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SUMMARY:We are not just numbers
DESCRIPTION:Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/514404046418073/ \n\n\n\nPlease join us in a virtual vigil to honor the 255 lives lost which included over 70 children in Gaza. \n\n\n\nWe will be live streaming a candle lighting at Victoria Park across from the Public Gardens but please feel free to join us and light up a candle at home\,  \n\n\n\nMi’kmaq Elder Billy will be speaking at the vigil and will be accompanied by Joan Smith\, drummer from All Nations Drum.
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/we-are-not-just-numbers/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210601T183000
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SUMMARY:Fight for Fifteen and Fairness meeting
DESCRIPTION:Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/236141174951171/ \n\n\n\nJoin us in our next meeting for the Fight for $15 and Fairness campaign. We’ll be planning actions and talking strategy as we fight for $15 now and ten paid sick days for all workers. \n\n\n\nOnline: zoom.us
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/fight-for-fifteen-and-fairness-meeting/
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SUMMARY:Standing Committee on Community Services
DESCRIPTION:The standing committee on community services will meet by video conference Tuesday\, June 1\, from 10 a.m. to noon.  \n\n\n\nAgenda: Housing and COVID-19 and the homelessness crisis \n\n\n\nWitnesses:— Eiryn Devereaux\, deputy minister\, Department of Infrastructure and Housing— Art Fisher\, executive director\, Family Service Association of Western Nova Scotia \n\n\n\nThe committee meeting will be available to watch at: https://nslegislature.ca/legislative-business/legislative-tv \n\n\n\nMedia questions for witnesses can be directed to the relevant department or organization. Questions for committee members can be directed to their caucus offices.
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/standing-committee-on-community-services/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210528T200000
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SUMMARY:An Evening of Conversation With Charmaine Nelson
DESCRIPTION:Facebook event page https://www.facebook.com/events/904636187056477/ \n\n\n\nThe Thomas More Institute is pleased to announce our upcoming webinar\, an evening of conversation with Professor Charmaine A. Nelson. The interview will focus on Professor Nelson’s recent research on the often-ignored history and contemporary impacts of slavery in Quebec via archives such as fugitive slave advertisements.Charmaine Nelson will be interviewed by Shernaz Choksi and Joseph Vietri of the Thomas More Institute on Friday the 28th of May from 7 to 9 p.m. EST on Zoom. \n\n\n\nRegister using the following Zoom link to RSVP and receive updates: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_oJRwHSGzTdSsRh5Hrun2Zg \n\n\n\nRegistration is required\, and the event is free of charge. A Q&A with the audience will follow the interview.Founded in 1945\, Montreal’s Thomas More Institute (TMI) has for 75 years been providing adults of all ages opportunities to cultivate their curiosity about wide-ranging questions rooted in a variety of fields. TMI is a secular\, liberal arts academic institution that offers university-level discussion courses as well as other opportunities for lifelong learning. Our discussions differ from the lectures offered elsewhere as group members are invited to participate collaboratively in a process of shared inquiry and reflection. \n\n\n\nCharmaine A. Nelson is a Professor of Art History and a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Transatlantic Black Diasporic Art and Community Engagement at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) University in Halifax\, CANADA where she is also the founding director of the first-ever institute focused on the study of Canadian Slavery. Prior to this appointment she worked at McGill University (Montreal) for seventeen years. Nelson has made ground-breaking contributions to the fields of the Visual Culture of Slavery\, Race and Representation\, and Black Canadian Studies. She has published seven books including The Color of Stone: Sculpting the Black Female Subject in Nineteenth-Century America (2007)\, Slavery\, Geography\, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica (2016)\, and Towards an African Canadian Art History: Art\, Memory\, and Resistance (2018). She is actively engaged with lay audiences through her media work including ABC\, CBC\, CTV\, and City TV News\, The Boston Globe\, BBC One “Fake or Fortune\,” and PBS “Finding your Roots”. She blogs for the Huffington Post Canada and writes for The Walrus. In 2017\, she was the William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies at Harvard University.
