Website:  http://thetyee.ca/About/Fellowshipfunds/
Categories:   Media, Entertainment, News, Communications

"Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?"

Burlington Central Library - 2331 New Street - Doors open at 6: 30
Films, speakers, free refreshments & eco-prizes !
Please help us host a green event (bring your own mug, carpool/public transit if you can)
$5 admission

www.burlingtongreen.org for more information

Venue:  Burlington Central Library
Location:  2331 New Street, Burlington, ON
Website:  http://www.burlingtongreen.org
For information contact:  Dianne Watkins dianne@burlingtongreen.org
Categories:   Environment; Nature & Outdoors

The fourth major film festival in Canada is the international Atlantic Film Festival, held every September in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Strong East Coast roots support a unique format for AFF with its distinctive focus on film and music. Large enough to attract the world's most notable actors, directors and producers, but intimate enough to be Canada's kitchen party Festival, the AFF provides an unpretentious atmosphere for watching some of the best international, Canadian and Atlantic Canadian films, with opportunities to hear some of the best artists the region offers.

Location:  Halifax, NS
Website:  http://www.atlanticfilm.com
Categories:   Arts & Culture

Dr. Michael Keefer, author of the book Antisemitism Real and Imagined, speaks on threat to free speech posed by informal coalition of MPs (CPCCA) who are working to expand definition of antisemitism to make it illegal to criticize Israel. Free.

Time:  6 p.m.
Venue:  Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Rm. 182
Location:  UBC, Vancouver, BC
For information contact:  Omar Shaban, pres., SPHR
Phone:  604 379 4050
Categories:   Human Rights, Law, Legal; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; International

Almost 30 years after the event, the massacre at Sabra and Shatila within the Lebanon War of 1982 remains a chilling memory to the inhumanity and abuse of military power over the lives and deaths of ordinary people.

The damage to both victim and victimizer is captured admirably by the animated documentary film, Waltz with Bashir. Released in 2008, it is written and directed by Ari Folman who took part as a soldier in the Lebanon War.

SYNOPSIS: In 1982, Ari Folman was a 19-year-old infantry soldier in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). In 2006, he meets with a friend from his army service period, who tells him of the nightmares connected to his experiences from the Lebanon War. Folman is surprised to find that he does not remember a thing from that period. Later that night he has a vision from the night of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, the reality of which he is unable to tell. In his memory (Scene on poster above), he and his soldier friends are bathing at night by the seaside in Beirut under the light of flares descending over the city. Folman rushes off to meet another friend from his army service, who advises him to discuss it with other people who were in Beirut at the same time in order to understand what happened there and to revive his own memories. Folman converses with friends, a psychologist and the reporter Ron Ben-Yishai who was in Beirut at the time. The film ends with animation dissolving into actual footage of the aftermath of the Sabra and Shatila massacre.

Time:  7:30pm-10:00pm
Venue:  Beit Zatoun
Location:  612 Markham Street (by Bathurst subway), Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.beitzatoun.org
Phone:  647.726.9500

An Unflinching Look at Canada's Most Prominent Case of 'Mercy Killing':

When Robert Latimer was charged in 1993 with the murder of his chronically ill daughter Tracy, it sparked a national debate about euthanasia and the rights of people with disabilities that continues today.

In his new book, "Robert Latimer, Story of Justice and Mercy", Gary Bauslaugh writes about his experiences working with Latimer and helping him win a successful appeal of the extraordinary decision of the Parole Board of Canada to deny him day parole.

In his talk Bauslaugh will discuss some reasons for this, including arbitrary religious ones, and he will talk about the different ways in which the Canadian justice system failed in its handling of this hard case.

$5, $4 for students, FREE for CFI members

Time:  7:00 pm
Venue:  Centre for Inquiry Ontario
Location:  216 Beverley Street, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.cficanada.ca/ontario/
Categories:   Human Rights, Law, Legal; Disability Issues; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

In this, the International Year of Biodiversity, the 2010 RCEN Annual General Assembly is focusing on biodiversity across Canada and our planet.

Biological diversity – or biodiversity – is the term given to the variety of life on Earth and the natural patterns it forms. It is this combination of life forms and their interactions with each other and with the rest of the environment that has made Earth a uniquely habitable place for humans.

Yet over the last 50 years, humans have had more impact on ecosystems than at any other time in history. Loss of both species and ecosystem diversity has occurred as a result of habitat loss and alteration, over-exploitation, climate change, and the spread of invasive species into pristine environments. The current rate of species extinction is 1,000 times greater than the normal background rate that has existed since life evolved on Earth.

This is more than an academic issue. We are now starting to understand what the consequences of this loss might be. Biodiversity is crucial to the survival of humankind—indeed, of all life on Earth. It supports us with free ecological goods — such as food (including fish, seafood, game, wild foods, spices, crops), water, medicines, lumber and fuels, and free ecological services — such as air and water purification, decomposition of waste, pollination of crops, seed dispersal, pest and disease control, climate and flood regulation, ecotourism, and cultural, educational and spiritual inspiration.

For example, healthy biodiversity provides us with the continued existence of bees to pollinate food crops, or maintains the health of a marsh ecosystem to absorb flood waters and filter out pollution so fish and other organisms continue to survive. Biodiversity also creates and supports human cultures and our spiritual needs. Imagine, for instance, how First Nations cultures on the Pacific coast would have evolved without salmon, the principal iconic species. Our cultures—our values—are a direct result of our environment.

What are the costs of losing these free ecological goods and services — to life, to our cultures and to our economic systems? How can the concept of ecological goods and services help create solutions that will slow down the current rate of biodiversity loss? Can putting a price on ecosystem services protect and restore biodiversity?

Speakers with local, regional, provincial, national, and international perspectives will explore these questions, present examples of successful interventions that have led to the survival of species and habitats and will discuss the priority areas where practices, policies, strategies, and programs must be developed.

This conference will provide specific opportunities for attendees and speakers to engage and exchange on their experiences and challenges and help enhance the informal networks on this important topic.

Location:  Montreal, QC
Website:  http://www.cen-rce.org/AGA/2010/index.html
For information contact:  Joséphine Hénault josephine@cen-rce.org
Phone:  613-728-9810 x. 221
Categories:   Environment

Join us in Toronto Saturday September 18, 1:00-3:00pm outside the Parkdale Library (Queen & Cowan streets) for the inaugural Dig'n'it(y) street music benefit for Canada Without Poverty and the CWP Advocacy Network!

Featuring folk singer-songwriter Craig Cardiff and soul/jazz singer-songwriter Elizabeth Shepherd (2010 Polaris Music Prize Nominee), Dig'n'it(y) Toronto on September 18 will enrich the cultural life of the Parkdale neighborhood while raising public awareness of poverty issues and their solutions - as well as funds to support the emerging Poverty and Health Program of Canada Without Poverty.

Come out, meet some of our staff and volunteers, and enjoy the musical gifts and offerings of Craig Cardiff and Elizabeth Shepherd!

Time:  1:00 - 3:00
Venue:  outside Parkdale Library
Location:  Queen & Cowan, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.cwp-csp.ca
Categories:   Music; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; Social Policy

Full Circles Ottawa a Freecycling community would like to invite the public to the first ever RRFM (Really Really Free Market).

Come to get perfectly usable goods FOR FREE. Drop off any unwanted usable items FOR FREE. We also invite you to make a food donation to the Ottawa Food bank and help the Country Cat Sanctuary with donations of sponsorship for their unadoptable feral colony. We are also recycling computers and electronics - all for free.

Date: Saturday September 18 from 10-4 at the corner of Deschamps and Hannah one block north of Montreal Road behind the Burger King

Time:  10-4
Location:  corner of Deschamps and Hannah, Ottawa/Vanier, ON
Website:  http://ottawa.fullcircles.org/
For information contact:  Kelly Wilson shelbycooper13@yahoo.com
Phone:  613-322-5372
Categories:   Environment

The 17th Annual Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup

Whether we live near a coast or hundreds of kilometres inland, we are all connected to the ocean. It drives and moderates our climate. It helps provide the water we drink and much of the oxygen we breathe. It directly feeds millions of people. It also absorbs much of the air and water pollution generated worldwide.

It’s time to give back! In celebration of World Oceans Day, sign up today for the 17th annual Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup taking place September 18-26, 2010 at shorelinecleanup.ca.

Rivers and streams in every Canadian province and territory are constantly moving water towards the ocean, making it possible for litter to travel from hundreds of kilometres inland. Trash is one of the most widespread pollution problems endangering our oceans and waterways, yet it’s entirely preventable and you can help.

Canadians from every province and territory will be removing litter from their shorelines—anywhere land meets water, including lakes, rivers, streams or oceans—as part of the 2010 Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup.

A few hours removing litter from your local shoreline can make a big difference. In 2009, the combined efforts of communities across Canada removed over 160,000 kg of litter from 2,457 km of shoreline. That is the equivalent of 358 male moose and the driving distance from Vancouver, BC to the Manitoba/Ontario border. Together, we can protect our shorelines and help keep our waterways and oceans free of litter.

Celebrate World Oceans Day by registering for the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup. Already registered? Let’s make this year’s event bigger and better! Forward an invite to two friends and encourage them to organize their own cleanup. If you have yet to register, visit shorelinecleanup.ca today.

Registration is now open for the 17th annual Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup taking place September 18 – 26, 2010.

Location:  All across Canada
Website:  http://www.shorelinecleanup.ca
For information contact:  Jean Fong shorelinemedia@vanaqua.org
Phone:  1-800-375-8776
Categories:   Environment

Beit Zatoun is pleased to be a sponsor and offer a venue for the Second International Festival of Poetry of Resistance.

As well as hosting events and readings from the Festival, Beit Zatoun has programmed a special segment on the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish and his pivotal role on Palestinian resistance to the occupation by Israel.



Mahmoud Darwish and Palestinian Poetry of Resistance

Talk, video of poet tribute to Darwish, poetry reading in Arabic, English and Hebrew, as well as recorded music of the poems of Darwish. Performance of live music on themes presented.


Documentary film (60 minutes) on Mahmoud Darwish (at 5:00 pm)

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Need) to know:
- No charge (Donations to Beit Zatoun gratefully accepted)
- doors open at 1:45
- Sorry, not wheelchair accessible

Tasty refreshments (non-alcoholic) and snacks with oliveoil+za'atar dipping.

Time:  2pm-6pm
Venue:  Beit Zatoun
Location:  612 Markham Street (by Bathurst subway), Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.beitzatoun.org
Phone:  647.726.9500

Presented by the Krittibas Literary Group of Toronto (Founder director: Asoke Chakravarty) as part of the Festival of Poetry of Resistance. The Krittibas Literary Group is also celebrating an anniversary year - its 5th year of presenting in Toronto.

Rabindranath Tagore: 150th Anniversary
Poetry, Songs, Music and Discussion
Presenter: Bharati Chakravarty

Tribal Insurgency and Anti-globalization
Presenter: Rana Bose: Slide show and discussion on aboriginal / tribal resistance on different continents
Open forum for discussion on resistance.

Additional Poetry & Music
Participants: Ehab Lotayef, Rana Bose, Susan Wolf, Rachel Mcabe, Gandhar, Daren, Soma Srivastava, Radhakanto Sarkar, Jose Gonzalez, Bharati Chakravarty, Lisa Foster, Asad Ismi, Allison Hedge Coke


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Need to know:
- No charge (Donations to Beit Zatoun gratefully accepted)
- doors open at 6:45
- Sorry, not wheelchair accessible

Tasty refreshments (non-alcoholic) and snacks with oliveoil+za'atar dipping.

Time:  7pm-9:30pm
Venue:  Beit Zatoun
Location:  612 Markham Street (by Bathurst subway), Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.beitzatoun.org
Phone:  647.726.9500

Water is the lifeblood of the world and never more so than in Montréal, Canada, where 4,500 water professionals will gather in September 2010 for the International Water Association (IWA) World Water Congress and Exhibition.

The key topics to be discussed at this event are:
• the science and application of water management
• water, climate and energy
• cities of the future
• managing utilities and their assets
• securing new and traditional water resources for the future
• water, ecosystems and catchments
• water and health.

The IWA World Water Congress and Exhibition is a high-profile biennial event that in previous years has been held in Vienna, Beijing, Marrakech, Melbourne, Berlin and Paris. In 2010, the Association is partnering with the Canadian Water and Wastewater Association (CWWA) and the Canadian Association on Water Quality (CAWQ) to hold the event in Montréal.

