How do racialized former refugees conceptualize, navigate, and experience their roles as private sponsors who resettle refugees to Canada? What are the goals and motivations that drive racialized former refugees to participate in Canada’s private refugee resettlement initiative? Are there distinct actions, activities, and contributions from racialized former refugees to private refugee sponsorship in Canada? […]
Kristen Coleman, a PhD candidate in Professor Jennifer Korosi’s lab and a Weston Family Northern Scientist, studies impacts to lake water quality as a result of permafrost thaw near the southern extent of permafrost in the Northwest Territories (NT), Canada. Here permafrost is sporadic, occurring beneath 10-50% of the landscape. She focuses on the impacts […]
Each year, we celebrate World Food Day on October 16. To celebrate this event, Earth to Tables Legacies project has decided to reflect on the relationship between food sovereignty and breastfeeding. In its photo essay Mother’s Milk, collaborators speak about the connectivity between nourishment, localization, and food sovereignty which can all be accomplished through breastfeeding. […]
by Briann Dorin, PhD Candidate Pollinators provide an essential ecosystem service in the form of pollinating ~87% of global flowering plant species and further pollinating 87 of the leading global food crops. One of the major groups of pollinating organisms are bees - travelling from flower to flower collecting pollen and nectar for food. And […]
by Mark Winfield The outcome of the recent federal election — a Liberal minority dependent on the NDP or Bloc Québécois for support — has been widely seen as having a “Groundhog Day” aspect to it. It left the composition of Parliament very much as it was before, reinforcing questions about the necessity of the […]
Conservationists, ecologists, and artists say it’s time to re-evaluate our perception of cormorants Along lakeshores and sea coasts, one bird draws particularly unsettled attention from humans. The cormorant is a striking, dark bird that perches on rocks and cliffs. They live in large colonies across the continent. They're seen negatively by many of their human […]
A new international definition, endorsed by the UN, would leave some Canadian communities off the list – if the definition had any legal standing The good folks of Kelowna believe they live in a city. In fact, local tourism boosters bill the place as “the largest city in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley.” But under a […]
The importance of Indigenous knowledge systems Working with First Nations is vital, and in B.C, is the law. The province is legally obligated to consult First Nations on land and resource decisions that may impact them, Deborah McGregor, an associate professor at York University and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Environmental Justice, tells Refinery29. This is critically important as […]
By Prof Justin Podur The original New Deal has credited with saving the US economy from the Great Depression and, perhaps, saving the country from socialism. The original New Deal, and its champion, Franklin D. Roosevelt, are credited with saving the US economy from the Great Depression - and perhaps preventing the country from adopting 'socialism'. The […]
How does the home impact adolescent girls’ sexual wellbeing? What kinds of norms about sex and sexuality exist in the home? How has the quality of sexual relationships and wellbeing changed by being home more often due to COVID-19 stay-at-home orders? These are the questions that CGS-M recipient, Leah Coppella, is exploring in her MA […]