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SUMMARY:Nova Scotia All Party Debate on the environment\, biodiversity and climate
DESCRIPTION:KJIPUKTUK (Halifax) – On Wednesday\, Aug. 4 at 6:30 p.m. the Ecology Action Centre\, Sierra Club Atlantic and the Council of Canadians will be hosting a live all-party provincial election debate to hear parties’ positions on critical issues related to the climate and biodiversity crises.  \n\n\n\nSheldon MacLeod\, journalist and host with Saltwire.com will be moderating the debate with representatives from Nova Scotia’s Green\, Liberal\, NDP and PC parties.  \n\n\n\nParticipating Candidates:  \n\n\n\nJessica Alexander – Green Party of Nova Scotia\, Interim Leader and Candidate for Chester-St. Margaret’s Pam Cooley – Nova Scotia Liberal Party\, Candidate for Dartmouth North Scott Ellis – Nova Scotia PC Party\, Candidate for Halifax Needham Tyler Colbourne – Nova Scotia NDP\, Candidate for Dartmouth East \n\n\n\nThis is a hybrid online/in-person event\, seats will be available for a limited number of in-person attendees and it will also be live-streamed on YouTube.  \n\n\n\nWe’re inviting media to attend in person. If you would like a seat\, please contact Hope Perez via the contact information below before Tuesday\, Aug. 4 at 4 p.m. to save your seat.   \n\n\n\nRecap of election debate details:  \n\n\n\nWhen: Wednesday\, Aug. 4\, 2021  \n\n\n\nTime: 6:30pm – 8:30 p.m.   \n\n\n\nWho: Ecology Action Centre\, Sierra Club Atlantic and Council of Canadians   \n\n\n\nWhere (in-person): Ummah Mosque & Community Centre\, 2510 St Matthias St\, Halifax\, NS   \n\n\n\nWhere (online): EAC’s YouTube channel 
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/nova-scotia-all-party-debate-on-the-environment-biodiversity-and-climate/
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SUMMARY:76th anniversary of Hiroshima Day in Halifax/Kjipuktuk
DESCRIPTION:Nova Scotia Voice of Women for Peace will  commemorate the 76th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of  Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Friday\, August 6\, in Halifax/Kjipuktuk\, Nova Scotia\, from 11:00 to 12:00 in Grand Parade Square. We gratefully acknowledge the leadership by HRM Council and the honourable Mayor Mike Savage declaring August 6 as a Day of Peace.  \n\n\n\nWe  also wish to acknowledge the significance of HRM’s one-year anniversary of adopting the resolution to endorse the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) and to call on the Government of Canada to support and sign this multilateral agreement – an agreement that “may prove instrumental in determining the fate of the planet” by establishing “a clear and comprehensive prohibition against the most dangerous and destructive weapons on Earth.”  Both of these actions\, declaring a Day of Peace and supporting the Nuclear Ban Treaty speak to a council willing to work for justice and conflict resolution without violence and threat. HRM has earned a seat at the table of Mayors for Peace internationally (a coalition of over 7\,000 municipalities from over 160 countries working to build a nuclear-weapons-free world). Halifax is a beacon for cities across Turtle Island.  \n\n\n\nOn behalf of Nova Scotia Voice of Women for Peace we extend this invitation.  Please join us at Grand Parade Square from 11 to 12 on August 6\, 2021 to commemorate the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  We ask any participants to adhere to Covid protocols and ensure social distancing. Our commemoration specifically will be dedicated to Setsuko Thurlow and ‘Strong Women’ who strive for peace.  \n\n\n\nSetsuko Thurlow\, now a Canadian citizen who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima as a 13-year-old. She has devoted her life to nuclear abolition\, is a recipient of the Order of Canada and was honoured\, along with Ms. Beatrice Fihn\, to co-accept the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.  (Although she will not be able to travel to Halifax at this time\, we will share our recording of the event on-line.) \n\n\n\nThe Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons  entered into force on January 22\, 2021 The TPNW also known as the Nuclear Ban treaty\, is the first legally binding international agreement that seeks to comprehensively prohibit nuclear weapons. Canada has yet to affirm its own official policy on non-proliferation and disarmament by signing and ratifying the TPNW.  \n\n\n\nNSVOW extends this invitation to all women in politics  to speak about how to create a safe and secure future for us all with non-violence. We hope all levels of governance – band\, municipal\, federal and provincial will be represented. We hope all parties and independent candidates will join us. We offer a brief  open mic opportunity after speeches and musical interludes\, including participation by the Halifax Raging Grannies.  \n\n\n\nIn Peace and Friendship \n\n\n\nNova Scotia Voice of Women for Peace
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/76th-anniversary-of-hiroshima-day-in-halifax-kjipuktuk/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210807T130000
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SUMMARY:Rally to Save Owls Head Provincial Park /Little Hbr. from Becoming Golf Courses
DESCRIPTION:Facebook event page https://www.facebook.com/events/579202733247672 \n\n\n\nOn August 7th at 1 PM\, we will gather at Victoria Park. South Park St\, Halifax in support of saving Owls Head Provincial Park/Little Harbour.
