Permafrost degradation is quietly undermining homes, roads, airports, and fuel systems across Northern Canada, threatening daily life and essential services. Indigenous communities bear the greatest risks, making equitable, ground-temperature management a critical part of climate adaptation.
Generative AI is shaping culture, politics, and economics, but commercial models often prioritize profit over public good. For changemakers, exploring CanGPT means rethinking AI as democratic infrastructure — a tool designed to serve communities, not just corporations.
Rebuilding Indigenous legal systems strengthens community self-determination and governance, creating more just and responsive structures and aligns with the recommendations from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Organizers say the program models collaboration rooted in respect and sovereignty—principles that can guide partnerships and systemic change.
The federal budget sets the tone for Canada’s priorities over the next year, with lasting implications for equity, care, and global responsibility. Changemakers’ reactions reveal a growing divide between celebrated domestic investments and overlooked systemic challenges, like the rising cost of essentials and international aid.
Several researchers raised concerns about academia and funders’ slow shift to the right, emulating what is happening in the United States. Many also highlighted that they filled the EDI questions in funding applications on the condition that sensitive personal information will remain confidential, or if aggregated, will remain anonymous.
