Publications
Local Women Matter #9: Women Improving Community Well-Being
This ninth fact sheet from the Local Women Matter series focuses on how local women are improving community well-being. Two examples are featured: 1) development of a Community Vitality Index in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador and 2) activism by women from Pictou Landing First Nation in Nova Scotia to stop pollution of their local water by a pulp and paper mill.
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Local Women Matter #1: Introduction & Overview
Local Women Matter #10: Imagining Alternatives for Sustainable Development
Local Women Matter #2: Local Relationships with Land & Water
Local Women Matter #3: Colonialism and its impacts
Local Women Matter #4: How Colonialism Affects Women
Local Women Matter #5 Displaced from the Land
Local Women Matter #6 Modern Resource Extraction
Local Women Matter #7: Northern Community Models that Value Local Women
Local Women Matter #8: How Local Women and Northern Communities Can Benefit from Resource Extraction