Rainbow Toastmasters Toronto

06/09/2026

✨ Meeting Recap – June 18✨
We had 10 attendees at our Toastmasters meeting — a TTC shut down may have affected some attendees best intentions to show up!
Jamie did a great job serving as Toastmaster regaling us with the life of Madonna. 🫦
We had no guests tonight
Role Highlights:
🔤 Grammarian: Wei — Word of the Day: Bold
⏱️ Timer: Averra
🗣️ Ah-Counter: Tristan, 47 filler words
🔍 General Evaluator: Brian, reminding the evaluators to get the speech objectives, timing and pathway from the speaker before the meeting and let the audience know these elements of the up-coming speech when making the evaluator’s initial comments while the toastmaster is responsible for the title and short speaker introduction for the speaker. 💰
Speeches:
🎤 Phoebe delivered “Focus on the positive” for her level 3 speech from the Dynamic Leadership pathway⛄❄️, evaluated by John.
🎤 Jim shared “Am I really here?,” with his Ice Breaker speech detail his younger years and coming out process with family. Shane.
Table Topics:
Hosted by Akeylah, leading to a wide variety of entertaining and creative responses from participants. She also completed here Active Listening project listening carefully to responses to questions posed and reminding the audience of the most salient fact shared by each speaker after they spoke.
🏆 Awards:
The Table Topics Award went to Brian for the time he saw Madonna give a raunchy performance at the Sky Dome 🥩
Grammarian Award was earned by John for his use of the word of the day most times - congratulations! 🎉
📅 Next Meeting: Monday, June 15 — we will have Victor as Toastmaster with a theme Rainbow Toastmasters!

06/04/2026

✨ Meeting Recap – June 1 ✨

We had 18 attendees at our Toastmasters meeting — an energetic evening full of humour, indulgence, and tons of learned moments!

Tristan did a fantastic job serving as Toastmaster for the first time and leading the meeting with the fun and engaging theme: “Guilty Pleasures” 🫦

We welcomed guests Benny, Dave, Bashiyr, and Lilie — thank you for joining us, we hope you had fun!

Role Highlights:
🔤 Grammarian: Brian — Word of the Day: indulge
⏱️ Timer: Mohammad
🗣️ Ah-Counter: Averra, 23 filler words
🔍 General Evaluator: John, who reminded us to fill the podium, speak to the back row, and members to get involved in Toastmasters because it’s your “money honey!” 💰

Speeches:
🎤 Jamie delivered “How the Guy Named Jamie from Salisbury, New Brunswick Became Mr. Price in Toronto,” and did such a great job that not even BonHomme could convince us otherwise ⛄❄️, evaluated by Shane.
🎤 Akeylah shared “Crowdsourcing Mentoring,” with her novel take on being a protege evaluated by Derek.

Table Topics:
Hosted by Wei, leading to a wide variety of entertaining and creative responses from participants.

🏆 Awards:
The Table Topics Award went to Dave for his unforgettable “raw meat” answer 🥩

Grammarian Award was earned by Akeylah for her excellent comedic timing — congratulations! 🎉

📅 Next Meeting: Monday, June 8 — we hope to see you there!

06/03/2026

06/02/2026

Winners of Table Topics (Guest Dave) and Grammarian (Akeylah) June 1, 2026

05/29/2026

Meeting Recap – May 25 ✨
We had 17 attendees at our Toastmasters meeting — a fun evening filled with lots of energy, laughter, and cleaning puns!
Akeylah did a fantastic job serving as Toastmaster for her first time and leading the meeting with the very timely theme: “Spring Cleaning” 🌸🧹
We welcomed guest Danial — thank you for joining us!
Role Highlights:
🔤 Grammarian: Jim — Word of the Day: jettison
⏱️ Timer: Averra
🗣️ Ah-Counter: Derek -- who counted 45 filler words 🫦
🔍 General Evaluator: Jamie
Speeches:
🎤 Keith delivered “When in Roam,” evaluated by Brian.
🎤 Emily shared “Why Didn’t I Write This Speech Yesterday,” evaluated by Mohammad.
Table Topics:
Hosted by Tristan, who brought great energy and thrilling questions all to do with the theme of spring cleaning and decluttering our homes, lives, bad habits, and minds!
🏆 Awards:
The Table Topics Award went to Wei for his relatable “spring clean your romantic life” response, while the Grammarian Award was earned by Keith for the unforgettable phrase “Cat-ineau” — congratulations! 😺🎉
🌠Notable Moment:
We inducted Angela as our newest member and were thrilled to have her join the fold. Welcome (officially) to Rainbow Toastmasters!
📅 Next Meeting: Monday, June 1 — and please join us afterwards for our monthly social! 🎉

05/13/2026

✨ Meeting Recap – May 11 ✨

We had 17 attendees at our Toastmasters meeting — a high turnout with new and familiar faces participating throughout the evening!