The International Water Association is a global network of 10,000 individual and 400 corporate water professionals in 130 countries. IWA members span the continuum between research and practice and cover all facets of the water cycle, from the science and management of drinking water, wastewater and stormwater to the conservation of water resources throughout the world.

For more information or to register:
www.iwa2010montreal.org
www.cwwa.ca/IWA%20World%20Water%20Congress_e.asp

Location:  Montreal, QC
Website:  http://www.iwa2010montreal.org
For information contact:  2010montreal@iwahq.org
Phone:  +31 703 150 785
Categories:   Environment

This portion is the closing event of the 5-day Festival. To be followed by a dinner at Steelworkers Hall (25 Cecil Street ) at 7:00 pm.

Open Poetry by
Jose Gonzalez, Jesus Maya, Matlactli Kiahuitl, Grupo Chaak, Jorge Zubiri, Carla Mesa Guzzo, Ama Luna, Constanza Duran, Mama D, Marco A Castillo, Natasha Ksonzek


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Need to know:
- No charge (Donations to Beit Zatoun gratefully accepted)
- doors open at 1:45
- Sorry, not wheelchair accessible

Tasty refreshments (non-alcoholic) and snacks with oliveoil+za'atar dipping.

Time:  2pm-5pm
Venue:  Beit Zatoun
Location:  612 Markham Street (by Bathurst subway), Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.beitzatoun.org
Phone:  647.726.9500

Rising energy costs, stricter environmental regulations and the constant challenge to increase the bottom line mean that businesses need to ensure they operate in a much more cost-effective manner. Implementing energy efficient measures in your company can lead to significant cost savings.

This comprehensive event has been designed to offer essential information needed to conduct energy efficient practices more strategically. The conference will also provide first-hand expertise from specialists who have implemented energy efficient practices in their organizations and have seen major improvements in their bottom line.

Attend this two-day interactive conference to get solutions to your energy efficiency challenges:

* Hear case studies from companies including, Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd, St. Marys Cement Inc. and Lange Transportation and Storage Limited on their energy efficient practices
* Understand how to gain buy-in from management for energy-efficient initiatives and the importance of justifying the importance of these projects
* Learn how to conduct a cost-benefit analysis of energy efficient technologies for enhanced economic and technical excellence
* Hear from Natural Resources Canada and BOMA Toronto on financial incentives for energy efficient projects

And much more!

Venue:  Sutton Place Hotel
Location:  955 Bay Street, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.CanadianInstitute.com/energysave
For information contact:  Customer Service marketing_info@canadianinstitute.com
Phone:  1-877-927-7936
Categories:   Environment

In 1990, a gathering of environmental advocates spanning academia, community, business and government leaders helped create the reality of The Compost Council of Canada. Paralleling the passion and struggles of those who believe in the importance of organics recycling, conservation of natural resources and the relevance of compost, The Compost Council of Canada has helped nurture and support the advancement and credibility of compost advocates across Canada.

Regulations have developed, compost operator training & certification have been created, public and industry awareness programs have evolved, standards for compost and compostable materials have been introduced and a protocol for compost's positive impact on greenhouse gas emissions is underway.

So much has been done on so little. And yet, so much more is yet to be done.

On behalf of the Board of Directors and staff of The Compost Council of Canada, please join us as we celebrate our 20th Anniversary Conference, to be held in our nation's capital, Ottawa, on September 22 - 24, 2010.

For more information or to register:
http://www.compost.org/
http://www.compost.org/English/attend_events.htm

Venue:  Crowne Plaza
Location:  Ottawa, ON
Website:  http://www.compost.org/
For information contact:  Susan Antler
Phone:  416-535-0240
Categories:   Environment

The Interdisciplinary Environmental Association (IEA) is an organization of academics, practitioners, and concerned citizens from a wide range of disciplines and perspectives who believe that environmental problems require an interdisciplinary approach that needs to be clearly reflected in an organization dedicated to enhancing the discussion of these issues across disciplinary and political boundaries. The mission of the IEA is thus to bring together all disciplines so that environmental knowledge is enhanced though interdisciplinary communications. The goals of the organization are to enhance understanding of environmental issues by educating each other in an interdisciplinary format, and to present disciplinary perspectives of environmental problems to people outside those disciplines, as well as to those outside academia, in a clear, understandable fashion.

Venue:  The Hilton Tucson East
Location:  7600 East Broadway, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Website:  http://ieaonline.org/conference.htm
Phone:  520-721-560
Categories:   Politics & Political Organizations; Environment

Dr. Michael Keefer, author of the book Antisemitism Real and Imagined, speaks on threat to free speech posed by informal coalition of MPs (CPCCA) that is intent on expanding definition of antisemitism to make it illegal to criticize Israel. Sponsored by the Seriously Free Speech Committee and CUPW, the event includes a talk by Michael Vonn of the BC Civil Liberties Association.

Time:  7:30 p.m.
Venue:  SFU Harbour Centre (downtown campus)
Location:  515 W. Hastings St., Vancouver, BC
Website:  http://www.seriouslyfreespeech.ca
For information contact:  Brian Campbell
Phone:  604 254 1803
Categories:   Human Rights, Law, Legal; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; International

Dr. Michael Keefer, author of the book Antisemitism Real and Imagined, speaks on threat to free speech posed by informal coalition of MPs (CPCCA) who are working to expand definition of antisemitism to make it illegal to criticize Israel.

Time:  12:30 p.m.
Venue:  Maggie Benston Centre Rm 2290
Location:  Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
Website:  http://www.seriouslyfreespeech.ca
For information contact:  Sheila Delany (sdelany@sfu.ca)
Categories:   Human Rights, Law, Legal; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; International

The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, observed yearly on November 25, was designated by the United Nations to commemorate the death of three of the Mirabal sisters. They were assassinated by the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic in 1960.
Immortalized in film and literature, the story of these sisters has become a symbol for the power of peaceful political resistance hiding behind the vulnerability of unarmed women. Join us in welcoming Ms. Dedé Mirabal, the surviving sister, who will visit Toronto this September, just over a month before the commemoration of the 49th anniversary of the assassination of her sisters. Ms. Mirabal will share her testimony of these tragic events that shaped history and gender consciousness in Latin America. She is 85 years old and lives in the family home in the heart of the Dominican countryside. She remains an active advocate for truth and human rights. Her award-winning memoir "Vivas en mi jardín" (‘Alive in my garden’) – was published last year.

The event will start with the screening of the acclaimed documentary: "Code name: Butterflies"

NO REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR THIS EVENT.

Time:  7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Venue:  Innis Town Hall
Location:  2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=9221
For information contact:  Stella Kyriakakis
Phone:  416-946-8900
Categories:   Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; International; Education

The Green Building Festival is an annual 2 day conference and trade show featuring the best green building projects, practioners and products in Canada. Come and see cutting edge, market ready strategies, products and tools to help you inject some green into your business.

Venue:  Direct Energy Centre
Location:  Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.greenbuildingfest.com
For information contact:  Jeff Ranson contact@sbcanada.org
Phone:  416-364-0050 x 104
Categories:   Environment

Dr. Michael Keefer, author of the book Antisemitism Real and Imagined, speaks on threat to free speech posed by informal coalition of MPs (CPCCA) who are working to expand definition of antisemitism to make it illegal to criticize Israel.

Time:  12:30 p.m.
Venue:  David Strong Bldg., C116
Location:  University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
Website:  http://www.seriouslyfreespeech.ca
For information contact:  Erica Dodd
Phone:  250 721 2303
Categories:   Human Rights, Law, Legal; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; International

Dr. Michael Keefer, author of the book Antisemitism Real and Imagined, speaks on threat to free speech posed by informal coalition of MPs (CPCCA) who are working to expand definition of antisemitism to make it illegal to criticize Israel. Free.

Time:  7 p.m.
Venue:  BCGEU Hall
Location:  2994 Douglas St., Victoria, BC
Website:  http://www.seriouslyfreespeech.ca
For information contact:  Erica Dodd
Phone:  250 721 2303
Categories:   Human Rights, Law, Legal; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; International

Dr. Michael Keefer, author of the book Antisemitism Real and Imagined, speaks on threat to free speech posed by informal coalition of MPs (CPCCA) who are working to expand definition of antisemitism to make it illegal to criticize Israel. Free.

Time:  1 p.m.
Venue:  Nanaimo Harbourfront Library
Location:  90 Commercial St., Nanaimo, BC
Website:  http://www.seriouslyfreespeech.ca
For information contact:  Eva Manley
Phone:  250 758 0966
Categories:   Human Rights, Law, Legal; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; International

Dr. Michael Keefer, author of the book Antisemitism Real and Imagined, speaks on threat to free speech posed by informal coalition of MPs (CPCCA) who are working to expand definition of antisemitism to make it illegal to criticize Israel. Free.

Time:  7 p.m.
Venue:  BCGEU Hall, Rm 201
Location:  910 Fitzgerald Av., Courtenay, BC
Website:  http://www.seriouslyfreespeech.ca
For information contact:  Judy
Phone:  250 337 8033
Categories:   Human Rights, Law, Legal; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; International

The Blue Mountains Public Library in Thornbury, Ontario annually hosts a Green Fair that showcases sustainable talents in a market style setting. This year we are planning our event for Saturday, September 25 from 1:00-4:00pm.
We still have space open for Vendors! Please contact for space

Time:  1 pm - 4 pm
Venue:  The Blue Mountains Public Library
Location:  173 Bruce Street, South, Thornbury, ON
Website:  http://www.thebluemountainslibrary.ca/
For information contact:  Sheila Salamon-Durzi sdurzi@thebluemountains.ca
Phone:  519-599-3681
Categories:   Environment

The sustainability expo that brings the community its local producers, farmers and businesses with sustainable, environmental and ethical business practices. S.E.E. 'n' Green Show 2010 is at George Preston Center - 20699 42 Ave, Langley, BC on Sep 25th 9 am - 7 pm and 26th 9 am - 5 pm. Tickets $5 at the door or $3.00 online.

Venue:  George Preston Center
Location:  20699 42 Ave, Langley, BC
Website:  http://www.sarterevents.ca/seengreenshow.html
For information contact:  Teresa seengreenshow@gmail.com
Categories:   Environment

A day of environmental awareness highlighted by ecological demonstrations, youth and student initiatives and a local "Green Vendor Showcase". The day will conclude with a keynote address by renowned environmental advocate, Dr.David Suzuki.

Venue:  Asper Jewish Community Campus
Location:  Winnipeg, MB
Website:  http://mbeconetwork.org/events/
Categories:   Environment

Dr. Michael Keefer, author of the book Antisemitism Real and Imagined, speaks on threat to free speech posed by informal coalition of MPs (CPCCA) who are working to expand definition of antisemitism to make it illegal to criticize Israel.

Time:  7 p.m.
Venue:  Telus Bldg., Rm 236/238, U. of Alberta
Location:  11th St. and 87th Ave., Edmonton, AB
Categories:   Human Rights, Law, Legal; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; International

Professor Keefer is on a cross-Canada book tour to discuss his recent book, Anti-Semitism Real and Imagined: Responses to the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism. In a 27 August 2010 review in the Globe and Mail Gerald Caplan wrote:

“Every day Israel unwittingly creates more bitter, despairing, hopeless Palestinians
with nothing to lose, and so the existing vicious cycle is perpetuated. Does our
government understand this? For that reason, I highly recommend Michael
Keefer’s indispensable new book…Mr. Keefer…has pulled together writings of his
own and others to expose the ugly attempts by the Conservative government and
influential Jewish organizations to damn any criticism of the government of Israel
as an attack on the very existence of the Jewish state.”

Time:  2:30 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Venue:  Classroom Bldg. 110 (large lecture hall)
Location:  U. of Regina, Regina, SK
For information contact:  Prof. John Conway (john.conway@uregina.ca)
Phone:  306 585 4052
Categories:   Human Rights, Law, Legal; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; International

Join the New York State Outdoor Environmental Educators
Association as they host attendees from around the world for
the 39th NAAEE Conference on September 28 - October 2, 2010,
at the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center.

