Buy Back Nova Scotia!

 

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pressure our municipal governments to make this land public!

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Online Petition

 

Who We Are

The Same Boat is a home-grown, grassroots movement made up of 

Fundy Shore Nova Scotians deeply committed to:

• Sustainable economic development
• Greater inter-cultural understanding
• Supporting and enriching all our local cultures
• Sharing our cultures and values with the world
• Working with like-minded communities worldwide 
• Increasing understanding of the challenges facing us 

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Are You a Same Boater?

You`re a same boater if you love the land and people of the Nova Scotia Bay of Fundy Region and have a sincere desire to create a long term, sustainable, joyful life here for the next  seven generations.

That’s it. No signing up. No member’s dues. No annoying demands. 

You are already living the Same Boat lifestyle if you follow any of the following  mandates:

1. Support the local economy. Get as many of your groceries as possible from farmers’ markets, vegetable stands, and local farmers and fishers.

2. If possible, pursue traditional livelihoods.

Make your living the way you want to, not the way someone else wants you to. Harvest local natural resources to satisfy your own needs.

3. Celebrate our ethnic roots. 

Celebrate your own ethnic roots. Celebrate your neighbors’ ethnic roots. Attend local musical, cultural, and drama events.

4. Support your fellow same boaters in their attempts to make an eco-friendly, heritage-affirming living. Buy gifts from local artists and craftspeople. Patronise local musicians, artists, and writers.

5. Live simply.

6. Give more. 

7. Stop chasing wealth. Stop worrying about what people will think of the place you live in or the vehicle you drive or the clothes you wear, and start living!

8. Be happy. Not winning-the-lottery happy– kitchen-party happy!

9. Work toward managing and conserving our natural resources for the long-term sustenance of our local communities. Strive for an ecological, low-impact, low-carbon way of life.

10. Peacefully stand up for your rights. Vote strategically, share information, demonstrate, and support each other in your efforts to protect your human and constitutional rights.

11. Network globally with other coastal communities to share concerns and work toward solutions.

 

 

We welcome your suggestions!

 

 

‘. . . governments do not remain benevolent to the interests of all, including their less powerful members, without constant vigilance and reasoned criticism.’    ~Barbara Kingsolver

Check Out The Same Boat Travelling Coffeehouse on YouTube!

Thanks to Flora Doehler, you can now watch us on YouTube. 

Click on `A Buncha Pix & Videos` lower down on your right.

Survey of Rural Development Services

Coastal Communities Network (CCN) with support from the Rural Secretariat is conducting a survey of rural development services in Nova Scotia. It is one component of a wider study to identify the services and resources needed to assist with strengthening the economic, cultural, environmental and social sustainability of rural communities in Nova Scotia.
 
The survey should take about 15 minutes of your time. We hope that you can take the time to express your opinion in the interests of sustaining and strengthening Nova Scotia’s rural communities.  At the end of the survey, you will be given a chance to enter a draw for a $100 gift certificate.  
 
The survey can be accessed, until February 16, 2009, by clicking on the following link:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=rLbLewPosCwObXZDfs9SAw_3d_3d 
 
Please feel free to forward this notice to other leaders in your community to ensure that our collective response is heard.
 
The survey is being conducted under enhanced security and individual responses will be kept confidential. Both CCN and the Rural Secretariat will be given summary results only.
 
Coastal Communities Network is a province wide non-profit organization that has been working to improve the long term sustainability and vitality of Nova Scotia’s rural and coastal communities since 1991.
 
Located in Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, the Rural Secretariat is a focal point for the Government of Canada to work in partnership with Canadians in rural, coastal, northern and remote areas towards building vibrant and sustainable communities.
 
 
 
 Ishbel Munro
Coastal Communities Network
P.O. Box 402
New Glasgow, NS B2H 5E5
(902) 752-7982   Fax 752-7972
coastalnet@ns.sympatico.ca
www.coastalcommunities.ns.ca
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From Terry`s Corner:

In marketing it`s sickening how they use human morality to market corporate morality. Their conclusions are that in the shuffle economic justice justifies fraud, lying, bribery, killing, and stealing, and that if we all had money we would be socially okay. We know these things are going on in a world driven by mad men who rule from their graves, yet we struggle to rejoice in hope… 

Mayann Francis

On the left is Wanda St. Louis with the eloquent, socially conscious, and beautiful Mayann Francis, Nova Scotia’s Lieutenant Governor, at a luncheon put on Tuesday, March 18, 2008, by Bridgetown’s Womens Place Resource Centre and the Nova Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women. On the right is a picture of Mayann with  Wanda Finigan.

Patrick Jarvis, Flag Day, DRHS

Next Appearance of The Same Boat Traveling Coffeehouse

Saturday, April 25

Bear River Legion