Hi friends and neighbours,

The Senate social affairs committee has recommended removing the immigration-related sections from the border bill that migrant rights groups have been pushing against for months. It doesn't mean the Carney government, which has been pretty adamant about ignoring grassroots voices, will actually follow the recommendations, but it does mean that the pushback is being heard. The national security committee has the final say, and they have begun their review this week. Please email or call them by February 26th, and join the rally on Thursday.

The Ford government announced updates to the university funding model last week that increases tuition fees and totally upends OSAP and makes higher education even more inaccessible to Ontarians. OSAP previous provided students up to 85% of their tuition in the form of grants, and the new model caps that at 25%, meaning a minimum of 75% of OSAP funding any student can receive is now interest-bearing loans. This is being touted by this government as some great magnanimity, but the overall funding increase for the higher ed system comes after years of underfunding, leaving Ontario still far behind other provinces in supporting our higher education sector.

At this point, the contempt of conservative administrations for the concept of learning is well-worn. An educated populace is better equipped to tell when its government is lying and exploiting them, and that's inconvenient when your goal is lying to and exploiting your constituents. The playbook of underfunding education so you can point to its struggles as evidence of failure and use that to justify diverting public money towards private alternatives is the same playbook used on health care and transit and the postal service and basically every public service except the police. Weird how that works out.

We're starting to see students organizing against this, and we're also starting to see efforts towards sectoral organizing in higher education. If you work on a campus or know someone who does, get connected with the next open organizing meeting on March 5th. If you're a student or know one, get involved with the Canadian Federation of Students-Ontario, who are rallying and calling for a student strike. They're not going to stop until we make them stop, so let's make them stop.

Thanks for showing up.

Jenny

PS: The next event in the Wayfinding event series I've been co-hosting with my pals at 1RG is tomorrow night, and features a panel of teenagers talking about their experience with technology. So often conversations about kids and technology is about them, not with them, and I'm excited to hear directly from our young friends from across the city. Hope to see you there tomorrow!

Events this week

Tuesday, February 24, 2026 🔗

12PM — Salt Pollution Rally (Queen’s Park)
Ontario Salt Pollution Coalition - Salt is a federally designated toxic chemical, yet there are no provincial regulations governing salt use. Join this rally to tell the Province: keep water fresh, stop salt pollution!

12PM — The Misinformation Challenge – How to Rebuild Trust in a Post-Truth World (Virtual)
Evidence For Democracy - According to Canada’s Foreign Interference Commissioner, misinformation and disinformation pose the single greatest threat to Canadian democracy today. This webinar highlights the evolution of misinformation across Canada, and provides important policy recommendations for addressing misinformation challenges and concerns.

1PM — Perspectives on Prison Programs (Virtual)
HIV Legal Network - A discussion examining harm reduction in Canadian prisons through lived experience, frontline, clinical, legal, and institutional perspectives.

1PM — Liberated Land Trusts (Virtual)
Canadian Network of Community Land Trusts - A dynamic conversation with leaders from Black-led, Black-serving, and Black-focusing (B3) Community Land Trusts as they explore how their work advances cultural preservation, community healing, and self-determined development.

1PM — Salt Pollution Meet Up (Patagonia Toronto)
Ontario Salt Pollution Coalition - Join the Ontario Salt Pollution Coalition at Patagonia Toronto to chat, pick up resources to stop salt pollution, and take action on Salt Pollution Advocacy Day!

1PM — Critical Conversations: Connecting with Chinese-Speaking Communities About Drug Policy (Virtual)
Canadian Drug Policy Coalition - Canada's toxic drug crisis is a severe, unrelenting public health emergency. Despite its broad impacts, governments have not adequately informed or consulted Chinese language groups about policy responses to illegal drug use. This has created an information vacuum – one that bad faith actors often fill with mis and disinformation. Learn about what the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition is doing to address this gap.

2:30PM — Black Muslim Refugee (Hybrid)
The Harriet Tubman Institute - This talk draws from Dr. Abu-maye’s recently published book, Black Muslim Refugee: Militarism, Policing, and Somali American Resistance to State Violence. Through storytelling and critical refugee studies, Dr. Abu-maye shows how U.S. militarism continues to shape refugee life while disrupting humanitarian narratives that obscure state violence.

