The Nova Scotia Action Coalition for Community Well-Being is a coalition of community members dedicated to working strategically and collaboratively towards community well-being and a better quality of life for everyone. We exist to connect a community of action-oriented organizations and people committed to social inclusion and building a Nova Scotia where no one lives in poverty.

Last year the Coalition completed a number of core activities towards more effective public policy to reduce poverty and related inequities in Nova Scotia.

1. Our Housing is Health campaign received over 500 signatures and contributed to the Progressive Conservative government's change in policy to maintain rent control.
2. Our Policy Not Charity campaign contributed to the political discourse during the election.
3. We advocated for climate justice and fought against Nova Scotia Power's rate increase and against environmental racism in support of allies winning crucial amendments to the Environmental Goals and Climate Change Reduction Act.
4. We held a webinar series to provide important public education on the impact of poverty - related to mental health, climate justice, child care and domestic violence.

Join us as we mark our 4 years of advocacy towards a Nova Scotia free of poverty. We will also be holding a vote to appoint new coordinating committee members.

Featured Speaker

We will be joined by Dr Elizabeth Kay-Raining Bird for a conversation on Universal basic income

Mandy is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Dalhousie University and a speech-language pathologist by training. Her research and teaching have focused on child language development, particularly culturally and linguistically diverse children and youth with language and cognitive difficulties. She is a long-time proponent of basic income as a poverty elimination strategy, She advocates for a basic income through her roles as Basic Income Nova Scotia Chair, Chair of the Steering Committee for Coalition Canada Basic Income-Revenu de base, and member of the Atlantic Canada Basic Income organizing committee.