The Activist Agenda (Edmonton) is now being released on Thursday so you can see what might fit in your weekend. This list is constantly being updated so I do suggest that you check throughout the week for any updated actions. Visit Activist Agenda to see the latest version.

• March 21st, Thursday – Permaculture Community Gathering and Potluck
• March 21st, Thursday – Kite Making in Solidarity with Gaza
• March 22nd, Friday – World Water Day Summit
• March 22nd, Friday – Weekly Climate Strike
• March 22nd, Friday – End David Parker and Take Back Alberta
• March 23rd, Saturday – Weekly Ceasefire Now event at the Market
• March 23rd, Saturday – Climate Justice Signage Display
• March 24th, Sunday – Edmonton Seedy Sunday
• March 24th, Sunday – Stop! Bombing Gaza
• March 24th, Sunday – Walk for Ukraine, Stop Russian Terror
• March 25th, Monday – New Grocery Movement Presents: The Depth of Fields and the Joy of Gardens
• March 26th, Tuesday – Human Rights Solutions to Homelessness: A National Encampment Response Plan
• March 26th, Tuesday – Innovation for Sustainable Smart Cities & Regions
• March 26th, Tuesday – Alberta Summit: Mobilizing Intersectoral Action on Climate Change and Health
• March 26th, Tuesday – Common Dividends and the Politics of Time
• March 27th, Wednesday – Rally for Gaza
• March 27th, Wednesday – Remembering the 7th National TRC Gathering
• March 28th, Friday – Weekly Climate Strike
• March 30th, Saturday – Weekly Ceasefire Now event at the Market
• March 30th, Saturday – Marshalling and Action Safety 101 Training
• March 30th – March for Palestine
• March 31st, Sunday – World Day to End Fishing
• April 3rd, Wednesday – Seniors Climate Conversation
• April 5th, Friday – Strategy for Sustainability Transitions
• April 6th, Saturday – Fossil Fools Day
• April 10th, Wednesday – Neighbouring For Climate Webinar
• April 11th, Thursday – Canada’s households and the zero carbon transition
• April 12-13 – The Decline and Fall of Western Civilization: Our Choice?
• April 16th, Tuesday – Chris Turner: How to be a Climate Optimist
• April 17th, Wednesday – Canada Pension Investment Board (CPPIB)

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March 21st, Thursday – Permaculture Community Gathering and Potluck: “Are you a gardener? Permaculture Enthusiast? Looking to get involved in Community? Permablitzes? Simply love Potlucks? Everyone is welcome.”
Time: 5:30 pm
Location: St. Augustine’s Anglican Church, located at 6110 Fulton Road

March 21st, Thursday – Kite Making in Solidarity with Gaza: “Join our first art build on campus for a kite making workshop”
Time: 6 – 8 pm
Location: ED N2 Foyer
Instagram: SJP University of Alberta

March 22nd, Friday – World Water Day Summit: “Keynote Speakers, Presentations and Entertainment.  We will come together to discuss our current collective concerns and community-driven solutions to the Water crisis spreading through our territories.”
Time: 8am to 4:30 pm
Location: Royal Hotel West Edmonton, 10010 – 178th Street
Facebook: Keepers of the Water
Cost: 25$ – includes breakfast and lunch
Tickets: Keepers of the Water
Hashtags: #WaterIsLife

March 22nd, Friday – Weekly Climate Strike: A weekly reminder to Edmontonians that we are in a Climate Emergency.
Extra signs will be available for people to use – or bring your own.
Time: 8 am to 9 am
Location: 109th street and 88th Avenue
Facebook: Edmonton Climate Strike
Hashtags: #ClimateStrike #FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrikeYEG #FridaysForFutureYEG

March 22nd, Friday – End David Parker and Take Back Alberta: Please note – this is a counter-protest to the TBA. It could get interesting.
Time: 12 pm to 3 pm
Location: 100, 11510 Kingsway Avenue

March 23rd, Saturday – Weekly Ceasefire Now event at the Market: “We will stand together in solidarity with people around the world calling for an immediate Ceasefire Now in all conflict zones and all parties work towards a just, respectful, and long-lasting peace.”
Time: 11am
Location: Old Strathcona Farmer’s Market, 10310 – 83rd Avenue. I made a What Three Words for the exact location where we normally stand. If we move away from this spot we will be noticeable and easy to find.

