Community dynamics
We Carry Each Other's Memories
In this collaboration between Marilyn Simon Ingram (IRS survivor and advocate), Barb Martin and Outreach Productions, Indian Residential School survivors in Atlantic Canada reflect on their experiences with the Shubenacadie Residential School in central Nova Scotia.
Weather • Nehiyawetan: Let's Speak Cree (Series 2)
Introducing Cree vocabulary to young children, featuring words related to the weather.
Where to Next? • 80:20—The Developing World
Where to Next? gives a thoughtful perspective on foreign aid, pointing out that outcomes are often greater for business development in donor nations than poverty reduction in recipient countries.
Winter/Solstice • Nehiyawetan: Let's Speak Cree (Series 3)
Introducing Cree vocabulary to young children, featuring words related to winter solstice.
Without Running Water Part 1 • SAMAQAN: Water Stories (Series 3)
Running water is taken for granted in Canada, yet Oji-Cree people in over 1400 homes 600 km north of Winnipeg live without it. Situated on Island Lake, the sixth largest lake in Manitoba, the absence of running water denies them fire protection. It creates daily challenges for cooking and maintaining adequate levels of sanitation. The result was unacceptably high levels of H1N1 flu during the epidemic of 2009.
Without Running Water Part 2 • SAMAQAN: Water Stories (Series 3)
First Nations residents in the Island Lake region of east central Manitoba long for a clean supply of running water and sanitation that most Canadians take for granted. They discuss huge efforts that life without running water creates for cooking, bathing, laundry and keeping their homes clean. It isn't easy with their reliance on outdoor toilets and sanitation challenges of slop pail use for waste disposal during the winter.
Women Building Peace
This is the story of remarkable women who, after surviving violence, war and genocide in Africa, are rebuilding their lives and societies, forgiving the killers of their families, adopting and raising orphans, breaking taboos, and redefining what it means to be a woman in their traditional cultures.
The Working Cat's Guide to the Klondike
Old timers, First Nation storytellers, historians and a cast of Yukon locals recall a traditional practice of “cat sledding” unique to the Dawson City area in Canada’s far North.
