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Public health moves to innocence and evasion? Graduate training programs’ engagement in truth and reconciliation for Indigenous health
Indigenous peoples are the first peoples of what is now called Canada. Canadians have benefitted from their largesse and contributions in a myriad of ways that remain unacknowledged. Indeed, ongoing colonizati...
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Practicing Self-Determination to Protect Indigenous Health in COVID-19: Lessons for This Pandemic and Similar Futures
Our contribution to this edited collection on geographical perspectives of COVID-19 is threefold. First, we frame Indigenous Knowledge Systems and their fundamental connection to the health of the land and the...
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The public health emergency of climate change: how/are Canadian post-secondary public health sciences programs responding?
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently issued a statement that the fate of human society and human health is at serious risk of catastrophic impacts unless we take bold action to keep global wa...
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Open AccessAre the natural sciences ready for truth, healing, and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples in Canada? Exploring ‘settler readiness’ at a world-class freshwater research station
The Experimental Lakes Area in Northwestern Ontario, Canada, is a globally prominent freshwater research facility, conducting impactful whole-of-lake experiments on so-called ‘pristine’ lakes and watersheds. T...
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Open AccessPredictors of medical student interest in Indigenous health learning and clinical practice: a Canadian case study
Including content on Indigenous health in medical school curricula has become a widely-acknowledged prerequisite to reducing the health disparities experienced by Indigenous peoples in Canada. However, little ...
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Chemical and microbial characteristics of municipal drinking water supply systems in the Canadian Arctic
Drinking water in the vast Arctic Canadian territory of Nunavut is sourced from surface water lakes or rivers and transferred to man-made or natural reservoirs. The raw water is at a minimum treated by chlorin...
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Reconciliation and Relationality in Water Research and Management in Canada: Implementing Indigenous Ontologies, Epistemologies, and Methodologies
Water-related issues disproportionately affect Indigenous communities in Canada. Despite millions in investment, Western-trained scientists, engineers, and other researchers as well as the government agencies ...
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Patchy Resources for the Governance of Canada’s Resource Patches: How Hydraulic Fracturing Is Illuminating the Need to Improve Water Governance in Canada
Hydraulic fracturing emerged in the mid-2000s, with polarizing results across Canada. Provincial governments either embraced the technology for energy development as a key component of their economic strategy,...
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Preparing for Success – Drinking Water Safety Plans and Lessons Learned from Alberta: Policy Considerations Contextualized for Small Systems
Safe drinking water is best ensured through a proactive, multiple barrier water management approach. A water safety plan is an internationally-recognized framework for managing drinking water resources, one th...
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Female newcomers’ adjustment to life in Toronto, Canada: sources of mental stress and their implications for delivering primary mental health care
Stress disorders and other mental ill health may be brought on by the disruption caused by resettlement. We examine female newcomers’ experiences of adjusting to a new place, metropolitan Toronto, Canada and a...
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Open AccessVisioning for secondary palliative care service hubs in rural communities: a qualitative case study from British Columbia's interior
As the populations of many developed nations continue to age at rapid rates it is becoming increasingly important to enhance palliative care service delivery in order to meet anticipated demand. Rural areas fa...
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Reflection on teaching and epistemological structure: reflective and critically reflective processes in ‘pure/soft’ and ‘pure/hard’ fields
We empirically explored whether academics from pure/soft and pure/hard fields engage in reflective practice on teaching differently and, if so, whether these differences could be partially explained by the epi...
