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Hello Friends! 2024

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Setting Up

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GTA GRANs last-minute details

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GTA GRAN Lynne Latulippe and Hello Friends! Registrar Mia Overduin at welcome table

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Sally Armstrong, Keynote Speaker

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"The Room"

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Janet Siddall Hello Friends! Planning Committee Chair

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Diane Scaletta and the "GRAN House"

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Kathleen Wallace-Deering talks about GRAN's beginnings

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Kathleen Wallace-Deering and Pat Evans Early Leaders of GRAN

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Dr. Elizabeth Vibert receives Order of GRAN

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Diane Scaletta, Kathleen Wallace-Deering, Mary Vibert, Dr. Elizabeth Vibert

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Cathy Thompson and Sharon Graham music break!

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Movement break!

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Learning about our issues: Susan Carter reviews priorities of African grandmothers

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Learning about our issues: Bunny Keeley reports on GRAN's Right to Food Campaign

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Breakout group discussions

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GRAN friends old and new

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Ruthann Hicks GTA GRAN member speaks about planning a public event

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Role-play: Visiting Your MP - with Pat Dolan (MP) and Janet Siddall (GRAN advocate)

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Guest speaker Ama Deawuo with GRAN Co-Chair Linda Kulkarni

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Ama Deawuo Guest Speaker "Conversations with my Grandmother"

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Ama Deawuo in conversation with her Ghanaian grandmother

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Music and dance!

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GRANs have the moves!

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Saskatoon GRAN Jenny Neal and Ottawa GRAN Bunny Keeley longtime Hello Friends! friends

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Hello Friends! 2024 group photo (minus our online friends)

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Peggy Edwards (L) and Myrtle Blinn (R) present Maureen Murphy (C) with the Order of GRAN 2024

 

Hello Friends! 2018

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Order of GRAN 2018 Presented to Daniel Hegarty

Dismiss Grannies at Your Peril!

Aug 20, 2024

"Dismiss ‘grannies’ as frail old biddies at your peril: they’re some of the toughest activists out there." In an opinion piece in The Guardian, writer Sally Feldman challenges "granny" stereotypes... Read more