Events - Member Organizations

Start: Mar/08/2010 - 10:00 am End: Mar/08/2010 - 10:00 am

Emergency Community Meeting
March 8 (International Women's Day)
17 Phoebe Street, Toronto Rape Crisis Centre
10:00am Sharp

The Shelter | Sanctuary | Status Campaign invites shelter workers, residents, managers, counselors and anti-violence against women advocates and activists to attend an urgent community meeting on March 8th.

It has come to our attention, that the Canada Border Services Agency invaded a shelter for women - on February 27, looking to track down Jane, a single mom and survivor of violence from Ghana.

“It’s so scary,” Jane says, who wishes to keep her real name anonymous but is willing to speak to the media. “I thought the shelter was supposed to be a safe space for me and my baby. I’m scared not just for myself, but for non-status women in shelters everywhere who are facing the same fear,” she continued.

Start: Mar/19/2010 - 10:00 am End: Mar/20/2010 - 11:00 pm

THE CITY IS A SWEATSHOP
March 19-20, 2010
http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/thecityisasweatshop

Featuring:

Adil Charkaoui - Migrant Justice Advocate
Lee Maracle - Poet and Author
Clayton Thomas-Mueller - Defenders of the Land
Uzma Shakir - Atkinson Economic Justice Fellow
Sakura Saunders - Media Activist

and many others...

Hidden behind skyscraper towers and corporate greed is a city built on the foundations of stolen land, exploitation of immigrant labor and denial of basic services to those living without full status or in poverty – Toronto. A sweatshop city.

Massive changes to the immigration and refugee system, coupled with renewed Immigration raids have created an even more precarious situation in Toronto, home to thousands of people living without full status.

March 29, 2010 6:00 pm

Join us for an extra special Food for Change dinner. As a finale to Stop for Food, Chef Chris Brown will be joined by the Cross Town Kitchens chefs (Anthony Davis, Jason Inniss, Luis Valenzuela, Bertrand Alépée and Ted Corrado) and the whole team will produce a sumptuous five-course meal for you to enjoy in our beautiful greenhouse. Wine pairings from Coyote's Run.

When: Monday, March 29, 6 pm
Where: The Stop’s Green Barn, 601 Christie St. (Barn 4, in the classroom, south entrance)
How much: $75 ($120 with wine pairings). $100 for Kitchen Crew (limited number of spots available).

Space is limited, reservations required. Please contact Danielle at danielle [at] thestop [dot] org or call 416-652-7867 ext. 250.

  Menu:

 

Parsley root broth with diced root vegetables, crab and fennel sabayon

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Confit rabbit over an olive puree, and topped with carrot leaves and escargot

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Beets and pears cooked in each others liquid, with warm ricotta and arugula

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BBQ lamb with kimchi, black rice and a poached quail egg

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Gianduja chocolate cake with truffle honey and Seville orange ice cream

 

 

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March 16, 2010 6:15 pm Film Night at The Stop’s Green Barn Present: Old Partner (2008)

“…an unexpectedly absorbing look at determination in a vanishing way of life.” – Ed Scheid, Boxoffice Magazine.

Nominated for the World Cinema Documentary at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival
Winner of the Audience Award at the 2008 Seoul Independent Film Festival and the PIFF Mecenat Award at the 2008 Pusan International Film Festival.

Directed by: Chung-ryoul Lee
Running time: 78 minutes.

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened. — Anatole France.
In a remote, verdant valley in South Korea, old Mr. and Mrs. Lee live on a farm with their rickety ox. For forty years, the animal has served them faithfully—hauling untold firewood loads and dragging the plow through fertile fields. A gently unfolding meditation on the cycle of life, Old Partner playfully and poetically tells the story of the ineffable bond between Mr. Lee and his ox as their lives wind down in tandem. Rain or shine, hunched and gnarled, Mr. Lee tills, weeds, and harvests, often crouching on all fours like the ox that never leaves his side. The camera lingering intimately on the ox’s kind eyes and creaky bones allows us to sense the depth of this sentient being’s loyalty as he carts Mr. Lee to town at a snail’s pace. In return, Mr. Lee collects special fodder by hand and refuses to spray insecticides for fear of poisoning his beloved beast. Meanwhile, the cheeky Greek chorus, Mrs. Lee, complains incessantly from the peanut gallery. This traditional life and this ox will be her undoing! A charming, heartbreaking, existential buddy tale, Old Partner conveys the almost mystical inextricability of humans and nature. As laconic Mr. Lee intones, “The ox is my karma.”

