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Peter Lynch unearths its mystery.<br \/>\n<em>&bull; <\/em><em> 1:00pm-3:00pm @ ROM<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.planetinfocus.org\/files\/hogtown.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetinfocus.org\/hogtown\">Hogtown: The Politics of Policing<\/a><\/strong> (96 min \/ Canada)<br \/>\nWinner of the 2005 Hotdocs Best Feature Length Canadian Documentary Award, director Min Sook Lee with unprecedented access, takes us into the machinations, political pressures and influences over the Toronto Police Services Board.<br \/>\n<em>&bull; <\/em><em> 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm @ Innis College (rm 222)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetinfocus.org\/flowersorashes\">Flowers or Ashes<\/a><\/strong> (13 min \/ Canada)<br \/>\nIn 1956 The City of Toronto established The Metro Civil Defense Organization. In that era, the height of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Cold War\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, emergency preparedness was concerned with the dropping of a nuclear bomb on our city. Flowers or Ashes is a rare PSA period piece, which exposes the viewer to the precautions the typical Toronto family needed to take at their peril!<br \/>\n<em>&bull; <\/em><em>7:00 pm to 9:00 pm @ the Royal Ontario Museum<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.planetinfocus.org\/files\/thestrip.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetinfocus.org\/thestrip\">The Strip<\/a><\/strong> (12 min \/ Canada)<br \/>\nDocumentary filmmaker Ron Mann and his friend Cliff Librach&#8217;s grade eight Geography class project on Toronto&#8217;s Yonge Street Strip is a blast to the past.<br \/>\n<em>&bull; <\/em><em>7:00 pm to 9:00 pm @ Innis College<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetinfocus.org\/ecolesansfrontieres\"> A School Without Borders<\/a><\/strong> (51 min \/ Canada)<br \/>\nPopulated by young immigrants from every colour of the multicultural rainbow, Etienne Brule is a French-language school that provides struggling teens with a concrete means of both getting an education and socially acclimatizing to their new home.<br \/>\n<em>&bull; <\/em><em> 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm @ Innis College<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.planetinfocus.org\/files\/dreamtower.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetinfocus.org\/dreamtower\"> Dream Tower<\/a><\/strong> (47 min \/ Canada)<br \/>\nIn 1968, an 18-storey structure in the heart of Toronto was to house Canada&#8217;s first free college. 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