Naturopathic Students' Association (NSA)
1255 Sheppard Ave East M2K 1E2 Toronto, ON, Canada

The NSA is looking for passionate and dedicated students to run in the upcoming Executive Council elections! We will be hosting an elections information session on Wednesday, February 2nd, from 1:00-2:00pm EST. For registration please visit SharePoint or check your class Facebook page. A brief overview of the open positions is also available for viewing on the NSA SharePoint and for full information you can reference the NSA Constitution and Bylaws. ... To nominate yourself, please send the below information to our President, Cloe Franko at [email protected] by Tuesday, February 8th at 11:59pm EST. - The Executive Council position you intend to run for. - 10 signatures from other students (can be electronic) - A blurb no longer than 250 words about why you want to run and what you would bring to the role. (This will be included with your name in the election survey.) *If you think a friend/classmate would make a fantastic addition to the Executive Council, please reach out and encourage them to run! Full details on the elections timeline and procedures will be released soon!

Reminder: Town Hall this Monday! Please join us for this town hall to get your many questions answered and to find out your role as a student in our shared learning and safety environment and experience. Links to the Question document as well as the Zoom link can be found on your class Facebook page or emails from both Bob and the Student Governor.... We do ask that you join with your cameras on to increase engagement for all. When: Monday, January 31st 12:15 1:15 p.m, On Zoom Please note the meeting will be recorded for those unable to attend the live event.

Club's Day is happening next week! Come check out all the amazing clubs offered at the CCNM Toronto campus on Wednesday, January 26th from 1:00-2:00pm EST. This semester we are happy to see a variety of new clubs on campus. If you attended last semester we encourage you to attend again!... Register in advance and see a list of all the current clubs via the links on your class Facebook page or SharePoint.

Join us on Sunday, January 30th from 6-8pm EST for a conversation on racial bias in medicine with Joel Bervell. Joel Bervell (www.joelbervell.com) is a third year Ghanaian-American medical student at Washington State University, Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine. Joel is committed to fighting health disparities in medicine through education and regularly shares topics about racial disparities/ biases in healthcare and other industries on his Instagram (@joelbervell) and TikTok, where he was named the 2021 TikTok "Voice for Change". Come learn about the ways racial bias shows up in the medical system/education, how marginalized communities are impacted and what we can do about it! Register in advance for this meeting: https://ccnm-edu.zoom.us//tZEsde2rrzkpHtWxFL08nSwVQ_iBVBNH

We want to extend a warm welcome to the incoming Class of 2025 (January Intake) and also a big welcome back to the entire student body!

Best of luck to all who are writing final exams over the next two weeks!

NSA ELECTIONS Calling for all nominees for NSA Execute Council of 2021-2022. We invite any and all who are interested, even if you don’t have previous leadership experience. If you would like to run for a position on the council, please submit your application to [email protected]. Please click here for further instructions. Elections and voting will take place the 4th week of January. More information of each role is found on the NSA Page on SharePoint.

Do you know how to harness the power of social media to increase engagement? Are environmental and social justice issues your passion? Naturopathic Doctors for Environmental and Social Trust (NEST) has one volunteer opening for a Social Media Manager! Compensation will be in the form of OAND webinar recordings. A 3-month commitment is required. To learn more get in touch with NEST at [email protected]. Follow NEST on FB and IG @nestnds. (NEST is dedicated to promoting the health of all living beings, communities and the environment through sustainable and socially conscious strategies.) https://www.facebook.com/nestnds/

Student Governor Elections! They will run from 11/30 to 12/3 Please vote on the NSA page on SharePoint! Here's the link the survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CDD9VQZ

Introducing this year's impressive list of 18 CCNM clubs! If you're interested in getting involved, please contact club leaders directly or follow their Facebook pages.

