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May 9, 2025 - Life and Death Consequences of Access to Housing

When: May 9th, 12-2pm
Where: Daphne Cockwell Complex (DCC) Room 707/709, 288 Church St

Join us for a screening of Liz Carr's documentary, Better Off Dead?, which takes a disability activist analysis to explore different perspectives of medical assistance in dying. After the screening will be a Death Cafe that will discuss disabled people's life and death chances within a culture in which medical assistance in dying, coupled with a lack of adequate social services and supports, may make it easier to access death than to access life.

Part of the housed...[un]housed...[re]housed symposium | Register here

May 8, 2025 - Revisiting Toronto's growth machine

When: May 8th, 1:30pm
Where: York University, Kaneff Tower

Sebastien Lambelet will present preliminary results of the field research he is conducting in Toronto for about a year. Since his arrival in this large and fascinating city, Sebastien is puzzled by the way city politics constantly gets influenced by higher level of governments and market changes, thereby making city authorities unable to properly plan and steer urban development. In this context, Sebastien will argue that Toronto is currently governed by a "regime of throwntogetherness."

Moderator: Roger H Keil. Discussants: Stefan Andreas Kipfer and Ute A Lehrer.

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May 7, 2025 - Panamanians response to Canadian Mines

When: May 7th, 2pm

A year and a half after First Quantum Mineral's Cobre Panama's closure order and the historic nationwide protests against the mine, Panamanians are facing a renewed threat: the Panamanian government and First Quantum Minerals have signalled they will soon start negotiations to potentially reopen the mine. How are Panamanian communities and organizations responding? And how can you support their work?

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May 7, 2025 - "Basta! No More Fear!"

When: May 7, 8, 9, 10 at 7:30pm and 11th at 2pm
Where: Steel Workers' Hall, 25 Cecil St

The Toronto Workers' Theatre Group presents an original play about the tragic deaths of five Italian immigrant labourers in a fire in a watermain tunnel they were working in at Hoggs Hollow. This disaster ignited widespread outrage that prompted extensive press coverage, a new wave of union organizing, and eventually, major reforms to Ontario's health and safety regulations.

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May 5, 2025 - Safeguarding Canada's Sovereignty

When: May 5th, 7pm

Civilian defence is the most effective strategy to deter and defeat a military incursion in southern Canada.

This strategy involves deterring any incursions and, if necessary, defeating an invader by paralyzing the occupying forces while mobilizing support among the occupying troops, the American population, and countries abroad. It has the added benefit of training people to deal with extreme weather events coming our way as a result of climate change.

Panelists:
- Jamila Raqib: Executive Director of the Albert Einstein Institution, focusing on practical strategies for nonviolent action.
- Richard Sandbrook : Professor Emeritus of Political Science at U of T and former chair of the Nonviolence Working Group at SfP.

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