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The Future Fix: Smart Farms for Northern Communities The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: Smart Farms for Northern Communities Food security is a challenge everywhere, but especially for northern communities. The climate can make growing food difficult, and the distance and expense to ship food can mean long waits and exorbitant prices. In Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, the Arctic Research Foundation, in consultation with local elders, has estab...

LORINC: 2020, a year of urban resilience The answer to the “whither-cities” question that’s buzzed around the edges of pandemic punditry was never seriously in doubt. Cities are humanity’s sturdiest invention. They’ve endured deadly plagues, lethal bombings, depressions, terrorist attacks, floods, hurricanes… the gamut. COVID-19 will not become the exception. Cities filled with people will continue to exist once the virus has been eradicated. Still, the past nine months has felt a b...