National Day of Action for Climate Justice
2025-05-28 11:00 (America/Toronto) | Ottawa City Hall, 110 Laurier, Ottawa
Landlords are cashing in on green retrofit funding, low- and moderate-income tenants are once again left behind—facing sky-high rents, no AC, broken windows, and unaffordable energy bills.

On May 28th, ACORN members will take action nationwide to demand real climate justice for tenants.

What we’re calling for:– Full Rent Control in every province– A national ban on fixed-term leases– Tenant protections in all retrofit funding: affordability, cooling, and anti-eviction guarantees– Transparent agreements between funders, landlords, and tenants– National energy poverty programs like OESP in every province– City-wide max-heat bylaws to protect tenant health

We’ll be taking the opportunity to launch our new report:“Crumbling Apartments in a Warming World: How Tenants are in an Energy Cost Crisis”
The findings are clear: tenants are suffering while the government hands out funding with no strings attached. Let’s fight for tenant rights, climate safety, and affordable homes.

Join us in cities across Canada on May 28th. Bring your voice. Bring your neighbours. Bring the heat!!

Working for a Liveable World: A Climate and Labour Solidarity Teach-In
2025-05-28 18:00 | mcnabb park, Mcnabb park, Ottawa, K1R 7C5, Canada
New date!! (Due to weather)
Join us for a teach-in to explore the rich and ever-growing history of solidarity between the environmental and labour movements. We will be sharing stories from historians, labour and climate activists of successful or ongoing campaigns that build a sustainable future and worker power.
We’ll have a bake sale with proceeds going to Labour 4 Palestine! Bring a blanket or chair!
Can’t wait to see you there!

Telling Your Queer Story
2025-05-29 19:00 - 2025-05-30 21:00 | Zoom
Taking place over TWO SESSIONS May 29th and May 30th from 7-9 pm eastern each day.
Facilitated by Jeffrey Canton and Hosted by Queer Community Deathcare
We often share anecdotes about our daily experiences as 2SLGBTQIA+ without realizing their potential as stories. This workshop will teach you how to transform these “moments of being” into a compelling work of art.
By focusing on one or more meaningful life experiences, you’ll learn to shape a written piece that highlights the importance of these moments and connects deeply with readers. As a storyteller, Jeffrey Canton also wants to encourage participants to tell their stories aloud – perhaps making a video of you relating your story

Collaborative zine making night at the Ottawa Trans Library
2025-05-31 17:00 | Ottawa Trans Library, 1104 Somerset St. West, Ottawa, Ontario, K1Y 3C8, Canada
Come work on zines with us as we work on the next issue of The Dragon Flyer, the Ottawa Trans Library’s community zine. Write, draw, scan, cut, and paste with us on our community zine or your own project, or just come hang out with us. We are collecting stories, jokes, poems, art, and more from the trans and non-binary community in Ottawa and our friends and families.
The zine workshop is a collaborative event to discuss, share, and work on zines together.
Come tell your story. We will provide paper, templates, and whatever art supplies we have. No experience necessary. All ages welcome, children under age 13 must be accompanied by an adult.
Masking the day of the event is encouraged. Accessibility note: There are two stairs at the door entrance. We have a ramp we can bring out for the door on request. There’s a washroom but it’s not large enough for many mobility devices.

Just Voices Spring Concert 2025
2025-05-31 19:00 - 21:00 | First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa, 30 Cleary Ave, Ottawa
Join us for a celebration of song and social justice!Guest Performer MARIA HAWKINSAdmission – $5 – $20 Pay what you can.
Benefiting the Ottawa Food Bank

Big Gay Screening
2025-06-04 18:00 - 21:00 | DARC Microcinema, 67 Nicholas St, Ottawa, K1N 7B9, Canada
It’s time to get GAY! DARC’s annual BIG GAY SCREENING will be taking place on Wednesday, June 4th! 🌈
This FREE screening, presented in partnership with Qu’ART, will feature short films by queer Canadian artists celebrating queerness, exploring queer narratives, and highlighting the vastness of queer experiences.
Don’t miss this opportunity to support for talented artists from the 2SLGBTQIA+ community! Get your gays together (and allies and loved ones) and join us for this celebration of queerness at the Digital Arts Resource Centre! 🏳️‍🌈

