Inuit have the right to food, culture, and economic opportunities, and the seal harvest can help to support these rights. However, resultant international bans from anti-sealing campaigns have undermined the Inuit economy and imposed hardships on Inuit communities. In an effort to improve market access for Inuit seal products, the Canadian Government established the Certification […]

The Canadian Association for Graduate Studies (CAGS) has created aTask Force on Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action and Graduate Education (Reconciliation Task Force). This Reconciliation Task Force will examine the implications for graduate education in relation to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s (TRC) Calls to Action, to reflect on the role of […]

Understanding that art galleries must position themselves as open learning communities, the MacKenzie Art Gallery (MAG) proposes internships in Indigenous and new curatorial practices. Canadian cultural institutions have long considered themselves above the political. However, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) Calls to Action have posed challenges to art institutions and their leaders are now […]

The applicant will be participate in the Vital cities project alongside Professor Jurian Edelenbos and his colleagues. The project will allow for better understanding of how youth engage with others, particularly with diverse groups of other youth, in social change and community betterment activities. This project seeks to understand how and why youth engage in […]

This project is meant to provide, and expand upon existing research, on social media and what role it plays in modern day society. The focus of this study will be on Social Media working as a vehicle for social change and social movements for the community; particularly, the abortion laws in Ireland. This is a […]

La prosopagnosie acquise se caractérise par un déficit de reconnaissance des visages dû à diverses lésions cérébrales. Ceux souffrant de lésions postérieures utilisent davantage la région de la bouche au lieu de celle des yeux pour l’identification des visages, bien qu’elle soit la région la plus diagnostique dans cette tâche. Ces patients présentent également un […]

The proposed research will contribute to an empirical analysis of the utility of the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR) and Athlete Coding System for Social Environments in Sport (ACSSES) to assess auditory observational data for meaningful social processes related to social identity in youth sport teams. We anticipate that observational data collected from participants’ social interactions […]

States have built their climate institutions in a diversity of ways, rooted in their traditions of governance. Our collective thinking in responding to climate change lacks an understanding of the effects created by these institutions; they incentivize certain forms of politics and diminish others. This research project aims to understand the institutional architectures that create […]

Research has found that mindfulness-based meditation practice, when guided by professionals, can improve emotional well-being and attention. This has led to interest in offering meditation practice to autistic people. Indeed, whilst autistic people are able to process more sensory information than non-autistic people, which can lead to strengths in some areas, it can also lead […]

Recent campaigns by anti-abortion activists in the United States have centered on the claim that medication abortion with mifepristone, a highly effective regimen for early pregnancy termination, can be “reversed”. Despite the fact that this is not supported by medical evidence, multiple states have incorporated this information into state mandated counselling materials for abortion patients. […]

Widespread decline in social capital is well-documented and has been attributed to a range of underlying root causes, from policies regarding the physical design of our neighbourhoods, increasing geographic mobility, shifting away from more localized economies, the complexity of increasing cultural diversity in many areas, to societal beliefs and norms related to individualism. We know […]

Visier Solutions Inc hopes to create a new standard for the measurement of employee diversity in organizations based on scientific research and measured baselines. With the help of the interns, this study will set a standard for the practical measurement of diversity in organizations as well as best practices in the analysis of metric results. […]