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2022-04-05
Konnikov, Alla, Rets, Irina, Hughes, Karen D., Al-Ani, Jabir Alshehabi, Denier, Nicole, Ding, Lei, Hu, Shenggang, Hu, Yang, Jiang, Bei, Kong, Linglong, Tarafdar, Monideepa, Yu, Dengdeng
The BIAS case study describes the aims and objectives of the ‘BIAS: Responsible AI for labour market equality’ project, the research process, and the lessons learned at the mid-way point of the project. It draws on two main sources of information: interviews conducted internally with six founding...
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2013-01-01
unpublished ms. for Cultural Topologies | Social Spaces. An abridged version appeared in 'The Virtuality of Urban Culture: Blanks, Dark Moments and Blind Fields.' Cartographies of Place, M. Darroch and J. Marchessault (eds.), Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2013. pp.67-84. This...
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2011-01-01
Gow, Gordon, Waidyanatha, Nuwan
This chapter describes how mobile phones can play a vital role in building sustainable last-mile early warning systems provided that they are deployed within an effective use strategy. The HazInfo Project was made possible with funding from Canada's International Development Research Centre and...
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No One Can Serve Two Masters: The Religious Conundrum of Conservative Party Leaders in Canada
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Keysel Alberto Aranzamendez Besa
This 100-page Honors thesis paper is a comprehensive examination of why Conservative party leaders tend to have a difficult time winning a general federal election in Canada. The research question that this thesis will address is the following: What do the cases of Manning, Day, Harper, and...
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Race, Discrimination, and Trust in Police: Insights from Black Canadians
2024-11-12
Existing studies on race and policing in Canada have shown that Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) experience discrimination and excessive police use of force. This paper examines the relationship between experience of discrimination and level of trust in police by narrowing its focus...
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2019-02-01
The research creation project "CRSC Lightbox" presents a ‘light show’ of publicly projected still images and short moving images. The theme of the project was public skating and outdoor community infrastructure. The hand-drawn logo design is intended to express the temporality of lightbox...
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2017-12-01
This paper sets out to discover the intangible complement of toxic material that is felt through its effect. It begins from the qualities of the toxic and considers the historical conception of the toxin as an external substance that brings benefit and illumination but is lethal in larger doses....
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Community Engagement in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences: Academic Dispositions, Institutional Dilemmas
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Dorow, Sara, Acuña, Nicole Smith
Engaged scholarship is increasingly concerned with how community engagement might be institutionalized in the contemporary university. At the same time, it must be attentive to diverse academic approaches to knowledge and to the forms of engagement associated with them. Attention to this...
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2019-01-26
Hughes, Karen D., Silver, William A.
Contemporary work is increasingly mobile, sparking new challenges for scholars of work and organizations. In this review article, we argue that a ‘mobilities lens’ offers strong potential for rethinking established approaches, focusing on one important sub-field: workfamily studies. Drawing on a...