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Great issue on Canadian climate action and climate solutions [June], Can Geo! @cathmckenna [Catherine Mckenna, federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change] Tweeted to @Cangeo

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[Diver] Jill [Heinerth] is so inspiring! [We’re capable of far more than we think we are,” July/august] My definition of “living the dream.” @loislane88 [Celine Mcglone] Tweeted to @Cangeo I was the “Featured Fellow” in Canadian Geographic [Your Society, July/august]. There are a number of errors and misquotations in the article that I would like to correct. I was not northern director of the Akitsiraq Law School for “10-plus years.” I was northern director from January 2003 to July 2005. I had been involved with the school when it first started in 2001, but did not become a full-time director until 18 months later. Since 2005, I have visited and worked in the Arctic many times. I am quoted as saying “Reconciliation basically means getting to know people and understand their different stories.” Of course, there is much more to it than this, including a major adjustment in attitude by non-indigenous Canadians toward Indigenous people, our shared colonial history and the issues that have resulted from this history. In the last paragraph, it is stated that my “next book will also focus on how aboriginal and non-aboriginal worldviews collide.” This is not accurate. I am trying to do the opposite, that is to bridge differences to help people better understand each other, in particular helping non-indigenous people understand themselves and Indigenous issues better. Finally, I am quoted as saying “I don’t necessarily have the authority to speak on behalf of indigenous peoples.” I have no such authority and do not pretend to have. I use what knowledge I have to try and break down barriers, not simply replicate them. I hope this helps clarify who I am as a writer, teacher and Fellow of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society. Shelley Wright New Westminster, B.C.

Corrections:

In “Off the charts” [June], the second sentence in the caption for the map on sea level projections should have read, “It’s anticipated that sea levels in Hudson Bay and parts of the Canadian Arctic will drop significantly due to land uplift caused by postglacial rebound (where a land mass rises after shedding the weight of an ice sheet).” The machine gun referenced in “What killed Rhapsody?” [July/august], should have been correctly described as a “0.5calibre machine gun.” Lastly, the “Canadian Army” and “U.S. Air Force” labels on the WWII-ERA map accompanying “They almost called it Airlandia” [July/august] should have read “Royal Canadian Air Force” and “U.S. Army Air Force.” The map should also have depicted a railway and not a roadway.