Yesterday I was having a chat with an employee at a Subway in Ottawa. I noticed the sign about vegies being unavailable because of weird weather. I commented on it, asking if this is a first. She said it had come up years ago, but she was surprised how long it had been up there.
Climate change? Maybe Subway shareholders should start donating to the Green Party of Canada so we can catch up on the rest of the world with real action on climate change.
Call it “risk mitigation”. Or job creation in a green economy.
And if Subway could instruct their employees to ask “Do you want a bag?” instead of “Is it to go?”, maybe they’d start saving on plastic.
Date: Tuesday 27th of April
Time: 7 pm
Location: Sandy Hill Community Centre, 250 Sommerset St.
Wheelchair access: Yes
Transit routes:
- #16 brings you at the door
- #5 brings you within walking distance
- Campus transitway station within walking distance
Elizabeth May, electoral reform supporter and leader of the federal Green Party will provide a keynote address at our annual general meeting. We are pleased to welcome Ms. May, author of “Losing Confidence: Power, Politics and the Crisis in Canadian Democracy” to address the democratic deficit in Canada and the pressing need for electoral reform. The meeting will be held Tuesday April 27th at the Sandy Hill Community Center (Somerset E./Nelson) at 7 pm. Elections for positions on the executive will be held.
Open to the public at large. Free entrance. Donations are appreciated and will go to the Ottawa chapter of Fair Vote Canada. (http://ottawa.fairvote.ca)
A $10 first-year membership or a $25 membership renewal, available at the meeting, is necessary to vote in elections or on motions.
You may RSVP
- On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=106513656046126
- On Meetup.com: http://www.meetup.com/fvc-ottawa/calendar/13218170/
My volunteer efforts with Fair Vote Canada were recognized just recently. Needless to say, I feel good about it. 
“Julien Lamarche: executive committee member National Capital Region Chapter, for his ongoing contributions to Fair Vote campaigns over the past year. He organized a phone bank in Ottawa to help raise money and support for the BC referendum campaign, organized phone banks for the membership renewal drive, and is coordinating a webcast* of the upcoming AGM.”
– http://www.fairvote.ca/en/we-salute-these-distinguished-volunteers
*Note: the webcasting is turning out to be more expensive than we expected, so it may not happen. I’ll take credit for the other things that I made happen though
“Religious freedom was first put in the human rights code to protect the right to worship without interference from the government,” said Hawkes [Rev. Brent Hawkes of the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto]. “It was not meant to protect people who use religion to attack others.”
– http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/788900–does-god-care-if-i-m-gay-ads-pulled-from-ttc
Provincial seat inequities pale in comparison to voting system distortions
Today the Harper government moved to add 30 seats to the House of Commons to reflect the growing populations of Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia – but failed to address a more egregious problem: the partisan inequities created by the electoral system.
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