• Gitchi-Gami | Lake Superior

    Today I’m starting a series of posts that will take us on a tour of the Great Lakes. We’ll take our time; I will have an introductory post to each lake and then subsequent related posts before moving to the next one.  We’re going to move west to east, as…

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  • St. Lawrence Seaway Strike

    Something happened last week that has not happened since 1968. A strike shut down 13 locks of the St. Lawrence Seaway between Lake Erie and Montreal trapping boats in the shipping artery and preventing others from entering on either end.  Workers with Unifor, Canada’s largest private-sector union, walked out on…

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  • Environmental Justice: A Chicago Case Study

    Earlier this month the Alliance for the Great Lakes Ambassador program (of which I am a part), held a monthly “deep dive” session on environmental justice. According to the US Commission on Civil Rights, environmental justice is:  … the fair treatment of people of all races, income, and cultures with…

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