TriPride Festival

Tri-Pride 2023

Green volunteers pose for a photo with Mike Schreiner and Aislinn Clancy at the Green booth at tri-Pride.

This year was another day of beautiful weather as Waterloo Region celebrated tri-Pride, the region’s annual pride festival. The sun was shining, but not too hot, and the wind was light and pleasant. We made sure we didn’t miss it.

We had some amazing volunteers take time out of their busy schedules to volunteer with us at the booth. Buttons were made to give our supporters a little something to show their Pride. We also showed off one of our proudest petitions. Over 160,000 people signed our petition to allow asylum seeker status to the trans community and non-binary people. At tri-Pride, we had a few new federal petitions, hot off the press, for festival-goers to sign. Topics included Climate Change, Indigenous Reconciliation, the Poison Drug crisis, the Housing Crisis, Electoral Reform, and Guaranteed Livable Income.

We also had some visits from some notable Greens, including Green Party of Ontario leader Mike Schreiner and Kitchener-Centre By-election candidate Aislinn Clancy! The conversations were lively and insightful. We’ll continue to appear at future summer events to keep reaching out to our communities.

It’s imperative for us to show up to Pride. With acts of hate on the rise, it is important that we all show how much support the queer community has from a multitude of corners of the community. As the buttons we gave away said, there is no room for hate.

These are the 5 electoral districts of Waterloo Region.

Tomorrow (Sunday June 5th, 2016) is a busy day for WRGreens. It is the first session of Waterloo’s Kris and Bryan’s 2nd Learning Community on the topic of Guaranteed Livable Income, which features a presentation by Basic Income Waterloo‘s John Green. [The day & time are the same but the venue did change.]

These sessions are open to the public, so feel free to bring anyone who is interested, Green or not 🙂

I am sad to have to miss this session, but tomorrow afternoon I’ll be staffing a WRGreens Information Booth at the TriPride Festival at Kitchener City Hall. I’ve been putting together some fresh materials, made stickers and I’ve put together this map. The visual demarcation of the electoral districts was taken from the excellent Redistribution of Federal Electoral Districts website, but this is primarily a graphic representation which may not be entirely accurate around the edges. This was created to give visitors to the Waterloo Greens information booth an idea of where the #WRGreens districts are.

I also used the OpenStreetMap® which is open data, licensed under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL) by the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF).
Tiles by MapQuest licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 licence (CC BY-SA)

I’m looking forward to tomorrow; maybe I’ll see you at Kitchener City Hall for the family friendly TriPride festivities!