Guest Speakers: Nancy Rowe (Elder of Mississauga, Ojibwe of the Anishinaabek Nation located at New Credit First Nation, ON)  This event is to be aligned with Bonnie’s course “Living on the Water” (Tuesday’s 4-6 pm, New College University of Toronto)  Event Description: Giidaakunadaad (The Spirit who lives in high places), Nancy Rowe is a Mississauga, Ojibwe of the Anishinaabek Nation located at […]

Join Mining Watch Canada and Water Allies for a panel discussion of Imbolo Imbue’s novel, "How Beautiful We Were".

We will discuss different strategies for engaging people in telling stories about water:  Watermark from Swim Drink Fish, and a Lake Michigan digital storytelling project, and a Chicago River digital storytelling site. 

As we witness and experience the impacts of a climate crisis, global pandemic, and injustices it may be easy to lose hope. Carolynne will focus upon breaking down colonial ways of thinking that intentionally try to separate people from the Earth, by creating an opportunity for reflection and individual change. She will share Indigenous perspectives from Elders in her life that guide people to move through grief and into hope while building responsible and reciprocal relations with the waters and all of their relations

Dorene Bernard is a grassroots grandmother from the Sipekne’katik band in Mi’kmak’i. She is a water protector, water walker, and survivor of the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School. Her background is in Aboriginal Social Work where she had worked for 20 years in Child Welfare and Community Support for Residential School Survivors. She was the Coady International Institute Chair in Social Justice 2017, sharing her teachings on Environmental Racism, Climate Justice, Residential School legacy and social justice issues, including child welfare, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women/Girls, Climate Justice and Water teachings, inspired and mentored by the late Grandmother Josephine Mandamin, Mother Earth Water Walker. She is featured with other grassroots grandmothers and water protectors in the Environmental Racism documentary on Netflix, There’s Something in the Water, produced by Ellen Page and Ian Daniel.

How are researchers and educators collaborating beyond post-secondary institutions? Contributors to this discussion outline their methodologies, ethics, and practices for community-engaged research and learning. Panelists including Sherry Fukuzawa, Councillor Veronica King-Jamieson, and Elder Garry Sault of the Indigenous Action Group, a collaboration between University of Toronto Mississauga and Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, discussed […]

On December 1st, 2022, Water Allies, in partnership with Environmental Defence, ran a panel with Michelle Woodhouse and Deborah McGregor, two Indigenous women who are working to protect the Great Lakes from environmental degradation and to ensure healthy freshwater and riverine systems in Ontario. The panel brought an Indigenous perspective of water protection, relationship to […]