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Developing a Way to Measure Water Insecurity
I was in Kenya with my baby daughter in 2013, setting up a study on the impacts of food insecurity during pregnancy...
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Water as Protector: Divinities of Vodoun in Benin
Upon arrival in Benin, with its sandy beaches bordered by the Atlantic, it's easy to wonder if magic could be real...
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How Social Media Changed the Way we Talk about Sexual Violence
Long before the #MeToo movement went viral, the phrase “me too” was first evoked in a face-to-face communication rather than digital communication. In...
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Can Jody Wilson-Raybould Change Canada’s Political Culture?
Bob Chamberlin, chief councillor of Kwikwasut’inuxw Haxwa’mis First Nation and vice president of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs, remembers Ethel Pearson. She...
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Power and Prana: When Yoga Leads to Abuse (SERIES)
On a steaming hot afternoon in the Berkshires in 2012, I’ve sought shade in the meditation garden at Kripalu, a health and yoga centre two and a half hours from...
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Community Archaeology: Handing Back the Power of the Past
It’s July 2015 and, after leaving Canada some 40 hours prior, I find myself on a tiny plane descending rapidly into Quinhagak, Alaska, an out-of-the-way Yup’ik...
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Government Ignores UN Calls to Halt Site C Construction
Last month, a deadline bestowed upon Canada by the United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) quietly came and went. It...
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What my Oma Taught Me About Strength (WITH AUDIO)
In a modest three-room home in the town of Kula, dinner has just ended and a multi-generational family of seven settles in for the night. Outside, the winter...
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DNA Analysis Unlocks Humanity’s Greatest Mysteries
Recent research published in Nature sheds new light on what we know about one of humanity’s great mysteries: the migration of people to the New World...
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Power to the People: How the Church Taketh Away
“If one purges the Judaism of the Prophets and Christianity as Jesus Christ taught it of all subsequent additions, especially those of the priests, one is...
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Naomi Alderman’s The Power (BOOK REVIEW)
What would the world be like if women were in charge?This is a central question Naomi Alderman asks in her dystopian novel, The Power (Viking Press, 2016). All...
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Policing Indigenous Dissent: Trends Behind Wet’suwet’en Raid
The recent raid against the Gitdumt’en camp on unceded Wet'suwet'en territory grabbed national attention, focusing much-needed discussion on land claims...
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Is Yoga Cultural Appropriation? (2-PART SERIES)
A couple of weeks ago a kindergarten class came to my yoga studio. I asked them what they knew about yoga, and one little boy jumped back into a wiggling,...
Transition: First Movement in Sonata Form
My roommate, Camille, banged on the bathroom door, concerned. “Hey, do you need help in there? How is it going?” They had seen me leave the kitchen with scissors…
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Meaning in Movement for Eveny Reindeer Herders
The question of how to find meaning in life has puzzled humans for perhaps as long as our species has existed. Finding meaning—to feel life has purpose and...
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Slow Motion: Reports from a 4-Year Bike Ride
Lothar Schaefer, a retired anesthesiologist, and his partner Debbie Wellwood, a wildlife ecologist, rode out of their small town...
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