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NOW editors pick a trio of this week’s can’t-miss events

OUR CITY, OUR FUTURE

With the next City Hall budget threatening to get really mean, the annual International Women’s Day march ties the right to services – from transit to community centres – to a celebration of the 100th IWD. The Our City, Our Services, Our Future rally and march, Saturday (March 12) begins at 11 am at OISE (252 Bloor West) and marches to Ryerson by 1 pm for a community fair offering a full range of info and feminist inspiration. Free. iwdtoronto.org.

DITCHING BAD RELATIONSHIPS

Public-private partnerships sure are popular these days (Rob Ford’s hoping such an arrangement will underwrite his new subway), but are they really all they’re cracked up to be? U of Manitoba economics prof John Loxley, who’s studied P3s from schools to bridges to social services, doesn’t think so. The author of Public Service, Private Profits gives the lowdown tonight (Thursday, March 10) at 7 pm. Free. Oakham House. Ryerson U, 63 Gould. b1evans@ryerson.ca.

PUT AN END TO S-10

Yup, the Tories will certainly find use for the prison expansion they’re pushing. Problem is, it will be at a huge cost. Bill S-10 will, if passed, implement mandatory minimum sentences for minor drug offences. Besides being a total waste of time and resources, harsher sentences will jack up the very drug war that has proved such a horror south of the border. Rally today (Thursday, March 10) with the Prison Moratorium Action Coalition to let the Tories know we want to kill the bill. Noon. Free. Old City Hall Courthouse, 60 Queen West. cfne.org.

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