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SUMMARY:Webinar – Building solidarity with Indigenous peoples for food sovereignty Part III
DESCRIPTION:The National Farmers Union’s 2019 Webinar Series on Indigenous Food Sovereignty and Settler-Colonialism in Canadian Agriculture\nThe NFU invites all our members and allies to join a series of on-line discussions (“webinars”) on Indigenous food sovereignty and settler-colonialism in Canadian agriculture.  The third webinar will take place on-line on 7 October 2019 at 5:00 PM Central Standard Time (Saskatchewan time). We are very pleased to be welcoming Priscilla Settee. \nTo register for this webinar Click here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. \nPriscilla Settee is a member of Cumberland House Swampy Cree First Nations and a Professor of Indigenous Studies where she teaches an Indigenous Food Sovereignty course as well as other courses. Settee is Adjunct Professor for the Natural Resources Institute at the University of Manitoba where she serves graduate students on Indigenous Food Sovereignty. She has won recognition nationally and internationally as an award-winning professor and as a global educator/activist. \nPriscilla is the author of two books Pimatisiwin\, Global Indigenous Knowledge Systems (2013) that looks at global Indigenous Knowledge Systems and The Strength of Women\, Ahkameyimohk (2011) that examines the role of Indigenous women’s stories in establishing truth\, reconciliation and social change. She is also co-editor of early Indigenous textbook called Expressions in Canadian Native Studies (2001). Dr. Settee’s new co-edited book on Indigenous Food Sovereignty will be published in 2019. Her other research includes gang exiting Indigenous youth and Indigenous social economies. She is a kohkum (grandmother) to Nya Lily and Lola Rose and is a founding member of the City Park community garden. \nPurpose of the webinar series:\nThe NFU has a firm commitment to building relationships of solidarity with Indigenous peoples in Canada. We hope this webinar will:\n1. Deepen our understanding of on-going settler colonialism in Canada from the perspective of Indigenous peoples who are the experts of their own histories and experiences;\n2. Build relationships based on shared interests in food sovereignty and acknowledgement of differences;\n3. Discuss pathways for solidarity and joint action between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples to challenge settler-colonialism in the food system and contribute to building food sovereignty for all. \nThank you to the Saskatchewan Council for International Cooperation for their financial support \n 
URL:https://www.nfu.ca/event/webinar-building-solidarity-with-indigenous-peoples-for-food-sovereignty-part-iii/
LOCATION:Saskatchewan
ORGANIZER;CN="National Farmers Union":MAILTO:nfu@nfu.ca
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SUMMARY:Region 6 Convention
DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the annual NFU Region 6 (Saskatchewan) Convention on Wednesday July 24 (free public event and Seed Bank tour) & Thursday July 25\, 2019 at Queens House Retreat Centre (601 Taylor St. W) in Saskatoon. We encourage all members and other interested people to attend our Saskatchewan Convention. Our conventions are always lively where new ideas are explored and direction is given for our Region. \nYou are invited to a tour of the Plant Gene Resources of Canada (Canada’s seed bank) on Wednesday July 24 from 3:00 to 4:30 PM. We will visit the outdoor plots where 3\,000 varieties are grown out every year. Please phone or email the NFU national office at 306-652-9465 or nfu@nfu.ca if you plan to be on the tour so we can let PGRC know how many people to expect. We will meet at the Queen’s House parking lot at 2:30 to carpool over to the site. If weather is inclement we will tour the PGRC’s indoor facilities instead. \nOur Public Event on Wednesday evening 7:00 pm at Queens House is a presentation called “Farmland Drainage: A Looming Environmental Crisis”. Our speaker Jeff Olson is a Wetlands Specialist and retired planner with Water Security Agency who ranches in the Beaver Hills area. \nOur guest speaker on July 25 will be NFU member Glenn Wright presenting his personal perspective on “Sustainable transitions and minimum input grain farming in our changing climate.” \nThe convention will also have presentations on the NFU’s campaign to protect farmers’ seed rights\, and updates on the Saskatchewan Wheat and Barley Development Commissions\, as well as reports\, elections of officials and resolutions. \nResolutions on current policy issues may be presented to this convention and those passed will be forwarded to National Convention. \nElections for three National Board members\, a Women’s Advisory Committee member\, a Youth Advisory member\, and an International Program Committee member will also be held\, as