Exciting news and tabling help needed at EcoFair! Sunday April 26

[Lyn Adamson]

Hi everyone,

Many of us were involved today in a press conference at Queen's Park organized by CAPE-Ontario, Ontario Climate Emergency Campaign, and the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO)

The speakers were:

• Matt Jamieson, CEO, Six Nations of the Grand River Development Corporation
• Dr. Doris Grinspun, CEO, Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario  
• Chris Ballard, former Ontario Minister of the Environment
• Dr. Mark Winfield, professor, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University
• Bushra Asghar, executive director, Organizing for a Youth Climate Corp

and you can listen to the recording here

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11RDRokrk20tfgms1Kastv8omX7ohpYlr/view

25 min press conference, 23 min q and a with reporters

and we also handed over 500 petition signatures to MPP Peter Tabuns for presentation in the House.

Some of you will be present tomorrow morning at our breakfast reception at Queen's Park with MPPs

MEANWHILE IN TORONTO - A SPRING ECOFAIR!

This time at the Brickworks.  SUNDAY APRIL 26 - 11 -4

All kinds of info here - including shuttle bus info to help you get there.

full list of tables, and kids activities, this will be a fun day.

https://ecofairtoronto.org/

WE NEED VOLUNTEERS FOR THE TCAN TABLE! CAN YOU HELP OUT FOR 2 OR 2.5 HOURS DURING THE DAY?  10:30 TO 4:30

Please reply to this message, just to Lyn not the whole group, and let me know when you can join us.  Anne and I will make sure there are materials there.

Lyn Adamson

416-731-6605

I live in the city of Toronto, originally known as Tkaronto, on the traditional lands of the Haudenosaunee, the Wendat, Anishinaabe, and the Mississauga of the Credit, the first peoples of this land, and in the watershed of Mimico Creek and the Humber River. I acknowledge that I am a party to Treaty 13 and commit to working for justice and reconciliation with the Indigenous nations of this land.