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Dear KWIC members and friends!
Many thanks to everyone who came out to help us celebrate KWICs 20th
anniversary party on November 20th. The fun is not over yet! We'd like to thank Canada World Youth Volunteers, Andrea Shillolo and Tegameo David for all their work with KWIC this term ~ and wish them all the best on the remainder of their tour to Tanzania this month. Everyone is invited to the Canada World Youth Farewell Fundraiser Dinner this Friday, 6:30 - 9pm at the Third Space, 400 Wolfe Street. The evening will feature a light dinner, fashion show, slideshow, silent auction and music! Proceeds support the Kawartha Turtle Trauma Centre and Yatima Group Trust Fund (Tanzania).
Yesterday was WORLD AIDS Day ~ A few facts:
- 2/3 of grade 7 and 1/2 of grade 9 students in Canada think there is
a cure for AIDS. There isn't.
- 45% of adults infected globally are under the age of 25.
- For the 2009 update on the pandemic go to:
http://www.unaids.org/en/KnowledgeCentre/HIVData/EpiUpdate/EpiUpdArchive/2009/default.asp
Locally, PARN, Your Community AIDS Resource Network is your best
source for information about HIV/AIDS, efforts to combat its spread and support those
impact by it. For more information and to help PARN please go to their website www.parn.ca
or call 749-9110. For a fun way to support PARN and United Way come out to the Drag Bingo event on Wednesday, December 2nd 9 pm at the Sapphire Room, 192 Hunter Street. (That's tonight!)
Coming up at KWIC:
1. Dec. 8th, Convergence: Water as A Human Right (Focus also on Millbrooke Water Issues)
2. Dec. 9th, Global Youth Day Working Group Meeting
3. Dec. 10th, Human Rights Day: Making Connections Btwn Human Rights and Climate Change in the Context of COP15
4. Register Now: In Forma Theatre Comes to Peterborough! Popular Theatre Workshop
Details:
1. Tuesday, December 8th, 4 to 5pm: Water as a Human Right:
Tune-in to Convergence, KWIC's informative and entertaining monthly radio program at our new time, the 2nd Tuesday of each month on 92.7 FM, from 4 to 5pm. Join Jo Hayward Haines and Geraldo Frazer this month as they focus on Water as a Human Right. Please refer to Information/Action Item #10 at the very end of this email for more information on the Millbrook Water Campaign.
2. Wednesday, December 9th, 3:30 pm Global Youth Day Working Group Meeting
(Upstairs at the Public Library) Are you between 14 and 24 years of age and interested in world issues? Do you need volunteer hours? Join the GYD working group to organize the annual spring Global Youth Day conference! Come on out next Wednesday or contact kw...@trentu.ca for more information.
3. Thursday, December 10th: Human Rights Day ~ Climate Change Action
11am -3pm in the KWIC Resource Centre: Drop by for a cup of warm cider and holiday biscuits and participate in an on-line Climate Change action campaign.
12:00pm Join us for a visual presentation of the Canadian Arctic by KWIC volunteer Kristeen McTavish and discussion led by the Council of Canadians exploring the connections between Human Rights and Climate Change in the context of the United Nations Summit on Climate Change this month. Bring a lunch and a friend!
6pm in Confederation Park: Amnesty International and New Canadians Centre will host the annual Human Rights Day Candle Light Vigil.
4. Register Now! January, 22 or 23: KWIC and Peterborough New Dance present In Forma Theatre: Popular Education (Theatre) Workshop. Inclusive. Innovative. Fun.
Come learn hands-on how to facilitate popular theatre exercises for group visioning, peace building and conflict transformation. Gain the tools to facilitate popular theatre with your community/group/classes.
This participatory 3 hour workshop is for teachers/educators, students, community
workers, health practitioners, counsellors, social service organizations, youth workers, activists & artists. www.iftheatre.ca No previous theatre experience required!
Workshop Times:
Friday, Jan 22nd: 1:30 pm to 4:30pm or Saturday, Jan 23rd: 10 am to 1 pm
Location: Sadleir House Cost: $25/person (Not to be a barrier to participation).
For more information visit www.iftheatre.ca or contact Julie to register at kw...@trentu.ca / 748-1680.
If you would like to post your groups events on the Community Calendar - or to be removed from our distribution list, please contact us at kw...@trentu.ca. For a copy of the KWIC 2008-2009 Annual Report and Donation Form, more event listings and information, please visit our website: www.kwic.info. Our new server is run entirely off of green and renewable energy!
KWIC will be closed from December 21st to January 4th.
We wish you a joyful holiday season.
