Everybody Needs a Home

All Saints Kingsway Church 2850 Bloor St West, Toronto

EcuLinks Etobicoke & KAIROS Toronto West invite you to join us for "Everybody Needs a Home", a presentation and discussion on homelessness and the need for affordable housing, and on what we can do. Wednesday February 1, 2023 at 7-8:30...

Free

FAITH PERSPECTIVES ON ECOLOGICAL JUSTICE AND CONSERVATION WEBINAR

Online

This panel discussion will be moderated by Sabrina Chiefari, Creation Care Animator, Sisters of St. Joseph of Toronto and feature: Areej Riaz, Climate Programs Manager, EnviroMuslims Rev. Michelle Singh, Executive Director, Faith & the Common Good Agnes Richard, MLSM Canada...

Free

Unearthing Solidarity: Global Voices on Mining Justice

Online, EASTERN Time Zone

Everyone is invited to join us for this online event with Indigenous and global partners who are advocating for mining justice. Seeking justice in resource extraction has long been a goal for Development and Peace (Caritas Canada) and KAIROS, and...

Voices of Resistance: A celebration of Black History and Imagining Futures

Online, EASTERN Time Zone

The theme of Black History Month 2023 is Black Resistance. This event will highlight ways that Black activists and communities, as well as people of Afro descent and from the Diaspora have expressed and celebrated resistance in the past, present...

Toronto: Prayerful Presence for Mining Justice at the PDAC

Did you know that the majority of the world's mining companies are headquartered in Canada? Each year, the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC), which represents the industry, hosts a convention in Toronto. PDAC members gather to share news...

Burnaby, B.C. – KAIROS Blanket Exercise

Brentwood Presbyterian Church 1600 Delta Ave., Burnaby

Date & Time: March 11th, 3-6p.m. (including a light supper) Location: Brentwood Presbyterian Church, 1600 Delta Avenue, Burnaby, B.C. Co-facilitated by Melaney Gleeson-Lyall, Janette McIntosh, and friends For information on the KAIROS Blanket Exercise please go to link here: Kairos...

Free – $10

Affirming Worship Service

Kamloops United Church 421 St. Paul Street, Kamloops

On Sunday, March 12th Kamloops United Church, 421 St. Paul Street in Kamloops, B.C., will have a special Affirming worship at 10 am, streaming online and in person, with guest speaker Rev. Donald Schmidt, author of The Bible and Homosexuality...

Free

National Affirming PIE Day

Kamloops United Church 421 St. Paul Street, Kamloops

March 14 is National Affirming PIE Day and 2023 has been declared the Year of Intention. On that day Kamloops United Church will be distributing mini-pies (aka “Tarts with Intention”) to passers-by from the front steps of our building at...

Free

Burnaby: A KAIROS Benefit – “The Alouettes”

Brentwood Presbyterian Church 1600 Delta Ave., Burnaby

The Alouettes will share their voices in song and reflections for climate justice. Join in some discussions on faith-full action. Please see poster attached. Date and Time: March 18th 2-4 p.m. followed by a reception Location: Brentwood Presbyterian Church, 1600...

By donation - to KAIROS

The Importance of Growing Gardens

Online - Zoom

This session will provide knowledge, from an Indigenous perspective, of why it is important, in these times more than ever, to grow gardens. We will discuss the physical health benefits of the plants and how to acknowledge creation. Creation plays...

$20.00

Preserving Biodiversity: Creation Care from Faith to Action

Online, EASTERN Time Zone

Join For the Love of Creation (FLC) and Citizens for Public Justice (CPJ) for a thoughtful conversation on Biodiversity and Creation Care in Canada! Our expert and diverse panelists will talk about our planetary boundaries, the latest updates from COP15,...

Earth Hour

Harcourt Memorial United Church 87 Dean Ave.,, Guelph

The event is in two parts: Activities for all ages, followed by a vigil.  The activities will include making art, planting seedlings to take home and networking with local groups working on climate justice.  The vigil by candlelight will include...

Free

Saskatoon & online: Bridging Us

MCC Centre 600 45th Street West, Saskatoon

In a world where there is always a “them”, how do we move to more “us” in our life? Saskatoon is known as the City of Bridges, even so we can find it difficult to build relational bridges, to reach...