Women in Black Vigil
2025-06-06 13:00 - 14:30 | ON
Jewish women will stand in silent vigil across from the Israeli embassy at 50 O’Connor Street Friday June 6 between 1pm-2pm holding empty pots with one sign reading:
Stop the starvation
End the war
Save the hostages
End the occupation
Women in Black is a world-wide independent network of women committed to peace with justice and actively opposed to injustice, war, militarism and violence.

Meet the MacDonald-MacLaren Tenant Union!
2025-06-07 09:00 - 15:00 | Minto Park, 315 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
In February 2025, Concorde Properties, led by Jordan Tannis, served eviction notices to the tenants of 17 MacDonald and 53 MacLaren in Centretown.
In the months since, the developer has forced entry into tenants’ units, harassed them, and done construction work on the building without permits, including tearing down people’s balconies while they were in their homes. Tenants say their building hallways are littered with dangerous construction debris and smoke detectors disconnected, among other safety concerns.
The tenants have formed a union to fight the renoviction and need the support of their community. Come out to Minto Park on Saturday, June 7 to meet the tenants, and find out more about how to support their fight. And follow @fightoftheconcorde on Instagram to keep up with the renoviction nightmare.

Pique
2025-06-07 14:00 - 2025-06-08 02:00 | Club SAW, 67 Nicholas St, Ottawa, K1N 7B9
Pique summer edition — the boldest annual instalment of Debaser’s celebrated music and multi-arts festival series — takes over downtown Ottawa’s Arts Court complex. Featuring dynamic performances, thought-provoking exhibitions, and interactive installations across indoor and outdoor stages, Pique is a convergence of creativity and innovation that bridges international cultures with local communities.
Celebrated for its curatorial eclecticism, Pique brings together techno innovation, queer cabaret, laid-back indie/alternative, glitch punk, collisions of tradition and futurism, participatory installations and lots more to the festival’s summer edition.
Pique is all-ages. Tickets to Pique are pay-what-you-can. Suggested range of $45-75 includes taxes and fees.

Sign & Mask-Making - Prep for June 14 NO TYRANTS Ottawa
2025-06-10 17:00 - 19:00 | Broadway Bar & Grill, 1896 Prince of Wales Dr
Come join us as we make signs and masks to get ready for the June 14 international day of action in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allies. We’re encouraging everyone to get creative as we seek to protest and ridicule the increase of TYRANNY emanating from Washington.
This is also a great opportunity to learn more about Indivisible Ottawa and meet with others interested in promoting equality and democratic values both in the US and abroad. We’ll have some supplies, but please bring whatever materials you may have for making signs, masks and costumes!

NO TYRANTS
2025-06-14 14:00 - 15:30 | US Embassy, 490 Sussex St, Ottawa
We don’t put up with mad tyrants.
NO TYRANTS is an international day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allies. We’ve watched as they’ve cracked down on free speech, detained people for their political views, threatened to deport American citizens, and defied the courts. They’ve done this all while continuing to serve and enrich their billionaire allies.
On June 14—Flag Day in the US—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. It rises up everywhere else.
On Saturday, June 14, we’re taking to the streets internationally. We’re not gathering to feed his ego. We’re building a movement that leaves him behind.
On June 14, Indivisible Ottawa is STANDING UP and saying NO TYRANTS in solidarity with hundreds of Indivisible groups in the US, Indivisible Abroad, Democrats Abroad, concerned Canadians and allies around the world to say no tyrants, no dictators and NO KINGs in the US.
Bring friends, family, colleagues, signs and, if you can, dress as Tr*mp clowns (or one of his cronies.) Think bad blonde wig, orange face, long red tie, and get creative!
A core principle behind all No Kings/No Tyrants events is a commitmen to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values.