DECEMBER COMMUNITY EVENTS LISTING AND ACTION ITEMS
Community Events Listings:
1. Dec. 2, OPIRG Documentary: Dawn Crey
2. Dec. 6, 20th Anniversary Candlelight Vigil - December 6th Memorial
3. Dec. 9, OPIRG Documentary: Darfur Now
4. Dec. 9, New Canadians Centre: Dance Around Latin America
5. Dec. 9, KPR EFTO: Appreciation, Celebration, Rejuvenation
6. Dec. 10, Amnesty International, New Canadians Centre: Human Rights Day Vigil
7. Dec. 11, Peterborough Unitarian Universalists: Climate Change Vigil
1.Opirg Documentary: Dawn Crey
December 2, 2009 at 7pm
Dawn Crey. Ramona Wilson. Daleen Kay Bosse. These are just three of the estimated 500 Aboriginal women who have gone missing or been murdered in Canada over the past thirty years.
Location: Sadleir House
Phone: 741-1208
Email: op...@trentu.ca
2. 20th Anniversary Candlelight Vigil
December 6, 1009 at 3:00pm - 4:00 pm
To commemorate the 14 women murdered in 1989 Montreal massacre. There will be a film interviewing a survivor, as well as food and refreshments following the vigil.
Location: Kenner Collegiate High School
Phone: 748-5901 (Kawartha Sexual Assault Centre)
Organization: Peterborough Womens Events Committee
3. OPIRG Documentary: Darfur Now
December 9, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.
The struggles and achievements of six individuals bring to light the situation in Darfur and the need to get involved. From a UCLA graduate in Los Angeles, California, to a Darfurian woman who joins rebel forces
Location: Sadleir House
Phone: 741-1208
4. New Canadians Centre: Dance Around Latin America
December 9, 2009 at 7.00pm
Join us for a night of dancing and music from the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego!
Location: Market Hall
Phone: 743-0882 x233
Organization: New Canadians Centre
Email: yvo...@nccpeterborough.ca URL: www.nccpeterborough.ca
5. Appreciation, Celebration, Rejuvenation
December 9, 2009 at 5:30 - 6:30 pm
KPR EFTO is pleased to bring you an entertaining evening designed to inform the mind, feed the spirit and support EFTO's project in Benin, Africa.
Location: Best Western, Cobourg
Phone: (705) 743-8573
Organization: Kawartha Pine Ridge ETFO
URL: www.kpretfo.ca
6. Human Rights Day Vigil
December 10, 2009 at 6:00pm
This year on December 10th our candlelight vigil in Confederation Park marks the 61st anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Location: Confederation Park
Organization: Amnesty International Peterborough, New Canadians Centre
7. Climate Change Vigil
Friday, December 11, at 5:30pm at Confederation Park.
Concerned about climate change? Come participate in a candlelight vigil on Organized by Peterborough Unitarian Universalists in conjunction with www.350.org, to raise awareness and make a public statement during the UN Climate talks in Copenhagen. Tell your friends. Bring them along.
COMMUNITY ACTION ITEMS
1. Our Space
2. Conscious Canada Peace Tax Return
3. Millbrook's Water Diversion Petition
4. Women's Health Care Centre 20th Anniversary
6. Write to the Liberals Now: Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement
7. Gift Idea: Zatoun, Fair Trade Olive Oil from Palestine!
8. Stand Up Against the Alberta Tarsands
9. ReFrame Film Festival Seeks Volunteers
10. Millbrook Water Issue
1. News from Our Space
Chesley a nice man who visits Our Space, is very excited because he has an apartment and is able to have his two girls ages (7 and 12) spend Christmas with him. He is very anxious to get some work so he can buy them gifts. His experience is in building (drywall etc...) but he will consider any
job. You can reach him at Our Space (775-0367). If you don't know of a job but would like to help , if you have any gifts suitable for children of that age you could drop them off at Our Space, 217 Murray St., (right door, downstairs) and mark them for Chesley's girls.
If a great abundance of gifts are received some may be given to other single
parents.
Our Space also needs the following items:
- small jars of peanut butter and jam
- tins of salmon and tuna
- stuffed animals
For the meal:
- salad dressing, mayo, white and whole wheat bread, juice, ketchup
potatoes, turnips, corn, carrots,
sandwiches and sandwich "fixings"
stove-top dressing (this is a vital dinner ingredient)
fresh fruit -- especially soft fruit like bananas and melons and pears and kiwis but apples
are also great and can be made into apple sauce.
If you donate money, you can get a receipt.
If you donate anything in-kind, Our Space cannot give you a receipt (government legislation, I believe).
To donate money to Our Space, please make the cheque out to:
*The Peterborough Social Planning Council* with the notation *"For Our Space"* on the cheque.
If the notation "For Our Space" is not on the cheque, then the money goes to
the Peterborough Social Planning Council.
2. Conscious Canada Peace Tax Return
The Conscience Canada Peace Tax Return is for those persons who object to military spending on grounds of principle/conscience and wish to declare their objection to the Canadian government. It is not an official Income Tax and Benefit Return form but we hope that a version of it one day will be part of the return produced by Canada Revenue Agency. There is legislation before the House that would permit a redirection of taxes to the Peace Tax Fund and using this form now will support that objective.