Jamie did a wonderful job serving as Toastmaster and leading the meeting with the theme: “The Anxious Generation” 💭

We welcomed guests Angela, Spiro, and Lilly — thank you for joining us!

Role Highlights:
🔤 Grammarian: Averra — Word of the Day: happenstance
⏱️ Timer: Derek
🗣️ Ah-Counter: Tristan
🔍 General Evaluator: Jim

Speeches:
🎤 Akeylah delivered “My Communication Style,” evaluated by Shane.
🎤 Wei shared “My Anxious Public Speaking Journey,” evaluated by Brian.

Table Topics:
Hosted by Paul, inspiring a mix of reflective, humorous, and creative responses from participants.

🏆 Awards:
The Table Topics Award went to Averra and Tristan in a tie, while the Grammarian Award was earned by Akeylah — congratulations! 🎉

📅 Next Meeting: There will be no meeting next week as it's a long-weekend. Our next meeting will take place on May 25 — we hope to see you there!

05/05/2026

We had 17 attendees at our Toastmasters meeting—a great mix of members and guests bringing lots of energy and participation throughout the evening! Seven guests attended. We welcomed four new members fully registered . Welcome Tristan, Wei and Naida. Welcome back as a member Mohammad.
Brian was our Toastmaster with the theme District 60 Conference Review

We welcomed guests Guillherme, Bashiyr, Mortenza, Angela, Tommy and Romeo and Romeo's wife Alisa who was an Area Director in Vancouver—thank you for joining us! You all did a fantastic job.

After the meeting a group of 9 of us went to Bishop & Belcher for some food and socializing.

Role Highlights:
🔤 Grammarian: Mohammad— Word of the Day: Significant
⏱️ Timer: Emily- kept us punctual
🗣️ Ah-Counter: Averra we had a count of 30 filler words heard
🔍 General Evaluator: Shane
Speech:
🎤 Prakhyaat delivered a speech from a new pathway (Engaging Humour) where he talked about the smile on many national leaders around the world.
Table Topics:
Hosted by Shane, who brought the theme to life with a fun touch of thought provoking questions tailored for each volunteer.
🏆 Awards:
The Table Topics Award went to guest Angela with her excellent discussion on whether Toastmasters is a cult, the Grammarian Award was earned by Shane for his use of language in hosting Table Topics tonight.
See you next week where Jamie will be the Toastmaster and we will have two speeches made by member Emily and Akeylah

05/03/2026

Grammarian and Table Topics winners April 27th along with three new Rainbow Toastmasters members inducted.

We had 17 attendees at our Toastmasters meeting—a great mix of energy and participation throughout the evening! Seven guests attended
John was our Toastmaster with the theme First United Church of Trump (imagine the acronym)
We welcomed guests Naida, Wei, Danuta (Area Director) Danial and Tristan—thank you for joining us! You all did a fantastic job.
Role Highlights:
🔤 Grammarian: Victor— Word of the Day: Unfit (ness)
⏱️ Timer: Jamie - kept us punctual
🗣️ Ah-Counter: Pedro we had a count of only 11 filler words heard
🔍 General Evaluator: Brian
Speech:
🎤 Danuta delivered a presentation showing us the ins and outs of the Pathways on Base Camp at Toastmasters Int'l
Averra delivered her Toastmasters Ice-Breaker speec talking about bullying and her Journey Through Self-Acceptance
Table Topics:
Hosted by Daniel, who brought the theme to life with a fun touch of thought provoking questions.
🏆 Awards:
The Table Topics Award went to Tristan with his excellent Trump impersonation and the Grammarian Award was earned by Averra for her use of language in her Ice-Breaker speech well done both of you!
See you next week where Brian will be the Toastmaster and we will have two speeches made by member Prakhyaat and our Club Secretary Shane

04/21/2026

We had 18 attendees at our Toastmasters meeting—a great mix of energy and participation throughout the evening!
Prak did a superb job as Toastmaster, leading the meeting with the theme: “Running on Vibes & Delusion.”
We welcomed guests Naida, Bashiyr, Wei, Lily, and Angela—thank you for joining us! You all did a fantastic job.
Role Highlights:
🔤 Grammarian: Brian— Word of the Day: Sanity
⏱️ Timer: Keith (First time - job well done!)
🗣️ Ah-Counter: Jim we had a count of 84 filler words heard
🔍 General Evaluator: Shane
Speech:
🎤 Jamie delivered “Live Forever Really?" from the Persuasive Influence pathway
John delivered a Toastmasters better club series presentation on "Committments"
Table Topics:
Hosted by Akeylah, who brought the theme to life with a fun touch of thought provoking questions.
🏆 Awards:
The Table Topics Award went to a tie between two guests - congrats Wei and Angela, and the Grammarian Award was earned by Jamie for his phrases used in his speech tonight—well done!

See you next week where John will be the Toastmaster and we will have two speeches made by member Averra and our Area Director Danuta

Guest Wei has expressed an interest in joining as a member. 🎉