Arms Embargo Now! Ottawa Protest
2025-06-14 14:00 - 17:00 | Human Rights Monument, 220 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Ottawa Join us on Saturday June 14th, at 2pm, at the Human Rights Monument to demand this government implement a full and immediate arms embargo on the genocidal zionist regime and finally recognize Palestine, without condition!

This week, a UN meeting is being held in New York to discuss recognizing a Palestinian state. The time to recognize is long overdue and we call on this government to do so without condition. But recognition alone means nothing if western governments continue their shameful complicity in Israel’s relentless attacks on Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon. While countries discuss this around a table, countless families are left buried under rubble, and many more are deprived of food, water, and medical aid.

Recognition will mean nothing as long as Canada continues to profit from the export of the military equipment used to slaughter the people of Gaza. We need an arms embargo now!

DATE: Saturday, June 14
TIME: 2PM
PLACE: Human Rights Monument

"The Other" screening + panel
2025-06-14 17:30 - 20:30 | Somerset West Community Health Centre, 55 Eccles Street, Ottawa, K1R 6S3
Join us for a screening of The Other. The award-winning documentary on peace-builders and co-resistance fighters in Palestine-Israel will be followed by a panel discussion featuring the director, Joy Sela, and members of the Canadian Friends of Standing Together coalition (C-FoST), Karen Golden and Raja Khouri. Meet like-minded individuals committed to achieving a just and sustainable peace in Palestine-Israel.

Solidarity with the Ramsook brothers
2025-06-16 18:00 - 20:30 | Rideau Hub, 815 St Laurent Blvd - Room 215, Ottawa
Garick and Ramesh Ramsook came to Canada with the hope of improving their lives and that of their families. They were employed by Polat Construction, a company located in the Ottawa area. The brothers worked to support Canada’s construction industry, a vital industry particularly during the current housing crisis that exists.

Employed under Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program, they were subjected to wage theft, occupational hazards and workplace harassment. The Ramsook brothers, along with other migrant and Canadian workers organized their workplace with the Carpenters Union. Shortly thereafter, the workers were terminated. Since their termination, the workers have endured hardship.

This, however, is not a story of migrants falling through the cracks. Four migrant workers, including the Ramsook brothers, filed successful applications with the Ministry of Labour alleging wage theft under the Employment Standards Act. Across the province of Ontario under the Ford government, the province has failed to enforce decisions of the Ministry of Labour to the tune of over $60 million dollars. Polat Construction was found guilty and compelled to return
over $140,000 in wages.

The Ramsook brothers have appealed part of the decision to the OLRB to request further remedies and are awaiting a decision regarding their appeal.

The federal government has found that Polat Construction violated the rules of the TFW program. Currently the employer is on the feds’ non-compliant list. The company was fined $161,000 with a five-year ban from employing temporary foreign workers. Despite these stiff penalties, the federal government has failed to enforce monetary penalties for non-compliance, to the tune of 40% or $4.5 million dollars since 2017.

The Ramsook brothers have decided to return home. Both the provincial and federal government have failed them. To honour their courage, sacrifices, and their demand for dignity, fairness and respect, we would like to invite you for a discussion and fundraiser to show solidarity with these comrades.

Registration: https://forms.gle/ZVRKh9rGkNKs5TRR8

Zoom link for meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/280034454

Article backgrounder: https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/they-came-from-jamaica-for-work-now-theyre-homeless-and-out-thousands-of-dollars-in-lost-wages/

