OPEN: Organization for Peace, Equity and Nonviolence

06/06/2026

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06/06/2026

Having one accepting adult in a LGBTQ+ young person's life reduces their su***de risk by 40 percent. Be that adult.
Source: The Trevor Project

06/05/2026

❤️Meegwetch to Honourable Minister Nahanni Fontaine for the kind invitation for Awesome Q***r kids to speak at the Pride Ledge Event-happy Pride! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

05/29/2026

05/29/2026

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05/25/2026

❗ Happening this Friday (May 29)!

⏳ Unveiling Equity | Traces of Home

This event invites a critical reflection on loss, memory, and resistance amid the ongoing demolition of villages in South Lebanon.

Hosted by zeina ismail-allouche and featuring Diana Moukalled, Guillaume Jabbour, Jad Orphée Chami, this conversation centers, beyond physical destruction, the erasure of lived histories, homes that held childhoods, photographs, books and everyday life.

Framed as a “genocide of memory,” it asks: what does it mean to lose not only land, but the intimate archives of belonging? How do communities grieve when the material anchors of memory are erased?

An oral history dimension grounds the discussion across three generations:
• a daughter remembering a father who passed before witnessing the demolition of the home he built in his village;
• a son carrying the memory of a his Palestinian father;
• and a young man holding onto his grandparents’ call to return to Bint Jbeil as home.

⌚ May 29th | 11AM TO 12:30PM
📍 Hybrid (Online and 4TH SPACE Concordia University)
*En anglais seulement

🔗 For more details and free registration:
https://cpnprev.ca/prev-events/traces-of-home

🙏 This Unveiling Equity conversation is made possible through a partnership between CSLP / CEAP, CPN-PREV and the Indigenous Healing Knowledges Chair.

05/23/2026

We hope this helps. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

05/23/2026

MEET DR. JAMES MAKOKIS IN BRANDON: SATURDAY, MAY 23

Join award-winning Cree physician and Amazing Race Canada champion Dr. James Makokis for an important and insightful presentation on decolonizing sexuality and gender identity.

Dr. Makokis is in Brandon tomorrow. He is going to share teachings and perspectives on the impacts of colonization on understandings of sexuality and gender identity.

Drawing upon the knowledge of Elders and Indigenous leaders from across Canada, his presentation aims to support healing, education, dialogue, and community empowerment.

📅 Date: Saturday, May 23, 2026
🕐 Time: 1 to 3:30 pm
📍 Location: Knox United Church, 451 – 18th Street, Brandon, Treaty Two Territory

There is no cost to attend this event—it’s free!

For more information, contact the Knox United Church by:
Phone: (204) 727-6975
Email: [email protected]

05/23/2026

OPEN’s results of our spring 2026 environmental OSINT scan of hate motivated incidents in Canada 🇨🇦

05/23/2026

🌈Calling all Southeast MB trans 🏳️‍⚧️ and q***r folx who want to improve physical and mental health care -please share, and take 5 mins to complete https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1J73R7kc82w0c9c-E_ZpwZryipfnOJU_tL-DCBihJ6Pk/edit?usp=drivesdk