If you missed last week’s fantastic environmental history public lectures by Tina Loo and James McCann at York University, you have a second chance to take part in the splendor of public environmental history lectures on our Keele campus. This coming week, York will be hosting two more events featuring […]
If you are an environmental historian in the Greater Toronto Area, you will want to be at York University. Next week, York is hosting two major environmental history speaker events. First, Professor Tina Loo from the Department of History at the University of British Columbia will be speaking as part […]
Download Episode The 2011 Place and Placelessness Virtual Graduate Conference featured a short film competition. EHTV is proud to present the three films submitted to the contest as a special series. The third film in this series is by Sinead Earley from Queen’s University and Patrick Earley from Langara College. […]
Episode 28 Winnipeg Beach: 22 February 2012 [audio: http://niche-canada.org/files/sound/naturespast/natures-past28.mp3][34:28] In the late decades of the nineteenth century, urban North Americans sought refuge from congestion, noise, and pollution. As the environmental problems of industrial cities grew worse, city councils across the continent established urban parks while federal governments in both Canada […]
Last November, ahead of the House of Commons vote on the elimination of the Canadian Wheat Board purchasing monopsony, the federal Minister of Agriculture, Gerry Ritz, and his provincial cohorts from Alberta and Saskatchewan held a press conference to celebrate the achievement of the federal Conservative Party’s long-held policy objective. […]
For those of you not already familiar with Bill C-30, also known as the “Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act” I highly recommend reading up on this legislation that is currently being debated in the House of Commons. In short, Bill C-30 would grant police the power to compel Internet […]
Public debate and media coverage of the Shafia family murder trial has obscured and misrepresented patriarchal violence against women in Canada. Following the guilty verdict last month, lead Crown prosecutor Gerard Laarhuis mistakenly proclaimed that, “[t]his verdict sends a very clear message about our Canadian values and the core principles […]
Download Episode The 2011 Place and Placelessness Virtual Graduate Conference featured a short film competition. EHTV is proud to present the three films submitted to the contest as a special series. The second film in this series is by Cristina Silaghi, a Ph.D. candidate in art history and theory at […]
Download Episode The 2011 Place and Placelessness Virtual Graduate Conference featured a short film competition. Â EHTV is proud to present the three films submitted to the contest as a special series. Â The first film comes from Amanda Hooykaas, PhD Candidate in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the […]
It seems like oil spill history is playing an especially important role in the current debate over the Keystone XL pipeline and Northern Gateway pipeline projects. I recently wrote up a short piece on oil pipeline spills in Alberta’s history. This history of recent oil pipeline spills associated with Enbridge […]
Episode 27 Wildlife Histories: 24 January 2012 [audio: http://niche-canada.org/files/sound/naturespast/natures-past27.mp3][43:05] Last year, in an effort to foster conversation and discussion among scholars, the journal Environmental History published a special forum of short essays on wildlife histories and the legacy of Peter Matthiessen’s 1959 book Wildlife in America, edited by Peter Alagona. […]
After a year of fumbling our way through various efforts to produce an environmental history mobile application for iOS, Jim Clifford and I are finally ready to demo Environmental History Mobile 1.0 Beta. As we mentioned in our previous update, the goal of this project was to create an iOS […]