Canada & Gaza: What are our moral and legal obligations?
2025-06-16 19:00 - 21:00 | First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa, 30 Cleary Ave, Ottawa
Human rights activists have tried everything from determined demonstrations to private meetings with politicians to get Canada to act. It is all useful. But we have not been able to convince Canadians or our politicians that Canada can and should do something to stop the genocide in Gaza. The Ottawa Forum on Israel Palestine invites you to a public meeting in Ottawa to discuss what we can and should do. Read more.….
“The genocide in Gaza is the moral issue of our time,” says Holocaust survivor and best selling author Gabor Mate M.D. Whoever says “genocide” has to act. By avoiding the word, we avoid responsibility.
Facing the greatest crime of the 21st century, The Ottawa Forum on Israel Palestine (OFIP) wants to increase the pressure on Prime Minister Carney to live up to our legal and moral responsibilities. We invite anyone in Ottawa to attend a public meeting on June 16th, 2025.
Instead of just “preaching to the choir”, the meeting aims to help “arm the choir” with knowledge and confidence. Three experts will help the audience better understand the issues involved and the challenges we face. If the meeting is successful, it will reinforce our confidence to act – to speak to our friends, to write letters, to lobby politicians. In short, to be able to increase pressure on our civic and political leaders to speak out and take action on this urgent issue.
The speakers

Iyas Salim, Adjunct professor, Carleton University – Dr. Salim grew up in Gaza where he still has both friends and family. He will share first hand information from Palestinians living the nightmare that Israel is inflicting on them and the options they face.
Peggy Mason, President Rideau Institute – A former Canadian ambassador, she will examine Canada’s legal obligations under international and humanitarian law. What responsibility does Canada have to put into effect decisions/judgements of the International Court of Justice, the UN Security council or the ICC. How well is Canada living up to its LEGAL obligations?
Senator Yuen Pau Woo – What are the contradictory pressures facing the Carney government? Is there an evolution in our government’s position, what are the debates, the pressures, and how can we can push forward to a stronger position? Why is the Canadian parliament so quick to say “genocide” in some cases, but so reluctant to do so in the face of overwhelming evidence from Gaza?

Cost?
There is no charge for the event. However, we gladly accept donations.
Registration?
You can register in advance by using this link: https://bit.ly/4kAVSDa or at the door (if there is still room).
Free on site parking for about 100 cars. Carshare, come early or take OC transpo.

Queer Death Salon - End of Life and Disability
2025-06-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom
We will be joined by Carrie Batt, founder of SEOL CARE for a presentation and discussion about disability at end of life. Carrie trains people with disabilities, their loves ones, and service providers on how to develop a disability informed approach to end of life and grief support. She also offers disability competent end of life care and bereavement support services to the disability community.
This is a facilitated drop-in discussion space, with the purpose of building connection, skill, and resources for 2SLGBTQIA+ people navigating end of life in our personal lives and in our communities.
Attendees are welcome to come with questions, stories, or special objects to share with the group.

Amnesty Book Club presents Vinh Nguyen
2025-06-20 19:30 - 20:30 | Online
Join Amnesty International’s Book Club for a live online event for World Refugee Day with Vinh Nguyen, Canadian author of the memoir The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse, in conversation with host Pacinthe Mattar.
Register for the free Zoom presentation
With the Fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, the U.S. war in Vietnam ended, but the refugee crisis was only beginning. Among the millions of people who fled Vietnam by boat was Vinh Nguyen, along with his mother and siblings, and his father, who left separately and then mysteriously vanished.
Decades later, Nguyen goes looking for answers. What he discovers is a sea of questions drifting above sunken truths. To find his father—and anchor himself in the present—Nguyen must piece together the debris of history with family stories that have been scattered across generations and continents, kept for years in broken hearts and guarded silences.
Vinh Nguyen is a nonfiction editor at The New Quarterly, curating an ongoing series on refugee, migrant, and diasporic writing. He is the co-editor of the academic books Refugee States: Critical Refugee Studies in Canada and The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives, and the author of Lived Refuge: Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience. His writing has been short-listed for a National Magazine Award and has received the John Charles Polanyi Prize in Literature. In 2022, he was a Lambda Literary Fellow in Nonfiction for emerging LGBTQ writers.
Pacinthe Mattar is an award-winning journalist, writer and producer. Her work, featured on CBC News, and in The Walrus, the Toronto Star, Al Jazeera, Buzzfeed, Chatelaine and more, centres the lived experiences that are too often excluded from the mainstream.

