What is fuelling the opioid crisis among First Nations and Indigenous communities in Canada and how is it being addressed? It is clear that the opioid and mental health crisis in First Nations is bad. But a new investigation by Indian Country Today and Yellowhead Institute reveals the depth of the challenge. Data obtained from …
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Canada’s current provincial and national risk assessment frameworks focus predominantly on the built environment and infrastructure, neglecting the more extensive social-ecological system. This narrow focus fails to capture the full extent of climate risks or contexts, particularly those affecting Indigenous communities, and excludes the social and political structures that compound risk within Indigenous communities. While …
THERE ARE NO legal terms or language for many of the forms of violence inflicted by Israel on Palestine. There is no specific word for the mass killing of children, for the mass obliteration of an entire society, for the mass toxification of air or of water, for the mass annihilation of trees. Here, then, …
A Dictionary of Unnameable Violences: From “Aerocide” to Zyogticide” in Palestine Read More »
This factsheet provides a series of frequently asked questions about Pollution Notification Map, offering important contextual and explanatory information about notifications, pollution incidents, and the map data. The map is built out of industry-provided notifications about pollution incidents in Chemical Valley that were collected by Aamjiwnaang community members from 2013-2023. The map, developed by the Technoscience …
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This factsheet outlines three categories of recommendations: Harm-Reducing Recommendations for Industry; Recommendations for the Federal and Provincial Governments, and Recommendations for the Bluewater Association for Safety, Environment, and Sustainability (BASES). The factsheet is connected to the Yellowhead Institute Special Report, Data Colonialism in Canada’s Chemical Valley: Aamjiwnaang First Nation and the Failure of the Pollution …
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In this year’s Calls to Action Accountability Special Report, Eva Jewell and Ian Mosby assess where Canada stands on ‘reconciliation’. In 2021, only three calls to action were completed; 83 Calls to Action remain unfulfilled. This executive summary of the report provides an overview of the progress that has been made, what the barriers preventing …
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