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/an-evening-of-conversation-with-charmaine-nelson/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210527T190000
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SUMMARY:Halifax-Peninsula Chapter Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/244644617438471/ \n\n\n\nJoin us for our Halifax-Peninsula chapter meeting! \n\n\n\nWe’re getting organized for the next steps in our rent control and landlord licensing campaigns\, as well as the minimum wage and raising assistance rates! \n\n\n\nJoin at https://bit.ly/NSACORN \n\n\n\nQuestions? Email halifax@acorncanada.org
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/halifax-peninsula-chapter-meeting-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210527T183000
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SUMMARY:Keys to a housing secure future for all Nova Scotians\, Community Launch
DESCRIPTION:Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/200697781711687/ \n\n\n\nThe Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-NS has convened the Housing for All Working Group\, which includes advocates and activists in housing\, social and economic justice\, academics\, as well as providers of non-profit housing\, shelter\, and community-based support services\, from across Nova Scotia. \n\n\n\nThis group has been working on a report that answers this question: what would it take to ensure that everyone has meaningful access to safe\, permanently affordable\, secure\, supported and adequate housing in Nova Scotia? \n\n\n\nThe report\, Keys to a housing secure future for all Nova Scotians\, will be released on May 26th. \n\n\n\nThis event is the community launch and discussion. Join us! \n\n\n\nClosed Captioning will be available.Register in advance for this event: \n\n\n\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkd-6sqDIqHtYFBevgIgphtzvhV6ahTcf3
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/keys-to-a-housing-secure-future-for-all-nova-scotians-community-launch/
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SUMMARY:Phone-In - No COVID Evictions
DESCRIPTION:Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/488932408983313/ \n\n\n\nJoin us to phone our representatives and demand a full eviction ban! \n\n\n\nNo one should be thrown out on the streets during a pandemic – tenants shouldn’t be touring apartments – people should have a roof over their heads.Demand the government step up! \n\n\n\nQuestions? Email halifax@acorncanada.org
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/phone-in-no-covid-evictions/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210525T190000
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SUMMARY:Mayworks Kjipuktuk Halifax: Archives Continuum
DESCRIPTION:A digital storytelling project by Collective 2030\n\n\n\nIn collaboration with Restorying Climate Just Futures\n\n\n\nWebsite launch May 25th | Live online event – May 25th\, 7:00PM \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCOVID UPDATE:\n\n\n\nArchives Continuum is presented ONLINE and can be safely enjoyed from anywhere. \n\n\n\nCarmel Farahbakhsh | Cathy Martin | Shalan Joudry | Calen Sack \n\n\n\nMichelle Sylliboy | Liliona Quarmyne | Tayla Fern Paul\n\n\n\nRespondents:Sabrina Guzman SkotnitskySailaja KrishnamurtiJonathan LangdonShelley Price \n\n\n\nDesigner:Daren Okafo \n\n\n\nCollective 2030 engages in imagining\, designing\, dreaming their recurrent futures through a multidisciplinary and intergenerational storytelling lens in “Archives Continuum”. Catalyzed and unified through themes of multi-generational and time-cyclical communication\, memory keeping\, and relationship to land and water — each artist facilitates a response that weaves a dynamic narrative and desire to radically redesign the world as we know it. \n\n\n\nLIVE ONLINE Event:\n\n\n\nOn May 25th at 7:00 PM \n\n\n\nRegister here:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvd-mrqjgpGNHpAFwhqDlZ7Ld0rd-yjc0K \n\n\n\nExplore layers of the archive with Collective 2030 on a facilitated Zoom call. \n\n\n\nExplore the website that houses powerful pieces created by the artists. Spend individual and collective time discovering their work\, and experiencing their impact on the respondents. \n\n\n\nThen\, come together for a facilitated gathering that provides a space where open and intentional discussions can be held in regards to the very scary reality that we are heading towards climate disaster. This space is an honest acknowledgment on the current state of our planet\, while still holding room to be able to envision a new and better future for our environment.
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/archives-continuum/
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SUMMARY:Angela Bowden: Poetry reading
DESCRIPTION:Please register at email info@cehpubliclibrary.ca. The email address on the poster is imcomplete.
