Safe Engaged Environments Disability (SEED) * SEED invites you to the following workshops in March 2011: LEARNING ADVOCACY SKILLS Topic: Finding Your Voice on Safety Issues in Your Community Date: Thursday, March 10, 2011 Time: 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Place: Birchmount Bluffs Neighbourhood Centre, 93 Birchmount Rd. (at Kingston Rd.) or Topic: Finding Your [...]

Bathurst Finch Community Food Animator – Part Time Position FoodShare Toronto, in partnership with Unison Action for Neighbourhood Change, and the Bathurst Finch Food Action Team is looking for a part time, passionate, community organizer with food project and/or neighbourhood-based organizing experience.  This individual will work within the Bathurst Finch community supporting the start up [...]

Dear Peacock, Since Visionary Business University 2010, I have been receiving some interesting invitations to be part of other events… While I would love to say “yes” to all of them, there just aren’t enough hours in the day (remember what we learned in VBU about staying “in your Genius?”). But there is one event [...]

The Wisdom of the Grandmothers Course Call to Action: 13 Indigenous Grandmothers from all over the world begins Feb. 10th, 2011 The Wisdom of the Grandmothers Course : A 6-week Course on the Teachings of Our Ancestors to Light Our Way Forward begins Feb. 10th, 2011~ http://theshiftnetwork.com/tsn/course/Wisdom Dear Member, We are delighted to share some [...]

Action for Affordable Housing: Moving Housing Rights Forward in our city, our province, our country 10 am – 12pm Friday, February 25 Community Forum: O.I.S.E. rm 5280 – 252 Bloor St. West (at St. George subway) Free, TTC tokens available What are the challenges that we face as we try to end homelessness and address [...]

FORWARD For Women’s Autonomy Rights & Dignity Women Supporting Women Through Homelessness and Poverty We invite ALL women dealing with homelessness and poverty, including women and transwomen who are young, mothers, and elders – Aboriginal, of colour, and white – born here, immigrants, and undocumented – lesbian, bisexual, and two-spirited – disabled, using … come [...]

SENIOR DIVERSITY COORDINATOR Big Brothers Big Sisters of Peel is a youth serving mentoring organization that is committed to reaching out to all youth in our community – offering the benefits of mentoring and opportunities to develop leadership skills. Our Agency provides service to over 1350 children and youth through our mentoring programs and has [...]

Toronto area A FREE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY For People with Low Incomes to Participate in a University Level Class in the Humanities When? and Where? Who is eligible? What topics? Who are the teachers? Two hours one (or two) night(s) a week TUESDAYS February 8 to March 29 at  The Centre for Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies [...]

Annotated Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci- This is  complicated and (for the most part) inaccessible to our understanding- in other words- it ain’t in plain language we can all understand. Place your questions and concerns in the comment section and we will get them answered [...]

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (also known as The Charter of Rights and Freedoms or simply the Charter, French: La Charte canadienne des droits et libertés) is a bill of rights entrenched in the Constitution of Canada. It forms the first part of the Constitution Act, 1982. The Charter guarantees certain political rights [...]