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With the help of the Neil Squire Society’s Working Together program, the Cumberland House Market Garden and Farm has won a Regional Centre of Expertise sustainability award, which goes to projects that make Saskatchewan a more sustainable place to live.
Dr. Gary Birch, Executive Director of the Neil Squire Society has been invited by The Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, to participate in the OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Digital Economy: Innovation, Growth and Social Prosperity. The Ministerial meeting takes place from June 21-23, 2016 in Cancun, Mexico.
Dr. Gary Birch, Officer of the Order of Canada, and a recognized global expert on the impact of assistive technology for people with disabilities, will be representing civil society and the coordination mechanism as co-chair of Round Table 3 of the 9th session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, taking place June 14-16, 2016 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, New York.
BURNABY, British Columbia, April 12, 2016 – The Neil Squire Society has been awarded an $800,000 USD grant from Google.org through Google Impact Challenge: Disabilities.
The Neil Squire Society’s Atlantic Region has formed a partnership with the Edmundston, New Brunswick, based non-profit organization, Resnet inc.