Events

Annual

General Meeting: May 28, 2024 5 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Join us for our AGM and Guest Speaker: Tracy Rands, Founder and Principal Consultant of Epiphany PR

Registration Now Open: Annual General Meeting Tickets, Tue, May 28, 2024 at 5:00 PM | Eventbrite

Professional Development Session: Communicators as Champions of DEI

Public relations and communications professionals have a leading role to foster and support diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) within organizations. Through effective communications and creativity, practitioners help to create spaces that are accessible by all, free from discrimination and where everyone feels safe and free to be their true selves.

Join us to hear from Tracy Rands, Founder and Principal Consultant of Epiphany HR Consulting, about the business case for DEI and to build confidence as a strategy developer, champion and spokesperson. There will be time to continue the discussion and connect after the presentation. The CPRS NS 2024 Annual General Meeting will be held at 5 p.m. to begin the session.

Date: Tuesday. May 28 Time: 5:00 – 7:00 PM Location: Room 301-302, Margaret Norrie McCain Centre, Mount Saint Vincent University. Light refreshments will be served. Register by May 27, 2024: Annual General Meeting Tickets, Tue, May 28, 2024 at 5:00 PM | Eventbrite. Free for CPRS NS Members and Students. Non-members welcome for $10 each.

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Past Event: February
PR: A Choose your Own Adventure Career

Graduates of MSVU’s PR degrees and NSCC’s Graduate Certificate in PR program have been building successful careers across Nova Scotia and beyond for decades. Talented practitioners have also joined our profession through many other paths, and doors to opportunities across other professional fields are wide open.

Join us to hear from PR professionals just starting out and experienced about the opportunities and pathways that shaped their careers. Then, with a room full of practitioners at various stages of their careers and from various sectors, stay for a lively round of speed networking to connect with each other.

Date: Thursday, February 22, 2024

Time: 4:30 – 6:30 PM

Location: National PR ( 1625 Grafton Street, Suite 1600, South Tower)

Past Event: December 2023

Tim Conrad, APR, Principal of Butterfly Effect Communications, on public trust, disaster communications and the 2023 wildfire response in British Columbia, December 14, 2023.

Tim has held leadership roles in emergency management, communications and post-disaster engagements in some of Canada’s largest emergencies. These include record-setting 2023 wildfires in BC’s Cariboo, Squamish-Lillooet and Columbia Shuswap regions, health care and post-secondary education during the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2013 southern Alberta floods and three record-setting British Columbia wildfire seasons from 2017 to 2021. His work in disasters has been described as the gold standard, studied by academics across Canada, and adopted in California, New Zealand and Australia.

Tim received the prestigious Shield of Public Service Award from the Canadian Public Relations Society (CPRS) for his exemplary efforts during and after the 2017 wildfires and the Lamp of Service Award in 2022 for distinguished and dedicated volunteer service to the CPRS.