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Tax Shifting for a Greener Future
A St. Lawrence Centre Forum
Wednesday, 2008 April 9, 7:30 pm
St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts
27 Front Street East
free

The St. Lawrence Centre Forum this week will focus on the dominant plank of the Green Party approach — the tax shift that makes polluters pay for the costs of their activities, especially on carbon.  A couple of years ago, this idea was considered bizarre.  Now it’s being considered more and more mainstream, with Quebec and British Columbia already implementing provincial versions.     Read more »

Tonight!  (Shoulda blogged this sooner, but I forgot).  An opportunity to see representatives of the NDP, Liberals, Green Party of Canada and a Progressive Conservative senator talk about Peace and Justice together.

Public Forum: The Human Right to Peace: Full Time Work
Friday, 2008 April 4, 7:30-9:30 pm
Church of the Holy Trinity
10 Trinity Square
(behind the Toronto Eaton Centre at Bay south of Dundas)
$10? (I can’t remember the cost)     Read more »

You have a number of options on Earth Hour tomorrow night.  The Green Choice goes to the no-power local event at Withrow Park:     Read more »

Tim Flannery will be in Toronto and speaking at the Bloor Cinema next Thursday.     Read more »

Lifted directly from the Green Party of Ontario website, an issue that’s really important to me:

On 15 February 2008, former chief Robert Lovelace began serving 6 months in jail for refusing to comply with a court injunction, while following Algonquin law to protect the land.

Robert Lovelace is a Political Prisoner

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