Month: November 2013
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Devastating cuts to the Canadian Circumpolar Institute
I am running late this morning, but it’s because I’m taking a moment to protest Tuesday’s devastating cuts to the Canadian Circumpolar Institute. There is a meeting this morning with Dr. Lorne Babiuk to advocate for the Institute, so if you send letters of support they can help make a case for why the University…
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On love
let us exercise these expansive hearts in our chests let us stumble but get back up let us sing and dance in the quiet of the night let us not forget that everything comes back to the greatest gift of all: love.
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My alma mater — failing again
I cannot even begin to articulate how disappointing this is. The reason that I began to work in arctic Canada, and built a relationship with a northern community to investigate community-identified issues like food security, was because of the University of Alberta’s strong northern research focus — which the Canadian Circumpolar Institute plays a major…
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heart(h) of the city/is broken
A lot of ink has been spilled over Churchill Square. We lament the loss of the grass. We lament the broken lights put in the concrete. We lament the way the addition to the library in the late 90s/early 2000s forced people onto the thin strip of concrete between the library and 102 ave, creating…
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music for the heart
Here are two songs I recently recorded. As with all things I’m sharing here — they are very much just works in progress. The first song was my first attempt to sing in English and nehiyawewin, and I know my pronunciation needs work. Working very hard to learn my Grand-dad’s language while I’m living away…