Winter 2025 Series Announcement – “North of 60”
North of 60: A Window into the Canadian Arctic (via Zoom beginning Jan 14, 2025)
Third Age Learning Kitchener-Waterloo (TAL-KW) is a volunteer organization that provides lecture series by professors and community experts to Waterloo Region audiences. TAL-KW presents continuing-education challenges for active, mature minds every fall and winter.
Canada’s “North of 60” is more than an iconic landscape of ice and
snow, patchy vegetation and kilometres of boreal forest. Even though we Canadians might think of ourselves as a hardy northern people, a huge majority of us live as far south as we can get: huddled along the 49th parallel. But what do we really know about Canada’s North?
What is happening in the north increasingly affects not only Canadians, but all citizens of our global community. Scientists, biologists, conservationists, and wise experts in indigenous communities are engaged in problem solving perplexing challenges, and rethinking pressing environmental issues. But good things are afoot. Planned in conjunction with WLU’s Cold Regions Research Centre, our speakers in Winter Series 2025 will present from a number of locations around the world and will examine a broad range of topics. Included is the urgent need for international cooperation in the Arctic, indigenous-led conservation efforts, as well as the challenges and restoration opportunities in mining. Others will be addressing conservation efforts around diminishing wildlife, and the commendable work being done to ensure the future of the boreal forest, our Arctic waters and the health of communities in the north.
This series will be held on Tuesdays, 1:30-3:00 pm, Jan 14 to March 4 via Zoom.
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North of 60: A Window into the Canadian Arctic (via Zoom beginning Jan 14, 2025)
Please follow this link: Winter 2025 handout for a .pdf version to print and/or share. Note that this series is virtual via Zoom Webinar.
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