Build Baby Build? Lessons From Mega Pipelines And Mega Resistance
Speaker: Amy Janzwood, Department Of Political Science, Mcgill University

• Wednesday November 12, 2025 @12PM
• 90 Sparks St, Ottawa, ON K1P, Canada

They’re back in court on November 12 to defend the Kichi Sibi and our watershed from a nuclear waste megadump! Concerned Citizens of Renfrew County and Area, Kebaowek First Nation, Sierra Club Canada and the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility took Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) to court and WON . . . but CNL has appealed.

JOIN US as CNL’s appeal is heard, and citizen groups and First Nations again argue before a judge why the law must be respected.

A judge said that Environment Canada should not have issued a “Species at Risk Permit” for the radioactive waste dump to be built on CNL’s chosen site near the Ottawa River, where it will destroy habitat for protected and endangered species. CNL is a creation of and funded by the federal government – so it’s the feds fighting citizens in Federal Court.
Join us from Noon to 2 PM in front of 90 Sparks St. Do it for the endangered bats, songbirds, turtles, Eastern wolves and bears living on the site of the future radioactive megadump!

Join us!�� Please share the event and give your RSVP on the Facebook event:����

Nov 25, 2025 11:00 AM (EST)

Generative AI is permeating higher education in many different ways—it is all around us and increasingly embedded in university work and life, even if we don’t want to use it. But people are also sounding the alarm: Gen AI is disrupting learning and undermining trust in the integrity of academic work, while its energy consumption, use of water, and rapid expansion of data centers are exacerbating ecological crises. What can we do? How do we resist? Come learn about the environmental, social, economic, and political threats that AI poses and how we can individually and collectively resist and refuse. Come learn about how some are challenging the narrative of inevitability. Join an interactive discussion with international scholars and activists on resisting GenAI and big tech in higher education. Inputs from multiple scholar-activists including Christoph Becker (U of Toronto, CA), Mary Finley-Brook (U of Richmond, USA), Dan McQuillan (Goldsmiths U of London, UK), Sinéad Sheehan (University of Galway, Ireland) Jennie Stephens (National University of Ireland Maynooth, IE), and Paul Lachapelle (U of Montana, USA).

Co-sponsored by: Climate Justice Universities Union Climate Campus Network

Please join �Ӱ�ԭ�� University senior writer��,��Global Water Institute director Banu Örmeci and special guests for a conversation about Dan’s new book,��: A 1,200-Mile Paddleboarding Pilgrimage, and the important role that “blue space” plays in our lives and communities. The book, which is rooted in Dan’s journalistic paddleboard journey from Ottawa back to Ottawa via Montreal, New York City and Toronto, has been called “a must-read for anyone drawn to the intersection of nature, history and adventure” by author and adventurer Colin Angus. It explores the health, ecological social benefits of spending time in, on and around water. Dr. Örmeci is not only one of Canada’s leading water researchers, she’s also an avid swimmer, and this past summer led a project that ��at multiple locations on the Rideau River. Light refreshments will be served and a Q&A will follow the discussion.

Date: Wednesday, October 29

Time: 12:00-1:00PM

Location: Richcraft Hall (RB) 1201

What you can expect:��

• Creative exploration
  
• Mapping/drawing spaces of care
  
• Co-created gallery of participant art
  
• Facilitated Q+A with Decision Makers
  
• Updates on our Caring Cities project
  

Why you should attend:��

• Have your voice heard
  
• Share your lived experience
  
• Help us identify community driven solutions
  
• Imagine & Create

CAWI envisions a city where everyone can thrive. Where diverse voices are heard, valued and honoured. Where social equity, inclusion and justice are priorities.Our grassroots non-profit is led and run by diverse women. To pursue CAWI’s vision, they work with women, non-binary and gender-non-conforming residents with lived experience of marginalization, as well as partners and City decision makers.

A Zoom link will be sent out to all registrants ahead of the meeting.

Is that spot on your apple or fuzz on your cheese a reason to toss it—or is it still safe to eat? In this eye-opening and interactive session, Rachael Jackson, creator of the��Eat or Toss?��website, will give you a guided tour of the��Eat or Toss?��platform—an easy-to-use resource designed to help you waste less food by understanding what physical changes in your foods really mean so you can make informed decisions about what stays and what goes.

Rachael will also host a live Q&A to answer your most curious or questionable food blemish dilemmas, helping you separate fact from fiction when it comes to food safety.

By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Gain more understanding of why certain foods might look “off”

• Gain science-informed guidance on assessing whether food is safe to eat

• Explore the��Eat or Toss?��website as a go-to tool for food waste prevention

• Feel more confident in making food safety decisions at home

Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm Pacific / 7:00 – 8:00 pm Eastern

Led by: Rachael Jackson, founder and author of��

Language: English (with French subtitles)

Friday Forum 1:00PM-2:30 EDT Friday October 10, 2025

The British Columbia Ministry of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness and the Ministry of Energy and Climate Solutions led a provincial disaster and climate risk and resilience assessment (DCRRA), and are continuing to advance disaster and climate risk assessment practice in the province. This work will inform risk reduction and resilience planning and support regulated entities under BC’s Emergency and Disaster Management Act. The DCRRA team collaborated with a First Nations Committee and engaged over 200 subject matter experts to conduct the assessment.

The assessment looks at six key hazards: extreme heat, drought, wildfires, coastal flooding, riverine flood and earthquakes, and considered the possibility of multi-hazard events. It examined the consequences of these hazards across six value areas: built environment, natural environment, health and wellbeing, economy, governance, and society, culture and relationality. Findings and data will be made available on ClimateReadyBC, an online tool to help people understand and reduce disaster risks.

This year’s conference, titled “” will take place on��Thursday, October 9^th��in Ottawa and online.

Organized in partnership with��The Walrus, the one-day conference will bring together global experts in climate and economic policy, media, and civil society to explore how climate disinformation is obstructing climate policy and action. The conference consists of three panel discussions and a keynote address by Charlotte Scaddan, Senior Adviser on Information Integrity, United Nations Global Communication.

The conference program can be found on the Max Bell School’s��.

If you’re able to join in person, you may confirm your attendance by��. This conference is free to attend.