Julia Christensen

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Building construction in uptown Iqaluit. The new Build Canada Homes initiative that fails to address the unique housing needs of the North. (WikiMedia)

Northern housing must be built as an integrated ecosystem — by the North, for the North

Shelagh McCartney, Toronto Metropolitan University; Aimee Pugsley, McGill University, and Julia Christensen, Queen's University, Ontario

As Canada rushes to build housing similar to the post-Second World War era, it must not forget how many chronic economic, health and housing challenges that onetime boom created for the North.
Instead of returning to the northern research status quo, researchers should make community health and well-being the top priority. Above: Nain, Nunatsiavut. Christina Goldhar

‘Return to normal’ travel and research may bring hazards to northern, Indigenous communities

Christina Goldhar, Memorial University of Newfoundland; Arielle Frenette, Université Laval; Crystal Gail Fraser, University of Alberta, and Julia Christensen, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Summer 2021 is too soon for southern-based researchers and travellers to return to northern, Indigenous communities in the wake of COVID-19, for research fieldwork or leisure.

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