$35

Ecumenical Walk for Justice

Meridian Place, Barrie, ON 10 Pinecliff Cres., Barrie

Simcoe County Kairos will be hosting the 2023 annual Ecumenical Walk for Justice on Friday April 7, 2023, from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm at Meridian Place, in downtown Barrie. As a society we must acknowledge that the devastation caused...

Earth Week 2023

Multiple locations

For the Love of Creation invites all faith communities to join with others across the country in: Earth Week 2023 – Together for the Love of Creation During the week of April 16 – 23, engage in a climate justice...

Medicine Wheel Teachings

Online - Zoom

The medicine wheel represents the interrelationship and interconnectedness of the number 4. For instance, the four directions, the four states of being, the four seasons, the four elements, the four sacred medicines and the four stages of life. In this...

$20.00

Addressing Environmental Racism in Canada

Online, EASTERN Time Zone

Climate and ecological justice issues affect everyone on this planet, crossing national, regional and municipal boundaries. But not everyone is affected to the same extent. Extensive studies have demonstrated that predominantly Black, Indigenous and racialized communities are disproportionately impacted by...

Free

Spirit-led: An Interfaith Call to Climate Action

Online, EASTERN Time Zone

Join EnviroMuslims, the Reform Jewish Community of Canada (RJCC) and For the Love of Creation (FLC) for a joint webinar sharing in a circle of ritual and reflection on how our faith compels us to seek climate justice. We will...

Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women In Canada

Online - Zoom

Through the history of colonization, assimilation, and “Ethnostress”, we will learn about the various forms of violence in which Indigenous people in Canada have continuously been targets of sexual violence, physical, cultural, and spiritual genocide, systemic and state violence and...

$20.00

Newmarket, ON: Celebrate and Protect the Greenbelt

Old Town Hall (auditorium) 460 Botsford St, Newmarket

Hear from dynamic speakers and be part of a conversation about Ontario's Greenbelt, as we discuss how its permanent protection is essential for climate resilient communities and a thriving local economy. Sponsored by York Region KAIROS in partnership with Climate...

Free

Mother’s Day for Peace

Christie Pits Park

Carrying on the tradition of mothers and other women calling for an End to War, and  a commitment to Peace and Disarmament, this event celebrates the original meaning and purpose of Mother's Day.  Organized by Pax Christi Toronto,  they will...

Free

Toronto & online: Afro-Colombian Perspectives on Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice

Sidney Smith Hall 100 St George St,, Toronto,

A Conversation with Leyner Palacios Asprilla, Representative of Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-repetition (CEV) with discussant:  Pilar Riaño-Alcalá, Professor, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, University of British Columbia, Co-Director of Memory and Justice...

Decolonizing Ourselves: Legislating Broken Promises, Past and Present

Zoom

Join us online to learn about the problematic Natural Resources Transfer Acts of 1930 and reflect on their significance today in the context of inherent Indigenous rights, Treaties, the Alberta Sovereignty Act and Saskatchewan First Act, with Mary Culbertson, Treaty...

Free

Starry Skies Through indigenous Eyes

Online - Zoom

When you look up at the night’s sky, what do you see? Indigenous star stories are not just stories of “higher beings” and their often-amorous encounters but were seen as part of an all-encompassing perspective of life and spirituality. To...

$20.00

World Day of Prayer for Care of Creation

Online, EASTERN Time Zone

September 1 @ 12:00 pm EST A moment of online prayer and reflection to mark the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, which marks the beginning of the Season of Creation, a period of ecumenical observance that...

Global Climate Strike

Multiple locations

This September, as world leaders discuss climate action at the United Nations in New York, people on every continent will join the largest-ever globally coordinated action to demand that governments end fossil fuels. The climate crisis is escalating but so...

Ottawa – Global Climate Strike

Parliament Hill Ottawa

OTTAWA: Time to End Fossil Fuels September 15 at 1:00 p.m. Parliament Hill KAIROS is happy to support Fridays For Future Ottawa who say, "We are excited to announce that the date has been set for the September 2023 Global...

Multiple Locations: Regularize Everyone: It’s time.

Multiple locations

  Regularize Everyone: It’s time. September 17, 2023 Take to the streets Across the country Bills are skyrocketing, rent is beyond reach, forests are ablaze, and healthcare is being privatized. We are in the midst of an inequality crisis, with...