Search
Skip to Search Results- 1Aftergood, Olivia SR
- 1Aggarwal, Pradeep Kumar
- 1Ahmad, Waseem
- 1Akalu, Girmaw Abebe
- 1Alonge, Funmi
- 1Armstrong, Patricia Gail
-
Old Communication – New Means: The Linguistic Study of Ukrainian Orthodox Church and Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church Websites
DownloadSpring 2014
This dissertation is concerned with the communicative potential of websites. The World Wide Web is a relatively new locale for communication on which an increasing number of users rely daily in Canada and in Ukraine. However, up to the present time there has been no unified framework for the...
-
Oncology Patients’ Experiences of Using Electronic Patient Portals and Other Online Tools to Support Care and Treatment
DownloadSpring 2022
With the current proliferation of clinical information technologies in Canada, patient portals and other online tools are becoming increasingly adopted in healthcare. Many people use the Internet for health-related purposes to connect with peer support groups and read about their medical...
-
Perceptions and practices of flood risk management: A case study of flood risk governance in High River, Alberta
DownloadFall 2019
Flooding is a major problem across Canada, causing more property damage than any other hazard, and is expected to increase in severity due to climate change. Alberta’s 2013 floods—one of the most expensive natural disasters in Canada’s history—revealed the vulnerability of the province to such...
-
Planning for the Future of Urban Mobility: Interviews with Planning Professionals in Five Major Canadian Cities
DownloadFall 2020
Given that our urban centres have been dominated by the private car for a hundred years, this thesis asked what is next for Canadian cities. Previous research on the future of urban mobility, and specifically city planning and autonomous vehicles, has been from an American or Australian context....
-
Political Ideology and Heritage Language Development in a Chilean Exile Community: A Multiple Case Study
DownloadSpring 2013
Our current understanding of Spanish heritage language development (HLD) in the English-speaking world is largely restricted to non-refugee Hispanic groups in the United States (Potowski & Rothman, 2011). The present thesis addresses this gap by probing the relationship between the leftist...
-
Producer stated preference for hypothetical new winter wheat varieties on the Canadian Prairies
DownloadSpring 2010
This research project gauges producer demand on the Canadian Prairies for the attributes of new hypothetical varieties of winter wheat. Data collected from a survey of producers in Western Canada is used to determine the values and attitudes of producers regarding new winter wheat variety traits...
-
Property in Canada’s Land Claims Policy: A Case Study of The Tsawwassen First Nation Final Agreement
DownloadFall 2019
In 1995, Canada implemented the Government of Canada’s Approach to Implementation of the Inherent Right and Negotiation of Aboriginal Self-Government (hereafter, the land claims policy). Since then, the land claims policy has been the primary way Canada engages with land claims. The policy is a...
-
Public Perception of Hydraulic Fracturing and the Oil and Gas Industry in Western Canada: What the Frack is Going On?
DownloadSpring 2021
Hydraulic fracturing (HF), colloquially known as fracking, is an extremely divisive topic. One of its associated risks is the potential for induced seismicity (IS). Although HF has been around since the 1950s in Alberta, factors affecting public perception of the risks of IS are not fully...