This research project aims to explore how civil society organizations in Metro Vancouver might devise Community Land Trusts that allow their property interests to intersect with their social mission. Metro Vancouver Alliance, a broad-based community organizing alliance of faith, labour, community, and education sectors, previously conducted listening campaigns identifying reconciliation and affordable housing as common […]

Youth homelessness exists across Canada and schools represent one site of interaction with youth who are homeless or who are at risk of homelessness. Decreasing the number of homeless young Canadians means the implementation of innovative, youth-informed practices and policies within institutions, services, and places throughout communities that serve as points of interaction with homeless […]

Using an advanced social media analysis tool developed by experts at Nexalogy, we will look at a Twitter campaign that focuses on gender-identity and inequality in an effort to challenge and change unequal representation of marginalized people (in this case, gender) in elected office and spaces of traditional political power. By looking at female-identifying challenger […]

This study 1) examines the lives of 3 to 5 non-status migrants in Calgary; 2) determines the challenges that these individuals face in accessing healthcare and social services; and 3) ascertains available services as well as the obstacles to services that are essential to these individuals’ social and economic integration. In general, my research answers […]

Music reading is a very challenging and frustrating aspect of learning music that often leads to the cessation of lessons in the early stages of music learning. Despite this, there has been very little experimental research to understand the music reading process. To address this need, we will administer a group of cognitive and music […]

The following research will explore how Indigenous peoples’ within Canada and New Zealand are engaged in the management of wildfire. Interviews will be conducted with senior government officials and senior Indigenous leaders during individual case study’s with Nova Scotia, Ontario, Saskatchewan, British Columbia and Northwest Territories in Canada and within the country of New Zealand […]

Cette étude fera la démonstration de l’impact des jumelages Grands Frères Grandes Soeurs (GFGS) sur le développement individuel des jeunes. Notre étude s’intéresse particulièrement à la relation privilégiée entre un mentor et un mentoré, et ce qui la définit, ainsi qu’à la façon dont le développement de la relation de jumelage varie selon l’âge du […]

At this juncture, much data on tourism in Kingston has been collected. However, no appropriate statistical method and analysis has been implemented yet to understand these data. The current project thus aims to create a benchmark for tourism data for Kingston by adopting various modelling techniques (e.g., Hierarchical Linear Modelling (Gelman, 2007), Multilevel Modeling (Green […]

The project addresses a theoretical issue that arises due to somewhat ‘unexpected’ uses of the imperfect subjunctive verbal form, quisiera, in Spanish. In the descriptive linguistic literature, it is noted that, quisiera, can be used for a conditional (e.g., I would do) or past perfect (e.g., I had done) meaning depending on the variety of […]

Dans la Grèce hellénistique et impériale, quelques riches citoyens décidaient parfois d’affecter une partie de leur fortune à la réalisation d’un projet. Ce placement était productif, de sorte que les intérêts sur le capital en assuraient la pérennité. Ainsi, à l’image des fondations privées contemporaines qui offrent des bourses à des étudiants pour leur permettre […]

The objective of our research is to reach appropriate recommendations, revelations, and transformative insights based on a survey of the field of Community-Based Monitoring and its understudied methods, while also developing a more inclusive process to achieve this, and applying that process in the creation or refinement of CBM digital tools. In particular our research […]

In cities around the world, land is disputed between groups of people from different religious, socioeconomic, class, and ethnic backgrounds. These differences and contestations play out in the urban landscape by creating divided cities. Jerusalem is one of the most divided cities in the world, and has received little scholarly attention with regards to gendered […]