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Over the last years, food sovereignty (FS) has not only become a reference in the struggles of peasant movements in the Southern Hemisphere - a central feature of its 'first generation' - but also been incorporated into the urban contexts of the Northern Hemisphere, which marks its 'second generation'. Recognizing that there is still a gap in studies addressing the process in the Canadian context, this paper aims to discuss the 'second generation' of FS in two cities of Western Canada: Vancouver, in British Columbia, and Calgary, in Alberta. For this analysis, we use qualitative exploratory methodologies to understand how FS can take place in urban contexts in Canada through the practices of urban food activists. Among the main results, we find that in the urban context of the Canadian West, FS can be understood through a broad perspective, across various stages of agri-food systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is an analysis of the content, and of the patrimonial and political dimensions of the exhibit Speaking to Memory: Images and Voices of Saint Michael's Residential School, on display in 2013/2014 at the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology (Vancouver, Canada). The first part of the text is a brief history of Residential Schools in Canada. In the second part I follow the trajectories of the last three decades of indigenous contest and opposition to the Canadian government, and the diverse types of demands for reparation for the suffering caused by those institutions. In the third part of the paper I describe how this exhibition came to be, its contents and its organization. Finally, I analyze the materiality of the photographs that structure this show, classifying these images as "objects in becoming" that, by means of the visitor's interaction, bring new dimensions to the museum as a social, cultural and political agent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the ways descendants of Portuguese immigrants in Canada, raised under the shroud of their Portugal ancestry, contemplate, formulate and negotiate their identities via the two primary sporting pastimes of the two countries: soccer, in the case of Portugal; ice hockey, in the case of Canada. The findings presented in this article are based on empirical data collected through semis-structured interviews and casual conversations with Portuguese-Canadian descendants during a fieldwork period that took place from October 2nd to November 5th of 2009 in the Canadian cities of Toronto, Ottawa-Gatineau and Montreal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]