Saturday, 2012 April 21, 10am to 2pm
Withrow Park, 725 Logan Ave
Calling all spring cleaning enthusiasts! This is your chance to help make Withrow a clean and safe place for our kids and pets to play. Plus, have fun in the fresh air as you clear away cigarette buts, parts of broken toys and lots and lots of plastic.
Meet at the Withrow Park Washroom Pavilion. If you show up late, don’t worry – there’ll be a sign-in sheet and some garbage bags waiting for you. For more details, click here.
Battles for good planning are lost only once but must be won over and over and over again to continue prevailing. Once again, we are struggling against a small-minded view that would attempt to contain the full flow of the Don River in storm as it courses through a waterfront newly coated with densely packed buildings including a possible big box development.
What former GPC candidate Sharon Howarth led the fight for was the broad and compelling vision of a Don Mouth re-born into something like what nature intended for it – a broad wetland floodplain with a meandering river, filled with songbirds and tall grasses and boardwalks for people to enjoy. Her vision prevailed in the public mind and thousands of citizens demanded it. This led to an inspired visioning process that created an award-winning and internationally recognized design. Since that time, the elements of that design are constantly being chipped away in the name of economy and profit.
Write to your Councillor now (all comments must be in before April 15 so do it today before you forget) and demand that the City recommit to more green space and more renaturalization. Demand more wetlands to economically clean the air and water, and to help absorb and manage the floods that climate change is likely to inflict on the city. Read more »
Join Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu, Green Party of Canada candidate in the current by-election for Toronto-Danforth for a march in solidarity with people everywhere who seek equality for women, especially as elected representatives in government. In Canada, only 25% of our elected representatives in the House of Commons are women. Adriana is the only woman in a field of 11 candidates in the Toronto-Danforth by-election. Read more »
Friday, 2012 Feb 24 – Sunday, 2012 Feb 26 Campaign Headquarters, 393 Danforth Ave
Young Greens, we need your help, Meet other Young Greens, have a blast, and help us win this by-election.
The campaign will pay ALL of your expenses while you are with us; food, drink, local transportation, and accommodations (if you are coming in from out of town). Anyone who volunteers over 10 hours gets a free t-shirt, and we have other prizes and events planned for our volunteers. Read more »
Friday, 2012 March 2, 7pm – 9pm Estonian House, 958 Broadview Avenue
Come meet Green Party Leader and Canada’s first Green MP, Elizabeth May, joined by Deputy Leader Georges Laraque. Elizabeth and Georges will be in the riding to answer all your questions about Green Party policy and how Adriana will help double your voice in Parliament.
Bring your questions and meet:
Elizabeth May — Green Party Leader and Member of Parliament.
Georges Laraque — Green Party Deputy Leader, animal welfare advocate, and retired NHL player.
Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu — Green Party candidate for Toronto-Danforth and community activist.
Update: Videos and photos from the event: Read more »
Thursday, 2012 March 15, 7pm – 9pm Don Mills United Church, 126 O’Connor Ave (at Pape)
Join us at an all-candidates debate on March 15th. This is your chance to listen to the candidates debate key issues and answer your questions. Come meet Adriana and the other candidates.
Above, video of full event courtesy of David Langer.
Thursday, 2012 March 1st, 7pm-9pm Applegrove Community Complex
(Duke of Connaught School, near Queen and Greenwood)
Please join us at Duke of Connaught for the first of two scheduled all-candidates meetings for the 2012 Toronto-Danforth federal by-election. Meet Adriana and the other candidates, ask questions, and find out more about the campaign at this all-candidates meeting.
President Mohammed Nasheed has been ousted by a military coup and is under house arrest. I’m taking a bit of time out of my campaign to urge everyone to help him. Please sign this petition and then write to Prime Minister Harper, urging him to use his influence to secure the release of Mr Nasheed.
President Nasheed was the first democratically elected leader of the Maldives. Hear why we need his voice to be free:
On Wednesday 2012 January 18, thousands of sites will go dark to protest SOPA & PIPA, two US bills racing through Congress that threaten online security and freedom of expression.
Support the world’s largest environmental event in 2012! Join the more than 52,00 cities and towns in 135 countries around the world that turn off their lights for one night. To find out more, visit earthhour.org.
Friday, 2011 October 28
South Riverdale Community Health Centre
955 Queen St East (near Carlaw)
Make a growing difference in our community! Come out and join the South Riverdale Community Health Centre to help plant about 60 Serviceberry, Elderberry, and Hazelnut trees in various assisted living and lower income housing locations around the Health Centre.
People (preferably with shovels and or wagons) interested in volunteering can come to the centre in the morning to help pick-up and then plant the trees (they will be in eight inch containers and will be about 12 inches tall). Read more »
Saturday, 2011 Oct 22, 11 am – 4 pm
401 Richmond Street West
The Centre for City Ecology presents the 5th annual YIMBY (Yes in My Back Yard) Festival — YIMBY AT FIVE.
From the website:
This festival provides a social space for people and groups involved in grassroots, locally-driven community development to gather, exchange ideas and strategies to effect change, and imagine their future city. It’s a chance to celebrate achievements and identify new challenges and opportunities, in an atmosphere focused on listening, learning and engaging.
To find out more or to participate in this year’s YIMBY event, visit yimbytoronto.org.
Saturday, 2011 September 24, noon-6pm
Queen’s Park, Toronto
Part of 350.org’s global day of action, Toronto hosts this event to celebrate the progress that Ontario has made on clean energy and to urge the government to go even further. The event will feature engaging speakers, including Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu at 3pm.
There will also be solar-powered live music, information booths and a Kid’s Zone with lots of fun activities. For more information visit the Moving Planet: Green Energy Field Day web site.
Update: Pictures and video from the event:
Adriana and Tim Whalley…
Also Penelope for Ontario, former Mayor David Miller, Sean-Patrick Stensil, Jose Etcheverry… Read more »
We’re now less than a month away from provincial election day. We’ve got a big team of volunteers helping Tim Whalley, our Green Party of Ontario candidate. But we always need more. Please let us know if you can help out in any way. There’s lots of fun, easy ways to help, either with a group of people together or on your own time at home. Here’s your first volunteer task: request a sign.
I previously wrote about Patricia Warwick, one of the “Fabulous 45″ – so named because although they came to Washington expecting to face a $100 “post and forfeit” for defying the rules of the park in front of the White House, they discovered that those arrested the previous day were to be held for 3 days. The 45 risked arrest anyway.
The actions against the Keystone XL pipeline (which would enable a vast expansion in the capacity for oil production from the tar sands) at the White House continued for another 12 days after Patricia’s arrest, with over 1200 arrests in total, including east Toronto residents Sharon Howarth, the Green Party of Canada candidate in Toronto-Danforth in the 2008 federal election and David Wilson, an oil industry retiree. Tar Sands Action, which organized this demonstration, vows to continue working to oppose the pipeline
The action against the Keystone XL Pipeline is now moving to Canada, where activists are planning a sit-in on September 26. You can find out more and join here.
Wednesday, 2011 September 21 to Friday, September 30 10 am to 8 pm at your returning office
As soon as the election is called, you’ll be able to take advantage of the advance polls to cast your vote. The places and dates for the advance polls will be listed on your Notice of Registration Card that you’ll receive in the mail, or you can use Elections Ontario’s online application.
If you are qualified to vote and your name is on the Voters List, Elections Ontario will mail you a Notice of Registration Card that lists your voting location on election day, plus the dates, times and locations for advanced voting. Read more »
Saturday, 2011 Oct 22, 11 am – 4 pm
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