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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Vancouver (B.C.)"”.
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‘Pilgrim through this barren land’ Maintaining Welsh Connections and Culture in Vancouver, B.C., Canada
… who continue to seek better opportunities in Vancouver where the diaspora, represented by the Vancouver Welsh Society, gathers in their Cambrian Hall. Besides celebrating Welsh traditions and language, members tell stories of the Welsh who helped found the Province, played key roles in …
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Harnessing low carbon pathways to thermal energy provision : a multi-case study of Metro Vancouver, B.C.
… sources in thermal energy provision in the Metro Vancouver region of B.C. Through a multi-case study methodology employing a grounded theory approach, district energy systems (DES), and discrete on-site thermal energy solutions (TES) in Metro Vancouver will be examined. The purpose of this …
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The transformation of the regional shopping centre : an examination of six case studies in Vancouver B.C.
… regional shopping centres in the Greater Vancouver Regional District. The six centres provide the study with valuable information about the industry's history and current condition in the general retail sector. Information was collected through shopping centre surveys, together with …
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Affect and (Un)Certainty: Exploring the Non-Representational in Ethnographic Depiction
… documentary and ethnographic depiction of Vancouver B.C. The film aims to explore how sound shapes affect in film and involves not employing two very effective and reliable cinematic techniques: the close-up of a face and the use of music. Through walking, an actor and filmmaker subject …
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Tectonics of the Georgia Basin, northwest Washington State, USA, and southwest British Columbia, Canada
… the 1997 earthquake near Gabriola Island and Vancouver B.C. is imaged, and the first subsurface images of the Sandy Point Fault are presented.
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The Intersection of Social Networks in a Public Service Model: A Case Study
… Integrated Service Teams (NIST) program in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. A literature review related information dimensions to the municipal structure, including social network theory, social network analysis, social capital, transactive memory theory, public goods theory, and the information …
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A case study of curriculum leadership and development with a global perspective
… of teachers at General Wolfe Elementary School, Vancouver, B.C., began the planning and design of an interrelated curriculum with a global perspective. The implementation of the interrelated grade 6 and 7 curriculum, named "Wolfe's E.Y.E.S. (Elementary Youth Earth Studies)", commenced in …
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Balancing Two Worlds: Female Indo-Fijian Immigrant Youth in Their Public and Private Domains and the Emergence of the New Hybridity
… study of female Indo-Fijian immigrant youth in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, I discuss the concept of hybridity through investigating the way in which the public and school life and the private and home life influence the expression of ethnicity, nationality, and identity. There is a clear …
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Policy provisions for public access to television : democratic and educational implications in Canada and the United States
… and a case study of two cable systems, one in Vancouver, B.C. the other in Seattle, Washington, supplies empirical data to corroborate how policy provisions for public access to television are interpreted and implemented. A neo-Gramscian concept of ideological hegemony broadly frames this study …
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Social media enter the stadium : a case study on the political economy of media at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Just prior to the opening of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games, a 21-year-old Georgian luger died after his sled left the Whistler Sliding Centre track travelling at 140 kilometres an hour. The following paper uses Critical Discourse Analysis and the Bahktinian notion of intertextuality to examine …