Mina Atia

By Mina Atia Many Halifax businesses participate in Pride month every July and show their support for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. The support ranges from marching in a parade with a giant float, changing their logos or selling a rainbow-themed line of merchandise to generating fundraisers, displaying inclusive advertising or simply putting a rainbow flag up in their shop window.

By Mina Atia, Communications Coordinator, Halifax Chamber of Commerce Housing the entertainment sector with Neptune Theatre, the Halifax Convention Centre, Scotiabank Centre and 200 restaurants and bars, downtown Halifax represents more than a billion dollars of property assessment. Home to NSCAD University and within close range of Saint Mary’s University and Dalhousie University, the area is inhabited by an influx of students and more than 15,000 office workers (pre-pandemic).

By Mina Atia, Communications Coordinator, Halifax Chamber of Commerce Accessibility is as diverse as the range of human differences. The concept of being accessible is not reserved for people with assistive mobility devices: it’s much broader. Once this is understood, we, as a society, can make meaningful changes in becoming truly inclusive. Persons with disabilities have diverse needs when trying to access all facets of their everyday life.