Indigenous Peoples's Day Pop-up market and free museum admission
2025-06-21 11:00 - 17:30 | Bytown Museum, 1 Canal Lane, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day at the Bytown Museum with an Indigenous Pop-Up Market and a day full of engaging, family-friendly programming and free museum admission!
Shop handmade goods from local First Nations, Inuit, and Métis artists and makers Take part in fun craft making Learn about Indigenous medicines and history through touch tables and guided tours Watch a traditional dance showcase

Located in the heart of downtown Ottawa, the Bytown Museum is located on the unceded, unsurrendered Territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe Nation. As a museum in the heart of Ottawa, we recognize our responsibility to tell fuller stories of the land, its peoples, and its histories — past, present, and future.

Picnic Lunch at Britannia Park
2025-06-23 12:00 - 14:00 | Britannia Beach Park, 102 Greenview Avenue, Ottawa, K2B 8J8
Be a part of the conversation: we need to get governments to move forward – meaningfully – on sustainable energy development.
We will be part of a nation-wide “climate Sun Day” on September 21st. Communities across the country will talk about alternative sources of energy currently being developed and point to ways to ramp up progress in this area.
Planning is underway to make this an event that grabs the attention of the public and decision-makers.
Come picnic together on June 23rd and share ideas on how to make this a success.

Acorn's Healthy Homes Meeting
2025-06-24 18:00 - 20:00 | tom brown arena, 141 Bayview Station Road, Ottawa, K1Y 4T1
Fight for Landlord Licensing
REMINDER that ACORN’s BIG citywide Healthy Homes Meeting is right around the corner!

Landlords have had free reign for far too long. ACORN will be presenting and pushing our landlord licensing campaign – a tool to keep landlords accountable for their horrific neglect of our units.

We’ll be listening to ACORN members’ horror stories, answer trivia questions on shocking stats from our State of Repairs report, listening to guest speakers (Hardi Rath-Wilson, Tenant Lawyer; Ricardo Tranjan, Researcher & Author), and City councillors will be there to hear tenant concerns head on.

You won’t want to miss this

IJV Summer School
2025-06-26 17:30 - 19:30 | Hintonburg Park, 49 Fairmont Ave, Ottawa
Join us for IJV Ottawa’s Summer Social!
📍 Hintonburg Park, 49 Fairmont Ave
🕠 Thursday, June 26 at 5:30pm
📆 RSVP at the link in bio
We’re gathering for an evening to connect, eat, and build community. There’ll be a potluck, so bring a dish if you can, and we’re also hosting an art build for upcoming actions, so feel free to bring markers, paints, or poster supplies!
Everyone’s welcome – come say hi

Queers Bash Back III
2025-06-26 18:30 - 22:30 | Ottawa Bike Cafe, 79 Sparks Street Ottawa, ON K1P 5A5
EVENT SCHEDULE
6:30pm DOORS OPEN
6:50pm INTRODUCTION
7:00pm STORIES FROM QUEER ELDERS
7:45pm DRAG w/ Mx.Tique and Steven King’s Daughter
8:15pm INTERMISSION!
– Zine making with the Queer Zine Collective (supplies will be available but we also encourage you to bring your own!).
– Harm reduction & resources from MAX Ottawa.
-Tenant resources from Neighbourhood Organizing Centre.
– Books from the Ottawa Trans Library.
– Zines from us (tbc)!
9:00pm QUEER THEORY CHAT w/ Kiran
9:20pm MATTY GRACE
9:50pm HUG MOSH
captain tuna is no longer able to attend
TICKET BREAKDOWN
BRING CASH IF BUYING TICKETS AT THE DOOR!!!!
50% to the Ottawa Trans Library
10% to each performer
10% to Tales from Behind the Counter (Becca & Kiran)
ACCESSIBILITY
The Ottawa Bike Cafe is wheelchair accessible. Masks are required and will be available at the door.

