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Regional-scale hydrologic settings buffer black spruce regeneration in the presence of post-fire droughts
DownloadSpring 2024
Lanti-Traikovski, Alexander A.
Climate change is increasing the frequency of droughts and wildfires, reducing tree recruitment, and altering post-fire species composition. In Canada’s western boreal forests, postfire recruitment, particularly of drought-intolerant coniferous species like black spruce, has declined in recent...
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Fall 2023
Indigenous self-determination in the Canadian North has and continues to be limited by the extractive and disempowering political economy of the mining industry. This thesis reports a community-based participatory research study which evaluates the perceptions of a sample of residents a group of...
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Fall 2023
The concept of resilience has been widely studied for decades. Recent streams of resilience research have focused on relational and environmental factors important for understanding risk and resilience beyond individual traits (Masten, Lucke, Nelson & Stallworthy, 2021). This systems perspective...
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Fall 2021
Poverty is a critical issue in Canada that needs to be researched and addressed. Many children and youth in Canada are impacted by poverty, this is defined by both low income and social hardships. Within the school environment, children, youth, and families experiencing poverty are more likely to...
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Fall 2021
Resilience, or one’s ability to respond to significant threat and achieve positive adaptation, is a highly researched and continually developing field of research. Due to the fact that approximately 32% of Canadians reported experiencing a history of physical, sexual, and/or exposure to intimate...
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Fall 2020
Sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth face higher rates of discrimination, comprehensive health challenges, and negative social repercussions than their heterosexual and cisgender peers. As a result, they are more likely to engage in substance use; ideate about, attempt, or die by suicide; drop...
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"The Strength behind the Uniform": Enlisting Gender and the Family in the Canadian Armed Forces
DownloadSpring 2020
The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) views military families as “the strength behind the uniform” because their contributions and sacrifices are considered essential to operational effectiveness, including retention, morale, and deployability. Today’s Canadian military families receive more...
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Spring 2020
Background: Psychological resilience is a dynamic process of positive adaptation in the face of adversity or trauma. Multiple Sclerosis (MS), a chronic neurological disease, engenders adversity because of its progressive, uncertain and variable course. Resilience in persons with MS depends on the...
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Spring 2019
This study investigates the experience of hope for emerging adults who demonstrate resilience in the transition from government care to independent living. Hope is a complex emotional construct that has been shown to be important in supporting positive developmental outcomes; however, there is...
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From Containment to Resilience: A Genealogy of the Governance of Mental Abnormality in Canada
DownloadSpring 2018
This dissertation uses a governmentality lens to map shifts in the categorization, problematization, and governance of mental abnormality in Canada, from pre-Confederation times until the present. Focusing in particular on several recent consultations and reports issued by the federal government...