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In this special report, Dawn Zinga focuses on exploring the responsibilities of non-Indigenous individuals within higher education settings. As a non-Indigenous scholar working in the area of Indigenous education, I spend a lot of my time thinking about my own role in perpetuating inequality within higher education and answering questions...

The opioid crisis in Canada has been an issue for nearly a quarter of a century. Here, Norm Buckley and Jason Busse from the Michael G DeGroote Institute for Pain Research and Care, and the National Pain Centre discuss the issue, its effects both general and on specific communities, and what can be done about it.

Cody Battershill, Founder and Spokesperson for CanadaAction.ca, explores how Canada’s natural resources make it the ideal supplier nation of natural resources to the world.

Professor Erika Dyck, Canada Research Chair in the History of Health & Social Justice, discusses the extensive history and growing medical application of psychedelics known as the psychedelic renaissance.

Psychedelic therapies are breathing optimism back into modern psychiatry. Substances like psilocybin mushrooms, MDMA, and ketamine are showing clinical promise in a number of treatment-resistant categories of mental disorders, and we are beginning to see a psychedelic renaissance.

“I won’t leave a single Indigenous territory unprotected” says President Lula, who legally recognised six territories as Indigenous land to be protected.

The healthier pre-industrial lifestyles which Indigenous communities live by present solutions in preventing Alzheimer’s and dementia ­– as seen in their lower rates of the disease.

Today (26 November) a new report exposes how deforestation is caused by illegal cattle farming in the Amazon.

Dominik Littfass, HELCOM Communication Secretary explains the biofouling – the attachment of living organisms to the hull of ships – one of the main vectors of invasions of aquatic ecosystems from alien or non-indigenous species.

Dawn Zinga, Associate Professor and Chair at the Department of Child and Youth Studies at Brock University explores reconciliation in a higher education context, by detailing the tensions and challenges in this area

Universities and colleges are struggling to understand reconciliation, the calls to action and recognising issues with the very structures of the institutions. Dawn Zinga of Brock University discusses further.

In this article, Minister Carolyn Bennett details her key priorities concerning the advancement of Indigenous Affairs in Canada

Dr Rod McCormick shares details on the All My Relations Network, a national Indigenous family and community wellness research centre for health and healing

How are Canadian higher education institutions responding to the truth and reconciliation commission’s calls to action? Brock University’s Dawn Zinga shares

Dawn Zinga, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Child and Youth Studies at Brock University highlights some of the challenges faced by Indigenous pupils in Canada.

Professor Pierre S. Haddad shares the challenges of overcoming health inequality for Canadian indigenous populations and highlights solutions to the issue

Open Access Government highlights how Health Minister, Jane Philpott aims to improve the lives of all Canadians through their new Health Accord Plan

Carrie Bourassa, Scientific Director, CIHR-IAPH discusses the issue of poor health among Indigenous communities and says research is the key to tackling it

Dr. Sherilee Harper and Dr. Ashlee Cunsolo look at the need for integrated environment and health surveillance for foodborne, waterborne, and zoonotic disease in the Canadian North

The Department of Education, Culture and Employment, Government of the Northwest Territories details the importance of embracing culture and heritage Culture and heritage are powerful components of any society. Culture is the living expression of our values, and heritage encompasses the tangible and intangible things we wish to bring to...