{"id":10492,"date":"2025-02-03T15:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T18:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/?p=10492"},"modified":"2025-02-03T15:00:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T18:00:22","slug":"province-seeking-medal-of-bravery-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/province-seeking-medal-of-bravery-nominations\/","title":{"rendered":"Province Seeking Medal of Bravery Nominations."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Applications for the Province\u2019s highest recognition for bravery opened today, February 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs Nova Scotians, we pull together, we watch out for one another, and we rise to the challenge time and time again,\u201d said Premier Tim Houston. \u201cThe Medal of Bravery is an opportunity to recognize the everyday heroes among us who \u2013 when faced with immediate danger \u2013 showed remarkable courage and bravery.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The nomination form is available at Access Nova Scotia centres, MLA offices and online:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/novascotia.ca\/bravery\/pub\/nova-scotia-bravery-award-nomination-form.pdf\">https:\/\/novascotia.ca\/bravery\/pub\/nova-scotia-bravery-award-nomination-form.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deadline for nominations is May 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Quick Facts:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>acts of bravery that occurred on or after January 1, 2022, are eligible for nomination<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>any Nova Scotian who performed an act of bravery beyond what is expected of them is eligible for nomination whether the incident took place in the province or not<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>an advisory committee reviews all nominations and puts forward its recommendations for recognition<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>55 Nova Scotians have been awarded the Medal of Bravery since it was introduced in 2008<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Additional Resources:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Information on past medal recipients and how to nominate a brave Nova Scotian is available at:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/novascotia.ca\/bravery\">https:\/\/novascotia.ca\/bravery<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: Provincial Release <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applications for the Province\u2019s highest recognition for bravery opened today, February 3. \u201cAs Nova Scotians, we pull together, we watch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,12,13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-general","category-latest","category-news","category-top-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10494,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10492\/revisions\/10494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}