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Title Policing Poverty: Race, Space and the Fear of Crime after the Year of the Gun (2005) in Suburban Toronto

Excerpt In 2005, firearm homicides in Toronto spiked to unprecedented levels, prompting mainstream media to label 2005 as the ‘Year of the Gun’. While the majority of those killed were young black men in Toronto’s impoverished post-war suburbs, the shooting death of a young white woman downtown reframed the problem of gun violence in popular and […]

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SDGs Gender EqualityPeace, Justice and Strong InstitutionsReduced Inequalities

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Sustainable Cities and Communities

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Keywords equality, governance, inequality, poverty, urban

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Title From Elusive Conceptions to Arrested Developments: Leadership for Social Justice

Excerpt The general question guiding this research is: how do equity minded administrators lead for social justice? The following specific questions are addressed in this study: How have participants become oriented to social justice? How do educational administrators conceptualize leadership for social justice? What are the barriers and supports that participants experienced in leading for social […]

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Author Singh, Herveen

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SDGs Peace, Justice and Strong InstitutionsQuality Education

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Departments Theory and Policy Studies in Education

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Keywords equitable, justice

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Title Can the Assembly of First Nations Education Action Plan Succeed? Colonialism’s Effect on Traditional Knowledge in Two Communities.

Excerpt have altered the context and practices of the First Nations culture and by so doing, compromised their will and capacity to implement traditional education policies, a situation that must be linked to realization of the Education Action Plan’s goals. The goal of the study was to assist policy makers, community leaders, and educators in recognizing […]

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Author Spence, Martha E.

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SDGs Quality Education

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Departments Theory and Policy Studies in Education

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Keywords educat

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Title Predictors of Hospitalization Among Cystic Fibrosis Patients in Ontario

Excerpt This dissertation involved linking a clinical cystic fibrosis (CF) data registry with administrative databases to evaluate clinical, demographic, and geographical predictors of hospitalization in CF patients living in Ontario over a 10 year period. In addition, this work assessed the ability of administrative data to identify individuals with CF using the clinical registry as the […]

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Author Stephenson, Anne

Advisor Hux, Janet ||Corey, Mary

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SDGs Good Health and Well-BeingNo Poverty

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Departments Health Policy, Management and Evaluation

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Keywords heakth, socioeconomic

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Title Capitalist Transformation and the Evolution of Civil Society in a South Indian Fishery

Excerpt This thesis employs Karl Polanyi’s concept of the double-movement of capitalism to trace the trajectory of a social movement that arose in response to capitalist transformation in the fishery of Kanyakumari district, south India. Beginning in the 1980s, this counter-movement militantly asserted community control over marine resources, arguing that intensified production for new markets should […]

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Author Sundar, Aparna

Advisor Barker, Jonathan

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic GrowthResponsible Consumption and ProductionSustainable Cities and Communities

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Departments Political Science

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Keywords production, rural, worker

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Title Essays in Empirical Development Economics

Excerpt This thesis consists of three empirical chapters that examine issues in development economics. Chapter 1 focuses on the effects of civil wars on the welfare of individuals. I use a unique data set that contains information on war casualties of the 1992-1995 Bosnian War, and exploit the variation in war intensity and birth cohorts of […]

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Author Swee, Eik Leong

Advisor Benjamin, Dwayne

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic GrowthIndustry, Innovation and InfrastructureSustainable Cities and Communities

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Departments Economics

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Title Materials Engineering for Stable and Efficient PbS Colloidal Quantum Dot Photovoltaics

Excerpt Environmental and economic factors demand radical advances in solar cell technologies. Organic and polymer photovoltaics emerged in the 1990’s that have led to low cost per unit area, enabled in significant part by the convenient manufacturing of roll-to-roll-processible solution-cast semiconductors. Colloidal quantum dot solar cells dramatically increase the potential for solar conversion efficiency relative to […]

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Author Tang, Jiang

Advisor Sargent, Edward H.

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SDGs Affordable and Clean EnergyClimate Action

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Departments Materials Science and Engineering

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Keywords energy, environment, solar

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Title Judicial Responses to the Indefinite Detention of Non-citizens Subject to Removal Orders: A Comparative Study of Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada

Excerpt In the period 2004-2007, the highest courts of Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada handed down judgments on the legality of the indefinite detention of non-citizens, specifically non-citizens subject to a removal order whose removal was frustrated. Each of the governments claimed that its intention to remove the non-citizens if and when it became viable […]

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Author Thwaites, Rayner Bartholomew

Advisor Dyzenhaus, David

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SDGs Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Keywords rights

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Title What Happens after Establishment? The Indirect Impacts of the Gypsy Moth on Native Forest Caterpillar Communities

Excerpt Invasive insects are considered one of the most serious threats affecting forests today; however, surprisingly little research has addressed the impacts of invasive species establishment on native forest insect communities. Such information is lacking for even the most thoroughly studied invasive forest insect, the gypsy moth. Using gypsy moth as a case study, my thesis […]

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Author Timms, Laura

Advisor Smith, Sandy

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SDGs Life on LandZero Hunger

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Departments Forestry

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Keywords food, forest, resilien*

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Title Old Coyotes: Life Histories of Aging Gay Men in Rural Canada

Excerpt Current understandings of aging and the life course are largely based on taken-for-granted hetero-normative assumptions. Gay men lack aging road maps that are unique to their life course experiences and which consider the changing contextual and social conditions that shape their participation choices in family and community roles. This is particularly so for gay men […]

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Author Trentham, Barry

Advisor Cole, Ardra

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SDGs Gender EqualitySustainable Cities and Communities

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Departments Adult Education and Counselling Psychology

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Keywords queer, rural, urban

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