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2019-01-01

Evan Oddleifson

Since its launch in 2006, Google Trends has provided valuable data on the search patterns of internet users. This data has important applications for content and sentiment analysis, measuring public attitudes, public interest, unemployment, issue salience as well as surveilling, describing, and...

2021-10-26

Evan Oddleifson, Guofeng Wu, Tom Alton, Camille Bourgeois-Fortin, Darren Choi, Sean Janke, Shaoyan Sun, Xiaowen Zhang, Liang Ma

Canada and China have a strong history of economic connection and, through its rise to prominence over recent decades, China has become Canada’s second most important national economic partner, after the United States. Given the many countries re-evaluating their relationships with China,...

2016-05-25

Cowden, Brenna, Lee, Alyssa, Pollock, Karen

Purpose: Adoptions of non-special needs children from China have decreased dramatically over the past decade, while adoptions from the Waiting Child program have increased. Waiting children have identified medical needs or are over the age of 10 years. The purpose of this study was to determine...

1995-10-01

Xu, Xiaosong, Jeffrey, Scott

2019-08-01

Zaamout, Noureddin, Alton, Tom, Houlden, Gordon

The China Institute at the University of Alberta (CIUA) is pleased to publish this Occasional Paper titled “Examining Huawei’s Growth and Global Reach: Key Implications, Issues and the Canadian Connection.” This is the first publication by the China Institute on the subject of Huawei, but is one...

2020-12-01

Tom Alton, Evan Oddleifson

The China Institute at the University of Alberta (CIUA) is pleased to publish this Occasional Paper, titled “Foreign Investment Review in Canada: Assessing Chinese Investment amid a Re-Evaluation of the Investment Canada Act.” As Canada confronts historic global and bilateral challenges, the...

2022-01-18

Evan Oddleifson, Shaoyan Sun, Darren Choi, Sean Janke, Guofeng Wu, Camille Bourgeois-Fortin

Canada and Hong Kong have long shared close economic and people-to-people ties that have supported cultural exchange and mutual economic gain. Hong Kong also serves as a gateway between Canada and China, making the Canada-Hong Kong relationship key for Canada-China relations and the future of...

2014-08-11

Clover, Jennifer, Pollock, Karen, Goerz, Naomi

This study investigates the language, academic and social skills of 36 school-aged children and adolescents who were adopted from China as infants and toddlers. All participants were part of previous studies by Pollock (2005), Pollock &Yan (2009) and Pollock, Fleming & Gerke (2011). Standardized...

2013-05-01

Kruger, Mark

2013-02-01

Bao, Yu, Houlden, Gordon