Since the Fisheries Act was enacted in 1868, a year after Confederation, it has been regarded as one of Canada’s oldest and most important environmental laws. Despite the powerful environmental protections provided by the Fisheries Act, various environmental impact studies conducted throughout the Jordan River watershed show high concentrations of copper, hydrocarbon, and wood waste […]

Abortion is an essential component of comprehensive healthcare, where lack of access to safe, affordable, timely and respectful abortion is, according to the World Health Organization, a “critical public health and human rights issue.” Trans people are often left out of abortion research, as well as the clinical delivery of abortion care, which focuses on […]

Happipad is a not-for-profit Canadian corporation which leverages technology to facilitate the matchmaking and support of home-sharing between refugees and hosts in Canada. Launching its pilot projects in Metro Vancouver and Toronto, Happipad wants to assess its effectiveness and benefits for refugees and minimize its potential barriers to make it a replicable framework for implementation […]

While many Canadian planning practitioners are familiar with the harmful legacies of transportation infrastructure development in the United States, particularly as it relates to the displacement and forced removal of racialized and low-income communities, there is comparatively little documentation or awareness of this history in Canada. This research project will contribute to filling this knowledge […]

Algorithms play an increasingly important role in our interactions with digital services. Companies like Spotify and Pandora use algorithms to identify mood-relevant music from massive databases of over 100 million tracks and deliver them to users through personalized playlists. To achieve this, they rely on software tools to analyze relevant musical properties—like timing (slow–fast), intensity […]

People in prisons and on parole in Canada face extreme barriers to health, wellbeing and social belonging. However, there is limited research on the specific processes and outcomes of criminalization and incarceration, and gaps in understanding can lead to policies and laws that do more harm than good. Given this, this project will support partnership […]

First implemented in January 2023, the Bridge Healing Transitional Accommodation program offers transitional housing for people experiencing homelessness who have been discharged from hospital emergency departments. The program provides wraparound community supports such as mental health and addiction services to help clients transition to permanent housing. In doing so, the program bridges the gap between […]

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The Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care (CWELCC) agreements are part of a recent policy by the Canadian government. The goals of CWELCC are to increase spending on and access to early childhood education and care (ECEC) across the country. Children from low-income families receive the most benefits from access to high quality ECEC, past […]

Ma recherche doctorale porte sur la représentation de la mémoire et de ses fragments au sein de l’espace urbain dans l’oeuvre romanesque et autobiographique de l’écrivain turc Orhan Pamuk, un des auteurs phares de la littérature mondiale contemporaine. La facture singulière de ses écrits repose sur le déploiement kaléidoscopique de la mémoire (individuelle, familiale, collective, […]

Le principal objectif de ce projet est de contribuer à développer les initiatives d’autoproduction alimentaire, plus précisément de jardins communautaires, par la démonstration des retombées, la sensibilisation et l’éducation. La recherche sera effectuée directement dans le milieu étudié, avec une implication directe au sein des jardins, des entrevues avec les participants ainsi qu’une collecte de […]