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Seasons of change: Investigating the influence of time, seasonality, and climate change on mining-related arsenic toxicity to plankton communities in lakes from the Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada

The impacts of climate and land-use change have begun to degrade the natural resiliency of ecosystems, affecting even the most remote locations at both the local and global scale. Lakes, which serve as catchment sites for entire landscapes, have been particularly impacted and many have become highly concentrated with harmful contaminants due to a combination […]

Permafrost thaw slumping in lakes in the Mackenzie Delta region

by Charlie West The Mackenzie Delta region is the largest Arctic delta in North America and the second-largest in the circumpolar North. Located in the northern Northwest Territories, the Mackenzie Delta region is part of the traditional territories of the Gwich’in and Inuvialuit peoples. The region is almost entirely underlain with ice-rich permafrost, meaning the […]

Toronto’s tent encampments: Excavating northwestern informalities and state ambiguities

Allison Evans is a new EUC graduate and in observation of the recent World Town Planning/ Urbanism Day on November 8, we spotlight her research that has used a global southeast framework to conceptualize tent encampments in Toronto as a mode of urban informality. From this perspective, Evans examines the local state's role in informalizing […]

Recipes as Inquiry: (Re) visiting baking recipes from Mi’kma’ki and New Brunswick

Grounded on the east coast in Mi’kma’ki territory during her pandemic pursuit of the MES programme, Jessica Ross has returned to academia after a 10-year break following an undergrad in social anthropology and international development studies. Following their BA, Jessica spent a year in Germany working at two bakeries on biodynamic farms that operated using […]

Climate mitigation from a renter-centered perspective

The housing crisis plagues many cities across North America, particularly with affordability and repair issues in aging housing stocks. Climate crisis concerns are also increasing, with cities like Toronto, Ontario and Boulder, Colorado declaring a climate emergency. To better understand this intersection of climate mitigation and affordable housing, SSHRC CGS – Master’s recipient Diana Yoon […]

The role of racialized diasporas in refugee sponsorship

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? […]

Impact of changing hydrology on lake water quality

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 […]

Earth-to-Tables Legacies celebrate World Food Day 2021

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. […]

Enhancing pollinator conservation efforts in agricultural systems

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 […]

Election campaign featured big climate promises, but can the federal government deliver?

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 […]