well as nominations for the Grassroots Member Award. \nConvention registration will take place at 8:30 am Thursday\, July 25 at Queens House\, with the Call to Order at 9:00. Convention will adjourn at 4:00. \nSpeaker bios: \nJeff Olson is a retired public servant of 36 years in the environmental field. He has extensive knowledge surrounding farmland drainage and wetland loss as a Conservation Officer stationed throughout Saskatchewan\, as a Wetlands Specialist with Saskatchewan Environment and\, in the last fourteen years of his career as a Watershed Planner with the Water Security Agency. Jeff is a co-founder of the Saskatchewan Environmental Alliance; a group of concerned forward thinking citizens working on innovative solutions to contemporary environmental problems. He holds a recognized Environmental Professional (EP) designation in Natural Resource Management and is principal in Mind’s Eye Consulting (Saskatchewan) which is involved in watershed management\, environmental law enforcement\, and present environmental water issues in Saskatchewan. Jeff ranches in the Beaver Hills area of west central Saskatchewan. \nGlenn Wright is an engineer who was born and raised in Saskatoon. Scratch that engineer part — he prefers to be thought of as a problem solver — perhaps that is what drew him to farming. All of Glenn’s extended family farmed and he was always envious of his cousins who lived out of the city. In 2004 Glenn and his wife Shannon moved out of the city and began growing a small farming operation near Vanscoy\, SK. Growing the farm has required off employment; Glenn worked as an engineer mining uranium for 14 years before retiring in 2016 to pursue a law degree. Glenn is currently in his last year of law school at the University of Saskatchewan.  He is very focused on sustainable transition initiatives: renewable energy\, electric transport\, home insulation retrofits\, regenerative agriculture\, politics\, and activism. Glenn is also the author of the NFU’s affidavit in the constitutional challenge regarding GHG pricing. \nRegistration Fees:\n• July 24\, Public Event 7:00 – 9:00 pm: by donation\n• July 25\, Regional Convention 9:00 am – 4:00 pm (including lunch): $60\n• July 25\, Regional Convention Youth under 25 years (includes lunch): $25 \nPlease pre-register for Convention by emailing Glenn Tait\, Regional Coordinator at gttait@sasktel.net or by calling 306-892-4342 so we can let Queens House know the number of people attending for lunch preparations. \nAccommodation: If you wish to stay overnight at Queens House\, please contact them directly at 306 242-1916. The Overnight lodging rate is single bed $60. Breakfast July 25: continental breakfast $5; a hot breakfast buffet for $9 will be served at 8 AM if there are sufficient overnight guests to warrant. If you prefer camping\, a full-service camp site within the city is available at Gordon Howe campground located at 1640 Avenue P South\, Saskatoon\, and is a 15 minute drive to Queen’s House. To reserve a site Call 1-866-855-6655 toll-free or 306-975-3328. ca
URL:https://www.nfu.ca/event/region-6-convention/
LOCATION:Queen’s House of Retreats\, 601 Taylor Street West\, Saskatoon\, Saskatchewan\, S7M 0C9\, Canada
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SUMMARY:NFU Region 7 (Alberta) Annual Convention
DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend this year’s Region 7 (Alberta) Annual Convention at the Knee Hill Valley Community Centre Hall (located ten miles east of Innisfail\, Alberta\, AB – see map). The Convention will be followed by a barbecue supper. Overnight camping is available at the Hall or at the Norman farm. \nRegistration will begin at 9:30 A.M. The Convention will commence at 10:00 A.M. The registration fee is $20 per member. Lunch will be provided. \nThis year’s convention speakers will include: \n▪ Cam Goff\, NFU 1st Vice President (Policy) —  SOS (Save Our Seeds) Campaign\n▪ Toby Malloy\, NFU Women’s President — Wellness\, mental health and agriculture\n▪ Mandy Melnyk — NFU’s 50th Anniversary\n▪ Regan Boychuk — Alberta’s insolvent polluters and captured regulators \nResolutions on current policy issues may be presented to this Convention and if they are passed\, they will be forwarded to National Convention. \nElections will be held for National Board members\, Women’s Advisory Committee \, Youth Advisory Committee\, and International Program Committee member\, as well as nominations for the Grassroots Member Award. \nIf you require further information\, please call Doug Scott at (780) 358-2376 or Glenn Norman at (403) 227-2253. \nWe look forward to seeing you on June 15th! \nDirections to Hall:\nFrom Hwy. 2 Exit Hwy. 2 at Innisfail. Then East on Hwy. 590 (10 miles)\, Turn Right (south) onto Range Road 265\, Go 4 miles South to the T-intersection and the Hall is on your left at the T-intersection of Township rd. 350 and Range Rd. 265.