Date: Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Location: The Stop’s Green Barn 601 Christie St. Barn 4 in the Classroom (South Entrance)

Dinner starts: 6:15PM
Screening starts: 6:45PM

To attend, please reserve a spot by emailing ash [at] thestop [dot] org or calling 416-652-7867 ext 222.
The film screening and vegan/vegetarian dinner is by a pay-what-you-can donation, with a $12-20 recommendation. No one willl be turned away due to lack of funds. All proceeds go to The Stop Community Food Centre.

 

 

Start: Mar/04/2010 - 6:30 pm End: Mar/04/2010 - 6:30 pm

March 4th, 2010
6:30 PM
Location: Bahen Centre, Room 1180
Address: 40 St. George Street

SPEAKERS:
Dr. Meb Rashid, Family Physician
Jackie Esmonde, Immigration Lawyer
Manavi Handa, Registered Midwife, WestEnd Midwifery Collective
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The cost of healthcare has been established as a barrier for under and uninsured migrant communities in accessing healthcare for decades. Despite the talk, few affordable healthcare options have been made available to these communities.

March 31, 2010 (All day)

From March 1st to 31st, dozens of Toronto's finest restaurants will offer locally-focused prix fixe menus of either $35 or $50 per person, with proceeds from each meal being donated directly to The Stop.

Participating restaurants (please check often as more restaurants may be added):

Amaya The Indian Room, 1701 Bayview Ave.

Amaya's Bread Bar, 3305 Yonge St.

Amuse-Bouche Restaurant, 96 Tecumseth St.              

Blacktree Restaurant, 3029 New St., Burlington

C5, 100 Queen's Park

Cowbell, 1564 Queen St. West

Crush Wine Bar, 455 King St. West

Frank, 317 Dundas St. West

Frida, 999 Eglinton Ave. West

Gilead Bistro, 4 Gilead Place

Globe Bistro, 124 Danforth Ave.

Hank's, 9 Church St. (see menu)

Kaiseiki Sakura, 556 Church St.

Marben, 488 Wellington St. West

Niagara Street Cafe, 169 Niagara St.

Pangaea, 1221 Bay St.

Reds Bistro and Wine Bar, 77 Adelaide St. West (see menu)

Roosevelt Room, 2 Drummond Place

Table 17, 782 Queen St. East (see menu)

The Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen St. West

The Harbord Room, 89 Harbord St.

The Wine Bar, 9 Church St.

Torito Tapas Bar, 276 Augusta Ave.

Trevor Kitchen & Bar, 38 Wellington St. East

Universal Grill, 1071 Shaw St. (see menu)

Veritas Local Fare, 234 King St. East

Vertical Restaurant, 100 King St. West

Via Allegro Ristorante, 1750 The Queensway West

Zucca Trattoria, 2150 Yonge St.

 

 

Start: Mar/01/2010 - 7:00 pm End: Mar/07/2010 - 9:00 pm

Start: Apr/06/2010 - 6:30 pm End: Apr/06/2010 - 6:30 pm

Please join us in Toronto as we demand justice for our people and protection for the water, air, and forests that give life to us all.

Public Talk. Tuesday April 6
6:30 p.m. Steel Workers Hall, 25
Cecil St. (S of College, E of Spadina).

40 years ago our people were poisoned with mercury by a paper mill that contaminated our river upstream. Our people are demanding justice because we are still dealing with the ongoing health impacts of this avoidable disaster. We want to sound the alarm that this poison will affect everyone if we don’t stand together to protect our water.

Start: Feb/14/2010 - 12:00 pm End: Feb/14/2010 - 12:00 pm

When: Sunday, February 14, 2009 @ 12 pm
Where: Rally at Police HQ, 40 College St. at Bay
We'll march to the Coroner’s Office, 26 Grenville St

Gathering with food immediately to follow at U of T’s Centre for Women and Trans People (563 Spadina Ave)

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=451625680316&ref=mf

If you would like to volunteer during the rally/march please meet us at the U of T’s CWTP at 11am on Feb. 14. If you are unable to attend the rally/march but would like to assist cooking/preparing for the gathering, the CWTP will also welcome volunteers from 11am onward.

To get more involved with No More Silence, there will be a New Volunteers Meeting on Sunday, Feb. 28, from 2pm to 4pm at the CWTP.

