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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"City of Toronto"”.
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Approaches to accountability in city of Toronto long-term care homes
Within the context of healthcare accountability are concepts such as quality and safety of care, resource allocation and the notion of value for money. When understanding accountability, questions such as who is accountable for what and how is accountability demonstrated arise. As the number of …
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Internal displacement: A study of homelessness in the city of Toronto (Ontario)
… study explored whether or not homeless people in Toronto face similar experiences to other internally displaced persons throughout the world, if they fit the description of internally displaced persons developed by the UN and, if so, what are the implications of these findings. The research was …
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Municipal policy and program options for affordable home ownership: a City of Toronto case study
As the level of government closest to people, municipalities are left face-to-face with the failures of the housing market and the lack or failure of senior-level government housing programs. The federal government has practically withdrawn from social housing since the mid-1980s, and most of its …
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Applying life cycle assessment to analyze the environmental sustainability of public transit modes for the City of Toronto
… measure energy requirements for different modes of transit, on a per passenger-kilometer basis. For each of the four transit modes listed, a range of energy requirements associated with different vehicle models and manufacturers was developed. The tool demonstrated that there are distinct ranges …
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No place to call home - a visual ethnography on North Korean defectors in Toronto
… North Korean regime and residing for a period of time in South Korea, many North Korean defectors make their way to Canada and claim refugee status. The North Korean population in the city of Toronto is being rapidly driven out of the country due to new immigration policies cracking down on …
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Streamlining Information Technology Services in Local Government
This research paper examines the outcome of the City of Toronto's Shared Services foundation project. Drawing on the lessons learned from previous shared services projects at the City, it aims to answer the question: "What factors promote or discourage shared services between a local government and …
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The architecture of Ontario Place: reinvigorating the commons through adaptive-reuse and operative landscapes
Ontario Place, located in Lake Ontario along Toronto’s shoreline, was always meant to be for the public. In its current conditions, the ongoing neglect by the Government of Ontario for the last several years, has led to the degradation and disrepair of many of the structures and landscape of the …
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Problems in Supply Chain Location and Inventory under Uncertainty
… movie rental firm reveal systematic under-buying of movies purchased through revenue sharing contracts and over-buying of movies purchased through standard ones. For the movies considered, the model estimates an increase in the average profit per title for new movies by 15.5% and 2.5% for revenue …
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Concentrations and In Vitro Bioaccessibility of Metals in Soils at Urban Green Spaces in Toronto, Ontario
… obtained from 25 urban green spaces within the City of Toronto. In vitro bioaccessibility was determined in eight of the samples as a surrogate for bioavailability. The mean concentrations of metals of interest, As, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb, and Zn were below the Canadian Council of Ministers of the …
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Optimizing Urban Safety and Traffic Management: A Machine Learning Approach to Sensor Placement for Intelligent Transportation and Crime Detection Systems
This thesis explores the use of machine learning algorithms for optimizing sensor placement in urban areas to improve crime prevention and traffic management. Focused on the City of Toronto as a case study, it integrates traffic sensor data with vehicular crime statistics to propose a model …
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"Being Stuck": Understanding the health-related and everyday lived experiences of young mothers in Rexdale, Ontario through a social determinants framework
The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of the ways the health-related and everyday lived experiences of young mothers are shaped by various social determinants, and in the context of their neighbourhood. Using a critical qualitative methodology, five mothers between the ages of 17 …
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Doing what works : an exploratory analysis on Toronto's Strong Neighbourhood Strategy 2020's impact on crime in Kingsview Village-The Westway
… 2020 (TSNS 2020) is an initiative started by the City of Toronto in 2014. The strategy's intention was to engage neighbourhood residents, city services, and local non-profits in community and economic development to generate tailored solutions that would result in heightened are prosperity, …
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'Our glory and our grief': Toronto and the Great War (Ontario)
This dissertation studies the impact of the Great War on Toronto, Ontario. What happened in the city? How were the enormous sacrifices of the war rationalized? Why did English-Canadians support it? What did citizens know about the war? The dissertation draws upon a wide and varied source base. …
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Don't get taken for a ride! : designing and Implementing effective autonomous vehicle regulation in Toronto, Ontario
… be most acutely felt in areas under the purview of local governments-such as transportation congestion, land use, and impacts on public transit. As such, the goal of this thesis is to assist municipal policymakers with mitigating these impacts by answering the question: How can local governments …
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Mapping Ruling Relations Through Homelessness Organizing
… organizing can be effective even in periods of neoliberal retrenchment. This dissertation examines ruling relations and the social relations of struggle from the standpoint of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. With political activist ethnography as my …
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Design considerations for retractable-roof stadia
… to replace them with structures with moving roofs. This kind of facility provides protection from weather for spectators, a natural grass playing surface for players, and new sources of revenue for owners. The first retractable-roof stadium in North America, the Rogers Centre, has hosted …
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Playing to win : democratic deliberation, planning, and politics in Toronto's civic lottery
… to maximize the diversity and representativeness of their sampled citizen participants. Varieties of "mini-publics" have been asked to deliberate on topics as wide-ranging as electoral reform and health care policy. As they have become more widespread, the focus of randomly selected citizen bodies …
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A Posthumanist Study of Health and the Food System: Vegetal Politics in Toronto Urban Gardens in the Anthropocene
… to investigate what happens to understandings of food systems and health if the ontological dualism in Euro-Western thought that separates humans from nature is challenged, or even undone. What is a posthumanist understanding of health in the food system? What is a posthumanist approach to food …
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From the Yonge Street Riot to the Carding Controversy: Policing and Surveilling the Black Community in Toronto, Canada, 1992-2016
… decade, the conversation surrounding racial profiling and carding in the city of Toronto garnered much public and scholarly attention. Many journalists, academics and activists have examined the Community Contacts Policy, also known as carding, as well as mass incarceration and the police …
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Refugees, Sport and Belonging: A Photovoice Inquiry
This thesis examines the concept of sport as a vehicle for belonging and social inclusion amongst six Eritrean refugees participating in an ethno-specific soccer team located in the City of Toronto, and the ways in which settlement occurs through the sports environment. This study uses photovoice …
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