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Niki Wilson

Jasper
As seen in: Apple Podcasts, Nature, PBS, Back Row, VICE, Canadian Geographic, The Journal, Natural History, Alberta Views
Covers:  environment, natural history, conservation, protected areas, environmental science, national parks, biology, cultural cognition
Writer . Host & Science Advisor #JasperDarkSky Fest. She/Her. Treaty 6 & 8. 🇺🇦 Not on here much anymore. Find me @nikiwilson.bsky.social

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Community Centres

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By Niki Wilson
| legionmagazine.com
During WW II, the Legion operated mobile canteens. [Legion Magazine Archive] A collector coin released in tribute to the Legion’s centenary. [Royal Canadian Mint] On Aug. 17, 2024, I arrived back in Jasper, Alta., with my family after a month-long evacuation due to the July wildfires that burned a third of the town’s businesses and residences. Amid a drizzle, the smell of wet ash filled our car as we passed the charred husks of local homes.
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Why ADHD goes undiagnosed in girls

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By Niki Wilson
| Nature Verified
Credit: Ben Michelman Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is harder to detect in girls than in boys. Julia Schechter, a clinical psychologist at the Duke Center for Girls & Women with ADHD in Durham, North Carolina, explains why girls with ADHD are harder to diagnose, and how undiagnosed girls face higher risks of bad outcomes than boys do, ranging from relationship issues to eating disorders and self-harm. What are the current rates of ADHD diagnosis in women and girls?
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The year of the fire

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By Niki Wilson, Brian Van Tighem
| Canadian Geographic Verified
At 3 a.m. on the morning of July 23, 2024, it was 27 C and too hot to close the car windows. Frail-bodied moths with white paper wings crawled in and made their frantic way across our gray-carpeted car ceiling. There were thousands of moths there under the bludgeoning bright lights of the highway rest stop. Next to me, my then 19-year-old son’s breathing finally fell into the rhythm of sleep, his forehead slicked with sweat.
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