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Exploring death through multispecies and creative collaboration 

Exploring death through multispecies and creative collaboration 

MES student and artist, Sabrina Rose Capista showcased her research-creation project, Let Us Rot in EUC’s 31st Eco Arts Festival from March 17-28, 2025 as part of Andil Gosine’s Nature’s Wild exhibition series. Over the course of her time in the MES program, Sabrina has been studying mycology, death and rebirth in spiritual traditions, and

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Why bike lanes should remain on Ontario’s roads

Why bike lanes should remain on Ontario’s roads

by Mahtot Gebresselassie, Joanna Silva and Steven Lum In late 2024, the Ontario legislature passed Bill 212 giving the provincial government significant control over municipal bike lanes. The law requires municipalities to ask the province for its approval to install bike lanes if they would remove a lane for other vehicular traffic. The legislation also allows for

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Deriving Ontario Municipal-level Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity data

Deriving Ontario Municipal-level Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity data

by Peri Dworatzek, MES, PhD student and Partnership Coordinator for the International Ecological Footprint Learning Lab Fall 2024 marked the release of the first Ontario municipal Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity dataset. This data presents a one-year snapshot of local levels of consumption [ecological footprint] and natural resource regeneration [biocapacity]. All the data is publicly available

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(Re)Building Canada’s First Indigenous-led research station

(Re)Building Canada’s First Indigenous-led research station

by Jennifer Korosi, Dieter Cazon, William Quinton The Scotty Creek Research Station (SCRS) is a world-class climate research hub located 50 km south of Fort Simpson, in the Dehcho region of the southwest Northwest Territories, Canada. The station has hosted researchers and students since its establishment in 1999, and helped reveal how permafrost thaw is

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Supporting African newcomers’ resilience and ability to thrive in Canada

Supporting African newcomers’ resilience and ability to thrive in Canada

In 2022, the Partnership for Research with African Newcomers (PRAN) was launched with the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Consisting of a network of researchers led by Professor Philomina Okeke-Ihejirika from University of Alberta’s Faculty of Arts – Women and Gender Studies, the research team include faculty members from University

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Imprints of large-scale climate oscillations on river flow in selected Canadian river catchments

Imprints of large-scale climate oscillations on river flow in selected Canadian river catchments

by Adeyemi Olusola, Samuel Ogunjo, and Christiana F. Olusegun SynthesisWe investigated the impacts of six major climate oscillations on river flow at three stations within the Humber catchments (located in Ontario, ON and Newfoundland and Labrador, NL) from 1970 to 2020 using sensitivity and wavelet analyses. Results indicate that the discharge at East Humber River

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Ahmed Abu Shaban

Ahmed Abu Shaban

Professor Visiting Professor, Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change (July 1st 2024 to June 30th 2025) Associate Professor & Dean, Faculty of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine at Al Azhar University Gaza Credentials Post Doctorate in Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin – Madison , USA Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics, Magna cum laude, University of Hohenheim Stuttgart,

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Exploring intersections between ecology and sexuality

Exploring intersections between ecology and sexuality

The Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change is pleased to welcome Visiting Artist-in-Residence Angie Quick  this January. Quick is a visual artist based in London, Ontario and her work is featured at York’s Cross Road Gallery until March. Hosted by Andil Gosine, she is part of Gosine’s Nature’s Wild exhibition series. Known for her evocative, emotionally

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Colonialism, starvation and resistance: How food is weaponized, from Gaza to Canada

Colonialism, starvation and resistance: How food is weaponized, from Gaza to Canada

by Charles Levkoe, Martha Stiegman, Sarah Rotz and Tamara Soma For more than a year, the Israeli state has been engaged in a massive incursion into Gaza following the October 2023 Hamas attack against Israel. In March 2024, Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories,

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