5:30PM — Phone Bank for a Progressive Toronto (Virtual)
Progress Toronto - The right and local conservative politicians are working hard to bring back to the status quo of harmful cuts and underfunding vital city services. Help Progress Toronto phone bank and talk to people across Toronto about housing, services, and other issues that matter to them and help them take action.

5:30PM — Regent Park SDP Orientation (Daniels Spectrum)
Regent Park Neighbourhood Association - Interested in getting involved with Regent Park’s Social Development Plan? Want to meet community members dedicated to improving the quality of life in Regent Park? Check out this orientation meeting for new or interested members this month!

6PM — Draw the Line Against Transphobic Violence in Schools (Virtual)
Egale - This webinar helps educators and school personnel take action against harmful anti-trans dynamics, building skills for fostering cultures of consent, gender inclusion, and healthier relationships. Discussions focus on understanding the current school climate for trans and nonbinary youth, how to identify transphobic violence, and ways to support trans joy and resilience.

6PM — Transform Symposium (Centre for Social Innovation)
Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention - A symposium featuring panels, workshops, and a networking reception designed to uplift racialized trans, queer, and non-binary newcomers in Toronto, with a focus on employment and economic empowerment.

6PM — Nell Toussaint, Racism, and Health: The Fight for Migrant Workers' Equal Access to Healthcare (New College)
Justicia for Migrant Workers - Marking the 25th anniversary of J4MW’s organizing, come hear a public lecture on race, migrant workers, and health care. Migrant workers will speak alongside lawyers about the organizing being done. Hybrid option available.

7PM — Civic Meetup - Toronto Drop-in Recreation Finder (Hybrid)
Civic Tech Toronto - Civic Tech Toronto's weekly meetups bring together Torontonians who want to improve the city through design, tech, and data. This week, hear about Rec Finder TO, a workplace experiment with AI coding that became a real community tool. Followed by project breakout sessions.

7PM — Run Where You Are – Say Yes (Virtual)
PoliticsNOW - Calling all women and gender-diverse people across Ontario: ever thought about running for office? Come to this high-energy, storytelling-based event and hear from six women who have said yes to public office to share what that decision actually looked like for them. Whether you’re just curious, actively considering a run, or wondering what support exists if you did decide to go for it, this event meets you where you are.

7PM — Grief Songs Circle (7 Hart House)
Kosa Folk Arts - On the fourth anniversary of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Kosa invites you to gather in community and song to honour the pain and loss that persist, to witness one another’s experiences, and to nurture connection, resilience, and hope.

7PM — Resistance Is Our Heritage (504 Oakwood Ave)
Little Xaymaca Commune - As the community in Little Xaymaca faces the weight of 300+ business closures and ongoing renovictions, studying together is a vital tool for resistance. Join in to dig deep into the roots of gentrification and settler colonialism to find collective solutions to mass displacement and cultural erasure.

8PM — Harm Reduction Advocacy Teach-In: No Demovictions (College St United)
Harm Reduction Advocacy Collective Toronto - A workshop open to all! Please come new members! The workshop is by ‘No Demovictions’, speaking on tenant rights and the successes they’ve had in organizing, actions and negotiations

Wednesday, February 25, 2026 🔗

3PM — Buxton’s Black History (1499 Queen St W)
PARC Toronto - A free community talk with historian and cultural educator Allister Coward, who will explore the deep Black history of Buxton, Ontario, one of the most significant historic Black settlements in Canada.

3:30PM — Phone Zap to Save OSAP (16 Bancroft Ave)
Ontario New Democratic Youth - Join the youth wing of the NDP for a phone zap to flood Conservative MPPs' voicemails with messages demanding they reverse cuts to OSAP and stop their plan to hike tuition fees. Hybrid option available.

4PM — Winter Seed Festival (601 Christie St)
The Stop - The Winter Seed Festival offers a gentle mix of hands-on workshops, self-guided seed stations, and simple seed-based snacks, all designed to be taken in at an unhurried pace in a space of community care.

5:45PM — Doorknocking for Palestine (Available upon RSVP)
Davenport 4 Palestine - Davenport 4 Palestine is doorknocking in the neighbourhood to mobilize neighbours in support of a real arms embargo. No experience is necessary, you'll be paired up with a seasoned doorknocker. RSVP by emailing at davenport4palestine@gmail.com.