Over 500 Indigenous women have been murdered or gone missing – most over the last 30 years – on Turtle Island. We come together in defense of our lives and to demonstrate against the complicity of the state in the ongoing genocide of Indigenous women and the impunity of state institutions and actors (police, RCMP, coroners’ offices and the courts) that prevents justice for all Indigenous Peoples.

February 21, 2010 12:30 pm

Seedy Saturdays and Sundays are the days when the new gardening season really begins in earnest. At these wonderful events, you'll have an opportunity to learn more about gardening, hone and share your skills, and buy or exchange vegetable and flower seeds.

We are seeking to ensure that there's an ample supply of heritage and organic seeds available. As well, there'll be plenty of organic gardening supplies, soil amendments, tools and resources. Environmental organizations and community groups will have information tables on all sorts of topics of interest to gardeners.

Sunday February 21, 12:30 to 6:00 pm Artscape Wychwood Barns, Barn#2 (the Covered Street) and The Stop's Green Barn

For more information, please visit www.tcgn.ca

February 16, 2010 6:30 pm

Film Night at The Stop’s Green Barn presents:

FOOD, INC. (2008)

You are what you eat. It's a simple expression that bears scary implications as you watch the acclaimed documentary, Food, Inc. Director Robert Kenner draws upon the searing reportage of authors Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) and Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma) to explore how modern developments in food production pose grave risks to our health and environment. These writers aren't radicals or even vegetarians (Schlosser admits that his favourite meal is a hamburger and fries), but they are crusaders when it comes to exposing problems and naming offenders. There are stories of heartbreak and outrage, but the film carefully channels these emotions towards opportunities for activism. Watching Food, Inc. gives you a strong appetite for better meals.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010
6:30 pm Dinner (Vegetarian)
7:00 to 9:00 pm Screening and discussion

Admission and dinner by donation. Everyone welcome!
601 Christie St., Barn 4 (in the classroom)

All proceeds go to The Stop Community Food Centre
Any questions, please email ash [at] thestop [dot] org or phone 416-652-7867 x222

 

 

February 18, 2010 6:00 pm

Join us on February 18 as Chef Chris Brown prepares a mouthwatering five course meal for you to savour under the stars in the greenhouse of our fabulous Green Barn at Christie and St. Clair. Or if you want to experience life in a professional kitchen, join the kitchen crew and help prepare the feast.

Wine pairing for this month's menu are from Cave Spring Cellars.

Important Information
For guests
Price: Meal only $75, with wine pairing $120
Time: Hors doeuvres served at 6; dinner served at 6:30

For Kitchen Crew
Price: $100
Time: Slotted preparation begins at noon, 1 pm, 2 pm or 3pm and ends around 11 pm. All meals and drinks provided.

How to book: Space is limited, reservations required. Contact Danielle at danielle@thestop.org or by calling 416-652-7867 ext. 250.
Location: The Stop’s Green Barn is located at 601 Christie St. , Barn #4

Menu:

* Pan seared Hallumi (our in house cheese) over braised cabbage, mustard greens and topped with a bacon vinaigrette
* ‘Soup & Sandwich’ - Toasted brioche with beef cheek pastrami with a rich mushroom broth
* Poached local turnip with sautéed green house mushrooms, topped with honey and truffles
* Wood fire roasted halibut with roasted cauliflower over a white wine parsley sauce
* Lemon trio

February 22, 2010 6:30 pm

Stop for Food is back in March! To get your taste buds ready for this year’s event—which features some of the city’s hottest restaurants donating $10 from a fixed price local menu to The Stop—we’re holding an Iron Chef-style match. Chefs from Amuse Bouche, Torito, The Roosevelt Room, C5, and our very own Chris Brown, will square off against celebrity chef Jamie Kennedy. Come out to beautiful C5, enjoy the canapés prepared by both teams, and watch our panel of judges decide who claims bragging rights to the Stop for Food Chef Challenge 2010!

When: February, 22, 6:30 pm.
Where: C5, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park West
How much: $20. Tickets are limited.

Event is sold out!

If you would like to be added to the waiting list, please email krysten [at] thestop [dot] org

 

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Start: May/27/2006 - 1:00 pm End: Jan/31/2010 - 6:49 pm

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Stop the Deportations!
STATUS FOR ALL!
Saturday, May 27, 2006
National Day of Action
(Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal)
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Across Canada, migrants, refugees and their allies will demonstrate against the deportation and detention of migrants and refugees, and for a full, inclusive, unconditional and ongoing regularization program, meaning STATUS FOR ALL!

