Les écrits les plus significatifs laissés par la créatrice des Jardins de Métis, Elsie Reford, seront mis en valeur sur le web et in situ, à la Villa Estevan, sous forme de capsules audio et vidéo, ce qui permettra de mieux faire connaître cette femme, au-delà des jardins qu’elle a créés, de 1926 à 1958. […]

Depuis quelques années, des spécialistes de l’histoire du scepticisme ont remarqué que plusieurs thèmes de la philosophie de Hobbes semblent avoir été influencés par des arguments sceptiques, sans pour autant que cela fasse consensus. J’ai donc entrepris, dans le cadre de mes études doctorales en philosophie, de me pencher sur la question, et d’étudier les […]

La Prophylaxie pré-exposition (PrEP) du VIH permet de réduire considérablement le risque d’infection pour des individus séronégatifs à haut risque, en particulier les hommes gais et bisexuels, une population où l’incidence du VIH demeure très élevée. Il s’agit de mieux comprendre les déterminants sociaux du recours (ou non) à la PrEP chez des hommes gais […]

Using the same Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) voluntary codes (“’rules”), different junior mineral exploration companies obtain different CSR outcomes, i.e. the rules do not make the game. The overall study aims to find out how the game is played ‘on the ground’. This internship covers part of the exploratory phase of the project that aims […]

This project aims to discover how policies around food security circulate. It seeks to understand what makes certain policies attractive and other not. The relevant literature ackowledges that local territories react differently to projects, because every locality has a unique configuration of actors which influence policy outcomes. Because of the bi-national context of the regional […]

Just months the June 2014 the Supreme Court of Canada decision granting partial title to the Tsilhqot’in First Nation’s land claim, the communities of Xeni Gwet’in and Yunesit’in, with support form the Tsilhqot’in National Government, declared another traditional area, just beyond the granted claim, as the Dasiqox Tribal Park. The surface area of the new […]

This research project conducts a comparative analysis of the provisions of Canadian and Mexican competition laws that deal with the control of mergers and acquisitions. Usually, merger control mechanisms require that a proposed transaction whose value exceeds a certain threshold be notified to the competition authorities of the country where the transaction is to take […]

The alignment of the dissertation and the CE in terms of preparing students as researchers in today’s environment or for innovative work outside the academy is in question. The purposes and structures of these basic PhD components have not changed significantly since the origin of the modern PhD, which was developed primarily as a vocational […]

This is a research and development (R&D) project. The primary objective is to develop a Smart Learning and Course Management System with a pilot demonstration of an entrepreneurship development course. The target audience for the course is students interested in learning the fundamentals of running a startup company. The secondary objective is to document and […]

This research will create opportunities for reflection and dialogue with a group of professionals in the Central Okanagan regarding parents’ perceptions and experiences of stigmatization. Dialogue will focus on enhancing professionals’ understanding of underlying structural and social factors contributing to stigmatization and the implications of this understanding for their practice. The research draws from Participatory […]

L’importance des dimensions psychologique et sociale de la santé s’impose comme centrale lorsque l’on souhaite intervenir auprès des personnes en rupture sociale. Depuis bientôt trois ans, un médecin de famille et plusieurs professionnel de soins (travailleurs sociaux, éducateurs de rue, infirmières) ont monté une équipe d’intervention auprès des personnes les plus démunies dans une perspective […]

This research projects investigates the partnership between two British-based organizations: a real-estate investment company, Anglo Indian; and the Marylebone Cricket Club/Lord’s Cricket Ground (MCC/Lord’s), a prominent global cricketing organization. The partnership emerged from a plan to co-create twelve branded ‘planned communities’ in India. The goal of this study is to examine how the first community […]