March 23rd, Saturday – Climate Justice Signage Display: I will erect these signs beside the bus stop on Gateway and 83rd Avenue. This is a static display since I normally go over and stand with a group of people doing Ceasefire Now activism in front of the market (see event above).
I invite you to join me at this display of signs and you can easily stand there and talk with people to discuss the issues. The signs displayed also include signs about homelessness/houselessness.
Hope to see you out to demand a change that will lessen the impact of the climate emergency we are experiencing (and homelessness/houselessness).
Why do I have UCP on this sign? Well, they form the present government in Alberta and like all previous Alberta governments (including the NDP) have pushed the fossil fuel agenda to the detriment of the planet while knowing what impacts their actions would have on people and planet.
Time: 11 am
Location: Grass area on the NE corner of 83rd avenue and Gateway (104th Street)
Facebook: Edmonton Climate Strike

March 24th, Sunday – Edmonton Seedy Sunday: We’ll have seed vendors, gardening businesses and community organizations, speakers and a seed share (bring your extra seeds, gardening books and magazines to swap)!
Time: 11:00 am to 4:00pm
Location: ​Alberta Avenue Hall, 9210 118 Ave NW
More information: Edmonton Seedy Sunday

March 24th, Sunday – Stop! Bombing Gaza:
Time: 1:00 pm
Location: Paul Kane Park, 122nd Avenue and 103rd Avenue

March 24th, Sunday – Walk for Ukraine, Stop Russian Terror: “Every day we wake up and read in the news about the new terrorist attacks. Almost every day in Ukraine starts with rocket launches, and every night is interrupted by shelling. Every day there are loud sirens and explosions. Every day, civilians and children die, and every hour on the front die Ukrainian defenders.”
Time: 2 pm
Location: 82nd Avenue and Gateway Blvd, (near Hudsons Canada’s Pub).
Instagram: UNFY.Alberta

March 25th, Monday – New Grocery Movement Presents: The Depth of Fields and the Joy of Gardens: “Join New Grocery Movement (NGM) for an evening celebrating farmers and gardeners alike! NGM is a Canadian nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering communities to reimagine groceries and build food sovereignty through education, connection and collaboration.”
Time: 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM MDT
Location: Ritchie Community League, 7727 98 Street
Cost: 6.66$
Tickets: Eventbrite

March 26th, Tuesday – Human Rights Solutions to Homelessness: A National Encampment Response Plan: “Canada’s homeless encampments are a national human rights crisis, and advocates across the country—including the Federal Housing Advocate, Marie-Josée Houle—are sounding the alarm.
On March 26th, join the Federal Housing Advocate and National Right to Housing Network for a panel discussion on the Advocate’s latest encampments report and her urgent call for a human rights-based National Encampments Response Plan.
The Advocate will be joined by a panel of lived experts and grassroots organizers who will speak to how all levels of government can work together to address the urgent and life-threatening crisis of encampments, in collaboration with encampment residents.
As a participant, you will also leave this discussion with practical tools to help you advocate for rights-based responses to encampments in your own communities. Together, we can ensure the immediate safety of encampment residents while addressing the urgent and long-term need for permanent, affordable, and adequate housing solutions.”
Time: 12 – 1:30pm MDT
Location: Virtual
Register: Eventbrite

March 26th, Tuesday – Alberta Summit: Mobilizing Intersectoral Action on Climate Change and Health: “will bring together leading voices, including Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Theresa Tam.”
Time: 1:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Location: Maple Leaf Room, Lister Hall, University of Alberta, Edmonton or via live stream
More information: University of Alberta
Register: University of Alberta

