Science for Peace

Join the conversation on June 6th at IPPNWC’s Prescription for Health in a Nuclear Age! Featuring talks from the activists leading the conversation on the health impact of nuclear power and the future of non-proliferation. Join us at Room 350 in UBC’s Henry Angus Building at 2053 Main Mall or online via zoom to hear from:

-Gordon Edwards, PhD, President and co-founder of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, a retired professor of mathematics and science at Vanier College in Montreal.
-Ira Helfand, MD, Member of the International Steering Group of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), past president of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), the founding partner of ICAN, co-founder and past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, IPPNW’s US affiliate.
-Cesar Jaramillo, MA, Executive Director of SANE Policy Institute (Security Alternatives for a New Era), Former Executive Director of Project Ploughshares.
-M.V. Ramana, PhD, Professor and Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA), University of British Columbia.
-Linda Thyer, MD, Family Physician, Doctors for Planetary Health – West Coast.

Go to https://bit.ly/4c9cAai?r=qr to register, we hope to see you there!

GE: A timely reflection on the collision between radioactive waste and nuclear aspirations
Gordon Edwards : May 07 12:47PM -0400

Context:

Canada’s Impact Assessment Agency is currently conducting
an assessment of the Deep Geologic Repository (DGR) project
proposed by the industry-owned Nuclear Waste Management
Organization (NWMO) for burying all of Canada’s high-level
radioactive waste (irradiated nuclear fuel) at a distant location in
Ontario, north of Lake Superior. A nearby town is Ignace, with
a population of about 1200, and one of the nearby Indigenous
communities is the Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation (WLON)
with a comparable population size.


Video:

Radioactive Waste: Thinking Things Through to the End
Edwards, video, recorded at Thunder Bay Ontario,
Earth Day, April 22, 2023, 50m

https://youtu.be/Q06sf6yB2r0
Radioactive Waste : Thinking Things Through to the End
youtu.be

Radioactive Waste : Thinking Things Through to the End Dr. Gordon Edwards is interviewed by Michelle Derosier in Thunder Bay on Earth Day, April 22, 2023. Edwards is asked why he is on a five-day tour of Northwes...

Arviat just landed something that changes the map of Canadian education.

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami chose the Nunavut hamlet as the main campus site for Inuit Nunangat University, Canada’s first Inuit-led university.

The plan aims to welcome its first students in 2030.

That matters because Inuit students often have to leave home, language, family, and land behind just to pursue higher education.

This university flips that model.

It will centre Inuit knowledge, Inuit languages, Inuit governance, and Inuit ways of learning instead of treating the North as a place that only receives southern institutions.

The campus in Arviat will anchor the project, while future knowledge centres could connect other parts of Inuit Nunangat, including Nunatsiavut, Nunavik, and the Inuvialuit Settlement Region.

That makes this more than a campus announcement.

It’s a statement that the Arctic should shape its own leaders at home.



(Source: Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, APTN News, University Affairs)