When clinical professor Jan Christilaw first arrived in Uganda, she found a country “so vibrant and full of life it’s like a heartbeat. You land there and you see mangos hanging from the trees and you think, how can this place be poor? It’s just dripping with lush vegetation and the weather is perfect and there are fruits and vegetables everywhere.”

Having served as Band Manager for the N’Quatqua Nation for fifteen years, Ernest Armann’s responsibilities have encompassed health, education, employment, and much more.

Candis Callison, a doctoral candidate at MIT whose research focuses on the public communication of climate change, will be joining the Graduate School of Journalism as an Assistant Professor June 1, 2009.

More than one hundred years after being hunted to near-extinction, sea otters are returning to the waters off the West Coast of Vancouver Island. While the return of these marine creatures marks the successful re-introduction of a native species, not everyone is welcoming the sea otter back with open arms.

A video camera scans over subarctic Snare Hill, some 100 kilometres northeast of Fort St. John, BC, where a man once turned into a moose.

It settles on Sam Acko, an elder of the Dane-zaa people of Doig River, as he tells the story of a young man who made the transformation to help keep a moose herd, and its future generations, alive.