Many mountain communities here in Canada and around the world are located remote and isolated areas. Remote and isolated areas are often not as exposed to public health awareness campaigns compared to urban communities,...
As global temperatures rise, mountain glaciers and ice patches are melting at a rapid pace in Canada’s North. In the Yukon and Northwest Territories, snow accumulates and forms permanent ice patches on the northern...
Mountain ecosystems and their local populations provide important resources, such as fresh water and timber, to more than half the world’s population. Mountains also resemble islands, where diverse species and human communities live in...
Many mature resource-dependent towns are troubled by significant job losses as a result of declining industry. Geographically isolated communities are particularly impacted by these changes, faced with the challenge of developing new forms of...
One of the most stirring images in Kelton Stepanowich’s (an Indigenous filmmaker from Fort McMurray, AB) short film Gods Acre (2016) forces its audience to witness a future landscape that is drastically altered through...
Sherry Bellamy and Cindy Hardy argue that “the blending of Western and Indigenous knowledge without ideas of Western superiority into mental health services may allow for a pathway of healing and decolonization for Aboriginal...
Sarah Nelson argues that ‘mental health service research and discourse reflect… colonial ideas and, as such, constitute a social determinant of mental health for Aboriginal peoples in Canada” (1).Colonialism has resulted in the “displacement...
Global climate change has a significant impact on the ecology of our planet and human society. This issue has prompted Dr. Chapin to ask whether it is possible to sustain the benefits of social-ecological...
Access to many mental health services has historically been a challenge for many Canadians living in rural and northern communities. However, over the last 20 years, several psychologist-led initiatives have focused on remedying this...
Subsistence hunting contributes to the livelihoods of many northern and rural Canadians. Traditional diets, including fish and meat, provide food security and essential nutrition for remote communities, where store-bought diets may lack healthy alternatives. But...
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