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Community Lens

Community Lens focuses on grounded, place-based storytelling and reflective reporting from within our communities. It highlights local voices, cultural perspectives, grassroots initiatives, news and articles that capture how people experience and interpret the world around them. Featuring everything from community events and artistic practices to environmental observations and social change, this section offers an alternative to mainstream coverage by centering lived experience, context, and care. It serves as a living archive of evolving community knowledge—where stories are shaped by the people closest to them, and meaning emerges through connection to place, practice, and collective memory.

Community Lens

Outdated Data and ‘Arbitrary’ Mapping Mar Canada’s Nuclear Waste Safety Review, Critics Say

Critics accuse Canada’s nuclear waste agency of using outdated census data and arbitrary geometric mapping to minimize risks to remote northwestern Ontario individual home owners.
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Secret Hosting Deals and ‘Virtual Gag Orders’ Ignite Toxic Fractures in Ontario’s Nuclear Zone

Secret nuclear waste hosting deals spark severe allegations of corporate bribery, virtual gag orders, and systemic bullying to manufacture community consent in Ontario.
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The ‘Highway of Death’ Nuclear Gridlock: Hauling 5.9 Million Radioactive Bundles Across Ontario

As Canada plans to haul millions of radioactive nuclear waste bundles down Highway 17, furious northern communities slam federal regulators for ignoring catastrophic transit risks.
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‘A Mockery of Democracy’: How the 30-Day Federal Nuclear Review Disenfranchised Rural Canadians

A restrictive 30-day federal review window for a massive 1,200-page nuclear waste repository proposal triggers widespread outrage over digital exclusion and suppressed scientific data.
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Revell DGR: Recreation and Community Impacts
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Revell DGR: Recreation and Community Impacts

The Revell DGR project faces significant social license challenges due to unresolved impacts on local recreation and infrastructure.
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NWMO DGR Project and UNDRIP Compliance
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NWMO DGR Project and UNDRIP Compliance

Analysis reveals the proposed NWMO nuclear waste repository faces severe opposition regarding UNDRIP compliance and Indigenous consent.
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Revell DGR: Duty to Consult Analysis
Borups Corners

Revell DGR: Duty to Consult Analysis

The Revell DGR impact assessment process currently fails to meet the Crown's constitutional Duty to Consult Indigenous Nations.
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Federal Impact Assessment Process Faces Severe Public Criticism
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Federal Impact Assessment Process Faces Severe Public Criticism

The federal impact assessment for the Revell Site nuclear repository faces intense criticism over excluded transportation risks.
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Revell DGR: Analysis of Public Sentiment
Borups Corners

Revell DGR: Analysis of Public Sentiment

The NWMO project faces significant opposition despite support for its climate goals and rigorous safety-based siting process.
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Revell DGR: Impacts and Community Concerns
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Revell DGR: Impacts and Community Concerns

The NWMO Deep Geological Repository project promises economic benefits but faces intense opposition regarding transportation safety risks.
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Manitoba's own C.C. Trubiak's new album "Jukebox in Exile" dropped on June 5! Check it out today!

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The Under $200 Art Show is coming to Calgary October 15-18. Art of all kinds- paintings, photography, textiles, mixed media, ceramics, handmade accessories, and so much more! Don’t miss your chance to discover amazing local art and one-of-a-kind finds!

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