Welcome to the Danforth Greens, home to the Provincial and Federal Green Parties in Toronto-Danforth.  Our nominated candidate for the 41st Canadian federal election is Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu.  Scroll down for the latest posts, use the menus on the sides to browse, or follow these links to learn more:

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Wednesday, 2010 September 15
5:30pm science presentation by James Hansen
7pm James Hansen, Naomi Klein, Clayton Thomas-Muller
McMillan Theatre, 80 Queen’s Park, Univ of Toronto

From the Science for Peace website:     Read more »

First time I’ve met with Shadow Cabinet in person. A collegial and productive meeting, preparing for the convention, preparing to absorb policy changes and preparing for a possible upcoming election.

Probably shoulda posted this before:

Green Party of Canada Biennial National Convention
Fri – Sun, 2010 August 20 – 22
Metro Toronto Convention Centre

Tuesday, 2010 August 31, 7 pm – 10 pm
Gabby’s in the “Library Room”
729 Danforth Ave, east of Pape

We meet on the last Tuesday of each month.  Please join us!

Is this beautiful?  Yes, it is beautiful.  Patricia made it.

Climate Change Conference 2010 is less than two weeks away.

In order to know how much food to order, we’re offering discounted rates if you register by this Monday, 2010 August 9.

You should visit ccc-2010.ca now to reserve your spot.

Climate Change Conference 2010
Unflinching science.  No-spin solutions.
Friday – Sunday, 2010 August 13 – 15
Hart House, University of Toronto

Climate Change Conference 2010: scientists and community leaders will reveal the latest on climate change challenges and explore extreme solutions

Toronto, July 26, 2010 — Climate Change Conference 2010 is three full days of climate challenges, questions and solutions, with no spin and no sugar-coating. Held at Hart House, at the University of Toronto, from Friday, August 13 to Sunday, August 15, the conference will provide an unflinching look at the world’s climate challenges as explained by climate scientists.

Featured speakers include Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org and author of Eaarth, Andrew Weaver, lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and author of Keeping Our Cool, and Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party of Canada.

“We’ve gathered some of the leading climate scientists in the world to discuss bold initiatives to help Canada and countries around the world to meet emissions targets and effect positive change,” says Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu, Green Party Climate Change Critic. “The conference will also focus on the latest directions in global negotiations on climate change and explore some ethically challenging solutions with potentially extreme side effects.”

The Friday afternoon forum, Across Borders and Generations, is youth-oriented and free to all. Saturday evening’s panel on Working Together is devoted to bridging divides between various groups working on the issue of climate change.

“And throughout Saturday and Sunday, we’ll have scientists and experts speaking on specific challenges, impacts, and solutions, covering everything from transportation and green buildings, to the status of the tar sands and ocean acidification,” says Adriana. “It’s a chance for anyone interested in learning more about the current state of climate change to hear the most up-to-date information from the scientists themselves.”

Climate Change Conference 2010 is presented jointly by University of Toronto Greens and the Toronto-Danforth Federal Green Party. The conference is non-partisan and open to all.

What Climate Change Conference 2010 speakers are saying

“We are at a critical crossroads as a human race. We have an opportunity to turn things around like never before and this conference will inspire action on the climate change challenges we’re facing right now.” — Andrew Weaver

“Time to screw around is over. Either we learn to survive together or we will all drown.Hope this conference will address that point.” — Afsan Chowdhury

“In order to move beyond oil, the fatal fuel that is driving the world towards economic and environmental collapse, Canada is going to have to break with decades of inaction and launch an electric mobility revolution. Necessity will provide a tremendous  opportunity to connect our natural advantages in generating electricity from renewable power, chiefly hydro, wind and tidal sources, so that we can move people and freight without oil aboard electrically powered trains, buses, and motor vehicles. I hope that participants at the conference will help Canadians seize the moment to advance electric mobility and thus enhance the odds of a peaceful and productive future.” — Anthony Perl

“The reality of climate and ocean change calls people of all political and faith communities to bring hearts and minds together to confront the most critical moral challenge of our lifetime.” — Mardi Tindal

“The conference’s focus on solutions will help us move climate change action past the pre-contemplation and contemplation phases, where many official organizations have stalled. My talk will introduce people to the Transition concept and what it has to offer, as well as Transition Toronto as a local theatre of climate change action with opportunities for all to contribute.” — Andrew Knox

“It’s been a dynamic and monumental year in terms of global mobilization around the energy-climate-crisis. This weekend is a chance to recharge and once again call all hands on deck.” — Gracen Johnson

Speaker profiles and a conference program can be found at ccc-2010.ca. To find out more about Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu, please visit danforthgreens.ca. For more on the U of T Greens, visit uoftgreens.wordpress.com.

For more information or to arrange a media interview with Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu or any of the speakers quoted above, please contact:

Bob Cook
bobcook665@hotmail.com
416-406-6711

Here’s the full public notice for the next public meeting the TTC is holding in regards to the planned Ashbridges Bay LRV storage and maintenance facility and the Leslie Street connecting track.

