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Title Loaded Words: Race, Ethnicity, Language and Culture in the Construction in Chinese-Canadian Identity

Excerpt This thesis presents an ethnographic study based in the city of Toronto on how ethnic Chinese negotiate their ambivalence towards the category “Chinese-Canadian”, particularly in relation to discourses about race, ethnicity and language. It is the finding of this study that second generation, economically privileged ethnic Chinese women are likely to feel most comfortable with […]

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SDGs Gender Equality

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Title “A Clinic for the World”: Race, Biomedical Citizenship, and Gendered National Subject Formation in Canada

Excerpt On October 21st , 2005 the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that immigration officials “can no longer assess potential immigrants to be ‘medically inadmissible’ to Canada solely on the basis of a person’s disability” and their likelihood to make “excessive demands on Canadian social services” (Chadha 2005, 1). In this thesis I will explore this […]

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Author Ejiogu, Nwadiogo

Advisor Nestel, Sheryl ||Alexander, M. Jacqui

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SDGs Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Title Ghanaian Indigenous Health Practices: The Use of Herbs

Excerpt Herbal medicines remain integral part of indigenous health care system in Ghana. Most conventional health medicines are directly or indirectly derived from plants or herbs. Despite its significant role in modern medicine indigenous herbal practices has been on the low light for some time due to perceived antagonistic relationship that exists between practitioners of herbal […]

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Author Darko, Isaac N.

Advisor Wane, Njoki

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Title Food Democracy and The Construction of Risk in The Canadian and U.K. Media

Excerpt Using a critical discourse analysis (CDA), this thesis examines how risks and food security, in relation to Genetically Modified (GM) foods, are constructed within the media context. The project analyzes news articles that appeared in two Canadian newspapers, The Globe and Mail and The Toronto Star, and two British newspapers, The London Times and the […]

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Author Chénier, Lynn A.

Advisor Simon, Roger I. ||Boler, Megan

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SDGs Zero Hunger

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Title Constructing Whiteness: Regulating Aboriginal Identity

Excerpt Curricula in classrooms facilitate a national amnesia of colonialism that renders inconceivable the possibility of Aboriginal heritage or mixed-blood presence in national subjects. This thesis examines my own family history alongside the Indian Act and discourses of multiculturalism. I provide a personal account for the ways in which Aboriginal identities are regulated in Canada. I […]

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Author Boock, Rebecca

Advisor Cannon, Martin

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SDGs Quality Education

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Title Whose Education? Whose Nation? Exploring the Role of Government Primary School Textbooks of Bangladesh in Colonialist Forms of Marginalization and Exclusion of Poor and Ethnic Minority Children

Excerpt Through an analysis of Social Studies textbooks of the government primary school curriculum of Bangladesh, this thesis highlights the role of the education system in pushing poor and ethnic minority children out of school. The texts and graphics are analyzed in order to examine the ways in which they oppress and exclude these children by […]

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Author Abdullah, Silmi

Advisor Nestel, Sheryl

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Title The Impact of E-Health Adoption and Investment on Health Outcomes: A Study using Secondary Analysis

Excerpt The overall goal of this research study is to determine if there is a correlation between electronic health (e-Health) adoption, e-Health investment and better health outcomes in a hospital setting. To carry out this research, data with respect to e-Health spending, e-Health adoption and relevant health outcome indicator results for Ontario hospitals were analyzed to […]

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Author Gill, Nancy

Advisor Leonard, Kevin

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Departments Health Policy, Management and Evaluation

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Title The Idea of Constitutional Rights and the Transformation of Canadian Constitutional Law, 1930-1960

Excerpt This dissertation argues that the idea of constitutional rights transformed Canadian constitutional law well before the entrenchment of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Specifically, it locates the origins of Canada’s twentieth-century rights revolution in the constitutional thinking of scholars, lawyers, judges, and politicians at mid-century (1930-1960). Drawing on archival documents, personal papers, government […]

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Author Adams, Eric Michael

Advisor Schneiderman, David

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SDGs Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Title Oral Health Related Quality of Life Outcomes of Orthodontics in Children

Excerpt Contemporary conceptual models of health emphasize the importance of patient-based outcomes and recognize the complexity involved in their assessment. Various health conditions, personal, social, and environmental factors, are all thought to contribute to individual’s quality of life. However, the impact of orthodontic treatment on Oral Health-related Quality of Life (OH-QOL) outcomes in children has not […]

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Author Agou, Shoroog

Advisor Locker, David ||Tompson, Bryan ||Streiner, David

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Departments Dentistry

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Title Planning, Design and Scheduling of Flex-route Transit Service

Excerpt The rapid expansion of low-density suburban areas in North America has led to new travel patterns that require transit services to be more flexible. Flex-Route transit service, which combines fixed-route transit service with elements of demand-responsive transit service, has emerged as a viable transit option to address the travel needs of the residents of these […]

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Author Alshalalfah, Baha Waheed Yousef

Advisor Shalaby, Amer Saïd

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SDGs Sustainable Cities and Communities

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