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/rally-to-save-owls-head-provincial-park-little-hbr-from-becoming-golf-courses/
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SUMMARY:RALLY FOR PALESTINE: DAY OF RAGE 2.0
DESCRIPTION:Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1198875790586081 \n\n\n\nPLEASE SHARE AND REPOST \n\n\n\nJoin us this Sunday\, August 8th at 5PM at Sackville Landing (Waterfront\, Halifax side) for a discussion on the ongoing effects of illegal Israeli settler colonialism on the Indigenous Palestinian people. \n\n\n\nSocial distancing and masks are mandatory.
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/rally-for-palestine-day-of-rage-2-0/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210809T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210809T133000
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SUMMARY:Candidates Virtual Panel on Mental Health and Substance Use Care
DESCRIPTION:Candidates Virtual Panel on Mental Health and Substance Use Care. Monday\, August 9th\, 12noon-1:30pm. \n\n\n\nTO REGISTER : https://www.eventbrite.ca/…/candidates-forum-on-mental…
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/candidates-virtual-panel-on-mental-health-and-substance-use-care/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210810T173000
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SUMMARY:Prisoner Justice Day
DESCRIPTION:You’re invited to celebrate Prisoner Justice Day on August 10th at the Halifax Commons. On this day every year\, incarcerated and formally incarcerated people take the day to fast while prisoner justice advocates take the tie to discuss the significance of the day and what the current prison system has done and is doing and ways we can help. \n\n\n\nThis year we will be meeting to discuss the connection between mental health and prison\, the alarming overrepresentation of Black and Indigenous people in prisons and introducing the various organizations that do prison abolition/reform and ways the greater community can help. \n\n\n\nFocus: Gathering with a panel of formerly incarcerated people to discuss their experience in prison. This PJD\, an emphasis on how mental health is greatly tied in with the justice system as well as a discussion surrounding how people are criminalized through poverty\, racism\, anti-indigenous sentiments\, respectability politics\, etc. highlighting the overrepresentation of women and women identifying Black and Indigenous people in prisons and how folks can support organizations that help formerly incarcerated people or the participants directly. \n\n\n\nLocation: Halifax Commons\, 5816 Cogswell St\, Halifax\, NS B3H 2Z4 \n\n\n\nWhen: August 10th 5:30-7:30If folks have any questions\, they can email us at Booksbeyondbars@gmail.com
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/prisoner-justice-day/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210810T180000
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SUMMARY:ACORN NS Halifax-Mainland Chapter Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our Mainland organizing meeting!We’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/acorn-ns-halifax-mainland-chapter-meeting-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210810T180000
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SUMMARY:Emancipation Day Virtual Session
DESCRIPTION:YOU’RE VIRTUALLY INVITED!!! A live-stream presentation with Dr. Charmaine Nelson\, Professor of Art History and a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Transatlantic Black Diasporic Art and Community Engagement at NSCAD University.   Please tune in and share with your networks as we continue our learning around Emancipation Day. Details below – \n\n\n\nDate: Tuesday\, August 10th \n\n\n\nTime: 6:00 p.m. (ADT) \n\n\n\nLocation: Nova Scotia Culture Facebook page – www.facebook.com/novascotiaculture \n\n\n\nShe will discuss the complexity of slavery in Canada to help us comprehend what former enslaved people celebrated in 1834 with slavery’s demise in the British Empire.  \n\n\n\nHave a question for Dr. Nelson? Drop in it the comments section on Facebook or send in advance to Aja Joshi at Aja.Joshi@novascotia.ca. #EmancipationDayNS \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDay: Tuesday\, August 10th. \n\n\n\nTime: 6:00pm (one hour) \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Dr. Charmaine Nelson\, NSCAD \n\n\n\nHost: Aja Joshi \n\n\n\nModerator: DeRico Symonds \n\n\n\nOpening Remarks: Deputy of CCH \n\n\n\nTitle: An Introduction to Canadian and Nova Scotian Slavery \n\n\n\nSummary: \n\n\n\nAs Nova Scotians and Canadians commemorate Emancipation Day on August 1st\, 2021\, it is important to pose the question – emancipation from what? Canadians are largely ignorant of any knowledge of Canadian Slavery because it is simply not a part of our normal curricula in grade school\, high school\, or higher education. Yet\, the historical documentation of this two-hundred-year history under two empires (Britain and France) has been\, for the most part\, well preserved in various museums and archives across the country. \n\n\n\nThis talk contests our customary national celebration of the Underground Railroad (1834-1865) and the stories we tell ourselves about being “the good guys” who saved enslaved African Americans. Instead\, it considers the nature\, scale\, and complexity of slavery in Nova Scotia and other parts of Canada in order to comprehend and appreciate what formerly enslaved people celebrated in 1834 with slavery’s demise in the British Empire. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio: \n\n\n\nDr. Charmaine Nelsonis 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 where she is also the founding director of the Institute for the Study of Canadian Slavery. Prior to this appointment she worked at McGill University (Montreal) for seventeen years (2003-2020) and at Western University for two (2001-2003). \n\n\n\nNelson 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). \n\n\n\nNelson has given over 260 lectures\, papers\, and talks across Canada\, and the USA\, and in Mexico\, Denmark\, Germany\, Italy\, Norway\, Spain\, the UK\, Central America\, and the Caribbean. She is also actively engaged with lay audiences through her media work including ABC\, CBC\, CTV\, BBC One\, and PBS. She blogs for the Huffington Post Canada and writes for The Walrus. Nelson has held several prestigious fellowships and appointments including a Caird Senior Research Fellowship\, National Maritime Museum\, Greenwich\, UK (2007) and a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair\, University of California – Santa Barbara (2010). She was recently the William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies at Harvard University (2017-2018) and in 2021 she will be a fellow at Bard Graduate Center in New York City. 
