1) Defy the Ides of March: Beer Tasting and BrewHaHa

Sierra Club of Canada Foundation FUNdraiser

Sample locally brewed beer, mark your ballot to select the very best, listen to some very funny comedians... and support the work of the Sierra Club Canada Foundation at the same time!

The Lansdowne Brewery, in partnership with the Sierra Club Canada Foundation, invites you to have a great night for a great cause. For only $25 dollars (including a $10 donation to SCCF) you will receive a ballot, five 5oz. samples of local brew and get to hang out with people who care about the environment. And, you can stay on for the weekly comedy BrewHaHa.

The Ides of March - Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Beer Tasting 7:00 - 8:30; BrewHaHa 9:30 pm on
Lansdowne Brewery
303 Lansdowne Avenue
Toronto, M6K 2W5
(where College, Dundas and Lansdowne meet)

RSVP via email: mkainer@sympatico.ca or on the Facebook page.

2) Ask Premier Wynne to vote “NO” on water diversion that contradicts Great Lakes Compact

Our friends at Freshwater Future have created a webpage to help you quickly and easily submit your public comment before the deadline of March 14. (Link here too: http://act.freshwaterfuture.org/page/speakout/waukesha)

Background

If approved by the Great Lakes governors, the community of Waukesha, Wisconsin will be the first allowed to divert Great Lakes water under the Great Lakes Compact and Agreement -- which bans diversions of Great Lakes water with limited exceptions. Waukesha is hoping to be one of those exceptions. It took years of careful negotiation between Ontario and Quebec with the eight Great Lakes states to develop these protections.

The problem with this proposal is that it doesn’t meet the strict standards set to be an allowable “exception” to the ban on diversions. If we don’t deny this first weak proposal and keep these standards high, the floodgates could be opened to all sorts of diversion proposals we fought for years to protect our Great Lakes from.  

Please act now! Comments will only be accepted until Monday March 14, 2016.

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