Interested in reducing food waste and community engagement? Naturopathic Doctors for Environmental and Social Trust (NEST - Naturopathic Doctors for Environmental and Social Trust) is developing an online pilot project in collaboration with DrawDown Toronto and EcoCaledon designed to engage participants in weekly challenges to reduce their household food waste. We're looking for students who are interested in the impact of food waste on the climate, and its relationship to... issues of food security, food sovereignty, and health to help curate content for the challenge. To learn more get in touch with NEST at [email protected]. Follow NEST on FB and IG @nestnds. (NEST is dedicated to promoting the health of all living beings, communities and the environment through sustainable and socially conscious strategies.) Check out the links here: https://www.nestnds.com/ https://drawdowntoronto.ca/ https://ecocaledon.org/

Tonight from 7-8pm, some interns at CCNMs Integrative Cancer Centre on behalf of the Oncology Club are going to be giving a presentation on an intro on what integrative/naturopathic oncology is, what being an intern at the ICC is like and some of our fav resources for naturopathic oncology! Details are on the event page, which is on CCNMs Integrative Oncology club Facebook page

As part of our 1st Year orientation experience to welcome our newest students into an online semester, we asked them to send us pictures about what #COVIDCANT do. Thank you to everyone who participated! If we missed anyone, please email your picture to [email protected] and we'll add it here. #CCNMCOVIDCANT

Attention CCNM students! The International Society for Orthomolecular Medicine (ISOM) has cordially invited you to participate in the 49th Annual International Orthomolecular Medicine Today Conference - ONLINE on Sep 25 & 26, 2020. The schedule is in the Central European Summer Time (UTC/GMT +2 hours) - http://www.omtconference2020.com/programa... Sep 25, 2020 - 9:00- 19:00 CEST (3:00am -1:00pm EDT) Sep 26, 2020 - 9:00-14:00 CEST (3:00am - 8:00am EDT) There will be recordings available for all attendees. ISOM is offering COMPLIMENTARY STUDENT MEMBERSHIP to CCNM students. The student membership is valid for a calendar year - e.g. Jan 01-Dec 31, 2020. Students will receive the same benefits as professional members - https://isom.ca/product/isom-professional-membership/ If you are interested in joining ISOM, please submit the following information to [email protected] 2020 ISOM Student Membership Application: First Name: Last Name: E-mail Address: School Name: Program Name: Student ID: Graduation Year and Month: A proof of enrolment: eg. picture of student ID, copy of registration, etc Here's the registration for the conference - http://www.omtconference2020.com/inscripciones?lang=en

All of us at the NSA want to thank our 3rd year students for helping keep our community safe during the last two weeks of practicums. It was amazing to have everyone’s vibrant energy and spirit back under the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine roof. Even though we were wearing masks, the smiles were visible through everyone’s eyes. Excitement of being able to interact with one another, even with a social distance, was felt in the air and we hope that you enjoyed the pr...acticum experience! We also hope that everyone enjoyed their goodie bag received at the end of practicums. Some of the items are shown in this picture. But we also wanted to give a special shout out to the Ontario Association of Naturopathic Doctors - OAND for providing reusable straws and Hearty Catering for the amazing food, hard work and service to pack the bags and hand them out. We were informed of a couple students not receiving gift bags. If you didn’t receive one, or know someone who didn’t, please let the NSA know by emailing [email protected]. We will provide you with the above items as well as an UberEats gift card to make it up to you. We are very grateful for having such a strong and resilient community of amazing students. As long as we do our best to stay positive and keep our spirits high, we know that we will get through this together. Thank you!

Hey everyone! Hope your week is going well so far! With the new school year starting, it means it’s that time for class representative elections!! As a reminder, the positions are Academic, Clinic, and social representatives. The description of each role can be found on Moodle -> NSA -> General Info -> NSA Class Representative roles. If you would like to run for one of these positions, please email [email protected] Deadline to apply is this Friday, September 11th... by midnight. Elections will take place next Wednesday, September 16th. I know the semester can get busy, but don’t forget that two people can fill each position so that the work is divided! This is a great way to get involved and to enhance your leadership skills. If you have any questions do not hesitate to reach out!