TTC Public Information Meeting on LRV Plans
Wednesday, 2010 July 28, 6:30 pm – 9 pm
Toronto EMS and Fire Academy, 895 Eastern Ave

From the notice: “The meeting will address impacts and mitigation measures for such issues as the removal of contaminated soil, noise and vibration levels and traffic associated with this project.”

An update on the new streetcar yard in the riding from Councillor Paula Fletcher:     Read more »

Last night, my daughter and I put on our salwar kameez and abandoned her father and his achy back to enjoy ourselves at the South Asia Festival on Gerrard Street between Greenwood and Coxwell.  As usual, it featured wonderful music and lively dancing in the background, delicious street food smells spreading all over the street and plenty of activities for families to enjoy.  My daughter spent a few minutes pawing through a bin full of bangles to select a dozen for fifty cents.  Mango shakes are wonderfully refreshing on a hot summer day.  The festival continues today if you still want to check it out.

South Asia Festival continues
Sunday, 2010 July 18, noon to 11pm
Gerrard Street, east of Greenwood to Coxwell
free

Tuesday, 2010 July 27, 7 pm – 10 pm
Gabby’s in the “Library Room”
729 Danforth Ave, east of Pape

We meet on the last Tuesday of each month.  Please join us!

I’ve been spending a lot of time recently organizing the climate change conference to be held at Hart House next month.  We have a great lineup of speakers to lay out the challenges we face, discuss the range of possible solutions and promote the cooperation we will need.

Climate Change Conference 2010
Unflinching science.  No-spin solutions.
Friday – Sunday, 2010 August 13 – 15
Hart House, University of Toronto

Agenda, speakers, and registration: http://ccc-2010.ca
RSVPing on Facebook will help spread the word: http://facebook.com/event.php?eid=140438325981746

The conference is a non-profit, non-partisan event open to all.

…please, whatever you do,     Read more »

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Canada Day today.  Between going out to meet people this morning and this evening, I hope to drop by on the action both on Gerrard Street and at Riverdale Park East and celebrate this great country we live in.

Come out and join the Green contingent marching in Pride this Sunday.  Celebrate the Green Party’s long support for gay rights.  We were the first party to support same-sex marriage and the first to have an openly gay leader.  We continue to advocate for gay rights and equal treatment.  Meet us by 12 noon at the latest on Bloor Street at Ted Rogers way.  We will have new campaign t-shirts available to wear or purchase.  Bring water, comfortable walking shoes, skimpy clothes, green body paint, water guns and noisemakers.  Be prepared to get wet.   Have fun!

Pride Parade 2010
Sunday, 2010 July 4, 11:45 am
Bloor Street at Ted Rogers Way

If you arrive late or cannot find us, call Rebecca at 905-999-5479

The main item on the G-20 agenda was whether to cut debts or invest in more financial stimulus, with Stephen Harper strongly advocating the need to cut debts.

We need to cut debts.  Large public debts leave governments at the mercy of interest rates.  Double the interest rates and suddenly the debt load becomes completely unmanageable and we’re worried about our credit rating, forcing us into all kinds of nasty measures like privatizing health care, education and even basic services like water.  So in the interest of securing high quality public services, we need to make sure we keep the debt down.   The problem is that Stephen Harper proposes to cut debts not by raising taxes or trimming perverse subsidies to favoured industries, but by attacking the very services I desperately want to protect.  I have no interest in cutting the debt to have more money to fork over to the oil industry while basic services get gutted.     Read more »

I was locked inside College Park for an hour this afternoon after rioters smashed the windows there.  There were about 200 frustrated and fearful people with me, including some cranky children and a tearful young teen who just wanted to get home.  What the perpetrators accomplished was to anger a lot of people and justify the massive police presence that until this point had just seemed like an embarrassing exaggeration.     Read more »

Monthly Danforth Greens Pub Night
Tuesday, 2010 June 29, 7 pm – 10 pm
Gabby’s in the “Library Room”
729 Danforth Ave, east of Pape

We meet on the last Tuesday of each month.  Please join us!

The riding association just order a bunch of T-shirts so that when we go out to community events we aren’t lost in the crowd.  We’ll have loaners available at events, but if you’d like one of your own at cost, contact us with your size.  Here’s the design:     Read more »

This evening I attended the launch of Canada’s climate calendar.  It’s an interactive tool you can see online which compares Canada’s per-capita emissions with those of other countries in the world.  It is horrifying.     Read more »

Last week, I attended a speech by former Governor General Ed Schreyer, who predicted that the moratorium on deep-sea drilling would be shortlived – embraced briefly while attention focused on the devastation of the gulf but enduring only to the time that fuel prices began increasing again.     Read more »

Adriana’s Spanish flyer text:     Read more »

Last year, Adriana visited every door in the riding.  Often she would encounter language barriers.  This year, she’s visiting every door again, but this time she’s carry small flyers to help bridge the language gaps.  Here are the languages we have so far:     Read more »