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The Right to Safe and Healthy Water (Ages 15-17)

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This playlist will prepare students to engage in a conversation about the current state of water conservation and our environment. Films in This Playlist Include Waterlife Toxic Trespass Freedom Road: Context Footprints in the Delta Water - Reserves and Networks Crapshoot: The Gamble With Our Waste Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Story

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The Right to Safe and Healthy Water (Ages 15-17)

This playlist will prepare students to engage in a conversation about the current state of water conservation and our environment.

Films in This Playlist Include
Waterlife
Toxic Trespass
Freedom Road: Context
Footprints in the Delta
Water - Reserves and Networks
Crapshoot: The Gamble With Our Waste
Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Story

Playlist

  • Waterlife
    Waterlife
    Kevin McMahon 2009 1 h 49 min
    Waterlife is a documentary film about the Great Lakes that follows the flow of the lakes' water from the Nipigon River to the Atlantic Ocean. The film's goal is to take viewers on a tour of an incredibly beautiful ecosystem that is facing complex challenges.


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  • Toxic Trespass
    Toxic Trespass
    Barri Cohen 2007 52 min
    This feature documentary is an investigation into the effects of the chemicals we are all exposed to in our daily lives. The film begins with the filmmaker Barri Cohen’s own 10-year-old daughter, whose blood carries carcinogens like benzene and the long-banned DDT. Then, it heads out to Windsor and Sarnia: Canadian toxic hotspots, with startling clusters of deadly diseases. The film presents passionate activists working for positive change, along with doctors and scientists who see evidence of links between environmental pollution and health problems. Carried by Cohen's passion for truth and her disarming openness, this moving documentary is essential viewing for anyone concerned about the effects of pollutants on our - and our children's - very DNA.

    Toxic Trespass is accompanied by a comprehensive guidebook for educators, activists and concerned citizens, produced by the Women's Healthy Environment Network.
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  • Context
    Context
    Angelina McLeod  &  Paula Kelly 2019 15 min
    This story begins over a century ago, when the City of Winnipeg decides that the water surrounding the traditional Anishinaabe territory of what is now Shoal Lake 40 First Nation will be diverted and used as Winnipeg’s primary water source. The community, their ancient burial grounds, environment, and ways of life are forever disrupted, and access to opportunities and essential services are severed. Enforced residential schooling and a tainted water supply compound the devastating impact. Community leader and former combat engineer Daryl Redsky sheds light on how generations of complex planning, cultural preservation and mobilization have led us to the current moment—and to the construction of Freedom Road.
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  • Footprints in the Delta
    Footprints in the Delta
    Peter Campbell 1999 43 min
    The Peace-Athabasca River Delta is a stunning habitat. Rivers converge in a rich, marshy wetland before draining into the Slave River. But the Delta is in trouble. Since the building of the WAC Bennett Dam in 1967, annual floodwaters--once the ecosystem's lifeblood--have become a thing of the past. The Delta is drying up, and lakes and wetlands are being replaced by brush. Species like the muskrat are disappearing. Footprints in the Delta explores the changes that have buffeted the region for several decades. Scientists, activists and Indigenous Peoples describe how lives have been fundamentally altered by the changes. And satellite images show the dramatic pace of degradation. Footprints in the Delta is essential viewing for anyone who cares about wetlands. It is a revealing account of the rapid change and environmental havoc humans can bring to a delicate ecosystem.
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  • Water - Reserves and Networks
    Water - Reserves and Networks
    Michel Barbeau 2000 20 min
    Canada possesses the greatest supply of fresh and salt water on the planet. This video examines the country's waterways, reserves and networks, and looks at the important role water has played in the past and present. Water shows how this precious resource has been both a boon and a challenge. Early explorers trying to locate the Northwest Passage to Asia ended up marooned and shipwrecked on the treacherous ice floes of the Canadian Arctic. Yet coastal waters have been treasured the world over for their bountiful fish stocks. And inland, the country's intricate systems of rivers and lakes have served as navigational arteries, sources of energy and playgrounds for leisure.

    TRANSIT features five videos that examine Canada's rich and diverse geography. Each film in the series combines spectacular cinematography and lively animation, using the Earth's basic elements as themes: Air explores climate; Water showcases the country's network of rivers, lakes and oceans; Land looks at the vast territory that makes Canada the second largest country in the world; Fire documents old and new sources of energy; plus Life, which develops the themes of people, fauna and flora.
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  • Crapshoot: The Gamble with Our Wastes
    Crapshoot: The Gamble with Our Wastes
    Jeff McKay 2003 52 min
    A hazardous mix of waste is flushed into the sewer every day. The billions of litres of water - combined with unknown quantities of chemicals, solvents, heavy metals, human waste and food - where does it all go? And what does it do to us? Filmed in Italy, India, Sweden, the United States and Canada, this bold documentary questions our fundamental attitudes to waste. Does our need to dispose of waste take precedence over public safety? What are the alternatives?
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  • Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie
    Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie
    Sturla Gunnarsson 2010 1 h 32 min
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