In 2019, the Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls published its report—Reclaiming Power and Place. In 2023, the Mass Casualty Commission released its report – Turning the Tide Together. In 2025, Nova Scotia MLAs declared domestic violence an epidemic. Recommendations are made and bills are proclaimed, yet funding is lacking to address this systemic problem.

 

Join the Women and Gender Studies program and the Office of L'nu Affairs and Indigenization in a day of panel discussions, group dialogue and action-oriented conversations about what we can all do to make a change against gender-based violence.

 

Panelists include:

Annie Bernard-Daisley, former Chief and MMIWG Advocate

Emma Halpern, Executive Director, Elizabeth Fry Society of Mainland, NS

Ginger MacPhee, Executive Director, Chrysalis House

Brooke Paul, Supervisor, Mi’kmaw Family Healing Centre

Cynthia Alexander, Politics, Acadia University

Kathryn Bell, Psychology, Acadia University

Mariah Cooper, History and Classics, Acadia University

Michaela Dankwa, School of Kinesiology (Master program), Acadia University