Fairy Creek has had far reaching effects since the militarized Community-Industry Response Group beat us, destroyed our camps and forced us from the forest.  Our goal was to protect the old-growth and Indigenous sovereignty, but we now understand that the social structure does not work for us. This includes the capitalist system, government, law enforcement, the […]

12:45pm -1:15 pm Walk in the gardens with ethnobotanist Alain Cuerrier 1:30pm - 2:30pm via Zoom Eva Snyder and Teresa Sm’hayetsk Ryan, in conversation with moderator Alain Currier.Link to the Mothertree project: https://mothertreeproject.org/ Panelist: Bios Sm’hayetsk Teresa Ryan, PhD., (Ts’msyen) is Indigenous Knowledge and Natural Science Lecturer at UBC Forestry. For her dissertation she examined colonial dispossession of Aboriginal lands […]

Featuring Gisèle Trudel (UQAM, MÉDIANE Chair along with Stéphane Claude, research team collaborator) in conversation with respondent Damon Matthews (Geography, Planning and the Environment, Concordia and LEADS PI). Amphitheatre B104 of the Centre for Biodiversity. Panelists: Bios MÉDIANE (2020-2025), led by artist and professor Gisèle Trudel (Ph.D.) and her teams, artistically explores data from the Smartforests research program […]