The Panama Papers: how the world’s rich and famous hide their money offshore Juliette Garside, Holly Wattand David Pegg

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

Inquiry: Why not allow equal access to such tax avoidance opportunities? How might such tax avoidance impact the local or national health of a country? 

Activity:  Create a proportional width arrow map to show where the taxes are leaving and where it is going to as well as the amount. Gather data on GDP, Life Expectancy, and Literacy to help determine how this tax evasion is impacting different parts of the world. Communicate your findings to an appropriate audience to help increase access to things like clean and safe drinking water.

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April 5th

 What is where? Why there? Why care?

Icelandic PM faces no confidence vote over Panama Papers disclosures

What are the Panama Papers? A guide to history's biggest data leak.

It's Expensive To Be Poor 

Concepts of Thinking: Geographic Perspective, Spatial Significance, Patterns and Trends

Inquiry: Who owns the water? How is it possible that a culture would make the poorest people pay the most for water? What could the wealthy people, corporations, and governments do to increase fair access to clean water for everyone?

Activity: Complete an issue analysis to determine the different values and beliefs associated with the issue.Map out areas (local, regional, or global) of areas where access to clean/safe drinking water is not readily available. Observe patterns that may appear.  What could be done to alleviate the situation for people in need of clean/safe drinking water. Communicate to an appropriate audience.

Migrant workers suffer 'appalling treatment' in Qatar World Cup stadiums, says Amnesty

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

Inquiry: Why are there so many migrant workers working in Qatar? What laws might there be for these migrant workers? How else might migrant workers be protected? Where else might workers be treated this poorly? Who should be responsible for ensure workers safety?

Activity: Collect data on where the migrant workers are coming form to help determine spatial significance by mapping out the data. Use proportional symbols to help better display the data for analysis. Complete an issue analysis to better understand the different views and communicate to an appropriate audience a plan of action to help resolve the situation. i.e. story map.

Donald Trump retracts call for women who have abortions to be 'punished'

Jessica Glenza; the Gaudrian

Concepts of Thinking: Interrelationships, Geographic Perspective

Inquiry: How might Trumps policy impact womens' rights in the US and in Canada? How might Canada's relationship with the US be affected if Trumps views are adopted by the majority of US citizens? 

Activity: Complete an issue analysis of the stakeholders, Trump, US citizens, Canadian governments', and Canadian citizens involved in this situation and map them to determine how spatial significance may impact views of the stakeholders. Communicate to the appropriate audience what Canada might do if Trump were to become President of the USA.

Sea levels set to 'rise far more rapidly than expected Damian Carrington

Antarctica’s snowfall was expected to keep the ice sheet in balance but it is less stable than previously thought. Photograph: Steve Mandel / Barcroft Media

Concepts of Thinking: Spatial Significance, Patterns and Trends

Inquiry: How might the expertise make these predictions? How should carbon emissions be decreased?




Activity: Collect and map carbon emissions data to determine where the majority of carbon is coming from. How might spatial significance impact carbon emissions? How can  geographic perspective help influence carbon producers?

Shoal Lake 40 First Nation Advocates Say More Money Needed For All-Weather Road

  By The Canadian Press

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

Inquiry: How could a community in Canada be under a boil water alert for so long? How could an all weather road help this community? Might there be other communities in similar situations?

Activity: Create a map showing the spatial significance of Shoal Lake 40.Gather information on other communities under a boil water advisory. Can any patterns be observed? What spatial significance is observed? How can this issue be addressed? Communicate results to and appropriate audience via story map.

Immigrants Beat Canadians At Starting Businesses: StatsCan

The Huffington Post Canada  |  By Jesse Ferreras

Concepts of Thinking: Geographic Perspective, Patterns and Trends

Inquiry: Why are immigrants beating Canadians at starting businesses? How might this pattern impact the Canadian Economy?

Activity: Gather data to create a map and graphs to observe patterns trends of immigrant impact on Canada's economy. Communicate your results to an appropriate audience to help improve Canada's economy.