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/angela-bowden-poetry-reading/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210525T043000
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SUMMARY:Equity Watch webinar: Good Bosses and Bad Bosses
DESCRIPTION:To register for this webinar\, click on https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NCrnGKbzT5-Sbn16B53iVA 
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/equity-watch-webinar-good-bosses-and-bad-bosses/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210521T120000
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SUMMARY:ACORN holding art build to demand government stop COVID-19 evictions
DESCRIPTION:(Halifax\, NS) Those who couldn’t make rent payments on May 1st are now getting served eviction notices for late rent\, meanwhile other tenants are facing displacement because landlords are selling their homes\, or want to evict them to raise the rent. With the third wave it’s more crucial than ever that we ensure everyone has a roof over their heads. ACORN is calling for the province to reinstate a ban on COVID evictions.  \n\n\n\nInstead of gathering for a protest\, ACORN is holding an art build to demonstrate to the province that we need a ban on evictions during the state of emergency.  \n\n\n\nWHAT: Art Build to Ban COVID Evictions  \n\n\n\nWHEN: Friday\, May 21st from 12pm onwards  \n\n\n\nWHERE: Alderney Landing Parkette (across from Alderney Landing)  \n\n\n\nACORN is encouraging people to drop off signs and banners in support of an eviction ban and drop by the Alderney Landing testing site for a asymptomatic COVID test. 
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/acorn-holding-art-build-to-demand-government-stop-covid-19-evictions/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210519T200000
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SUMMARY:Nova Reads: Charles Saunders
DESCRIPTION:On May 19\, 2021\, remembrances of the late Charles Saunders and passages from his fiction and non-fiction works will be shared by David Woods (multidisciplinary artist and arts organization leader)\, George Elliott Clarke (Canada’s 7th Parliamentary Poet Laureate)\, Judy Kavanagh (editor and Saunders’s Daily News colleague)\, Bill Turpin (managing editor of The Daily News)\, Milton Davis (author of 19 books of Black fantastic fiction)\, and Taaq Kirksey (television producer and developer of Saunders’s Imaro novel series for screen). Hosted by journalist Jon Tattrie (author of Peace by Chocolate)\, this edition of Nova Reads is co-presented by Halifax Public Libraries and the Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute. \n\n\n\nThis virtual event is free to attend\, but pre-registration is required.REGISTER TO ATTEND \n\n\n\nCharles Saunders (1946 – 2020) was an African-American author and journalist who moved to Ontario in 1969 and then Nova Scotia in 1985. While a copyeditor and writer at Halifax’s The Daily News\, where he worked for nearly two decades\, Saunders penned numerous columns grappling with difficult racial issues\, contributed to The Spirit of Africville (1992)\, and authored the book-length community profile Black and Bluenose (1999). Saunders also pioneered the “sword and soul” literary genre through his Imaro series of fantasy novels\, begun in 1981. His fiction was groundbreaking not merely for its anti-colonial reimagining of figures like Tarzan and Conan the Barbarian but also for its worldbuilding centered on Black characters and cultures. \n\n\n\nLearn more about Charles Saunders in the feature stories “The extraordinary inner world of Charles R. Saunders\, father of Black sword and soul” (Jon Tattrie\, CBC Nova Scotia) and “A Black Literary Trailblazer’s Solitary Death: Charles Saunders” (The New York Times).
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/nova-reads-charles-saunders/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210519T190000
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SUMMARY:RNSHS Public Lecture ~ The Black Refugees and Lord Dalhousie: A Story in Seven Letters
DESCRIPTION:Dear Members and Friends\,Join us Wednesday\, May 19\, 2021 at 7pm (ADT) for the next public lecture available by clicking here for the Zoom link. The public lecture with be followed by the RNSHS member annual general meeting. More to follow in the coming days. The Black Refugees and Lord Dalhousie: A Story in Seven Letters Afua Cooper – Professor of Black and Diaspora Studies\, Dalhousie University  Abstract: Afua Cooper examines the correspondence between Lieutenant Governor Dalhousie and the Earl of Bathurst\, administrator of Britain’s colonies. Setting the historical context of slavery\, war\, and settlement\, Cooper shows how the letters reveal Dalhousie’s biases. His prejudices contributed to the cruel and unjust treatment of one of Nova Scotia’s founding Black communities\, people who had escaped enslavement on American plantations for freedom with the British during the War of 1812.This is a free virtual public lecture and all are welcome to attend. Please pass this notice along to anyone who may be interested.  
