Thomas Fiddler Memorial High School in Sandy Lake First Nation in northern Ontario decided to use the pandemic’s limitations as an opportunity be innovative in the way it delivered sex ed this year. (Andrei_Diachenko/Shutterstock)

Every spring, Cleopatra Kierstead prepares to talk about sex with her phys-ed students at Thomas Fiddler Memorial High School in northern Ontario’s Sandy Lake First Nation. 

As much of this year’s regularly scheduled programming was either cancelled or forced to evolve, sex ed in the fly-in community was no exception. 

Before the pandemic, Kierstead would invite guest speakers to help infuse the content with their expertise. One of them