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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…

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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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