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Title Food, Eating and the Body: An Account of Women’s Lived Experiences Across the Lifespan

Excerpt The purpose of this study was to explore women’s subjective food and eating experiences from childhood through to adulthood and the ways in which these experiences either connected or disconnected them from their appetites for food and eating. The present study used a qualitative life history methodology, the goal of which is to assess individuals’ […]

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SDGs Zero Hunger

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Title Perspectives on Quality in Minority Education in China: The Case of Sunan Yughur Autonomous County, Gansu

Excerpt This exploratory multiple embedded case study investigates perspectives on education reform under conditions of minority language endangerment in Sunan Yughur Autonomous County, a minority-district in northwest China. The study included three school sites: a Yughur minority urban school; a Yughur minority rural district school, and a Yughur majority rural district school and four embedded cases: […]

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SDGs Quality EducationSustainable Cities and Communities

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Departments Curriculum, Teaching and Learning

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Keywords educat, rural, urban

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Title Railroad Crossings: The Transnational World of North America, 1850-1910

Excerpt The last quarter of the nineteenth century is often referred to as the “Golden Age” of railroad building. More track was laid in this period in North America than in any other period. The building of railroads was considered synonymous with nation building and economic progress. Railway workers were the single largest occupational group in […]

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Author Berkowitz, Christine Ann

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic GrowthPeace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Departments History

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Keywords institution, worker

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Title Marketing Institutions of Afforestation Generated Carbon Offsets in Canada: Political Sustainability, Ideology and the New Institutional Economics

Excerpt Anthropogenically forced climate change has emerged as one of the most important, and polarizing, issues of our time. Afforestation generated carbon offset projects hold a position in Canada as potentially influential, yet frustratingly under-utilized, options to mitigate climate change. This dissertation responds to the question, “what are the economic implications of afforestation generated carbon offset […]

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Author Biggs, Jeffrey

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SDGs Climate ActionPeace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Departments Forestry

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Keywords climate, institution

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Title Children’s Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV): Challenging Assumptions about Child Protection Practices

Excerpt Objective: While child welfare policy and legislation in Canada and other regions has increasingly defined children who are exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV) as maltreated, little is known about the response of the child welfare system to children exposed to IPV. This dissertation seeks to determine the response of child protection services to reports […]

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Author Black, Tara Loise

Advisor Regehr, Cheryl

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SDGs Good Health and Well-Being

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Keywords well being

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Title When Everything Matters: Comparing the Experiences of First Nations and Non-Aboriginal Children Removed from their Families in Nova Scotia from 2003 to 2005

Excerpt The Canadian Incidence Study on Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (Trocme, 2001) found that structural factors such as poverty, poor housing and substance misuse contribute to the over-representation of First Nations children in child welfare care and yet there is very little information on the experiences of First Nations and Non-Aboriginal children after they are […]

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Author Blackstock, Cynthia (Cindy)

Advisor Regehr, Cheryl

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SDGs No Poverty

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Title Low-income Mothers, Provisioning, and Childcare Policy: A Vision of Shared Caring

Excerpt This research examines how childcare policy in Ontario, Canada assists and constrains low-income urban women’s strategies of provisioning for their children. Childcare policy refers to the range of programs that assist families in reconciling paid work and parenthood. In Ontario, Canada, these programs include childcare fee subsidies, tax deductions, parental leave policies, child benefits/allowances and […]

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Author Cerny, Judy Marie

Advisor Neysmith, Sheila

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic GrowthGender EqualityPeace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Sustainable Cities and Communities

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Keywords labour, rights, urban, women

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Title Challenging the Behavioural Model: Exploring Individual, Interpersonal, and Structural Predictors of Adolescent Dual Protection Use

Excerpt The optimal model to support adolescent sexual health is the concurrent use of hormonal birth control and condoms. This dual protection approach prioritizes protection against unplanned pregnancy as well as sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). In order to explore individual, interpersonal and structural factors that influence adolescent protection use, multivariate Chi-squared […]

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Author Cook, Charlene

Advisor Fuller-Thomson, Esme

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Title Getting Behind the Grain: The Politics of Producer Opposition to GM Wheat on the Canadian Prairies

Excerpt On May tenth, 2004 Monsanto announced that it would discontinue breeding and field level research of transgenic Roundup Ready (RR) wheat. This decision was heavily influenced by the widespread rejection of RR wheat by Canadian prairie producers who voiced their opposition through a diverse coalition of rural and urban organizations. With six of the nine […]

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Author Eaton, Emily Marie

Advisor Prudham, W. Scott

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SDGs Sustainable Cities and CommunitiesZero Hunger

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Departments Geography

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Keywords agriculture, cities*, rural, urban

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Title Without Intention: Rural Responses to Uncovering the Hidden Aspects of Homelessness in Ontario 2000 to 2007

Excerpt This thesis analyzes the impact of the political decision to broaden the scope of the Government of Canada’s 3-year National Homelessness Initiative (Human Resource Development Canada, NHI, 2002) from an urban focus to one that includes smaller communities. This change provided the opportunity to study the phenomenon of homelessness and how rural responses are formed. […]

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Author Elias, Brenda Mary

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SDGs Peace, Justice and Strong InstitutionsSustainable Cities and Communities

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