Please display this form on your website so that it can be downloaded, or cross reference Conscience Canada's website at www.consciencecanada.ca/taxes/. It is also available in French which you can download from our website.
3. Millbrook's Water Diversion Petition
Please read and sign this petition re: Millbrooks' Water diversion!
http://www.socm.ca/viewcustompage.php?id=4553
4. Women's Health Care Centre 20th Anniversary
2009 marks 20 years since the Women's Health Care Centre came into existence! Were gathering thoughts, stories, memories, etc. of the WHCC for our next newsletter and possibly to be posted on our website.
If you have any, and are willing to let us publish them, please email them to man...@prhc.on.ca, call Melanie Anderson at (705) 743-4132 (x 206) or 1-800-419-3111 (x 206), or mail them to us at the Women's Health Care Centre, 157 Charlotte Street, Peterborough, ON, K9J 2T7. (If you wish to remain anonymous, just let us know when you give us your story.)
6. Write to the Liberals Now!
We thought we had more time but the Harper government has brought Bill C-23, implementation legislation for the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, back to the House of Commons floor for debate today. Were told by NDP Trade Critic Peter Julian's office that Harpers goal is to hold a second reading and vote by the end of the week, which will send the FTA to committee for more deliberations.
Torture continues to be generalized and systematic in Colombia. It is perpetrated by the Public Force, by the paramilitaries and by the guerrillas, but the party principally responsible for these acts is the state, according to Isabelle Heyer, a member of the Colombian Jurists Commission, speaking in Geneva last Wednesday, citing 337 instances of torture in Colombia between July 2003 and June 2008, up from 187 during the previous five-year period. (The European Union Commission is also pursuing a free trade agreement with Colombia.)
We need our MPs to support the Bloc motion this week. Its not good enough that Bill C-23 be sent to committee for further study. What we need is to take this free trade agreement off the order paper until a full and impartial human rights impact assessment can be carried out.
7. Gift Idea: Zatoun, Fair Trade Olive Oil from Palestine!
With the holiday season fast-approaching, KWIC would like to remind you of its selection of Zatoun products available for purchase: olive oil, soaps, and zaatar spice mix. They make great gifts!
Support the farmers of Palestine in the struggle for their livelihood and land. Farmers are paid fair trade prices through Palestine Fair Trade Association (PFTA). One dollar of each bottle sold is given to Trees for Life, a program to plant 35,000 olive seedlings in Palestine. An additional one dollar will go to help support Project Hope, an independent, grassroots effort to bring the expressive arts (painting, drawing, music and drama) as a means to help heal and contribute to young people in Palestine.
Zatoun is available only through grassroots groups and individuals working for social justice and peace in Palestine-Israel including faith-based groups of all denominations. It is intended as a tool to help promote their work and literally bring home the message that the struggle of Palestinians is one of human rights and justice in the face of crushing odds. For more information: in...@zatoun.com or www.zatoun.com.
8. Stand Up Against the Alberta Tarsands
With just two weeks to go before world leaders meet in Copenhagen to deal with climate change, we've run out of time for compromise. While the climate crisis demands urgent action, Canada is going in the wrong direction - we are stuck in the tar sands. The federal and Albertan governments are allowing huge extractions to continue in the tar sands, Canada's fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions.
Lets do something about it.
Take action #1: Take 3 minutes and watch The Tar Sands BLOW at:
http://canadians.thetarsandsblow.org/; http://canadians.thetarsandsblow.org/
We are happy to share with you a provocative and engaging new video that tells the story of the tar sands. The tar sands are a key reason why Canada has refused to take climate action - in fact, we are one of the worlds top 10 polluters - as well as one of the primary reasons Canada has not ratified the UN Declaration on the rights on Indigenous Peoples.
Take action #2: Sign the speak up petition accompanying the video - tarsands are the wrong answer.
Take action #3: Share the link far and wide with family, friends, colleagues - lets get the message about the tar sands out there!
Take action #4: To send a message to executives that you will not allow Enbridge's Gateway Project to move forward, please go to http://www.canadians.org/campaignblog/?p=2253* http://www.canadians.org/campaignblog/?p=2253
The tar sands are a key reason why Canada has refused to take climate action - in fact, we are one of the worlds top 10 polluters - as well as one of the primary reasons Canada has not ratified the UN Declaration on the rights on Indigenous Peoples.
9. ReFrame Film Festival Seeks Volunteers:
We are looking for volunteers to work 3 hour shifts at ReFrame film festival, January 29, 30, 31. Duties include taking tickets, showing people to their seats etc. at one of the 3 venues, Showplace, Market Hall and the Public Library. We also need volunteers for our international food bazaar in the downstairs room at Showplace. Volunteers would be asked to clear dirty dishes, replace with clean dishes, wipe down tables and generally keep the area clean and tidy. Students can count these hours worked towards their community hours. Please fill in the attached form and return to Daphne Ingram din...@nexicom.net Thank you very much for supporting the festival, the volunteers are a very important part of our success. Information on this documentary film festival is available on the web site:- www.reframefilmfestival.ca
Daphne Ingram ReFrame Volunteer Coordinator
10. Millbrooke Water Issue:
Subject: November 23rd Update
Hello All:
Hope everyone had a fine weekend.