Nine strands compliment the conference theme, "Building
Connections - Bridging Gaps," and include:

* Arts, Culture, and Spirituality
* Conservation Education
* Innovative Programs and Practices
* Network and Leadership Development
* Place-based Education
* Socio-ecological Justice and Community Engagement
* Teaching and Learning Sustainability
* Energy Education and Green Technology
* Urban and Rural Interface

For more information or to register:
www.naaee.org/conference/

Venue:  Buffalo Niagara Convention Center
Location:  Buffalo NY
Website:  http://www.naaee.org/conference/
Categories:   Environment

Sept 28th to Oct 5th – Environmental Decline and Climate Change as a Moral Issue will be held at St. Paul’s University and other locations in Ottawa. This week-long series of a Retreat and five community Round Tables offers an opportunity for leaders in various religious groups to have a dialogue and to build relationships for responding to environmental decline and climate change as people of faith.

Location:  Ottawa, ON
Website:  http://ucalgary.ca/oikos/Retreat/Ottawa/Program
For information contact:  Elaine Gibson aurenv@gmail.com
Phone:  613-599-3112
Categories:   Environment

Remembering Inninimowin is a two-year long documentary film project on the personal journey of a Cree woman, Jules Arita Koostachin, the documentarist, as she starts to remember her first language, Inninimowin (Cree). The body of work is a film-based documentary that follows the process of remembering in both an urban and rural context.

The work addresses the impacts of genocide on the Inninuwak, who have been systematically severed from their ancient language, Inninimowin. More specifically, the project focuses on the Cree peoples (Inninuwak) who originate from the Mushkegowuk territory, in northern Ontario. Cree is spoken in several communities across Canada, although considered most preserved; it too is at risk of disappearing. Cree is the vehicle for carrying forth the traditional Indigenous knowledge, customary laws, identity, spirituality, as well as the arts.

Inninimowin carefully embraces the sacred stories, ceremonial practices and the ancestral teachings of the Mushkegowuk.

Filmmaker, Jules Arita Koostachin was born in Moose Factory and raised by her Cree speaking grandparents for most of her childhood in Moosonee. Koostachin is Cree from Attawapiskat First Nations, Mushkegowuk Territory in northern Ontario, and graduated from Concordia University in Montreal with a Bachelors of Fine Arts, Theatre Major. She is currently living in Toronto with her family.

Video, 70 minutes

Time:  7:30pm-10:00pm
Venue:  Beit Zatoun
Location:  612 Markham Street (by Bathurst subway), Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.beitzatoun.org
Phone:  647.726.9500

West Coast Green is the largest and only conference + expo showcasing green innovation for the built environment. Join 11,000 thought leaders and forward thinkers from 20 countries as they gather to create meaningful and lasting positive change.

Location:  San Francisco
Website:  http://westcoastgreen.com
For information contact:  Kailani Swenson kailani@westcoastgreen.com
Phone:  415-955-1935
Categories:   Environment

Transformational Lecture Series featuring Sevag Pogharian
Presented by Cascadia Region Green Building Council

"Creating a Real Wealth Economy for a Just and Sustainable Cascadia"

Speaker: David Korten, Author, When Corporations Rule the World and Agenda for a New Economy
About the talk:

We humans are awakening to the reality that we are living beings and that life, by its nature, can exist only in community. The framework for a New Economy is designed to bring humans into balance with Earth's biosphere, equitably share the wealth of our common human heritage, and make democracy a living practice. It's time to turn away from the economic system ruled by global corporations and financial markets and create a future in which economic power is rooted in people and communities of place.

Visionary author and lecturer Dr. David Korten will speak on the themes of his most recent book, Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth, which sets forth a framework for an economy designed to bring humans into balance with Earth's biosphere, equitably share the wealth of our common human heritage, and make democracy a living practice.

Time:  5:30pm-7pm
Venue:  Antechamber at City Hall
Location:  1 Centennial Square, Victoria, BC
For information contact:  Jessica Woolliams jessica@cascadiagbc.org
Categories:   Environment

Transformational Lecture Series featuring David Korten
Presented by Cascadia Region Green Building Council

"Creating a Real Wealth Economy for a Just and Sustainable Cascadia"

Speaker: David Korten, Author, When Corporations Rule the World and Agenda for a New Economy

About the talk:
We humans are awakening to the reality that we are living beings and that life, by its nature, can exist only in community. The framework for a New Economy is designed to bring humans into balance with Earth's biosphere, equitably share the wealth of our common human heritage, and make democracy a living practice. It's time to turn away from the economic system ruled by global corporations and financial markets and create a future in which economic power is rooted in people and communities of place.

Visionary author and lecturer Dr. David Korten will speak on the themes of his most recent book, Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth, which sets forth a framework for an economy designed to bring humans into balance with Earth's biosphere, equitably share the wealth of our common human heritage, and make democracy a living practice.

Time:  12:30pm -2pm
Venue:  Roundhouse Community Centre
Location:  181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver, BC
For information contact:  Jessica Woolliams jessica@cascadiagbc.org
Categories:   Environment; Economic Development

Established in 2005, the Bay Film Festival is an independent film Festival taking place in Thunder Bay, Ontario showcasing films that features local, national, and international films with the theme "films for the people." Chosen stories often display stories that are relevant to audiences, enabling them to connect to the social justice, environmental, community activism, human rights and other themes explored through film. 15 filmmakers will be in attendance for this year’s festival, discussing their films with audiences and making workshop appearances to engage people in film.

Venue:  Various
Location:  Thunder Bay, ON
Website:  http://www.shebafilms.com/baystreetfilmfestival/index.html
For information contact:  info@baystreetfilmfestival.ca
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Media, Entertainment, News, Communications; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

We March for Jobs, Peace, Justice and the Socialist Alternative That Can Win Them

Hundreds of thousands of Americans organized by labor and civil rights organizations will gather in Washington, D.C. on October 2 to demand a change in the direction that our nation is heading. We are proud to join this march to demand jobs, to demand an end to the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and for a society that is fairer, more equal and more just. We believe it important to be in the capital on that date to help create a counterweight to Glenn Beck, the Tea Party, and Republicans, their reactionary politics, ruthless economics, and their racism.

We do not, however, share the goals of the AFL-CIO, the NAACP, and other organizations which hope to achieve jobs and justice by supporting Barack Obama and the Democratic Party in the national elections on November 2. We believe that it has become quite clear now that neither Democrats nor the Republicans are capable of solving the country’s three great crises—the economy, the environment, and the wars—in a way that will be good for the American people. The goals of a full employment economy, real environmental sustainability, and peace cannot be achieved by our capitalist system and the corporations motivated only by profit. We need a new direction toward a new system.

We invite you to march with us. Join the Socialist Contingent on October 2 in Washington, D.C.

Time:  10:00 am
Venue:  At 12th and Constitution (NW)
Location:  Washington DC
Website:  http://socialistcontingentoct2.blogspot.com/
For information contact:  socialistcontingentoct2@gmail.com
Categories:   Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; Business & Economics; Labour, Workplace, Unions

EcoFest will be a FREE, waste-free event that will appeal to families and citizens concerned about the environment. Our EcoFest will involve a number of local food and arts based venues to engage appreciation of what our region has to offer. Our Round Table will look to identify common ground for local organizations and citizens and discuss shared concerns for the success of a local sustainable green future.

Admission fee: FREE

Time:  8am-3pm
Venue:  Queen's Park
Location:  London, ON
Website:  http://www.trea.ca/Welcome_To_TREA.htm
For information contact:  trea@wwdc.com
Phone:  (519) 645-2845
Categories:   Environment

Come to the park to celebrate the campaign to win free and accessible transit for the GTA
Food - Music - Puppets - Entertainment

Time:  1:00 - 4:00
Venue:  Christie Pits opposite Christe subway station
Location:  Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.workersassembly.ca
For information contact:  nofareisfair@gmail.com This e-mail address is being protected from spambots

This famous birthdate will be celebrated by various world famous cellists.

Time:  3 pm
Venue:  Royal York Road United Church
Location:  851 Royal York Road, Toronto, ON
For information contact:  ryrchurch@rogers.com
Categories:   Music; Native Peoples; Food & Beverage

YES to 100% renewable electricity grid!
NO to nuclear and coal!

Free. All cyclists welcome.
Meet at the wind turbine at Exhibition Place, end in the beaches (15 km ride).

Visit 6 green energy projects including wind, solar thermal, solar PV, geothermal, CHP and conservation.

Time:  11:00 am- 3:00 pm (10:30 if you need quick bike repairs)
Venue:  Exhibition Place (Wind Turbine)
Location:  200 Princes' Blvd, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.torontoclimatecampaign.org/
Phone:  647-342-1964
Categories:   Environment; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; Urban Issues, Transit, Housing, Public Space

The Canadian Urban Forest Conference is held every two years, alternating between an eastern and western host community. The CUFC has come to be recognized as THE educational & networking event for those working in the field of urban forest management; attracting top caliber presentations by leading experts from across North America and beyond. In that tradition, CUFC9 will strive to maintain the high quality of past conferences, and endeavor to build upon that success.

Venue:  Best Western Glengarry Truro Trade & Convention Centre
Location:  150 Willow Street, Truro, NS
Website:  http://www.cufc9.ca/
For information contact:  cufc9info@truro.ca
Categories:   Environment

The Canadian Urban Forest Conference is held every two years, alternating between an eastern and western host community. The CUFC has come to be recognized as THE educational & networking event for those working in the field of urban forest management; attracting top caliber presentations by leading experts from across North America and beyond. In that tradition, CUFC9 will strive to maintain the high quality of past conferences, and endeavor to build upon that success.

Location:  Truro, NS
Website:  http://www.cufc9.ca/
Categories:   Environment

Help us celebrate the publication of Ben Carniol’s new book

CASE CRITICAL: Social Services and Social Justice in Canada, 6th Edition

Time:  6:00 - 7:45 pm
Venue:  Native Canadian Centre
Location:  16 Spadina Road, Toronto, ON
For information contact:  Paula Brill - nfo@btlbooks.com
Categories:   Publishers & Publishing; Social Policy; Social Services

Free program.

A hazardous mix of waste is flushed into the sewer every day. The billions of litres of water -- combined with unknown quantities of chemicals, solvents, heavy metals, human waste and food -- where does it all go? And what does it do to us?

Time:  7:00 - 9:00pm
Venue:  NFB Mediatheque
Location:  150 John St., Toronto, ON
For information contact:  Tanya- t.koivusalo@nfb.ca
Categories:   Environment

L'heure juste (speaker series): The Rt. Hon. Herb Gray and Mr. Clifford Lincoln, in conversation, on the topic "Politics and Environmental Protection).

Venue:  McGill University Faculty of Law
Location:  3644 Peel St., Montreal, QC
Website:  http://www.mcgill.ca
For information contact:  Professor Jaye Ellis jaye.ellis@mcgill.ca
Phone:  (514) 398-6625
Categories:   Environment; Politics & Political Organizations

Come get media fresh!

From OpenMedia.ca, Fresh Media ReMixology is a series bringing people together to sample and share ideas in discussions lead by some of Vancouver's best and brightest media remixologists! We sold out twice for our first event, and we're even more excited about October's ReMixology Awesomeness! We have innovators and experts from the journalism, creative, and open source communities primed to discuss crowd sourced media making.

And again we expect as much wisdom and expertise to come from audience as from the front of the room. At our first event our audience included award winning documentary producers, social media experts, and well known media makers from the NFB, Georgia Straight, Vancouver Sun, TheTyee, Beyond Robson, VancouverIsAwesome, and many more.

TOPIC: Harnessing The Crowd: The Evolving Crowdsourcing/Collaboration/OpenEverything Continuum

*how can media makers and artists harness the power of the crowd?

SPEAKERS: Alfred Hermida (online news pioneer, professor of integrated journalism at the UBC), Leigh Christie (co-founder of eatART), and David Ascher (CEO of Mozilla Messaging).

WHY: Because inquiring minds need to discuss! Because connecting and collaborating matters. Because Vancouver needs a launch pad for media innovation, and we want you to be a part of it.

TICKETS: $5 advanced tickets ($10 at the door). No one turned away for lack of funds.

Time:  6:30pm
Venue:  W2 Storyeum Salon
Location:  151 West Cordova, Vancouver, BC
Website:  http://remixology2.eventbrite.com/
Categories:   Journalism, Writing, Literary, Language; Media, Entertainment, News, Communications

Sustainability Network Presents Alexandra Cousteau and her Expedition Blue Planet at the Centre for Social Innovation.