6PM — Resisting Erasure Book Launch (45 Willcox Street)
Another Story Bookshop - The Toronto book launch of Resisting Erasure: Capitalism, Imperialism and Race in Palestine. Featuring authors Adam Hanieh and Rafeef Ziadah in conversation with Chandni Desai for a materialist analysis of the links between global capitalism, energy politics, and racial oppression in Palestine.\

6PM — Wayfinding: Teenhood (1RG)
1RG - Wayfinding is a conversation series about navigating the tensions of tech in modern life. The third event in the series will feature a panel of teenagers discussing what they wish technologists knew about being a teenager online. What are they afraid of? What are they excited about? How would they do things differently?

6PM — Documenting Protests (Virtual)
Blueprints of Disruption - An online learn-in that will focus on the importance of being in the right place, capturing actions, staying safe, and contributing to the movement through photography. If we don't document our movements - our enemies will.

6PM — Tenant Organizing Training (The 519)
Toronto Centre Tenant Union - TCTU is a group of renters in downtown Toronto who organize together and support each other. Join the next tenant organizing training/orientation to learn how how tenants can stand up against bad management and rent increases.

6PM — Let’s talk Land and Food Sovereignty! (Virtual)
Indigenous Youth Roots - Interested in learning more about food sovereignty? Join this virtual call hear the perspectives of two Indigenous youth on Indigenous food and land sovereignty!

6:30PM — Where do we go next? (Virtual)
Seniors for Climate - Climate impacts are intensifying but public climate conversation has gone quiet. This webinar with MP Steven Guilbeault will explore where Canada goes next, and how citizens can help break through the climate silence that’s holding action back.

6:30PM — Discussion: Aro Visibility and Awareness (Virtual)
Toronto Aces and Aros - In honour or Aro Awareness Week, an online discussion about Aro Visibility & Awareness. Where are we at with it in society? What would we like to change?

6:45PM — FilmSocial: The Organizer (Eyesore Cinema)
Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education - Balancing humour with the realities of the economic climate at the onset of Italy’s industrial revolution, this historical drama directed by Mario Monicelli takes an honest look at early labour struggles with a stirring portrayal of the strength of the unity but also the tolls of seeking justice.

7PM — Active Hope Small Group (Neighbourhood Unitarian Universalist Congregation)
Neighbourhood Unitarian Universalist Congregation - Join Dr. Nate Charach, MD, and Gwen Schauerte, RP, in a small group that will empower you to engage in meaningful action to address the challenges of our time.

Thursday, February 26, 2026 🔗

8:30AM — Climate Coffee (192 Spadina)
Climate Coffee Toronto - A monthly coffee meet up for anyone working in or interested by the climate spaces, for like-minded individuals to catch up about projects across climate tech, impact investing, and more. Part of the global Climate Coffee series.

12PM — Rock Solid: A scientific review of radioactive waste (Virtual)
Northwatch - This webinar examines the current state of scientific evidence regarding the geological disposal of spent nuclear fuel and other high-level and long-lived radioactive wastes in a deep geological repository (around 500m underground) and the issues therein.

12PM — Stop Bill C-12, Cut Canadian Ties to ICE Rally (Hootsuite Toronto HQ)
Migrant Workers Alliance - Canadian companies like Hootsuite, GardaWorld & Roshel are arming and enabling ICE's raids, kidnappings, killings and detention camps in the US. Meanwhile in Canada, PM Carney is pushing ahead Bill C-12 which would let the government cancel immigration status for entire groups overnight and deny rights to refugees. Join us for an emergency lunch time rally - Migrants on both sides of the border need us in the streets.

12:30PM — Climate Conversation with Faith based community (Virtual)
For the Love of Creation - Learn to use a simple new resource that draws on wisdom from the Faithful Climate Conversations and the Jesuit Forum to offer a straight-forward circle process to discuss climate issues with faith-based communities. This webinar will feature interactive breakout groups.

3PM — Trump, America, and Rupturing the World Order (Virtual)
Science for Peace - Economist and policy expert Jeffrey D. Sachs will discuss the causes and consequences of the shift in the new international world order.

5:30PM — Illuminating the Path to Justice Iftar (Zafoon Middle Eastern Restaurant)
Muslim Legal Support Centre - A powerful evening of unity and community in support of MLSC’s mission for justice. Every ticket supports the Muslim Legal Defense Fund (MLDF), offering critical legal help to Muslims facing legal challenges, discrimination, and Islamophobia.

