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What should the future of Churchill Square look like?
Dr. Nicholas Lynch, MUN Geography, provides expertise on Churchill Square's lack of pedestrian and accessible infrastructure.
"We need to think about accessibility on all corners of the square. It shouldn't just be for cars."
LETTER: Fund the Freedom to Learn
Dr. Josh Lepawsky, Department of Geography at Memorial University, wrote a letter directed to the provincial government to restore Memorial's funding in advance of the provincial budget.
"The decade of cuts to MUN is a shameful choice to abdicate the responsibility to honour the memory of sacrifice and the freedom to learn that our university is founded on."
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What happens to Newfoundland forests in drought conditions.
Dr. Carissa Brown, MUN Geography, speaks about the conditions which led to last year's wildfires.
"A lot of the species that grow on the ground of the boreal forest are actually able to resprout after a fire. But if the fire burned very deeply, then those underground roots that might have normally survived a fire might have been killed. So that could change what comes back after a fire"
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Developing this province's mining potential, in a socially and environmentally responsible way
Dr. Arn Keeling (Geography) and Dr. John Sandlos (History) discuss the social, political and environmental realities of developing NL’s mining sector.
"The Newfoundland and Labrador Critical Mineral Strategy talks about hosting at least 31 of the 34 critical minerals on Canada's critical minerals list.