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SUMMARY:Media Training and Research
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 arch Mobilization Workshop\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=""]Presen
 ted by the Canadian Association of Labour Media\, the Canadian Centre for 
 Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia and the Dalhousie Faculty Association.\n\n
 This workshop is targeted to academics and community-based researchers who
  are interested in increasing the uptake of their research. It will includ
 e tips and trips on writing and pitching op-eds\, doing media interviews\,
  writing media advisories and press releases\, and translating research fo
 r media purposes.\n\nWhen: May 1st\, 2025\, 9am-3pm\nWhere: Room 307 of th
 e Dalhousie Student Union Building\, 6136 University Avenue\, Dalhousie Un
 iversity\, Halifax. (Note the room number change)\n\nThis event is free to
  participate in but you must register. We request that organizations who h
 ave participating members consider making a donation to the Canadian Centr
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 "]\nNora Loreto\nNora Loreto is a writer\, musician and activist based in 
 Québec City with expertise in media literacy\, social media\, extreme sna
 rk and government relations. Nora is the author of From Demonized to Organ
 ized\, Building the New Union Movement (2013)\, and contributed a chapter 
 on debt and youth activism in Canada After Harper (2015). She writes regul
 arly for rabble.ca and progressive magazines. She has a BA in public admin
 istration and minors in journalism\, history and politics from Ryerson Uni
 versity and a Masters of Education from the University of Saskatchewan. Sh
 e was Editor-in-Chief of the Ryerson Free Press and was involved in the st
 udent movement for almost a decade. Nora is the Québec Director of the Ca
 nadian Freelance Union\, is on the board of the Canadian Centre for Policy
  Alternatives and is involved in her local coordinating committee for Qué
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 "][vc_column_text css=""]\nChristine Saulnier\nChristine Saulnier is Direc
 tor of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia. She has a 
 doctorate in Political Science from York University. She leads the living 
 wage calculations for communities across Atlantic Canada and serves as a c
 o-author of the annual child and family poverty report cards for Nova Scot
 ia. She has written extensively\, and given commentary on a range of other
  public policy issues including fiscal policy\, labour markets\, and child
  care policy. She serves on the Steering Committee of Child Care Now Nova 
 Scotia\, and Campaign 2000 (national coalition to end child and family pov
 erty). She served on the Board of the NS Health Coalition and Adsum for 10
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