In a phone discussion with Earthroots on Friday, it seems that there are
big plans in the making. Millbrook's water crisis will apparently form the
focal point of a campaign about draining the Moraine. There are two other
communities, Colgan and Aurora, faced with similar problems with large
proposed developments making unreasonable and dangerous demands on the water
supply. The Millbrook water diversion project is considered to be the most
extreme. Plans are being made and the target date to launch the campaign is
January of next year. This will include a face to face meeting with John
Gerretsen, The Minister of the Environment, as well as coverage by the TO
media, including perhaps some investigative journalism. Will be meeting with
Earthroots members on December 1st at a conference and hopefully will have
more positive info afterwards to pass on.
There are also suggestions from another environmental sector that there
may be a push for a public inquiry and commission to be conducted on the
issue of water protection for the Oak Ridges Moraine. This would include a
moratorium on any project that would use water sources from the
Moraine...and this includes the Millbrook water diversion project...two of
the three Millbrook wells are situated in the Oak Ridges Moraine.
CELA and Ecojustice are looking into a possible legal challenge.
Received a response from Mr. Bunker as to a clarification on the stimulus
grant. His response is highlighted in red.
1. That the 'grant' under OMAFRA Canada Building Fund Intake One is not a
grant per se, but an approval process whereby the township may apply for
reimbursement of expenditures to the maximum amount of 9.88 million dollars
at both the provincial and federal levels.
Expenses are reimbursed on a cost incurred and paid basis. The applicant
will submit a claim with invoices and eligible project costs are reimbursed
at the approved share (typically 1/3 per level of govenment). All
communities which are receiving monies under the various funding programs
can be found at the following link (Cavan Monaghan can be found under the
"Eastern" region on the list). It shows federal/provincial and municipal
contributions to the project.
http://www.bcfontario.ca/english/communities/docs/BCF-CC_ISF_Lists.pdf
2. That the province is responsible for the approval of all contracts with
regards to the project.
If you mean construction and other project related contracts, the
applicant is responsible for all contracts with respect to the project.
3. That the approved grant project is for a pipeline, wastewater
collection system and wastewater treatment plant only.
Includes is a better word. Project also includes the construction of a
potable water reservoir and a distribution system in Fraserville.
As one can see, the funding does not include any expansion of the
Millbrook water treatment plant or its wastewater system or upgrades to its
existing water and sewage pipline. And it is invoice driven, so the township
must pay first!
Mr. Bunker's grant clarification would make a good letter to the
papers.... please keep those letters coming. Every time an edition of The
Times comes out, more people sign the petition...over 1000 now...And do
think about sending copies to Peterborough This Week and the Peterborough
Examiner. Both papers have restrictions on word length for their reader
feedback section, so send letters directly to the editor instead.
It would be good to have letters directed to a wider audience. It is true
some people in the township have no idea about the water diversion project
and perhaps do but don't care since they do not reside in the immediate
area. People in some areas of the township didn't know nor were they
concerned about the proposed gravel quarry on Hayes Line or the
controversial car wash now proposed for a neighbourhood just off of
Lansdowne Street.
However, people in the entire township should be concerned about the
diversion project for two major reasons. One - The Baxter Creek watershed
embraces almost the entire township, and what happens in one area of the
watershed, will effect other areas. The Millbrook wells are connected to
Baxter Creek. Two - the method of financing the project as stated in the
answer above to question number one means that great outlays of monies will
be doled out by the township. And with a deadline date of March 31st, 2016,
a shaky economy and who knows what kind of political leadership in the next
few years, there is a chance that outlays of money by the township might not
be re-couped. How high will residents' property taxes go?
Thanks to those who have agreed afterwards to have their letters published
on the website.
Dr. Buttle of Trent University has reviewed the Golder water report, and
so as not to take up too much space here....will reveal his response
tomorrow.
For Your Information:
According to the Ministry of the Environment it takes 4.3 million liters
per day to water a 36 hole golf course. The industry standard for most 18
hole golf courses is 2.3 million litres per day...every day for
approximately 6 months of the year.
Despite there being two golf courses in the area, another one is proposed
to go in next to Kawartha Downs and a Provincially Significant Wetland. The
summary report from Ms. Hurley states the Kawartha Downs golf course will
use onsite surface water or rainwater as a supply.....will it drain the
nearby wetland known to contain Species at Risk and Endangered Species.
www.socm.ca
Julie Cosgrove, Coordinator Kawartha World
Issues Centre
Phone: 705-748-1680
Email: kw...@trentu.ca
Website & Community Calendar: www.trentu.ca
Celebrating 20 years of global understanding and local action.
The Kawartha World Issues Centre is a charitable global education and resource centre which promotes understanding and dialogue of world issues to enable people to engage in positive social and environmental change.
