{"title":"The Italian community in Canada: Past and present migration in film, 1960–present","authors":"Giovanni Mauro, Capucine Coustere","doi":"10.1111/cag.70075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.70075","url":null,"abstract":"<p>From the end of the 19<sup>th</sup> century until the 1970s, Italian immigration to Canada was one of the most significant in Italy's history. Many documentaries and docu-films were created to bear witness to the history of the Italian community in Canada, which mainly settled in large urban areas like Toronto and Montreal. This paper examines some of these productions in an attempt to trace the history of Italian immigration to Canada, particularly the province of Quebec, as well as to highlight its geographical legacy. Evidence from documentary and docu-films productions dating back to the early 1960s shows a tight-knit community that was strongly cohesive around its values. Over the years, the older community has become more open and spread across the Canadian territory, reflected in geographic trends among recent Italian immigrants.</p>","PeriodicalId":47619,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien","volume":"70 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cag.70075","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148167036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Merci Okonkwa Kafunga, Patient Mulumeoderhwa Polepole, Nicole Nampondo Matabaro, Fréderic Omega Thige, Jonas Bahizire, Jean Louis Kambale Nzweve
{"title":"Innovations paysannes face aux conflits fonciers en Territoires de Masisi et de Kalehe à l'Est de la RD Congo","authors":"Merci Okonkwa Kafunga, Patient Mulumeoderhwa Polepole, Nicole Nampondo Matabaro, Fréderic Omega Thige, Jonas Bahizire, Jean Louis Kambale Nzweve","doi":"10.1111/cag.70076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.70076","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines land dynamics in the territories of Masisi (North Kivu) and Kalehe (South Kivu), where land scarcity, insecure land tenure, and commercialization weaken peasant livelihoods. Based on a qualitative survey combining 20 interviews and 12 focus groups, the study highlights the adaptive capacity and social creativity of rural communities in the face of the land crisis. Four forms of endogenous innovation emerge: crop diversification and optimization of agricultural space, small livestock (goats, sheep, poultry), Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLA) initiated by women, and, finally, artisanal exploitation of natural resources. These practices reveal peasant agency that goes beyond the narratives of victimization associated with conflict contexts and show that land insecurity does not block investment but redirects it toward flexible and defensive strategies. However, their durability remains threatened by the lack of legal recognition of customary rights and the growing pressure from agribusiness.</p>","PeriodicalId":47619,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien","volume":"70 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148174793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Goliath's curse: The history and future of societal collapse By Luke Kemp, New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2025. 592 pages. $48.00 (hardback). ISBN: 9780593321355","authors":"William N. Holden","doi":"10.1111/cag.70078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.70078","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47619,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien","volume":"70 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148174733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Student perceptions of on-campus foodscapes at a Canadian university","authors":"Sara Clarke","doi":"10.1111/cag.70079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.70079","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Foodscapes play a critical role in how individuals interact with their food environment. This study examines post-secondary campus foodscapes and how students engage with and perceive these institutional food environments. Survey and interview data from graduate and undergraduate students at Western University reveal that students often encounter food security-related challenges, particularly concerning the availability, accessibility, affordability, and acceptability of food. Students living in on-campus accommodations are often required to purchase campus-provided meal plans and report more frequent on-campus food purchases than those living off campus. To navigate on-campus foodscape challenges, students employ various strategies, including attending free food events and seeking financial support from parents. However, these strategies are reactive and not equitably accessible. Notably, graduate students reported increased access to on-campus kitchen amenities, including refrigerators, microwaves, and coffee makers, primarily through association with departmental research labs. This reflects institutional structures and hierarchies that prioritize certain groups of individuals over others. By centring student voices, this research provides a greater understanding of how post-secondary foodscapes influence students’ experiences and perceptions of food security.