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Watch: What does First Nations food sovereignty look like in the face of climate change?

Join us this Wednesday for a lively discussion about bringing food sovereignty back to the table

By The Narwhal

Nov. 20, 2023 1 min. read

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How can First Nations rebuild resilient food systems? What will it take to put food on the table amid a worsening climate crisis? What’s working? What’s getting in the way?

The Narwhal dove into these questions and more at a very special live event on Wednesday. Watch it below.

The conversation features:

’Cúagilákv (Jess H̓áust̓i), lands-based educator, writer and executive director of the Qqs Projects Society
Tyrone McNeil, Stó:lō Tribal Council president and Tribal Chief and chair of the Emergency Planning Secretariat

“Food is such an important manifestation of community and connectedness … I don’t feel good, I don’t feel grounded when I’m not connected, if I’m not in community, if I’m not thinking about other people,” H̓áust̓i told our B.C. reporter Steph Kwetásel’wet Wood.

The event was moderated by Steph, who spent months working on a series of stories about food sovereignty featuring communities building up capacity to feed the future.

Another year of keeping a close watch

Here at The Narwhal, we don’t use profit, awards or pageviews to measure success. The thing that matters most is real-world impact — evidence that our reporting influenced citizens to hold power to account and pushed policymakers to do better.

And in 2024, our stories were raised in parliaments across the country and cited by citizens in their petitions and letters to politicians.

In Alberta, our reporting revealed Premier Danielle Smith made false statements about the controversial renewables pause. In Manitoba, we proved that officials failed to formally inspect a leaky pipeline for years. And our investigations on a leaked recording of TC Energy executives were called “the most important Canadian political story of the year.”

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