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/rnshs-public-lecture-the-black-refugees-and-lord-dalhousie-a-story-in-seven-letters/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210518T190000
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SUMMARY:Free Palestine: Teach In
DESCRIPTION:Facebook event page https://www.facebook.com/events/162190625855992?ref=newsfeed \n\n\n\nlink will be posted 30 min before event
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/free-palestine-teach-in/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210515T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210515T180000
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SUMMARY:Nakba Catastrophe: 73 years of Palestinian resistance
DESCRIPTION:Here is the link to register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nakba-catastrophe-73-years-of-palestinian-resistance-tickets-154422119717  \n\n\n\nThe Zoom link will be sent to your email once you register. \n\n\n\nYou can also watch on our FB live stream at https://www.facebook.com/ACPalestinianSociety \n\n\n\nJoin us for an afternoon discussing the historical context of the Nakba and the ongoing effects of Israeli-settler colonialism on the Palestinian people. We will cover recent events In Sheikh Jarrah and Al-Aqsa compound\, Canada’s involvement in the Israeli-Palestinan conflict\, and ways you can take action. \n\n\n\nStay tuned for more updates on our guest speakers!
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/nakba-catastrophe-73-years-of-palestinian-resistance/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210513T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210513T200000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch for WHAT REALLY COUNTS: The Case for a Sustainable and Equitable Economy by Ronald Colman
DESCRIPTION:Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/292593835694598 \n\n\n\nWe are very pleased to host the PEI book launch for Nova Scotia author\, Ronald Colman’s new book WHAT REALLY COUNTS: The Case for a Sustainable and Equitable Economy on Thursday\, May 13th at 7 PM. This event is FREE and a link to access the event is available by contact Bookmark at 902-566-4888 or charlottetown@bookmarkreads.ca. \n\n\n\nPoliticians and economists fixate on “growing the economy”—measured by a country’s gross domestic product. But this yardstick counts harmful activities such as greenhouse gas emissions\, plastic waste\, and cigarette sales as gains\, and it ignores environmental protection\, voluntary community work\, and other benefits. What we measure is a choice\, and what is and isn’t counted determines what sorts of policies are enacted. How can we shift the focus to well-being and quality of life?“This is an important book that deserves the attention of politicians\, business leaders\, activists and concerned citizens. As we look forward to life beyond the Covid-19 pandemic there is an opportunity to re-think how we as a society view development\, equity and the economy. This is a very timely and accessible book that offers clues as to what a sustainable future could look like.” says Bookmark co-owner\, Dan MacDonald. \n\n\n\nWhat Really Counts is an essential\, firsthand story of the promise and challenges of accounting for social\, economic\, and environmental benefits and costs. Ronald Colman recounts two decades of working with three governments to adopt measures that more accurately and comprehensively assess true progress. Chronicling his path from Nova Scotia to New Zealand to Bhutan\, Colman details the challenge of devising meaningful metrics\, the effort to lay the foundations of a new economic system\, and the obstacles that stand in the way. Reflecting on successes and failures\, he considers how to shift policy priorities from a narrow economic-growth agenda toward a future built on sustainability and equity.Colman has taken the critique of GDP outside the academy and attempted to realize an alternative. The lessons he offers in What Really Counts are vital for anyone interested in how we can measure what matters—and how better measures can help build a better world. \n\n\n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n\n\n\nRonald Colman is the founder and former executive director of GPI Atlantic\, a nonprofit research group that built an index of well-being and sustainable development in Nova Scotia. He has worked with New Zealand government bodies and communities on measures of well-being and spent ten years in Bhutan assisting the government’s development of holistic progress measures\, a new global economic paradigm\, and other initiatives.