URL:https://www.nfu.ca/event/nfu-region-7-alberta-annual-convention/
LOCATION:Knee Hill Community Centre\, 26478 Township Rd 350\, Wimborne\, Alberta\, T0M 2G0\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Regional Convention
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20190502T183000
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SUMMARY:Webinar – Building solidarity with Indigenous peoples for food sovereignty Part II
DESCRIPTION:The National Farmers Union’s 2019 Webinar Series on Indigenous Food Sovereignty and Settler-Colonialism in Canadian Agriculture\nThe NFU invites all our members and allies to join a series of on-line discussions (“webinars”) on Indigenous food sovereignty and settler-colonialism in Canadian agriculture. The discussions will take place over the course of the winter and spring of 2019. \nThe second webinar will take place on-line on 2 May 2019 at 6:30 PM Eastern Time. We are very pleased to be welcoming Dawn Morrison. \nTo register for this webinar: Click here\nhttps://zoom.us/webinar/register/aa8cc02394af6a8ecde7dc3c8da9331e \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. \nDawn Morrison is of Secwepemc ancestry and is the Founder/Chair of the Working Group on Indigenous Food Sovereignty. Since 1983 Dawn has worked and studied horticulture\, ethno-botany\, adult education\, and restoration of natural systems in formal institutions as well as through her own personal healing and learning journey. Following the years she spent in adult education\, Dawn has been dedicating her time and energy to land based healing and learning which led her to her life’s work of realizing herself more fully as a developing spirit aligned leader in the Indigenous food sovereignty movement. Dawn has consistently organized and held the space over the last 13 years for decolonizing food systems discourse in community\, regional and international networks\, and has become internationally recognized as a published author. Dawn’s work on the Decolonizing of Research and Relationships appreciates and inquires into a critical consciousness that shines a light on the cross-cultural interface where Indigenous Food Sovereignty meets social justice\, Indigenous climate action\, and the movement to a more sustainable land and food system as a whole.  Some of the projects Dawn is leading includes: Wild Salmon Caravan\, Indigenous Food and Farm School\, Dismantling Structural Racism in the Food System. \nPurpose of the webinar series:\nThe NFU has a firm commitment to building relationships of solidarity with Indigenous peoples in Canada. We hope this webinar will:\n1. Deepen our understanding of on-going settler colonialism in Canada from the perspective of Indigenous peoples who are the experts of their own histories and experiences;\n2. Build relationships based on shared interests in food sovereignty and acknowledgement of differences;\n3. Discuss pathways for solidarity and joint action between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples to challenge settler-colonialism in the food system and contribute to building food sovereignty for all. \nThank you to the Saskatchewan Council for International Cooperation for their financial support
URL:https://www.nfu.ca/event/webinar-building-solidarity-with-indigenous-peoples-for-food-sovereignty-part-ii/
LOCATION:Saskatchewan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190410T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190410T153000
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SUMMARY:NFU-NB's Annual General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the RBC Room for the NFU-NB’s Annual General Meeting. \nThe $25 registration fee includes lunch using local ingredients provided by Chess Piece Café. This years theme is Ensuring Farmers Rights: At Home and Abroad. \nRejoignez-nous à la salle RBC pour l’assemblée générale annuelle de l’UNF-NB. Le frais d’inscription de 25 $ comprennent le dîner composé d’aliments locaux fournis par Chess Piece Café. Le thème de cette année est : Assurer les droits des fermiers et fermières: à la maison et à l’etranger \nProgram:\n\n\n\n09:30 Registration\, coffee\, tea and snacks – Inscription\, café\, thé et collations \n\n\n\n10:00 Welcome by the Board of Directors & AGM Business – Bienvenue de la conseil d’administration & Affaires de l’AGA\n11:00 UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants – Déclaration des Nations Unies sur les droits des paysans\n11:30 Seed sovereignty – Souveraineté des semences\n12:00 Lunch with invited MLA’s – Dîner avec des députés invités\n13:30 Presentation on Farm Land Identification Program (FLIP) – Plan d’identification des terres agricoles\n14:00 Pesticide/herbicide use and management & discussion – Utilisation et gestion des pesticides / herbicides et discussion\n\n14:30 Voting on resolutions & election of officers – Vote sur les résolutions & élection des membres du conseil administratif
URL:https://www.nfu.ca/event/nfu-nbs-annual-general-meeting/
LOCATION:Beaverbrook Art Gallery\, 703 Queen Street\, Fredericton\, New Brunswick\, Canada
