This Land is Made (in Canada) for You and Me by Dorothy Lander Every act of art is an act of resistance. Tom Morello, The Power of the People Festival, Maryland, Oct. 3, 2026 Oh, we’re radical environmentalists! Raging Grannies, Seniors’ Climate Witness, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Sept. 19, 2026 This land is […]
Let me introduce you to Mugwort, my newfound ally in addressing our ecological crisis: an ancient climate witness and radical environmentalist. That word radical comes from the Latin radix, meaning simply root. Mugwort’s power manifests through her rhizome roots, creating huge stands that keep soil in place. The Oxford English Dictionary definition of radical fits […]
by Dorothy A. Lander We are Trees When the forest breathes out, you breathe in. When the forests thrive, you thrive. When the forest lives, you live. – Suzanne Simard, 2026 In May 2026, The Halifax Examiner reported on Suzanne Simard’s visit to Nova Scotia to launch her book When the Forest Breathes. It reminded […]
By Dorothy Lander In a recent posting on LinkedIn, Tye Farrow introduced his doctoral research and the concept of Architectural Determinants of Health (AD0H) as the health-causing features and patterns of placemaking that translate and extend social, structural, and environmental determinants, showing how purposeful design choices become practical levers to support health and wellbeing. In […]
by Dorothy Lander One hundred and seventy civilians, mostly schoolchildren, in southern Iran will never eat another morsel of food. The deadly bombing of a primary school in Minab in southern Iran by the United States Military Tomahawk missiles—twice so no accident— on February 28, 2026, swept me back to our Antigonish-based book launch this […]
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 […]
Since the beginning, we humans have been intimately linked to trees, sharing the breath of Mother Earth, the inhale-exhale cycle of carbon and oxygen. Behold how images of trees are featured as cover art for titles representing separate genocides four decades apart: to the left, In the Arms of Inup, as told by Indigenous Storyteller and […]
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 – […]
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 […]
