The last 28 days of the campaign period have slipped by very quickly. Tim’s campaign is the largest Green Party campaign ever run in the GTA. Tim has been out canvassing every day, appearing in debates and making presentations to groups. During this period Tim and his team have reached virtually every part of Trinity-Spadina with over 40,000 households being contact either by Tim or a member of his Team. Tim has also waged a strong social media program aimed at engaging the younger voters in the riding who will become the leaders of tomorrow.
Tomorrow, October 6, 2011 is the day at which all of this effort has been aimed. To achieve our objective of gaining the highest number of votes for a Green Party candidate in Toronto and hopefully the Province we need your active support for one more day including;
Ensure that you get out and vote for Tim tomorrow (If you have not already voted in the advance polls)
Encourage your family and friends to vote for Tim. He has clearly demonstrated over the last 4 weeks that he is the best candidate in Trinity-Spadina. His hard work, clear vision and sound policy initiatives has earned the support of Trinity-Spadina electors,
Come out and volunteer tomorrow to encourage all Green Party and Tim Grant supporters in Trinity-Spadina to get out and vote. The weather forecast indicates a great day (sunny and warm)
Come to the Tim Grant office at 85 Harbord Street to obtain an assigned area or responsibility to cover.
Come to the Campaign office at 85 Harbord Street after the polls close to watch the results and celebrate with your friends and neighbours.
Tim talks about a simple but effective way to achieve lower health care costs and provide healthy food to kids and lower-income families: subsidize school food programs and low-income fruit/vegetable food subsidies through increasing taxes on junk food.
Three of four major party leaders debated Tuesday night – alas, the resulting festival of screaming talking heads made it all the more clear why Mike Schreiner should’ve been at the podium.
Approximately 100 Green supporters enjoyed a far more enjoyable evening with GPO Leader Mike Schreiner visiting Tim Grant’s campaign HQ on Harbord St. After the event, many supporters joined Mike outside the CP24 studios at Queen and John, where Mike shared his post-debate comments.
Much thanks to everyone who filled up the room and brought Tim and Mike’s positive energy to the streets!
Mike Schreiner and Tim Grant outside his home with the first sign
Hello Green supporters in Trinity-Spadina!
You’ve probably heard that the Ontario leaders televised debate will be limited to only the PC, Liberal and NDP leaders. Green Party leader Mike Schreiner will be excluded from the debate, despite being the choice of over 350,000 Ontarians in the last election. However, if you want to hear him speak, we have a solution for you! Come on down to 87 Harbord St., just west of Spadina, tomorrow evening. The televised debate will be rehashed endlessly over the next few days. But this may be your only chance to hear Mike Schreiner speak. And afterwards, tune in to Rogers channel 10 to see Tim debate against the other candidates in Trinity-Spadina.
What: Raise Green Voices: Rally with Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner
Where: 87 Harbord Street, Toronto (beside Tim Grant’s campaign office)
When: Tuesday, September 27 • 6:30pm
Tim spoke at Queen’s Park at an event hosted by Ontario Nature. The Green Party is proud to support all ten of Ontario Nature’s concerns on biodiversity and sustainable development.
A big thanks to all those that attended our big fundraising dinner with Elizabeth May on September 8th. It was especially gratifying that the majority of the almost 200 people in attendance were less than 25 years old. I also want to take a moment to offer my heartiest thanks to all the volunteers who organized the event and made it the success that it was.
In our speeches, both Elizabeth and I spoke of “the power of one”, of how volunteering could change one’s life. I described my own experience as a high school student who got involved in the Stop Spadina Expressway movement. During that time, I met people like Jane Jacobs, Colin Vaughan and John Sewell. They filled me with both visionary ideas of what vibrant cities might look like, but also why it was important for all of us to get involved if those visions were to be realized. We were successful in stopping that expressway in 1970, and I’ve been living and volunteering in Trinity-Spadina ever since.
I then shared with everyone three policy proposals. The first was my call for junk food taxes and using the revenues to make healthy food more affordable and accessible for those that needed it the most. The second was dedicating 1% of the provincial transport budget for cycling infrastructure and another 1% for pedestrian infrastructure. (Ontario currently spends nothing on either.) Finally, I described the GPO’s call for provincially-funded institutions to buy increasing percentages of Ontario food in the coming years.
