Sackville: Mass KAIROS Blanket Exercise

Mount Allison University 62 York Street, Sackville

FREE. Everyone invited. The more people...the more powerful. Join us! Outdoors on Alumni Field (rain alternate: Athletic Centre). A true expansion of what the Blanket Exercise experience means for Atlantic Canada. If you are ready to help reconcile the past...

Reconciliation in the Watershed – Winnipeg

A workshop to re-learn and re-vamp understandings of the environment through decolonizing our relationship with water. Our watersheds sustain our lives and connect us to those both near and far - but our actions have impacts on the environment beyond...

NANAY: A Monologues play

Prairie Theatre Exchange Colin Jackson Studio 3rd Floor Portage Place Mall Prairie Theatre Exchange Colin Jackson Studio 3rd Floor Portage Place Mall, Winnipeg

Migrant Workers Solidarity Network & Migrante Manitoba are bringing a play of Monologues about the human costs borne by female Live-in Caretakers. Date is May 31. Part of PTE Festival of New Works. Free admission. #PTEfestival

Holy Land Hospitality: A Pathway to Peace with speaker, Dafer Kassis, Advocacy Officer with the Alternative Tourism Group

70 St. Mary Street, Toronto, ON Mary Ward Centre (in the Loretto College building), Toronto

7 pm on Monday, June 3rd, 2019 Mary Ward Centre (in the Loretto College building) 70 St. Mary Street, Toronto, ON The Alternative Tourism Group (ATG) is a Palestinian NGO specializing in tours and pilgrimages that include critical examinations of the history,...

Gaza calls: Canada answers on June 8, 2019

On Saturday, June 8th 12PM Eastern Time, join Canadian Friends of Sabeel and local groups in your area during a nationwide live call with Gaza, to listen to the experiences of the Gazan people. This call will focus primarily on...

Regina: KAIROS Conversation – Potluck & Discussion

Wesley United Church 3913 Hillsdale St., Regina

To: anyone interested in working for justice in an ecumenical network. All are welcome! This is a time to talk about HOW we can do justice work TOGETHER. Join the conversation. From: Dan Beveridge (past chair, KAIROS Regina local group)...

Saskatoon: KAIROS Conversation – Potluck & Discussion

St. Andrews Presbyterian Church 436 Spadina Cres, Saskatoon

To: anyone interested in working for justice in an ecumenical network. All are welcome! This is a time to talk about HOW we can do justice work TOGETHER. Join the conversation. From: Rev Roberto DeSandoli, Minister at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian...

The Human Element Screening – Toronto Climate Film Festival

Please join us for another screening of the Toronto Climate Film Festival hosted by ClimateFast and Greenpeace Canada. During his four-decade career as a photographer and explorer, James Balog has focused his lens on the complex relationship between humans and...

Fires in the Amazon – Ottawa Action at Brazil Embassy

This action for the Amazon in solidarity with Indigenous Peoples in Brazil, is in response to the call from APIB (Indigenous Peoples Articulation of Brazil) with Amazon Watch and Extinction Rebellion, for actions on September 5, Amazon Day in Brazil:...

Webinar: A future for the Amazon, A future for all

From October 6 to 24th, the Vatican will be holding a Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the theme Amazonia: New Paths for the Church and for an Integral Ecology. Why has Pope Francis placed a special focus on the Amazon? What does...

Free

Webinar: Media 101 for youth climate organizers

With the September climate strikes fast approaching, you might be hoping to get more media attention for your events and raise awareness of your efforts to build the movement. We’re here to help! On September 10 at 4 p.m. PDT...

Free

Ottawa: Plastic Dump

Ottawa Parliament Hill 1 Wellington Street, Ottawa, Ottawa

We need your help! We're so thrilled that the City of Ottawa passed the motion to eliminate single-use plastics. But the work is not over yet. We're planning a Plastic Dump on September 13 with groups like Ecology Ottawa, Extinction Rebellion,...

Halifax Eco Justice Fair

The Eco-Justice Fair is an opportunity for environmentalists from across the Diocese and community to congregate and network. We invite the community into the space of the church while creating space to inform on environmental issues and foster relationships. There...

