Investigating the Effectiveness of an Online Research Education Course to Build Capacity for Meaningful Research Partnerships Among the Spinal Cord Injury Research System

People with spinal cord injury (SCI) want to work with researchers as research partners. However, people with SCI have said they do not feel like they have enough knowledge of the research process to be involved, or that researchers have only involved people with SCI in research for the researcher’s gain. To help people learn […]

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Creating an Innovative and Accessible Service Model for Communication Training for Children with Communication Difficulties

The Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) is one of the most common and effective augmentative and alternative communication systems for individuals with communication impairments, including children/youth with autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, and other neurodevelopmental and communication disorders. Although PECS is empirically supported, the traditional approach to training is resource intensive in terms of treatment […]

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If You Don’t Like the Game, Change the Rules: Alternative Modes of Videogame Production

The games industry is infamous for making employees work excessive hours, fostering toxic work environments, and burning out its workforce. Despite these concerns, game developers are hesitant to change how their businesses are organised. This research project will explore the reasons that Canadian game workers may be reluctant to adopt alternative labour structures such as […]

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Validating the Positive Workplace Framework to strengthen mental fitness, resiliency, and positive leadership practices

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to address workplace wellness. The Positive Workplace Framework (PWF) is used in many workplace settings to improve well-being, engagement, and productivity. This study will address the French version of the PWF and its two questionnaires, the Mental Fitness and Resiliency Inventory (MFRI) and the Positive Leadership Inventory (PLI). […]

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Digital Illustration & Children’s Story Creation Strategy

Simbi is working on a process innovation project to significantly improve the process by which our end users are able to use our product. In other words, the intern will be working on innovative methods to get more children’s stories into the hands of our young readers. Simbi faces challenges in effective and timely artistic […]

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Evaluating communications methods and efficacy, Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition

The Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition would like to expand the demographic reach of our organization in order to better represent the Lake Simcoe community. The people who care about Lake Simcoe are a diverse set. There is a need to broaden our tent by making our messaging more appealing to more demographics. Those include fishing […]

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Senior Appropriate & Culturally Sensitive Housing in Vancouver Chinatown

Chinatown’s community is diverse and while many seniors live in the neighborhood, there are many seniors who commute daily to spend the day in Chinatown. Censuses have shown that the senior population is rapidly increasing, thus providing a continuum of housing is a key factor to creating a resilient community. An initial study of housing […]

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Lex Start Plateform Inc. – Commercialisation d’une solution innovante SAAS sur le marché Canadien

Historiquement destinée à une clientèle B2C, Lex Start fournit des services d’incorporations, ainsi que tous les contrats corporatifs nécessaires à prix fixe pour les entrepreuneurs. La mission de Lex Start est de rendre le juridique accessible à tous. C’est pourquoi après plus de deux ans de recherche et développement, Lex Start se prépare à commercialiser […]

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Emerging approaches to policy and regulation of online video services in Canada and Argentina

The project consist of analyzing the emerging approaches for policy-making and regulation of global online video service providers in Argentina and Canada. Some of the ongoing discussions on how to address them follow the European approach, after the enactment of the 2018 Audiovisual Service Directive. Measures such as content quotas, financial contributions and prominence obligations […]

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Strategic Marketing Plans for the Yorkton Brick Mill Heritage Society

The Yorkton Brick Mill Heritage Society would like to develop a comprehensive and innovative marketing strategy to build on the work of the volunteer-run Mill Society. The marketing plan will be targeted at four broad groups, tourism, donors, community groups and schools. Each target market will require a different approach, some will partially overlap. The […]

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