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Media Featuring the Grief Matters Team

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  • Grief Gatherings Planned for Nova Scotia

    Global News checks in with Dr. Mary Ellen MacDonald to learn more about Grief Gatherings, an upcoming series of events to increase grief literacy in our communities.

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  • TEDxPugwash speakers seated at the stage

    Grief, memory, and caring for the dead

    Mary Ellen Macdonald’s TEDxPugwash talk.

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  • Information Morning - NS with Portia Clark

    CBC Listen Live radio show.

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  • Nova Scotians urged to participate in national survey to help better understand grief

    Halifax Examiner article.

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  • The Waiting Room Revolution hosts.

    S7: Episode 79: Dr. Susan Cadell

    The Waiting Room Revolution podcast featuring our own Susan Cadell.

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  • Drawing of three men, hosts of the Sickboy podcast with the CBC symbol and text: Sickboy.

    Sickboy Podcast

    In a live recording of the Sickboy podcast, our co-directors Mary Ellen Macdonald and Susan Cadell discussed how grief, tattoos and yard sales are related.

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  • Mary Ellen MacDonald being interviewed on Global television.

    Global News Morning Halifax

    Global’s Eilish Bonang is joined in studio by Dr. Mary Ellen MacDonald, the lead organizer of a week-long festival that provides support and education around grief literacy.

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  • a man with a gray beard outside talking on a phone.

    This unconnected phone helps people reach out to lost loved ones

    This CBC article talks about the resurgence of “wind phones”. Our co-founder, Mary Ellen Macdonald was interviewed for the article.

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