Time:  7:30am
Venue:  The Centre for Social Innovation
Location:  1st Floor Boardroom, 215 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.sustainabilitynetwork.ca
For information contact:  Paul Bubelis
Phone:  416-324-2792
Categories:   Environment

Join us to celebrate culture, art, community, and Clarke Mackey's new book,
Random Acts of Culture: Reclaiming Art & Community in the 21st Century

CHECK OUT the Dufferin Grove Farmers' Market, pizza from the wood ovens, and more!

Time:  5:00 - 8:00 pm
Venue:  At the Rink House at Dufferin Grove Park
Location:  850 Dufferin Street, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.randomactsofculture.net
For information contact:  Paula Brill- info@btlbooks.com
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Publishers & Publishing

Mark Crispin Miller is a Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University and a well-known public intellectual. His writings on film, television, propaganda, advertising and the culture industries have appeared in numerous journals and newspapers the world over, and on his blog News from Underground (markcrispinmiller.com). He is the author of several books, including Boxed In: The Culture of TV (1998); The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder (2001); Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney’s New World Order (2004) and Fooled Again: The Real Case for Electoral Reform (2005). He is the editor of Loser Take All: Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy, 2000-2008 (2008). He is also editor of Discovering America, a new book series from the University of Texas Press. He is currently at work on The Marlboro Man: An American Success Story, to be published by Yale University Press in 2011.

Time:  4:00 pm
Venue:  Munk School of Global Affairs
Location:  1 Devonshire Place Room 208N, Toronto, ON
Categories:   Government & Public Sector; Media, Entertainment, News, Communications; Politics & Political Organizations

Mayoral debate with the leading candidates on:
Planning, Community, the Environment and Sustainability

What will the new mayor do to improve sustainability and engage Torontonians in their vision for the health and design of the city?

Time:  7:00 pm
Venue:  St. Lawrence Centre- Jane Mallett Theatre
Location:  27 Front W, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://votetoronto2010.com/toronto-debates
Categories:   Environment; Urban Issues, Transit, Housing, Public Space

Learn more about the benefits of choosing Organic at this informative evening with Big Carrot in-store Nutritionist- Sarah Dobec, CNP.

As consumers, we face endless product choices all claiming to be the “best” for our health. How can we be sure that the products we choose are really as good for us as they claim to be? Choosing certified organic products is a great start. . Sarah a holistic nutritionists, writer, educator and speaker, she is also co-founder of 'Field Trip' which takes people on tours to organic farms thus helping city folk connect to their food source.

Please use the staircase beside Book City (on the Danforth) Unfortunately, there is no
wheelchair access.

Time:  7:00 - 8:30 pm
Venue:  Big Carrot, Carrot Commons 2nd Floor (Room 212)
Location:  348 Danforth Ave, Toronto, ON
Categories:   Food & Beverage; Health/Health Care

For over 10 years, the Antimatter Film Festival has been dedicated to the exhibition and nurturing of film and video as art, encompassing screenings, installations, performances and media hybrids into the Festival presentation. Screenings will take place in Victoria, B.C., where there is minimal commercial and industry agendas, promoting a non-competitive environment for film applicants.

Venue:  Various
Location:  636 Yates Street, Victoria, BC
For information contact:  Deborah de Boer or Todd Eacrett
Phone:  250-385-3327
Categories:   Media, Entertainment, News, Communications; Arts & Culture

A Woman Among Warlords: Malalai Joya's Struggle for Afghanistan
...
Malalai Joya became widely recognized in 2003 after shocking the world with her fierce condemnation of the warlords at the Loya Jirga, the assembly of the most powerful political stakeholders of Afghanistan.

Then in 2005, she became the youngest woman elected to Afghanistan’s parliament and has since emerged as one of the most prominent voices against the NATO occupation and the Karzai regime.

Her fiery criticism and fearless advocacy of women’s rights has won her recognition as one of TIME magazine’s most influential people in the world, yet has also triggered her expulsion from parliament and has led to five attempts on her life.

The Afghan Canadian Students’ Association invites you to attend “A Woman Among Warlords: Malalai Joya’s Struggle for Afghanistan” on Sunday, October 10, at 3:00pm at the University of Calgary (ICT 102). As the Canadian government debates whether or not to extend Canada’s mission in Afghanistan, this evening is an important chance to hear directly from one of the most outstanding advocates for justice in Afghanistan.

Tickets:
$ 10 in advance
$ 12 at the door

Time:  3:00 - 6:00 pm
Venue:  University of Calgary
Location:  ICT 102, Calgary, AB
Website:  http://sphrcalgary.wufoo.com/forms/online-ticket-reservation/
For information contact:  acsa@ucalgary.ca
Categories:   Women; Human Rights, Law, Legal; Politics & Political Organizations

10/10/10 will be a day of work parties all over the world. Will you join us?

In every corner of the globe, we will implement solutions to the climate crisis: from solar panels to community gardens, wind turbines to bike workshops. We'll tell leaders: "We're getting to work - what about you?"

350.org's slogan for 2010 is "Get To Work." Get to work to start changing our communities, and get to work to make our leaders realize that they actually need to lead. We've sifted through thousands of your emails from all over the world, and come up with an action plan for this year that we think may break the logjam and get us moving. But only, of course, if we act together to make it happen.

The first date to mark on your calendar: October 10. Working with our friends at the 10:10 campaign, we're going to make the tenth day of the tenth month of the millennium's tenth year a real starting point for concrete action. We're calling it the 10/10 Global Work Party, and in every corner of the world we hope communities will put up solar panels, insulate homes, erect windmills, plant trees, paint bikepaths, launch or harvest local gardens. We'll make sure the world sees this huge day of effort - and we'll use it to send a simple message to our leaders: "We're working - what about you? If we can cover the roof of the school with solar panels, surely you can pass the legislation or sign the treaty that will spread our work everywhere, and confront the climate crisis in time." 10/10/10 will take a snapshot of a clean energy future - the world of 350 ppm - and show people why it's worth fighting for. It's not too early to sign up here: http://www.350.org/oct10

Venue:  Various locations in Canada, USA & worldwide
Location:  Worldwide
Website:  http://www.350.org/about/blogs/getting-work-2010-our-new-plans
Categories:   Environment

The YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) Week Without Violence aims to develop and implement practical solutions to violence in our communities.

For information contact:  wwv@ywcacanada.ca
Phone:  416-962-8881
Categories:   Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

This October, Philippine Women Centre of Ontario (PWC-ON) invites everyone to celebrate a decade filled of shared laughter, tears, music and militancy. The round of events will kick off at the opening of the Maleta [Suitcase] Art Exhibit on October 10th. Maleta is a community-based arts project where members of the community unpack their history of forced migration through collectively-created visual and performance art. The exhibit will be open to the public at the Beit Zatoun House until the end of the month.

On October 23rd, the community will gather once again at the United Steelworkers Hall for a one-day conference entitled, Creating, Strengthening, and Nurturing the Filipino Canadian Women's Struggle for Genuine Liberation and Empowerment. Then, coinciding with the 5th year anniversary of SIKLAB-ON, a Filipino Canadian workers' organization, women, youth and workers will be dancing the night away at a fundraising Dinner & Dance at Prestige Restaurant on November 6.

Time:  4:30 - 9:00 pm
Venue:  The Beit Zatoun House
Location:  612 Markham Street, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.magkaisacentre.org
For information contact:  Qara Clemente- pwc-on@magkaisacentre.org
Phone:  416-519-2553
Categories:   Women; Arts & Culture

Discussion and post-Keynesian analysis of current events with historian William Krehm

Time:  7:00 pm
Venue:  OISE
Location:  252 Bloor W, Toronto, ON
Phone:  416-340-1865
Categories:   Economic Development

Documentary screening and panel discussion on homelessness and affordable housing

Time:  6:30 pm
Venue:  Ryerson Student Centre
Location:  55 Gould, Toronto, ON
For information contact:  mike.yam@gmail.com
Categories:   Urban Issues, Transit, Housing, Public Space; Real Estate

Solar Power International (SPI), previously called Solar Power Conference and Expo, was created in 2004 when the Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) joined together in partnership to fill an obvious void: North America was missing a business-to-business solar conference and expo. With an industry growth rate of more than 40% per year, there was a need for a single event where industry could come together with potential customers, policymakers, investors, and other parties necessary for continued rapid growth. It didn't take long for the event to establish itself as the premiere solar event in the US, growing from 1,100 attendees to over 24,000 in just six years!

There are many existing and new solar events popping up around the US. So why should your company use its resources to participate in this one? First, Solar Power International has been established as the only "must attend" solar event in the US. It is the largest solar conference and expo in North America, currently by a factor of more than 5, and attracts the widest range of professional attendees. The event also educates consumers through a one-night public opening of the expo hall.

Second, the money you spend to attend Solar Power International is used to support the industry and grow US solar markets. Proceeds from the event go to SEPA and SEIA, the 2 non-profit presenters, and are used to support the organizations' year-round activities. Many other solar events in the US are put on by for-profit groups.

Venue:  Los Angeles Convention Center
Location:  1201 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles
Website:  http://www.solarpowerinternational.com
For information contact:  Jessica Achtman
Phone:  202-559-2023
Categories:   Environment

Real aid, true solidarity: An anti-war benefit evening for Afghanistan and Palestine featuring Malalai Joya

-Plus other guest speakers on Palestine and Pakistan, musical performances and more... Additional event details coming soon!

Malalai Joya was the youngest woman elected to Afghanistan's parliament in 2005, but was expelled from her position and has faced five assassination attempts because of her opposition to the warlords in the Karzai regime and her fearless advocacy of women's rights. She has emerged as one of the most prominent voices against NATO's war, with TIME magazine recently naming her as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

With the Canadian government threatening to extend Canada's support of the occupation of Afghanistan beyond 2011, this special evening is an important chance to hear directly from an Afghan women's leader about the war.

In addition, your contributions will go towards bringing genuine aid to the people directly affected by Canadian foreign policy in both Afghanistan and Palestine. Money raised will be go to support two very worth causes:

-The Canadian Boat to Gaza, a civil society initiative to challenge the siege of Gaza and bring urgently needed humanitarian aid. (See http://canadaboatgaza.org/)

-Malalai Joya's Defense Committee, which provides much needed financial support to a free medical clinic in Farah Province, and works to support other grassroots health and education projects throughout Afghanistan. (See http://malalaijoya.com/dcmj/)

Time:  7:00 pm
Venue:  W2
Location:  151 W. Cordova, Vancouver, BC
For information contact:  StopWar.ca.- stopwar@resist.ca
Categories:   Women; Human Rights, Law, Legal; International

A Net Zero home is defined as a home that generates as much energy as it uses on an annual basis. Many tried and proven technologies are available to reduce energy consumption and related GHG emissions from residential homes. Each of the technologies has a different cost and related benefits. Choosing the right technologies takes a careful analysis of the options.

Ronn Lepage is pioneering what may be Saskatchewan’s first truly Net Zero home. This presentation will discuss the many alternatives available and how they were selected in the design of this home.

This presentation should be attended by anyone interested in building a green home. Event co-sponsored by J.S. Wood Library and the Saskatchewan Environmental Society.

Time:  7:00pm
Venue:  J.S. Wood Library
Location:  1801 Lansdowne Avenue, Saskatoon, SK
Website:  http://www.environmentalsociety.ca
For information contact:  Saskatchewan Environmental Society
Phone:  306-665-1915
Categories:   Environment

Cross-country kitchen table talk with Ontario farmer Colleen Ross.

We want to hear from you! Come and contribute your ideas for a "People's Food Policy" for Canada. Guest speakers and discussion on 10 critical food policy issues.

Time:  6:00 - 8:00 pm
Venue:  U of T- William Doo Auditorium
Location:  45 Wilcocks Street, Toronto, ON
For information contact:  clare_g@foodshare.net
Categories:   Food & Beverage; Farming

more info on website

Venue:  Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise
Location:  Lake Louise, AB
Website:  http://www.recycle.ab.ca
For information contact:  info@recycle.ab.ca
Phone:  403.843.6563
Categories:   Environment

Planet in Focus International Environmental Film & Video Festival is Canada's preeminent festival of its kind. For ten years we have championed the explosive growth and evolution of environmental cinema.

