Yellowknife Conferences Rendezvous

This past summer, Gunhild Hoogensen gave a keynote presentation to the 14th International Congress on Circumpolar Health in Yellowknife, NT. Affiliated student researchers Julia Christensen and Alana Kronstal also presented their GAPS research at the congress while GAPS and IRIS web coordinator Rajiv Rawat served on the organizing committee and secretariat. An audio podcast of [...]

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Conference: Strengthening the Ecojustice Movement

Strengthening the Ecojustice Movement:
How Will Disenfranchised Peoples Adapt to Climate Change?
Two-Day Conference
April 16-17, 2009
April 16th – Founders Assembly Hall
April 17th – The Underground
Community activists and activist scientists from Brazil, India, South Africa, and Arctic Canada  will share stories of local vulnerabilities to climate change, and discuss strategies for addressing inequities in climate change causation, mitigation, [...]

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Newsletter No. 2 now available

Check out our second newsletter covering April 2007 until April 2008.

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Update from Julia

2008 has been a very busy year so far. I have spent the last five months in Inuvik and Yellowknife, conducting fieldwork for my doctoral research which forms part of the GAPS project. My research looks at the relationship between housing insecurity and homelessness in the Northwest Territories and how this relationship is affected by [...]

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Julia wins Trudeau Scholarship

Yellowknife native and GAPS co-investigator, Julia Christensen, just won the prestigious Trudeau Scholarship for 2008. Her PhD and IPY research is entitled Homeless in a Homeland: Housing (in)Security and Resource Development in the NWT. Julia was also profiled in a full page spread of the Yellowknifer.
The Trudeau Scholarship is Canada’s most [...]

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First Newsletter Published

Our first GAPS Initiative newsletter has just been released. You can download it (PDF format) in its entirely here.

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CBC: Investigators in the News

One of our investigators, Julia Christensen, was on CBC North News recently. Check out the story!
Northern youth art, writing to join International Polar Year snapshot
Last Updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2008
CBC News
Young people from across Canada’s North will be invited to write, photograph, draw and paint their way into International Polar Year research by taking part [...]

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