6PM — Abolition Pub-Ed with Amy Smoke (Virtual)
Disability Justice Network Ontario - This workshop is part of an abolition public education series showcasing people, groups, and resources that are divesting from policing and prisons. Learn about abolition and decolonization in social work and creating police-free, helping spaces for Indigenous, Black, Racialized and Queer community.

6PM — Harm Reduction Is Love (College St United Church)
BIPOC Harm Reduction Alliance - A free love-themed event centered on community health and harm reduction. The night will include speeches, musical performances, poetry, photo exhibits, food, naloxone training, massages, HIV/HEP C testing, harm reduction kits, relief supplies and resource distribution, vendors and a raffle. All welcome!

6PM — CivicTechBrampton: Open Data Workshop (8 Queen St E, Brampton)
CivicTechBrampton - Inviting all technologists, students, citizens interested in working on Open Data projects. Open Data Brampton will present available datasets and ways to work with their data. Beginners welcome!

6PM — Volunteer for a Progressive Toronto (Eglinton Station)
Progress Toronto - The right and local conservative politicians are working hard to bring back to the status quo of harmful cuts and underfunding vital city services. Join Progress Toronto in canvassing apartment buildings (out of the cold!) talk to people across Toronto about housing, services, and other issues that matter to them and help them take action.

6PM — Fight Ford! Prepare the Students Strike! (U of T IC328)
U of T Communists - An open meeting for students across campus to discuss how to fight Doug Ford’s cuts to OSAP. The attacks of Ford’s government means countless stheents will be unable to c Fight Ford’s cuts! Prepare the student strike!row it will be our entire education system. We can’t let the government get away with this. FIGHT FORD’S CUTS! PREPARE THE STUDENT STRIKE

6:30PM — Scarborough Environmental Association Comedy Fundraiser (1085 Bellamy Rd N)
Dhama Productions - Are you climate conscious and stressed about what is happening? Do you want to have fun while doing your part? Come meet fellow climate-conscious neighbours in Scarborough and raise funds for Scarborough Environmental Association!

6:30PM — Action Safety & Marshal Training (Virtual)
Change Course - We live and organize within violent and oppressive political systems, and protest carries risks. This workshop will cover both action safety principles (risk assessment, what to bring, digital & physical security) and safety marshaling (overview of role, scouting, dealing with police).

7PM — That Colossal Wreck Screening (252 Bloor West)
Young Communist League Toronto - A screening of That Colossal Wreck, a new documentary from Prolekult films covering the contradictions driving us to war. Stick around after for a discussion about students and young workers can do about it!

7PM — Science for the People: Rethinking Science Communication (24 Cecil St)
Science for the People - A launch for the latest issue of the SFTP magazine, Rethinking Science Communication. This issue explores radical approaches to science communication and the tensions that emerge when attempting to communicate science to the public within the capitalist context.

8PM — Prisoner Correspondence Project Volunteer Info Session (Virtual)
Prisoner Correspondence Project - The Montréal-based volunteer collective is looking for help overhauling its zine and resource library! Join this introductory zoom meeting to learn more about volunteering with the project.

Friday, February 27, 2026 🔗

12PM — A Celebration of Truth & Transformation (Virtual)
WomenatthecentrE - An online celebration closing the initiative Truth & Transformation! Join on a virtual road trip across the country, guided by the voices and lived experiences of Black voices & lived experiences.

3PM — Fridays 4 Palestine (Yonge and Bloor)
Fridays4Palestine - Come show your support for Palestinians every Friday at the Israel Consulate. Stand up for human rights and say no to genocide.

6PM — Community Iftar and Games night (Available upon registration (Midtown))
Eglinton-Lawrence & Don Valley for Palestine - A cozy PWYC community Iftar in support of a family in Gaza. Enjoy an evening together with delicious food and beverages, playing games, and spending a relaxed evening in good company while supporting Palestine. Sweets, drinks, and additional food will be available for purchase, 100% of proceeds donated.

7PM — Oil Capitalism and Climate (454 College St)
Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education - Professor Adam Hanieh, author of Crude Capitalism, will discuss why understanding oil’s place in world capitalism is key to grasping geopolitical dynamics and global finance, reviving vital climate struggles, and challenging the structural interests underpinning the system itself.

