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Federal Leaders Debate Get together your political animal buds and hunker down for the policy war of words. Watch Stephen Harper offer his tiny government strategy as Michael Ignatieff, Gilles Duceppe and Jack Layton work to get their licks in. 7 pm on CBC.
Global Day of Action on Military Spending With Harper’s commitment to buy pricey fighter jets becoming an issue in the federal campaign, a panel explores the issue of peace building and the arms trade. Featured are York poli sci prof, Sergei Plekhanov, The Rideau Institute’s Bill Robinson and Project Ploughshare’s John Siebert. 7 pm. Free. University College, 15 King’s College Circle, U of T, rm. 179. See the Facebook page here.
Exposure: Environmental Links to Breast Cancer Women’s Healthy Environments Network hosts the screening of a doc on the chemical causes of cancer plus a discussion with director Francine Zuckerman. 7-9 pm. Pwyc. Centre for Social Innovation. See listing.
Books
Steve Hayward Hayward talks about his emotionally potent novel about a teenager grieving the death of his brother. Not the bummer it sounds like. See listing. See review.
Music
Sharon Van Etten Brooklyn singer songwriter Sharon Van Etten brings her subtly intense tunes to the Drake tonight. See listing.
Watch a video of Van Etten at the Horseshoe here.
Stage
The Time Of Your Life An important remount of a 2008 ensemble play set in a bar in San Francisco on the eve of WWII. See listing.
Film
Terminator & Terminator 2: Judgment Day The classic James Cameron Arnold Schwarzenegger films go back-to-back at the Bloor. See listing.
Art
Lindsay Seers UK-based Seers’s Extramission 6, a video installation, investigates how we are shaped by photographic technology through the life story of the artist, who as a child had an eiditic memory but didn’t speak until age eight. Part of the Off-Screen program of the Images Festival at Gallery TPW. See listing.