ORGANIZER;CN="National Farmers Union":MAILTO:nfu@nfu.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Regina:20190308T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Regina:20190308T173000
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SUMMARY:NFU Region 5 (Manitoba) Annual Convention
DESCRIPTION:Registration fee: $35 for non-members and $25 for members. Youth under 26 can attend for free. Lunch buffet soup and sandwich is included with registration. \nSchedule\nRegistration  – 9:30 am\nCall to Order – 10:00 am\nLunch (included) – 12:30 pm\nAfternoon Session – 1:30 pm\nMeeting Adjournment  – 5:30 pm\nSocializing at a local restaurant TBA  -6:00 pm \nProgram\nSpeakers: \nMartin Entz\, U of M Professor and Organic Researcher speaking on Regenerative Agricultural Practices; \nMatthew Wiens\, Manitoba Agriculture – in charge of Best Management Programming delivery to MB Farmers and Made in Manitoba’s Climate Action Plan; \nKatie Ward\, NFU President: NFU Updates and Discussion (via Skype); \nStewart Wells\, NFU VP of Operations: Discussion NFU policies on Regenerative Agriculture & Seeds. \n50th Anniversary of NFU in Manitoba Discussions: Members Forum and NFU 50th Anniversary Convention in Winnipeg Updates. Open to more ideas on our celebration. \nElections: Two National Board members for Region 5; a Women’s Advisory Committee member; a Youth Advisory Committee member; an International Program Committee representative. \nNomination for the NFU Grassroots Member Award: Member Recognition of significant contribution to building the NFU. \nResolutions: Please bring written resolution(s) on farming issues that matter to you. They will be debated and voted on; if they are passed\, they will be forwarded to National Convention. \nFor more information  call Ian Robson at (204) 858-2479 or Dean Harder (204) 797-6388; or e-mail: mb@nfu.ca \nPlease RSVP to mb@nfu.ca.
URL:https://www.nfu.ca/event/nfu-region-5-manitoba-annual-convention/
LOCATION:Riverbank Discovery Centre\, #1-545 Conservation Drive\, Brandon\, Manitoba\, R7A 7L8\, Canada
ORGANIZER;CN="National Farmers Union":MAILTO:nfu@nfu.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20190227T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20190227T203000
DTSTAMP:20190221T221310Z
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SUMMARY:Webinar - Building solidarity with Indigenous peoples for food sovereignty
DESCRIPTION:The National Farmers Union’s 2019 Webinar Series on Indigenous Food Sovereignty and Settler-Colonialism in Canadian Agriculture  \nThe NFU invites all our members and allies to join a series of on-line discussions (“webinars”) on Indigenous food sovereignty and settler-colonialism in Canadian agriculture. The discussions will take place over the course of the winter and spring of 2019. \nThe first webinar will take place on-line on 27 February 2019 at 6:30 PM Eastern Time. We are very pleased to be welcoming Danielle Boissoneau and Adrianne Xavier. \nDanielle Boissoneau is Anishnaabe kwe writer\, mother and seedkeeper. She actively reclaims space on the land and in her mind for new ways of living. Decolonization through intentional practice of building relationships with the land\, with food and with the people is another way that she shares herself with the world. Danielle has shared her written words with Briarpatch Magazine\, GUTS Magazine\, as well as being a contributing writer to the Two Row Times. She grows her children and her food with love and power. \nAdrianne Lickers Xavier knows the power of food! As a predoctoral fellow at Queens University this year she is working to complete her doctoral education with research that centres on food security at her home community of Six Nations in southern Ontario. She has experience in community based grass roots food as well as work in the larger food movement. Adrianne’s research integrates food security\, culture\, community building and gender and believes that individuals make the difference. \nPurpose of the webinar series: The NFU has a firm commitment to building relationships of solidarity with Indigenous peoples in Canada. We hope this webinar will: \n\nDeepen our understanding of on-going settler colonialism in Canada from the perspective of Indigenous peoples who are the experts of their own histories and experiences;\nBuild relationships based on shared interests in food sovereignty and acknowledgement of differences;\nDiscuss pathways for solidarity and joint action between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples to challenge settler-colonialism in the food system and contribute to building food sovereignty for all.\n\nThis webinar will be held on the Zoom online meeting platform. \nJoin the meeting by computer or smart phone by clicking https://zoom.us/j/195771300 . If you do not have access to a computer or smart phone\, you can call  in.  If you have a long distance plan\, please call 1 647 558 0588\, if not you may call the toll free number 1 855 703 8985. The call-in Meeting ID is 195 771 300. If you are using your smart phone for a Zoom meeting for the first time you will need to download the app (available from the App store or Play store) before you join the meeting. \nPlease join the webinar by 6:30 PM Eastern Time. If you are outside of Ontario or Quebec\, adjust for your own time zone (see https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/canada for help)