7PM — No! To the Embargo on Cuba (OISE Room 2211)
Young Communist League - Come join a public educational about the embargo on Cuba; myths, recent news, historical impact, and the Cuban Peoples’ struggle. Learn about what YOU can do to help!

7PM — Benefit Show for APFO (224 Augusta)
Darla, Skoff, Spring Colours - A fundraiser benefit for APFO, an independent radical feminist group serving folks on the streets in Toronto for over a year through consistent outreach, encampment support, crisis intervention, and police mediation to avoid arrest, including during the polar vortex. Winter is the most expensive time of the year. Come enjoy some great music and give back to the community.

8PM — Sounds of Jamaica Fundraiser (Society Clubhouse)
Simon Black - Brock University Professor Simon Black is organizing a fundraiser featuring DJ Kevin Hood of Roots Redemption in support of the Jamaica Household Workers' Union hurricane recovery efforts.

Saturday, February 28, 2026 🔗

10AM — Coldest Day of the Year Ride 2026 (Sugar Beach Park)
Cycle Toronto - Join in this all-ages-and-abilities annual celebration of winter cycling. Includes some hot chocolate and light snacks!

10AM — Scarborough Tenant School (Available Upon Registration)
Federation of Metro Tenants' Associations - Tenants and Tenant Association leaders in Scarborough are invited to a day of training taught by lawyers and community advocates. Learn about your rights under the law, meet other tenant leaders and strategize to take action against bad landlords!

12PM — Revolutionary Book Sale (427 Bloor St W)
International Socialists - Resistance press presents: revolutionary book sale!

1PM — No War Bank in Toronto (Bathurst and Bloor)
Toronto Association for Peace and Solidarity - Toronto is bidding to host the global headquarters of the newly announced DSRB war bank, a hub where public money will be use to solicit private investment in weapons and military industries. Join TAPS for an emergency signature collection outreach to say no to hosting a war bank!

1PM — BDS Leafletting (900 Dufferin St)
Davenport 4 Palestine - Join Davenport 4 Palestine for the weekly BDS leafleting campaign at Dufferin Mall. Meet outside south entrance and buddy up – no experience necessary!

1:30PM — Chất Độc Đế Quốc, Community fundraiser and fim screening (720 Spadina Ave)
Very Láo.d, Climate4Palestine Toronto and Change Course - This film screening and fundraiser will support Trần Tố Nga, a survivor of Agent Orange and a courageous journalist and activist who is suing Monsanto-Bayer, Dow Chemical, and others for their role in manufacturing the toxic chemical. Open community discussion exploring themes of ecocide, justice, land defence, colonialism, imperial violence, war, and climate will follow the screening.

2PM — Noname Book Club Toronto – Map to the Door of No Return (24 Cecil St)
Noname Book Club Toronto - Noname Book Club connects community members both inside and outside carceral facilities with radical books to build community through political education. For February, read Map to the Door of No Return by the Trini & Black Canadian Icon Dionne Brand.

4PM — Support Indigenous Protectors Arts & Fundraising Event (115 Church St)
Native Arts Society - An art show and fundraiser! Come support our Indigenous protectors. Land defenders, harm reductionists and those who have sacrificed so much for our community. Take home some of their beautiful and original artwork. Bring a winter outreach donation and get 10% off.

6:30PM — Toronto Climate Film Festival (Friend’s House)
ClimateFast and TERRE - Toronto Climate Film Festival is excited to present a trio of short films centred on the renewable energy transition, followed by short presentations by the Ontario Clean Air Alliance (OCAA) and TERRE (Toronto East Residents for Renewable Energy). Light refreshments and a raffle!

Sunday, March 1, 2026 🔗

10:30AM — Liberation for Littles: Navigating Rising Fascism Together (Virtual)
Rania El Mugammar - This workshop is for parents, caregivers, auncles, grandparents, guardians, and all who want to be in liberatory community with children. Discuss how to explain our current conditions to little ones, how to equip them (and ourselves) and how to organize alongside them to resist and transform our realities.

11AM — Gaza Square (371 Wallace Ave)
Davenport 4 Palestine - Davenport 4 Palestine invites you to come hang out at Gaza square on Sunday mornings with hot chocolate and coffee, buttons and posters, lawn signs and colourful chalk. Come say hi and meet your fellow neighbours/organizers as they make their presence known and continue to build safety in their community!

