Welcome

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:

All questions and suggestions are welcome.

Get well soon, Jack

Just got the news.  Best wishes for a speedy recovery!

Flowers on a lamp post

For a tiny bit of exercise this morning, I chose to walk to Broadview Station instead of taking the streetcar.  I knew it wasn’t a good sign when I saw the bouquets taped to the pole outside the Pizza Pizza at Broadview and Danforth.  I’d like to bicycle, but I’m too much of a chicken.  This was a man on crutches, with a walk signal.

Ashamed to be Canadian

I’ve wanted to write for a while about Afghan prisoner issues, but for a while every day brought new revelations.  And now for days I’ve wanted to write about the prorogation of Parliament, but I’m honestly stumped about what to say.  And obviously I’m heartily ashamed of Canada’s performance at Copenhagen, which earned us the “Fossil of the Year”  award once again.

Maude Barlow ties all this together, and more, here.

Avatar

I watched Avatar with my family on New Year’s Day and highly recommend it.  One of my friends described it as a futuristic Pocahontas story that ends well for the natives.  He also found it amusing that the substance for which mankind was willing to lay waste to the beautiful moon of Pandora was called unobtainium.  Spoilers ahead.     Read more »

Happy New Year 2010

May everyone have a happy, healthy and hopeful year.

Thu Jan 28: Federal and provincial AGMs

You are invited to attend the Toronto-Danforth Federal Green Party Association and the Green Party of Ontario’s Toronto Danforth Constituency Associations’s 2009 Annual General Meetings.

Thursday, 2010 January 28, 7 pm (1 hour)
Pape Public Library, 701 Pape Ave (south of Danforth)

All members, supporters and the public are welcome.     Read more »

Mea culpa

Well I got a letter published in the National Post, and to my horror, in my haste I made a mistake.     Read more »

Hundreds protest global warming

Snowmen protesting climate change

Canada’s unscientific Copenhagen team

One thing is clear from the Canadians selected to inform our negotiating team in Copenhagen — environment minister Jim Prentice has no interest in science, nor the environment.     Read more »

Why dismiss Worthington

Here’s what I wrote to the Toronto Sun in response to a recent Peter Worthington column:

I have just read Peter Worthington’s recent piece entitled “Why Dismiss Dissent?” and was completely horrified by the misrepresentations and the complete lack of any journalistic standards.

For example, Worthington states that the Kyoto accord “cannot be effective if the world’s two greatest polluters — China and India — refuse to join”.  He seems unaware of the fact that China and India are Kyoto signatories, whereas the United States are not.     Read more »

Three percent in Copenhagen

Canada is poised to torpedo international climate negotiations now underway in Copenhagen.  Canadians concerned about a future for the next generations can have a dramatic impact by pressing their government today.     Read more »

Holiday spirit and climate action

I had a busy day today.     Read more »

Skeptics continue to fool Corcoran

Here’s a letter I sent to the National Post regarding their article on the Munk Debate in response to Terence Corcoran’s highly deceptive post.  It wasn’t published.

I can agree with only one statement of Mr. Corcoran’s analysis of the Munk Debate on climate change last week.  The audience had no way of knowing fact from fiction.

Fact checking would have revealed that the Monbiot/May side had the facts on their side.     Read more »

Mike Schreiner on The Agenda

Mike Schreiner, new Leader of the Green Party of Ontario, was interviewed by Steve Paikin on The Agenda.

(Original broadcast: Tuesday, 2009 December 8, 8 pm.)

Canada in Copenhagen

Green Party of Canada leader Elizabeth May and deputy leader Jacques Rivard are joining hundreds of Canadians in Copenhagen to press for the international treaty most Canadians voted for and to oppose the dangerous proposals Canada’s official delegation brings to the table.

Over the next 10 days in Copenhagen, the successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol is to be negotiated.  This treaty will bind participating nations to emissions reductions, forest protection and economic and technology transfers over the next decade.  It has tremendous economic implications for the next few decades and overwhelming human rights implications for the next generations.     Read more »

Sat Dec 12: Candlelight vigil

Green paperclip.

Here’s an event my friend Rita Bijons has initiated:

Candlelight Vigil for Climate Action
Saturday, 2009 December 12, 7 pm – 9 pm
Queen’s Park
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Adriana in the news

Find out what gets Mugnatto-Hamu excited.

Thu Dec 3: Earth 2100 film screening

JustEarth and the East Toronto Climate Action Group are co-sponsoring a documentary film screening:

Earth 2100 — the Final Century of Civilization?
Thursday, 2009 December 3, 7 pm
South Riverdale Community Health Centre
955 Queen St East
(between Pape and Carlaw)

About the film and forum from the sponsors:     Read more »

Sat Dec 12: Riverdale Share Concert

Green paperclip.

Riverdale Share Concert (two showtimes)
Saturday, 2009 December 12, 2 pm & 4:30 pm
St Barnabas Church, 361 Danforth Ave

Tickets are $15 and available at The Big Carrot, Treasure Island Toys, It’s My Party — and also through PayPal for an extra dollar fee.

From the Riverdale Share Community Association site:     Read more »

Wed Dec 2: Buy something day

Green Party Holiday and Shopping Party Fundraiser
Wednesday, 2009 December 2, 7 pm – 9:30 pm
Ten Thousand Villages, 362 Danforth Ave

(just east of Carrot Common, just west of Chester Station)

As a complement to Buy Nothing Day, we have Buy Something for a Good Cause Day:     Read more »

Kids are our future

I spent the day being inspired.     Read more »

Sat Dec 5: Dance for the climate

Saturday, 2009 December 5
12:30 pm (learn the dance), 1:00 pm (dance!)
Kensington Market, corner of Kensington and Baldwin

A message from my friend Pam Johnson:     Read more »

Monbiot and biochar

Yesterday, I had the privilege of hearing George Monbiot speak live for the second time in my life.  It is a very rare privilege because two years ago, shortly after the last time I saw him, when he was on a tour promoting his then newly-published book Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning, he promised himself never to fly again.

He joked that he broke his promise for this trip because it was easier than putting off the pestering Canadians any longer.  But he was also clearly here because he was concerned about Canada’s position on climate change and the direction our government was taking both the country and the world.

I was very glad I went.  First of all, I was glad simply because it’s inspiring to listen to someone who is so informed, so eloquent and so principled and inspiring.  But I was also glad because there’s just so much more that can be said in person than could ever fit into a printed article.  It’s relatively easy to make guarded and thoughtful statements when you can erase what you don’t like.  To my delight, Monbiot in person presents as even more compassionate and sensible than he does on paper.

To me the most interesting point of the event occurred during the questions that followed, when one person asked about Mr. Monbiot’s opposition to biochar.     Read more »

Check your sources

Naysayers got your head spinning?  Get your climate info from trustworthy sources.  I recommend the following: