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Monthly Danforth Greens Pub Night
Tuesday, 2010 November 30, 7 pm – 10 pm
Gabby’s in the “Library Room”
729 Danforth Ave, east of Pape

Please join us on the last Tuesday of each month.  It’ll be fun. No, really.

I invite everyone to enjoy a solar-heated potluck Thanksgiving dinner with my family at our home.  My friend Rita is lending us her solar oven, which we’ll set up in the yard.  Bring something to share.  Make it local if you can to cut down on emissions because this event is one of the Global Work Day events to fight climate change.  We’ll share whatever is left over with a soup kitchen to honour the first annual World Homeless Day.

Thanksgiving solar potluck dinner
Sunday, 2010 October 10, 5pm – 9pm
18 Victor Ave (2 blocks north of Gerrard; just east of Broadview)
all welcome

I’ll be at the Ride for Renewables on October 3.  We meet at the Exhibition Place wind turbine with our bikes.  You can come early if you need a tune-up.  We’ll be visiting six green energy projects as inspiration for the 10/10/10 events the following week.

Ride for Renewables
Sunday, 2010 October 3, 11am – 3pm
Exhibition Place wind turbine (with bicycle)
All cyclists welcome – free

Monthly Danforth Greens Pub Night
Tuesday, 2010 September 28, 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!

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 »

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!

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.”

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.

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

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!

Jim Harris will be speaking on “How cutting carbon can cut cost, raise revenue and mitigate risk of peak oil and rising gas prices” at the Post Carbon Toronto Annual General Meeting tonight.

Post Carbon Toronto AGM
Committee room 2 (on 2nd floor)
Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen St W
Suggested donation: $2

RSVP at MeetUp.com.  The description from that site:     Read more »

Monthly Danforth Greens Pub Night
Tuesday, 2010 April 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!

If you start at Chris Tindal’s campaign launch, you can make the night a pub crawl:

Chris Tindal’s Campaign Launch
Tuesday, 2010 April 27, 6 pm
The Pilot Tavern, 22 Cumberland St
(near Yonge and Bloor)

Friday, 2010 April 9, 6 pm – 8 pm
Pape Library, Pape Ave south of Danforth

Come ask any questions you might have about the Green Party of Canada’s policy or plans or practices.  Candidate and Shadow Cabinet Climate Critic Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu will be there to discuss and clear things up.  FREE!  I’m Green because I care about YOU. — Kristin

Public Consultations into the New Streetcar Yards at Leslie/Lakeshore
Thursday, 2010 April 8, 6:30-9pm
Fire Academy, 895 Eastern Ave

On Tuesday, March 9, I was invited to help out and listen in to a meeting where Leslieville residents got together to begin forming an association.  The issue that galvanized the community into action was the proposed new streetcar yards at Leslie and Lakeshore on the Ashbridges Bay Treatment Plant site.  It was a packed hall and strong opinions were voiced from many angles.

The plan is to have almost 100 streetcars leave the new site every morning between 5 and 7 am and slowly spread throughout the city, way up to St. Clair, downtown to King Street, and all along Queen, College/Carlton/Gerrard, Dundas, Spadina and so on.  The Connaught and Roncesvalles yards will also be maintained, though the Connaught yards will have to be changed to accommodate the new design.  The streetcars will be four times the length of the current non-articulated models, or double the length of the articulated designs on the street today.     Read more »

University of Toronto Greens, along with Ryerson Greens will be getting together with Toronto Greens for St Patrick’s Day at Molly Bloom’s Irish Pub.

St Patrick’s Day Pub Night
Wed, 2010 March 17, 7 pm
Molly Bloom’s, 191 College St

Richard Heinberg will be speaking on Monday, hosted by Post Carbon Toronto.

Richard Heinberg: Life after Growth
Monday, 2010 March 22, 6 pm
Trinity St Paul’s United Church
427 Bloor St West, west of Spadina
RSVP at Meetup.com     Read more »

Danforth Greens Pub Night
Tue, 2010 Mar 30, 7–10pm
Gabby’s “Library Room”
729 Danforth, east of Pape

Join us for an echo of St Patrick’s day.  Our next monthly Danforth Greens pub night falls on March 30.  We welcome newcomers.

Monthly Danforth Greens Pub Night
Tuesday, 2010 February 23, 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!

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     Read more »

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 »