A  Settler Child Celebrates the Legal Personhood of Pemadeshkodeyong/Rice Lake

WATER IS LIFE A  Settler Child Celebrates the Legal Personhood of Pemadeshkodeyong/Rice Lake by Dorothy Lander A landmark announcement during the “Giving Rights to Nature to Strengthen Climate Action” COP30[1] event at the Canada Pavilion on November 21, 2025 in Belem, Brazil on the doorstep of the Amazon, transported me to my childhood home in […]

Art and Design to Create a Sustainable Future

Instead of spreadsheets and strategic plans and business plans, consider the part you can play in designing a sustainable future for the world, guided by existing art – dance, poetry, storytelling, humour, gardening, culinary arts, essays, paintings and … and -? Here is my Canadian template that highlights fempieces over masterpieces as my guide. 2. […]

Diving into Canada’s Ocean Playground: Estu and Plove Meet Richard Powers

HARP The People’s Press is located in Canada’s Ocean Playground — Nova Scotia (www.tryhealingarts.ca).  This slogan has been used on Nova Scotia’s license plates since 1972, coined by Alistair J. Campbell (1886-1960), who headed up Nova Scotia Tourist Association for over twenty years. In the last week of 2024, I (Dorothy Lander aka Plove – […]

We MAKE the Road by Walking

In September 2024, Dorothy Lander joined Walk4Peace (www.walk4peace.ca) and was joyfully reminded that change makers and radical adult educators cannot be stopped in their tracks. Cannot be silenced. John Graham-Pole and Dorothy Lander joined the Walk For Peace in Antigonish from the Coady Institute, St. Francis Xavier University (StFX) to Bethany (Sisters of St. Martha) […]

Speaking Truth to Power – Speaking Truth to History

Quaecumque sunt vera. St. Francis Xavier University is making history.   For the first time in its history, the campus of “whatsoever things are true” and a leading edge interdisciplinary degree program — BASc in Climate and Environment—is naming a new building and a prestigious health research Institute in “honour” of a corruption accomplice, billionaire donor […]

Creating a Bee and Butterfly Garden

Another world is not only possible. She is on her way. On aquiet day I can hear her breathing. – Arundhati Roy There’s a good reason why “Think global, act local” is a popular idea: it’s the only possible way for us as individuals to counter our climate crisis.  And for us as a human […]

Indigenous Cultural Practices: Learning to Live with Fire

Cultural Burns by Koren Smoke, Michi Saagiig Anishinaabe Kwe, Alderville First Nation, Illustrator for ReReading Catharine Parr Traill: Stranging the Familiar (2022) by Dorothy Lander https://tryhealingarts.ca/product/book-rereading-cpt/ Posted by Dorothy Lander, co-publisher HARP the People’s Press: H-ealing A-rts R-econciling P-eoples I listened to Sunday Magazine on CBC radio with host Piya Chattopadhyay in conversation with environmental […]

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