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10.22.2011

160 Girls Fundraiser

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Tuesday, October 25, 2011 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
hosted by Fasken Martineau
Suite 2400, 333 Bay Street
The Bay Adelaide Centre, Toronto 



RSVP: rsvp@theequalityeffect.org
info: 416-720-7359 or visit theEqualityEffect.org


Support 160 girls who have been raped in their fight for justice – and insist that
the law protect all girls and women.


Featuring:

Sally Armstrong internationally acclaimed journalist and human rights activist

Dr. Elizabeth Archampong, Vice-Dean of Law at Kwame Nkrumah University, Ghana
Launch of a mini-documentary on the 160 Girls by award-winning filmmaker Andrea Dorfman.


Silent auction

10.21.2011

Free Adi Braun Concert at the Canadian Opera Company








Wed. November 2, 2011
5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
145 Queen. St. W., Toronto
Adi Braun Quartet
Adi Braun, vocals
Jordan Klapman, piano
George Koller, bass
Daniel Barnes, drums

Noir
Adi Braun invites you to an hour of delicious and dangerous music from the era of the film noir. Let Marlene Dietrich wrap you in the arms of “The Blue Angel” (1931), Doris Day sing of Ruth Etting’s woes in “Love Me or Leave Me” (1955), be seduced by the haunting beauty of David Raksin’s melody “Laura” (1944), and taste the bittersweet reality of life in “Blues in the Night” (1941). Noir is filled with songs and repartee from this truly unique period in film-making where, as Fay Helm said in “Phantom Lady,” there are “no names, no addresses – just companions for the evening.”

Earthsharing Conference

Earthsharing Conference 
Dominican University College, Ottawa

96 Empress Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1R 7G3
November 4-5, 2011 


Earthsharing Canada
Incorporated by federal Letters Patent, July 8, 2011

To promote and foster the recapture of economic rent for the furtherance of sustain-
able economic justice among all Canadians;
To encourage the removal of obstacles to efficiency in the Canadian economy by
shifting taxation off labour and capital; and
To foster public interest in and awareness of economic issues and a sound philoso-
phy of economics.

Conference Schedule

November 4, 2011 – Friday
Albert le Grand Hall

2:00-3:00 pm.   Frank de Jong, Past Green Party of Ontario Leader, “Earthsharing and 
                         Public Policy: Problems and Perspectives”
3:00-3:15          Break
3:15-4:00          Jeff Dean, NDP BC. “Earthsharing and the Tasks of Democracy
                          in the 21st  Century” 
4:00-4:15          Break
4:15-4:45          Book launches
 Francis K. Peddle and  Amy Gordon, eds, The Poverty Paradox
 Maxime Allard, O.P., et al., Échos d’une mutation sociale. Anthologie des
textes du Père Georges-Henri Lévesque, O.P. Précurseur de la révolution
tranquille
5:00     Film: “The Killing Fields”  (in Albert le Grand)   
    Hors-d’oeuvre/refreshments in hall adjoining Albert le Grand
6:00     Dinner on your own
November 5, 2011 – Saturday
Albert le Grand Hall

8:30-9:00 am.  Coffee & pastries
9:00-9:50         Francis K. Peddle, Dominican University College, Ottawa
                        “From Financial Crisis through Fiscal Repression to Economic 
                         Redemption”
10:00-10:50     Brendan Hennigan,  Director, Ontario School of Economic Science
                        “Media Aspects of Economics and Philosophy”
11:00-11:50      Susan Murphy,  Algonquin College
                         “Social Media and Economics Presentations”
12:00-2:00 pm.    Chinatown Ottawa lunch

2:00-3:00           Cay Hehner, Director, Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, NYC
                          Introduction to a roundtable discussion:
                          “Occupy Wall Street, Reform Agendas, and Fraternité”.

3:15-4:30           Business meeting, Earthsharing Canada  

Clover Leaf Kills More Than Just Tuna


10.14.2011

A message from anonymous to the 99%


Sign the petition: Hands off our CBC

Only you can stop devastating Conservative cuts to our cherished public broadcaster

The Conservative government has begun a campaign against the CBC. 

Consider this pattern of behavior. 

It starts with a broken promise:

Heritage Minister James Moore recently announced upcoming cuts of up to $110 Million to the CBC.

This is completely contrary to the promises he made prior to the election. “We made a simple, specific promise to Canadians in the last election to maintain or increase funding to the CBC,” Mr. Moore said in February. It didn’t take him long to break his promise to Canadians. Last month he announced a 5% cut to CBC’s budget, this month he is announcing it’s 10%. Who knows how much further Harper’s Conservatives will go.

 

10.11.2011

Foodstock: Support Your Local Farmer

 
Sunday, October 16, 2011 - 11:00 - 18:00
 
JOIN 20,000 PEOPLE & 70 CANADIAN CHEFS to taste the bounty of land threatened by the mega-Quarry in Melancthon Township, Ontario.

Honeywood, Ontario Highway 124 and on 4 farms that refused to sell out!

Admission: Pay what you can to support the cost of fighting the Quarry!