Many thanks to everyone who came out to help us celebrate KWICs 20th
anniversary party on November 20th. The fun is not over yet! We'd like to thank Canada World Youth Volunteers, Andrea Shillolo and Tegameo David for all their work with KWIC this term ~ and wish them all the best on the remainder of their tour to Tanzania this month. Everyone is invited to the Canada World Youth Farewell Fundraiser Dinner this Friday, 6:30 - 9pm at the Third Space, 400 Wolfe Street. The evening will feature a light dinner, fashion show, slideshow, silent auction and music! Proceeds support the Kawartha Turtle Trauma Centre and Yatima Group Trust Fund (Tanzania).
Yesterday was WORLD AIDS Day ~ A few facts:
- 2/3 of grade 7 and 1/2 of grade 9 students in Canada think there is
a cure for AIDS. There isn't.
- 45% of adults infected globally are under the age of 25.
- For the 2009 update on the pandemic go to:
http://www.unaids.org/en/KnowledgeCentre/HIVData/EpiUpdate/EpiUpdArchive/2009/default.asp
Locally, PARN, Your Community AIDS Resource Network is your best
source for information about HIV/AIDS, efforts to combat its spread and support those
impact by it. For more information and to help PARN please go to their website www.parn.ca
or call 749-9110. For a fun way to support PARN and United Way come out to the Drag Bingo event on Wednesday, December 2nd 9 pm at the Sapphire Room, 192 Hunter Street. (That's tonight!)
Coming up at KWIC:
1. Dec. 8th, Convergence: Water as A Human Right (Focus also on Millbrooke Water Issues)
2. Dec. 9th, Global Youth Day Working Group Meeting
3. Dec. 10th, Human Rights Day: Making Connections Btwn Human Rights and Climate Change in the Context of COP15
4. Register Now: In Forma Theatre Comes to Peterborough! Popular Theatre Workshop
Details:
1. Tuesday, December 8th, 4 to 5pm: Water as a Human Right:
Tune-in to Convergence, KWIC's informative and entertaining monthly radio program at our new time, the 2nd Tuesday of each month on 92.7 FM, from 4 to 5pm. Join Jo Hayward Haines and Geraldo Frazer this month as they focus on Water as a Human Right. Please refer to Information/Action Item #10 at the very end of this email for more information on the Millbrook Water Campaign.
2. Wednesday, December 9th, 3:30 pm Global Youth Day Working Group Meeting
(Upstairs at the Public Library) Are you between 14 and 24 years of age and interested in world issues? Do you need volunteer hours? Join the GYD working group to organize the annual spring Global Youth Day conference! Come on out next Wednesday or contact kw...@trentu.ca for more information.
3. Thursday, December 10th: Human Rights Day ~ Climate Change Action
11am -3pm in the KWIC Resource Centre: Drop by for a cup of warm cider and holiday biscuits and participate in an on-line Climate Change action campaign.
12:00pm Join us for a visual presentation of the Canadian Arctic by KWIC volunteer Kristeen McTavish and discussion led by the Council of Canadians exploring the connections between Human Rights and Climate Change in the context of the United Nations Summit on Climate Change this month. Bring a lunch and a friend!
6pm in Confederation Park: Amnesty International and New Canadians Centre will host the annual Human Rights Day Candle Light Vigil.
4. Register Now! January, 22 or 23: KWIC and Peterborough New Dance present In Forma Theatre: Popular Education (Theatre) Workshop. Inclusive. Innovative. Fun.
Come learn hands-on how to facilitate popular theatre exercises for group visioning, peace building and conflict transformation. Gain the tools to facilitate popular theatre with your community/group/classes.
This participatory 3 hour workshop is for teachers/educators, students, community
workers, health practitioners, counsellors, social service organizations, youth workers, activists & artists. www.iftheatre.ca No previous theatre experience required!
Workshop Times:
Friday, Jan 22nd: 1:30 pm to 4:30pm or Saturday, Jan 23rd: 10 am to 1 pm
Location: Sadleir House Cost: $25/person (Not to be a barrier to participation).
For more information visit www.iftheatre.ca or contact Julie to register at kw...@trentu.ca / 748-1680.
If you would like to post your groups events on the Community Calendar - or to be removed from our distribution list, please contact us at kw...@trentu.ca. For a copy of the KWIC 2008-2009 Annual Report and Donation Form, more event listings and information, please visit our website: www.kwic.info. Our new server is run entirely off of green and renewable energy!
KWIC will be closed from December 21st to January 4th.
We wish you a joyful holiday season.