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/book-launch-for-what-really-counts-the-case-for-a-sustainable-and-equitable-economy-by-ronald-colman/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210513T120000
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SUMMARY:Journey to the Zone
DESCRIPTION:FULL FESTIVAL SCHEDULE: https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/events/ \n\n\n\nIn the year 3000\, Earth has crossed over into the DIGITAL REALM\, a digital purgatory in which humanity’s online personas are trapped in an endless cycle of fear and distraction. As humanity wanes in its new existence\, Jax\, an unlikely hero\, must journey deep into cyberspace to unlock the secrets of the Perfect Pixel\, the energy source of the Digital Realm. Alongside a social media android\, Robopal\, Jax must overcome their fears and bias in order to free humanity and bring peace to the Digital Realm. A Sci-Fi Synthesizer Space Musical\, Journey to the Zone examines our relationship to our online world\, as well as the possibilities and limitations of our digital existence. \n\n\n\nWritten and directed by Peter Sarty \n\n\n\nWith Dramaturgy by Taylor Olson \n\n\n\nFeaturingBRETON LALAMA | STEVEY HUNTER | PETER SARTY | NATHAN SIMMONS \n\n\n\nAvailable for download from May 13th to 16th
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/journey-to-the-zone/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210512T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210512T203000
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SUMMARY:Atlantic Book Awards Festival — Understanding Our Past: Exploring Nova Scotia’s history
DESCRIPTION:Writers have historically played an essential role in helping us understand our past\, allowing us to see who we are and how we got here. Author Lindsay Ruck (Amazing Black Atlantic Canadians: Inspiring stories of courage and achievement) will lead a discussion of this tradition through the lens of marginalized communities. Featured authors: \n\n\n\n– shalan joudry (Waking Ground)– Tyler LeBlanc (Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion)– Rebecca Rose (Before the Parade: A History of Halifax’s Gay\, Lesbian\, and Bisexual Communities\, 1972–1984) \n\n\n\nPresented in partnership with the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia.Time 7 pm \n\n\n\nTo register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_–kBcFAUQNKhdmchfaQ3gA?t=1620391389489
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/atlantic-book-awards-festival-understanding-our-past-exploring-nova-scotias-history/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210511T180000
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SUMMARY:NS Acorn: Halifax-Mainland Chapter Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1403302386699913 \n\n\n\nJoin us for our Halifax-Mainland chapter meeting!  \n\n\n\nThe second Tuesday of each month. \n\n\n\nWe’re getting organized for the next steps in our rent control and landlord licensing campaigns\, as well as the minimum wage and raising assistance rates! \n\n\n\nJoin at https://bit.ly/NSACORNQuestions? Email halifax@acorncanada.org
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/ns-acorn-halifax-mainland-chapter-meeting/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210510T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210510T203000
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Stop the federal subsidy for Goldboro LNG!
DESCRIPTION:Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/210694777199631/ \n\n\n\n*** Register here ***: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZcqcu6gqz0sHdYzvkk8Iv9vNJ… \n\n\n\nPieridae Energy\, the company behind Goldboro LNG\, has asked the federal government for nearly one billion dollars to get their dangerous liquified natural gas (LNG) project off the ground. \n\n\n\nThe company has been aggressively lobbying key ministers\, MPs\, and government staff to secure a financing agreement that could kickstart further investment in the project. \n\n\n\nWe still have time to stop that financing agreement — but we need to act together\, and quickly. \n\n\n\nJoin us virtually on May 10th (7pm Atlantic Time) to learn more about this project and the risks it poses to our climate\, communities\, and democracy. \n\n\n\nAt this online meeting you will: Hear from experts and activists working to stop Goldboro LNG Learn about how Pieridae is lobbying multiple ministers\, Atlantic MPs\, and government staff to get this billion-dollar subsidy Be invited to take action to stop this subsidy Get connected to other activists and organizers in the Atlantic who are working to stop this dangerous LNG project \n\n\n\n*** Register here ***: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZcqcu6gqz0sHdYzvkk8Iv9vNJ…
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/webinar-stop-the-federal-subsidy-for-goldboro-lng/
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SUMMARY:AFX 10 Animation Festival of Halifax-This World's Not Done (Helen Hill and Her Legacy)
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our opening event and visit our website for full festival schedule. \n\n\n\nOnline: anifx.ca \n\n\n\nExperimental animator Helen Hill was known for the bright hand-crafted aesthetic she brought to so much of her work and life. Her films blend an exuberance for life and care for others with personal stories and themes of mortality. This program embraces the whimsy\, the sadness\, the fun\, and the contemplation in Hill’s films as intertwining threads that encourage us to cushion our pain with love\, and celebrate the brevity of our time on earth by demonstrating love and care to one another and our communities. Join us in celebrating and remembering an icon of our local film and animation community! \n\n\n\nCurated by Becka Barker \n\n\n\nCo-presented with Mayworks https://l.facebook.com/l.php…
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/afx-10-animation-festival-of-halifax-this-worlds-not-done-helen-hill-and-her-legacy/
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SUMMARY:Rein in REITs! MP Picket
DESCRIPTION:Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/466865584640422/ \n\n\n\nAndy Fillmore constituency office\, 1888 Brunswick Street\, Halifax \n\n\n\nJoin us across Canada as we picket MPs offices to demand they Rein in the REITs!
