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This year was Busking for Change's second: the event, which sees big-name (and other) musicians playing on city streets collecting donations for War Child ,started last year, and was born a little earlier, after Our Lady Peace's Raine Maida busked for War Child all around downtown for twelve hours back in 2007.

WORDS: Richard Dawkins's 2006 tome The God Delusion has sold over 1.5 million copies in its English pressing alone, and his work as an evolutionary biologist has earned him the nickname "Darwin's Rottweiler." His new novel, The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, follows in the vein of the rest of his books (exploring the evidence supporting evolution), but it also attempts to refute the criticism he's faced from people who believe in creationism and deny the existence of evolution. Tonight he'll be at the Isabel Bader Theatre to read from The Greatest Show On Earth. The Chapters-Indigo website says the reading is already sold out, so beg, borrow, but don't steal a ticket (because, even if there's no God to punish us, Torontoist doesn't condone stealing). Isabel Bader Theatre (93 Charles Street West), 7 p.m., $10.

MUSIC: Today, War Child Canada is presenting "Busking For Change," a day-long busking event featuring a number of reasonably successful Canadian performers. Among those performing are Our Lady Peace's Raine Maida (a fervent supporter of War Child Canada), Chantal Kreviazuk, Zack Werner, The Waking Eyes, and Neverending White Lights. Expect to see lots of teenaged girls unable to control their excitement, and a slough of disgruntled buskers who've had their spots stolen by real musicians with stable income. Various locations in the downtown core, 8 a.m.–6 p.m.., FREE (plus the donation to War Child Canada you'll inevitably end up making).