For ten years we have positioned ourselves as creative and cultural leaders in the realm of international environmental film festivals. For ten years we have have cultivated audiences to celebrate and experience the environmental works of Canadian and international filmmakers.

In this milestone year we continue building on our achievements through our rich film program; through our opening and closing Canadian films; through our Spotlight, Fast Forward Toward a 20/20 Vision; through our selection of Canadian shorts, through the special environmental works we are premiering from China, through our unique Land & Conflict collaboration; through our School Program; through our Film Industry Symposium; through our Children and Youth programs and much, much, more...

Our 10th anniversary is an occasion to celebrate the astonishing achievements of our International, Canadian and Industry/Media Eco Heroes. Maude Barlow, Ian Clifford and the CBC flagship program, The Nature of Things with David Suzuki our home grown environmental heroes and we are delighted to bestow this honour upon them on this anniversary year.

We are also lucky to welcome one of Canada's most cherished author's and environmental legend Farley Mowat who will be present at our opening night film Finding Farley. So join us and let's celebrate together.

Now in our 11th year, we are looking forward to beginning our second decade producing Canada's leading environmental film and video festival October 13-17, 2010.

Location:  Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.planetinfocus.org/
Categories:   Environment

We'll feature SEJ's typical impressive array of speakers, panels and workshops. They'll include Montana celebrities, Obama administration officials and experts filling you in on regional, national and international topics. Expect sessions on environmental law and politics (Montana likely has the highest ratio of professional environmentalists per capita), free-market environmentalism (Montana has the leading think tanks), environmental justice (focusing on Libby, a Montana mining town where asbestos has killed hundreds and EPA has declared a public health emergency), and the cutting-edge technologies and philosophical questions of modern wildlife biology. We'll cap it off with famous Western authors who'll explore our connections with the natural world.

Location:  Missoula, Montana, USA
Website:  http://www.sej.org/initiatives/sej-annual-conferences/AC2010-main
Phone:  (215) 884-8174
Categories:   Environment; Journalism, Writing, Literary, Language

A multi-media world premiere, with text and voice

Michael Riordon's forthcoming book, Our Way to Fight, documents creative resistance on both sides of the wall. In thousand year-old olive groves, besieged villages, refugee camps, checkpoints and barracks, here are the dangerous lives of non-violent activists, via excerpts from the author's text and the activists’ own voices.

Our Way to Fight emerges from encounters with more than sixty grassroots peace and human rights activists in Palestine and Israel. The book will be released in January 2011 by Pluto Press in the UK and Between the Lines in Canada.

Michael Riordon, is a Canadian writer and documentary-maker, Michael generates books and articles, audio, video and film documentaries, and plays for radio and stage. A primary goal of his work is to recover voices of people(s) who have been written out of the official version. In 2005, he published the book: An Unauthorized Biography of the World: Oral History on the Front Lines.

Time:  7:30pm-9:30pm
Venue:  Beit Zatoun
Location:  612 Markham Street (by Bathurst subway), Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.beitzatoun.org
Phone:  647.726.9500

The Toronto Green Community will be hosting an All Candidates Meeting on environmental issues in North Toronto for Wards 16 (Eglinton-Lawrence), 22 (St. Paul's) and 26 (Don Valley West). Join us on October 14 to find out the environmental views of your City Council candidates.

Environmental Journalist Catherine Porter from the Toronto Star will be our moderator for the night!

The event is free but donations are welcome. Light refreshments will be served.

TGC is a grassroots organization that engages people in local environmental action for a cleaner, greener Toronto. Since 1995, we have been working on a number of environmental issues including climate change, toxic waste, atmospheric pollution and stream watermanagement.

Time:  6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Venue:  North Toronto Memorial Community Centre
Location:  First Floor Multipurpose Room, 200 Eglinton Ave West, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://torontogreen.ca
For information contact:  Toronto Green Community
Phone:  416-781-7663
Categories:   Environment; Urban Issues, Transit, Housing, Public Space; Politics & Political Organizations

Like amazing tunes? Like prizes and free stuff? Like great, open, innovative, creative media? Then you'd best be at Pull the Plug: A fundraiser for Media Democracy Day 2010!

Co-hosted by MEDIA DEMOCRACY DAY VANCOUVER and VANCOUVER IS AWESOME.COM

Featuring the wicked music of:

JASPER SLOAN YIP

YES NICE

41ST AND HOME

DOOR PRIZES AND GIVEAWAYS FROM:

Hello Cool World
Rain City Chronicles
Rhizome Cafe
BC Book Publisher's Association
Intersections Film Club
The First Weekend Club
Vancouver is Awesome.com

DOORS: 8:30, MUSIC: 9:30, TEN DOLLARS AT THE DOOR.

All proceeds go to fund Media Democracy Day Vancouver this year, and into the future. This year, MDD will play host to nearly 30 local media and activist organizations, panel discussions and workshop sessions led by some of the province's leading authorities on media issues, and a keynote address by Tony Burman, senior executive of the Americas for Al Jazeera English! Free and open to the public! So amazing it's just plain nutty! For a full listing of speakers and exhibitors, visit our MDD event page here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=136330243079620&ref=ts

COME PARTY. LOCAL MUSIC IS GREAT. DEMOCRATIC MEDIA IS GREAT. SUPPORT BOTH.

Time:  8:30 pm
Venue:  The Railway Club
Location:  579 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver, BC
Website:  http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=136330243079620&ref=ts
Categories:   Media, Entertainment, News, Communications

The Bioneers Conference is a leading-edge forum -- join us in San Rafael, California, October 15-17 (with intensives October 14 and 18), 2010. At this premiere environmental conference, social and scientific innovators focus on solutions inspired by nature and human ingenuity.

Location:  San Rafael, California, USA
Website:  http://www.bioneers.org/conference
Categories:   Environment; Science & Technology

Lecture by author Farzana Hassan

Admission: $5 (Student- $4)

Time:  7:00 pm
Venue:  Centre for Inqury Ont
Location:  216 Beverley, Toronto, ON
For information contact:  cfiontario.org
Categories:   International; Women

Join Credit Valley Conservation and its community partners at this new and exciting FREE event. Learn how you can make a change for a healthier environment. Participate in a hands-on learning atmosphere, network with friends and community groups, engage in group discussion, and appreciate the commitment of our volunteers and their work throughout the year.

Time:  9:00am-3:30pm
Venue:  University Of Toronto Mississauga
Location:  3359 Mississauga Rd N., Mississauga, ON
Website:  http://www.creditvalleyca.ca/stewardshipforum/index.html
For information contact:  Holly Nadalin
Phone:  Holly Nadalin
Categories:   Environment

Celebration of disability arts and culture with music by Martin Deschamps, break dancing, films, forums, visual art and a children’s program.

Various prices, some events free

Venue:  Various venues (check website)
Location:  Toronto, ON
Website:  http://abilitiesartsfestival.org
Categories:   Disability Issues; Arts & Culture

National Co-op Week highlights the success of co-operatives and credit unions and promotes the co-operative movement and its activities.

For information contact:  info@CoopsCanada.coop
Phone:  613-238-6711
Categories:   Marketing, Advertising, Public Relations

National School Safety Week encourages schools to promote student safety.

For information contact:  csc@safety-council.org
Phone:  613-739-1535
Categories:   Marketing, Advertising, Public Relations

Green-Connections is a networking and mentoring group of small businesses. We are dedicated to exploring and sharing environmentally-friendly practices, products and ideas. Our goal is to encourage all businesses to 'Go Green'.
We are hosting a day long sustainability business conference on Oct. 18th at Earth Rangers in Vaughan. (8am - 4:30 pm) The week of October 18th is Small Business Week and Waste Reduction Week. Bob Willard is the keynote speaker http://sustainabilityadvantage.com/
Other topics include: Transition Towns York Region and Biomimicry

There will be an exhibition of green businesses and tours of the innovative projects at Earth Rangers. Tickets are $50 includes breakfast, lunch & refreshments.

Afternoon open to the public - no charge

Event sponsors: Ontario Energy Matrix, York Small Business Enterprises Centre and Vaughan Business Enterprise Centre
https://www.ontarioenergymatrix.com/Home_Page.html
http://www.green-connections.com/

Time:  8:00am-4:30pm
Venue:  Earth Rangers Centre: Kortright Conservation Area
Location:  9520 Pine Valley Dr., Vaughan, ON
Website:  http://www.green-connections.com/
For information contact:  Cathy Nesbitt
Phone:  1-888-775-9495
Categories:   Business & Economics

EcoCare 2010 - The only conference in Canada to speak directly to the link between health care and environment.

Date: October 18th and 19th at the London Convention Center, London Ontario.

Please have a look at the website for updates on topics and speakers for this years event: www.ecocarecanada.ca

Registration: Early registration on Sunday October 17th at the Hilton, London from 6:00pm - 8:00pm.

Price: Early bird registration until September 3rd 2010 - $495
After September 3rd - $625
Register 3 members from the same organization and get the 4th for free.

Registration deadline on October 1st 2010.

Gala dinner to be held on October 18th at the Museum London from 6:00pm - 10:00pm - $50/ticket

After the Gala dinner, our show sponsor Honeywell will have a hospitality suite at the Hilton London for more networking opportunities with your peers.

Venue:  London Convention Center
Location:  London, ON
Website:  http://www.ecocarecanada.ca
For information contact:  Sean Smyth sean.smyth@lhsc.on.ca
Phone:  519-685-8500 ext. 52082
Categories:   Environment; Health/Health Care

ord Miller, Environmental Commissioner of Ontario, will be in Barrie on Oct 19th to moderate a debate between the mayoral candidates.

The event, hosted by Living Green Barrie and Transition Barrie will be held at the Fischer Auditorium, Central Collegiate on Dunlop Street and will focus on environmental issues and growth plans for Barrie.

The Debate takes place at 7pm and admission is free. Everyone welcome. Prior to the debate, Living Green Barrie will host a fund raising Catered Reception with Gord as guest and Keynote speaker at Liaison College at Dunlop and Toronto Street: 5:00pm to 6:30pm. Advance tickets are $20

Time:  7:00pm
Venue:  Fischer Auditorium
Location:  Central Collegiate on Dunlop Street, Barrie, ON
Website:  http://livinggreenbarrie.com
For information contact:  Karen Fox
Phone:  705-721-6867
Categories:   Environment; Politics & Political Organizations

Waste Reduction Week in Canada aims to raise public awareness of over consumption and of the environmental impacts of waste accumulation.

Categories:   Environment

A call for artists, artisans, furniture makers, designers, textile makers, seamstresses, potters, creators and builders.

That's Women's Work aims to highlight the work of local self-identified women artists and artisans with the goal of earning a living wage from their work.

Beyond the Beige Box will provide local and green options for home décor and furnishings to condo and apartment dwellers who would normally seek out design/ decoration and/or furniture at big box stores such as IKEA, Pottery Barn, Pier One etc.

The Specs

The event will occur on Wed October 20th, event from 2-8pm with set up time starting at 12pm. Unfortunately, this location has stairs but it is also centrally located, has parking and is a large open space- essentially a blank canvas.

**That's Women's Work will provide free home delivery of any items purchased at the sale (objects must fit securely inside a minivan in order to be delivered). We hope this encourages those using transit or those on bicycles to purchase goods. This cost is already built into all tables fees and there are no extra costs to vendors for this service.

- All items being sold are to be below $250.00
- Local organic dishes will be served for $5.00, catering to those coming directly from work or school
- Free workshops will take place throughout the day- more details to come!
- Admission to the event is free for shoppers
- Promotion includes- Radio and Internet spots, large scale print advertising, condo and street level flyering, local newspapers and store fronts

Table fees are as follows:
- 10ft Table- $80.00
- 6ft Table $ 65.00
- 4ft Table $40.00
Bring Your Own Table- $30.00

*In order to register visit http://www.jotform.com/form/2492005938
and complete the registration form. Please specify what you will be selling, include images if possible and links to your web site or Etsy store. A link will be sent to you to complete registration with payment via pay pal. We look forward to meeting you and seeing your work!

