We will visit the Centre for Wildfire Research, Education, Training and Innovation – a hub dedicated to advancing knowledge and practices in wildfire management amid the growing challenges of extreme fire behaviour and its impacts.

My presentation will be on the  growing independent news ecosystem in B.C. and what we’re learning in Kamloops since launching The Wren in 2022. The Wren is an online publication devoted to intensive coverage of local issues.

There is much confusion and concern about viral infections, their origins, transmission, treatment and prevention.  With the recent increase in measles cases, avian flu, RSV, HPV, as well as Covid, understanding viruses is key to managing our health.

Join us to learn about a way of responding to harm and conflict that focuses on justice as healing.  Restorative justice principles and practices can be applied in criminal, family, community and school settings. It is shown to have tremendous benefit for people and relationships.

This research looks at how small private forests near Wells Grey Provincial Park could help fight climate change through conservation and carbon offset projects.  Using field data, satellite imagery and community interviews, we explore the carbon storage potential, economic value, community perspective, and policy suitability of these lands and what it would take to make them part of a climate solution.

“The poetry of earth is never dead.” That was the opinion of English poet John Keats. If what he says startles you, puzzles you, or intrigues you, and you begin to wonder what others think of his idea, then this course is the place to be for the next six weeks. You read, discussed and enjoyed poems in school a few years ago – but then poetry dropped out of sight as life took over. This class is an opportunity to reconnect with the expressive power of poetry that Keats also asserts “is ceasing never.” As a group of like-minded colleagues we will bring our life experience, our language knowledge and our critical enthusiasms to help unlock the subtlety and rich complexity of meaning in the poems we examine.

We have robots providing emotionally supportive caregiving, we have Artificial Intelligences (AI) creating art and writing our emails, and glasses placing us in datafied worlds on top of our physical spaces. How are we making sense of these technologies? How are our concepts of connection, creativity and space changing? Does it still make sense to distinguish the real from the simulated? We will ask these questions and more in our 2-hour seminar, during which we will explore examples and recent cultural discussions related to AI and our increasingly augmented reality.

A cancer diagnosis is life-changing, frightening, and overwhelming, but managing this diagnosis with resilience and vitality is still possible.  Strategies such as regular exercise, balanced nutrition, stress management, and strong support systems help individuals through all stages of a cancer diagnosis. These positive lifestyle habits echo the strategies recommended by InspireHealth.  Learn how InspireHealth uses a holistic, research backed approach to empower cancer patients to make changes that improve quality of life.

The Beatles revolutionized not only pop music but popular culture, fashion, attitudes and values. Their evolution from a pop sensation (Beatlemania) to serious artists who pioneered new approaches in recording and the rise of the rock album was accompanied by changes in hairstyles, clothing, attitudes towards personal relationships and new forms of spirituality in the culture at large. This course will trace the Beatles’ transformative journey.

This session will feature members of faculty and Masters program students from the TRU research cluster, Innovation for Social Good (ISG), within the Faculty of Business and Economics. ISG draws on students and faculty from a range of disciplines.  The intent is to promote the creation of businesses that produce social, environmental, and commercial value for society, rather than just shareholder profits.

In a three part series, Constitutional Professor and local historian Craig Jones recounts some almost unbelievable stories from his forthcoming book “First Nation: Grand Chief N’Kwala and the Struggle for the Interior Plateau”.  There are three parts:

Part I (November 10): Finan McDonald, Pelkamulox III, Kaúxuma Núpika, and the Buffalo Wars 1800-1812 – Professor Jones pieces together the hidden story of how a far-sighted Okanagan chief, a gigantic Scot, and a remarkable Ktunaxa female warrior-prophet brought the fur trade to the Interior Plateau.
Part II (November 17): Grand Chief N’Kwala and the Fur Traders 1812-1841 – How Pelkamulox’s son Chief N’Kwala (Nicola), through peacemaking and through war, came to dominate the economy and politics of the Interior, from the early days of Fort Kamloops to the manhunt that followed the killing of Chief Trader Samuel Black.
Part III (December 1): The End of the Trade, the Gold Rush, and Chief Spintlum’s Peace 1842 to 1862 – covers the Hudson Bay Company’s power plays, the imposition of the border at the 49th Parallel and the straining of the Secwepemc-Okanagan confederacy, and documents the remarkable emergence of the alliance of Indigenous nations that held the gold miners in check and averted annexation of British Columbia by the United States.

Please ignore the below class times. The correct class times are below:
Nov 10 – 1:30-3:30
Nov 17 & Dec 1 – 10:00-12:00

Over 5 million people visit the Grand Canyon every year, the vast majority of whom stay on the road that follows the South Rim. But it’s possible to go down into the canyon and explore the trails through this amazing wilderness.  Join us to hear about the pleasures and perils of a week long backpack along the Tonto Trail from South Bass Canyon to Grandview.