URL:https://www.nfu.ca/event/webinar-building-solidarity-with-indigenous-peoples-for-food-sovereignty/
LOCATION:Saskatchewan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Regina:20190221T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Regina:20190221T133000
DTSTAMP:20190221T234218Z
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SUMMARY:Save Our Seed Webinar
DESCRIPTION:Thanks to everyone who attended and participated! Click here to view the PowerPoint presentation given at the webinar. \nAg Canada has launched consultations on proposals to increase seed royalties either by an End Point Royalty or with Trailing Contracts. The proposed royalty scheme would have farmers who use their own seed pay millions of dollars more to seed companies every year\, and make illegal the ancient practice of freely saving and reusing seed by creating new regulations under the Plant Breeders Rights Act. \nIn this webinar\, Terry Boehm\, Chair of the National Farmers Union Seed Committee and former NFU President\, will explain how the proposed royalty system would harm farmers\, citizens\, and society in general — and what we can do to stop this from happening. The webinar will also include a Question and Answer session. \nThis webinar will be held on the Zoom online meeting platform. If this is your first Zoom meeting\, please go to https://zoom.us/ and “sign up” at least 10 minutes before the meeting starts. If you are using your smart phone you may need to download the app before you join the meeting. \nJoin the webinar  \n\nBy computer or smart phone — click https://zoom.us/j/923097026.\nBy telephone — call 1 647 558 0588\, meeting ID is 923 097 026.\n\nPlease join the webinar by 1:00 PM Eastern Time. If you are outside of Ontario or Quebec\, adjust for your own time zone (see https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/canada for help) \nTo stay informed on the #SaveOurSeed campaign and farm saved seed royalty issues\, subscribe to the SOS Action Group.
URL:https://www.nfu.ca/event/save-our-seed-webinar/
LOCATION:Saskatchewan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Regina:20190212T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Regina:20190212T123000
DTSTAMP:20190208T204725Z
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SUMMARY:NFU Agriculture Day Town Hall
DESCRIPTION:The National Farmers Union wants to share its 50th Anniversary year with you.  For our Agriculture Day Town Hall this Tuesday\, February 12 we hope to link up with farmers and eaters to talk about our celebration year. \nIncluded in our discussion will be \n\nNFU’s 50th Anniversary and the NFU with our President\, Katie Ward.\nFarm Youth Activities from Youth President Stuart Oke\nAg Policy Issues from Director of Policy\, Cathy Holtslander\nSave our Seeds Campaign from NFU Seeds Committee Chair\, Terry Boehm\n\nWe will follow with some Q & A after as time permits. Suggested timeframe will be 1.25hrs. \nJoin by going to https://zoom.us/j/527333589 or call 1-647-558-0588 – meeting ID: 527 333 589 \n 
URL:https://www.nfu.ca/event/nfu-agriculture-day-town-hall/
LOCATION:Saskatchewan
ORGANIZER;CN="National Farmers Union":MAILTO:nfu@nfu.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Regina:20190126T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Regina:20190126T203000
DTSTAMP:20190112T190852Z
CREATED:20190102T233134Z
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SUMMARY:NFU Region 6\, District 3 Convention
DESCRIPTION:The Region 6\, District 3 (south western Saskatchewan) will be holding its Annual District Convention on Saturday\, January 26\, 2019 in the meeting room at the Modern Family Restaurant\, Swift Current\, SK\, 49 Central Ave N. \n The meeting will commence at 3:00 P.M. Dinner will be ordered off the menu. \nThe District Annual Convention is one of the cornerstones of the democratic process in the NFU\, so it’s absolutely vital that you\, your spouse and your children over the age of 14 exercise your right to participate.  Resolutions may be presented and considered at this Convention; if passed\, they will go to the National Convention for possible adoption as NFU national policy.  Another purpose of this Convention is to elect from among the members of the Union in your district\, a District Director\, a Women’s District Director and a Youth District Director. \nOur keynote speaker will be Cam Goff\, speaking on the corporate seed industry’s efforts to bring in new royalties to keep farmers from using farm-saved seed — and what the NFU is doing to protect farmers’ age-old right to freely save and reuse our own seed. \nIf you require further information\, you may call Ralph Renwick at (306) 587-7793 or (306) 587-2331.
