Prof. Raktim Mitra says research show there is great potential to increase the number of trips made by bicycle the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.

“The places in the southwest are absolutely destroyed,” Laura Sewell said, speaking on the phone from Port-au-Prince where she’s coordinating CARE’s response to the disaster. “There are some places - where we hear from our field staff - where there were a hundred houses and two houses are standing now.”

“Fortunately there have been no fatalities but it also means that there are hundreds of thousands of people who have had their homes damaged, homes destroyed, they’ve lost their roofs or they’ve lost their livelihoods because of the damage to agriculture,” Richard Paterson said.

Eric Villiard says his Play Snow Igloo makes it easier and safer to build snow structures.

Manuel Arango says Canadian consumption of sugary drinks is a big problem.

“So the contribution of girls is less visible but also less valuable,” Claudia Cappa said. “And it has lasting effects on the girls’ self-esteem and their sense of self-worth, because girls are educated into thinking that their role is essentially the role of wife and therefor they grow up thinking that this is what is expected of them when they become women.”

Nunavut is the only territory or province in Canada without a performing arts centre and Iqaluit is the only capital city in North America without a space to present the performing arts, Karetak said.

“It used to be mostly white academics who would present on their research in the Arctic and very much contributed to the frustrations that Inuit have of being researched without much benefit to the community,” said Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, a well-known Iqaluit-based poet, performer and advocate. “But as it evolves, there are more and more Inuit who are engaging on an academic level about our own communities, so I find it very important to be able to speak with and engage with all of these Inuit intellectuals who are astute in their own work and also very challenging of other people’s work in a very progressive way.”

Phil Quinn, the second generation on the family farm west of Montreal, talks about some of the activities people are enjoying around the farm this holiday weekend.

Prof. Harry Prapavessis says text messages helped students break up long periods of sitting.