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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Canadian Government"”.
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Utopia on trial : perceptions of Canadian government experiments with Inuit relocation
In the 1950s, the Canadian government embarked on an ambitious experimental programme of resettling Inuit (Eskimos) in unoecupied regions of the Aretie, sometimes far to the north of their original homelands. In this dissertation I analyze the Canadian government's Inuit reloeation policies during …
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Ethics and the formation of foreign policy : a case study of Canadian government policy toward Indonesia, 1970-1990
This paper reviews aspects of the formation of foreign policy, with a particular emphasis on how ethical considerations affect policy choices. Theoretical considerations are reviewed with an aim to clarify how ethics, and human rights concerns in particular, might in principle be incorporated in …
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Under Their Own Laws: How the Kitasoo/Xai’xais First Nation created a new marine protected area – without the federal government’s approval
… but technically they remain subjects of the Canadian government. For the Kitasoo/Xai’xais this system is especially frustrating, since like many other Pacific coast nations, they have never signed a treaty with the Canadian government. The eventual goal, then, for the new MPA is to reach a …
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The Rankin Inlet Ceramics Project : a study in development and influence
… employment. When this employment ceased, the Canadian government initiated an arts and crafts program to assist the Inuit. Included in this program was an experiment in pottery-making, which became known as the Rankin Inlet Ceramics Project. Begun in 1963, the project was guided by four arts …
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Canada's foreign aid program : a policy analysis (1946-1980)
… was new but there was a strong obligation among Canadians to help the poor and less fortunate peoples in the Third World. During the post-war period, Canada's foreign aid programs were characterized as selfish and confusing by many Canadians. In the Third World, they were considered to be …
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Deal? Or No Deal? Explaining Comprehensive Land Claims Negotiation Outcomes in Canada
In 1973, the Canadian government created the federal comprehensive land claims process to negotiate modern treaties with Aboriginal peoples in Canada. Despite 35 years of negotiations, many Aboriginal groups have failed to complete modern treaties. This dissertation explains why some Aboriginal …
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Exploring Subjectivity Through Safer Supply
In 2019, the Canadian government approved the prescription of medical heroin to people with severe opioid use disorder, not as a treatment for addiction, but as a harm reduction tactic to prevent overdose in the face of an increasingly toxic street drug supply (Health Canada 2019). This harm …
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The Government of Canada’s Second Language Evaluation, Test of Written Expression: Exploring Validity
… aimed to contribute to the literature on the Canadian government's Second Language Evaluation (SLE) by exploring the concept of validity within the context of the Test of Written Expression (TWE). The case-study approach combined stakeholder perspectives of three employee-participants and two …
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The Non-Recognition or Devaluation of Foreign Professional Immigrants Credentials in Canada: The Impact on the Receiving Country (Canada) and the Immigrants
… immigrants in Canada. For decades, the Canadian government has admitted large numbers of highly skilled immigrants to support the growth and competitiveness of the Canadian economy. While it is an obvious fact that highly trained emigrants are persuaded to go to Canada where financial …
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The post-deregulation impact on the Canadian financial services industry's mergers and acquisitions
… occurred on December 9, 1991. Since then, the Canadian government has allowed previously cross-ownership prohibited among the four pillars. The goal of this research is to study the act of the deregulation on two levels. First, to verify if the systematic risk of the pillars increased following …
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Military and the media examining the wartime framing of Canada’s involvement in Afghanistan
… between the major print news media and the Canadian government in times of war is characterised by a broad and diffused array of media frames. The National Post, Toronto Star, and Globe and Mail were found to publish a variety of politically and thematically diverse articles. Robert Entman’s …
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Les transports, la pollution atmosphérique et la santé : évolution de la gestion des émissions d'ozone par le gouvernement canadien.
… of ozone emissions management by the federal government. Ozone pollution is of considerable concern, especially its impact on the health of the population. Transportation represents an important source of ozone pollutants and the fight against it is becoming more and more inevitable with the …
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Examining the impact of post secondary drug education.
… As many of these programs are funded by the Canadian government, it is possible that such education serves as a means of re-enforcing the traditionally held values that are currently reflected in Canadian drug laws. One alternative form of drug education (DE) occurs at the post-secondary …
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Dirty Ears: Hearing And Hearings In The Canadian Liberal Settler Colony
… and political practice has been theorized by the Canadian composer and sound theorist R. Murray Schafer as a fundamental part of culture and nation building. This dissertation explores the ways the Canadian government and settler society use hearing as a silencing technique, mobilizing the field …
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Exercising Canada's autonomy in foreign relations: The King government and the Irish question in World War II.
… neutrality. However, this was no the case as the government of MacKenzie King followed a moderate policy towards Irish neutrality throughout the war. This is not to say that the King government did not want Ireland to enter into the war on the side of the allies, on the contrary the opposite held …
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A case study of the application of divestiture legislation on three small Québec ports
… in Canada has historically been under federal government ownership and control. Over the years, however, the marine system has become over-built. It is unable to cover costs and overly dependent on government subsidies. The Canadian government recently enacted legislation to divest the bulk of …
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The problem of the sacred in postmodern museum practice : some thoughts on the Rideau Street Convent Chapel in the National Gallery of Canada
… 1972 when it was declared a heritage site by the Canadian government. The interior of the building was dismantled and placed in storage until it was reconstructed within the walls of Moshe Safdie's National Gallery of Canada in 1988. It is now part of the permanent collection on display in this …
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OUT IN THE COLD: THE LEGACY OF CANADA'S INUIT RELOCATION EXPERIMENT IN THE HIGH ARCTIC, 1953-1990.
In 1953-55 the Canadian government of Prime Minister St. Laurent carried out an experimental relocation of eleven Inuit (Eskimo) families from the region of Port Harrison (Inukjuak), on Quebec's Ungava Peninsula, to Ellesmere and Cornwallis Islands in the High Arctic Archipelago. The reason the …
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Repression, freedom, and minimal geography: human rights, humanitarian law, and Canadian involvement in El Salvador, 1977-1984
… precision, to the international community. The Canadian public responded to the situation in El Salvador in a markedly different way than the Canadian government, whose pronouncements were at first ill-informed and uncritically pro-American. The question thus arises: do counter-consensus or …
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National Project, Regional Perspective: Newfoundland, Canada and Identities, 1949-1991
The Canadian government has long striven for an official national identity grounded in a cohesive sense of national unity, but this has been in contrast to the regional reality of the Canadian state. The postwar period reveals increased concern within Canada regarding its national identity, when …
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