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Title A White Wedding? The Racial Politics of Same-sex Marriage in Canada

Excerpt In A White Wedding? The Racial Politics of Same-Sex Marriage, I examine the inter-locking relations of power that constitute the lesbian/gay subject recognized by the Canadian nation-state as deserving of access to civil marriage. Through analysis of legal documents, Parliamentary and Senate debates, and interviews with lawyers, I argue that this lesbian/gay subject achieves intelligibility […]

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SDGs Gender EqualityPeace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Keywords equality, queer, rights

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Title Green Ethics and Green ‘Faith’: An Exploration of Environmental Ethics and Spirituality in a Technological Age

Excerpt The main concern of this dissertation is exploring and elucidating the nature and the relationship of religion/spirituality and ethics in the context of environmentalism, within the larger arena of liberal, technological society. It is driven foremost by a need for clear understanding of not only what these terms mean and what they represent, but also […]

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Author Maintenay, Andre Luc

Advisor Schmidt, Lawrence ||Scharper, Stephen

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SDGs Climate ActionGood Health and Well-Being

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Keywords environment, health

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Title Recycling the City: The Impact of Urban Change on the Informal Waste-Recovery Trade in Hanoi, Vietnam

Excerpt This three-paper dissertation explores how broader (and often unchallenged) changes to political economy at multiple geographic and economic scales impact long-standing ‘informal’ practices of waste recovery and recycling in Hanoi, Vietnam. This research is based on a survey of 575 informal waste collectors and 264 waste intermediaries as well as 73 in-depth interviews. Paper I […]

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Author Mitchell, Carrie L.

Advisor Maclaren, Virginia W.

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SDGs Affordable and Clean EnergyDecent Work and Economic GrowthResponsible Consumption and Production

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Departments Geography

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Keywords labour, recycl*, waste

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Title Federalism From Below? The Emergence of Aboriginal Multilevel Governance in Canada. A Comparison of the James Bay Crees and Kahnawa:ke Mohawks

Excerpt Using the language of rights and national self-determination, Aboriginal peoples have mounted a fundamental challenge to Canadian federalism in the past forty years. In order to move beyond the imposed structure of colonial governance, Aboriginal peoples have sought to establish their own form of federal relationship with contemporary Canadian governments and society. While much attention […]

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Author Papillon, Martin

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SDGs Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Title Marginal Regions in Discursive Space: An Examination of Socio-economic Conditions, Development Paths and Spatial Differentiation in the Economic Systems of the Canadian and Russian North

Excerpt Marginal regions in discursive space: an examination of socio-economic conditions, development paths and spatial differentiation in the economic systems of the Canadian and Russian North Andrey N Petrov Degree: Doctor of Philosophy Department of Geography University of Toronto 2008 This dissertation is an effort to provide a new insight into the problem of regional development […]

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Author Petrov, Andrey

Advisor DiFrancesco, Richard J.

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SDGs Industry, Innovation and InfrastructureNo Poverty

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Keywords innovation, socioeconomic

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Title Security Community in and through Practice: The Power Politics of Russia-NATO Diplomacy

Excerpt How do security communities develop in and through practice? For more than forty years, security relations between Russia and NATO member states were structured by the spectre of mutual assured destruction as symbolized by thousands of nuclear missiles targeted at each other. Less than a generation after the end of the Cold War, the possibility […]

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Author Pouliot, Vincent

Advisor Adler, Emanuel

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Title Successful Priority Setting: A Conceptual Framework and an Evaluation Tool

Excerpt A growing demand for services and expensive innovative technologies is threatening the sustainability of healthcare systems worldwide. Decision makers in this environment struggle to set priorities appropriately, particularly because they lack consensus about which values should guide their decisions; this is because there is no agreement on best practices in priority setting. Decision makers (or […]

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Author Sibbald, Shannon L.

Advisor Martin, Douglas K.

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SDGs Good Health and Well-Being

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Departments Health Policy, Management and Evaluation

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Title Feeding the Brethren: Grain Provisioning of Norwich Cathedral Priory, c. 1280-1370

Excerpt The present dissertation attempts to follow and analyze each and every individual stage of food provisioning of a late medieval monastic community. Chapter One is an introductory survey, describing the topic, its status quaestionis, problems and methodology. Chapter Two establishes the geography of crops in the rural hinterland of Norwich, with each manor specializing in […]

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Author Slavin, Philip

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SDGs Sustainable Cities and CommunitiesZero Hunger

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Departments Medieval Studies

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Keywords food, rural

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Title International Patent Law: Cooperation, Harmonization and An Institutional Analysis of WIPO and the WTO

Excerpt This work considers international cooperation or harmonization in patent law and analyzes the two main international patent law governance institutions: the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). A welfarist approach is adopted, proposing that international patent law should improve global welfare, subject to assumptions that the preferences of the world […]

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Author Stack, Alexander

Advisor Trebilcock, Michael

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic GrowthIndustry, Innovation and InfrastructurePeace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Reduced Inequalities

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Title Public Reason and Canadian Constitutional Law

Excerpt Liberals claim that the exercise of state power must be justified on terms that all citizens can reasonably accept. They also support democracy. The challenge is to bring these two desideratum in line– to ensure that democratic deliberations are somehow predicated on claims that all citizens can reasonably accept. Put differently, the challenge is to […]

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Author Thomas, Bryan

Advisor Moreau, Sophia

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