The project explores the facilitators and barriers to the successful economic transitions of privately sponsored refugees resettled in rural areas of Nova Scotia since 2015. While acknowledging differences in pre-migration experiences, we seek to better understand 1) the post-migration factors shaping their economic transitions, such as gender, parental status, race, age and health; 2) how […]

Le contexte des mortalités survenues pendant la pandémie actuelle semble constituer un facteur de risque majeur de complication du deuil, d’autant que les pratiques rituelles funéraires ont été empêchées ou réduites. Pour évaluer le deuil de ces personnes et élaborer de meilleures mesures de soutien à celles-ci, l’organisme Deuil-02 du Saguenay réalisera une étude quantitative […]

The proposed research project will use a combination of Participatory Action Research and Indigenous Research Methods to create an online engagement tool to gather Michipicoten First Nation (MFN) member’s perspectives on draft planning strategies and policies regarding six priority areas. Engagement is a challenge for MFN as a displaced and widely dispersed community, challenges which […]

This research project sets out to conduct a comprehensive literature review on Indigenous agriculture in Canada. We collect information about different sources of data that could be put in use to provide insight into Indigenous engagement in the Agriculture/Agri-food sector across the country. We will review the current Statistics Canada’s databases to explore data overlaying […]

Using Indigenous methods including storytelling and arts, the research will explore the complexities of the Indigenous population in British Columbia; narrowing the scope to specific programming in an Urban community on Vancouver Island. The research question regards whether First Nations people that live off-reserve have adequate access to health services. This is based on the […]

The proposed research seeks to identify the needs and challenges faced by mental health service users during post-discharge transitions. The research will be done in partnership with the Canadian Mental Health Association – Calgary Region (CMHA) which strives to be a leader in reducing the impact of mental illness and addiction in community. Engaging with […]

The Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nations Chiefs Secretariat’s (APC) Fisheries and Integrated Resources Department is responsible for research, analysis, and development of policy altneratives and programs for all aspects of fisheries for their member communities. This research project examines the role of Indigenous principles for resource management in the fisheries operations of Indigenous communities […]

Ontario Early Years Centres (OEYCs) offer programming for young children (0 to 6) and their families. In Hamilton, there are five different OEYCs. The City of Hamilton helps the OEYCs with their planning and with assessing how their programs are helping families. This is complicated, because each OEYC keeps its own data. This project will […]

Il s’agit d’une traduction commentée du conte “Peuple du ciel”, de Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, publié en 1978 dans le livre Mondo et autres histoires. Le conte pour enfants, encore sans traduction en portugais, a une atmosphère onirique et évoque la liberté de contact avec la nature et les phénomènes mythologiques. Le texte en prose […]

The Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission have transformed healing, health and wellbeing services for Indigenous peoples who attended residential and their descendants. Working with the frontline health workers who provide the Resolution Health Support Program and the Non-Insured Health Benefits Navigator Program, this research maps the successes and challenges […]

The Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre (MNFC) in Kjipuktuk / Halifax, Nova Scotia is building a new centre and is designing the space to provide programming and services that will substantiate reconciliation for urban Indigenous communities. In order to engage the diverse populations residing in the North End neighbourhoods of Kjipuktuk / Halifax, the MNFC is […]

L’Association québécoise pour le loisir des personnes handicapées (AQLPH) est un organisme dont la mission implique notamment de favoriser l’intégration des enfants en camps de jour et en camps de vacances. Le projet de recherche vise à évaluer une formation en ligne conçue par l’AQLPH pour enseigner aux intervenants comment intervenir auprès des enfants en […]