This five-part story will be featured across each of the first five chapters of Nature Labs and will ask students to explore the question of how Canada can protect our economy and sovereignty while still addressing the other challenges of our time, including biodiversity, the climate, and reconciliation. (Part 1 & 2 OUT! Part Three coming Dec. 1st)

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The Alberta/Ottawa Agreement Meets Another Unity Crisis Following the November 27th memorandum of understanding between the federal government and Alberta, we sat down with Canada's leading constitutional scholar and Section1.ca founder...

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Design Thinking

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Design Thinking with Michael Kennedy

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Career with Meaning

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5 Job Search Trends for 2025

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Supporting nature literacy

Our belief is that too few people have a grounding, personal connection to the land and, far more troubling, even fewer have been schooled...

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The inspiration for Ghost Bear Institute

For two decades, Simon ran the Spirit Bear Youth Coalition - a non-profit organization that underscored the power of one person to learn, to...

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Welcome 2024!

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Goats were used to restore the wetlands in Mississauga🐐

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Ethan Mollick On The Four Rules Of Co-Intelligence With AI

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‘I think it’s awesome’: Hundreds of bats move into historic Nanaimo area schoolhouse

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Chapter One

The System of Things

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Chapter Five

Here’s How

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Chapter Nine

Own Your Hypocrisy

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Chapter Two

The Context of It All

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Chapter Six

Your Turn

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Chapter Ten

Keep Going

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Chapter Three

We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know

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Chapter Seven

Dig Deeper

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Chapter Eleven

One Last Thing

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Chapter Four

Hard Stuff is Hard

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Chapter Eight

Be Better

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Chapter Twelve

The End (of the Beginning)

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Chapter One

Chapter Five

Chapter Nine

Chapter Two

Chapter Six

Chapter Ten

Chapter Three

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Four

Chapter Eight

Chapter Twelve

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Chapter Eight

Chapter Twelve