At our next webinar on March 2nd, Senator of Nova Scotia Dan Christmas joins Dr. Lori Marino for a conversation about the whale sanctuary, how a new law will affect captive whales, and also about how whales feature in the Senator's aboriginal Mi’kmaq culture.

Her questions include:

• In your speech to the Canadian Senate you said you wished it had been possible to hear directly from a beluga whale. What would you have liked to ask them?

• Mi’kmaq culture includes the concept that whales are our equals and that a human can “become” a whale or other animal, and vice versa. In what sense is that the case?

• One of the Mi’kmaq cultural heroes has a close relationship with a spirit whale who carries him across the ocean. What is their relationship and its significance?

Register for the free webinar here.

Bring your questions, too, or send them in advance by email.

“In my aboriginal upbringing, we were always taught that animals are our brothers and sisters. They are living beings like us. They have their own spirits, they have their own families, they have their own language. And when I think of it that way, I see cetaceans as [our] equals.”

— Senator Daniel Christmas in June 2018
as the Canadian Senate prepared to vote
on a bill to end the captivity of whales and dolphins.