6th BIG-NS Conference, September 7, 2024
Thank you, St. Matthew’s United Church, Halifax
some News coverage
Halifax Poet Laureate, Anna Quon, wrote this poem for the conference
conference Videos
Thank you Natasha Pei and the Tamarack Institute!
Opening remarks:
Welcome, Land Acknowledgement, honour song
Jeff Ward, Director of Community Culture and Heritage Wagmatcook First Nation
poem written for the conference
Anna Quon, Halifax Poet Laureate
Keynote Address: Envisioning a BIG for Indigenous Peoples
Niigaan Sinclair, Head of the Department of Native Studies, University of Manitoba and columnist for the Winnipeg Free Press
Panel Discussion: Housing, food insecurity, and a basic income
Moderator: Jeff Karabanow, Professor in the School of Social Work, Dalhousie University
Panelists: Jim Gunn, Board Member, Beacon House Shelter; Eric Leviten-Reid, Community Engagement Facilitator, New Dawn Enterprises; Kristen Lowitt, Assistant Professor in the School of Environmental Studies, Queen’s University; Gary Bloch, family physician, St. Michael’s Hospital and Inner City Health Associates
Panel: Advocacy work in Atlantic Canada
Moderator: Joanne Tompkins, retired professor Faculty of Education, St. Francis Xavier University and lay member of the Martha Justice Ministry
Panelists: Laurel Huget (NL), Rose-Hannah (NB), Olivia Pattison (NS), Marie Burge (PEI); members of the planning committee of Basic Income NOW Atlantic Canada
Key Note Address: BIG—How did we get here?
Gary Bloch, family physician, St. Michael’s Hospital and Inner City Health Associates
PEI BIG Project: Progress and next steps
Speakers: Trish Altass, research coordinator PEI Status of Women and PEI Project member; Barbara Boraks, PEI Project co-lead ; members of Coalition Canada Basic Income-revenu de base
Cross-Jurisdictional Panel Discussion: BIG, How do we get there from here
Moderator: Halifax Mayor Mike Savage
Panelists: Canada Senator Kim Pate; PEI MP Sean Casey; Anthony Edmonds, Green party leader; Lisa Roberts, former NS NDP MLA, running for Halifax MP; and Halifax Councillor Waye Mason, running for Mayor
Note! quality difficulties for first part of this video
A Human Picture: Screening and discussion
Discussant: Jessie Golem, Ontario Pilot recipient, writer, photographer, pianist, and activist
Closing remarks
Speaker: Rob Fennell, Associate Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at the Atlantic School of Theology, pastor in the United Church, BIG-NS member
5th BIG-NS Conference, April 1, 2023
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Jeff Karabanow: Homelessness & a basic income
Panel 1: Costs of poverty, social return on investment, funding a BIG, and its impact
MP Leah Gazan: Getting to a basic income
Panel 2: Poverty & income assistance experiences & the impact of a basic income
Panel 3: Basic income and youth
Sponsors
Speakers
Sheila Regehr, Chair of Basic Income Canada Network
Naiomi Metallic, Chancellor's Chair in Aboriginal Law and Policy, Dalhousie University
Paul Taylor, Executive Director, Foodshare Toronto
Jennifer Brady, Director Dietetics, Acadia University
Kendall Worth, first voice, Anti-poverty Activist
Wayne MacNaughton, first voice, Anti-poverty Activist
Honourable Kim Pate, Canadian Senate
4th BIG-NS Conference
Held on October 23rd, 2021
Sponsors
Halifax Public Libraries
Dalhousie University Faculty of Health
Saint Mary’s University Faculty Association
Diversity and Community Capacity Fund, NS Dept. of Communities, Culture & Heritage
Councillor’s Fund, Halifax Regional Municipality
Private donors
3rd BIG-NS Conference, 2019
The Evidence Speaks
Link to the Schedule
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The Evidence Speaks—-Panel Discussion, recorded by the MacEachern Institute
Spotlights: Pre-recorded videos by Lumi Studios, Media Production attesting to the need for a Basic Income Guarantee
Wayne MacNaughton, Income assistance recipient, anti-poverty activist
Kendall Worth, Income assistance recipient, journalist, anti-poverty activist
Sharon Murphy, Grew up in poverty, retired social worker, anti-poverty activist
Amy Moonshadow, Former NGO worker, income assistance recipient, anti-poverty activist
University students’ perspective, graduate students, SCSD, Dalhousie University
Professionals’ perspectives, Social Work Community Clinic, Dalhousie University