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/rein-in-reits-mp-picket/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210501T130000
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SUMMARY:The 4th Annual Critical Indigenous\, Race and Feminist Studies Student Conference – Precarity of Racialized Students’ Labour
DESCRIPTION:Saturday May 1\, 2021 from 1pm to 5:30pm ASTConference KeynoteHarsha Walia is a South Asian activist and writer based in Vancouver\, unceded Coast Salish Territories. She is the Executive Director of The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association. Walia has been involved in community-based grassroots migrant justice\, feminist\, anti-racist\, Indigenous solidarity\, anti-capitalist\, Palestinian liberation\, and anti-imperialist movements for over a decade. She is formally trained in law\, and is the author of Undoing Border Imperialism (2013)\, and Border and Rule (2021).Panel: Labour Precarity on Racialized Students’ Well-Being (Panelists: Tina Renier\, Shreetee Appadu\, Fallen Matthews and Sahana Kanabar)Conference Registration required by April 28 2021: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/148423774505 \n\n\n\nUnceded Mi’kmaq TerritoryFree Conference!Conference Organizers: Racialized Students Academic NetworkConference Sponsors: Saint Mary’s University\, Social Justice & Community Studies\, Women & Gender Studies\, Anthropology\, Atlantic Canada Studies\, International Development Studies\, NSPIRGFor more information: cirfsconference@gmail.com
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/the-4th-annual-critical-indigenous-race-and-feminist-studies-student-conference-precarity-of-racialized-students-labour/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210501T120000
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SUMMARY:May Day phone zap for Paid Sick Leave and $15/hour!
DESCRIPTION:Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/122441853207642/ \n\n\n\nJoin the Fight for $15 and Fairness on zoom on May Day as we do a phone zap for a $15 minimum wage and employer-paid paid sick days for all workers. May Day is International Workers’ Day\, and we’re going to honour this history by carrying on the struggle for better wages and working conditions for all workers. \n\n\n\nOn May Day\, join us in calling provincial politicians to demand ten employer-paid sick days for all workers\, and a $15 minimum wage. \n\n\n\nHere is a loose script that you can follow in calling or emailing politicians. Feel free to put your own unique spin on it! \n\n\n\nHello\, my name is ________ and I live ________. \n\n\n\nI’m calling because I am very frustrated that your government has not already implemented ten paid sick days and a $15 minimum wage for all workers. \n\n\n\nWhether it is workers in part-time employment trying to string together multiple jobs in order to make ends meet and accidentally spreading COVID-19\, or workers without paid sick days who can’t stay home from work at the first sign of symptoms because they can’t afford to lose pay\, fair wages and paid sick days must be central in curbing COVID now and recovering from it. \n\n\n\nThe evidence shows paid sick days are effective at curbing transmission of infectious disease\, including COVID-19. \n\n\n\n• Yet\, 58% of workers across Canada have no paid sick days\, and that jumps to over 70% of low-income workers \n\n\n\n• Even 75% of workers in the service sector\, including food services\, and 50% in health & social services sectors where the risk of exposure is highest\, have no paid sick days. \n\n\n\n• No one should have to choose between staying home sick & paying the bills \n\n\n\n• Black\, Indigenous\, and workers of colour are over-represented in low-wage\, frontline work & are most at risk of becoming infected \n\n\n\n• We hear a lot about thanking essential workers\, but why is the government not protecting them with paid sick days? \n\n\n\nThe CRSB has been widely criticized as inadequate to meeting the challenges presented by COVID-19. Ten employer-paid sick days a year are needed to ensure that no worker experiences a disruption in their pay by staying home when sick. \n\n\n\nI’m calling on you to use the substantial power that you have to make paid sick leave and a $15 minimum wage a reality for Nova Scotians now. \n\n\n\nThank you. \n\n\n\nContact Information: \n\n\n\nCall Iain Rankin\, Premier: \n\n\n\n902-404-7036 \n\n\n\nEmail: info@iainrankin.ca \n\n\n\nCall Lena Metlege\, Minister of Labour and Advanced Education \n\n\n\n902-455-1610 \n\n\n\nEmail: lena@metlegediab.ca \n\n\n\nCall Zach Churchill\, Minister of Health and Wellness \n\n\n\nPhone: 902-742-4444 \n\n\n\nEmail: ca@zachchurchill.com
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/may-day-protest-for-paid-sick-leave-and-15-hour/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210430T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210430T143000
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SUMMARY:Academic Well-Being of Racialized Students Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/181425807130398/ \n\n\n\nSMU Patrick Power Library in collaboration with: Fernwood Publishing\, SMU Women and Gender Studies\, and Racialized Students Academic Network present the launch celebration of ‘Academic Well-Being of Racialized Students’. Join us for a panel discussion with Ahrthyh Arumugam\, Fallen Matthews\, Diane Obed\, & Benita Bunjun\, as well as poetry by Tammy Williams. Dr. Sailaja Krishnamurti will be the discussant for the panel.
