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COLC in the News

Below are links to recent media, articles, blogs, or newsletters featuring COLC’s work, as well as important national and international ocean literacy-related news and announcements.

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Over 100 Events Across Canada for World Ocean Day and Ocean Week

Press Release – June 8, 2022

Ocean Week Canada starts Friday, kicking off a national summer celebration of ocean engagement

Press Release – June 1, 2022

COLC and Partners Announce Ocean Week Canada and the Ocean Festival 2022

https://oceanweekcan.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/EN-Ocean-Week-CanadaOcean-Festival-Press-Release.pdf

World Ocean Day Partner Spotlight: Ocean Week Canada 2022

Partner Spotlight: Ocean Week Canada 2022

The COLC's National Lead, Diz Glithero, serves on Canada’s Community of Champions for the Decade

https://colcoalition.ca/2022/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/OD-Newsletter-Issue-2-Champions.pdf

COLC wins Mitacs Award for Outstanding Innovation in Research for National Strategy work - Global TV Halifax interview (December 2, 2021)

https://globalnews.ca/video/8419458/dal-researcher-wins-award-for-first-ever-national-ocean-literacy-strategy

Sea Beyond: The Case for Ocean Literacy in Canada (March 2021) – Canada’s Ocean Supercluster feature blog post, authored by Tom Paddon, CEO, Vale NL Ltd. & Baffinland Iron Mines Ltd.

https://mailchi.mp/oceansupercluster.ca/osc-current-march-2021-courant-de-la-soc-mars-2021?e=353903df6a

Globe and Mail: Leaders share their views on what’s important for the future of our oceans (June 10, 2021) – Diz Glithero, National Lead, COLC; Sabine Jessen, Executive Director, IMPAC5 Secretariat; Lawrence Martin, Manager, Mushkegowuk Marine Region

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/adv/article-leaders-share-their-views-on-whats-important-for-the-future-of-our/

Dal researcher wins Mitacs award for leading the development of the world’s first national ocean literacy strategy (November 24, 2021) – article by Andrew Riley for Dal News

https://www.dal.ca/news/2021/11/24/dal-researcher-wins-mitacs-award-for-leading-the-development-of-.html

Thinking Our Loud with Sheldon MacLeod: Ocean literacy and Dal’s Diz Glithero (November 23, 2021) – Sheldon MacLeod, columnist, Saltwire

https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/opinion/local-perspectives/thinking-out-loud-with-sheldon-macleod-ocean-literacy-and-dals-diz-glithero-100661887/

Ocean Literacy: A Critical Need for Canada (June 8 2021) – LinkedIn article by Anton Holland, CEO, NIVA Inc.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ocean-literacya-critical-need-canada-anton-holland/?published=t

Oceans Under Stress Need our Protection (June 7, 2021) – article by Shawn McCarthy, energy and climate change reporter, senior council at Sussex Strategy Group

Oceans under stress need our protection

Strategy Launch Event – March 16th, 2021 – Press Release

http://colcoalition.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Press_Release_COLC_Strategy_Launch_FINAL.pdf

Ocean Networks Canada – Canadian Ocean Literacy Coalition Launches Land Water Ocean Us – Canadian Ocean Literacy Strategy

https://oceannetworks.ca/canadian-ocean-literacy-coalition-launches-land-water-ocean-us-canadian-ocean-literacy-strategy

Delphi Group highlights COLC’s National Strategy work in their recent report ‘Scaling Up the Blue Economy’ (January 2021) – see page 29.

https://delphi.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/scaling-up-the-blue-economy.pdf

COLC’s National Lead, Diz Glithero, is awarded the Alex Trebek Medal for Geographic Literacy from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (November 2020)

Alex Trebek Medal for Geographic Literacy

Ocean Literacy Seed Fund Success Story (author: Ocean Frontier Institute)

https://oceanfrontierinstitute.com/ocean-literacy-seed-fund-success-story