Canada’s Inuit, a circumpolar Indigenous people, face urgent and overlapping pressures related to healthcare infrastructure, mental and public health, employment, and housing. These challenges do not stand alone. They reinforce each other in ways that shape daily life across the North, with limited water access playing a central role in how each pressure grows.
In this Science Talk, William Smyth will explore how these crises are intertwined and why understanding their connections is essential for meaningful action. He will discuss how water insecurity threads through the broader social and environmental landscape and will consider what community-centred approaches could help ease the compounding effects of these challenges
Speaker
William Smyth
