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n320_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: North American wild flowers Washington, D.C.,Smithsonian Institution,1925 [i.e. 1925-1928] biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43515279

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The Office of the Treaty Commissioner and the Government of Saskatchewan are aiming to spread awareness around treaty boundaries by putting up new signs along four busy highways in the province. A pair of signs will be visible on highways in the Estevan, Moosomin, Lanigan and La Ronge areas welcoming drivers into a specific treaty territory. Each one incorporates Indigenous languages specific to their location, treaty medals provided to First Nations following treaty negotiations and the phrase that represents the spirit and intent of the treaties: As long as the sun shines, grass grows, and rivers flow.

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[missing-girls-and-women]

Corrine Moosomin, 25

Last seen in Saulteaux First Nation, Saskatchewan in 1986.

[cdnart]

Alan Collier; East of Moosomin, Sask.

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Hiring now: Food service supervisor

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Farming is a challenging profession at the best of times, made more so in recent years by climate change. But a brand-new national centre aims to fill the gaps in mental health support for farmers across the country.

The Canadian Centre for Agricultural Wellbeing (CCAW) is a collaboration between researchers and mental health professionals looking to expand access to counselling and develop new resources for people in agriculture.

"With their unique stressors and unique schedules, we need something that's going to be able to be offered when [farmers] can get it, where they can get it," said Deborah Vanberkel, chief programming officer of the CCAW, in an interview with What On Earth host Laura Lynch.

Research shows that farmers are at higher risk for mental health concerns than the general population due to the unpredictable, uncontrollable nature profession.

Vanberkel is a registered psychotherapist and dairy farmer in Odessa, Ont., as well as the founder of Ontario's Farmer Wellness Program, which began in 2019. She said calls to her practice typically increase in February as the planting season approaches. "That anxiety starts to kick in because [farmers] don't know what's going to happen."

Extreme weather, drought and excessive rainfall caused by the changing climate are increasing farmers' worries, said Vanberkel. "Nobody knows what the weather looks like or what the weather is liable to entail," she said. "Are we going to have enough water, or are we going to have enough snow so that the watershed can be OK?"

Vanberkel said daily chores make it impossible for farmers to attend in-office counselling appointments. Phone appointments outside of office hours are part of the solution.

"If they want to come face-to-face, we'll have that conversation, too. But most times, we have conversations with people while they're in the field, while they're working," she said.

"I have a lot of clients with whom I have conversations within the combine, in the tractor." To address extreme stress caused by climate-related disasters, the CCAW is working with the federal government to develop a mental health resource geared towards catastrophic events.

According to CCAW CEO and lead scientist Briana Hagen, a newly announced partnership with Telus Health will allow CCAW to provide clinical support and community programs across the country. This will be done using the company's existing virtual care platform.

The pressure to carry on a family legacy, the interpersonal conflict that comes with running a family business, and a general culture of stoicism also contribute to farmers' stress, Vanberkel said.

Stigma can be another barrier, she said. She hopes the mental health centre will normalize conversations about mental health and help farmers "talk about our mental health like we talk about the weather."

"We talk about the weather all the time," she said. "Farmers are notorious [for that]." Vanberkel and her colleagues plan to launch an agricultural literacy program to teach mental health professionals what farmers experience and what support they need.

Being open about mental health will help farmers cope with the increasing impacts of climate change. "It's a matter of looking at what's coming in the future … so that we can make sure that people get the services and resources they need."

"I stood at the base of those massive wind turbines on a mildly breezy day (in Moosomin, Sask.). The blades were rotating strongly and steadily. Only a gentle swishing sound reached my ears. Please do not call these turbines noisy! These are beautiful and soft-operating, massive machines — gentle giants!"

As Hawkins pointed out in an interview with CBC News, "You see virtually the entire planet being red in recent years." Hawkins is also the creator of the famous climate stripes graphic (known by the hashtag #ShowYourStripes). He was inspired to start creating data visualizations after how much confusion there was around climate change. "The aim is to try to communicate the changes we're seeing as simply as possible so that people can take one look at a graphic and understand what it's representing."

Hawkins shared this latest graphic after the release of the annual global temperature rankings (established by both the Copernicus Climate Service and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), which found that 2022 was either the fifth- or sixth-warmest year on record (depending on how you crunch the numbers).

There have always been temperature variations caused by events like volcanic eruptions or the warming effect of the 1878 El Nino phase. However, the maps reveal a sharp and exceptional increase over the last few decades. Hawkins hopes his graphics help a wider audience understand why it's so critical to cut CO2 emissions.

"The science is clear. We know that adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere is warming the planet." During the holiday season, Ontario was hit by a massive snowstorm. While many weather events contributed to it, the "lake effect" was a contributor."

