Events

Upcoming Program: Dementia 101

Join the Alzheimer Society Peel as they discuss dementia: what it is, what symptoms to expect, tips on management, and communication tips. This session is for individuals and families who support someone living with dementia, or for anyone interested in learning more about dementia. This program will be hosted on Zoom.

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About the Alzheimer Society Peel: Alzheimer Society Peel was incorporated in 1983 as a charitable non-profit Society. Since that time, they have diligently worked to support families and individuals affected by Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. The Society serves the Region of Peel through their offices in Brampton and Mississauga. The chapter promotes public and professional awareness of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and offers a variety of programs and services. All services and programs operate either free of charge or for a nominal fee. You do not need a diagnosis or a referral to access their services.

Alzheimer Society Peel works with all service providers and levels of government to ensure that optimum health and social services are provided for persons with Alzheimer’s disease and their families in the Region of Peel.

Mission: The Alzheimer Society Peel exists to alleviate the personal and social consequences of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias; to help find the cause, prevention and cure.

Join CPL and the Alzheimer Society Peel on September 16^th from 10am to 11:30am to learn more.

Register Here for Dementia 101 hosted by the Alzheimer Society Peel

During Pride Month, we celebrate the LGBTQ2S+ community and the impact its members have had on local, national, and international history. Pride is celebrated each June in honour of the Stonewall Uprising, which took place in 1969 in Manhattan.

June is Pride Month, a time for celebrating the LGBTQ2S+ community. Its highlight is the Pride Parade at the end of the month. This year we find ourselves in a changed world and the cancellation of Toronto’s traditional Pride celebrations is a huge loss.

Reading books and watching movies that celebrate the community is a safe way to honour Pride Month.

Hoopla has curated a PRIDE collection and they’re all free to download with your CPL card. Put a rainbow in your eReading list today:

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Virtual Pride Book Club: On June 17 at 7 pm, join us to discuss Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi. This Canada Reads selection deals with themes of faith, family, queerness, and belonging. To read a copy of this book, please go to the library’s catalogue and place a hold (available on a first-come basis), or borrow it digitally on Hoopla. (Please note this program is for participants aged 16+ due to mature themes.)

Looking for more information or greater involvement in the community? Check out Caledon Pride!

The 93rd Academy Awards are coming soon! Nominations for Oscars were announced on March 15, 2021 and the awards ceremony will air live on ABC on Sunday, April 25, 2021 at 8:00pm. The Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, will honour the best films of 2020 and early 2021.

Caledon Public Library is running an Oscars’ winner prediction contest! Make your Oscar predictions for a chance to win a $25 prepaid VISA gift card. You must be a Caledon resident to enter and win. Click here to enter. Ballots must be completed by April 24 at 11:59 pm.

We already have some of the Best Picture nominees and when the rest are available for order, we’ll get them too. Below is the complete list of the Best Picture nominees. Place your holds on the available titles now!

The Father: A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.

Judas and the Black Messiah: Bill O’Neal infiltrates the Black Panther Party per FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Party Chairman Fred Hampton ascends, falling for a fellow revolutionary en route, a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.

Mank: 1930’s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane (1941).

Minari: A Korean family starts a farm in 1980s Arkansas

Nomadland: After losing everything in the Great Recession, a woman embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

Promising Young Woman: A young woman, traumatized by a tragic event in her past, seeks out vengeance against those who crossed her path.

Sound of Metal: A heavy-metal drummer’s life is thrown into freefall when he begins to lose his hearing.

The Trial of the Chicago 7: The story of 7 people on trial stemming from various charges surrounding the uprising at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.

Do you want to learn more about how to protect the environment? We have the perfect program for you, just in time for Earth Day! Join us on Wednesday, April 21st for a “Walk the Talk” workshop presented by ecoCaledon. In this program, which will be hosted on Zoom, you will learn about how our choices and actions impact the climate, and what we can do to create positive change in our community. Register today to save your spot!

Until then, check out these must-read books about the climate crisis.

Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed To Reverse Global Warming  by Paul Hawken

In Drawdown, renowned environmentalist Paul Hawken has assembled a team of over 200 scholars, scientists, policymakers, business leaders and activists to illustrate the hundred most substantive solutions to combat climate change that together will not only slow down the growth of carbon emissions, but reverse them altogether. Put into action together, these solutions will mobilize society into taking the climate change conversation from problem definition to problem solving, from fear and apathy to collaboration and regeneration.

