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2020-08-01

Vittala, Kalyani

To study the interaction between traditional and social media in Canadian political coverage and how that may inform public opinion by exploring the agenda setting and intermedia agenda setting effects between Canada’s two national newspapers and Twitter during the 2019 Canadian federal election....

2016-12-01

China Institute, University of Alberta

2017-07-01

China Institute, University of Alberta

For the seventh consecutive year the China Institute at the University of Alberta (CIUA) has polled Albertans for their views on a wide range of issues related to the People’s Republic of China (PRC). This study stems from CIUA’s commitment to help foster a better understanding of China and its...

2014-10-16

Nykiforuk, C. I., Wild, T. C., Raine, K. D.

Purpose The knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of key policy influencers and the general public can support or hinder the development of public policies that support cancer prevention. To address gaps in knowledge concerning healthy public policy development, views on cancer causation and...

2019-11-11

Lupien, Pascal

SSHRC Awarded PDG 2020: The ongoing political, social, and economic marginalization of Indigenous women exposes them to poverty, social exclusion, and violence. But Indigenous women are not victims; they are actively involved in resistance efforts and have created civil society organizations...

2012-10-15

Moure, Kenneth

SSHRC Awarded IG 2013: Black markets in wartime expose serious economic and social tensions; the choices faced in wartime are instructive for understanding contemporary issues in economic regulation. In France, wartime shortages and state controls accentuated stresses that reveal critical...

2016-11-28

Trimble, Linda

SSHRC Awarded PDG 2017: This new partnership between university and government institutions will illuminate women's access to and impact in political leadership roles. We plan to achieve this objective by exhaustively detailing and comparing the representative contexts, pathways to the...

Fall 2015

Doerksen, Chad

This research explores public opinion regarding the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) program in Canada. It is situated within an important moment in the program’s history, in a province with particularly widespread reliance on it. Utilizing the 2013 Alberta Survey – a province-wide telephone survey...