The objective of this research project is to build capacity among Indigenous Nations and the conservation sector to catalyze reconciliation through the establishment of Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs). To do so, this we will investigate how knowledge and evidence-based research can be effectively communicated in cross-cultural and Indigenous contexts. While the field of […]

This research project centres on a new recovery centre for vulnerable adults with complex mental health and addictions issues in Toronto. Recovery is an approach to mental health that values personcentred care and self-direction. Recovery centres are educational centres, based in the community, that provide programs that help people live normal, meaningful lives in their […]

The project tests musicians and non-musicians with auditory feedback perturbation paradigms in speech and music. In auditory feedback perturbation studies, speakers speak or sing a sequence into a microphone and hear their own productions via special in-ear headphones, while specific parameters in the feedback signal are altered in real-time. In the two speech conditions, parts […]

ArchaeoSoft Inc. was created to develop the software STRATUM, a mobile platform for collecting archaeologiucla data while doing field work. The workflow archaeoilogists use is complex and requires significant ability to recognize important information and record it appropriately, to conduct archaeological procedures to the standards of regulators, to manage teams in their data collection process, […]

Inner-city organizations in Winnipeg have long called for transformation of the policies and practices that created injustice for inner-city residents. This year’s State of the Inner City report uses precedent studies to identify funding models that foreground community leadership, and knowledge translation and community development events to celebrate the people and community organizations of the […]

A partir d’un corpus d’articles de presse publiés au Québec en français, nous cherchons à comprendre les mécanismes linguistiques de la subjectivité dans les textes journalistiques. Notre objectif est de confronter l’efficacité des méthodes statistiques d’analyse de la subjectivité, basées sur la théorie linguistique, avec les performances inégalées mais peu transparentes des approches utilisant l’apprentissage […]

Dans le contexte communicationnel et technologique actuel, les enfants se retrouvent face à une prolifération d’informations et de contenus. Cette dynamique ouvre grande la porte un phénomène de désinformation poussé, tout particulièrement, par la communication numérique. Or, le numérique est aussi porteur d’opportunités de contre-information et les enfants ont la capacité de se montrer critiques […]

Despite the overwhelming evidence that physical activity promotes overall positive health, there are limited trauma-and-violence-informed health promotion strategies directed towards equity-owed populations. Women experiencing multiple marginalization’s face numerous barriers to participation in physical activity and are at higher risk for negative health outcomes. Engaging in regular physical activity can have numerous benefits such as improving […]

Le contexte de la pandémie de COVID-19 a soulevé trois défis organisationnels : la récupération de la performance à la suite de la perte de productivité générée par la COVID-19, l’accélération des processus d’innovation visant à surmonter les obstacles liés à la pandémie et assurer un avantage compétitif à long terme; et la protection de […]

Improving driving safety is an ongoing challenge with far reaching consequences for Canadians. One method of improving driving safety is by improving driver performance with hazard perception training. Hazard perception is a driver’s ability to anticipate dangers in the road environment and is predictive of the likelihood of being in a crash. Several countries including […]

Les jeunes qui entrent en contact avec les systèmes de justice juvéniles (les jeunes contrevenants) sont parmi les groupes les plus marginalisés de notre société. C’est pourquoi la Fondation pour les jeunes contrevenants du Québec s’est donné pour mission de « soutenir les jeunes dans leurs efforts à retrouver une trajectoire responsable ». La fondation […]

With climate change driving more severe and unpredictable weather, countries around the world are facing higher probability of extreme weather events, particularly in the form of flooding, storm surges, and hurricanes. The overall objective of this research is to explore how Canada, a (low-probability of risk country) and Japan (a high-probability of risk country) compare […]