The Story Of More: How We Got To Climate Change And Where To Go From Here by Hope Jahren

Award-winning geobiologist Hope Jahren celebrates the long history of our enterprising spirit–which has tamed wild crops, cured diseases, and sent us to the moon–but also shows how that spirit has created excesses that are quickly warming our planet to dangerous levels. She explains the current and projected consequences of greenhouse gases–from superstorms to rising sea levels–and shares the science-based tools that could help us fight back.

The Future Earth: A Radical Vision For What’s Possible In The Age Of Warming by Eric Holthaus

In The Future Earth, leading climate change advocate and weather-related journalist Eric Holthaus offers a radical vision of our future, specifically how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades. Anchored by world-class reporting, interviews with futurists, climatologists, biologists, economists, and climate change activists, it shows what the world could look like if we implemented radical solutions on the scale of the crises we face.

The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet by Michael E. Mann

A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and delay action on climate change, and offers a battle plan for how we can save the planet.

The Right To Be Cold by Sheila Watt-Cloutier

The Right to Be Cold explores the parallels between safeguarding the Arctic and the survival of Inuit culture–and ultimately the world–in the face of past, present, and future environmental degradation. Sheila Watt-Cloutier passionately argues that climate change is a human rights issue and one to which all of us on the planet are inextricably linked.

How To Avoid A Climate Disaster by Bill Gates

Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help and guidance of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science and finance, he has focused on exactly what must be done in order to stop the planet’s slide toward certain environmental disaster. In this book, he not only gathers together all the information we need to fully grasp how important it is that we work toward net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases but also details exactly what we need to do to achieve this profoundly important goal.

Caledon Public Library recently launched an evening Book Club. The Oh Canada Evening Book Club is held on the 2^nd Thursday of each month at 7pm. For the Club we will be reading books written by Canadian authors. And we have a surprise for you! For some of the books, come to the book club and meet the author!

The next Oh Canada Evening Book Club will be held on Thursday, February 11 at 7pm and we will be discussing Woman on the Edge by Samantha Bailey. Samantha will be joining us at the start of the club to answer questions!

Summary:
In a split second, Morgan Kincaid’s life changes forever. She’s on her way home from work when a mother begs her to take her baby, then places the infant in her arms. Before Morgan can stop her, the distraught mother jumps in front of an oncoming train. Morgan has never seen this woman before, and she can’t understand what would cause a person to give away her child and take her own life. She also can’t understand how this woman knew her name. The police take Morgan in for questioning. She soon learns that the woman who jumped was Nicole Markham, prominent CEO of the athletic brand, Breathe. She also learns that no witness can corroborate her version of events, which means she’s just become a murder suspect. To prove her innocence, Morgan frantically retraces the last days of Nicole’s life. Was Nicole a new mother struggling with paranoia or was she in danger? When strange things start happening to Morgan, she suddenly realizes she might be in danger, too.

Next on Thursday, March 11 at 7pm we will be discussing The Water Rat of Wanchai by Ian Hamilton and Ian will also be joining the discussion!

Summary:
Ava Lee is a young Chinese-Canadian forensic accountant who works for an elderly Hong Kong–based “Uncle,” who may or may not have ties to the Triads. At 115 lbs., she hardly seems a threat. But her razorsharp intellect and resourcefulness allows her to succeed where traditional methods have failed.

In The Water Rat of Wanchai, Ava travels across continents to track $5 million owed by a seafood company. But it’s in Guyana where she meets her match: Captain Robbins, a huge hulk of a man and godfather-like figure who controls the police, politicians, and criminals alike. In exchange for his help, he decides he wants a piece of Ava’s $5 million action and will do whatever it takes to get his fair share…

On Thursday, April 8 Genevieve Graham will join our group to discuss her novel, The Forgotten Home Child.

Summary:
2018
At ninety-seven years old, Winnifred Ellis knows she doesn’t have much time left, and it is almost a relief to realize that once she is gone, the truth about her shameful past will die with her. But when her great-grandson Jamie, the spitting image of her dear late husband, asks about his family tree, Winnifred can’t lie any longer, even if it means breaking a promise she made so long ago…

1936
Fifteen-year-old Winny has never known a real home. After running away from an abusive stepfather, she falls in with Mary, Jack, and their ragtag group of friends roaming the streets of Liverpool. When the children are caught stealing food, Winny and Mary are left in Dr. Barnardo’s Barkingside Home for Girls, a local home for orphans and forgotten children found in the city’s slums. At Barkingside, Winny learns she will soon join other boys and girls in a faraway place called Canada, where families and better lives await them.

But Winny’s hopes are dashed when she is separated from her friends and sent to live with a family that has no use for another daughter. Instead, they have paid for an indentured servant to work on their farm. Faced with this harsh new reality, Winny clings to the belief that she will someday find her friends again.