If you wish to understand any scientific issues around water, visit: https://www.safewater.org/fact-sheets
If water is a top priority for you, I highly recommend you subscribe and follow news from:
Watershed Sentinel - https://watershedsentinel.ca
The Narwhal - https://thenarwhal.ca/
Vancouver Island Water Watchers - https://www.vancouverislandwaterwatchcoalition.ca
Great Lakes Ecoregion - https://www.greatlakesecoregion.org/
If you find it hard to believe that Canada is losing its democracy, I suggest you read Andrew Coyne’s Crisis of Canadian Democracy.
If you like reading accurate, well researched, current news, from independent journalists, please subscribe to,
Reuters - https://www.reuters.com/
Dogwood - https://www.dogwoodbc.ca/
The Maple - https://www.readthemaple.com
Ricochet Media - https://ricochet.media
The Tyee - https://thetyee.ca
The Walrus - https://thewalrus.ca
Canadian Affairs - https://www.canadianaffairs.news/about/
If you like to learn what is going on in the world that CBC fails to report, follow either or all of the following:
Al Jazeera - https://www.aljazeera.com
BBC News - https://www.bbc.com/news
If you haven’t met Canada’s equivalent of Bernie Sanders, I encourage you to meet and follow,
Charlie Angus - https://www.charlieangus.ca
If you dislike all the negative news in the world, learn about all the positive things happening, subscribe to:
Fix the News - https://fixthenews.com/
If you like to follow the footsteps of Indigenous people’s lives, join APTN at https://www.aptnnews.ca
Documentaries to watch on YouTube
Shannen and her dream, by Alanis Obomsawin, Hi-Ho Mistahey!
Paul Whitehouse – Our Troubled Rivers
Thames Water – Inside the Crisis
Blue Gold: Water as a Human Right - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1gPCwErTr4
To learn how people in Bolivia rose to protect their water, how the world is running out of fresh water and there is no environmental crisis as great as the commodification of the world’s water supply by giant corporations. Maude Barlow, national chairperson of The Council of Canadians and author of Blue Gold, describes the movement to guarantee a water-secure future based on conservation, equity and the public good.
We All Live Downstream: A Clean Water Action Podcast, https://www.buzzsprout.com/1936739
The true history of colonialism that you were not taught in school, watch this documentary: https://www.anglican.ca/primate/tfc/drj/doctrineofdiscovery
The Theory of Water will teach you how Colonialism and Capitalism have abused Indigenous culture, I highly recommend reading this sensitive, gentle, eye opening book by Leanne Betasamosaki
If you prefer dystopian novels, I highly recommend Watershed by author Doreen Vanderstoop. But keep in mind, while Doreen wrote it as dystopian and two years prior to my publishing Water Confidential. It is an uncannily accurate prediction of what is to come unless we take back control of our water.
Louise Penny has authored two novels, Grey Wolf and Black Wolf, they both giver me more than shivers down my spine, way to close to reality that is unfolding two years after she wrote them. Highly recommended reading!
“Please register to receive notice of Susan’s next publication date.
The Federation of BC Writers held a competition, and Susan is humbled to have been selected, the theme: Making a Difference.
The last sentence reads: Visit my website, susanblacklin.com to sign the petition. But the petition is not yet ready, and there are many reasons for this. So many reasons, Susan has written another book, a sequel titled: Water Justice: What You Don’t Know Could Kill You. If you were shocked at what transpired regarding drinking water two decades ago, your eyes will be opened even wider when you read what is happening now, not in the past, today! And not restricted to Indigenous communities, but in many rural and urban centres across Canada. Please check back to learn when Susan’s next book will be available, and we hope to have the petition prepared by late September.
