orange shirt day is an event that started in 2013 to educate people and promote awareness about the indian residential school system and the impact it had on indigenous communities in canada. 

it is held annually on september 30 in canadian communities with 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 and staff from academic institutions of all kinds and levels being encouraged to wear an orange shirt to school that day.

learn how to be there for yourself and for others.

this event will be offering a quick training on the use of naloxone kits, bring your health card to receive a kit to own.
there will also be information on safe drug and alcohol use. oak medical arts and thunder bay district health unit will be here to provide training and talk about harm reduction.

this event is open to everyone.

it is organized by the student success centre and student health and wellness.

join us to take a break, eat some pizza and watch a movie. wednesday september 18th 2pm-4pm in ingenuity connections theatre, cases building fb 2023
this month we will be showing the founder- the story of the creation of mcdonald's restaurants.
open to all 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 and free to attend
see you there!

dr. tiff-annie kenny, phd, cihr banting postdoctoral fellow, faculté de médecine de l'université laval

public presentation
"ecological, economic, and equity dimensions of food systems under change"

date: tuesday, september 17
time: 1:30 pm
location: at5036

from the humid forests of central africa to the arctic tundra, and all along the world’s coasts, millions of tons of wild foods are harvested annually from earth’s uncultivated ecosystems. these wild foods support the health, nutrition, and food security of millions of people worldwide, and are vital to the most socio-politically disadvantaged peoples – including indigenous peoples, for whom these traditional foods are imbedded in identity-linked social practices. in recent decades, wild/traditional foods have been increasingly replaced by store-bought foods of high energy density and low nutritional quality, paralleled by the concomitant rise in obesity and diet-related health conditions. this presentation adopts a social-ecological food systems lens to explore the web of ecological, economic, and social conditions influencing diet, population health, and social equity in mixed subsistence/cash economies. specifically, i draw on recent collaborative research projects with inuit and coastal first nations to explore: 1. ecology, via biodiversity conservation and food security; 2. economy, via the socioeconomic stratification of diet quality and health; and 3. equity, via environmental justice, health equity and human rights. consistent with the nature and scope of these themes, this research represents multiple scales of engagement and inquiry, and involves both quantitative (epidemiology, quantitative nutrition, and integrated modelling) and qualitative (participatory, community-based and action-oriented) research approaches. taken together, it offers new evidence, tools, and approaches, to support the development of interventions and policies to promote human health, environmental sustainability, and social equity in the context of environmental change.

dr. chelsey geralda armstrong, postdoctoral fellow, university of british columbia

public presentation
"northern frontier, northern homeland: social ecological dimensions of health in canada’s northern and rural regions"

day: monday, septemeber 16, 2019
time: 1:45 pm
location: at5036

canada’s northern and rural regions are both frontiers of industrial resource extraction and homelands to many thousands of people. understanding the determinants of health and well-being of the people who call the north home requires an approach that recognizes and embodies the interconnectedness of social and ecological spheres. to date, health impact assessments, biomonitoring studies, and other assessments of industry impacts have failed to adequately address social-ecological dimensions of health. as a result, ecotoxicity, environmental racism, and the effects of climate change disproportionately affect northern indigenous and rural settler communities. an ethnobiological approach that brings community based methodologies, critical theory, and participatory action research to the fore is a means of overcoming inequities in canadian public health. in this presentation i explore examples from large-scale liquefied natural gas (lng) developments in western canada, indigenous social justice and biocultural conservation movements, and the effects of climate change on food access and food sovereignty of land-based communities. together, these examples highlight some of the most pressing public health concerns for northern and rural communities, and attempt to more fully answer the question, what are the socio-ecological dimensions of health?

kim erickson, mezzo-soprano
heather morrison, piano

admission $15, $10, free under 12.

bryn blackwood, piano
(2019 eckhardt-gramatté national music competition winner)

ticket information: jhowie@lakeheadu.ca or 343-8787

admission $15, $10, free under 12.

eva aronian, violin
dina vainshtein, piano

ticket information: jhowie@lakeheadu.ca or 343-8787.

admission $15, $10, free under 12.

evgeny chugunov, piano
works by prokofiev, carastathis, debussy, ravel, shostakovich

ticket information: jhowie@lakeheadu.ca or 343-8787

admission $15, $10, free under 12.

this workshop, co-facilitated by phebeann wolframe-smith, research & knowledge mobilization facilitator, research services, and denise baxter, vice-provost, aboriginal initiatives, will explore how to get started in doing research in a good way with indigenous communities and organizations. it will cover formal frameworks for engaging with communities, co-creating knowledge, and sharing research data and the results of research (e.g. ocap principles, tcps2 chapter 9). the workshop will also explore the more informal but equally important aspects of relationship building that underlie these formal frameworks: dos and don'ts in approaching indigenous organizations/communities for research partnerships, differences in indigenous and western/mainstream cultural understandings of research and knowledge creation, and ensuring relational accountability throughout the research process.

light refreshments will be served.

to attend, please rsvp to phebeann at sshrc.research@lakeheadu.ca by monday, september 16th, 2019.