Archive for Participatory democracy

Today’s kids are fixing the mess their elders and leaders have left them.  Let’s help them keep a liveable world for themselves and for their children.  Sign the CYCC petition on climate change.

Stop Climate Change has organized a special meeting with guest speakers on climate change.  They will talk about how to organize locally and globally to achieve meaningful action.

Climate Change: Canada Fails the Grade
Friday, 2007 January 26, 7 pm
Bahen Centre Building, room 1160
40 St George St (just north of College)

It’s time to choose a candidate for the next election.  By the looks of it, we may be just in time.  Please put this date on your calendars, we need your input on who your candidate will be.

Candidate nomination meeting
Tuesday, 2007 February 6, 6:30 pm
Pape/Danforth Library
701 Pape Ave
east side, just south of Danforth
416-393-7727

If you’d like to consider being our candidate please read the details and contact me at adriana@danforthgreens.ca

I should have blogged this post weeks ago, after the November 16 PLAC meeting where we discussed the Cherry Beach soccer fields.  I must say that this was not an easy issue for me to take a stand on.

It was first discussed at a PLAC meeting this summer, where the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation presented the plan, and it seemed, if not particularly inspiring, at least mostly harmless.  We were told that this was an area of scrub with an open toxic ditch in dire need of remediation and capping.  We were told it wasn’t being used at all.  Making it into temporary astroturf soccer fields would be a small step to satisfying the demand for sports fields in the city, and could be rethought later into a broader park vision.

I went to the November 16 PLAC meeting and felt I had been lied to.  Look at the Save Cherry Beach site to see a picture of the wasteland that was described.  There are hundreds of trees on the site, some more than 40 feet tall.  There is an open meadow that is currently enjoyed by butterfly enthusiasts.  Worst of all, it is apparent that the remediation plan was developed after the site had been identified as a potential sports field.  In other words, there was no concern about the toxicity until they thought about bulldozing it anyway.  Seems awfully convenient then, to discover it is in need of capping.  The truth is that by this reasoning the entire Portlands and much of Toronto might need to be covered over.     Read more »

On November 21, our Federal Green Party Association in Toronto-Danforth held its Annual General Meeting.  It was a great atmosphere, with 25 enthusiastic people in a small room at Frankland Community Centre, 12 of whom jumped on board to form the new executive for 2007.  These include most of the old faces as well as some enthusiastic and capable new ones.  I’m looking forward to working with each and every one of them, and I’m hoping that with this larger board, we’ll be able to expand the work we do for our members and supporters in Toronto-Danforth.  Here is your new executive:

1. Susan Anderson
2. Ron Chambers
3. Ed Chin
4. Joseph Cunko
5. Mary Ann Grainger (new Financial Agent)
6. Barbora Grochalova
7. Elena Jusenlijska
8. Anthony Lucic
9. Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu (CEO — you’re stuck with me for another year)
10. Dan Morgan
11. Doug Wright