26 episodes

Canada’s extensive mountain regions provide a wide range of benefits to Canadians such as fresh water, biocultural diversity, natural resources, recreation, and cultural and spiritual connection and healing. The Canadian Mountain Podcast is where you can hear the latest stories and findings from the Canadian Mountain Network, a national research network dedicated to the resilience and health of Canada's mountain peoples and places. Each episode is produced by journalism students at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta, and offers diverse perspectives from those living and working in our country's varied and complex mountain regions. From academics to athletes and Indigenous Elders to policy makers, the Canadian Mountain Podcast brings you expert insights to explore the past, present, and future of mountain regions here in Canada and around the world.

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Canada’s extensive mountain regions provide a wide range of benefits to Canadians such as fresh water, biocultural diversity, natural resources, recreation, and cultural and spiritual connection and healing. The Canadian Mountain Podcast is where you can hear the latest stories and findings from the Canadian Mountain Network, a national research network dedicated to the resilience and health of Canada's mountain peoples and places. Each episode is produced by journalism students at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta, and offers diverse perspectives from those living and working in our country's varied and complex mountain regions. From academics to athletes and Indigenous Elders to policy makers, the Canadian Mountain Podcast brings you expert insights to explore the past, present, and future of mountain regions here in Canada and around the world.

    Decolonizing Media on the Canadian Mountain Podcast, Part Two

    Decolonizing Media on the Canadian Mountain Podcast, Part Two

    In Part Two of Decolonizing Media on the Canadian Mountain Podcast (CMP), the team dives further into the limitations and challenges of decolonizing media and explores strategies to sustain this effort into the future. Sherry Woods, an Indigenous CMP Producer, leads the discussion with the CMP team, including Meg Wilcox, Kyle Napier, Julie Patton, and Catalina Berguno. The conversation explores the team's encountered limitations and challenges, lessons learned, and their plans for advancing their work as media makers.

    • 41 min
    Decolonizing Media on the Canadian Mountain Podcast, Part One

    Decolonizing Media on the Canadian Mountain Podcast, Part One

    As the Canadian Mountain Podcast (CMP) concludes its final season, the team gathers to reflect on the process of decolonizing their media practices throughout the podcast series. Sherry Woods, an Indigenous CMP Producer, leads a discussion with the CMP team—comprising Meg Wilcox, Kyle Napier, Julie Patton, and Catalina Berguno—exploring how the podcast has evolved its practices to better integrate Indigenous perspectives and amplify Indigenous voices. In Part One of the discussion, the team explores the steps taken to decolonize their media practices. Part Two will delve deeper into the limitations and challenges of these changes and how they plan to sustain this effort into the future.

    • 39 min
    Indigenous Intellectual Property, Part Two

    Indigenous Intellectual Property, Part Two

    Part 2 of the Canadian Mountain Podcast on Indigenous intellectual property builds upon the foundational concepts explored in Part 1. Continuing the conversation, Kyle Napier, a Dene/nêhiyaw Métis university instructor specializing in Indigenous language revitalization and intellectual property is joined by Saad Iqbal, a research assistant at the University of Alberta, to further discuss their joint research project investigating Canada's intellectual property laws. They also aim to evaluate the efficacy of Canada's intellectual property laws in protecting Indigenous knowledge and how they intersect with environmental concerns.

    • 37 min
    Indigenous Intellectual Property, Part One

    Indigenous Intellectual Property, Part One

    Copyright legally protects creators, granting exclusive rights for activities such as printing, publishing, performing, filming, and recording, or authorizing others to do so. This protection prohibits unauthorized use, subjecting infringers to legal consequences. In part 1 of the Canadian Mountain Podcast’s two-part series on Indigenous intellectual property, guests Kyle Napier and Saad Iqbal, both researchers and doctoral students at the University of Alberta, discuss their research on how Canadian intellectual property laws can better serve traditional Knowledge Holders. They are conducting an in-depth examination of Canada's IP laws and their impact on information control and the beneficiaries, particularly within the context of Indigenous knowledge. Part 1 explores IP, traditional knowledge, and the inherent conflicts arising from differing views on information and ownership.

    • 44 min
    Understanding Aquatic Ecosystems in the Chic-Choc Mountains

    Understanding Aquatic Ecosystems in the Chic-Choc Mountains

    The Chic-Choc Mountain range in the Gaspésie Peninsula of south-eastern Quebec is the focus of this episode of the Canadian Mountain Podcast. Catherine Lambert, the Executive Director of the Mi’gmaq Indigenous Fisheries Management Association and Louise Chaverie, an Associate Professor with the Norwegian University of Life and Sciences, provided their perspective on the Knowledge Hub “Developing Knowledge on the Status of Aquatic Ecosystems in the Chic-Choc Mountains”. Overall, the goal of the Hub is to create and enable collaborative research and conservation measures between the Mi’gmaq, university researchers, and management organizations so that the best possible decisions can be made to protect the lakes and rivers in the region. These aquatic environments support fisheries, forestry, tourism, and arts and crafts, which combined, generate several million dollars in revenue each year.

    Catherine and Louise explain the work that is happening as part of the Hub and how it expands the traditional conservation efforts that have historically gone towards marine and forestry resources, as well as discuss how and why they are doing fieldwork during Canada’s winters for climate monitoring. This episode also details how the Hub supports the cultural exchange of knowledge to better steward and protect these areas.

    • 52 min
    Restoring the Klinse-Za Caribou and Maintaining Wildlife Balance

    Restoring the Klinse-Za Caribou and Maintaining Wildlife Balance

    In episode three of season five of the Canadian Mountain Podcast, join host Julie Patton and producer Noel Ormita for a conversation with Chief Roland Wilson and researcher Clayton Lamb about the Indigenous-led conservation of the Klinse-Za Caribou. Roland Wilson is Chief of the West Moberly First Nations and Clayton Lamb is a wildlife scientist with Biodiversity Pathways — an organization that uses data to inform decision-makers at all levels of government in Canada. Both are passionate about increasing the caribou population. In the face of near-extinction for the Klinse-Za Caribou herd in 2013 and the subsequent lack of response from the federal and provincial governments, the West Moberly and Saulteau First Nations took decisive action. Recognizing the adverse consequences of the declining caribou population on both the environment and their way of life as outlined in Treaty 8, which guarantees their right to harvest caribou, these First Nations proactively addressed the situation. But with only 38 caribou remaining in this herd in 2013, the local Nations could not hunt without further endangering the population.

    These restrictions are a direct infringement of Indigenous Treaty rights. Through the conservation efforts of the West Moberly and Saulteau First Nations, the Klinse-Za caribou population increased to 101 individuals by 2021. Through predator reduction and maternal pens, these efforts will continue until the Klinse-Za population can grow consistently without external interference, and the local Indigenous Peoples can once again sustainably harvest caribou.

    • 41 min

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