The Indigenous Foodlands Conservation Areas Project will conduct participatory action research with Elders, Indigenous knowledge holders and Indigenous law/governance experts to support the BC Working Group on Indigenous Food Sovereignty and the IISAK OLAM Foundation in the process of mapping out and advocating for Indigenous Foodland Conservation Areas in Neskonlith Secwepemc territory. In the Neskonlith […]

Projet innovateur en optimisation du processus de dotation des cadres à l’Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal (IUSMM). Au Québec, le marché du travail traverse une importante pénurie de main-d’œuvre depuis la pandémie de la COVID-19. Cette dernière touche également les cadres. Il s’agit donc d’un défi de taille pour la dotation des cadres […]

La période s’étalant du 16e au 18e siècle au Japon fût marquée par des épisodes successifs de guerre et de paix, de crises environnementales et de vagues de construction pour marquer la fin des conflits. De nouveaux bâtiments, routes et infrastructures marquent en ce sens l’époque Edo, qualifiée largement pour sa prospérité relative. Or, ce […]

Canada’s Private Sponsorship of Refugees (PSR) program has gained a lot of international attention from countries around the world. Since the program’s inception, emerging literature has appropriately captured the increasing shift from the ‘welcoming the stranger’ model to ‘kin-linked’ based sponsorships. Today, linked-sponsorships make up the majority or private sponsorships. Further, in the Fall of […]

Designing the most effective and efficient source of revenue is one of the leading policy challenges in the municipal sector today. Generally speaking, municipalities own and operate 60% of the built public infrastructure in the country, but are limited to approximately 8% of the aggregate tax revenue generated in the country by all three orders […]

Les milieux de travail comportent souvent des risques qui peuvent nuire à la santé des travailleurs tels que les risques chimiques ou biologiques et les risques psychosociaux (RPS). Ces derniers correspondent à des mauvaises conditions de travail (ex. : grande charge de travail, manque de reconnaissance, conflits, etc.) et peuvent amener au développement d’atteintes à […]

AIR Institutes is launching a new resilience online training through a digital portal called AIR Space. The goal of the proposed project will be to evaluate if the training delivered in an online format is effective in developing and improving resilience. As users go through different activities delivered through the digital portal, their level of […]

The project goal is to complete a community-wide vulnerability capacity assessment to gain a deeper understanding of the populations that require access to Emergency Social Services (ESS) during a large scale emergency, including the potential impacts of emergencies on these populations. This will aid in resource allocation and priority setting to better prepare for and […]

Online multiplayer games continue to see an increase in their popularity and their playerbase is becoming increasingly diverse. At the same time, there is a concerning amount of harm and harassment found in text chat which prevents games from being safe and inclusive online spaces. Current detection solutions and moderation systems falls short of addressing […]

Brainswitch Labs is a Vancouver-based startup in the VR Health space. We are developing an application that helps mental health therapists to get their patients into a mental state receptive to therapy. Our goal for this time period is to release a public version of our product to the Meta App lab marketplace.

Having unmet physical and social needs, such as being food insecure or living in unstable housing, is associated with a number of negative outcomes, including poor health. One common approach to addressing unmet needs includes sharing referrals to relevant social and community resources, which is a service that the 211 Ontario helpline provides. How close […]

People who live in countries with low inequality (where the gap between the rich and the poor is small) tend to be healthier on average. Countries with low inequality (like Finland and Denmark) also tend to have a lot of social mobility across generations. In other words, people’s chances of success don’t depend on how […]