Like 2021, 2020 will be an intense year to remember. In May, I returned to Montréal for about six weeks and eventually vacated my apartment there in late June. Our board also approved a three-year strategic plan that month, which was quite an accomplishment, given the global pandemic. We also hired a few talented new
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Before taking on my current assignment a few years ago, I was asked to contribute background papers to provide research, advisory and analytical services for the Food Safe and Nutrition Secure Urban Asia project of the World Bank’s Advisory Services and Analytics (ASA) in collaboration with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The
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Bientôt, je fêterai mes deux ans au Réseau pour une alimentation durable. Le temps passe vite! Depuis le mois d’aout, j’ai fait la COVID au mois d’octobre, on a organisé un super évènement au mois de Novembre – Cultiver le Changement: Une transition juste vers un système alimentaire régénérateur, et on a eu notre assemblée
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I was delighted when a former Simon Fraser University Graduate Student who had done a practicum with me in 2016 approached me about doing an interview for Thrivehire. Here is the edited transcript from their website. Thanks Annalise! It’s a Balancing Act: How Dr. Gisèle Yasmeen Has Built a Career by Wearing Many Different Hats
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Voici un lien à ma chronique diffusée hier à Radio-Canada au sujet de l’immigration francophone dans l’ouest canadien et les questions de diversité, tant au niveau historique que de nos jours. Le sujet fut inspiré par ma ma présentation sur la francophonie canadienne dans l’ouest canadien lors d’un colloque organisé par l’Association d’études canadiennes le
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Cet article publié la semaine passée dans La Source parle un peu de ma présentation sur la francophonie canadienne lors d’un colloque organisé par l’Association d’études canadiennes le 1er mars à Aylmer. Mes remerciements à Marc-Aurélien Négri – auteur de l’article – qui a pris l’initiative de me contacter pour rédiger le texte. Voici le
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The Coffee Cup Revolution: Vancouver’s Downtown East Side, Oct 16th 11am-2pm For the uninitiated, there’s a term in Vancouver English for those who earn a living by sorting through the trash and collecting the valuable recyclables. They’re called binners and the expression was coined by Vancouver journalist Bob Sarti in the mid-1990s. I remember hearing about
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Thanks to Carlin Carr of WIEGO for offering to interview me for the WIEGO Blog. The following Q and A was published in September. The English version is available here with Spanish available here. Photo courtesy of WIEGO.
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Photo above by Gerry Kahrmann, Vancouver Sun. The letter below was published on June 20th in the Vancouver Sun in response to a column by Douglas Todd on Richmond, BC. The full text is reproduced below and can be found at the link here. Re: Global centre of a demographic explosion, Column, June 12 Douglas
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On June 16th, 2015, I published an opinion piece in the Vancouver Courier entitled Asian heritage vital to Vancouver’s past and future, which argues that our links to the Asia-Pacific are far from new and go well beyond how we normally think about our connections with one another in the lower mainland and the lands across the
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