From OISE: Join us . . . → Read More: Roxana Ng Memorial Symposium, May 28]]> Note: Dr. Roxana Ng was a member of OWN and co-partnered our Housing Forum at OISE. Roxana’s colleagues in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education at OISE have organized a memorial symposium in her honour, and all are invited. OWN members may want to remember her on this occasion. 

From OISE: Join us to celebrate the academic and activist contributions of Professor Roxana Ng, who taught at OISE/UT for 25 years and passed away earlier this year.

Schedule
12:30-1:00 — Light Refreshments
  1:00-3:00 — Opening Remarks, Video Essay, Panel Discussion (Alison Griffith, Tania Das Gupta, Renita Wong)
  3:00-3:30 — Break
  3:30-5:30 — Circle Discussion
  5:00-6:30 — Reception, and Performance by Pantayo
  6:30-7:30 — Keynote Address by Himani Bannerji, and Closing Remarks
 
Sponsored by the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education and the OISE Dean’s Office. Organizing Committee: Sheila Batacharya, Adriana Berlingieri, Sara Carpenter, Jamie Magnusson, Kiran Mirchandani, Shahrzad Mojab
 

Fri., May 10, 5 pm — Movie: THE BIG WEDDING, Rainbow Market Square, 80 Front St. E., telephone: 416-494-9371

We are trying to find some sort of entertainment for one of the Victoria Day days. If anyone . . . → Read More: Friendship Link events for May 2013]]> Thur., May 9, 7 pm — Movie: CLOUDBURST, Carlton Theatre, 20 Carlton St., telephone: 416-494-9371 Press 4

Fri., May 10, 5 pm — Movie: THE BIG WEDDING, Rainbow Market Square, 80 Front St. E., telephone: 416-494-9371

We are trying to find some sort of entertainment for one of the Victoria Day days. If anyone knows of a programme at Spadina House (besides Afternoon Tea), please advise me: Susan Mansfield-Jones @ 416-242-6446. Please use the telephone as my computers are being fractious at this present time — grandson was experimenting with fist coordination!

Announced yesterday, Ontario will provide more than 200,000 additional seniors and patients with improved access to high-quality physiotherapy, exercise, and falls prevention classes. Beginning August 1, 2013, more one-on-one physiotherapy, group exercise classes and falls prevention services will be available in long-term care homes and in . . . → Read More: More Ontario Seniors to Benefit from Physiotherapy and Exercise]]> New Ontario Government Expanding Access to Care for Seniors

Announced yesterday, Ontario will provide more than 200,000 additional seniors and patients with improved access to high-quality physiotherapy, exercise, and falls prevention classes. Beginning August 1, 2013, more one-on-one physiotherapy, group exercise classes and falls prevention services will be available in long-term care homes and in communities across Ontario. Click to see the full story.

Vegetarian Dinner and report-back and special acknowledgement of our New Members. $20 per person or pay what you can. . . . → Read More: Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) AGM on April 10, 6-9 pm]]> Join VOW for an exciting evening when many of the VOW delegates who attended the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women will update us on all that happened during their time at the UN.

Vegetarian Dinner and report-back and special acknowledgement of our New Members.
$20 per person or pay what you can.
Wed., Apr. 10, 6-9 pm
Venue: Friends House, 60 Lowther Avenue, Toronto
Contact us by email info@vowpeace.org or by telephone 416-603-7915

Bea will be known to many of you. She has been an advocate for seniors for several years. She was a Founding Member and Co-Chair of the Ontario Coalition . . . → Read More: Bea Levis to receive Positive Aging Award at OGA conference]]> Bea Levis, a long-time advocate for older women and for seniors, is to be presented with the OGA Positive Aging Award during this year’s OGA Conference.

Bea will be known to many of you. She has been an advocate for seniors for several years. She was a Founding Member and Co-Chair of the Ontario Coalition of Senior Citizens Organizations; past Chair of the Toronto Mayor’s Committee on Aging; and active member of the Toronto Seniors Advisory Group and the Older Women’s Network (OWN).

Her years of dedicated work, which has continued into her later years, makes her an excellent recipient of the OGA’s Positive Aging Award.

The Conference is May 1-2, 2013, entitled “Working Together Across the Generations,” and Bea will be honoured on Wed., May 1 at 7:15 pm. For more information on the Conference, see program and registration site.