This can only occur in a few places with large enough bodies of water — such as the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes, which hold more than 20 percent of the world's freshwater, are particularly prone to lake effect storms — as those who live in communities on the shoreline will tell you.

A lake effect snowstorm occurs under specific conditions: when cold air passes over a relatively warm body of water. The air picks up moisture and heat from the lake, which causes the newly warmed air to rise. High in the atmosphere, water condenses and starts to fall as snow.

Notably, the temperature difference must be at least 13 C — and there needs to be open water for the system to pick up moisture. Since Canada's prevailing winds come from the west or northwest, and cold air typically comes down from the Arctic, communities like Thunder Bay, Hamilton or Toronto — situated to the north or west of a Great Lake — are often spared the brunt of lake effect storms.

Communities directly east of a Great Lake are often hit much harder. While lake effect snowfalls can travel relatively far over land — for instance, storms generated over Lake Huron can reach Toronto — the hurricanes become less severe the farther they travel. Instead, places like Hamilton and Toronto are most at risk of heavy snowfalls when winds come from the southeast and pass over Lake Ontario.

The window for lake effect storms is typically at the start of the winter, when the Great Lakes are warmest and before they freeze over. But that window may be closing, as modelling suggests those conditions could become more common as the climate changes.

The majority of the world will see reduced snowfall due to warmer temperatures. But communities along the Great Lakes could be an exception, said Adam Burnett, a professor at Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y., who has studied the lake effect.

"As the climate warms, we will see ever-warmer lake temperatures and less ice cover. That's likely to create an opportunity for more snow to accumulate in the overlying air as cold air moves across. That is an ideal setup for lake effect snow."

It's a recipe for more intense lake effect snowfalls, Burnett said. Although broad-scale modelling doesn't always capture the lake effect, local models can. David Wright, a Michigan-based scientist with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, helped build one such model.

Using data from a lake effect snowstorm in 2009, Wright and his colleagues modelled what the storm would have looked like under different lake conditions. Among other conclusions, they found that if the lake was just 3 C warmer and ice-free, the areas the storm hit hardest could have been more than three times larger.

Of course, this assumes everything else is constant, which wouldn't be the case as the planet warmed. Both Wright and Burnett made it clear that if temperatures continue to climb, after a few decades, we may not see the cold air necessary to generate snow, leaving us with intense lake-effect rainstorms instead.

[techitoolz]

Chief Kahpeaysewat Releases Official Moosomin First Nation App for Members to Improve Communications and Support the Community - Financial Post

Chief Kahpeaysewat Releases Official Moosomin First Nation App for Members to Improve Communications and Support the Community – Financial Post

Author of the article:COCHIN, Saskatchewan, Dec. 06, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — In accordance with Moosomin First Nation’s values of being accountable and honest, the Nation’s Chief and Council have released a communications app for mobile phones to help them communicate with their members. Using push notifications, the official app distributes news, resources, documents, event information, and even…

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You can tell whose values and experiences are being reflected in popular media by how much of what popular media frames as spooky, surreal Small Town Gothic shit is literally just what living in a small town is actually like.

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Only a few weeks till we take orders local small business or entrepreneurs get in while the getting is good!! #smalltownsalon #moosominhairstylist #supportsmallbusiness #shoplocal #moosomin (at Moosomin, Saskatchewan) https://www.instagram.com/evolutionhairstudiomoosomin/p/BwSXENaFWte/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=hz7neqbdtjey

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Corrine Moosomin #MMIW

Today I say the name of Corrine Moosomin (age 25), Salteaux FN(SK), 5���6”(167.6cm) 125lbs(56.7kg), black hair, brown eyes, freckles. Last seen 4 a.m. 15/16 Nov 1986 walking along grid road near North Battleford(SK). Corrine Moosomin #MMIW

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“Chatham Man Given 2 Years,” Windsor Star. April 25, 1939. Page 14.  ---- John Feuz Sentenced With Four Other Burglars at Saskatoon ---- SASKATOON, April 25. - Magistrate J. T. Leger yesterday granted the plea of three men convicted of a rural burglary who asked for penitentiary sentences "so we can learn a trade." Trades are not taught in the provincial jail. 

The men. J. M. McKinnon, 26, Glace Bay, N. S.; John de Wire, Amherst, N. S. and Arthur Sovie, Vancouver, each received sentences of two years in Prince Albert penitentiary. John Feuz. 23, Chatham. Ont.. was given a similar sentence, and Edgar W. Brown, 19. Magnolia, Alta., three months in Moosomin jail for first ofrenders. McKinnon. who acted as spokesman. told the magistrate Brown had been "coaxed into crime" by the others.

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Nikita is Nêhiyaw (Plains Cree) from Moosomin First Nation in Ceremonial Dress - See more viral images on ViralTiger.org

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Alan Collier; South-East of Moosomin, Sask.