The 1,200-page report by the National Inquiry into Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls was released earlier this week and made more than 230 recommendations. Today in The Conversation Canada, we have a thoughtful analysis from Margaret Moss, the director of the First Nations House of Learning at the University of British Columbia. She is an American Indigenous woman who writes that the United States could learn a lot from the attention being paid to the epidemic in Canada. In the U.S., she writes, there’s little concern for American murdered and missing Indigenous women.

Some other insightful reads for you today:

– Sarah Munoz of the Université de Montréal tells us about rising sea levels and tectonic activity have eroded the coastlines of the low-lying Carteret Islands in the South Pacific.

– Veena Dwivedi of Brock University writes about how our neural hardware responds differently when we perceive people to be on “our team” – whether in sports or in politics.

– Steffi Hamann and Arvinder Pannu of the University of Guelph tell us how the new Canada food guide is easy to follow – if you’re wealthy or middle class, but those on social assistance can’t afford to maintain it.

Finally, Annette Brown of the University of British Columbia writes that 15 years of research shows that when health care is equity-oriented, patients report fewer depression and trauma symptoms, less chronic pain and improved quality of life.

Regards,