In the midst of this pandemic, I find myself thinking about cooking a lot. I look forward to coming out of social isolation with a dinner party. It is one of the things keeping me going. When the pandemic started, it was an exciting time for dietitians. March was nutrition month, a month where we got […]
May 19, 2020 Halifax, Nova Scotia 44° 38′ 43.19″ N, 63° 34′ 20.60″ W For the first time since starting my PhD, I spent the month of April in Halifax. I wasn’t supposed to be here. I was supposed to be doing what I usually do during Halifax’s soggy spring: studying eastern Caribbean sperm whales with […]
Usually when we talk about connectivity in cities, we’re talking about human transportation. But it’s not just humans who need to move around the city. Just as we use transit networks to get to where we live, work and play, wildlife need to be able to move to where they feed, breed and winter. Parks are important for wildlife in the city, but few can support wildlife long term. […]
Science and statistics only measure reported cases of abuse. Many people, proportionally more women and children, are left to silently suffer. Despite notable writers contributing to national news agencies, domestic abuse has been a back-burner topic amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. On Twitter, the platform I’m most acquainted with, some have mentioned that being quarantined at […]
I feel compelled to start with a disclaimer, as this blog post is largely a reflection piece attempting to tie together loose ends of my thinking over the past few weeks. Being at home with young children, I have had some uninterrupted moments to think during the height of our social distancing restrictions, but not […]
Online dating apps. A special kind of hell for most of us. The modern-day place where so many of us look for love…or maybe just a quick hook-up. I know many people who have had successful dates, relationships and even marriages with people they have met online. Believe it or not, I actually don’t think […]
What is one of the biggest trends in municipal governance these days? Declaring a climate emergency. Melbourne has. London has. Halifax has. Toronto, Budapest, Paris, Recife, New York City, Thunder Bay, Cologne…. the list goes on and on. This is great news, as cities play a major role in the fight against climate change, but […]
The modern world was built with incredible technological leaps over the last 150 years, but we only accomplished this by burning fossil fuels without limit. We abused fossil fuels like a drug that boosts productivity, and now we are finally feeling the side effects in the form of climate change. In response, we are now […]
In July of 2014, Eric Garner is put in a chokehold by a police officer, and killed. There are enough people swarming the scene to film the last remaining moments of his life, and to hear the words that have come to characterize a movement: “I can’t breathe.” Later that summer, Mike Brown is stopped […]
Food: It’s literally and figuratively on the tip of everyone’s tongue. Concern about food sustainability has exploded over the past 10 years, as we come to understand better the impact that food systems have on the planet. We are devastated by the scale of the extinction crisis and grieve that loss of diversity, but we […]