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Nowadays, most parts of the Canadian Arctic remain uninhabited, where snow and ice are the prevailing features for most of the year. However, climate change is an everyday reality, bringing more opportunities for human activities. These activities, in turn, lead to complex impacts on the fragile Arctic socio-ecological environments. Inuit, who have been continuously using […]
No doubt, the world was different in 2016. While you could board a plane with flu-like symptoms, the same could not be said of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7. The reason being, the phone’s battery caused a number of explosions and fires, resulting in the largest phone recall in history, with 2.5 million recalled devices […]
In the wake of the 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), a series of recommendations were made to Canadian cultural heritage institutions to address the ongoing colonial attitudes present in Canadian history. These recommendations were taken particularly seriously by Parks Canada, who in 2019 published a new National Historic Sites System Plan entitled “Framework for […]
The fact that we only have one planet on which to grow our crops should be motivation enough to act on mitigating the effects of climate change. The effects of climate change have been experienced across the world – with some regions experiencing higher impacts than others. From extremely cold/hot temperatures to shifts in rainfall […]
As the old expression goes, timing is everything. Cyclists have to keep their heads on a swivel to time a safe lane change. Musicians sometimes have to count out dozens of bars before playing the correct note in sync with the rest of the band. Baseball players have an impossibly small window to hit a […]
Many home care clients with psychiatric diagnoses who could have benefitted from psychiatrist visits did not receive them, especially in Nova Scotia. In our recent publication, we compared psychiatry service utilization among older home care clients (people enrolled in a publicly funded home care program) in the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WHRA) compared to Nova […]
In a recent study conducted through the Cognitive and Motor Performance Lab, we were able to show what happens over many interactions with automation, specifically looking at situations where the automation would learn (i.e. get smarter) over time, compared to automation that would degrade and get worse over time. One thing that has been fairly […]
Many indigenous people have survived in a harmonious relationship with coastal-marine environments for hundreds of years. From the Māori of New Zealand, through the Ikoots people in the Mexican tropical Pacific, to the Miꞌkmaq in the Atlantic of Canada. Indigenous groups from different parts of the world have demonstrated to have successful coastal-marine management practices. […]
India is ranked as the second largest shark harvester of the world with sharks caught in a targeted and bycatch fishery in the Andaman Islands of India. The Andaman Islands are located in the Bay of Bengal, are recognized to be a marine biodiversity hotspot, and are also designated as a ‘Hope Spot’ by the […]