11AM — Sundays 4 Palestine (Bathurst and Sheppard)
Sundays4Palestine - Weekly counterprotest to the Zionist community that comes out to celebrate the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Flags and signs provided.

1PM — #DisruptPDAC 2026 – Mining is Not the Future (255 Front St W)
Mining Injustice Solidarity Network - The world’s largest mining convention is coming to Toronto again this year, to sell their vision of a future of war, environmental destruction and greed. Join MISN outside of their convention to show your support for the future we actually want and need.

1PM — Volunteer for a Progressive Toronto (Caledonia Station)
Progress Toronto - The right and local conservative politicians are working hard to bring back to the status quo of harmful cuts and underfunding vital city services. Join Progress Toronto in canvassing apartment buildings (out of the cold!) talk to people across Toronto about housing, services, and other issues that matter to them and help them take action.

1PM — Rally for Congo (255 Front St W)
Toronto World Beyond War - Stop corporate complicity in genocide! For all those looking to show solidarity for the Democratic Republic of Congo, let’s hit the streets and march for peace.

2PM — Revolutionary study series: The capitalist state (427 Bloor St W)
International Socialists - Can Marxism Show Us How to Save the World is a revolutionary reading group and study series. The topc for this session will be the capitalist state – do we need to smash the state to get rid of capitalism? What exactly does that mean?

6PM — The Palestine Laboratory Community Film Screening (Parkdale Public Library)
Parkdale-High Park For Palestine - A community screening of The Palestine Laboratory (2025), which investigates how Israel uses the Palestinian territories as a laboratory to test weapons and surveillance technologies, which it then sells around the world. All proceeds to Toronto Indigenous Harm Reduction and PHP4P’s Mutual Aid fund.

Monday, March 2, 2026 🔗

12:30PM — Weekly Phone Zap for Palestine (Virtual)
Toronto Zaps For Palestine - Join with organizers from coast to coast in calling, emailing, and faxing demands to elected officials for a full two-way arms embargo to stop Canada's complicity in the genocide.

4PM — Mondays 4 Palestine (Danforth and Broadview)
Danforth & Broadview 4 Palestine - Weekly rally on the east end for Palestinians every Monday. Stand up for human rights and say no to genocide.

6PM — Zoning for Low-Carbon Technologies: Session One (Virtual)
City of Toronto - City Planning and Environment, Climate & Forestry want to hear from you as we propose modernizing zoning rules for renewable energy and other low carbon technologies.

7PM — DSC Orientation (Virtual)
Democratic Socialists of Canada - In this one-hour session, you will listen to a brief presentation outlining the DSC's mission, structure, and activities, and learn how to get involved in your local Chapter and/or on a National level.

7PM — Student Mobilization Committee Oopen Meeting (252 Bloor St W)
Student Mobilization Committee Toronto - The SMC will be hosting an open meeting to discuss a collective plan of action regarding the recent announcements by the Ministry of Colleges, Universities, Research and Excellence and Security. Open to all who are interested in combatting the provincial government’s decisions to prioritize loans over grants and hike up tuition.

Tuesday, March 3, 2026 🔗

2:30PM — Policing Madness (HNES 140, York University)
The Mad Studies Hub - This event brings together community, organisers, researchers, and students to discuss the intersections between mental health, homelessness, and police abolition on-and-off York University campus. Food and refreshments will be available! Please bring any new, or gently used, clean sleping bags, tents, tarps, backpacks, or sealed hygiene products.

6PM — Volunteer for a Progressive Toronto (Main Street Station)
Progress Toronto - The right and local conservative politicians are working hard to bring back to the status quo of harmful cuts and underfunding vital city services. Join Progress Toronto in canvassing apartment buildings (out of the cold!) talk to people across Toronto about housing, services, and other issues that matter to them and help them take action.

6:30PM — Road Salt Alternatives Webinar (Virtual)
Ontario Salt Pollution Coalition - While there's scientific & civic consensus that road salt is a huge issue for our environmental systems, conflicting information abounds when it comes to salt alternatives. Join this webinar to sort through the realities, myths, and mysteries of alternatives to road salt and what you can do to help.

7PM — Civic Meetup - How is your local councillor voting on climate? (Hybrid)
Civic Tech Toronto - Civic Tech Toronto's weekly meetups bring together Torontonians who want to improve the city through design, tech, and data. A groups of researchers at ClimateFast have documented and analyzed every single climate-related voting records of City of Toronto councillors since 2018 to present. Come hear abotu the results! Followed by project breakout sessions.