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/academic-well-being-of-racialized-students-book-launch/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210429T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210429T210000
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SUMMARY:Info Session: New Permanent Residency Program for Migrant Students
DESCRIPTION:Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/175041597802176/ \n\n\n\nCurrent & former international students! Questions about the new Permanent Residency program? What to do if you don’t qualify?Join our information session to get answers and invite your friends! \n\n\n\nREGISTRATION REQUIRED! When you register\, you will have the chance to ask your questions. We will address all shared concerns and inquiries. \n\n\n\nREMEMBER! You can use our free & confidential tool to get information and assess whether you meet the eligibility requirements: https://MigrantWorkersAlliance.org/NewPR2021
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/info-session-new-permanent-residency-program-for-migrant-students/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210429T193000
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SUMMARY:Panel two: The Bay of Fundy: Natural Wonder or Nuclear Industry Test Site?
DESCRIPTION:Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/823584965173430/ \n\n\n\nPanel Two: The Bay of Fundy:Natural Wonder or Nuclear Industry Test Site? \n\n\n\nFree • Registration is required. \n\n\n\nhttps://raven-research.org/April-webinars \n\n\n\nOrganized by the RAVEN project at the University of New Brunswick \n\n\n\nThe Bay of Fundy is one of the 7 Natural Wonders of North America\, one of the richest marine ecosystems on the planet and feeding ground for millions of migratory birds.The governments of Canada and New Brunswick have funded two start-up companies to develop experimental nuclear projects beside the Bay of Fundy on the site of the Point Lepreau CANDU nuclear reactor. \n\n\n\nCanadian regulatory agencies have no experience with these technologies and experts have raised many safety concerns. After nuclear industry lobbying\, the Canadian government exempted these projects from a federal environmental impact assessment. \n\n\n\nPoint Lepreau is located on the shared traditional and unceded territories of the Peskotomuhkati and Wolastoq Nations.The panel features Indigenous leaders and academic and medical experts as presenters followed by Q&A with registrants. \n\n\n\nPanel Two:Dr. Janice Harvey\, St. Thomas UniversityIntroduction • moderator \n\n\n\nDr. M.V. Ramana\, University of British ColumbiaThe sodium-cooled and molten salt experimental nuclear reactors planned for the Bay of Fundy site \n\n\n\nDr. Edwin Lyman\, Union of Concerned Scientists (United States)The experimental “recycling” of used nuclear fuel planned for the Bay of Fundy site \n\n\n\nChief Ron Tremblay\, Wolastoq Grand CouncilResolution on Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Waste on Traditional Wolastoq Territory \n\n\n\nFree • Registration is required. https://raven-research.org/April-webinars \n\n\n\nOrganized by the RAVEN project at the University of New Brunswick
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/panel-two-the-bay-of-fundy-natural-wonder-or-nuclear-industry-test-site/
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SUMMARY:UnSpoken Truth\, umuted and unfiltered - a poetry reading with Angela Bowden
DESCRIPTION:Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/461769618391055/ \n\n\n\nAll are welcome to join us this evening (online via ZOOM or by phone) for a sharing of poetry\, with Nova Scotian author\, Angela Bowden\, and her newly published\, “UnSpoken Truth\, unmuted and unfiltered”. \n\n\n\nPlease click the link below to join the ZOOM webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81003629398…Passcode: 326994or by phone – please dial\, 1(800) 974-5902\, and then enter the Conference ID\,6217271. \n\n\n\nAbout the Book:With strength and resilience\, Africans have persevered through the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and were able to rebuild a life after slavery while enduring the inhumane conditions of the civil rights Jim Crow era forced upon them by the African diaspora. The lack of acknowledgement of the generational trauma these events have had on their descendants continues to create further injury. Even today\, barriers prevent their healing and transition from survival to a thriving existence. \n\n\n\nUnspoken Truth is a bold collection of poetry highlighting the generational pain of Africans living in the diaspora. Through her poems\, Bowden creates a panoramic view of the terrible conditions they endured for centuries. Deliberately\, with dignity\, she brings the trauma stories of