by kkehoemacleod | Sep 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
Guided by Knowledge Keeper Arlene Meekis, we are in Sioux Lookout talking to Council members with Wawakapewin First Nation and food sovereignty community leaders as part of our CIHR-funded Change Champions project. We were privileged to experience the teachings of...
by kkehoemacleod | Sep 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
Visiting Meno Ya Win in Sioux Lookout today for a sharing circle with leadership at their Long-Term Care Home. Meno Ya Win is a provincial leader in providing traditional foods to their Indigenous hospital patients and LTC residents through their Miichim program....
by kkehoemacleod | Sep 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
On a flight to Sioux Lookout for the first ever site visit in CCAER history. Fog delays caused the other passengers to be moved to other flights, so I am alone on the plane with the two pilots. My own private jet – what a way to start the data collection portion...
by kkehoemacleod | Aug 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
Feeling privileged to co-lead the ACB Foods in LTC Homes project with University of Ottawa’s Dr. Mwali Muray. These past few days with this inspiring research team have been both motiviating and humbling. The work of our community partners and academic...
by kkehoemacleod | Aug 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
The whole research team for our CIHR-funded African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) Foods in Long-Term Care Homes project is coming together for our kick-off meeting in Ottawa. So excited to spend time with everyone in...
by kkehoemacleod | Aug 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
Check out our newest publication in Palliative Care and Social Medicine sharing findings from our ethnographic study of the role of food as part of person-centred palliative...