Time:  2:00-8:00pm
Location:  Toronto, ON
Website:  http://thatswomenswork.com
For information contact:  Michelle
Phone:  416-534-9249
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Women

The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival is an international festival that celebrates the latest works by Indigenous peoples on the forefront of innovation in film, video, radio, and new media. This year, the festival presents a selection of the most compelling and distinctive Indigenous works from around the globe. More so, imagineNATIVE will engage in diverse youth groups with workshops, panels, mentorships and of course, screenings. The four-day Festival and its annual tour fills a void in the artistic and cultural landscapes of Toronto in which Indigenous filmmakers and media artists are often underrepresented or misrepresented. Venue information has not yet been released, but past imagineNATIVE Film Festivals have had several venues spreading over the Toronto downtown-core.

Venue:  Various
Location:  Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.imaginenative.org
For information contact:  imagineNATIVE
Phone:  416-485-2333
Categories:   Native Peoples; Arts & Culture; Media, Entertainment, News, Communications

Free, public lecture and film screening. All welcome. War Correspondent Scott Taylor will be providing a preview of his upcoming documentary "Outside the Wire." The film is a compilation of interviews and experiences from Taylor's five unembedded visits to Afghanistan since January 2007. His most recent visit was in February 2010, and on that trip he met with Afghan Warlords, Taliban clerics, foreign aid workers, international Ambassadors and even a would-be suicide bomber being held in a Kabul jail. The views of these various subjects are widely divergent, but collectively they paint a picture far bleaker than the clinical statements provided by NATO spokespersons from inside their protected compounds. Taylor is a regular columnist with the Chronicle Herald and the editor of Esprit de Corps magazine.

Time:  7:00pm-9:00pm
Venue:  Haliburton Room, Arts and Administration building
Location:  University of King's College, 6350 Coburg Rd., Halifax, NS
For information contact:  Heidi Verheul; hfxpeace@chebucto.ca
Categories:   International; Military

The Summit is Canada’s premier conference on CSR, and this year’s theme is “Collaborating for Sustainable Change: New Approaches to Accelerate Innovation”. The gathering will focus on new, creative ideas to maximize efforts in CSR using a collaborative approach and explore the ways that effective collaboration impacts the ability of individuals and organizations to drive business results and accelerate change. Hear from inspiring leaders about how they used the power of collaboration to create an organizational culture of sustainability and form partnerships with external organizations. Through keynote presentations, leadership panels, and interactive breakout sessions, participants will receive the tools, frameworks and research to inspire their own strategy for collaboration and innovation.

Featured speakers include:
* Dr. Karl-Henrik Robèrt, Founder, The Natural Step
* Claude Ouimet, Senior Vice President and General Manager, InterfaceFLOR Canada and Latin America
* Mike Pedersen, Group Head, Corporate Operations, TD Bank Financial Group
* Chris Miller, Manager of Corporate Consciousness, Seventh Generation
* Andrew Souvaliotis, Chief Impact Officer, AIR MILES for Social Change
* Toby Heaps, President, Editor and Co-Founder, Corporate Knights

Time:  8:00am-5:00pm
Venue:  Le Meridien King Edward Hotel
Location:  37 King Street East, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.cbsr.ca/summit
For information contact:  Cathy Callaghan, Summit Coordinator, callaghan@cbsr.ca
Categories:   Environment; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

Coordinator of the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network, will present on the issue of genetic engineering and answer your questions. Genetically engineered fish and pigs are in competition to be the first GE animals in our food system. How did we get here? What GE foods are already on the market and what are the risks? Will the public ever have a say in the future of this technology? CBAN is the national home of research and campaigning against GE, the only organization in Canada that works exclusively on this issue.

Time:  7:00 - 8:30 pm
Venue:  Big Carrot
Location:  348 Danforth, Toronto, ON
Phone:  416-466-2129
Categories:   Biotechnology; Food & Beverage; Farming

This conference on Mothers and the Economy: The Economics of Mothering will examine the interface between mothers-motherhood-mothering and the economy, bringing together the fields of economy, law, sociology and political philosophy to address theoretical and politically urgent issues of mothering and the economy, such as: motherwork and valuation of motherwork in view of ongoing intensification of market economies and neoliberal developments; mothers as as providers and carers in an expanding transnational mothering economy; the economics of maternal bodywork, breastfeeding and reproductive technologies; gender justice and mothers' economic citizenship in view of recent developments within family law; and the envisioning and articulation of more human-centered economic systems and policies to enhance mothering/caregiving practices.

The conference features keynote addresses by Marilyn Waring, Martha Albertson Fineman, Andrea Doucet, Bonnie Fox and Patrizia Albanese as well as 100+ presenters and 40 panels over 3 exciting days including: Mothering and Social Services and Policy; Gender and Paid and Unpaid Work; Counting Motherhood; Mothering and Empowerment: Challenges And Possibilities; Economics of Mothering; Supporting And Empowering “High Risk” Mothers and much much more!

Time:  9:00am-5:30pm
Venue:  Oakham House, Ryerson University
Location:  63 Gould Street, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.motherhoodinitiative.org
For information contact:  Renee Knapp; nfo@motherhoodinitiative.org
Categories:   Economic Development; Women

This conference on Mothers and the Economy: The Economics of Mothering will examine the interface between mothers-motherhood-mothering and the economy, bringing together the fields of economy, law, sociology and political philosophy to address theoretical and politically urgent issues of mothering and the economy, such as: motherwork and valuation of motherwork in view of ongoing intensification of market economies and neoliberal developments; mothers as as providers and carers in an expanding transnational mothering economy; the economics of maternal bodywork, breastfeeding and reproductive technologies; gender justice and mothers' economic citizenship in view of recent developments within family law; and the envisioning and articulation of more human-centered economic systems and policies to enhance mothering/caregiving practices.

The conference features keynote addresses by Marilyn Waring, Martha Albertson Fineman, Andrea Doucet, Bonnie Fox and Patrizia Albanese as well as 100+ presenters and 40 panels over 3 exciting days including: Mothering and Social Services and Policy; Gender and Paid and Unpaid Work; Counting Motherhood; Mothering and Empowerment: Challenges And Possibilities; Economics of Mothering; Supporting And Empowering “High Risk” Mothers and much much more!

Time:  9:00 am - 5:30 pm
Venue:  Oakham House, Ryerson University
Location:  63 Gould Street, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.motherhoodinitiative.org
For information contact:  Renée Knapp- info@motherhoodinitiative.org
Categories:   Women; Children & Youth; Social Policy

The Office of the Ombudsman and Child and Youth Advocate of New Brunswick, in partnership with AOMF, AFAPDP and ARCNDH, is hosting an international symposium on the rights of Francophone children and youth and the institutional mechanisms necessary for the implementation of these rights.

The symposium will focus on the rights of francophone children and youth and the institutional mechanisms necessary for the implementation of these rights. Particular attention will be placed on the voices of youth, which is the principle theme of the United Nations International Year of Youth, currently underway. The symposium will seek to engage youth, who will be invited to join the discussions and workshops in order to share their opinions relating to the symposium's themes, including a search for the best means and mechanisms to engage and empower children and youth.

$200 registration fee (Fees may be waived for youth participants)

Time:  6 pm- 8 pm (Thursday); 9 am- 3:30 pm (Friday); 9 am- 7 pm (Saturday)
Venue:  Université de Moncton
Location:  Moncton campus, Moncton, NB
Website:  http://www.gnb.ca/0073/Symposium/index-e.asp
For information contact:  Bernard Richard
Phone:  506-453-2789
Categories:   Human Rights, Law, Legal; Children & Youth; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

The 2010 World Green Energy Symposium, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia USA October 21-23, 2010 demonstrates the power of New Energy by providing a platform for connections, education, information exchange, contracting & business networking opportunities in the industry.

The 2010 World Green Energy Symposium & Expo is set to draw an overwhelming number of attendees across the globe from various disciplines. "Businesses, organizations, academia, students, government agencies, and people from around the globe will join in 2010 for what is sure to be one of the most exciting, educational and innovative energy events of its kind focusing on green, clean and renewable energy technology." states Professor Gallagher, Executive Chair of the WGES Council.

The agenda ranges from global green initiatives, innovations & products to latest updates on "Green" contracting opportunities from government and industry experts. The 2010 World Green Energy Symposium participants will hear from world renowned subject matter experts in the field of new & sustainable energy, learn about the GREEN initiatives, GREEN jobs, find out the current renewable energy costs and paybacks, hear case studies of successful projects, discover the new policies, tax incentives and rebates available with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and much more.

Venue:  Pennsylvania Convention Center
Location:  Arch Street, Philadelphia
Website:  http://www.worldgreenenergysymposium.us
For information contact:  World Green Energy Symposium
Phone:  202-465-0009
Categories:   Environment

His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama will give a public speech at the Rogers Centre which will discuss the following:

In today’s modern world, science and technology play vital roles in bringing unprecedented material comfort to the lives of human beings. However, the basic human problems of suffering, fear and tension still remain and form part of our daily lives. We are still constantly confronted with devastating news such as violence, crime, wars and natural disasters. Thus, it is only logical to try to strike a balance between material developments on the one hand and the development of spiritual, human values on the other hand. In order to bring about this great adjustment, we need to revive our humanitarian values. His Holiness will share his personal outlook on how we may bring about peace not only on a personal level but at the community and world wide level.

Time:  2:00 pm
Venue:  Rogers Centre
Location:  1 Blue Jays Way, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.ticketmaster.ca/event/100044DED8069933
For information contact:  Ticket Master
Phone:  416-870-8000
Categories:   Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; Religious; Skills & Training

March in Toronto’s Take Back the Night and remember 30 years of struggle:
* Over 30 years of women and trans people of colour fighting for gender equity and rights in this city
* Over 30 years of migrant women fighting for the right to live, work and move with justice and dignity
* Over 30 years of our indigenous sisters fighting for sovereignty and the right to self determination.
But most of all, march because for more than 30 years, we have fought, resisted, and organized ourselves to fight and to win.

Time:  7:30 pm
Venue:  Dundas Square
Location:  corner of Yonge & Dundas, Toronto, ON
Categories:   Human Rights, Law, Legal; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; Women

The Toronto Jewish Book Fair, established in 1976, is one of the largest Jewish Book Fairs in North America. The week-long event features sales of a wide range of books of Jewish interest, and over 25 international and Canadian authors who explore contemporary Jewish life, big ideas, politics, and current affairs. The Toronto Jewish Book Fair is presented by the Koffler Centre of the Arts.

JEWISH BOOK FAIR HOURS
Saturdays, October 23 and October 30 | 7 PM - 10 PM
Sundays, October 24 and October 31 | 10 AM - 10 PM
Monday through Thursday, October 25-28 | 10 AM - 4 PM, Reopens 6:30 PM - 10 PM
Friday, October 29 | 10 AM - 1 PM

Venue:  Beth David B'nai Israel Beth Am Synagogue
Location:  55 Yeomans Road, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.kofflerarts.org
Phone:  416-638-1881 ext 4281
Categories:   Publishers & Publishing; Journalism, Writing, Literary, Language; Housewares, Home Furnishings & Maintenance

Zine fair and festival of alternative culture with readings by Mark Sedore, Teri Vlassopoulos and others, workshops, book-pitching and more.

Admission: $5 (inlcudes copy of Broken Pencil)

Time:  1:00 - 7:00 pm
Venue:  Great Hall
Location:  1087 Queen W, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://brokenpencil.com/canzine.
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Journalism, Writing, Literary, Language

Talk by Young Urban Farmers' Chris Wong

Time:  8:00 pm
Venue:  St Luke's Church
Location:  3200 Bayview Ave, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://gardenontario.org.
Categories:   Environment; Farming

Readings of memoirs by Anka Voticky, Willie Sterner, Agnes Tomasov and Marian Domanski.

Time:  7:00 pm
Venue:  Toronto Centre for the Performing Arts
Location:  5040 Yonge, Toronto, ON
Phone:  416-410-5875

crisis book: an anthology thing is about crises, whether they be economic, personal or even artistic. the participating writers and artists live in Europe, Asia and the Americas, and the works they have contributed were mostly made over the course of 2009.