Free

Montreal: Community Call-in, Storytelling to Reimagine & Regenerate

Métèque 5442 Chemin de la Cote-Saint-Luc, Montreal

*Français plus bas* On September 14, 2019, Leap Montreal, Native Immigrant and La Métèque are organizing a sister event to Our Climate Voices and Loam’s Community Call-In: Storytelling to Reimagine & Regenerate, an event to inspire creative climate storytelling and...

$12

Saskatoon: Development & Peace Campaign Extravaganza: For Our Common Home

St. Thomas More College, U of S 1437 College Drive, Saskatoon

The D&P region of Saskatchewan - Keewatin Le Pas is inviting its members and the public to our Campaign Extravaganza on Saturday September 14th, 2019 at St. Thomas More College, U of S (1437 College Drive, Saskatoon). Beginning at 1:00...

$35

Cambridge, ON: Harvesting Celebration – Common Waters and Minjimendan

Sprinbank Gardens and North House 681 Blair Road, Cambridge

Join Mkomosé (Andrew Judge), Don Russell, Bill Woodworth, Christine Lefebvre, rare, and Common Waters for an evening harvest celebration and balancing of water and fire. Three sacred fire’s will be lit to honour the ancestors of the land, the blue...

Free

Toronto: Climate First Tour

Convocation Hall, UofT 27 King's College Circle, Toronto

Next Saturday, Sept. 14, David Suzuki, Stephen Lewis and Buffy Sainte-Marie will speak in Toronto -- the first stop on David and Stephen’s national Climate First tour to bring attention to the climate crisis before Canadians go to the polls...

$10 – $20

Pax Christi Toronto’s 2019 Teacher of Peace Award Event

Neuman Hall, St. Patrick's Church 131 McCaul Street, Toronto

Fr. Paul Hansen, former KAIROS Board Chair, has been nominated as Pax Christi Toronto's 2019 Teacher of Peace.   Since the PCT Teacher of Peace Award was established in 2013,  Paul is the fourth person, with a KAIROS connection, to...

Report back on landmark “Hudbay Minerals” lawsuits Bringing Canadian mining companies to justice

OISE (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education), Nexus Lounge 252 Bloor Street W, Toronto

On September 17, 2019, there will be a public court hearing in Toronto to determine whether the Mayan Q’eqchi’ plaintiffs from Guatemala can amend their pleadings regarding Skye Resources’ (that amalgamated with Hudbay Minerals in 2008) violent forced evictions in...

Free

3% Virtual Assembly

Ahead of the September 27 climate strike, 3% Project is organizing a free school-wide Virtual Assembly on Wednesday, September 18, 2019. The Virtual Assembly will provide youth-friendly, holistic education on climate solutions in the context of the UN Sustainable Development Goals...

Free

Barrie – Amnesty Book Club: The Right to be Cold by Shiela Watt-Coultier

Barrie Public Library 60 Worsley Street, Barrie

The Right to Be Cold is a human story of resilience, commitment, and survival told from the unique vantage point of an Inuk woman who, in spite of many obstacles, rose from humble beginnings in the Arctic community of Kuujjuaq, Quebec—where...

Week for Future

September 20-27, 2019 will mark the Week for Future. Both nationally and internationally events will be happening in support of those fighting for responses to the climate emergency. This is a grassroots movement demanding immediate climate action from governments and corporations worldwide. The Earth...

Multiple Cities: A Future for the Amazon, a Future for All

Join a workshop in your region to learn about Development and Peace’s new campaign For our Common Home: A future for the Amazon, a future for all. You will delve into the issues that are threatening the Amazon and its people, and learn...

Halifax: Inter faith Gathering and Climate Action Rally

Grand Parade 1770 Barrington St, Halifax

Join us for an interfaith gathering and climate action rally at noon at Grand Parade in Halifax on Friday, September 20. We’ll honour the victims of climate change with a moment of silence and hear from faith leaders and climate...

Toronto – Youth Climate Strike Teach-In

Hart House 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto

"When I grow up, I'd like to be alive"... The climate crisis is real, is happening already, and will affect everything we love. So what do we do when our world is under attack? STAND UP FIGHT BACK! Join us...

Free

Nelson: Climate Action for Peace

Lakeside Park

“Climate Action for Peace” is the theme of this year’s International Day of Peace, to be held in Nelson Saturday, September 21st.  KAIROS, an interfaith group that works for environmental justice in Canada and the world, will host the event,...