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I called up Chris Dube, founder of the Waasaashkaa festival for an interview about surfing on the lake. Do you want to give a background about who you are? My name is Chris Dube, and I am a teacher at the high school here in town at Lake Superior High School. I teach an outdoor […]

PRESENTATION MOVED ONLINE: Click the link below to join in!https://zoom.us/j/289072430 How can the law be used to protect the environment in Northern Ontario and across Canada? On March 25th, join students from Lakehead University’s Bora Laskin Faculty of Law in Thunder Bay, Ontario as they explore two legal topics impacting Northern communities. Adam de Luca

Shared Waters Lake Superior’s waters move freely and are shared by Canadians and Americans alike; therefore, residents on Superior’s U.S. side might be interested in learning about something that is gaining considerable interest across the lake, in Canada. “Would a ban on single-use plastics be effective in reducing plastic waste?” In a recently released discussion

Infosuperior rarely covers events which are not focused on Lake Superior and the Great Lakes. An exception follows, based on the extensive coverage Infosuperior has provided about the Lake Superior microplastics situation, especially the problem of nurdles, the small plastic beads which are used to manufacture all manner of plastic products and which are classified

Same Day in Rossport as Around the World What do an oil drum, a water gun, and nurdles all have in common? They were all found at last year’s International Coastal Clean-up! Join Parks Canada and local volunteers at Wardrope Park in Rossport, ON from 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM on September 15th to help

The podcast above is an absolutely fascinating account of some epic Lake Superior paddling, a “must listen” for anyone with experience traveling Lake Superior. See all Infosuperior’s podcasts… Isle Royale, the Slates, Michipicoten, the Apostles…All in One Trip Ever paddled out to Isle Royale? That’s 14 mi./22 km. Double in return. How about paddling around

Join Parks Canada for the Coastal Clean-up on  June 10th!   From 12 noon-4 pm on June 10th, Parks Canada will be conducting a shoreline clean-up at Mountain Bay. The cleanup is part of Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup efforts. The Parks Canada event will be focused on the shores of the Lake Superior National Marine

A Brief History on Our Understanding of Plastic Pollution Beach cleanups, like the June 10th event being hosted by Parks Canada on Nipigon Bay, are only part of the picture. Preventing plastic pollution before it even gets to our lakes, rivers and waterways is critical, if we eventually hope to eradicate this issue. All of

Cleaning up, again and again and again…simply isn’t a sustainable practice. Somebody had to say “enough is enough”, and it looks like the person in charge at Environment and Climate Change Canada did just that. Catherine Mckenna, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada, announced on Earth Day (April 22, 2018) that the federal

New research from the U. S. Geological Survey documents tiny pieces of plastic, called microplastics, in many rivers flowing to the Great Lakes. …and by the way, don’t think that Superior avoids the microplastics issue. A sub-set of microplastics, called “nurdles”, which are used in the plastics manufacturing process, are a severe issue in Nipigon