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Time: 12:30–1:30 pm

Location: online

2025-2026 Health Equity Webinar Series – Division of Social Accountability (DSA)

Join us in this webinar series to explore priority health concerns of our population and meet community members who are leading innovative and equitable solutions right here in Saskatchewan.

In this webinar, Muskegs & Health: Nurturing Connections, you are invited to join an inspiring conversation about the ecological and cultural significance of muskegs as places of healing and wellbeing. This webinar will explore the impact of colonization on our relationship to muskegs, discuss how on-going colonial practices hinder access to land, and highlight the work of For Peat’s Sake in building connections between people and muskegs while simultaneously working to protect them from mining and resource extraction.

Hosted as a conversation circle between presenters, this webinar aims to elevate land-based healing as a pathway to reconciling our relationship to the land and the challenges faced on this journey. 

For Peat’s Sake-Protecting Northern Saskatchewan Muskegs is a grassroots organization of northern Saskatchewan community members, Lac La Ronge Indian Band members, and Saskatchewan citizens committed to protecting our sacred muskegs (peatlands).

Northern Saskatchewan muskegs play an important part in the ecosystem - they absorb run-off, filter water, provide people and animals with food and medicines, act as natural fire breaks, store large amounts of carbon, and provide calving grounds for the endangered woodland caribou.

This grassroots movement focuses on fostering connections to muskegs, educating on the impacts of peat mining, and enhancing understanding of muskegs, rooted in Indigenous knowledge and ways of being in relationship with the land. 

This webinar is presented by For Peat’s Sake co-founders Maggie King (Kokum), Miriam Körner (author and illustrator) and Larissa Muirhead (Nursing Instructor, Northlands College).

Larissa Muirhead is an artist, writer, nurse and environmental activist based in northern Saskatchewan. Her creative practice is rooted in the boreal landscape, where she explores themes of land, connection, and teaching through painting, storytelling, and community engagement. Larissa’s work often bridges disciplines—combining holistic health, visual art, written word and environmental advocacy—to foster deeper connections between people and place. She is passionate about collaborative projects that uplift voices, protect ecosystems, empower people in their health journey and celebrate the cultural richness of the North. Whether organizing land-based retreats, collaborating for community art initiatives, or teaching within the nursing profession, Larissa brings a thoughtful, grounded presence to everything she does.

Miriam Körner is an award-winning author and children’s book illustrator who finds her inspiration on extended wilderness journeys by dog team and canoe. Her love and concern for the rivers and lakes, forests and muskegs, and all who live within guide her artistic practice and her work as an environmental advocate. Miriam is a co-founder of For Peat’s Sake – Protecting Northern Saskatchewan Muskegs. Together with her grassroots organization, she takes people deep into the world of Sphagnum mosses, carnivorous plants and sweet berries to let them experience the magic of peatlands and the gifts of the land. 

Margaret (Maggie) King – Kokum/Muskeg Warrior
Margaret (Maggie) King is a Kokum, Indigenous advocate, Patient Partner, and Muskeg Warrior. Currently residing in Northern Battleford SK, Maggie is deeply connected to northern Saskatchewan with a relationship to the muskegs and boreal forest. Maggie is passionate about creating positive change through advocacy and knowledge sharing. Maggie reminds those she works with that one’s culture shapes their way of seeing and being in the world and that this is a gift when safe spaces can bring together a diversity of understandings. Maggie previously worked with the Lac La Ronge Indian Band Health Services, overseeing the provision of community and cultural supports, and today shares her time and expertise in the role of patient partner in both health research and health delivery. As a patient partner Maggie advocates for patient, community, and Indigenous voices to be centered and for the role of colonial harms, historical and ongoing, to be better understood in relationship to health outcomes. Maggie is a co-founder of For Peat’s Sake and is actively involved in building interest in the beautiful northern land and in the women’s land protection movement.

All DSA webinars will be held virtually from 12:30–1:30pm. 

Not able to attend but excited to learn? All sessions are recorded and made available on the Division of Social Accountability YouTube channel.

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