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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Canadian studies"”.
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Social Determinants of Health and Uptake of Colorectal Cancer Screening in Canada
… study was a systematic review of peer-reviewed Canadian studies, and the second was a cross-sectional analysis of data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA). The systematic review found lower uptake was associated with non-White ethno-racial identity, less than post-secondary …
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Exploring Black-Canadian parent-youth sex communication
Black-Canadian populations are disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS. In particular, Black-Canadian youth are noted to be at a greater risk of HIV infection due to their sexual risk behaviours. Many international studies indicate that open parent-youth sex communication may counter the …
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The Political-Economy of Science and (Bio)Technology: The Emergence of Agricultural Biotechnology in Canada
… pro-GM crops discourses. Fourth, economic studies on GM crops rely on data and mathematical models to reach conclusions but do not explain them. The problematic for this research is: how are capitalist social relations manifested in and supported by the development, adoption, and production …
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Housework and Social Subversion: Wages, Housework, and Feminist Activism in 1970s Italy and Canada
My dissertation, Housework and Social Subversion: Wages, Housework, and Feminist Activism in 1970s Italy and Canada, presents a history of the Wages for Housework movements in Italy and Canada (1972-1978), looking at the parallel development of autonomist feminist politics in these locations. Based …
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The Crown as fiduciary and the conflict of interest inherent in its use of Indian lands for public purposes.
This thesis examines the fiduciary relationship between the federal Crown and Indian bands arising under the Indian Act, and more particularly the obligations adhering to the Crown when it accepts surrenders of reserve lands for its own purposes. It begins with an analysis of the theoretical basis …
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Musique populaire et identité franco-ontariennes La nuit sur l'étang.
Cette thèse examine la construction de l'identité à travers un événement musical annuel, la Nuit sur l'étang , qui a été institué à Sudbury (Ontario) en 1973. Par l'analyse des sources disponibles, elle recherche les éléments qui s'avèrent essentiels à la formulation de l'identité …
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A preliminary legislative evaluation of the conditional sentence of imprisonment: The case of Ontario, 1996-1997.
Bill C-41, the Sentencing Reform Act became law on September 3, 1996. The legislation represents the culmination of nearly two decades of sentencing reform efforts. The conditional sentence of imprisonment, one of the Bill's provisions, is the focus of this thesis. The conditional sentence …
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What are Grade Twelve Students Reading? Surveying Saskatchewan English Language Arts B30 Teachers
… of this research study stems from two prior Canadian studies: “The Constancy of the School ‘Canon’: A Survey of Texts used in Grade 10 English Language Arts in 2006 and 1996” by Mackey, Vermeer, Storie, and DeBlois (2012), as well as Allison Skerrett’s 2010 study, “Of Literary Import: A Case …
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Kwayeskastasowin ᒃᐗᔦᔅᑲᔅᑕᓱᐎᓐ (Setting Things Right): Cree Pathways to Modernizing Treaty 9
… and minopimaatisiiwin, with Canadian constitutional jurisprudence, legal pluralism, UNDRIP and FPIC standards, and comparative governance models. Its original contribution is the Treaty Modernization Toolkit, the first to operationalize Indigenous law into governance …
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THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL POLITICS OF LISTENING TO BLACK CANADA(S)
… how Black people are treated by the Canadian Nation State—given the Nation’s complex relationship to Blackness and Black people. This dissertation also registers how, in spite of the violence that establishes Black nowheres, Black people assert generative sonic practices that insist …
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The Habitus of Mackenzie King: Canadian Artists, Cultural Capital and the Struggle for Power
… Prime Minister (1922-1930, 1935-1948), and Canadian artists to define and determine the nature and distribution of arts and culture in Canada prior to the 1949 Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences. Using Pierre Bourdieu’s theories of habitus, “fields” of …
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Disinformation, Exclusion, and its Politics: Canadian Right-Wing Extremist Community within a Digital Landscape
… States and Europe. Scholarly literature on Canadian groups and their beliefs has been sparse, with few studies mapping the extent of their activities. Right-wing extremism has captured journalistic attention in recent years as lone-wolf right-wing extremists radicalized on the Internet take …
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The Business of Power: Canadian Multinationals in the Postwar Era
… corporation is the dominant institution of the Canadian political economy. Does this imply that ‘corporate power’ is a meaningful concept in the Canadian context? What role has globalization played in restructuring the corporate sector? Are large firms controlled by salary-oriented managers or …
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L'Accord définitif Nisga'a: Un modèle d'autonomie gouvernementale post-colonial?
Cette thèse évalue la portée de l'Accord définitif Nisga'a en tant que repère dans le développement de l'autodétermination autochtone au Canada. Par une étude détaillée des paramètres du modèle d'autonomie gouvernementale nisga'a, un examen des potentialités de cet accord en matière de troisième …
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Cariño in the Borderlands: Pedagogical Relationships in a Community-Based Education Support Program
… contributes to the growing fields of Latinx-Canadian and Luso-Canadian studies. I also offer a different reading on Latinidad as it is lived in Canada and how the different reading of the Canadian context can enrich our understandings of mestizxs.
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From Science in the Arctic to Arctic Science: A Transnational Study of Arctic Travel Narratives, 1818-1883
… narratives from Danish, British, and British-Canadian Arctic explorations, I show that changes in ideas about what it meant to be an authoritative observer of Arctic phenomena were linked to tensions in imperial ambitions, national identity, and international collaboration. By framing polar …
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Awareness of Alzheimer's disease and Dementia among young adults: A Systematic Literature Review
… Dementia and young adults. 13 quantitative studies by the Coughlan, Cronin, and Ryan Framework, which measures awareness with descriptive statistics using surveys, experiments, and questionnaires, were evaluated using quality, research credibility, and practice relevance. Thematic analysis …
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Pathways to the Eighth Fire: Mapping Indigenous Knowledge in Toronto
A considerable body of scholarly research now accords with long-held Indigenous prophecy in affirming the ongoing importance of Indigenous knowledge for the health and wellness of contemporary Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples and their environments. Yet, while much research has examined …
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Manual Labour and Industrial Schooling for Indigenous Youth in Upper Canada, 1821-1863, and the Democratic Symbolic
This dissertation explores why residential schooling went on to become a federal system despite early and acknowledged failures. Efforts to understand the provenance and aftermath of the system must address how the schools were intimately related to Canada’s colonial past and liberal democratic …
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To be Black in this Skin: Anti-Black Racism and How Heterosexual Black Men Engage with HIV Vulnerability in Toronto
Toronto is home to Canada’s largest and fastest growing Black population and it is also the probable epicenter of the Black HIV epidemic in the nation. While the HIV response in Ontario recognizes African, Caribbean, and Black people as a “priority population,” HIV in Canada has historically been …
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