URL:https://www.nfu.ca/event/nfu-region-6-district-3-convention/
LOCATION:Modern Family Restaurant\, 49 Central Ave N\, Swift Current\, SK\, S9H 0L1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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SUMMARY:49th Annual National Convention
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URL:https://www.nfu.ca/event/49th-annual-national-convention/
LOCATION:Hilton Garden Inn\, Sasatoon\, 90-22nd Street East\, Saskatoon\, Saskatchewan\, S7K 3X6\, Canada
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ORGANIZER;CN="National Farmers Union":MAILTO:nfu@nfu.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180623T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180623T180000
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SUMMARY:Region 7 Convention
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URL:https://www.nfu.ca/event/region-7-convention/
LOCATION:LaGlace Library\, 9924 97 Ave\,\, La Glace\, Alberta\, T0H 2J0\, Canada
ORGANIZER;CN="National Farmers Union":MAILTO:nfu@nfu.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20171123T090000
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SUMMARY:Farm Renewal: the 48th Annual National Farmers Union Conference
DESCRIPTION:About | Highlights | Programme | Social Events | Registration | Lodging and Travel | Sponsors\n\nWe have lost more than a quarter of the farms across Canada and the average farmer age continues to climb. Many farmers are looking for ways to pass on their operations to a new generation of farmers. We have also lost\, or are in danger of losing\, many of the institutions that were and are vital to rural Canada. \nRenewal can mean many things but what the NFU will be exploring at this year’s convention is how we can reimagine\, restore and reinvigorate rural Canada. \n\n\nConvention Program Highlights\nPUBLIC EVENT – Keynote Speaker\nThursday\, November 23\, 7 to 9:30 PM \nJanine Wedel: New Influence Elites\, the Corrosion of Democracy\, and Trump as Trickster \n\nOver the past year much attention has belatedly focused on the white working class and “populist” movements far and wide. But what about the behavior of elites that allowed this discontent to simmer for decades until it boiled over? \nThis talk by Janine Wedel will examine the latest scholarship\, hers and others\, to better understand how the activities of influence elites helped give Trump and similar figures his entrée. As both a public policy professor and a social anthropologist\, she will also examine Trump’s role as “trickster\,” how Trump and other taboo-breaking\, sys \nJanine Wedel is an award-winning author who writes about governance\, corruption\, influence elites\, and accountability through the lens of an anthropologist. She is a professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University\, as well as a Global Policy Chair at the University of Bath\, UK\, and Fellow at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. She is the author of several prize-winning books\, including Unaccountable: How the Establishment Corrupted Our Finances\, Freedom\, and Politics and Created an Outsider Class; Shadow Elite: How the World’s New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy\, Government\, and the Free Market; and Collision and Collusion: The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe. She also published Political Rigging: A Primer on Political Capture and Influence in the 21st Century (2017\, with Nazia Hussain and Dana A. Dolan); Confronting Corruption\, Building Accountability (2010\, with Lloyd J. Dumas); The Unplanned Society (1992); and The Private Poland (1986). \nA public intellectual\, Wedel has frequently contributed analysis pieces to major news outlets\, and her work has been reviewed or translated into more than a dozen languages. A five-time Fulbright fellow\, she has also won the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order\, as well as major awards from the National Science Foundation\, MacArthur Foundation\, Ford Foundation\, New America Foundation\, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars\, and Institute for New Economic Thinking\, among others. Wedel is co-founder and past president of the Association for the Anthropology of Policy (ASAP)\, a section of the American Anthropological Association. \n\nThank you to our keynote speaker public event co-sponsors\nSyndicat Agricultural Union\, Inter Pares\, Council of Canadians and Public Service Alliance of Canada. \n\n\n\nThursday\, November 23\n9:00 AM: WORKSHOP 1: Succession Planning (presenter TBA) \n10:30 AM: WORKSHOP 2: – Convention 101 with Cory Ollikka and Karen Pedersen \nCory Ollikka is a 4th generation farmer from Waskatenau\, Alberta. He operates an organic grain and beef cattle farm as well as holding an off-farm job in Municipal Government. Cory has held numerous positions at the District\, Regional and National levels of the NFU since 1986 and was the NFU‘s 7th National President from 1998-2001. He has helped chair several NFU conventions. \nKaren Pedersen is a 5th generation beekeeper who farms at Cut Knife\, SK with her parents. She is a past NFU Womens President and past NFU Youth President. Before settling in Cut Knife\, Karen worked on farms in the United States\, Denmark\, Grenada and New Zealand. \nThursday afternoon: PANEL 1– Restoring resilience\, regenerating the farm \nSpeakers: Sarah Rotz\, Anna Korzenszky\, Meghan Entz \nSarah Rotz