On this page, you will find upcoming and past Commision and community events. We encourage all Nova Scotians to participate and celebrate our diverse communities. If you have an event we should include here please contact us.
Date: Tuesday, September 16
Time: 3:00-4:30 pm (Atlantic)
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Join filmmaker Taylor Olson (What We Dreamed of Then), Canada’s Federal Housing Advocate Marie-Josée Houle, and Tanya Ellsworth of Dominion, Cape Breton, in a discussion about the film What We Dreamed of Then, and the issues impacting the lives and experiences of the unhoused.
Date: July 24. 2025
Time: 1:00 pm
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This panel lifts the leadership, resilience, and contributions of disabled 2SLGBTQIA+ people in nonprofit and community work. Panelists will explore how lived experience informs more equitable, accessible, and inclusive organizations—while challenging systems that often overlook or erase complex, intersecting identities. From advocacy and policy to program design and organizational culture, this conversation centers first-voice leadership at the intersections of disability, queerness, and trans experience.
The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Christina Flemming, Faculty of Education, St. F.X. University.
Date: Friday, March 21, 2025
Time: 9:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Full recording of this event is avilable below.
Sports provide a platform where people from diverse backgrounds can come together, promoting values like fairness, respect, and inclusion. It can empower marginalized groups, including women, people with disabilities, and other members of equity deserving groups by providing opportunities for participation and recognition.
Unfortunately, racial discrimination in sport in Nova Scotia is a long-standing issue impacting the experiences of athletes across all ages and sports. Both Sports Nova Scotia and the Canadian Sports Institute Atlantic have dedicated staff positions supporting coaches and sports organizations to invest in equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility. These positions are unique to Nova Scotia and reflect the need for changes to how clubs and communities address issues of discrimination, including racial discrimination.
Join us March 21 in commemoration of the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination for the first in a series of panel discussions introducing the issue of racial discrimination in sports and the uniquely Nova Scotian approach being taken to fostering greater understanding and building the capacity needed to prevent it.
Facilitated by Shruti Gola Taraschi-Carr, Director, Race Relations, Equity and Inclusion, Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission
Date: Friday, December 13, 2024
Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
A recording of this session is posted below.
A conversational session about the new, collaborative, and intersectional approach taken to revitalize Municipal Campaign Schools in advance of the 2024 municipal elections. With an increasing and diverse population, the province’s goal to increase its population to two million by 2060, work began to rethink the approach to increasing interest in running for local government. The Department of Municipal Affairs & Housing and the Status of Women Office embarked on a collaborative journey in the fall of 2023 and launched the initiative during the spring of 2024 in preparation for the October 2024 municipal elections. This session aims to inspire participants through a practical example – from concept to execution – of how the concept of intersectionality can be applied to a GNS program when we work collaboratively across and outside of government.