After that, it was time to invite Elizabeth May, our main speaker, to address the audience. As Canada’s first-elected Green Party Member of Parliament (MP) she described in great detail, the many significant ways that one determined MP could influence the debates and the course of legislation passing through the House. Her wide-ranging talk covered the war in Libya, the future of peace-keeping, partisanship in politics, climate change, and many other topics. As usual, hers was a barn-burning speech, and one that connected well to her audience. Even though she had 8 public events across central Ontario the next day, she spoke longer than she planned, took questions afterwards, and then gratiously accepted dozens of photo requests.
We thank Elizabeth for a wonderful evening. If you want to work towards making a difference, like Elizabeth and myself, volunteer with us today by signing up to help here.
Tim spoke on TVO’s The Agenda on confronting poverty in Ontario – he did a great job outlining community-oriented solutions to Ontario’s poverty crisis.
Thanks again to TV Ontario for including Green voices in their election coverage!
Tomorrow marks the mid-point of Tim Grant’s campaign to become the first Green Party candidate elected to the Ontario Legislature.
Tim and his many supporters are running the largest Green Party campaign in the GTA. Over the first two weeks:
Tim was the first candidate officially nominated in Trinity-Spadina;
Mike Schreiner, Leader of the Green Party of Ontario, has visited Trinity-Spadina twice;
Elizabeth May headlined a fundraising dinner (200+ supporters in attendance);
Tim and his team have canvassed and distributed literature in 90% of the riding.
Tim has been on TVO’s the Agenda representing the Green Party of Ontario on a discussion on Poverty
Tim has participated in all candidate forums scheduled.
Tim will be on Rogers TV debate on Tuesday September 27th from 8:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Whether you know Tim from his years of community involvement in Harbord Village, from his leadership of the Downtown West Solar Energy Project and the Tower Power project or as a friend and neighbour you know that:
“He is a terrific candidate, regardless of your political stripe.”*
The campaign needs your support over the next two weeks in several ways in order to build on the momentum to date and ensure that we remain competitive through to Election Day;
Financial contribution – take advantage of the tax refund available. A $100 donation has a 75% tax credit. Make cheques payable to Tim Grant Campaign and mail to 637 Lakeshore Blvd West, Suite 822 Toronto, Ontario M%V 3J6 attention Jo-Anne Shannon CFO, or donate online through the “donate” page above.
Tim Grant’s campaign to become Ontario’s first elected Green MPP got off to a great start this week!
The Green Party of Ontario formally kicked off the campaign Wednesday morning with GPO Leader Mike Schreiner at Queen’s Park.
Mike then joined Tim to install Tim’s first campaign sign.
But the highlight of the week was our evening with Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada and Canada’s first elected Green MP.
About 150 people joined Elizabeth and Tim for a great evening of dinner and conversation. Both Tim and Elizabeth offered engaging personal reflections, with Elizabeth reminding us on the power of one individual to change the political process. Much thanks to the many students from Ryerson University and University of Toronto for showing up – as Elizabeth tweeted, your energy was much appreciated!
More pictures from the event will be posted shortly, and will be available on Tim’s Picasa account. If you have any pictures to share, contact media@votetimgrant.ca – we’ll put them up!
Want to help Tim become Ontario’s first Green MPP? There are many ways you can help.
All good campaigns depend on the energy and hard work of volunteers. We need people to help with canvassing polls, going out with Tim door-to-door, office assistance, sign installation, getting out the vote October 6…there’s no shortage of work to do. Want to volunteer? Fill out our volunteer form, or drop by our campaign office at 85 Harbord St. (near Spadina). The office will be open 10am-9pm Monday to Friday and 12-6pm Saturday/Sunday. We’d love to have you involved!
Want to show your support? Tim shows his support for Trinity-Spadina’s preferred mode of commuting on our lawn signs. Request a sign today!
A full campaign requires a strong base of financial support to maintain a campaign office, print literature and signs, get the word out through local advertising and events, arranging food for volunteers, etc. Tim thanks everyone who has graciously donated so far – if you would like to lend your financial support, please consider making a donation!
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