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Sunday, 01 January 2012 |
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| |  | | | Tweet if you love TVA! Come follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/torontoveg We’re on Facebook Join the Toronto Vegetarian Association Facebook Group to receive invitations to events and more! Want even more news? Want even more news? TVA members are entitled to a free customized version of VegE-News. Find out more. | Join Us! | | A strong Toronto Vegetarian Association is able to produce amazing resources, great publications and fabulous events like the Annual Vegetarian Food Festival.
Help us build a healthier, greener, more compassionate city by making a donation and purchasing your vegetarian discount card today.
Click here to join now | | February is ironically known for two things that, at first glance, may seem like oxymorons: Valentine's Day (aka: chocolate and other sweet treats) and Heart Health. But, if it's dairy-free and egg-free treats you're sharing, the two can actually be a nice compliment to one another. In fact, we've got a healthy recipe for hot chocolate pancakes to share! Lucky for us, there's plenty coming up to celebrate both. If you're looking to get your sugar fix, head to Vegan Rock, a fundraiser concert and vegan bake sale for the Toronto Vegetarian Association, or stop by our vegan bake sale in the TVA Resource Centre happening in March during Meatout. Balance the sugary treats by learning about the health benefits of a plant-based diet from Forks Over Knives, which will be on sale for only $15! Recognizing just how healthy a plant-based diet is, Oakland University in Rochester is now offering a vegan nutrition course for students of their nursing program, a major revolution in the medical school industry considering that most nurses and doctors can go through their entire training with almost no focus on preventative nutrition. Don't Miss These Upcoming Events! Vegan Rock is happening Thursday, February 23rd at 9 pm, and Sadie's Diner is hosting a chili fundraiser just for TVA on February 28th! Find out more in the TVA in Action section or on Facebook. |
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Wednesday, 14 December 2011 |
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 This time of year you may be planning your New Year's Resolution. The Toronto Vegetarian Association has already decided ours:  We need your help to build a new and improved veg.ca website to be the online home for all things veg in the GTA.
The current website design is more than 5 years old, created before YouTube was launched and before the first iPhone was unveiled. The way people use the web has changed, but our site has not. A refreshed online home will engage thousands more to make changes that will reduce their ecological footprint, improve health outcomes and save animals. It will act as a hub and online resource centre for the veg community, and also clearly and instantly communicate the benefits of vegetarianism to the veg-curious. We need your support to fulfill our New Year's Resolution and get this website up and running in 2012. Fortunately, the services we need like project management, web design and search engine optimization have been offered to us at a discount by expert TVA supporters! But the coding, content transfer and introduction of new features will still cost $7000. If you give before December 30, the first $2500 given to support our new online home will be matched dollar for dollar by a generous TVA donor. Please make a tax-deductible gift of $200, $100, $50 or whatever you can afford this holiday season to build a new and improved veg.ca. Please make sure to enter "TVA Website" as the campaign code. Your charitable donation this holiday season will inspire more people to go vegetarian by making the benefits of veg living clearer and showing people how easy it is to make a change. Please make a donation today! Please make sure to enter "TVA Website" as the campaign code. |
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Wednesday, 14 December 2011 |
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Time is running out to launch a revamped veg.ca website by 2012.For thousands of people, a google search is their first source of information about any new topic. For young people in particular, veg.ca is a primary point of contact to learn about food issues, access vegetarian recipes and information, and ease the transition to a plant-based diet. But the current site has fallen out of date and we are missing opportunities to demonstrate that being vegetarian is healthy, easy and delicious! Thanks to those who have already donated, we've raised over $1100 towards the $7000 needed to build an improved online home that will engage thousands more to reduce their eco-footprint, improve their health, and save animals by going veg. If you haven't already done so, please consider taking a moment to make a tax-deductible gift now. Your donation of $50, $100, $300 or whatever you can afford will make veg.ca a more powerful tool for outreach in the GTA. And, all gifts made by Dec 30, 2011 will be matched up to $2500 by another generous TVA donor!  With your support , we can transform veg.ca into an essential online resource for the next generation of potential vegetarians, instantly communicate the benefits of vegetarianism and answer key questions. There are still a few days left to have your donations matched dollar-for-dollar and help us achieve our New Year's Resolution - to activate the revamped veg.ca in 2012! Be sure to enter "TVA Website" as the campaign code so we can apply your gift to this project immediately. Please make your tax-deductible gift today. Your charitable gift will show tens of thousands of new visitors how easy it is to be veg in the GTA. Please make sure to enter "TVA Website" as the campaign code. |
