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 …
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Jewish migration from Romania began in mid-1900, and, owing to its particular political and temporal context, from its outset until early 1903 this migration commanded significant attention and interventions from the governments of the United States and Canada and from the organ…
Limited acculturation of older ethnic immigrants in Canada may adversely impact their psychological well-being. When older adults are equipped with effective means of communication and are familiarized with the services and resources of their host country, they can expand their …
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 dissertation examines Arab Iraqi refugee women's experiences of the "war on terror" from a gendered historical perspective within the contemporary structural violence of state policies and practices in the Canadian context. Drawing on critical anti-racist and anti-colonial …
Police agencies assume a significant role in the creation and enforcement of government counter-terrorism strategies. Modern police organizations are tasked with preventing and responding to terrorism, in addition to their traditional policing duties of crime prevention, crimina…
Researchers examining the influence of the individualism-collectivism value dimension on procedural preferences for conflict resolution (e.g., Leung, 1987; Leung, Bond, Carment, Krishnan, & Liebrand, 1990; Leung & Lind, 1986) have suggested that people from individualistic socie…
This dissertation investigates changing state policies toward immigrants in Germany, Japan, Canada, and Malaysia. A number of rights have been extended to immigrants in the post WWII era and much of this progress is attributable to international human rights norms. Nonetheless, …
Canada has long been known as a respected and responsible mediator who aimed for balance in its position with regard to the Arab-Israeli conflict in the Middle East. This reputation gave Canada credibility and allowed it to play a balanced role on the international scene. It is …
Sustainable forest management has become a catchword in many developing and developed countries around the world due to rapid depletion of forest resources and resulting socio-economic concerns and environmental degradation. This study is about two sustainable forestry programs …
This dissertation is a comparative study of the changing nature of social classification and identity formation from the sixteenth century to the present. It seeks to understand how and why certain dimensions of human difference become important. In particular, it illustrates ho…
Offshore jurisdictions have been the object of a legal struggle between onshore governments, wealthy individuals, enterprises and international organizations that has resulted in the passing of anti-offshore legislation. Trusts are one of the most important vehicles currently us…
I examine a possible method of deriving social and economic rights from the existing constitutional text by implying a broad social interpretation to rights that are currently perceived as civil and political. This thesis grapples with the status of social and economic interests…
In my first essay, I investigate whether business cycle dynamics are characterized by asymmetries. I provide evidence on this issue using a variety of time series models. My approach is fully parametric and testing strategy is robust to any conditional heteroskedasticity, outlie…
Can states formally recognize cultural diversity and, at the same time, preserve their political and social unity and provide the main public goods of modern citizenship? Is such conciliation feasible? Is it morally desirable? In the current context of unprecedented expression a…
Dans le cadre de cette thèse, nous avons cherché à répondre à trois questions de recherche en vérifiant une série d'hypothèses établissant des liens entre certaines dimensions de la culture nationale et l'intérêt des gestionnaires pour la richesse média d'une part, et d'autre pa…
In the 1970s the Canadian government took a strong stand against apartheid sport policies. Despite Canada’s limited sporting links with South Africa, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau and his Liberal government took on a leading Commonwealth position in promoting the isolati…
The purpose of this thesis was threefold – First to investigate the emergence from the existing health system of nurse practitioners as a new occupation. Second to make sense of how nurse practitioners developed as primary care providers in the province of Ontario. Third to unde…
Under Colonial Copyright Law, the British Museum Library acquired a substantial collection of Canadian photographs between 1895 and 1924, taken by a variety ofamateurs and professionals across Canada. Due to the agency of individual photographers, the requirements of copyright l…