</p>","PeriodicalId":47619,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien","volume":"70 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cag.70079","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148174746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Peri-urban tree canopy assessments: Leveraging partnerships and technology for climate resilience","authors":"Baharak Razaghirad, Marilyne Carrey, Samantha Witkowski","doi":"10.1111/cag.70077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.70077","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The urban tree canopy plays a crucial role in climate change mitigation and adaptation, yet peri-urban environments—transition zones between urban and rural areas—remain unexplored in urban tree canopy assessments. With rapid urbanization expected to increase the global population to two-thirds by 2050, managing peri-urban green infrastructure is essential for enhancing climate resilience. While the socio-environmental and economic benefits and services of urban and peri-urban forests are well-documented, municipalities with limited resources often lack the financial, human, or technical resources and expertise to obtain accurate data using geospatial technologies. This study evaluates cost-effective methods of urban tree canopy assessment in a peri-urban and resource-limited municipal context, aiming to improve municipal governance. Findings suggest that a low-cost point-sampling approach can enhance municipal capacity to manage forests in peri-urban environments, thus enhancing climate resiliency. Additionally, partnerships between higher-education institutions and municipalities can optimize resource sharing and facilitate integrated peri-urban forest management.</p>","PeriodicalId":47619,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien","volume":"70 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cag.70077","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148174743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Data is just like your blood, it has to flow”: Urban data platforms, the municipal data gaze and the making of the smart city","authors":"Joshua Evans, Hannah Graham, Kristof Van Assche","doi":"10.1111/cag.70074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.70074","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article aims to enrich critical understandings of urban data platforms and their role in smart city implementation. Leveraging insights from critical data studies and drawing on the “data gaze” concept coined by David Beer, we examine the implementation of an open data portal in Edmonton, Canada to gain insight into the smart city-in-the-making. Bringing together findings from policy analysis, key informant interviews, and an ethnography of an open data program, we show how the development of the open data portal necessitated an assemblage of imaginaries, viewpoints, and expertise—what we call a “municipal data gaze.” From this perspective, fundamental affordances and frictions linked to data flow come into view. While Edmonton's smart city strategy aimed to foster economic growth and service quality, data initiatives were beholden to privacy protection. Thus, in spite of the promise of the smart city agenda, there are places geo-surveillance cannot go and cannot see.</p>","PeriodicalId":47619,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien","volume":"70 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cag.70074","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148174393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The gates of the sea: Migration and rescue at the edges of Europe","authors":"Belinda Dodson","doi":"10.1111/cag.70073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.70073","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47619,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien","volume":"70 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148174798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ashley D. Tegart, Nadine Schuurman, Brandon Drucker, Scott A. Lear
{"title":"Runnability correlates: Results of environmental scans in Vancouver","authors":"Ashley D. Tegart, Nadine Schuurman, Brandon Drucker, Scott A. Lear","doi":"10.1111/cag.70070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.70070","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As recreational running grows in popularity, the concepts of runnability and runnable cities have emerged as important dimensions of urban livability. This study examined the environmental characteristics of Vancouver's most popular running routes to determine what makes a city runnable. Using Strava data, the most frequented running trajectories were identified through linear hotspot discovery. In-person audits assessed environmental correlates of runnability along these routes, guided by an environmental scan instrument developed from a comprehensive literature review. This mixed-method approach provided qualitative, on-the-ground insight into how runners experience and perceive runnable environments. This supports previous suggestions that nuanced, subjective observations are critical to capturing the complexity of runnability. Findings indicate correlates along popular routes largely align with emerging literature highlighting a strong preference for greenspaces over urban streetscapes. However, several findings diverged: bike-only segments were heavily used despite literature suggesting cyclists deter runners; stairs and ramps were common despite the presumed preference for flat terrain; and wildlife encounters did not substantially influence route choice. Novel findings indicate that dedicated paths integrating natural features into the built environment, as well as dog off-leash areas, contribute strongly to urban runnability.</p>","PeriodicalId":47619,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien","volume":"70 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cag.70070","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148174788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}