Dinao MacCormick is a Changemaker
Interview provided by Northside Rising, an Inspiring Communities nested initiative. Tell me a little bit about yourself My name is Dinao. I am an Expressive […]
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Natalie Couture is a Northside Changemaker
Interview provided by Northside Rising, an Inspiring Communities nested initiative. Tell me a little bit about yourself I graduated from StFX with a degree in […]
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A Safe Place for Digby’s Youth
I want to introduce you to a young lady by the name of Morgan Dunn. I met Morgan at an information session about Inspiring […]
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Jim Clarke is a Northside Changemaker
I have been connected to Northside Rising for a while now and thinking about other ways I can help in my community. I saw the application come up in my news feeds. I was drawn to apply mostly because I was interested in the training that came with it (Mental Health First Aid, Non-Violent Crisis Intervention, Naloxone training) I thought I could do something with those
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Analysing the Narrative Around the COVID Pandemic: a War or a Slog?
The rain was coming down in sheets. The gloomy clouds blanket the sky. Makes you want to tuck into your nest and pull your […]
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Shalom Jose is a Northside Changemaker
My name is Shalom Jose. “Shalom” means ‘peace’ or ‘hello’ in Hebrew. I am a proud participant of the Northside Changemaker program where I have been working on a food security project, “Harvest @ Home.”
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Northside Changemakers Program
Northside Rising believes in investing in Northsiders. The Northside Changemakers Program is centred around the idea that we all have the potential to be agents for positive change. Through shared learning, mutual support, and creative experimentation with community change ideas, we can build the collective capacity to bring about the change we want to see and be a part of creating.
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Rethinking grief
Our province has demonstrated a high level of resilience and compassion, but Serena questions whether we overplayed the “Nova Scotia Strong” sentiment. Her mission: to help us be aware of where and how grief shows up, and to make space to be with it.
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The Pandemic and its Pandora’s Box
The pandemic shone a light on many things, but one issue that has been affected to the extreme is the domestic violence of women and children. The government shut the entire country down due to COVID-19 rearing its ugly head. The country went on lockdown. This action opened Pandora’s Box’s, causing misery and fear for women and children in Canada and around the world.