Toronto Oasis, Secular Community

This will be an online Zoom meeting.  See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions.  Our program will run from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. You can join the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social.

We will be watching and then discussing a TED talk featuring investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr.  She was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and won the Orwell Prize for Political Journalism (2018).  She writes the independent Substack newsletter How to Survive the Broligarchy. This topic & video were selected and will be introduced by Tania Akon, a Toronto Oasis organizer.

Please RSVP on our Meetup page for this event to get access to the Zoom link: https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/316948455

By participating in this event, you agree to abide by the Toronto Oasis Code of Conduct (http://torontooasis.org/code-of-conduct).

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!

This will be an online Zoom meeting.  See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions.  Our program will run from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. You can join the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social.

We will be watching and then discussing two TED talks featuring Dr. Fei-Fei Li. She is a Chinese-American computer scientist, professor, and entrepreneur widely known as the “Godmother of AI” for her foundational work in the development of AI. This topic & videos were selected and will be introduced by Tania Akon, a Toronto Oasis organizer.

Please RSVP on our Meetup page for this event to get access to the Zoom link: https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/316942703

By participating in this event, you agree to abide by the Toronto Oasis Code of Conduct (http://torontooasis.org/code-of-conduct).

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!

This will be an online Zoom meeting.  See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions.  Our program will run from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. You can join the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social.

We will be watching and then discussing an interview of AI pioneer Dr. Fei-Fei Li.  This topic & video were selected and will be introduced by Tania Akon, a Toronto Oasis organizer.

Please RSVP on our Meetup page for this event to get access to the Zoom link: https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/316726214

By participating in this event, you agree to abide by the Toronto Oasis Code of Conduct (http://torontooasis.org/code-of-conduct).

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!

This will be an online Zoom meeting.  See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions.  Our program will run from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. You can join the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social.

We will be watching and then discussing an episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on the topic of AI Chatbots.  This topic & video were selected and will be introduced by Tania Akon, a Toronto Oasis organizer.

Please RSVP on our Meetup page for this event to get access to the Zoom link: https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/316726208

By participating in this event, you agree to abide by the Toronto Oasis Code of Conduct (http://torontooasis.org/code-of-conduct).

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!

This will be an online Zoom meeting.  See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions.  Our program will run from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. You can join the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social.

We will be watching and then discussing a video featuring an interview of Wab Kinew, the first premier of First Nations descent in Canada. This topic & video were selected and will be introduced by Tania Akon, a Toronto Oasis organizer.

Please RSVP on our Meetup page for this event to get access to the Zoom link: https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/316543923

By participating in this event, you agree to abide by the Toronto Oasis Code of Conduct (http://torontooasis.org/code-of-conduct).

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!

This will be an online Zoom meeting.  See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions.  Our program will run from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. You can join the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social.

We will be watching and then discussing a video of an interview of Tanya Tagaq, a Canadian Inuk throat singer, experimental musician, and bestselling author from Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. She is a member of the Order of Canada, and Polaris Music Prize and JUNO Award winner. This topic & video were selected and will be introduced by Tania Akon, a Toronto Oasis organizer.

Please RSVP on our Meetup page for this event to get access to the Zoom link: https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/316543905

By participating in this event, you agree to abide by the Toronto Oasis Code of Conduct (http://torontooasis.org/code-of-conduct).

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!

This will be an online Zoom meeting.  See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions.  Our program will run from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. You can join the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social.

We will be viewing and then discussing a TVO The Agenda interview of Bob Joseph – author of the book: “21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality.” This topic & video were selected and will be introduced by Tania Akon, a Toronto Oasis organizer.

Please RSVP on our Meetup page for this event to get access to the Zoom link: https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/316446309

By participating in this event, you agree to abide by the Toronto Oasis Code of Conduct (http://torontooasis.org/code-of-conduct).

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!

This will be an online Zoom meeting.  See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions.  Our program will run from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. You can join the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social.

September 30th is our National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada.  So, Toronto Oasis will be focusing on related topics throughout this month.

Each Sunday this month, we will be watching and then discussing and reflecting on, one or more videos about Canada and its Indigenous Peoples.  The videos & topics will be introduced by Tania Akon, a Toronto Oasis organizer.

Please RSVP on our Meetup page for this event to get access to the Zoom link: https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/316431337/

By participating in this event, you agree to abide by the Toronto Oasis Code of Conduct (http://torontooasis.org/code-of-conduct).

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!

This will be an online Zoom meeting.  See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions.  Our program will run from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. You can join the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social.

We will be listening to an episode of CBC’s Front Burner podcast which discusses the importance of Canada’s ability to regulate big tech in light of the recent threats to the country’s sovereignty by the U.S.

This episode features an interview with Vass Bednar, the director of the Canadian Shield Institute, which is a thinktank developing ideas to strengthen Canadian democracy, prosperity, and sovereignty. The episode will be introduced by Ryan Zhang, a Toronto Oasis organizer.

Please RSVP on our Meetup page for this event to get access to the Zoom link: https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/316303208

By participating in this event, you agree to abide by the Toronto Oasis Code of Conduct (http://torontooasis.org/code-of-conduct).

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!

This will be an online Zoom meeting.  See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions.  Our program will run from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. You can join the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social.

Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992), co-Laurette of the 1974 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, was one of the most influential economists of the twentieth century. His key insight was how prices provide the information needed to coordinate the economic activities of millions of people without a central planner. Another key insight was that if people have economic freedom, markets will emerge as a spontaneous order. Based on these insights, Hayek developed his theory of the business cycle which was cited by the Nobel committee in awarding him the Nobel Prize. From these insights, he also developed his critiques of Keynesianism and socialism.

For Hayek, these were not merely academic arguments, but in light of what happened in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union, were of the utmost practical importance. In The Road to Serfdom (1944), he warned that autocracy could also emerge in democracies if central governments take too large a role in the economic lives of their citizens.

This presentation by Toronto Oasis participant Paul Kaplan will discuss Hayek’s ideas and their relevancy today.

Please RSVP on our Meetup page for this event to get access to the Zoom link: https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/316142873

By participating in this event, you agree to abide by the Toronto Oasis Code of Conduct (http://torontooasis.org/code-of-conduct).

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!