7PM — Understanding the Indigenous-led Legal Challenge Against Bills 5 and C-5 (Virtual)
Ontario Nature - A panel discussion from Indigenous rights holders and legal experts about the importance of the legal challenge and how challenging Bills 5 and C-5 in the courts is expected to unfold.

7PM — Bikesauce Volunteer Orientation (341 Broadview)
Bikesauce Toronto - For all new volunteers and any existing volunteers who want a refresher on who Bikesauce are, what they do, and how you can contribute and grow your own skills.

Down the road

Wednesday, March 4, 2026 🔗

11AM — Fight Cuts to OSAP Walkout (OCAD)
12:30PM — Hands Off Our Education Rally: Provincial Day of Action (Queen’s Park)
1PM — What if Sports Were What Men Need Them To Be (Virtual)
5:45PM — Doorknocking for Palestine (Available upon RSVP)
6PM — Volunteer for a Progressive Toronto (High Park Station)
6PM — 2600 Don Mills Tenant Organizing Event (5 Fairview Mall Dr)

Thursday, March 5, 2026 🔗

11:30AM — Building a Culture and Practice of Community Care on Campus (Daphne Cockwell Complex)
12PM — A History of Girl Gangs, Non-binary Skateboarders and Skate Zines (Virtual)
2PM — Zoning for Low-Carbon Technologies: Session Two (Virtual)
3PM — Fridays 4 Palestine (Yonge and Bloor)
6PM — Abolition Pub-Ed with Dr. Moyo Mutamba (Virtual)
6PM — CivicTechBrampton: Open Data Peel (8 Queen St E, Brampton)
6:30PM — Higher Education Organizing: Power Mapping (College St United Church)

Friday, March 6, 2026 🔗

7PM — PHP4P Community Meeting (Available upon registration)
11AM — Donation Packing Party for Cuba (Stong College Room 314)
6PM — Abolition Pub-Ed with Thaila Dixon (Virtual)
6PM — Reimagining Safety Screening (1300 Gerrard St E)

Saturday, March 7, 2026 🔗

7PM — Bread and Roses, Peace and Justice (United Steelworkers Hall)
11AM — International Women’s Day Rally and March (252 Bloor St W)
1PM — BDS Leafletting (900 Dufferin St)
4PM — Iran, Sanctions & Anti-Imperialism (Available upon registration)

Sunday, March 8, 2026 🔗

11AM — Gaza Square (371 Wallace Ave)
11AM — Sundays 4 Palestine (Bathurst and Sheppard)
12PM — Involuntary Treatment: What Are We Really Being Asked to Accept (Virtual)
1PM — Friends and Families for Safe Streets Peer Support Meeting (401 Richmond St W, Room 375)
1PM — Strong Towns Toronto’s Monthly Meeting (The 519)
3PM — Femme Friendly Bike Fair (163 Queen St E)
7PM — Queer Self Defense (12 Alexander St)

Monday, March 9, 2026 🔗

12:30PM — Weekly Phone Zap for Palestine (Virtual)
4PM — Mondays 4 Palestine (Danforth and Broadview)

Tuesday, March 10, 2026 🔗

5PM — East End Acts Monthly Vigil (Main and Danforth)
5PM — East End Acts Monthly Vigil (Main and Danforth)
6PM — The Cost of Growth Screening (Innis College)

Thursday, March 12, 2026 🔗

11AM — A Day in the Life: Harm Reduction 101 & OD Prevention Training (526 Richmond ST)
6PM — TfD - Monthly Volunteer Planning Meeting (Virtual)
6PM — CivicTechBrampton: Applied AI Workshop (8 Queen St E, Brampton)

Friday, March 13, 2026 🔗

7:30PM — Rank + File: Show 1 (Handlebar)

Saturday, March 14, 2026 🔗

3PM — Al Quds Day: Annual Walk for Palestine (361 University Ave)

Monday, March 16, 2026 🔗

12:30PM — Weekly Phone Zap for Palestine (Virtual)
4PM — Mondays 4 Palestine (Danforth and Broadview)

Tuesday, March 17, 2026 🔗

9PM — DSC Orientation (Virtual)

Wednesday, March 18, 2026 🔗

7PM — Resource Movement Info Session (Virtual)

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