Ontario community action

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Location	Ontario, Canada

The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across Ontario.

City Planning, Provincial Rulemaking Take a Snow Day, energymixweekender.substack.com (Dec 08, 2024) — Developers are consulted lavishly. Citizens get less than a week to respond, with city services and prime farmland hanging in the balance. What if cities started listening to the public? Lella Blumer
Court decision in youth climate lawsuit against Ontario government ignites hope, The Conversation (Jun 20, 2023)

Ontario's 2017 Basic Income experiment was branded a failure by opponents - but the opposite is true, Mar 6, 2020...thealternative.org.uk

Networks and sustainability initiatives[edit | edit source]

Food activism[edit | edit source]

Lanark Local Flavour - Perth Farmers' Market - The Table Community Food Centre - Windsor Essex County Community Garden Collective

The G-Spot in Ottawa

Everyone knows healthy food — be it meat, dairy products, or fresh vegetables — is usually expensive food. For university students, rushing from classes to low-wage jobs with or without family support and grabbing food wherever they can, eating healthy may fall by the wayside, often for financial reasons. The Garden Spot, better known as the G-Spot, is based at Carleton University in Ottawa. It's one of several student-organized kitchens across Canada that has been founded in response to a rising student cost of living. "Rising tuition and rent in Ottawa meant that average food budget took a nosedive. Many students literally live on rice and ketchup for weeks at a time, their energy and concentration faltering, and increasingly must rely on coffee and other stimulants to stave off hunger and keep them going," wrote Kelly Fritsch, an early member of the G-Spot collective, nearly a decade ago. The collective has been serving pay-what-you-can, vegan home-cooked meals weekly since 2001.^[1] Carleton Food Collective

Community currencies activism[edit | edit source]

Guelph Wellington Time Bank

Climate action[edit | edit source]

EcoPerth

Sustainable transport activism[edit | edit source]

Guelph Coalition for Active Transportation
Open Streets Hamilton
Ottawa has been the site of Ciclovías-type street closures since 1970. Every Sunday morning during the summer over 50 kilometres of roads in the heart of Ottawa and nearby Gatineau Park are reserved for cyclists, in-line skaters, runners, and pedestrians. Alcatel-Lucent Sunday Bikedays.^[2]
Open Streets Uptown Waterloo

Towards sustainable economies[edit | edit source]

Ontario has announced plans to test a type of unconditional income guarantee; it is currently (Oct 2017) enrolling participants in three areas of the province, who will receive an income guarantee for up to three years.^[3]

Ontario Basic Income Pilot

News and comment[edit | edit source]

2013-2017

Resilience, Community Action and Societal Transformation: in Peterborough, Apr 20, 2017...^[4]
Ontario pilot project puts universal basic income to the test, Oct 28, 2016...^[5]
Ontario plans to trial universal basic income, Mar 7, 2016...^[6]
Windsor Youth Centre plans teaching garden to help build self-esteem and life skills, November 23, 2015...^[7]
Kitchener group builds community cob oven, August 31, 2015...^[8]
Picturesque Perth: a model of sustainable, independent living in Canada, By Jen Wilton, September, 2014...^[9]
Hamilton Getting a First-Class Bike Share, Hits the Road in April,^[10] December 2, 2013.

References

About Ontario[edit | edit source]

Past events

March 22 - 29, 2014, Transition Guelph Resilience Festival

From Wikipedia:Ontario

Ontario is the southernmost province of Canada. Located in Central Canada, Ontario is the country's most populous province. As of the 2021 Canadian census, it is home to 38.5 per cent of the country's population, and is the second-largest province by total area (after Quebec). Ontario is Canada's fourth-largest jurisdiction in total area of all the Canadian provinces and territories. It is home to the nation's capital, Ottawa, and its most populous city, Toronto, which is Ontario's provincial capital.

Ontario is bordered by the province of Manitoba to the west, Hudson Bay and James Bay to the north, and Quebec to the east and northeast. To the south, it is bordered by the U.S. states of (from west to east) Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. Almost all of Ontario's 2,700 km (1,700 mi) border with the United States follows rivers and lakes: from the westerly Lake of the Woods, eastward along the major rivers and lakes of the Great Lakes/Saint Lawrence River drainage system. There is only about 1 km (5⁄8 mi) of actual land border, made up of portages including Height of Land Portage on the Minnesota border.

The great majority of Ontario's population and arable land is in Southern Ontario, and while agriculture remains a significant industry, the region's economy depends highly on manufacturing. In contrast, Northern Ontario is sparsely populated with cold winters and heavy forestation, with mining and forestry making up the region's major industries.

Near you[edit | edit source]

Toronto

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[1] @Shareable

[2] wikipedia:Ciclovía#Canada

[3] @BasicincomeOrg

[4] transitionnetwork.org

[5] The Guardian

[6] The Independent

[7] windsorstar.com

[8] therecord.com

[9] Contributoria

[10] Joey Coleman

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