By Jack L. Rozdilsky and Maharshi Jani The Emergencies Act is the Canadian federal government’s...
Category - Lessons Learned
An antidote to disaster despair: Art and community
By Katia Tynan Over the past two years, communities across British Columbia have been devastated by...
Pandemonium: Recovering from COVID-19 and Lessons for the Future...
The SFU Urban Studies 2020-21 lecture series, Pandemonium: Urban studies and recovering from COVID...
Grassroots solidarity action in Kigali
By Margot Lootens When confinement measures and mobility restrictions were put in place at the...
Pivoting emergency management training to a new reality
By Perron S. Goodyear Summary With in-person training not feasible due to the pandemic, The...
Cultural safety in emergency support services
by Kayla Pepper What is cultural safety in the context of ESS? Emergency Support Services (ESS) is...
Perspective: COVID-19 vaccine distribution challenges in Canada...
By Michelle Pratt The COVID-19 pandemic has proven to be one of the biggest public health...
Pivoting during a pandemic – lessons learned during the closure...
By Josh Bowen Surprise! School is closed On March 15, 2020, the Government of Alberta suspended all...
Urban resilience: Ten lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic
By Ayyoob Sharifi and Amir Reza Khavarian-Garmsir Enhancing resilience capacities is of critical...
“How the hell did I get here?” – Reflections of an...
By Chris Marsh “Can you call us from somewhere private?” I felt sick. On the line were staff...