CEDAR and partners are co-hosting a book launch in Fredericton on November 26: Bad Indians Book Club by Patty Krawec.
Drawing on conversations with readers and authors, Bad Indians Book Club delves into writing about history, science, and gender, and into memoirs and fiction, all by “Bad Indians” and those like them, whose refusal of the dominant narrative of the wemitigoozhiwag (European settlers) opens up new possibilities for identity and existence.
More info HERE.
The CEDAR project submitted its critique of NB Power to the NB Power Review team. CEDAR researchers believe NB Power needs a complete overhaul. Key messages:
Wolastoq Grand Council and St. Thomas University: Wabanaki Student Center, Native Studies Department, CEDAR research project, Women’s Studies and Gender Studies, and Sustainability and Environmental Studies programs invite you to join us to hear from and engage with Sherri Mitchell. More info HERE.
International energy expert Ralph Torrie, Research Director of Corporate Knights, has published his analysis for a renewable energy future for Maritime Canada. The CEDAR project and partners invited Ralph to New Brunswick to share his work with the public. 6 PM at the Fredericton Public Library. Info HERE.
Event host: NB Media Co-op with partners CEDAR, Madhu Verma Migrant Justice Centre and Wilmot United Church.
This free event open to everyone featured 40 workshops and 40+ tables at an Info Fair. Download the PDF schedule with clickable links to all the sessions HERE.
This memorable weekend brought together more than 200 people for engagement and community building. Check out the photos by CEDAR research assistant Mahus Dieuveille Samba HERE.
The CEDAR project and colleagues at St. Thomas University partnered with the Fredericton Public Library to bring an exhibit “80 Years of the Nuclear Age: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki” to New Brunswick in October. The opening talk at 3 PM on October 3 will be delivered by CEDAR partner, M.V. Ramana. Info HERE.
The Call for proposals opened in early 2025 and is now closed. Check out the event website for information on this event in October!
The CEDAR project and partners invites all community champions and social justice activists in New Brunswick to propose activities at the NB Social Forum 2025.
The event in Fredericton the first weekend of October has the theme: The Many vs The Money.
If you are a member of a group or organization in New Brunswick working on community, social justice, Indigenous, labour or environmental issues, we invite you to apply now to have an information table, make a presentation or host a workshop at the event. Deadline for presentation and workshop proposals is June 30.
The event October 4 and 5 will be open to everyone free of charge. Click HERE for more info and to apply.
Please share this invitation with your networks – we want everyone to know about this opportunity.
Everyone is welcome to join STU Sustainability and the CEDAR project for a free film screening of Peace Out: Energy Costs at 6:30 PM on Wednesday, February 26 at Gallery on Queen, 406 Queen St. in Fredericton.
Zoey McNamara and Ivory Gadsden, co-chairs of STU Sustainability, and Susan O’Donnell, lead researcher of the CEDAR project at STU will introduce the film and facilitate a discussion with those who stay on afterward.
The film, part of the Cinema Politica series, explores the conflict in Canada’s vast Peace River region in B.C. that was flooded in 2024 for the Site C hydro dam. Site C is expected to begin operations in Fall 2025.
The film, released in 2011, raises important questions even more relevant today: When is it ethical to destroy an ecosystem? Is it possible to convince people to use less energy or do we need to keep on building more large energy projects? Can we balance jobs and economic development with environmental destruction? Who benefits the most from these big energy developments?
The film won the prize for the most popular Canadian documentary at the 2011 Vancouver International Film Festival. More info and watch the trailer HERE.
STU Sustainability acts as a voice for students advocating for sustainability on and off campus. CEDAR (Contesting Energy Discourses through Action Research) is a project in the Environment & Society program at St. Thomas University, located on the unceded traditional territory of the Wolastoqiyik.
Everyone is welcome to join Wolastoq Grand Council and the CEDAR project for a free screening and New Brunswick premiere of the film Singing Back the Buffalo at 6:30 PM on Wednesday, February 19 at Gallery on Queen, 406 Queen St. in Fredericton.
Wolastoq Elder Alma Brooks and Susan O’Donnell, lead researcher of the CEDAR project at STU will introduce the film and facilitate a discussion with those who stay on afterward.
The film, part of the Cinema Politica series, explores one of the impacts of colonization on the Great Plains and how buffalo herds of North America are making their return. The film features Blackfoot Elder Leroy Little Bear, weaving an intimate story of humanity’s connections to buffalo and how their return to the Great Plains can usher in a new era of sustainability and balance.
The film raises many questions about the impact and responses to colonization for Indigenous communities in New Brunswick, across Canada and globally.
The film premiered at many national and international film festivals in 2024. More info and watch the trailer HERE.
Wolastoq Grand Council is a partner in CEDAR (Contesting Energy Discourses through Action Research), a project in the Environment & Society program at St. Thomas University, located on the unceded homeland of the Wolastoqiyik.
The CEDAR project and the Passamaquoddy Recognition Group Inc. (PRGI) published a report and video that were launched at St. Thomas University on November 29, 2024. The info page with the report and video is HERE. At the end of the page is the video record of the launch (courtesy CEDAR partner, the NB Media Co-op), photos from Emma Fackenthall (CEDAR) and Kim Reeder (PRGI) and articles published about the report and video.
