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The Bad Dog Theatre is a popular local improv theatre.  Since everything is improvised, the composition of the audience has an enormous effect on where the show goes.  So, it’s often funniest when you go as a group.  When your friends get involved or the ideas you have in common get picked up, you all laugh together.  A number of us experienced this during the election when the Bad Dog hosted a “Mock the Vote” show and half the audience were Green Party supporters.

So I’ve been wanting to have a Green Party outing to the Bad Dog for several months, and finally I’ve just decided to pick a date.  The Bad Dog Sessions builds on a single audience suggestion so you won’t be hauled up on stage to participate.  That makes it somewhat less hilarious for a group, but means you won’t be put on the spot.  Bad Dog Sessions also has some of the best improv in the city and is a pay-what-you-can event.  So let’s get a crowd to go out and laugh together.

Bad Dog Sessions
Saturday, 2006 November 11, 10-11 pm
Bad Dog Theatre
138 Danforth Ave (just east of Broadview)
PWYC

Charlie has just very cleverly added the green paperclip symbol into the editing options on this site.  From now on, if you see this symbol next to an event or action, it means that all Green Party supporters from Toronto-Danforth will receive the Green Order of Danforth for their participation.

The Green Order of Danforth is, uh, well, a paperclip.  Frequently clipped to a collar or a breast pocket.  But it is a highly symbolic paperclip.  It reflects commitment above and beyond the mediocre, and contributions above the barely adequate.  It is given so rarely that it should take several weeks for you to collect enough to make a decent necklace.  It is an interesting conversation piece.

Follow the link to a history of the origins of the Green Order of Danforth.

On Wednesday, October 11, there was a second public consultation on what is being called a pipeline “reinforcement” for the line feeding the Portlands power plant (in reality a massive expansion, with a substantially larger pipe and increased pressure).  This meeting generated a far smaller crowd than the first and the following day, we learned why.  Most local residents received their notices regarding the event the day after it happened, including a number of Green supporters who contacted me.

Because of the number of public complaints, Stantec, the consulting company which is organizing these consultations, arranged for a third public consultation, and has just announced the date.     Read more »

I’m about to start mailing announcements for the Annual General Meeting of our Toronto-Danforth Electoral District Association, but for anybody who’s reading this, please mark your calendar now.

Green Party of Canada Toronto-Danforth Electoral District Association Annual General Meeting.
Tuesday, 2006 November 21 at 7pm.
Frankland Community Centre, 816 Logan Ave
(just south of Danforth) Free.

As of November 21, I’m officially out of a job.  The entire executive will quit en masse and every job is up for grabs.  I highly recommend an executive position in the EDA.  It’s very rewarding, though the pay sucks.  We’ll need to fill the following positions:

• Chief Executive Officer
• Financial Agent
• Fundraising Chair
• Membership Chair
• Organizing Chair
• Communications Chair

After our election, we’ll proceed to some local eatery, where you’ll be able to prod the executive with your suggestions for what they should do in the coming year.

Looking up when the next Green Drinks meeting was yesterday, I discovered that I had missed it by a day.  On Wednesday I was out campaigning along Pape.  The next one is on November 15.  Since that’s 2 days after the municipal election, I should be available.

Green Drinks.
Wednesday, 2006 November 15 at 5:45pm to late.
Bedford Academy, 36 Prince Arthur
(near Bloor St W & Avenue Rd, steps away from St George subway). Free.

A green paperclip event.