DECEMBER COMMUNITY EVENTS LISTING AND ACTION ITEMS
Community Events Listings:
1. Dec. 2, OPIRG Documentary: Dawn Crey
2. Dec. 6, 20th Anniversary Candlelight Vigil - December 6th Memorial
3. Dec. 9, OPIRG Documentary: Darfur Now
4. Dec. 9, New Canadians Centre: Dance Around Latin America
5. Dec. 9, KPR EFTO: Appreciation, Celebration, Rejuvenation
6. Dec. 10, Amnesty International, New Canadians Centre: Human Rights Day Vigil
7. Dec. 11, Peterborough Unitarian Universalists: Climate Change Vigil
1.Opirg Documentary: Dawn Crey
December 2, 2009 at 7pm
Dawn Crey. Ramona Wilson. Daleen Kay Bosse. These are just three of the estimated 500 Aboriginal women who have gone missing or been murdered in Canada over the past thirty years.
Location: Sadleir House
Phone: 741-1208
Email: op...@trentu.ca
2. 20th Anniversary Candlelight Vigil
December 6, 1009 at 3:00pm - 4:00 pm
To commemorate the 14 women murdered in 1989 Montreal massacre. There will be a film interviewing a survivor, as well as food and refreshments following the vigil.
Location: Kenner Collegiate High School
Phone: 748-5901 (Kawartha Sexual Assault Centre)
Organization: Peterborough Womens Events Committee
3. OPIRG Documentary: Darfur Now
December 9, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.
The struggles and achievements of six individuals bring to light the situation in Darfur and the need to get involved. From a UCLA graduate in Los Angeles, California, to a Darfurian woman who joins rebel forces
Location: Sadleir House
Phone: 741-1208
4. New Canadians Centre: Dance Around Latin America
December 9, 2009 at 7.00pm
Join us for a night of dancing and music from the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego!
Location: Market Hall
Phone: 743-0882 x233
Organization: New Canadians Centre
Email: yvo...@nccpeterborough.ca URL: www.nccpeterborough.ca
5. Appreciation, Celebration, Rejuvenation
December 9, 2009 at 5:30 - 6:30 pm
KPR EFTO is pleased to bring you an entertaining evening designed to inform the mind, feed the spirit and support EFTO's project in Benin, Africa.
Location: Best Western, Cobourg
Phone: (705) 743-8573
Organization: Kawartha Pine Ridge ETFO
URL: www.kpretfo.ca
6. Human Rights Day Vigil
December 10, 2009 at 6:00pm
This year on December 10th our candlelight vigil in Confederation Park marks the 61st anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Location: Confederation Park
Organization: Amnesty International Peterborough, New Canadians Centre
7. Climate Change Vigil
Friday, December 11, at 5:30pm at Confederation Park.
Concerned about climate change? Come participate in a candlelight vigil on Organized by Peterborough Unitarian Universalists in conjunction with www.350.org, to raise awareness and make a public statement during the UN Climate talks in Copenhagen. Tell your friends. Bring them along.
COMMUNITY ACTION ITEMS
1. Our Space
2. Conscious Canada Peace Tax Return
3. Millbrook's Water Diversion Petition
4. Women's Health Care Centre 20th Anniversary
6. Write to the Liberals Now: Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement
7. Gift Idea: Zatoun, Fair Trade Olive Oil from Palestine!
8. Stand Up Against the Alberta Tarsands
9. ReFrame Film Festival Seeks Volunteers
10. Millbrook Water Issue
1. News from Our Space
Chesley a nice man who visits Our Space, is very excited because he has an apartment and is able to have his two girls ages (7 and 12) spend Christmas with him. He is very anxious to get some work so he can buy them gifts. His experience is in building (drywall etc...) but he will consider any
job. You can reach him at Our Space (775-0367). If you don't know of a job but would like to help , if you have any gifts suitable for children of that age you could drop them off at Our Space, 217 Murray St., (right door, downstairs) and mark them for Chesley's girls.
If a great abundance of gifts are received some may be given to other single
parents.
Our Space also needs the following items:
- small jars of peanut butter and jam
- tins of salmon and tuna
- stuffed animals
For the meal:
- salad dressing, mayo, white and whole wheat bread, juice, ketchup
potatoes, turnips, corn, carrots,
sandwiches and sandwich "fixings"
stove-top dressing (this is a vital dinner ingredient)
fresh fruit -- especially soft fruit like bananas and melons and pears and kiwis but apples
are also great and can be made into apple sauce.
If you donate money, you can get a receipt.
If you donate anything in-kind, Our Space cannot give you a receipt (government legislation, I believe).
To donate money to Our Space, please make the cheque out to:
*The Peterborough Social Planning Council* with the notation *"For Our Space"* on the cheque.
If the notation "For Our Space" is not on the cheque, then the money goes to
the Peterborough Social Planning Council.
2. Conscious Canada Peace Tax Return
The Conscience Canada Peace Tax Return is for those persons who object to military spending on grounds of principle/conscience and wish to declare their objection to the Canadian government. It is not an official Income Tax and Benefit Return form but we hope that a version of it one day will be part of the return produced by Canada Revenue Agency. There is legislation before the House that would permit a redirection of taxes to the Peace Tax Fund and using this form now will support that objective.
