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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"The Globe and Mail"”.
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Representation of China's Image on The Globe and Mail: A Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis from the Perspective of van Dijk’s Ideology Square
In early 2020, the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan put China in the spotlight of international news. China’s development in the field of politics, society, and economics still occupies media attention in the context of the global public health crisis. Previous studies have shown that China’s image in …
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Misrepresentation of Islam and Muslims in Canadian media: a comparative content analysis of major news outlets
This study focuses on how mass media frames Islam and Muslims in Canada. This study addresses the rise in hate crimes and islamophobia which is often fueled by mass media’s misrepresentation of Islam and Muslims. Using quantitative and qualitative content analysis headlines were taken from The …
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A Difficult Conversation: The News Media and the Story of the First Peoples of Canada
The news media have long contributed to the oppression of indigenous peoples in Canada; when journalists did report on indigenous peoples, they were stereotyped as helpless victims and threats to national identity. The result has been a distorted version of history championing settlers’ pioneering …
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Immigrants in the Making: Media Analysis of South Asian Representation within Canadian Media
This research aims to expand the area of South Asians within Canadian Media analysis. Currently there is little to no research in the area of South Asian representation in Canadian media in addition to this there is a need for research into Indian international students as they become more …
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Deconstructing Newspaper Representations of the International Criminal Court
This thesis employs a social constructionist perspective to analyze constructions of the International Criminal Court (ICC), specifically (1) the notion of impunity; (2) the presence of a critical analysis; and (3) the connection between state support/opposition and favourable/negative portrayals …
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(Re)Presentations of Sexual Violence Against Women: An Analysis of Media Reports of Rape
There is a problem with attitudes that blame the victim of sexual assault: these attitudes are widespread and show popular adhesion to assumptions about rape that have been criticized and combatted by feminists. These assumptions are known as “rape myths.” It is important to look at the role …
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The Many Ways to Evaluate Income Taxes: Canadian Income Tax Compliance with Attention to Surplus Stripping: 1917-1972
This study of the relationship between the Canadian taxpayer and the income tax regime examines the manner in which the federal income tax, first established by Finance Minister Sir Thomas White of the Robert Borden Conservative government in 1917, evolved into a complex and onerous obligation. Its …
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The news coverage of honour killings in Canadian newspapers
The issue of honour killings has become a prominent topic of discussion in the Western discourse of violence against immigrant women. In Canada, particularly, the recent high-profile cases of honour killings have drawn increased attention from the media, academics and the public. The prevalent …
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An analysis of Western newspaper coverage of the Libyan-American conflict of 1986.
The study is a content analysis of a sample of Western press coverage of the Libyan-American conflict of 1986. Three elite Western newspapers, The New York Times (United States), The Globe and Mail (Canada), and The Times (Great Britain) were selected for this study. 1,045 news stories were …
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Media portrayal of police: A content analysis of the "Toronto Star", the "Toronto Sun" and "Now" (Ontario).
The purpose of the present study was to examine the nature of newspaper articles which dealt with the subject of policing in Canada and also to identify how this particular medium portrays individuals and events surrounding the police during the work-to-rule protest of 1992. A total of 730 …
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The Depiction of Expert Women in Canadian Newspapers
… in representations of “expert” women in the media. Existing scholarly literature has demonstrated that, in general, women are underrepresented or portrayed as objects or victims in the media. Very little of this literature has examined depictions of “expert” women. The research is guided …
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The Pandemic Olympics: A Thematic Analysis of COVID-19 and the Tokyo Olympic Games from a Canadian Perspective
Hosting the Tokyo 2020 Olympics during the COVID-19 pandemic presented a major crisis for the Olympic movement, both in Canada and around the world. The Pandemic led to an unprecedented postponement of the games and to widespread concern that the Tokyo Olympics could become a mega-spreader event. …