Category: News

This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions

Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm. You can join in to the meeting starting at 10:30 am for our open social. After 12:30 pm, we will also have an extended discussion for half an hour, until 1:00 pm.

We will be listening to and then discussing a YouTube video interview of Rodney Allgood, a motivational speaker and international empowerment coach. The video and topic will be introduced by Tania Akon, a Toronto Oasis organizer.

Please RSVP on meetup to get access to the Zoom link:

https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/296639831/

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

This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions

Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm. You can join in to the meeting starting at 10:30 am for our open social. After 12:30 pm, we will also have an extended discussion for half an hour, until 1:00 pm.

We will be watching and then discussing a YouTube video featuring Dr. Jess Wade, an award-winning physicist at Imperial College London and a champion for diversity in science. She is a Wikipedia legend – having written more than 1700 Wikipedia biographies of scientists who are women, racialized, and or part of the LGBTQI+ community. The topic and video were selected and will be introduced by Tania Akon, a Toronto Oasis organizer.

Please RSVP on meetup to get access to the Zoom link:

https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/296490541/

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

This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions

Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm. You can join in to the meeting starting at 10:30 am for our open social. After 12:30 pm, we will also have an extended discussion for half an hour, until 1:00 pm.

Misinformation and disinformation abound. And it only seems to be getting worse. Is the world descending into a reality in which we cannot trust anything? Maybe. Maybe not. It’s complicated.

Join us for a presentation that examines “what lying is”, “who is lying”, and “the high price of being dishonest”.

We will be watching and then discussing an episode of PBS “Be Smart” hosted by Joe Hanson. The topic and video were selected and will be introduced by John Shannon, a Toronto Oasis volunteer.

Please RSVP on meetup to get access to the Zoom link:

https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/296336484/

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

This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions

Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm. You can join in to the meeting starting at 10:30 am for our open social. After 12:30 pm, we will also have an extended discussion for half an hour, until 1:00 pm.

We will be watching and then discussing a TED talk by Brene Brown, an American professor, author and podcast host. The topic and videos were selected and will be introduced by Tania Akon, a Toronto Oasis organizer.

Please RSVP on meetup to get access to the Zoom link:

https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/296187510/

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

This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions

Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm. You can join in to the meeting starting at 10:30 am for our open social. After 12:30 pm, we will also have an extended discussion for half an hour, until 1:00 pm.

We will be watching and then discussing YouTube video clips featuring Peter McGraw, co-author of “The Humor Code”, talking about his Benign Violation Theory of comedy. The topic and videos were selected and will be introduced by Tania Akon, a Toronto Oasis organizer.

Please RSVP on meetup to get access to the Zoom link:

https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/296038262/

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

This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions

Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm. You can join in to the meeting starting at 10:30 am for our open social. After 12:30 pm, we will also have an extended discussion for half an hour, until 1:00 pm.

We will be watching and then discussing a TEDx talk by Alicia Malone, a film reporter and critic, and clips from an interview of Nina Menkes, a filmmaker and director of the 2022 documentary Brainwashed. The topic and videos were selected and will be introduced by Tania Akon, a Toronto Oasis organizer.

Please RSVP on meetup to get access to the Zoom link:

https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/295885659/

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

This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions

Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm. You can join in to the meeting starting at 10:30 am for our open social. After 12:30 pm, we will also have an extended discussion for half an hour, until 1:00 pm.

We will be watching and then discussing an episode of The Construction Record podcast. It’s an interview of Hilary Peach, author of “Thick Skin: Field Notes from a Sister in the Brotherhood” about her experiences in the trades, working as a welder.

The topic and podcast episode were selected and will be introduced by Tanya Long, a Toronto Oasis participant.

Please RSVP on meetup to get access to the Zoom link:

https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/291939413/

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

This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions

Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm. You can join in to the meeting starting at 10:30 am for our open social. After 12:30 pm, we will also have an extended discussion for half an hour, until 1:00 pm.

At the Toronto Cenotaph, November 11, 1977, feminists held their own Remembrance Day event, with placards that read “For every woman raped in every war”. In Brisbane, Australia, on Anzac Day, April 25, 2017, Yassmin Abdel-Magied posted on her Facebook page “LEST WE FORGET (Manus, Nauru, Syria, Palestine…)” What happened next will be revealed during the intro. We will then watch a 2015 TED Talk by Yassmin, a Sudanese diaspora writer, broadcaster and award-winning social advocate (https://www.yassminam.com/). The TED talk is entitled ‘What does my headscarf mean to you?” a presentation that focuses on unconscious bias.

The talk was suggested by Helen Lenskyj, who will be providing the intro and an outro to the video and topic. Helen is a Toronto Oasis participant and Professor Emerita, University of Toronto, where she taught sociology.

Please RSVP on meetup to get access to the Zoom link:

https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/295589170/

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

This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions

Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm. You can join in to the meeting starting at 10:30 am for our open social. After 12:30 pm, we will also have an extended discussion for half an hour, until 1:00 pm.

Humanists and atheists often say that they “believe in evolution”; however, they find it hard to describe how the intricate machinery of our cells and our physiology arose from primordial organic ooze, or how complex animals with many coordinated parts evolved out of single cells.

In his presentation, our featured speaker, Dr. Mark Reimers, will describe some recent discoveries in biology that have given us some insight into how these complex systems evolved. He will describe how the complex internal signaling processes in our cells arose, and how the coordinated interactions between our bodily systems were formed, all by blind evolutionary processes.

Dr. Mark Reimers is a quantitative neuroscientist at Michigan State University working to elucidate how dynamic brain activities give rise to mental functions and moods. Dr. Reimers has worked at the US National Institutes of Health, the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, and at the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics.

Please RSVP on meetup to get access to the Zoom link:

https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/295443701/

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

This meeting has been recorded: GMT20230903-153816_Recording_1920x1080.mp4

This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions

Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm. You can join in to the meeting starting at 10:30 am for our open social. After 12:30 pm, we will also have an extended discussion for half an hour, until 1:00 pm.

We will be watching and then discussing YouTube video clips featuring Ann Gomez, productivity expert and author of the book: Workday Warrior. This presentation will be curated and introduced by Tania Akon, a Toronto Oasis organizer.

Please RSVP on meetup to get access to the Zoom link:

https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/295301474/

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