Teetering on the edge of surplus: Neurodivergent work, social reproduction, and bodyminds in the Ontario labour market
by Anna Grace Pawliw-Fry Anna Grace Pawliw-Fry Discriminated against within employment, ND workers put in a lot of work to make work possible. They take up many 鈥榯eetering鈥 behaviours to cope. These are protective but also unsustainable, causing high temporal, financial, social, and mental costs and, at times, pushing workers ...
鈥淵ou can鈥檛 say, 鈥榖ye cows it鈥檚 too cold鈥欌: Multidimensional precarities and the ruralization of im/migrant workers鈥 lived experience in southern Alberta feedlots
by J. Lawrenz Decano My father moved to Canada almost twenty years ago as a temporary foreign worker (TFW). Nearing the end of his employment contract, the animal shelter that recruited him and other Filipino migrant workers refused to offer them support to become permanent residents despite initial promises to ...
The demise of Trudeau鈥檚 promising carbon pricing policy
By Gurneet Singh This research was presented at the inaugural Undergraduate Research Fair at EUC and received an Honourable Mention. In a world of unprecedented environmental destruction and a looming climate crisis, successful policies mean the difference between decisions that bring us closer to or farther from a sustainable existence ...
Podcast dives into the deep relationships between Indigenous languages and ecological knowledge
Tania Willard and Lisa Myers The Sounds Like Land (SLL) podcast officially launched in March 2025. Created by 91亚色 Research Chair in Indigenous art and curatorial practice, Associate Professor Lisa Myers and Tania Willard, a Secw茅pemc and settler artist/curator whose research intersects with land-based art practices, the podcast dives into ...
International Working Group seeks to address the severe environmental degradation in Nigeria鈥檚 Bayelsa State
IWG members from left to right: Michael Watts, Kathryn Nwajiaku-Dahou, Engobo Emeseh, Anna Zalik, Emem Okon, Isaac Asume Osuoka. In May 2026, the International Working Group (IWG) on Petroleum Pollution and Just Transition in the Niger Delta held a week of activities that included a town hall meeting and engagement ...
Advancing climate resilience through AI, geophysics, and geotechnics
Adedibu Sunny Akingboye EUC recently welcomed Dr. Adedibu Sunny Akingboye as a Connected Minds Postdoctoral Fellow, collaborating with Dr. Adeyemi Olusola on interdisciplinary research that integrates geotechnical engineering, artificial intelligence, and environmental systems. His work focuses on understanding how climate-related hazards, particularly flooding, influence both surface and subsurface conditions, shaping ...
Ethnic political identities, multicultural policies, and land rights in Northern Chile
by Ximena Cecilia Martinez Trabucco The materiality of land is ductile, not simply because tectonic forces shift the Earth鈥檚 plates or because the interaction of water and soil continuously reshapes the landscape, but because land acquires different valences and uses across time and among different actors. Under Dr. Carlota McAllister鈥檚 ...
EUC hosts first undergraduate research fair
Interim President and Vice-Chancellor Lisa Phillips, conversing with Gurneet Singh about her research. The Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC) hosted its first Undergraduate Research Fair on March 18th, 2026, at 91亚色. Initiated by the Environmental and Urban Change Students鈥 Association (EUCSA) led by Gurneet Singh, the fair ...
Growing Black food sovereignty in Toronto
by Patricia F. Walker, PhD Student, Environmental Studies On February 23, 2026, the EUC community came together to celebrate Black History Month and to learn about the work of Nicole Jacobs, Aaron Joseph, and Charlyn Ellis, MES students and leaders in the food justice and Black food sovereignty movement in ...
Farm decisions, policy tools, and wild bee conservation
by Briann Dorin, EUC postdoctoral researcher Briann Dorin at the Guelph Organic Conference in January. Pollinators play a vital role in agricultural landscapes by pollinating both wild and cultivated flowering plants, facilitating plant reproduction and contributing to the yield and quality of many major food crops. However, recent assessments across ...