Sandra Alland, poetry
bill bissett, poetry
Catherine Crowe, sketches
Dianne Davis, photographs
Gilles Goyette, poetry
Y Josephine, poetry
Mathieu Larnaudie, novel excerpt
Li Hao, images
Ferhat Taylan, philosophy
david tin mouth, short fiction
Alain Volny Anne, short fiction

Featuring Christine Duncan's improvising Element Choir

Time:  8:30 pm
Venue:  Clinton's Tavern
Location:  693 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://presspresspress.com/artwork/1564597_CRISIS_BOOK_LAUNCH_OCTOBER_27th_8_30_P_M.html
For information contact:  david@presspresspress.com
Phone:  416-913-2208
Categories:   Publishers & Publishing; Media, Entertainment, News, Communications; Journalism, Writing, Literary, Language

Dr Nicholas White, 2010 Gairdner Global Health Award Recipient will speak on his ground-breaking research relating to Artemisinins in treating and eliminating malaria.

Event will also include other guest speakers covering topics such as: New diagnostics and therapeutics for severe malaria, Artemisinins: Opportunities and challenges, Malaria RTSS Vaccine, Malaria and Pregnancy, The Gates Foundation perspective on malaria elimination, The Malaria Eradication Research Agenda (malERA), and Global economic strategy to reduce malaria deaths.

Please RSVP for this event.

Time:  12:30pm-5:00pm
Venue:  MaRS Discovery Auditorium (lower level)
Location:  101 College St, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.gairdner.org/calendar/gairdnerglobalhealthsymposium
For information contact:  Nora Cox nora@gairdner.org
Phone:  416-596-9996 ext. 203
Categories:   Health/Health Care; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; Biotechnology

INSOMNIAC PRESS invites you to join us in celebrating the work of some of the fabulously talented women who have published books with us.

This fall, we are pleased to be launching CATHERINE GRAHAM's fourth collection of poetry: Winterkill. This latest book completes the trilogy that includes her critically acclaimed previous books Pupa (2003) and The Red Element (2008). Her poems always navigate the difficult paths between grief and memory, between intimacy and strangeness, with a disarming, surefooted grace. These are Graham's most powerful, most affirming works to date.

Also new for the fall is ANNE PERDUE's debut fiction collection: I'm A Registered Nurse Not A Whore and Other Stories.

We are also pleased to present readings by Insomniac authors ROSEANNE CARRARA, author of A Newer Wilderness, and ANGELA HIBBS, author of Wanton, and a special preview reading by ROBIN RICHARDSON, who will be publishing her debut collection of poetry with Insomniac Press next year.

Time:  7:00pm-10:00pm
Venue:  Magpie Tavern
Location:  831 Dundas W, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://insomniacpress.com/events.php
Categories:   Publishers & Publishing; Journalism, Writing, Literary, Language

Now in its 31st year, the International Festival of Authors (IFOA) brings together the best writers of contemporary world literature for 11 days of readings, interviews, lectures, round table discussions, and public book signings each October.

The IFOA also presents a number of special events including readings by Scotiabank Giller Prize, Governor General’s Literary Awards, and Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalists, as well as the awarding of the Harbourfront Festival Prize.

Venue:  Harbourfront Centre Studio Theatre
Location:  235 Queens Quay W, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://readings.org
For information contact:  Harbourfront Centre Box Office
Phone:  416-973-4000
Categories:   Publishers & Publishing; Journalism, Writing, Literary, Language

Presentations on toxics in Lake Ontario, where the chemicals are coming from and more.

Topics and speakers include the following.

Toxics in Lake Ontario: On-shore to Nearshore to Offshore
Chris Marvin, Environment Canada
Paul Helm, Ontario Ministry of the Environment

Contaminants in Great Lakes Herring Gulls: Are they going up or down? Where are the hotspots? How do birds from Tommy Thompson Park compare?
Chip Weseloh, Environment Canada

Where are the chemicals coming from?
Miriam Diamond, University of Toronto

Toronto’s ChemTRAC Program: Reducing contaminants through community right-to-know
Rich Whate, Toronto Public Health

Time:  6:00-8:00pm
Venue:  The Pilot Tavern - Stealth Lounge
Location:  22 Cumberland, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.trca.on.ca/events/event.dot?id=90520
For information contact:  Toronto and Region Conservation
Phone:  (416) 661-6600
Categories:   Environment; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

Symposium on environmental health issues, LGBT patient-centred care, Brazilian leprosy projects and more.

Time:  9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Venue:  Banting Instit Lecture Hall
Location:  100 College, Toronto, ON
Phone:  416-978-8329
Categories:   Health/Health Care; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual

Please join me for the launch of my fourth book, Fatherhood 4.0: iDad Applications Across Cultures. It will be a night of brutally frank conversations about Baby Daddyhood, as seen through the eyes of some blog-addicted, media savvy, POC pops weaned on everything from the Cosby Show and George Lopez, to the Osbournes and Obama.

Fatherhood 4.0 contains candid interviews with: the Argos' Michael "Pinball" Clemons, Broken Social Scene's Charles Spearin, Toronto FC's Dwayne De Rosario, Bollywood Boulevard's Mohit Rajhans, genius George Elliott Clarke, heady Hal Niedzvicki, author Lawrence Hill (Book of Negroes), Fucked Up's Damian Abraham, dramatist Richard Lee, CBC's Matt Galloway, social entrepreneur Sol Guy, Plex, and many more...

Time:  7:00pm-9:00pm
Venue:  Beit Zatoun
Location:  612 Markham St at Bathurst & Bloor, Toronto, ON
For information contact:  Gillian Rodgerson/ Dalton HIggins, gillian@insomniacpress.com
Categories:   Men; Skills & Training; Publishers & Publishing

Wednesday Oct 27, 7:00pm
Film - Schooling the World: The White Man's Last Burden

Friday Oct 29, 7:00pm
Seeking Justice: A National Call for an Public Enquiry for the Murdered and Missing Women

Saturday Oct 30, 9:00am-5:30pm
Indigenous Sovereignty Symposium

Tuesday Nov 2, 5:00pm
Undermining Indigenous Rights: Conflicts with Mining Companies in Canada and Guatemala

Wednesday Nov 3, 11:30am-2:00pm
The Oka Crisis - 20 Years Later: Is Reconciliation Possible?

Thursday Nov 4, 7:00pm
Film - A Windigo Tale

Time:  7:00pm-10:00pm
Venue:  Various
Location:  Ottawa, ON
Website:  http://www.bit.ly/iswottawa
For information contact:  ipsmo@riseup.net
Phone:  613-656-5498
Categories:   Government & Public Sector; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; Native Peoples

We're pleased to invite you to join us for the Nature Trust annual gala dinner and conservation celebration, hosted by Stephanie Domet. This year's guest speaker is Dr. George Archibald (photo: G Sundar), co-founder of the International Crane Foundation.

Come partake in an exciting evening with friends and support the important land conservation work of the Nature Trust!

For additional information, or to order tickets by phone: 425-5263, or email: robin@nsnt.ca

Early bird deadline August 1st.

Time:  6:30 pm
Venue:  Wolrld Trade and Convention Center
Location:  1800 Argyle, Halifax, NS
For information contact:  Derek Peters- derek@nsnt.ca
Categories:   Environment; Nature & Outdoors

Yes Yes Yes! The Fall 2010 BookThug books are real objects in the real world!

Performers have come from far and wide to
read from their incredible Thugish texts.

Victor Coleman
Michael Boughn
Kate Eichhorn
Mark Truscott
Stephen Cain
Meredith Quartermain
Steve Zultanski
And Musical Guest Bry Webb of the Constantines!

Come early to ensure you get a seat. From 7-8pm you can say hello to your favourite author, buy their book and get their signatures.

PLUS, when you buy a book you get a FREE BookThug BookBag!

Time:  7:00pm-8:00pm
Venue:  The Supermarket
Location:  268 Augusta Ave - Kensington Market, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.bookthug.ca/
Categories:   Journalism, Writing, Literary, Language; Publishers & Publishing

Healthy food samples and information displays by local non-profit agencies on social, health and recreational programs.

Featured Artists: Soul Singer, Jay Douglas

Free Draw Prizes from Yonge-Eglinton Centre mall merchants

Time:  11:00am-4:00pm
Venue:  RioCan Yonge Eglinton Centre, South Mezzanine Level
Location:  20 Eglinton Avenue West, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://pointinc.org/fall-fair
For information contact:  POINT
Phone:  416-487-2427
Categories:   Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; Food & Beverage; Information, Libraries, Research

Montreal architect Sevag Pogharian is pushing the borders of net zero buildings by creating the Alstonvale Net Zero House, one of the Winning Projects in Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation's EQuilibrium (TM) Sustainable Housing Demonstration Initiative. The Alstonvale Home strives to:

- generate all the energy required for the household's domestic needs
- generate all the energy required for the household's local transportation needs;
- integrate homescale agriculture in order to displace the industrial food system and enhance a household's food energy balance

Mr. Pogharian will share his experience creating the Alstonvale Net Zero House and discuss ways in which this project may serve as a model to advance net zero builiding practices in Canada.

Time:  5:30pm-7:00pm
Venue:  Roundhouse Community Centre (Performance Centre)
Location:  181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver, BC
Website:  http://cascadiagbc.org/events/2010/october/transformational-lecture-series-featuring-sevag-p
For information contact:  Jessica Woolliams, jessica@cascadiagbc.org
Categories:   Environment

Prominent Canadian Secular Muslim, Dr. Tarek Fatah, to speak in Montreal October 28th

The Centre for Inquiry Montreal is excited and honored to welcome Canadian Muslim, political activist, writer, and broadcaster Dr. Tarek Fatah on McGill campus Thursday, October 28th at 7:00pm . The room number is yet to be determined.

Dr. Fatah offers a unique and refreshing voice for the Muslim community throughout the world. A voice that provides a new perspective and hope for the future of a moderate  and peaceful Islam. In his latest book, The Jew is Not My Enemy, he explores the origins of anti-semitism in the Muslim culture, and confronts head on  the widespread claims made by muslim fundamentalists, and proves them to be nothing more than myths. 

CFI Montreal is an educational charity which relies on membership and donations to host events and promote the values of reason, science, secularism, and freedom of inquiry in all human endeavors. Please join or donate today!

Time:  7:00
Venue:  McGill University
Location:  room number to be determined, Montreal, QC
Website:  http://www.cficanada.ca/montreal
Categories:   Human Rights, Law, Legal; Religious

This year, we are celebrating our 45th anniversary. Please come and join us in the festivities on October 28th, 2010 at the City of Toronto Archives as we donate our historical records to the City. We'll have music, singing, maybe some dancing and, of course, some speeches. This is a very special moment for us so please mark it in your calendar and come out for the celebration.

Time:  6:00pm-9:00pm
Venue:  City of Toronto Archives
Location:  255 Spadina Rd, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.streethaven.com/45th-anniversary/
For information contact:  Leslie Venturino
Phone:  416-967-6060 x 225
Categories:   Women; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; Building & Construction

Thea Westreich is the founder of Thea Westreich Art Advisory Services, a private consultancy to individuals building fine art collections. Since 1982, Westreich has advised private collectors throughout the U.S., working with clients to build collections focused variously on Impressionism, American, Modern, and Contemporary Art. Westreich has curated private collections in specific media such as video and film, vintage photography and works on paper in addition to the more traditional genres of painting and sculpture. Westreich and her husband and business partner, Ethan Wagner, have also produced book and edition projects with artists such as Sophie Calle, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Richard Prince, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Keith Tyson, and Christopher Wool, along with upcoming publications with Ryan Gander and Philippe Parreno.

Time:  6:00pm
Venue:  Power Plant
Location:  231 Queens Quay W, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.harbourfrontcentre.com/whatson/today.cfm?id=2535&ref=fp
Categories:   Arts & Culture; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

The Toronto Haiti Action Committee and Students in Solidarity with Haiti invites you to a free Public Forum with Haitian attorney Mario Joseph of the Bureau Des Avocats Internationaux and Berthony Dupont, Editor of Haiti Liberté to discuss the current political and human rights situation in Haiti

Mario Joseph - Haiti's most prominent human rights lawyer and managing attorney of the Bureau Des Avocats Internationaux (BAI) in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Attorney Joseph and the BAI work to improve the justice system in Haiti and to defend the poorest members of Haitian society. He has received international recognition for his courageous leadership and tireless service on behalf of political prisoners, victims of political violence, and the poor.

He is also a director with the American-based Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH).