Please display this form on your website so that it can be downloaded, or cross reference Conscience Canada's website at www.consciencecanada.ca/taxes/. It is also available in French which you can download from our website.
3. Millbrook's Water Diversion Petition
Please read and sign this petition re: Millbrooks' Water diversion!
http://www.socm.ca/viewcustompage.php?id=4553
4. Women's Health Care Centre 20th Anniversary
2009 marks 20 years since the Women's Health Care Centre came into existence! Were gathering thoughts, stories, memories, etc. of the WHCC for our next newsletter and possibly to be posted on our website.
If you have any, and are willing to let us publish them, please email them to man...@prhc.on.ca, call Melanie Anderson at (705) 743-4132 (x 206) or 1-800-419-3111 (x 206), or mail them to us at the Women's Health Care Centre, 157 Charlotte Street, Peterborough, ON, K9J 2T7. (If you wish to remain anonymous, just let us know when you give us your story.)
6. Write to the Liberals Now!
We thought we had more time but the Harper government has brought Bill C-23, implementation legislation for the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, back to the House of Commons floor for debate today. Were told by NDP Trade Critic Peter Julian's office that Harpers goal is to hold a second reading and vote by the end of the week, which will send the FTA to committee for more deliberations.
Torture continues to be generalized and systematic in Colombia. It is perpetrated by the Public Force, by the paramilitaries and by the guerrillas, but the party principally responsible for these acts is the state, according to Isabelle Heyer, a member of the Colombian Jurists Commission, speaking in Geneva last Wednesday, citing 337 instances of torture in Colombia between July 2003 and June 2008, up from 187 during the previous five-year period. (The European Union Commission is also pursuing a free trade agreement with Colombia.)
We need our MPs to support the Bloc motion this week. Its not good enough that Bill C-23 be sent to committee for further study. What we need is to take this free trade agreement off the order paper until a full and impartial human rights impact assessment can be carried out.
7. Gift Idea: Zatoun, Fair Trade Olive Oil from Palestine!
With the holiday season fast-approaching, KWIC would like to remind you of its selection of Zatoun products available for purchase: olive oil, soaps, and zaatar spice mix. They make great gifts!
Support the farmers of Palestine in the struggle for their livelihood and land. Farmers are paid fair trade prices through Palestine Fair Trade Association (PFTA). One dollar of each bottle sold is given to Trees for Life, a program to plant 35,000 olive seedlings in Palestine. An additional one dollar will go to help support Project Hope, an independent, grassroots effort to bring the expressive arts (painting, drawing, music and drama) as a means to help heal and contribute to young people in Palestine.
Zatoun is available only through grassroots groups and individuals working for social justice and peace in Palestine-Israel including faith-based groups of all denominations. It is intended as a tool to help promote their work and literally bring home the message that the struggle of Palestinians is one of human rights and justice in the face of crushing odds. For more information: in...@zatoun.com or www.zatoun.com.
8. Stand Up Against the Alberta Tarsands
With just two weeks to go before world leaders meet in Copenhagen to deal with climate change, we've run out of time for compromise. While the climate crisis demands urgent action, Canada is going in the wrong direction - we are stuck in the tar sands. The federal and Albertan governments are allowing huge extractions to continue in the tar sands, Canada's fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions.
Lets do something about it.
Take action #1: Take 3 minutes and watch The Tar Sands BLOW at:
http://canadians.thetarsandsblow.org/; http://canadians.thetarsandsblow.org/
We are happy to share with you a provocative and engaging new video that tells the story of the tar sands. The tar sands are a key reason why Canada has refused to take climate action - in fact, we are one of the worlds top 10 polluters - as well as one of the primary reasons Canada has not ratified the UN Declaration on the rights on Indigenous Peoples.
Take action #2: Sign the speak up petition accompanying the video - tarsands are the wrong answer.
Take action #3: Share the link far and wide with family, friends, colleagues - lets get the message about the tar sands out there!
Take action #4: To send a message to executives that you will not allow Enbridge's Gateway Project to move forward, please go to http://www.canadians.org/campaignblog/?p=2253* http://www.canadians.org/campaignblog/?p=2253
The tar sands are a key reason why Canada has refused to take climate action - in fact, we are one of the worlds top 10 polluters - as well as one of the primary reasons Canada has not ratified the UN Declaration on the rights on Indigenous Peoples.
9. ReFrame Film Festival Seeks Volunteers:
We are looking for volunteers to work 3 hour shifts at ReFrame film festival, January 29, 30, 31. Duties include taking tickets, showing people to their seats etc. at one of the 3 venues, Showplace, Market Hall and the Public Library. We also need volunteers for our international food bazaar in the downstairs room at Showplace. Volunteers would be asked to clear dirty dishes, replace with clean dishes, wipe down tables and generally keep the area clean and tidy. Students can count these hours worked towards their community hours. Please fill in the attached form and return to Daphne Ingram din...@nexicom.net Thank you very much for supporting the festival, the volunteers are a very important part of our success. Information on this documentary film festival is available on the web site:- www.reframefilmfestival.ca
Daphne Ingram ReFrame Volunteer Coordinator
10. Millbrooke Water Issue:
Subject: November 23rd Update
Hello All:
Hope everyone had a fine weekend.