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/emancipation-day-virtual-session/
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SUMMARY:Rally at the Legislature in support of disability rights: “Keep your Promise”
DESCRIPTION:The Disability Rights Coalition and the Community Homes Action Group are planning a rally at the Legislature (symbolic) on Friday August 13 at noon in support of disability rights entitled “Keep your Promise”
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/rally-at-the-legislature-in-support-of-disability-rights-entitled-keep-your-promise/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210814T130000
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SUMMARY:Rally: Your home shouldn't be their portfolio
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URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/rally-your-home-shouldnt-be-their-portfolio/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210814T150000
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SUMMARY:Rally: Solidarity with Cuba
DESCRIPTION:THIS SATURDAY! The Communist Party of Canada\, Halifax club is hosting a rally in solidarity with Cuba and opposing US imperialism and the embargo. All those in support of peace and good relations with Cuba are welcome! \n\n\n\nPS\, we are looking for more speakers from the community who would be interested in speaking on relations with Cuba or the Cuban Revolution.
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/rally-solidarity-with-cuba/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210819T180000
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SUMMARY:Knowing Your Rights with Landlord Rules
DESCRIPTION:Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1648695461992081 \n\n\n\nEvent by Nova Scotia ACORN and Dalhousie Legal Aid Service \n\n\n\nCheck-out this free webinar co-hosted with NS ACORN to learn more about your rights as a tenant with regards to landlord rules! \n\n\n\nCan your landlord make you responsible for all pest control issues or charge you fees for opening windows or having pets? \n\n\n\nThe short answer is no but tune in to learn why as well as what you can do about unlawful landlord rules. \n\n\n\nEmail legalaid@dal.ca with the subject line “Landlord Webinar” to receive to receive the password to the zoom event. \n\n\n\nNote that this webinar is intended for tenants and not for landlords or their employees.
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/knowing-your-rights-with-landlord-rules/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210819T180000
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SUMMARY:Dartmouth BIG Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/944809356076281/ \n\n\n\nAfter months of community members doing outreach and talking to neighbours\, we are OFFICIALLY forming our Dartmouth ACORN chapter! \n\n\n\nWe’ve heard lots from members in Highfield Park about the issues they’ve been having with their landlords\, and from community members all across Dartmouth. We are fighting for better conditions in the buildings and the city!Come out to our BIG MEETING on Thursday\, August 19th at 6pm to talk to neighbours\, create a plan of action\, and form the Dartmouth ACORN chapter.If you’ve ever been interested in coming to an ACORN meeting – this is the one to do it! And if you’re fed up with the staus quo and want to fight to see something changed – reach out and join your neighbours! \n\n\n\nQuestions? Email halifax@acorncanada.org
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/dartmouth-big-meeting/
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SUMMARY:ALI presents: Defining reparations in a Canadian context
DESCRIPTION:Three esteemed scholars will discuss the Canadian case for reparations.  https://www.youtube.com/africentrictv
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/ali-presents-defining-reparations-in-a-canadian-context/
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SUMMARY:Community drop-in for individuals impacted by rge encampment evictions
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URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/community-drop-in-for-individuals-impacted-by-rge-encampment-evictions/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210828T180000
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SUMMARY:Discussion of Palestinian resistance
DESCRIPTION:https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7GL47e9UQ8KXRz-frsakcQ
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/discussion-of-palestinian-resistance/
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