Building on ongoing organizing efforts led by migrant communities across the Canadian state, we are demonstrating because hundreds of thousands of people live without status, while hundreds of thousands more are exploited by the arbitrary and racist policies of Immigration Canada. Thousands of migrants are forced to live in poverty, without sufficient access to health care or education, and in great fear of being detained or deported, all the while being the most exploited in the workplace.

We are demonstrating as part of a struggle for self-determination as migrants, immigrants and refugees, supported by our allies.

Join us on May 27, in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and elsewhere. We refuse to be invisible; we refuse to live in fear. We demand STATUS FOR ALL!

Start: May/05/2007 - 12:00 pm End: Jan/30/2010 - 4:57 am

March and Community Fair
Saturday, May 5th. 12 p.m.
Christie Pitts Park (Bloor and Christie)
Community Fair at Dufferin Grove Park from 2:30pm-6pm

Everyday over 500,000 undocumented people across Canada, and over 80,000 in Toronto, live in daily fear of detention and deportation. They are our coworkers, fellow students, political activists, family, friends, and community members. Working in the backs of hotels and restaurants, as domestic and agricultural workers, as taxi drivers and construction workers, and in other jobs, undocumented and immigrant communities experience racial profiling, exploitative working conditions, and lack of access to city services.

On May 5th we will come together for our 3rd annual march to show our strength and continue to voice our demands. We will demand an end to detentions and deportations. We will demand access without fear to city services. We will demand a full and inclusive regularization program.

The march will follow week-long celebrations of workers rights worldwide, starting with the May Day demonstrations by our allies in the United States who are planning an even bigger turnout than the millions who turned out last May. Immigrant rights are workers rights and we will be commemorating the immigrant workers traditions of May Day with a strong trade unionist and workers contingent. Marching under the banner "Good Enough to Work, Good Enough to Stay," they will be calling for permanent status for all and not temporary workers permits. Temporary status is not enough to end the exploitation of migrant workers and instead creates further marginalization.

Start: May/03/2008 - 12:00 pm End: Jan/30/2010 - 4:51 am

Saturday, May 3, 2008
Christie Pits Park (at Christie subway station)
12 Noon

*This is a child-friendly demonstration.
Food and drinks will be available.
There will be vehicles on-hand for those with reduced mobility.*

Millions across North America have taken to the streets in the last two years demanding Status for All! In Toronto, workers, students, trade unionists, activists and community members have led passionate demonstrations calling for justice and dignity for immigrants and refugees.

The last year has seen unprecedented targeting of refugees in Sanctuary. Asylum seekers have been arrested from schools, workplaces and even hospital beds. Families have been torn apart. Over 12,000 friends, family, and community members have been deported.

On March 14th 2008, the Conservative government introduced a series of amendments to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA), buried in Bill c-50, a 136-page "budget implementation bill". If passed, the Minister will have the discretion to refuse applications even where the applicants meet the elitist and racist criteria for permanent residence, to refuse to even examine humanitarian applications filed from abroad, and to arbitrarily set quotas on the "category" of person that can enter Canada – including quotas based on country of origin.

In the face of this intimidation and fear, our communities have refused to be silenced. Together, we have forced immigration enforcement out of Toronto District schools. Inspired frontline community workers have taken up the struggle for Access Without Fear. We have fought against, and stopped the deportations of allies and friends.

Date and Time:  March 29, 2010 6:00 pm

Date and Time:  March 1, 2010 6:00 pm

Date and Time:  February 18, 2010 6:00 pm

Start: Jan/07/2010 - 5:15 pm End: Jan/07/2010 - 7:00 pm

January 7, 2010 - 7pm
2757 Kipling Avenue
Buses leave 252 Bloor West at 5:15 sharp.
RSVP by Noon, Jan 6, migrantworkervigil@gmail.com

Four construction workers with precarious immigration status fell to their deaths on Christmas Eve in one of the worst workplace disasters that Toronto has seen in decades. The swing stage scaffolding they were working on broke into two pieces, plummeting the four workers over 13 stories to the concrete below at 2757 Kipling Avenue. A fifth man is in critical condition and will need medical attention for the rest of his life.

We mourn the deaths of these workers. We are enraged that such injustice can take place. Migrant workers take care of children, feed communities, construct housing, clean offices, and take up many other occupations in almost all industries but are treated like second-class workers and denied even the most basic protections.

The workers who died were provided insufficient safety harnesses and forced to work on a site where a cease and desist order had been issued. Workers without full status work the most dangerous jobs in the country and are systemically prevented from being able to assert their rights. These workers died because Canada denied them full status.