In a phone discussion with Earthroots on Friday, it seems that there are
big plans in the making. Millbrook's water crisis will apparently form the
focal point of a campaign about draining the Moraine. There are two other
communities, Colgan and Aurora, faced with similar problems with large
proposed developments making unreasonable and dangerous demands on the water
supply. The Millbrook water diversion project is considered to be the most
extreme. Plans are being made and the target date to launch the campaign is
January of next year. This will include a face to face meeting with John
Gerretsen, The Minister of the Environment, as well as coverage by the TO
media, including perhaps some investigative journalism. Will be meeting with
Earthroots members on December 1st at a conference and hopefully will have
more positive info afterwards to pass on.
There are also suggestions from another environmental sector that there
may be a push for a public inquiry and commission to be conducted on the
issue of water protection for the Oak Ridges Moraine. This would include a
moratorium on any project that would use water sources from the
Moraine...and this includes the Millbrook water diversion project...two of
the three Millbrook wells are situated in the Oak Ridges Moraine.
CELA and Ecojustice are looking into a possible legal challenge.
Received a response from Mr. Bunker as to a clarification on the stimulus
grant. His response is highlighted in red.
1. That the 'grant' under OMAFRA Canada Building Fund Intake One is not a
grant per se, but an approval process whereby the township may apply for
reimbursement of expenditures to the maximum amount of 9.88 million dollars
at both the provincial and federal levels.
Expenses are reimbursed on a cost incurred and paid basis. The applicant
will submit a claim with invoices and eligible project costs are reimbursed
at the approved share (typically 1/3 per level of govenment). All
communities which are receiving monies under the various funding programs
can be found at the following link (Cavan Monaghan can be found under the
"Eastern" region on the list). It shows federal/provincial and municipal
contributions to the project.
http://www.bcfontario.ca/english/communities/docs/BCF-CC_ISF_Lists.pdf
2. That the province is responsible for the approval of all contracts with
regards to the project.
If you mean construction and other project related contracts, the
applicant is responsible for all contracts with respect to the project.
3. That the approved grant project is for a pipeline, wastewater
collection system and wastewater treatment plant only.
Includes is a better word. Project also includes the construction of a
potable water reservoir and a distribution system in Fraserville.
As one can see, the funding does not include any expansion of the
Millbrook water treatment plant or its wastewater system or upgrades to its
existing water and sewage pipline. And it is invoice driven, so the township
must pay first!
Mr. Bunker's grant clarification would make a good letter to the
papers.... please keep those letters coming. Every time an edition of The
Times comes out, more people sign the petition...over 1000 now...And do
think about sending copies to Peterborough This Week and the Peterborough
Examiner. Both papers have restrictions on word length for their reader
feedback section, so send letters directly to the editor instead.
It would be good to have letters directed to a wider audience. It is true
some people in the township have no idea about the water diversion project
and perhaps do but don't care since they do not reside in the immediate
area. People in some areas of the township didn't know nor were they
concerned about the proposed gravel quarry on Hayes Line or the
controversial car wash now proposed for a neighbourhood just off of
Lansdowne Street.
However, people in the entire township should be concerned about the
diversion project for two major reasons. One - The Baxter Creek watershed
embraces almost the entire township, and what happens in one area of the
watershed, will effect other areas. The Millbrook wells are connected to
Baxter Creek. Two - the method of financing the project as stated in the
answer above to question number one means that great outlays of monies will
be doled out by the township. And with a deadline date of March 31st, 2016,
a shaky economy and who knows what kind of political leadership in the next
few years, there is a chance that outlays of money by the township might not
be re-couped. How high will residents' property taxes go?
Thanks to those who have agreed afterwards to have their letters published
on the website.
Dr. Buttle of Trent University has reviewed the Golder water report, and
so as not to take up too much space here....will reveal his response
tomorrow.
For Your Information:
According to the Ministry of the Environment it takes 4.3 million liters
per day to water a 36 hole golf course. The industry standard for most 18
hole golf courses is 2.3 million litres per day...every day for
approximately 6 months of the year.
Despite there being two golf courses in the area, another one is proposed
to go in next to Kawartha Downs and a Provincially Significant Wetland. The
summary report from Ms. Hurley states the Kawartha Downs golf course will
use onsite surface water or rainwater as a supply.....will it drain the
nearby wetland known to contain Species at Risk and Endangered Species.
www.socm.ca
Julie Cosgrove, Coordinator Kawartha World
Issues Centre
Phone: 705-748-1680
Email: kw...@trentu.ca
Website & Community Calendar: www.trentu.ca
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The Kawartha World Issues Centre is a charitable global education and resource centre which promotes understanding and dialogue of world issues to enable people to engage in positive social and environmental change.
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