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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"royal commission"”.
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Commissioning genetic modification: The marginalisation of dissent in the royal commission on genetic modification
The Royal Commission on Genetic Modification (RCGM) appeared to be a 'public debate'. It sought the participation of people from a cross-section of society according to its broad terms of reference, and invited input on 'options' for the nation. The majority of the public and special interest …
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Once upon a common good: where have the commissions gone?
Since before Confederation, Royal Commissions on Learning have taken place across Canada in response to a number of challenging issues in education. However, little is known about their current use. This doctoral dissertation examines the role, purpose, aims, and goals of the last two that have …
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Transfer of jurisdiction for education: A paradox in regard to the constitutional entrenchment of Indian rights to education and the existing treaty No. 3 rights to education.
… system, is well documented in the report of the Royal commission on Aboriginal People and elsewhere. From this archaic beginning the government has recently taken the initiative to transfer jurisdiction for education to Treaty No. 3 area Indian bands. This initiative is examined in this thesis. …
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Unsettling epigenetics: contested understandings of trauma and evidence in settler colonial Australia
… of harm to the tensions present in the 1984-85 Royal Commission into British Nuclear Tests in Australia, a Royal Commission that sought to bring to light the ongoing, intergenerational impacts of the British nuclear testing program that occurred in South Australia in the 1950s-60s. By placing …
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Interest group involvement in constituency election campaigns
… Association dataset created in 1991 for the Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing. SPSSPC+ was used to analyze the relationships between variables in four main areas: political party affiliation, geographic variables, constituency association characteristics, and the …
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The improvement of Sydney : infrastructure and administration 1900-20
… 1900-20. The thesis focuses upon the seminal Royal Commission for the Improvement of the City of Sydney and its Suburbs 1909 and culminates in the pioneering Local Government Act 1919. The role of recent innovations in technology, including steel, reinforced concrete, and electricity, are …
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The improvement of Sydney : infrastructure and administration 1900-20
… 1900-20. The thesis focuses upon the seminal Royal Commission for the Improvement of the City of Sydney and its Suburbs 1909 and culminates in the pioneering Local Government Act 1919. The role of recent innovations in technology, including steel, reinforced concrete, and electricity, are …
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New reproductive and genetic technologies in Canada : towards a policy that manages technology and reproductive rights
… of NRGTs, the Canadian government established a Royal Commission (which reported in 1993), and has begun to institute a three part policy process that includes a voluntary moratorium on some of the morally and ethically controversial practices, the proposed prohibitive measures of Bill C-47, and …
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The Racial Mosaic: Race, Cultural Pluralism, and Canadian Multiculturalism
… immigration policy, citizenship, and finally the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism. The final chapter examines the shift from ad-hoc cultural pluralism to an official policy of multiculturalism. It demonstrates that this policy was focused on Canadians of non- British, non-French, …
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The Art of Sharing: The Richer Provinces Versus the Poorer Provinces Since Confederation
… It explores the fierce domestic debates and the Royal Commission studies during this struggle to address fiscal inequalities among provincial governments. It also investigates the international models that Ottawa consulted in its quest to devise equalization, concentrating upon the pivotal …
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Long-Term Assessments Of Some Vessel-Source Marine Pollutants
… Environment, Transport and the Regions, European Commission, International Maritime Organisation, Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, Smithsonian Institution for Short-Lived Phenomena and the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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Taxation of agricultural lands with special reference to Manitoba
… his separate report, in the Final Report of the Royal Commission on Taxation of 1901). Quoting this, Professor Nicholson sketches the history of what he calls the "Denationalization of the Land" and draws the following conclusion. By the beginning of the 18th century the Crown, as "representing …
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Women naval dockyard workers in two 19th century dockyard towns: Chatham and Plymouth
… aspects of the employment of women in the Royal Naval Dockyards of Chatham and Plymouth in the nineteenth century in order to enlarge the current body of knowledge about the lives of women workers. Through an examination of the history of the two towns and the impact of the dockyards on …
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TAX, GAAR and THE RULE OF LAW
… of tax avoidance and recommends appointing a Royal Commission to investigate the matter.
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The bureaucracy of empathy : vivisection and the question of animal pain in Britain, 1876-1912
… study ends in 1912 with the findings of a second Royal Commission that evaluated the workings of the Act. The Commission reaffirmed many of the Home Office polices regarding vivisection and their underlying premises. The Act mandated official supervision of scientific experiments that "calculated …
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War Criminal, Multiculturalism, and Post-war Liberalism in Canada
… were resident in the country by establishing a Royal Commission. Under the leadership of Judge Jules Deschênes the Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals was asked to investigate three questions: if war criminals had migrated into the country; if they had, how many were still residents; and, …
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John Buchan (1875-1940) and the First World War: A Scot's Career in Imperial Britain
… the peerage as Lord Tweedsmuir of Elsfield, his royal commission as Governor-General of Canada. This dissertation concludes that, while pursuing an imperial career, John Buchan established a relationship with a powerful clique that enabled him to become part of the machinery of state.
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The State of First Nations Education: Two Conversations About Education Post-CAP
… research questions of: (1) What changes has the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) made to Ogweho:weh education in Canada; and (2) How does the community understand success at Six Nations? One hundred seventy-three documents (international, national, provincial, and local) and 52 …
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