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Equity in Action: Amending Your Dress Code

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Do dress codes do more harm than good?

To begin our Equity in Action blog series, we’ll discuss step one from our Six Steps to Make Your Legal Workplace more Equitable – amending your dress code. Many dress codes aren’t inclusive of hairstyles, clothing, or makeup styles of different cultures or gender identities.

Let’s review two scenarios that you or your colleagues may find yourselves in:

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Society welcomes Tuma Young QC as the organization’s first Indigenous president

The Society officially announced its new leadership for the coming year at its annual meeting on June 19, 2021. Tuma Young QC, a member of Eskasoni and Malagawatch First Nation, will serve as the Society’s first Indigenous president in 2021-2022.

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2021 NSBS Annual Report & Financial Statements

The Society's Annual Report, published every June, provides highlights of the past year including a message from our President and Executive Director and financial statements for the fiscal year-end (April 30). In 2020, as we adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic and in an effort to reduce our footprint, we moved to create an annual report website (nsbsannualreport.org) rather than printing a paper …

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