African Nova Scotians told around kitchen tables for decades to the homes of readers while restoring the balance of humanity and royalty from which the African journey began. Despite all odds\, they were able to preserve their lineage and lean on the resilience buried deep in their souls while passing this pride\, culture\, and strength on to future generations so they may one day fulfill the hopes and the dreams of the former slaves. \n\n\n\nThis collection seeks to spark the necessary conversations the larger society needs to engage in around the perseverance of systemic racism\, a society now grappling to make the connections between historical trauma and current-day conditions of inequality. It summons the conscience of every reader to acknowledge the truth and reconcile it with their own dissonance. The poems pay homage to the ancestors\, honour the elders\, and provide inspiration for the youth so they can heal from this historical inheritance and build upon their own narratives. \n\n\n\nAbout the author: \n\n\n\nTEDx speaker\, writer\, and activist\, Angela Bowden is a descendent of the stolen Africans sold through the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. Angela’s roots were preserved through the Black Loyalists arriving in Birchtown\, migrating to Guysborough County\, and later moving to New Glasgow\, Nova Scotia\, where she was born and raised.
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/unspoken-truth-umuted-and-unfiltered-a-poetry-reading-with-angela-bowden/
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SUMMARY:Autism Arts Digital Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/919552775529764/ \n\n\n\nAutism Nova Scotia in partnership with the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and Goose Lane Editions will co-host the digital book launch of 𝘼𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙢 𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙨. This book showcases the collaborative nature and profound impact of the Autism Arts program by featuring interviews with participants and their families\, facilitators\, and therapists and autism support specialists. The event is free and open to the public. \n\n\n\n𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝗯𝘆:– Dale Sheppard\, Curator of Education and Public Programs at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia– Cynthia Carroll\, Executive Director of Autism Nova Scotia– Susanne Alexander\, Publisher at Goose Lane Editions… & more featured guests to be announced. \n\n\n\n𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁The event will take place online\, broadcast via YouTube at https://www.gooselane.com/AutismArts on 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆\, 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟮𝟵\, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭\, 𝗮𝘁 𝟲 𝗽.𝗺. 𝗔𝗗𝗧. \n\n\n\n𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸In 2006\, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and Autism Nova Scotia partnered to develop a recreational art program that provided a safe and supportive environment for participants to express themselves creatively. In these classes\, artists work in collaboration with autism support specialists and volunteers to provide meaningful and positive art experiences for children and young adults on the autism spectrum. \n\n\n\nRichly illustrated and accompanied with real-life stories\, curriculum choices\, and lesson plans\, 𝘼𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙢 𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙨 invites the reader both to celebrate and to share in the optimism and promise inclusive programming holds for all of us.Autism Nova Scotia\, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia\, and Goose Lane Editions would like to recognize and give special thanks to Joan Craig for her incredible financial and visionary support\, as well as The Craig Foundation\, The Chawkers Foundation\, Halifax Youth Foundation\, and the Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia for the funding provided for this publication.
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/autism-arts-digital-book-launch/
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SUMMARY:Halifax-Peninsula Chapter Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/799044944377955/ \n\n\n\nJoin us for our Halifax-Peninsula chapter meeting! \n\n\n\n getting organized for the next steps in our rent control and landlord licensing campaigns\, as well as the minimum wage and raising assistance rates! \n\n\n\nJoin at https://bit.ly/NSACORN \n\n\n\nQuestions? Email halifax@acorncanada.org
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/halifax-peninsula-chapter-meeting/
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