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- September 11, 2025
The Canadian Network of Community Land Trusts invites you to the third annual Community Land Trust Summit. Click here for more details. What to Expect? Attendees can look forward
- March 27, 2025
This year, we are exploring the theme Trade-Offs. This conference focuses on the complex challenges of today’s planning landscape and balancing competing interests. Diving into the realities of prioritizing growth and
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On Saturday, August 17th 2024 we held a community engagement session to finalize the Weymouth Falls Community Map in partnership with the Clean Foundation. In the afternoon, we were joined
On Thursday, Black community leaders from across Canada and the United States gathered at the Black Cultural Centre in Cherry Brook, N.S. The event gave those leaders the opportunity to
Have you heard? Across Canada, Black communities are creating opportunities for affordable housing and vibrant commercial spaces through community land trusts. From Hogan’s Alley in Vancouver to Upper Hammonds Plains in Halifax,
A community land trust is when a group purchases land to be used by a community for affordable housing or other purposes. This week, advocates from across Nova Scotia and
My grandmother. My aunt. My son. The lineage of Black ancestors before me and the generations of Black people to come. When we hosted a delegation of Black leaders from
Communities across Nova Scotia are receiving more support from the Province and Clean Foundation to bring their climate change priorities to life. Today, May 9, Environment and Climate Change Minister
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About the tour + participants From May 4th – 11th 2024 the Canadian Network of Community Land Trusts led a 17-person delegation of five emerging Black-led, Black-serving, and Black-focused (B3)
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The CLT Summit is Canada’s largest gathering of community land trusts (CLTs) and their supporters. 3 full days of panel discussions, hands-on workshops, walking tours, collaborative activities, and more were
New community-driven projects that address systemic hate, inequity and racism in the province are receiving support from the Office of Equity and Anti-Racism (OEA). Grants to 12 organizations will help
Community land trust concept traces its roots to civil rights movement in American south Lynn Jones wanted to preserve the spirit of the Truro, N.S., neighbourhood known as “The Marsh”
In 2022, Weymouth Falls was honoured with the Lieutenant Governor’s Community Spirit Award. We celebrated the achievement at the 2023 Weymouth Falls Reunion. Here is some coverage from the
On Saturday, the historic African Nova Scotian community of Weymouth Falls is receiving the Lieutenant Governor’s Community Spirit Award. Weymouth Falls was selected for the award in 2022, but the
