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CIBC LunarFest

Jan 20 2012 - 6:00pm
Jan 24 2012 - 8:00pm

Location

Harbourfront Centre
235 Queens Quay West
Toronto, ON M5J 2G8
Canada
Phone: 416-973-4000
43° 38' 19.6512" N, 79° 22' 59.1852" W
See map: Google Maps

 

Harbourfront Centre is celebrating the Lunar New Year with CIBC LunarFest. CIBC LunarFest is Canada's premier presenter of contemporary expression in Asian arts and culture, and this year's festival, celebrating the dawn of the Year of the Dragon, will be centred on the theme of "Treasures of the Sea."

The festival's centrepiece will be a giant Lantern Aquarium. Inside, a variety of exhibitions of traditional and contemporary arts created by some of Taiwan's foremost artisans explore the world under the sea.

Contact name: 
Harbourfront Centre
Contact email: 
info@harbourfrontcentre.com
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Watch me: movie reviews with Cathi Bond
Watch me: movie reviews with Cathi Bond

Movie review: Aftershock

November 11, 2011
| Don't miss Aftershock, a riveting political flick about a family rebuilding after the Tangshan Quake in 1976.

3:49 minutes (2.66 MB)

Families, time and well-being

By Andrew Jackson
| November 1, 2011

Inequality of well-being among families with children is increasing at an even faster rate than income inequality, according to a new study by Peter Burton and Shelley Phipps, "Families, Time, and Well-Being in Canada." They find that total family working hours have increased for most families, but not for those at the top of the income spectrum who have been receiving the largest gains in income.

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Pamela Palmater

Bill S-2 - Family Homes on Reserves: Protection or threat?

By Pamela Palmater
| October 3, 2011

On Wednesday, September 28, 2011, Minister John Duncan introduced Bill S-2 An Act Respecting Family Homes Situated on First Nation Reserves and Matrimonial Interests or Rights in or to Structures and Lands Situated on Those Reserves in the Senate where it had its First Reading. The short name for this proposed legislation is Family Homes on Reserves and Matrimonial Interests or Rights Act. The full text can be found here.

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Nature Trust and Acadia University land conservation announcement

Sep 8 2011 - 6:30pm
Sep 8 2011 - 8:30pm

Location

Museum of Natural History
1747 summer Street
Halifax, NS
Canada
44° 38' 43.8576" N, 63° 35' 7.9728" W
See map: Google Maps

A dynamic new land conservation partnership has been formed between the Nova Scotia Nature Trust and Acadia University.

 

 

Contact name: 
Robin Levy
Contact email: 
robin@nsnt.ca
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Columnists

The consequences of Toronto city cuts for youth

Here's one dirty word you can call me, Mammoliti. Call me motha. You, too, Ford brothas. It's about time we started to talk family, because you're not just messing with the grown-ups when you tear all civility and grace from Toronto's public sphere.

The KPMG report you're studying for surgical guidance documents every place where the city offers any degree of excellence or innovation. These are highlighted as "opportunities" for the knife. How's that for a subliminal message to the kiddies? Let's gang up on the best and brightest.

This is perhaps too subtle for the mayor, but if you check out news from across the pond you can see it's time we paid attention to the subliminal messages in our urban culture fashions.

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by Jim Silver
(Fernwood Publishing,
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Jim Silver's latest, Good Places to Live, presents an unequivocal argument against the trend towards demolition of public housing projects and sale of these properties to private-sector developers. Pulling no punches, Silver characterizes such acts as a transfer of wealth from the poor to the already wealthy, and demonstrates the role of neo-liberalism in displacing the poor and furthering the current housing crisis.

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Can’t Sit Still animation workshop for children

May 7 2011 - 10:30am
May 7 2011 - 12:30pm

Location

NFB Mediatheque
150 John (at Richmond)
Toronto, ON
Canada
Phone: 416.973.3012
43° 38' 56.994" N, 79° 23' 27.3876" W
See map: Google Maps

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| Lynda Simmons, author of new novel Island Girl, with issue of early on-set Alzheimer's, launches her book Dec. 8, 2010.

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Get animated for Halloween! Family animation workshops

Oct 31 2010 - 12:30pm
Oct 31 2010 - 2:30pm

Location

NFB Mediatheque
150 John (at Richmond)
Toronto, ON
Canada
Phone: 416 973 3012
43° 42' 17.9208" N, 79° 30' 43.3188" W
See map: Google Maps

Be the star of your own spooky story during these special "Halloweekend" animation workshops! Act our scenes against our Halloween-themed background, which will turn you into a pixillated star - you won't believe your eyes when you Get Animated! Come in costume for an even more magical experience.

The Workshop is followed by a screening of Fairy Tales for All, a selection of the most popular NFB animated fairy tales.

Registration is required, Call 416 973 3012 to register today.

 

 

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