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  • Practices, events, and effects: Improving causal analysis with the geographic information from cultural mapping in Canada

    Practices, events, and effects: Improving causal analysis with the geographic information from cultural mapping in Canada

    New, open access research article integrates traditional ecological knowledge with geographic qualities from cultural mapping studies to enhance causal analyses involving events of cultural practices and project proposals. The modified procedures employ both theoretical and empiricalapproaches, accounting for the historical…

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  • EMERGENCE: Women in the Storm

    EMERGENCE: Women in the Storm

    Award-Winning Canadian documentary on climate resilience screens in Kamloops with live Q&A EMERGENCE: Women in the Storm screens Saturday, July 4, at the Paramount Theatre, followed by discussion with directors Nova Ami and Velcrow Ripper, film subjects, and wildfire resilience…

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  • District of Lake Country teams with University of Northern BC on wildfire prevention toolkit

    District of Lake Country teams with University of Northern BC on wildfire prevention toolkit

    Residents of Lake Country are being invited to take part in a new program to help them better understand and reduce wildfire risk around their properties. ​The District of Lake Country has partnered with the University of Northern British Columbia…

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  • The Opioid Crisis and Its Impact on Skilled Canadian Tradespeople

    The Opioid Crisis and Its Impact on Skilled Canadian Tradespeople

    Dr. Vincent Lam is an addiction-medicine physician, and the medical director of the Coderix Medical Clinic. He is a Giller Prize-winning author whose latest novel, On The Ravine, explores Canada’s opioid crisis. As an addiction doctor amid a continent-wide opioid crisis,…

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  • Rethinking Drinking

    Rethinking Drinking

    Grateful to United Way and Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc for hosting the Community Conversation on Rethinking Drinking. Drawing upon research to raise awareness, increase access to support services, and to change the culture of addiction. Pleased that our own community-engaged research…

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