Event

Brief Description

Women's Heart Health

Nadine Elias from the Canadian Women's Health Alliance for Women's Heart Health will speak about women's heart health.

Support the Right to Learn in Afghanistan:
We Can and We Must

Hally Siddons  of University Women Helping Afghan Women will give us an update about the lives of girls and women in Afghanistan and the work of this support group.

Health Impacts of Air Pollution and Climate Change

Dr Mili Roy from the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment will talk about Climate Change, Air Pollution, and Your Health: A Perfect Storm

Roen Higgins is an award-winning spoken word poet, special care counsellor, dynamic speaker, certified impact coach and a Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) facilitator. Founder of The Elevated Creative, her mission is to elevate her audience with important life skills such as self-care, resilience, leadership, creative literacy & community well-being.

Democracy and electoral reform

Réal Lavergne President of the National Chapter Region of Fair Vote Canada will speak about democracy and electoral reform

Catherine McKenney

Catherine McKenney was first elected as the Ottawa City Councillor for Somerset Ward in 2014 after years of experience as a senior staff at the City. In 2023, they co-founded CitySHAPES, a non-profit dedicated to building stronger, more livable Canadian cities.

As a City Councillor, Catherine pushed the city to declare a housing and homelessness emergency, led the fight for a public inquiry into Ottawa’s LRT debacle, and stood up for downtown residents against the trucker convoy in 2022. Catherine is a fighter who knows Ontarians deserve better than cuts and privatization.