Great Lakes Need Great Friends Tour: Calendar of Events

Great Lakes Need Great Friends:
Protecting The Great Lakes Forever
8 City Tour – May 2012

Join Maude Barlow and other guests to celebrate the Great Lakes—a common heritage that belongs to the Earth, other species and future generations as well as our own. Hear how we can collectively protect them from private interests and government complacency and restore more democratic control over them.

Details to be updated as available.

May 15 – Toronto
7:00 p.m. The Argonaut Rowing Club, 1225 Lake Shore Bl W, Toronto, ON, Canada
Speakers:

• Mark Mattson, Lake Ontario Waterkeepers
• Kevin McMahon, Director of Waterlife
• Chiefs of Ontario
• Maude Barlow, The Council of Canadians

May 16 – Hamilton
7:30 p.m. Hamilton First Unitarian Church, 170 Dundern St. South, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Speakers:

• Linda Lucasik, Executive Director of Environment Hamilton
• Mark Mattson, Lake Ontario Waterkeepers
• Maude Barlow, The Council of Canadians

May 17 – Thunder Bay
6:15 p.m. Italian Cultural Centre, 132 S. Algoma Street, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada
Speakers:

• Josephine Mandamin (Beedawsige)
• Ellen Mortfield, Executive Director, EcoSuperior
• Charlene Rogers, President, Environment North
• Maude Barlow, The Council of Canadians

May 22 – Kingston
7:00 p.m. Queens University, Dupuis Auditorium, 99 University Ave, Kingston, ON, Canada
Speakers:

• Bob Lovelace
• Mark Mattson, Lake Ontario Waterkeepers
• Maude Barlow, The Council of Canadians

May 24 – Sarnia
7:00 p.m. Lambton Inn Ballroom Lambton College, 1457 London Road, Sarnia, ON, Canada
Speakers:

• Justin Duncan, Ecojustice
• Ron Plain, Aamjiwnaang First Nation
• Maude Barlow, The Council of Canadians

May 28 – Township of Tiny
7:00 p.m. Tiny Community Centre, 91 Concession 8 East, Perkinsfield, ON, Canada
Speakers:

• Maude Barlow, The Council of Canadians

May 29 – Owen Sound
7:00 p.m. Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre, 1900 3rd Avenue East, Owen Sound, ON, Canada
Speakers:

• Maude Barlow, The Council of Canadians

May 30 – London
7:00 p.m. Aeolian Hall, 795 Dundas St., London, ON, Canada (Arrive early for a special performance by the children’s choir El Sistema London from 6:30 to 7:00)
Speakers:

• Thom McClenaghan, President, Friends of the Coves Subwatershed
• Patrick Donnelly, Urban Watershed Program Manager City of London
• Maude Barlow, The Council of Canadians