The historical records of White Glacier (WG), a polythermal valley glacier found in northern Nunavut, Canada, are used alongside modern structural models and orthomosaics produced from Structure from Motion photogrammetry to assess change in the terminus region. Recognizing the …
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Desde os anos 70 do século XX, com a ascensão da sua posição política na comunidade internacional e a abolição dos atos de expulsão dos chineses de alguns países ocidentais, assim como os Estados Unidos da América, Austrália e Canadá, a República Popular da China conseguiu um am…
Natural climatic variability, changing climatic conditions, periodic droughts, andexcessive moisture events impact agriculture, industry, municipalities, and surface waterresource management throughout the Canadian Prairie Provinces. Persistent, large-areadroughts are some of th…
This thesis calls on White Italian-Canadians to recognize and re-structure their allegiance to White supremacy. It will draw from Critical Anti-Racist Theory (Dei & Lordan 2013; Omi & Winant 2002), Italian-Canadian Studies (Alba, 1985; Dickie, 1996; Guglielmo & Saler…
Despite being comparatively similar countries, the United States and Canada have taken very different historical tracks to developing their respective health care systems. While Canada incrementally developed a system of universal coverage through national public insurance, the …
By the turn of the twenty-first century, toleration of cultural difference or multiculturalism, broadly defined, became a hallmark of liberal democratic countries. As the first country to declare multiculturalism national policy in 1971, Canada became a world-renowned example. O…
The statistical modelling of extreme precipitation structures is essential in many aspects such as assessing and managing risks resulting from the occurrence of such extreme events for agricultural purposes, in particular. Typically, daily precipitation time series with many zer…
The discourse on the cultural practice of FGC has captured a lot of attention over the last several decades, and with international migration propelling what was once a private cultural practice onto the global stage, FGC has become a fixture in the international human rights an…
In the past decade, food (in)security has been recognized as an important public health and human rights issue in Inuit Nunangat, the Inuit homeland in Arctic Canada. Nunavut in particular has been characterized as the epicenter of a Northern food crisis. While a growing number …
This dissertation is based on data collected through informal conversations, formal interviews, and participant observation at community events over sixteen months of fieldwork with Arab Canadians living in Ottawa, Ontario. Most literature on Canadian national identity focuses o…
The aim of the present study was to identify specific types of maternal psychosocial stress experienced by women of ethnic minority status (Asian, Arab, Other Asian, African, First Nations and Latino) in relation to pregnancy and infant health. A secondary analysis of variables …
The 1960 was a momentous year for Nigeria as it made a transition from British to self rule. But this change in status posed serious difficulties: because of her size, economic potential and the possibility of playing a leading role in African affairs, she was vulnerable to bein…
The Royal Canadian Navy employs Logistics Officers at sea, who possess a financial management specialty; financial resources are accounted and managed by Naval Logistics Officers in Her Majesty's Canadian Ships. The annual, deployed, financial expenditures, managed by Naval Logi…
My dissertation is the first empirically based study to closely examine the impacts of 9/11 on Canadian Muslim youth. It develops a critical analysis of how the general public supported by state practices, undermine the citizenship of Canadian Muslims, thereby impacting their id…
This thesis explores what it means to be an ethnic minority and a gang member in the course of becoming a Canadian. It is based on narratives of first-generation Iranian immigrant youths who migrated to Vancouver, British Columbia, in the 1990s and created a gang called Persian …
At a first glance, it may seem as though CBC has changed completely in coverage attitude, from pacifist to active engagement in Iraq. However, if this coverage is examined closer, it's clear that the CBC has not changed. The CBC suffers from the same problematic framing biases t…
This study examines the role of religion in the nationalist thought of Lionel Groulx (1878-1967). It attempts to demonstrate that Groulx's understanding of the Incarnation constitutes a paradigm whereby he developed a rationale for the synthesis of Catholicism and French-Canadia…
Events are made to mean by their definers. So with one voice the international media "shocked' the world in 1995 with the story that the military regime in Nigeria hanged Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni ethnic rights activists. International reactions were dramatic especiall…
This thesis describes and analyses the inter-ethnic context of planning in Richmond, B.C., a suburban city of Vancouver with a population of 150,000 residents, approximately 40% of whom are of Chinese ethnicity. It describes how rapid and intense immigration from Hong Kong resul…