About
Show Up Toronto is founded by Jenny and operated by a small team of volunteers, including Brendan, Etienne, Gelaine, Jerome, and others. The events are curated manually and therefore necessarily incomplete. If you know of a group or an event that would be a good fit, email us. Read the manifesto to get a better sense of what we're looking for.
As a rule, we do not post:
- Events outside of Toronto
- Virtual events that are not directly related to Toronto organizing in some way
- Events hosted by or supporting official political parties
- Events supporting businesses or other for-profit ventures
Individual politicans doing local constituency work will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
We only include events where the event details are publicly discoverable on the internet, unless an organizer reaches out to me and requests otherwise. If you run one of the events listed here and would like it not to be listed, email organize@showuptoronto.ca and we will happily remove it.
privacy
This site has no tracking whatsoever. There is a minimal amount of server-side IP logging so we have some recourse in case of abuse. We need your email address to send you updates, though you can also use the RSS feed, or just come check this site regularly like it's 2003.
Remember that you don't have to register to show up to a protest or a rally, you can just show up. The only data that can be guaranteed to never leak is data that was never collected in the first place.
planned features
- search
- filter events by issue
- filter events by organization
- organizations directory
cost transparency
The annual cost of running Show Up Toronto is approximately $450.
Currently, all the costs are being covered by Jenny, who is lucky enough to have a well-paying full-time job. If you want to support the project, the best way to do that is to share it with your friends, neighbours, and family. If you want to support us financially, you can do that using Paypal.
Detailed breakdown:
| Service | Provider | Cost (CAD) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Domain name registration | Hover 🇨🇦 | $80/year | 3 domain names at $17 USD/year, plus tax |
| Email forwarding | Hover 🇨🇦 | $7/year | $5 USD |
| Hosting | Hawk Host 🇨🇦 | $95/year | $60 USD/month plus tax |
| Email service | Buttondown | $120/year | $90 USD/year |
| Fediverse membership | CoSocial 🇨🇦 | $50/year | |
| Stickers | Jukebox 🇨🇦 | $90 | Per print run |
We choose independent and local operators wheverever possible, rather than looking for the cheapest options. For example, Show Up Toronto's Fediverse account is hosted on a moderated, paid cooperative in order to support non-profit social media governance.
in acknowledgement
Show Up Toronto is situated in Tkaronto, a city built on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, the Mississauga of the Credit, and the Wendat peoples. This territory is covered by the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee Nations to peacably share and protect the lands around the Great Lakes. It is also the subject of Treaty 13, an agreement between the Mississaugas of the Credit and the British Crown.
Tkaronto is home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples from across Turtle Island, who continue to experience ongoing colonial violence and trauma. The enduring brutality of colonialism is inextricable from other systems of oppression and results in food and shelter insecurity, police violence, environmental damage, medical discrimination, and many other harms. Let us do the hard work of unlearning the oppressive patterns we swim in so we can disrupt these systems and steward our shared home as the Sewatokwà :tshera wampum belt charged us to long ago.
Last updated: May 3, 2026