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To address the climate and biodiversity crises, we must stop criminalizing Indigenous Peoples for exercising their treaty rights and start upholding them instead.
In today’s episode, we hear from two women who talk about how diamond mines in the Northwest Territories have negatively impacted women and girls and perpetuated gender violence.
While marketing has made diamond rings a symbol of heteronormative happy endings, women from the Northwest Territories tell a different story about their experiences with the diamond mines.
The Arctic and sub-Arctic regions are no longer exempt of industrial contamination. Researchers have found high blood levels of potentially harmful chemicals in people living in the North.
Seventy-five years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the people of Délı̨nę remain affected by Canada’s role in the attack. A documentary presents their stories.
As climate change warms northern rivers and changes precipitation patterns, some types of cold-loving fish are failing.
Despite chronic housing need and persistent health and infrastructural inequities, northern communities are turning to the land and each other to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Although marginalized from policy decisions, northern Indigenous communities have maintained and developed strong social networks to help them cope with climate change.
A holistic approach to conservation finds people have a place in the natural world and a responsibility to maintain it.
Indigenous conservation practices are more holistic and inclusive of humans and their knowledge.
Historical gold mining at the Giant Mine near Yellowknife, N.W.T. released toxic arsenic into the environment. Snowshoe hares are showing signs of poisoning.
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Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo
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Assistant Professor, Global Development Studies, Queen's University, Ontario
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Conservation Planning Biologist, Wildlife Conservation Society Canada and Adjunct Professor of Conservation Biology, University of Saskatchewan
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Associate Professor and York University Research Chair in Global Change Biology, York University, Canada
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Professor, Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph
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Professor, University of Saskatchewan
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Adjunct Professor, University of Saskatchewan
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Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Rural Livelihoods and Sustainable Communities, Thompson Rivers University
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Coordinator of the Indigenous Guardian program in the K'atl'odeeche First Nation
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Associate Researcher, Crisis and Humanitarian Aid, Université de Montréal
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Postdoctoral fellow, Cooke Lab, Carleton University
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Associate professor, Queen's University, Ontario
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MSc Student, School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo
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Professor of war heritage, memory and culture, Royal Roads University
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Formerly the Victim Services Coordinator for the Native Women's Association of the Northwest Territories