March 26th, Tuesday – Common Dividends and the Politics of Time: Fireside chat and interview: “Dr. Guy Standing is a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS University of London and a founding member and honorary co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), a non-governmental organisation that promotes a basic income for all. Standing has written widely in the areas of labour economics, labour market policy, unemployment, labour market flexibility, structural adjustment policies and social protection. He used the term precariat to describe an emerging mass class characterised by insecurity and lack of any occupational identity. Since the 2011 publication of his book The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class, his work has focused on the precariat, unconditional basic income, deliberative democracy, and the commons.
Standing has authored numerous publications on these topics to critical acclaim, including The Politics of Time: Gaining Control in the Age of Uncertainty (2023), The Blue Commons: Rescuing the Economy of the Sea (2022), Battling Eight Giants: Basic Income Now (2020), Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth (2019), The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay (2016), and Basic Income: And How We Can Make It Happen (2017).”
Time: 1 PM ET
Location: Online
Register: Commonwealth Canada

March 26th, Tuesday – Innovation for Sustainable Smart Cities & Regions: “Insights and innovation for the transformation towards Sustainable Smart Cities & Regions will be presented. The ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences supports cities and municipalities on their way to Smart Sustainable Cities & Regions and the associated solutions. This can be achieved through the intelligent networking of infrastructures with modern technologies, social innovation and the integration of relevant actors as well as transformation management, process support or support in strategy development. With the specially created ZHAW Smart Cities & Regions platform, the ZHAW bundles competencies and experiences across its institutes in order to use them to identify future business areas and innovations, implement co-creation platforms, and to work with you on the integral or partial handling of future-oriented smart city developments in such a way that quality of life and resource efficiency are increased.
Moreover, research partnerships in areas of mutual interest, options for staff and students mobility, joint education and training programmes shall be explored as well.”
Time: 12 – 1pm
Location: In-person and Zoom
Register: University of Alberta

March 27th, Wednesday – Rally for Gaza: “As part of #IsraeliApartheidWeek we will be rallying once again for an end to the genocide in Gaza and Palestine. Let’s show up in numbers to show our campus and wider Edmonton community that we stand on the right side of history. We will NOT be complicit in genocide.
Non-students are welcome to join us as always.”
Time: 4pm
Location: Timms Centre for the Arts, 112th street and 87th Avenue
Instagram: Students for Justice and Peace

March 27th, Wednesday – Remembering the 7th National TRC Gathering: More details to be made available at a later date.
Time: 9am to 10 pm (long day)
Location: Edmonton Intercultural Centre, 10708 95 St NW
Facebook: Creating Hope Society

March 30th, Saturday – Marshalling and Action Safety 101 Training: TRAINING OPPORTUNITY: Join us virtually or in person in Toronto for a marshalling and action safety training! This training is ideal for those with little to no marshalling experience, or those who want to brush up on their action safety knowledge.”
Time: 12pm ET
Location: Virtual – online
Register: Change Course

March 30th – March for Palestine:
Time: 1pm
Location: Sir Winston Churchill Square, 102nd Avenue and 99th Street
Instagram: Free Palestine YEG

March 31st, Sunday – World Day to End Fishing:
Time: 1 pm to 4 pm
Location: Catch of the Week (Fish and Seafood Store), 5036 – 106th Avenue
Facebook: World Day to End Fishing

April 3rd, Wednesday – Seniors Climate Conversation: You are invited to the second Seniors Climate Conversation. Tentative agenda includes coming up with a snappier moniker than Seniors Climate Conversation ; ), establishing some guiding principles, and deciding what issues we want to focus on. You are most welcome to attend this meeting even if you didn’t attend the first one! Hope to see you there. If you have questions feel free to send me an email to loiseauchanter73@gmail.com
Time: 7:00 & 9:00 pm
Location: Idylwylde library – 8310 – 88 Ave