is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Geography Department at the University of Guelph where she studies the political ecology of food systems. Her passion for climate justice and interest in the political ecology of climate change vulnerability and governance\, along with love of gardening\, food\, ecology\, and political economy\, drives Sarah to study how different food systems can mitigate and/or reproduce social and environmental injustice. Thus\, her PhD research examined industrial and alternative food systems. Her research has been published in Geoforum\, Captalism\, Nature\, Socialism\, and the Journal of Peasant Studies as well as in popular media and blog sites. Sarah holds a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. \nAnna Korzenszky is from Hungary. She is exploring mechanisms for farm succession outside of the family as a possible contribution to the generational renewal of small scale farming and agrarian culture. In addition to her sociology studies at the University of Vienna\, she has been active with the Nyeleni Europe Movement for Food Sovereignty and is a member of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization team in Rome that facilitates relationships between the FAO and civil society organizations. \nMeghan Entz grew up in a Manitoba family involved in agriculture\, where she was inspired to focus her studies on the issues facing food producers in Canada and around the world. Since graduating\, Meghan has worked as a consultant with the Canadian Foodgrain’s Bank\, and as a Research Assistant under Dr. Annette Desmarais\, Canada Research Chair in Human Rights\, Social Justice and Food Sovereignty. She was involved in an analysis of students’ food insecurity at the University of Manitoba and studied the NFU’s involvement in protesting the closure of the Federal Prison Farms. Recently she has been working on a project about the challenges and motivations of young farmers in Manitoba\, Ontario and abroad. She is a Master’s student at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. \nFriday\, November 24:\nFriday morning: PANEL 2 – Renewing our Relationship to the Land\nSpeakers: Danielle Boissoneau\, Christopher Kelly-Bisson\, TBA \nDanielle Boissoneauu is Anishnaabe kwe from the shorelines of the Great Lakes. She is a writer\, a seed saver\, a gardener\, and works towards food sovereignty for her people through education and action. Her work might see her on the frontlines of resistance to tarsands expansion projects or she might also be found showing children how to care for gardens. Her dedication to the resurgence and revitalization of Anishnaabek food systems is rooted in her love for her people\, the land and the water. Danielle has written for publications such as Briarpatch Magazine\, GUTS Magazine and the Dominion\, as well as being a contributing writer for the Two Row Times\, a newspaper out of Six Nations\, Ontario. She also works for the Hamilton Community Food Centre as the Community Action Coordinator. Here\, she helps to empower community members to reclaim their food systems and their communities through a variety of means and projects. Danielle is from the Old Turtle Clan. \nChristopher Kelly-Bisson is documenting the farmland consolidation by financial entities in eastern Ontario to determine the economic and political determinants of that result in this consolidation. He is a PhD candidate in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa and is the lead researcher on the farmland preservation policy stream for the Farming and Farmland Network of Sustain Ontario. As a member of the Ottawa Food Policy Council\, he advocates for strengthened farmland protection bylaws. Christopher is an experienced horticulturalist and permaculture design consultant who started farming ten years ago as a field hand for an ornamental perennial farm and later operated an organic market-garden operation for five years. \nTBA \nFriday afternoon: PANEL 3 – Generating Farmer Power \nSaturday\, November 25:\nSaturday morning: PANEL 4 – NAFTA 2.0: Questions of Power and Democracy\nSpeakers: Haroon Akram-Lodhi\, Gus Van Harten\, Chris Holman \nDr. A Haroon Akram-Lodhi is an economist who focuses on the political economy of agrarian change in developing countries\, the economic dimensions of gender relations\, and the political ecology of sustainable rural livelihoods and communities in contemporary poor countries. He teaches at Trent University on global human inequality\, the future of smallholder peasant communities in the world food system\, the sustainability of rural social structures\, relations\, institutions and communities\, and gender and economic policy. He edits two academic journals and has been appointed to prestigious roles in his field at universities in Canada\, the USA\, Mexico and at the United Nations. His most recent book is Hungry for Change: Farmers\, Food Justice and the Agrarian Question. It explains how the creation\, structure and operation of the world food system is marginalizing family farmers\, small-scale peasant farmers and landless workers as it entrenches us all in a global subsistence crisis and how building upon the concerns of food sovereignty can solve the current crisis. \nGus Van Harten is a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University in Toronto. Previously he was a faculty member in the Law Department of the London School of Economics. He specializes in Canadian administrative