Cultural Spotlight - Building fish traps, building community
Brazilian mathematics educator Marcelo C. Borba once compared the visualization of ethnomathematics to a forest ‘in which each tree would be considered as a different expression of …
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April 26 2021 Local Climate change is already affecting the city
Angela Danyluk’s work and research has given her a clear picture of how environmental changes will impact residents of Vancouver, and the local effects of climate change cannot be avoided much…
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April 12 2021 Community Working towards a violence-free society
There is no vaccine for domestic violence. But that has not deterred Balbir Gurm from working to prevent relationship violence. “It’s not a shadow pandemic, it was a pandemic before COVID came …
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March 22 2021 Community Cultural Spotlight - An Indigenous healing connection to the land
Suicide among Canada’s Indigenous people is disproportionally higher than in the non-Indigenous population according to a survey done by Statistics Canada (2011–2016). Less well known are the …
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March 8 2021 Community Cultural Spotlight - Coast Mental Health honoured as one of B.C.’s Top Employers
Despite a challenging year for the healthcare industry, Coast Mental Health (CMH), a registered charity, was named one of BC’s Top Employers for 2021.
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March 8 2021 Immigration MOSAIC - Νew program aims to help immigrant couples navigate challenging waters
Cultural disorientation can inflict strain on personal relationships, says Pooja Tuli, a certified intercultural competence facilitator and a mental health first-aider.
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March 8 2021 Local Gender inclusion in the workplace starts with they
In 2019, Merriam-Webster – America’s oldest dictionary – declared the word “they” its word of the year and added a new definition: used to refer to a single person whose gender identity is…
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March 8 2021 International The Great Derangement - A call to action on climate change
“Climate change is the most important issue of our times,” says Indian writer Amitav Ghosh.
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February 22 2021 Community Cultural Spotlight: Ethós Lab, a model for building inclusive futures
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February 22 2021 Local Urban resilience: the idea of a city for its people
“The pandemic has rendered useless many of the urban resilience plans that have been made over the past decade,” says Simon Fraser University (SFU) professor Meg Holden (PhD), director of the …