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Tuesday, 08 November 2011 |
| Annual General Meeting |
The Toronto Vegetarian Association's 2011 Annual General Meeting will occur on Sunday, November 20 at the Miles Nadal JCC at 750 Spadina Avenue, room 300. The meeting will take place from 3:30 to 6:30 pm. This meeting is your chance to get an update on our 2011-2013 Strategic Plan, and elect our 2011-2012 board of directors. This year there are 8 candidates for the 7 open positions on our board of directors. The Toronto Vegetarian Association Annual General Meeting is a private function open to TVA members only. Non-members who wish to attend will be required to join as members of the TVA. |
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Wednesday, 05 October 2011 |
Eat 'n Learn: Veg Nutrition for Superb Health 
Sunday, October 30 @ Lillian H Smith Library Join award winning Registered Dietitian Vesanto Melina, co-author of bestselling books: Becoming Raw, Becoming Vegan, Cooking Vegetarian, Raising Vegetarian Children, The Raw Food Revolution Diet, and The Food Allergy Survival Guide for tips on how to keep yourself in superb health on a plant-based diet. Enjoy an update on protein power from plant foods, bone building without a drop of dairy, getting reliable sources of vitamin B12, including the good fats in your menus, and keeping your blood sugar level between meals without resorting to vegan junk food. When?Sunday, October 30th at 4 pm Where? Lillian H Smith Library (on College, just east of Spadina) How much? $12 admission includes samples of Vesanto's recipes. $10 for students (must show student ID). **Tickets must be reserved in advance**. Purchase or reserve your tickets by phoning the TVA office this week at 416-544-9800 or during our Resource Centre hours this Saturday from 1 to 4 pm. Thursda, October 27 - Raw Food Diets: What's True, What's Not?
 Come join Vesanto Melina, co-author of Becoming Vegan and Becoming Raw, as she answers these questions about raw food diets: Do our bodies need the enzymes from plant foods? Are cooked foods toxic? For maximum benefit, must our diet be 100 percent raw? Should we be eating buckwheat greens, sprouted legumes, raw mushrooms, and seaweeds? What do we learn from science about raw and high-raw diets in relation to chronic disease? Can raw food diets help us with weight management, or prevent diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia? When? Thursday, October 27th at 7 pm Where? Music Room at Hart House (on the U of T campus) How much? $8. $5 for students (must show student ID). Tickets available at the door or by phoning the TVA office at 416-544-9800. |
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Wednesday, 21 September 2011 |
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 Celebrate World Vegetarian Day by coming out to our special "Food Festival Themed" book sale at the TVA Resource Centre!
Missed a talk at the 27th Vegetarian Food Festival that you wanted to attend? Or were you inspired by a speaker and want more, more, more? Re-live the Festival by picking up a copy of books from speakers Melanie Joy, Jack Norris and jae steele, which will all have special discounted prices just for World Vegetarian Day!
Other specials for World Vegetarian Day will include:
* Both jae steele cookbooks for $45 (normally $25 each)
* The Conscious Cook by Tal Ronnen: $5 off (normally $35, on sale for $30)
* Veganist by Kathy Freston on sale for $25
* Buy ANY two books and get your choice of hardcover copies of Dog by the Cradle, the Serpent Beneath or Eating Animals for only $10 (while supplies last)
When? Saturday, October 1st from 1 to 4 pm
Where? TVA Resource Centre (17 Baldwin Street, Second Floor)
Don't forget TVA discount card holders get an additional 10% off! If you don't yet have a discount card, ask about getting one when you arrive. |
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Monday, 29 August 2011 |
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 Join the Toronto Vegetarian Association for our first-ever Veggie Drinks. Veggie Drinks is an opportunity for vegetarians and vegans to meet, talk advocacy, and network with other members of Toronto's veg community. For our inaugural event, we'll feature short presentations from Toronto Loves Sharks, the beveg.ca TTC campaign, and more. When: Wednesday, Sept 7
Drinks from 7 - 10pm
Presentations from 8 - 8:30pm
Where: Disgraceland (965 Bloor St W)
Suggested $10 donation to the Be Veg TTC campaign
RVSP: veggiedrinks@veg.ca |
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Monday, 15 August 2011 |
If the idea of delectable baked goodies like vegan cupcakes, fudge, 'butter' tarts, Danish pastries, 'cheese'cake, Peanut Buddha Cups, cinnamon buns, & scrumptious cookies gets your mouth watering, be sure to come to the Vegan Bake Sale in support of the "Be Veg" Toronto Subway Ad Campaign from 1-5pm on Sundary August 21at Panacea!
Not only will 100% of the proceeds from the Bake Sale be going to the campaign to blanket Toronto subways with the "Why love one but eat the other?" ads in October (www.BeVeg.ca), but each dollar you spend on these yummy delights will also be matched by a special campaign donor!
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