April 5th, Friday- Strategy for Sustainability Transitions: “Kristof Van Assche and Monica Gruezmacher analyze the challenges and possibilities of sustainability transitions, presenting the dilemmas facing the path to sustainable communities and societies, as well as proposing creative solutions. They deploy evolutionary governance theory as a conceptual framing for transition strategy, highlighting the importance of understanding governance and community strategy in any potential response to environmental crises. The presentation is based on a book appearing in April.”
Time: 12 – 1pm
Location: In person and Zoom – Hybrid (Tory 3-36 and Zoom)
Register: University of Alberta

April 6th, Saturday – Fossil Fools Day: RBC is the largest funder of fossil fuels in Canada and they have not negotiated in good face with the Indigenous community, especially with the Wet’suwet’en people. RBC’s AGM is scheduled for April 11th and this is an opportunity to show up and remind this corporation – we are watching.
Time: 1pm
Location: RBC, Unity Square, 11604 104 Ave.

April 10th, Wednesday – Neighbouring For Climate Webinar: “Join us for a free one-hour online session to see how you can be a Climate Connector for your block or building.”
Time: 12 pm (noon)
Location: Online – Virtual
Register: City of Edmonton

April 11th, Thursday – Canada’s households and the zero carbon transition: “Canada’s energy transition is part of the global energy transition currently underway. Canada’s energy system has been evolving, similar to that of other countries, but this time change is urgent to limit warming. In addition to addressing the climate crisis and promoting greater energy security, energy transitions and shifting to renewable energy systems have the potential to address interrelated challenges connected to fossil fuels. But even low carbon transitions can distribute the costs and benefits of transition unequally and calls are being made for the energy transition to be equitable so that it benefits everyone.” See for registration link more information.
Time: 12 – 1pm
Location: Hybrid ==> Henderson Hall — Rutherford Library South (Room 1-17) and ==> Zoom
Register: University of Alberta

April 12-13 – The Decline and Fall of Western Civilization: Our Choice? This is a right-wing ‘freedom’ fest. They are hosting climate change denier Dr. Patrick Moore and Maxime Bernier (People’s Party of Canada).
Others include: John Robson (columnist at Epoch Times and National Post), Michelle Stirling, Stockwell Day, Paul Hinman, Andrew Lawton, and Marc Morano (from Wikipedia – “founded and runs the website ClimateDepot.com… a US non-profit organisation that promotes climate change denial“. It is being sponsored by The Heinze Group.
[This event is only listed for reference in case anyone was interested in disruption and such].
Location: Red Deer

April 16th, Tuesday Chris Turner: How to be a Climate Optimist: In this presentation, based on his most recent bestselling book, Chris Turner distills 20 years on the climate solutions beat worldwide into a powerful case for optimism in the face of the challenge of climate change. Turner has been reporting on clean energy, sustainable business, and smart green design the world over since long before any of these were mainstream interests, and he draws on the full breadth of his extensive reporting to paint a vivid portrait of a global energy transition already tackling the climate crisis and pointing the way to a much brighter future.
Time: 7 pm
Tickets: MacEwan University

April 17th, Wednesday – Canada Pension Investment Board (CPPIB): “The Canada Pension Investment Board (CPPIB) holds regular meetings across the country (usually 1 in each province at least every 2 years) to provide information and take questions from Canadians about their pension plan investments.”
Time: 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Location: TIMMS Centre for the Arts, 112th Street and 87th Avenue
Register: CPP Investments

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Science Literacy Course

We are often told not to believe everything we read online or see on TV—but how do we tell the difference between sensationalized statistics and a real scientific study? Learn how to spot sound science in this 5-week course.
This course is free and offered through the University of Alberta.
Register: University of Alberta you will then need to register at Coursera

Petitions/Letter writing

To trim this page down a bit I have moved the petitions to their own page.

Please send things that should be on this list to michael.kalmanovitch@gmail.com

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