Mino Bimaadiziwin Partnership

Come see and/or hear birds and a bird talk by Timi this Friday, February 13th. Or join from your back yard - enjoy birds and nature. Check out https://www.birdcount.org/

Great to hear of these First nation-university partnerships to design and build housing ecosystems.

Happy holidays & Joy to the world and you in 2026!!

Congrats to Keshab Thapa et al. for their paper called, "Achieving the 30 by 30 Biodiversity Target in Canada through Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas" https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=148348
Happy New Year 2026! Looking forward to your doctoral graduation.

Achieving the 30 by 30 Biodiversity Target in Canada through Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas Canada has committed to the United Nations Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), including protecting 30% of land and sea by 2030 while recognizing Indigenous rights. By 2024, Canada has conserved 13.8% of terrestrial and 15.5% of marine protected and conserved areas (PCAs), leaving....

Congrats to Mojibade on her successful master thesis defense and her paper publication https://doi.org/10.4236/jss.2025.1312042 in 2025.
Read the paper to find - Community-led education systems are making a big difference in the Indigenous students' lives and the YFFN community
Odejinmi, M., Thompson, S., & Wastesicoot, D. (2025). Community-Led Transformation of the Housing and Education Systems in York Factory First Nation, Manitoba, Canada. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 13, 584617. https://doi.org/10.4236/jss.2025.1312042

Community-Led Transformation of the Housing and Education Systems by York Factory First Nation, Manitoba, Canada First Nation communities in Canada face systemic barriers to quality housing and education. This participatory research with Indigenous people from York Factory First Nation (YFFN) from 2022 to 2025 focused on youth capacity-building and developing funding proposals. The YFFN partnered with the Univ...

More saplings (poplar, cottonwood, and willows) have been planted at the Camp Kitigay in Beaconia. The grassland is being transformed into a restored forest. We have planted 80 plants in this season.

To restore Native ecosystem, tree saplings (Poplar-60, willow-7, ash-2, and dogwood-2) were planted at Camp Kitigay, Beaconia, using saplings from the nearby forest to plant in the grassland. Tree planting is one of the key practices for ecosystem restoration. Trees contribute to climate change mitigation.

We planted native saplings (willow, poplar, and ash) in the grassland at Camp Kitigay, Beaconia, to restore the ecosystem.

O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation (OPCN) reports ongoing power outages for around a month. OCN was displaced by Manitoba Hydro and now suffers this lack of electrical service. Reference: CBC/O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation stuck in 'waiting game' with no ...

Planning to build this aeroponics system with a university class cohort from York Landing in mid-August at York landing. Check it out - we are going to grow food all year locally. To get there we hope water levels are higher, which requires Manitoba Hydro to readjust levels to consider impacted communities, and that the Split Lake fire risk is low and they are all safe to return. York Landing needs a working ferry - with the fire threat for evacuation and for everyday living.

Cultivate at Concordia University has a great funding co-operative model for solving Student food insecurity applicable to University of Manitoba, colleges and other universities. Check out this video to reveal the cornucopia magic of co-operative action.
https://youtu.be/xFTVmiAwQ4w

Discovering Cultivaction (Interview with Erik Chevrier by Shirley Thompson) During the Global International Cooperative Alliance Committee on Cooperative Research Conference held at HEC Montreal organised by the Alphonse and Dorimène...