More than 400 dead in Gaza as Israel makes 'extensive' strikes, ending ceasefire standoff

Thomson Reuters · Posted: Mar 17, 2025, CBC

Concepts of Thinking: Patterns and Trends, Geographic Perspective, Interrelationships

Inquiry: How should the Global Community react to Israel ending the ceasefire in Gaza? How might the responsible parties be held to account?

Activity: Use the Geographic Inquiry Model and the Geographic definition: What is where? Why there? Why care? to develop a communication. Gather information on Israel and Palestine. Create a spatial journal to help analyze the information and data. Develop an action plan that may help resolve the current situation and communicate using story map.

Supporting information: 

International Community of the Red Cross 

What are the Rules of War/The Law of War ICRC

Armed Conflict, Amnesty International

 

Chile’s desert dumping ground for fast fashion leftovers

Concepts of Geographic Thinking: Spatial Significance, Interrelationships, Geographic Perspective

Inquiry: Why might there be so much Fashion waste globally? What might be required to reduce this waste? 

Activity: Collect information on companies associated with fast fashion. Investigate what global government regulation may exist in the fashion industry. Create a spatial journal to show where the companies are located and where the waste is deposited. Conduct an issue analysis to determine, from a geographic perspective, a possible solution to this problem. Create a story map to communicate your findings.

 

Report finds 20 per cent of newcomers leaving Canada within 25 years 

The Canadian Press November 19, 2024

Concepts of Geographic Thinking: Patterns and Trends, Geographic Perspective

Inquiry: Why might Canada pay attention to this trend? How might Canada reverse this trend?

Activity: Collect data on Canadian migration. Collect data on immigrants leaving Canada. Gather information on Canadian living conditions, eduction, job opportunities, housing, and the immigrant experience. Conduct an issue analysis to gain an understanding of hy many immigrants are leaving Canada after working hard to get here. Create a spatial journal to show where immigrants are coming from and where they are going after they arrive in Canada. Build a story map to show your conclusions and express what Canada could do tpo improve the immigrant retention rate.

 

ICC seeking arrest warrants for Hamas leaders and Israel’s Netanyahu

Concepts of Thinking: Geographic Perspective, Patterns and Trends

Inquiry: How might the ICC ruling on Russia, Israel and other global war crimes  be recognize and respect by countries of the United Nations?

Activity: Gather and organize data on the ICC rulings for the arrest warrants for Putin, Netanyahu, and the Hamas leader. Analyse the data using the Issue Analysis tool to better understand the situation for each warrant. Create a spatial journal of information to create a visual of the situation and then produce a story map to communicate your results.

Supporting information: 

International Community of the Red Cross 

What are the Rules of War/The Law of War ICRC

Armed Conflict, Amnesty International

 

As the Arctic warms, some polar bears are being injured by painful ice buildup on their paws: study

 CBC News · Posted: Oct 29, 2024

Concepts of Thinking: Interrelationships, Spatial Significance

Inquiry: What might be able to be done to help alleviate the situation of the Polar Bears?

Activity: Collect data regarding the location of where most polar bears are located. Find the areas of the arctic where warming ice is mainly occurring and create a spatial journal. Examine some ways that might  be able to help reduce the climate warming in the north to determine the interrelationships that are happening. Create a story map to communicate some solutions to this issue. How to get countries to reduce their Greenhouse Gases emissions to reduce Global Warming for example.

 End of an era as Britain’s last coal-fired power plant shuts down 

Concepts of Geographic Thinking: Geographic Perspective, Patterns and Trends, Interrelationships 

Inquiry: How might other G7 countries follow Britain's example and become less dependant on coal as an energy source?

Activity: Gather information about coal mining around the globe. Conduct and issue analysis to gain insight into the stakeholder involved and what they believe is important. Create a spatial journal of coal mines in Canada to help determine the interrelationships of this activity, communities, and the environment. Develop an action plan to help countries move beyond coal as an energy source and communicate it via story map.

 

B.C. recognizes Haida Nation’s title to Haida Gwaii — what the historic agreement makes clear, and questions remaining 

Osler Update April 30, 2024

Concepts of Geographic Thinking: Geographic Perspective, Spatial Significance

Inquiry: How might this decision impact communities and the environment of the region?

Activity: Collect data on land rights of the region. Have a look at the Native Land Digital to better understand the different regions of Canada. Conduct an issue analysis to help develop a an understanding of how Human interrelationships with the land may change, if at all, and the impacts that could follow. Create a spatial journal and story map to help communicate your results.