law and international investment law. His books include Investment Treaty Arbitration and Public Law; Sovereign Choices and Sovereign Constraints: Judicial Restraint in Investment Treaty Arbitration; and Sold Down the Yangtze: Canada’s Lopsided Investment Deal with China. His academic articles are freely available on SSRN . \nChris Holman and his partner Maria Davis own and operate Nami Moon Farms outside of Stevens Point\, WI. The 41-acre farm focuses on pasture-raised poultry and hogs\, perennial and annual fruits and vegetables\, chicken and duck eggs\, and small grains for feed components. Chris and Maria are lifetime members of the Wisconsin Farmers Union\, and Chris currently serves on the state board. He also serves on the National Farmers Union (US) board as the representative for next generation issues. As a veteran\, Chris has worked closely with the Farmer Veteran Coalition and he also served on USDA’s Advisory Committee on Beginning Farmers and Ranchers. Maria works full-time off of the farm for WorldBuilders\, a non-profit that raises millions of dollars each year for Heifer International. Chris has a M.A. in Geography from the University of Oregon. He taught Arabic and Middle Eastern Geography for 15 years before quitting his academic career to farm full-time. \nSaturday afternoon: PANEL 5 – Cultivating Communities\nSpeakers: TBA – NFU members putting Farm Renewal into action on their own farms. \n\n\nConvention Social Events\nWednesday\, November 22— 7 to 9:30 pm NFU Brew: Hops\, malt and you! Get together with old friends and new while enjoying some local craft beer\, specially bottled with a souvenir NFU label. \nFriday\, November 24 — 6:30 pm to midnight: Banquet and Dance. Bring your dancing shoes to Convention! Jackson Miles is playing! \n\n\nRegistration\nRegistration begins at 6 PM\, Wednesday November 22 \nRegistration fees are $175 for NFU delegates\, NFU members and non-NFU members (includes spouse and children); NFU Youth ages 14 -25\, free; $85 per day for those not planning to attend the entire convention; $15 per day for students. Meals are not included. Registration is in-person only – there is no pre-registration. \n\n\nLodging and Travel\nRoom Reservations\nTo make room reservations\, please call the hotel directly at 613-744-1060 or 1-800-387-9979 (toll free). Group Code: NFU or refer to the NFU Convention and dates of event. The room rate is $129 single or double\, $10 additional fee for third/fourth person – available if you book before October 22. Parking is ample and complimentary. \nTravel arrangements\nFor transportation\, VIA Rail Canada and WestJet are offering special discounts to NFU convention attendees. VIA Rail is offering a 10% discount on Economy\, Economy Plus\, Business\, Business Plus\, Sleeper class fares from any VIA station to Ottawa and return from November 21st to November 27th 2017. \nWestJet is offering a discount of 10% off Econo fares and 15% off Plus base fares. The offer is valid for travel between Ottawa and anywhere WestJet flies in North America if you book by December 7\, 2017 for travel from November 17 to December 7\, 2017. For information about how to take advantage of these offers\, please email the NFU office at nfu@nfu.ca. \n\n\nThe NFU extends our gratitude to our sponsors:
URL:https://www.nfu.ca/event/farm-renewal-the-48th-annual-national-farmers-union-conference/
LOCATION:Holiday Inn East\, 1199 Joseph Cyr St.\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:NFU Convention
ORGANIZER;CN="National Farmers Union":MAILTO:nfu@nfu.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Regina:20131128T190000
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SUMMARY:OUR Communities. OUR country. OUR world. OUR economy.
DESCRIPTION:OUR Communities. OUR country. OUR world. OUR economy.*  \nA public event featuring Jim Stanford\, PhD\, economist with the Unifor. \nHow can people effectively navigate this increasingly globalized and fragmented world\, where corporate power trumps that of elected governments? What can we do when we are systematically stripped of our democratic right to information so that we can provide feedback and make recommendations about policy decisions that profoundly affect our government’s ability to act in our best interests; when our freedom to dissent and resist becomes criminalized or labelled as terrorism; when governments enact legislation with the specific intent to crush organized resistance and dissent\, such as labour unions provide? \nEconomist Jim Stanford will talk about these and other economic and political factors that affect how Canadians organize themselves to represent their interests\, recreate democratic processes\, and reclaim and transform an economic system that has been hijacked by global corporate tycoons. He will tell the story of how two unions\, CAW and CEP (Communications\, Energy\, and Paperworkers)\, began to talk about doing things differently\, how that conversation ultimately resulted in the formation of Unifor\, Canada’s newest and largest labour union\, and what the NFU might learn from Unifor’s experience. \nEveryone is welcome – Admission is free.
URL:https://www.nfu.ca/event/our-communities-our-country-our-world-our-economy/
LOCATION:Travelodge Ottawa Hotel & Conference Centre\, 1376 Carling Ave.\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K1Z 7L5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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