Eris Nyx Presents: The Drug User Liberation Front Story
2025-06-27 17:30 - 19:30 | Social Sciences Building (FSS), room 1006
For one year, the Drug User Liberation Front sold pure cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine to drug users on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, and no one died. Now, the founders are facing life in jail, and they need your help. Find out more at this event!
Live in Ottawa Ontario
University of Ottawa
Faculty of Social Sciences
120 University Private – FSS 1006
Entry by donation

Ottawa Anarchist Bookfair
2025-06-28 10:00 - 16:00 | Jack Purcell Community Centre, 320 Jack Purcell Lane, Ottawa, Ontario, K2P1M4, Canada
The Ottawa Anarchist Bookfair is run by a group of local anarchists and anarchic-organizers who are interested in cultivating a culture of autonomous and decentralized organizing in so-called ottawa. Our fair will have a mixture of literature (books, zines, etc.) relevant to anarchism/anti-oppression/organizing, community-run workshops & skillshares, and tabling from autonomous community groups and organizers.
We acknowledge that as settlers on these stolen, unceded and unsurrendered Algonquin Anishinaabe lands we represent part of the problem and are committed to operating in solidarity with Indigenous resistance and organizing however we can. Additionally, we acknowledge the ways that power structures such as colonialism, racism, classism, misogyny, ableism, and queerphobia replicate themselves both inside and outside of activist spaces. As a collective, we aim to make this event as accessible as possible to those left behind by the state and mainstream society.

The Encampments Documentary
2025-06-29 15:15 - 17:00 | The Mayfair Theatre, 1074 Bank St, Ottawa, K1S 3X3, Canada
INSAF UOttawa, Students for Justice in Palestine CU and the Palestinian Youth Movement invites you to our screening of “The Encampments” by Watermelon Pictures.
This powerful documentary captures the student-led resistance at Columbia and campuses across North America, demanding divestment from genocide. This time last year Ottawa students and community members joined this global movement and held an encampment on Taberet lawn. This film portrays the historic significance encampments have created in the fight for divestment, one that continues today. As Gaza endures unimaginable violence, our responsibility to act remains urgent.📍Mayfair Theatre, 1074 Bank St, Ottawa
🕒 Doors open 3:15 PM, Movie starts playing 3:30 PM SHARP
🎟️ Register here. Tickets will only be sold through this form.

Price: Minimum $10 per person.
Limited parking is available, so carpooling is encouraged! Alternative parking available at TD Place, only an 8 minute walk away.
Seats are first come, first serve. Please ensure you are on time!

REGISTRATION IS NOT COMPLETE UNTIL E-TRANSFER IS SENT TO pymottawa@gmail.com.
You will receive a confirmation email once we have processed your registration.

Chief Pinesi Day
2025-07-01 09:00 - 14:00 | New Edinburgh Park, 203 Stanley Ave, Ottawa
Chief Pinesi Day is held annually on July 1 in New Edinburgh park to celebrate the Algonquin Anishinaabe history of the area. It is an opportunity for learning and reconciliation.
Participate in Chief Pinesi Day on July 1, from 9 am to 2 pm, in New Edinburgh Park, at 203 Stanley Avenue. This special day, which is the culmination of an eight-day paddle from Deep River, will feature a Sacred Fire beginning at 9 am, a smudging ceremony at noon, drumming, dancing and singing, a land tour of the Chief Pinesi Portage Trail, and an opportunity to meet and hear from the paddlers about their experiences after they arrive at noon.

Science for the People Magazine - Palestine issue launch
2025-07-05 13:00 - 15:00 | Bronson Centre, 211 Bronson Ave, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
JOIN US on Saturday July 5th from 1-3 PM at the Bronson centre (211 Bronson Ave) for the Ottawa launch of the latest issue of the Science for the People magazine on Palestine.
In this issue we focus on the oppression and liberation of the Palestinian people through the lens of revolutionary science and technology. STEM workers in the imperial core play a central role in the escalation of the genocide; but technical innovation under siege conditions plays a similarly important and often overlooked role in the vitality of the Palestinian resistance.
Our launch will take the format of a roundtable talk discussing the “It takes a village to kill a child” report about the F35 program in Canada and Israel, as well as some articles from the magazine.
We hope to see you there! Registration is not required, but it will help us with planning.

