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October 20, 2009
The politics of Canada’s Species at Risk Act
Canada’s Species at Risk Act is undergoing its first official review by Parliament and its first trials in the courts. Arne Mooers, an SFU associate professor of biodiversity, was involved in pressing the government to incorporate clear scientific principles into the act before it was passed in 2002. Mooers says while some aspects of the law are good – such as identifying the biodiversity that needs protection – others are murkier, particularly if what needs protection is “tasty” (like wild salmon), or “iconic” (like caribou). Mooers will provide details at a public lecture Double Double, Toil and Trouble: The science, the policy and the politics of Canada’s Species at Risk Act, on Thursday, Oct. 22 at SFU’s Vancouver campus (Harbour Centre), room 7000, from 7 – 9 p.m. (Reservations recommended, 778.782.5466).
Arne Mooers, 778.782.3979; amooers@sfu.ca
Government to deal with refugees
Refugees in a boat seized off the B.C. coast are believed to be ethnic Tamils, among the thousands now fleeing Sri Lanka in the aftermath of its civil war. SFU adjunct professor Jennifer Hyndman, a professor at York University’s Centre for Refugee Studies, was in Sri Lanka in June and is following the internment inside the country. Hyndman spent several years studying displacement in Sri Lanka while an SFU assistant geography professor. She has also carried out collaborative research with Alison Mountz, a visiting professor of government and W.L. MacKenzie King Research Fellow at Harvard University. Mountz has global expertise on smuggling, interception and detention, and is writing a book on the Canadian government’s response to the 1999 arrival of Fujianese migrants off B.C.’s coast.
Jennifer Hyndman, 647.994.1974; jhyndman@yorku.ca
Alison Mountz, 315.345.8461; amountz@wcfia.harvard.edu
Canada’s Species at Risk Act is undergoing its first official review by Parliament and its first trials in the courts. Arne Mooers, an SFU associate professor of biodiversity, was involved in pressing the government to incorporate clear scientific principles into the act before it was passed in 2002. Mooers says while some aspects of the law are good – such as identifying the biodiversity that needs protection – others are murkier, particularly if what needs protection is “tasty” (like wild salmon), or “iconic” (like caribou). Mooers will provide details at a public lecture Double Double, Toil and Trouble: The science, the policy and the politics of Canada’s Species at Risk Act, on Thursday, Oct. 22 at SFU’s Vancouver campus (Harbour Centre), room 7000, from 7 – 9 p.m. (Reservations recommended, 778.782.5466).
Arne Mooers, 778.782.3979; amooers@sfu.ca
Government to deal with refugees
Refugees in a boat seized off the B.C. coast are believed to be ethnic Tamils, among the thousands now fleeing Sri Lanka in the aftermath of its civil war. SFU adjunct professor Jennifer Hyndman, a professor at York University’s Centre for Refugee Studies, was in Sri Lanka in June and is following the internment inside the country. Hyndman spent several years studying displacement in Sri Lanka while an SFU assistant geography professor. She has also carried out collaborative research with Alison Mountz, a visiting professor of government and W.L. MacKenzie King Research Fellow at Harvard University. Mountz has global expertise on smuggling, interception and detention, and is writing a book on the Canadian government’s response to the 1999 arrival of Fujianese migrants off B.C.’s coast.
Jennifer Hyndman, 647.994.1974; jhyndman@yorku.ca
Alison Mountz, 315.345.8461; amountz@wcfia.harvard.edu