Moving towards a shared understanding of responsibility for the land among community-based food initiatives across Waterloo-Wellington region

This research project will engage 10-20 participants from community-based food initiatives across Waterloo-Wellington region to explore how groups access land to grow food. Access to land within urban environments is important for urban Indigenous peoples whose relationships with land have been disrupted by colonization. Indigenous Peoples honour relationships and responsibilities to land, which stands in […]

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Numeracy practices in contemporary curriculum and pedagogy: exploring the benefits of an online digital technology

The goal of this project is to investigate how a new online digital technology, Maple Learn, can contribute to contemporary mathematics curricula internationally. New curricula in mathematics emphasize broad skills that cut across all mathematics domains. In other words, instead of focusing of formulas and procedures, contemporary mathematics curricula promote similarities across domains (such as […]

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The Winnipeg Boldness Project Accountability Framework

The Winnipeg Boldness Project (“Boldness”) is a social innovation initiative working towards a Bold Goal: Children and families in Point Douglas will experience dramatically improved wellbeing in all aspects of self: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. Over the past eight years, the Project’s Accountability Framework has been based on the idea that Boldness’ highest level […]

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Bridging Rural Homelessness and Well-being – A Sustainable and Collaborative Regional Response

Social service organizations in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia indicate the incidence of homelessness is on the rise. The colliding crises (housing, overdose/toxic drugs, pandemic, and extreme weather), and the mobility of the target population between communities, introduce complexities that require an innovative and collaborative regional response to support this marginalized population. […]

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Summer Internship – Shakirat/Giovana

This project is to have a student from the MAP program at the university of Regina support Atare Foods in the production of food related content videography and photography to support the growth of the company’s website and social media platforms.

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Circuits alimentaires courts et de proximité impliquant le milieu institutionnel : facteurs d’accessibilité et conditions de succès pour leur développement et leur pérennisation dans le cadre du projet SALIM (Système alimentaire local et intégré de Montréal)

Au Québec, mais aussi ailleurs, la crise sanitaire entraîne actuellement une prise de conscience collective sur les systèmes alimentaires en place, ce qui est favorable à l’émergence de solutions innovantes. Les circuits courts et les circuits de proximité sont des innovations territoriales du milieu agroalimentaire qui prônent une commercialisation avec un nombre absent ou réduit […]

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Curating the potential for BIPoC-Jewish solidarity art activism in Poland

Since September 2021, I have worked as a research assistant for Professors Erica Lehrer (Concordia University, Canada) and Joanna Wawrzyniak (University of Warsaw, Poland) to survey existing decolonial curatorial practices in Poland’s museum landscape. My proposed Mitacs Outbound project aims to enrich the current discussion of Poland’s difficult past by bringing Jewish and BIPoC perspectives […]

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Home Away From Home

Home Away from Home is a research-creation project aimed at exploring the hereditary links to Italy by first and second generation immigrants that are visiting the country of their parents and grandparents. My objective is to create a short research-creation sketch that examines the flexible identity of these individuals and how this identity can be […]

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Accès 5 : Un pari économique

Dans ce projet de recherche, l’organisme partenaire, la Maison Jeunes-Est vise à démontrer, avec le soutien du chercheur principal et du stagiaire, comment la participation à un programme découlant d’une approche territoriale et motivationnelle (Accès 5) permet à des jeunes de cheminer positivement dans la société pour devenir des citoyens fonctionnels. Cette étude coût-bénéfice compare […]

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Durham Community Energy Plan – Implementation Governance

In 2018 the Region of Durham created the Durham Community Energy Plan (DCEP), Durham Region’s strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and transitioning to a green economy. Achieving the goals of the DCEP will provide multiple economic, environmental and social benefits to Durham Region. Successful implementation of the DCEP however requires multiple groups and sectors […]

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Social Entrepreneurship Training for Persons with disability

Social entrepreneurship is the practice of recognizing and creatively pursuing opportunities that build social value. Regardless of race, sex or gender, and educational level among other factors, social entrepreneurs are innovative, practical, and results oriented. Worldwide, persons with disabilities (PWD) represent an increasing section of the adult population. This is partly due to the fact […]

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