Category: Videos

Rouge National Urban Park Management Plan: Meetings-Sept.16 & 18; Online Survey Until Oct.31 2014

This video presents QP Corneliu Chisu Rouge National Urban Park. “We have tabled a bill in the House recently that would create the Rouge national urban park in the Greater Toronto Area. The park is near 20% of Canada’s population, enabling Canadians to connect with nature, culture and agriculture without having to travel far from…

September 14, 2014
Please Protect Our Drinking Water: Petition Premier Wynne to Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump

Ontario Power Generation (OPG), a multi-billion dollar power generation company, is planning to build a nuclear waste dump (a Deep Geological Repository or DGR) 1 km from the shores of Lake Huron in Ontario, Canada. This video presents Agenda Plus: Opposing OPG’s Nuclear Waste Plan. Beverly Fernandez of the Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump…

September 2, 2014
Avaaz Petition to Protect the Great Barrier Reef: An Update

This video presents Australia’s coal expansion and its risk to the Great Barrier Reef. This is an update to the previous blog, Please Protect the Great Barrier Reef by Saying No to Hugely Damaging Dredging and Dumping. Australia wants to create the world’s biggest coal port. Today, Australian Financial Review reported that Australia will reverse…

September 2, 2014
2014 Toronto Book Awards Invites You to The Word On The Street Sept.21 & Awards Ceremony Oct.16

The Toronto Book Awards were established by Toronto City Council in 1974 to “honour authors of books of literary or artistic merit that are evocative of Toronto.” Here is the shortlist for 2014 Toronto Book Awards. Anthony De Sa for his novel, Kicking The Sky, published by Doubleday Canada. Charlotte Gray for her non-fiction book,…

August 29, 2014
Toronto Transit Commission: New, Low-floor Streetcar and Service Changes Starting Aug.31, 2014

This video presents Meet Your New Ride, Toronto! TTC unveils its new streetcar. “On August 31, 2014, the next generation streetcar debuts on Toronto’s streets. The accessible, larger, air conditioned, modern, quiet and sleek streetcar takes to the 510 Spadina line, then all 11 streetcar routes over the next five years” in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.…

August 29, 2014
‘Make Poverty History’ Invites You to the Peoples’ Social Forum in Ottawa Aug.21-24, 2014

This video presents “Peoples’ Social Forum – August 21-24, 2014 trailer.” “This August, a convergence unlike any other will descend upon the Capital of the territory known as Canada. Activists, students, unions, Indigenous peoples, youth, environmentalists, and thousands of ordinary individuals from every region will unite to oppose the current political and economic direction, and…

August 18, 2014
You’re Invited: Open Streets TO, Wheels on the Danforth, International Street Festival Aug16-17, 2014

Here are some great, FREE events happening this weekend in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This video presents “Wheels on the Danforth 2014 Commercial.” This is an annual street festival, taking place on August 16th. Wheels on the Danforth Street Festival FREE Admission August 16, 2014 11:00 am – 11:00 pm Crossroads of Danforth Avenue and Danforth…

August 14, 2014