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Community Lens

This category features Northern Ontario community reporting, focusing on the intersection of local life, policy, and emerging technologies shaping the region’s future. Coverage includes nuclear energy news, nuclear waste management, nuclear waste storage, and developments such as the Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada’s Used Nuclear Fuel Project, alongside environmental monitoring, land use, and regional infrastructure planning. It also highlights artificial intelligence in the arts, digital equity, and creative technology adoption in northern and rural communities, as well as food security initiatives, local agriculture, and community resilience programs. Reporting emphasizes Indigenous and rural perspectives, economic development, environmental stewardship, and the social impacts of major infrastructure and innovation projects across Northern Ontario, including communities in and around Melgund Township.

Revell DGR: Watershed and Transportation Concerns
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Revell DGR: Watershed and Transportation Concerns

Public opposition to the Revell DGR centers on watershed contamination risks and dangerous nuclear waste transportation.
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Ignace DGR: Community Concerns and Registry
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Ignace DGR: Community Concerns and Registry

Public opposition to the Ignace DGR project centers on transportation safety, watershed contamination risks, and inadequate Indigenous consultation.
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Socio-Economic Impacts of Revell DGR
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Socio-Economic Impacts of Revell DGR

The Revell DGR project promises regional economic growth but risks marginalizing immediate neighbors through inequitable benefit distribution and data.
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Revell DGR: Public Concerns and Benefits
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Revell DGR: Public Concerns and Benefits

Public discourse on the Revell DGR reveals deep polarization between national climate goals and localized safety, sovereignty, and socio-economic concerns.
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Manitoba Transboundary Risks and the Revell DGR
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Manitoba Transboundary Risks and the Revell DGR

Manitoba stakeholders highlight critical transboundary risks to shared watersheds and downstream ecosystems from the proposed Revell repository.
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Public Engagement Risks in Revell DGR Assessment
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Public Engagement Risks in Revell DGR Assessment

Rigorous public participation is essential to address systemic engagement deficiencies and unmitigated risks in the Revell repository project.
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Revell DGR: Environmental and Social Risks
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Revell DGR: Environmental and Social Risks

This deep-dive report analyzes environmental concerns, regulatory gaps, and community opposition regarding the proposed Revell nuclear repository.
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Revell Site DGR Regulatory Analysis
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Revell Site DGR Regulatory Analysis

This report analyzes regulatory oversight and community concerns regarding the Revell Site DGR, highlighting significant transportation and safety risks.
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Revell DGR Project Polarization Report
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Revell DGR Project Polarization Report

The Revell DGR project polarization stems from a fundamental conflict between national energy policy goals and local environmental justice concerns.
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Revell DGR Transportation Risks and Assessment
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Revell DGR Transportation Risks and Assessment

Excluding transportation from the Revell DGR Impact Assessment creates significant regulatory gaps and ignores critical regional safety risks.
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Nuclear Waste Management

The Nuclear Waste Management Organization is inviting residents and land users in the area of Canada's proposed Deep Geological Repository for used nuclear fuel to participate in a Diet and Land-Use Survey. The information collected will help inform local perspectives as the project moves through the federal regulatory process.

The survey can be completed online or through an in-person interview at the Ignace Learn More Centre. It is open until September 7, 2026, and participants will have the opportunity to enter a draw to win one of twenty C$125 gift cards redeemable at local businesses.

ART BORUPS CORNERS SOCIETY

Art Borups Corners is a non-profit arts incubator based in Melgund Township, Northwestern Ontario. We bring artists, youth, and local residents together through hands-on creative projects, workshops, and storytelling rooted in everyday life in the North. Our focus is on making space for people to try things, share skills, and build confidence through art that grows out of where they live.


We’re also a place for testing ideas and working across different ways of making — from land-based practice to digital work and everything in between. Much of what we do happens through partnerships and shared projects, connecting local creative work with wider conversations while keeping things grounded, practical, and community-led.


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ESTABLISHED WITH FUNDING FROM

Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse Logo

This program was seeded with funding from the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse program. This program allowed us to explore strategic arts innovation, capacity building and new technologies. Programming was also supported by the OpenAI Researcher Access Program, the Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects Program and the Province of Ontario. We thank them for their support.

PROGRAMMING SEEDED BY

Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects Program
Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects Program
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