Berthony Dupont - Editor of Haiti Liberté, a weekly Haitian newspaper written in Creole, French and English and distributed throughout Haiti, the U.S., Canada and Europe offering news and analysis of Haitian affairs by some of the foremost writers and intellectuals in Haiti and its diaspora.

Co-sponsor: CESAR

Time:  7:30-9:30pm
Venue:  Ryerson University Student Campus Centre (Room SC115)
Location:  55 Gould Street, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.thac.ca/
For information contact:  Niraj torontohaitiaction@gmail.com
Categories:   Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

David Korten, internationally-renowned economist and author of "When Corporations Rule the World", will be speaking in Ottawa on the evening of October 29th at 7 p.m. at the Bronson Centre.

His presentation will touch on issues raised in his books "The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community", and "Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth".

After David’s presentation, a conversational response will be heard from Bruce Campbell of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Tony Clarke of the Polaris Institute and Kathy Vandergrift of Citizens for Public Justice.

On October 30th, Korten will attend a follow up workshop at the Bronson Centre between 9:30 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.

Tickets for Friday evening are $15 in advance and $20 at the door.

Tickets for Friday and Saturday are $25 in advance.

Students and low income please contact (613) 236-6557

To purchase tickets please contact the Polaris Institute: polaris@polarisinstitute.org

Venue:  Bronson Centre
Location:  211 Bronson Ave, Ottawa, ON
Website:  http://www.thegreatturning.ca
Categories:   Economic Development; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

The Great Turning: Towards a Just & Sustainable World

Presentation by David Korten, internationally renowned economist, followed by a conversation with Bruce Campbell, CCPA; Tony Clarke, Polaris Institute; Kathy Vandergrift, CPJ; moderated by Lauirie Fagan, CBC Radio Ottawa.

Saturday Workshop, 9:30-3:00
(please bring a bag lunch - refreshments provided).

Friday Evening: $15 advance, $20 at the door
Friday Evening & Saturday: $25 advance
Students/Low Income: Pay what you can

For tickets/information, contact:
Kairos: Spirituality-for-Social Justice Centre
211 Bronson Ave. #306, Ottawa, Ont.
(613) 236-6557

Time:  3pm
Venue:  Bronson Centre
Location:  211 Bronson Ave. #306, Ottawa, ON
Phone:  (613) 236-6557
Categories:   Environment

National UNICEF Day honours the traditional Halloween fundraising campaign for UNICEF.

For information contact:  Halloween@unicef.ca
Phone:  416-482-4444/1-800-567-4483
Categories:   Social Policy

The 4th annual James Graff Memorial Lecture presented by Phyllis Bennis, Senior Policy Analyst, Writer and Co-Founder of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. As a longtime analyst of the region, Bennis will address the current political situation in the Middle East and discuss complex issues including the ongoing US-led military occupation of Afghanistan, the new face of the US presence in Iraq, the current peace talks between the Israeli leadership and the Palestinian Authority, and the prospects of a future war on Iran. Bennis' comprehensive understanding of these longstanding conflicts and expertise on the pressing realities in the Middle East promise a refreshing and relevant perspective.

The Near Eastern Cultural and Educational Foundation (NECEF) is an academically oriented Canadian non-governmental organization. With an extensive international network of individual and group supporters, NECEF seeks to promote a greater understanding in Canadian society of the history, culture and contemporary situation in the Middle East, focusing on the Arab World.

Time:  2:30 - 5:00 pm
Venue:  Trinity-St.Paul's United Church
Location:  427 Bloor St. West, Toronto, ON
Website:  http://www.necef.org/?ref=HadiZayifla.Com
For information contact:  necef.canada@gmail.com
Categories:   International; Military

CanWEA's 26th Annual Conference and Exhibition will gather over 2,500 wind energy professionals from all over the world to discuss the opportunities and the latest developments in the Canadian wind energy industry. The impressive exhibition hall will feature over 250 exhibiting companies and will provide excellent networking opportunities for participants.

Join us at Canada's largest wind energy conference.

Venue:  Palais des congrès de Montréal
Location:  Montreal, QC
Website:  http://www.canwea.ca/events/conference2010/index_e.php
Categories:   Environment

The Daily Publications Society is holding their third annual Journalism Week on McGill campus. Open to the public, this week-long series of panels and workshops aims to teach tangible skills and promote discussion around hot topics in the changing field of journalism.

Time:  6:00pm
Venue:  McGill University
Location:  Montreal, QC
Website:  http://rabble.ca/whatsup/journalism-week-mcgill-campus
Categories:   Journalism, Writing, Literary, Language; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives; Media, Entertainment, News, Communications

Interested in solar energy options for your home? Attend the Oakville Public Meeting for the HERE! Halton Enablers of Renewable Energy Project on Tuesday, November 2 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at the Oakville Town Hall (Oakville Room). At this meeting, you will learn about solar energy technologies and its benefits; including reducing your environmental footprint, getting paid to sell your energy to the grid, or heating your hot water or pool. This is a free event and all are welcome.

Time:  7:00pm-9:00pm
Venue:  Oakville Town Hall (Oakville Room)
Location:  Navy And William Street, Oakville, ON
Website:  http://haltonenvironment.com/here
For information contact:  Amanda
Phone:  905-299-2327
Categories:   Environment; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

SPEAKER: Scott Pasternack, Supervisor, Policy Development, Toronto Environment Office, City of Toronto

The need to mitigate and adapt to climate change is perhaps most pressing for our cities. The larger populations, more extensive infrastructure, and higher degrees of economic activity of cities often results in a greater reliance on resources from the energy, transportation, and agriculture sectors, the leading sources of greenhouse gas emissions. Yet, cities have limited authority to comprehensively address this growing problem.

Against this backdrop, local and regional governments in North America and around the globe have accomplished a great deal in addressing climate change. I will spend part of my talk discussing the sustainability response plans for Toronto and New York City, two cities where I have contributed to the climate change programs. What should become clear from this discussion is that many of the issues that shape how cities respond -- for example, emission standards, fuel economy standards, food labelling standards -- are left predominantly if not exclusively to other orders of government. This dilutes the voice of cities and the voice of the voting, tax-paying residents whom cities represent.

What is the best way forward? I would like to the engage the audience in a dialogue about whether the current approach is working.

Time:  4:10 - 6:00 pm
Venue:  Woodsworth College- Room WW 121
Location:  119 St. George Street, Toronto, ON
Phone:  416-978-3475.
Categories:   Environment; Government & Public Sector; Social Policy

Join us at this free event to hear from award winning journalist and best-selling author Linda McQuaig, with tax law professor and author Neil Brooks: an eye-opening and provocative discussion about the damage extreme wealth causes to equality and a healthy, functioning society.

Time:  7:00pm-9:00pm
Venue:  Central Library
Location:  350 West Georgia St, Vancouver, BC
For information contact:  ccplax@policyalternatives.ca
Categories:   Journalism, Writing, Literary, Language; Investment, Finance, Insurance; Economic Development

The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) invites you to participate in the annual public meeting of the North American Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) Project, to be held in Washington, DC, USA, on 3-4 November 2010.

You may follow this event from anywhere in the world via webcast as well.

The meeting offers a forum for citizens and representatives of industry, academia, and governmental and nongovernmental organizations concerned with North American environmental pollution to share knowledge and ideas relating to PRTRs and access to public information.

This meeting will highlight developments in the CEC’s North American PRTR Project, including new web-based tools that facilitate access to PRTR data from each country and their analysis. In addition, officials from Canada, Mexico and the United States will also present updates on their respective PRTR programs.

In the course of putting its strategic plan for 2010-2015 into action, the CEC in this meeting will also analyze the relevance of PRTR data in supporting two regional environmental priorities: Healthy Communities and Ecosystems and Greening the North American Economy.

Venue:  Washington Marriott Wardman Park
Location:  2660 Woodley Road NW, Washington DC
Website:  http://www.cec.org
For information contact:  Marilou Nichols, mnichols (at) cec.org
Phone:  (+1 514) 350-4341
Categories:   Environment; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

Interested in solar energy options for your home? Attend the Milton Public Meeting for the HERE! Halton Enablers of Renewable Energy Project on Thursday, November 4 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at the Oakville Seniors Activity Centre (Cafeteria). At this meeting, you will learn about solar energy technologies and its benefits; including reducing your environmental footprint, getting paid to sell your energy to the grid, or heating your hot water or pool. This is a free event and all are welcome.

Time:  7:00-9:00pm
Venue:  Oakville Seniors Activity Centre (Cafeteria)
Location:  263 Kerr Street, Oakville, ON
Website:  http://haltonenvironment.com/here
For information contact:  Amanda
Phone:  905-299-2327
Categories:   Environment; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

In the four years since its release 'Water for Elephants' has sold millions of copies worldwide and is now available in 44 languages. Her highly anticipated new novel, Ape House, will be released this September and we are happy to announce a special event with her. This is a rare opportunity to this master storyteller share her fascination with the Bonobo ape.

$21 general / $19 students & seniors (plus service charges)

Tickets are now on sale at VancouverTix.com or by phone at 604.629.8849.

Time:  7:30pm
Venue:  Norman Rothstein Theatre
Location:  950 41st Ave. W., Vancouver, BC
Website:  http://www.writersfest.bc.ca/events/gruen
Categories:   Journalism, Writing, Literary, Language; Publishers & Publishing

At this conference we will explore the many ways through which our urban forests contribute to our social, psychological and physical health, for individuals and their communities. It has been common knowledge for years that trees provide an important service namely, the conversion of CO2 to oxygen. However, we are just beginning to realize other valuable offerings of our urban forests.

As we assess the value of trees to our communities it is imperative that we include all aspects of the “return” that healthy urban forests provide. Healthier children, skin cancer prevention, lower rates of violence are just some of the researched benefits of healthy urban forests. This conference explores and expands our understanding of how healthy urban forests benefit our communities.

Time:  Evening Thurs. Nov. 4, Full Day Fri. Nov. 5, 2010
Venue:  Sheraton Four Points Hotel
Location:  3530 Schmon Parkway, Thorold, ON
Website:  http://www.oufc.org
For information contact:  Jack Radecki
Phone:  416-936-6735
Categories:   Environment; Health/Health Care; Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

This years Vancouver Asian Film Festival will present an array of feature films, shorts and documentaries influenced, produced or directed by Asians. The VAFF provides a forum for independent North American Asian filmmakers to showcase their work to both Asian and non-Asian audiences. The aim of the Festival is to foster an understanding and appreciate of today's independent North American Asian filmmakers. Screenings will take place in Cinemark Tinseltow Theatres in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Venue:  Cinemark Tinseltow Theatres
Location:  88 West Pender, Vancouver, BC
Website:  http://www.vaff.org/
For information contact:  VAFF hotline
Phone:  604-737-9958
Categories:   Media, Entertainment, News, Communications; Arts & Culture; International

OEN Fall Conference and Annual General Meeting - November 5-6, 2010
St. Andrew’s United Church, North Bay

Nuclear Issues Discussion Session - Co-hosted by OEN and Northwatch- November 7, 2010
Discovery North Bay Museum, North Bay

On November 7, we are co-hosting a day-long discussion session on Nuclear Issues in Ontario. Beginning with a speakers panel, the morning will focus on province-wide matters. The afternoon session will focus on matters specifically related to northern Ontario.

Agenda can be found here:
http://oen.ca/index.php?page=oen-fall-conference-2010

Venue:  Ontario Environment Network
Location:  1412, Station Main, North Bay, ON
Website:  http://www.cen-rce.org
For information contact:  Ontario Environment Network
Phone:  705-840-2888
Categories:   Biotechnology; Science & Technology

Workman Arts presents the 18th Annual Rendezvous with Madness film festival, set to hit the big screen November 5th-13th with over 20 programs of feature and short films. RWM continues to revel in the mysteries of the mind, exploring the facts and mythologies surrounding mental illness and addiction. This year, using video conferencing, filmmakers and others are invited to participate in screenings and discussion panels in order to bring together disparate voices from around the world. The films' themes are diverse, ranging from the startling journey of Ron Hynes in The Man of a Thousand Songs to inner battles of motocross legend Larry Linkogle in Mind of the Demon: The Larry Linkogle Story.

Venue:  Workman Arts
Location:  651 Dufferin St., Toronto, ON
Website:  http://info@rendezvouswithmadness.com
For information contact:  Workman Arts
Phone:  416-583-4606
Categories:   Arts & Culture