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In Our Voices
(2025) Matthews, Elise; Gelech, Jan; Ogle, Whitney; Neufeld, Kate
This book invites us to listen to stories and teachings from Indigenous voices that honour the gifts of people living with disabilities, their families, and their communities.
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Walking Together
(2025-12-01) Matthews, Elise J.; Gelech, Jan M.; Neufeld, Kate M.; Ogle, Whitney; Jordan, Janae
Walking Together is a resource that aims to share Indigenous and Western knowledge and service options to support families and professionals in navigating the Saskatchewan disability service network. It is designed to improve the well-being of Indigenous families living with childhood disability by helping to connect them with relevant and local programs, services, and supports. It is also designed to build bridges and share knowledge between non-Indigenous and Indigenous health professionals, community leaders, Knowledge Keepers, educators, students, and social service providers.
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Saskatchewan Indigenous Child Health Journal
(2025-10-30) Gelech, Jan M.; Matthews, Elise J.; Neufeld, Kate M.; Ogle, Whitney; Collins, Katie
Many people contribute to caring for our children, including extended family members, friends, community members, and Elders. When children have more complex needs, it can be challenging to communicate necessary care information. By completing a child health journal, primary care givers can keep track of health information, recognize those who help care for their children, and provide those within their circles of caring with important information related to the child.
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Network-Scale Patterns and Drivers of Microcystins in a Heavily Impacted Watershed
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2026-04-20) Lerminiaux, Jessica; Finlay, Kerri; Leavitt, Peter R.; Woodman, Samuel G.; Bogard, Matthew J.
The most abundant and problematic of the cyanobacterial toxins, microcystins (MCs), degrade water quality, are lethal to livestock at high concentrations, and target the liver in humans. Most research has focused on lakes and reservoirs, while less is known about MCs in rivers, and few studieshave integrated toxin threats across entire drainage networks. Here, we quantified landscape patterns of MCs and phytoplankton abundance in one of Canada’s most heavily impacted watersheds. This catchment exhibits intensive agriculture and livestock production, with runoff controlled through a hydrologically modified network of regulated rivers, storage reservoirs, and a natural wetland used for slaughterhouse effluent treatment. While the headwater wetland complex exhibited greatly elevated concentrations of MCs (> 300 lg L-1 ), there was little evidence of MCs export to the river drainage network in years with either good or poor hydrological connectivity. Generalized linear models showed that wetland MC concentrations scaled positively with phytoplankton abundance, nitrogen concentrations, salinity, and water temperature. In contrast, MC concentrations in rivers correlated with sampling month and only weakly with salinity, with no apparent connection to river flows. Correlation of MCs with cyanobacteria-specific pigment concentrations was weaker than that for total phytoplankton, suggesting knowledge of cyanobacterial community biomass added little to the prediction of toxin patterns. A continental meta-analysis showed that MC concentrations in the effluent-receiving wetland were high but not anomalous for lentic ecosystems, whereas rivers were greatly understudied (< 1% of total observations). Our findings underscore the distinct environmental controls on MCs in lentic versus lotic ecosystems and emphasize the need for habitat-specific management strategies.
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A contextualized assessment of duty-related bodily harm associated with Canadian police services
(Canadian Science Publishing, 2025-01-01) Carleton, R.N.; Khoury, J.M.B.; Teckchandani, T.A.; Nisbet, J.; Jones, N.A.; Mushquash, Christopher; Deschênes, Andrée-Ann
Canadian police report substantially more mental health challenges than the general population, partially due to negative media coverage. Negative media coverage often focuses on critiquing police causing duty-related bodily harm (DRBH) without sufficient context. Direct comparisons of police to other professionals are difficult; however, analogous comparisons can be made to previously published data on Avoidable Harm during Hospitalization (AHH). The current study quantitatively analyzed publicly available Canadian data on DRBH involving use of force exceeding legally approved standard operating procedures or involving code of conduct violations (FELSOP) relative to total police occurrences. From 2014 to 2023, DRBH involving FELSOP proportions were 1.89 per 100 000 police occurrences and 5566.67 AHH instances per 100 000 hospitalizations. Criticisms of Canadian police interactions with the public appear inconsistent with the available data. DRBH reported without context and coupled with anti-police rhetoric likely causes harms to individual police, and undermines efforts at recruitment, retention, community engagement, and Indigenous reconciliation. Healthcare worker intentions are justifiably considered beneficent, and harms are considered unintentional by default; the same should be made true for police officers, absent a conviction. Concerted efforts are needed to reframe the Canadian police discourse, possibly informed by the supports already rightfully provided to healthcare workers.