“They also held on to huge stores of sediment that would otherwise have flowed downriver, and created shallow reservoirs that quickly heated when the weather warmed. Increased water temperatures in the river allowed toxic algal blooms to thrive. “In recent decades, the climate crisis has turned...
The Governor General awarded Sandi Monague Roy with the “Commemorative Medal for the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada.” Extensive traveling has given the family exposure to many different groups and cultures around the world, which has resulted in a keen family interest to share ...
From Indigenous-led land-based camps, non-Indigenous youth, particularly immigrant youth, in Canada have many responsibilities towards the land and Indigenous peoples as they navigate and contribute to their adopted communities: Cultural respect and understanding. Immigrant youth should actively seek to ...
Also found beneath the pine-covered ground are vast stores of minerals and fossil fuel deposits, the most famous of which is known as Canada’s Athabasca Tar Sands in Northern Alberta. Second only to Saudi Arabia in terms of recoverable oil reserves, Canada’s tar sands have an estimated 177...
62. “The global Indigenous cause reached a major milestone in 2007 when the UN General Assembly passed the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Only four members of the assembly voted in opposition, all of them Anglo settler-states – the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and ...
FacebookShareTwitterTweet As the years went by, the innovations continued. Vancity was the first financial institution in Canada to offer a daily interest account in 1967, the first to offer a socially responsible mutual fund in 1986 and the first to launch an interactive home banking system in...
Preface 1. Development and Aboriginal People in Remote Canada and Australia: An Overview of the Main Issues 2. Remote Area Development in Australia and Canada: Perceptions, People and Resources 3. Government Policies and Programs for Aboriginal Development 4. Development and Land-based Enterprise: ...
This year’s program includes 38 films (34 shorts, four features) representing 34 Native nations in eight countries: U.S., Canada, New Zealand, Norway, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Finland. There are seven Indigenous languages spoken in the films. Genres include documentaries, m...
It is indigenous to the southern regions of Ontario and Quebec in Canada and the midwestern, southern, and eastern parts of the United States [36]. In recent decades, studies have shown that American ginseng, like the Chinese one, also possesses neuroprotective, cardioprotective, antidiabetic, ...
More information:Anna Banerji et al, Food insecurity and its consequences in indigenous children and youth in Canada,PLOS Global Public Health(2023).DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0002406