Vigil and picnic for Palestine
2025-07-05 15:00 - 21:00 | Parc Fontaine, 120, rue Charlevoix, Gatineau
Come together with your neighbours to share delicious food, mourn and honor the dead, and take action for Palestine.
We’ll have some food available, but we are encouraging people to bring a dish to share if you are able to.
Join us to:
Eat food
Find community and solidarity
Take action with your neighbours to pressure our local politicians to stand for Palestine with concrete actions.
Enjoy kid friendly creative activities
Read poetry
Mourn. Israel has killed over 50,000 Palestinians in Gaza. During the vigil portions of the event, we will read some of the names of the killed.
Come and go as you need! Drop ins welcome!
During the vigil portions, please note that silence is encouraged for anyone not reading names out loud.
3pm-5pm: Vigil
5pm-7pm: Community picnic
7pm-9pm: Vigil
Vigile et pique-nique pour la Palestine
Samedi 5 juillet, de 15 h à 21 h
Parc Fontaine (120 rue Charlevoix, Hull)
Joignez-vous à nous pour honorer les martyrs de Gaza, ainsi que celleux qui luttent toujours pour une Palestine libre.
🕯️Nous vous convions à une vigile de quelques heures durant laquelle nous lirons les noms d’une partie des plus de 50 000 personnes assassinées par Israël au cours des 21 derniers mois. Nous tiendrons aussi des moments de silence et nous partagerons de la poésie.
🍉 Nous nous rassemblerons autour d’un pique-nique communautaire entre 17h et 19h.
Nous aurons une certaine quantité de nourriture, mais n’hésitez pas à apporter un plat à partager si vous le souhaitez! 🙂
🪁 Activités durant le pique-nique :
Fabrication de cerfs-volants
Rédaction de lettres à certain.e.s ministres/député.e.s
Activités créatives (bannières, etc.)
Signature de pétitions
Connexions entre voisin.e.s pour s’organiser et agir ensemble
Horaire
15h-17h : Vigile
17h-19h : Pique-nique communautaire
19h-21h : Vigile
Arrivez et partez quand vous le souhaitez!
Pendant les vigiles, le silence est encouragé pour les personnes qui ne lisent pas les noms à haute voix.
Collaboration entre Hills For Peace and Justice & Outaouais pour la Palestine

Labour Stands with Families in Gaza!
2025-07-15 07:00 - 18:00 | Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada, 235 Queen Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
July 15th, join the labour contingent in support of the call to action from @gazancanadians.
Demand that the Canadian government rapidly approve the visas of students and their families and quickly and safely expatriate these students and their families to Canadian soil.
The Canadian government must stop dragging its feet.
Where: 235 Queen Street, Ottawa, On.
When: Support all day or drop-in when you can 7am – 6pm
Organizers are asking for art supplies to share for making signs.

Queer Bike Club Ottawa's Bike Scavenger Hunt
2025-07-15 18:00 | Dow’s Lake
Hey folks! Come on out and join us for our first ever bike scavenger hunt! And bring your friends! This event is ally friendly and kid friendly (as long as kids under 18 are supervised by an adult). We will meet at the Naval Reserve Monument at Dow’s Lake at 6pm.

What will this event look like? Teams (Minimum of 3 people, maximum of 7) will be given a series of clues and challenges to do within a 1.5 hour time frame. Each team to finish and get to the mystery end point gets entered to win a prize!
What if I don’t have a team? Show up a few minutes early, organizers will try and help you join another team!
Is this an intense scavenger hunt? No! It is meant to be a challenge but is meant to be fun, and maybe a little competitive. 1.5 hours maximum to complete. Those who complete all the clues get entered into a draw to win a prize for their team.

As with all QBC events, you must fill out a waiver to participate (link here).
