UN SDGs and Affordable Housing in Nova Scotia

Environmental Sustainability and Affordable Housing

The third of five Online People’s Schools on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and Affordable Housing in Nova Scotia.

Recorded on October 5, 2022

Thematic Brief

Pauline MacIntosh

Pauline MacIntosh

Facilitator

Ramzi Kawar

Ramzi Kawar

Board Member, Antigonish Affordable Housing Society, Former Director, National Collaborating Centre for the Determinants of Health at StFX

Nancy O’Regan

Nancy O’Regan

Facilitator

A people’s school is a traditional methodology of the Antigonish Movement and the StFX Extension Department. It brings people together to discuss a contemporary issue of importance starting with the knowledge of the people. New information is often introduced and new knowledge created. People’s Schools also foster action for all who participate. As part of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals and Affordable Housing in Nova Scotia project, five people’s schools were convened.

St. Francis Xavier University and Coady Institute stand on the lands of Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded home of the Mi’kmaw. We express our deep gratitude and appreciation to the generations of Mi’kmaw who, since time immemorial, have loved and stewarded these lands and the beings who call them home. Colonization is not just history; it exists in the present tense. While we strive to decolonize ourselves and our University, we know there is still much for us to learn.

We are committed to doing the hard work of self-reflection and to repairing relationships with the Mi’kmaw on whose lands we reside, including embracing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Calls to Action and embodying their spirit in our plans to move forward with our University.

Ms~t wiaqpulti’kl ankukamkewe’l
We are all treaty people.

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