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  • Addiction Awareness: It’s Time to End the Stigma

    Addiction Awareness: It’s Time to End the Stigma

    Addiction Awareness: It’s Time to End the Stigma Presented with support from the Aaron Manson Memorial Fund, Thompson Rivers University. Research group members attended and…

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  • New Partnership Expands FireSmart Cultural Mapping

    New Partnership Expands FireSmart Cultural Mapping

    On Wednesday, March 11th, members of our cultural mapping research team facilitated a focus group in collaboration with People in Motion and SPARC BC, collecting…

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  • The Artistic Animation of Smaller Communities

    The Artistic Animation of Smaller Communities

    It’s our pleasure to feature from our archives Nancy Duxbury’s introduction to a collection of essays on artistic animation. Our research group’s collaboration with the…

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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…

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  • TRU partnership earns national recognition for Kamloops’ cultural strategic plan

    TRU partnership earns national recognition for Kamloops’ cultural strategic plan

    A 10-year cultural vision for Kamloops, shaped through research and community collaboration with Thompson Rivers University (TRU), has earned national recognition. The You Are Here Kamloops…

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  • Where Culture Meets Climate: Lessons from ‘You Are Here’

    Where Culture Meets Climate: Lessons from ‘You Are Here’

    A new publication on cultural mapping from our former graduate research assistant, Saaranch Bhardwaj. Saaranch was a key team member with our You Are Here…

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  • Wildfire leadership and partnerships highlighted at BC Natural Resources Forum

    Wildfire leadership and partnerships highlighted at BC Natural Resources Forum

    “Preparedness is a decade-long game,” says TRU President Airini. “We don’t choose when the next natural hazard strikes, but we can choose to be ready.”…

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  • Critical Futures

    Critical Futures

    Community-Engaged Research in a Time of Crisis and Social Transformation A new book! Two members of the Research Group have contributed to this cutting-edge collection…

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