MakeWay
400-163 Hastings St. W V6B1H5 Vancouver, BC, Canada

We're hiring! Looking for a summer gig? We have some great #CanadaSummerJobs opportunities available at MakeWay and across our #sharedplatform at Project Neutral and Canadian Freshwater Alliance. There are positions available all over the country! Check them out and share with your networks! #LetsMakeWay https://makeway.org/about-us/careers/

If char is running in Ulukhaktok you don’t run classes. Teaching in that community for eight years, I learned that you need to consider fish migration, when the caribou are running, as you build your curriculums and schedules," says Digital NWT educator Rebecca Dylanger. Digital NWT, a project on MakeWay's shared platform, supports digital literacy and capacity and #Indigenous sovereignty in the #NorthwestTerritories. Read the full story: https://makeway.org//digital-nwt-supports-digital-literac/ #LetsMakeWay

"The #climatecrisis is shrinking glaciers around the globe at a rate that startles even scientists who study the process. In #BC,, the effects extend from mountaintops, down valleys and into coastal waters. The more experts learn about what’s happening, the more they realize the complex, challenging implications of The Big Melt." Read more about the importance of #glaciers to our ecosystems and communities - via The Tyee: https://thetyee.ca/big-melt/

A huge congratulations to Tanya Talaga and Makwa Creative! Their film "Spirit to Soar" has been named a Top 20 at this year's Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. #IndigenousLivesMatter https://boxoffice.hotdocs.ca/websales/pages/info.aspx

Between 2000 and 2011, seven First Nations high school students in Thunder Bay died. Five were found in rivers surrounding Lake Superior. All were forced to leave their homes in order to attend school. In the years following, Tanya Talaga returned to Thunder Bay and her ancestral roots to talk with the family members, #Indigenous community leaders, and youth whose resilience in the face of unjust colonial systems provide a path forward. Watch the documentary "Spirit to Soar"... through May 9th: https://makeway.org//tanya-talagas-debut-film-spirit-to-s/

Growing up in Snaw-Naw-As Territory on central Vancouver Island, I remember well the War in the Woods, clear cutting protests and blockades - the rate our old growth forests were being destroyed was alarming to me. Compounding this was the inequity of where revenues landed and who was left with the social and ecological harms and this continues today. The disconnect between harms perpetuated by #investment activity and repairs attempted through #philanthropy can no longer... be ignored. With the #climateemergency exacerbating social inequities and vulnerabilities, we need to figure this out. Now. "As we each explore 'what is mine to do', there is strength in knowing we are all doing it together." This week on our blog, MakeWay #Pacific Program Lead and Integrated Capital Institute Fellow Kim Hardy talks about working to build a regenerative #economy with RSF Social Finance. #LetsMakeWay https://makeway.org/b/moving-toward-a-regenerative-economy/

"I may never know who my enslaved ancestors were, but I am confident that their bravery and pioneering in the outdoors has directly led to the brave and pioneering work I do today and drives me to fight for racial justice and equity in these spaces." Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant, a large carnivore ecologist, conservation scientist and science communicator, recounts her discovery of an unexpected intersectional legacy of slavery within children's bedtime stories featuring well-known be...ar characters. via Patagonia #environmentaljustice #intersectionalenvironmentalism #BlackHistoryMonth https://www.patagonia.com//black-bears-bl/story-95900.html

An interview with Moose Hide Campaign co-founders Paul & Raven Lacerte in this morning's edition of CBC News - today marks the Moose Hide Campaign's 10th Anniversary and day of fasting to bring awareness and inspire action to end #genderbasedviolence in #Canada. https://www.cbc.ca//british-columbia/moose-hide-campaign-p

People around the world and even British Columbians have an idea of what B.C. is it’s pristine, it’s wild. The true reality is that essentially all of B.C.’s old-growth forest has been eliminated, and all you need to do is to look at this map to see that." A sobering account of #BC's remaining old growth forests via The Narwhal Conservation North Pacific Wild #bcpoli #OldGrowth https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-forests-old-growth-impacts-map/

#DYK ? The Moose Hide Campaign is a grassroots movement of Indigenous and non-Indigenous men and boys who are standing up against violence toward women and children. The 10th Annual Campaign Day takes place next week. Read more and register here: https://makeway.org/blog/moose-hide-campaign/ #IndigenousLivesMatter Moose Hide Campaign

BC can mitigate #climate related disasters like flooding, droughts, and fires by protecting and restoring intact forests before the #climatecrisis worsens. Saving old growth forests is a critical step in that direction. Read the report here: https://sierraclub.bc.ca/intact-forests-safe-communities-/ #LetsMakeWay #SaveOldGrowth Sierra Club BC