The global pandemic has made it clear that there is an urgent need for high-quality mental health services for children and youth. Right now, quality is measured in terms of the number of visits to clinics, emergency departments, hospitalizations, and the costs associated with those services. The voices of children, youth, and their families are […]

This project would help with funding an intern who would work alongside the program manager, catering supervisor and marketing team to come up with business development solutions that would help generate new businesses. The intern would develop solutions based on industry best practices on how to penetrate new market as well as gain new partnerships […]

The climate of northern Quebec and Labrador is strongly influenced by climate change and internal (natural) climate variability on time scales ranging from years to decades. Internal variability occurs without human influence and can superimpose onto the anthropogenically forced climate change signal, thus adding uncertainty in the assessment of local climate change impacts. Northern communities […]

The Cambrien Lake, Nachicapau Lake and Fort McKenzie area (the “CNFM”) has been attributed high conservation potential by Nunavik’s regional stakeholders due to its exceptional biophysical characteristics and its significance to the Naskapis, as it includes a major Naskapi gathering place. The CNFM’s important hydroelectric and mining potentials prevent strict protection status at this time, […]

Projet innovateur en optimisation du processus de dotation des cadres à l’Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal (IUSMM). Au Québec, le marché du travail traverse une importante pénurie de main-d’œuvre depuis la pandémie de la COVID-19. Cette dernière touche également les cadres. Il s’agit donc d’un défi de taille pour la dotation des cadres […]

The District of Squamish (District) declared a climate emergency in 2019 and set the target to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 45% by 2030 and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. In support of this declaration, the District launched a Circular Economy (CE) Roadmap in 2021. There is a global groundswell of collaboration recognizing the […]

Seismic risk reduction planning for existing buildings must begin with a quantitative account of risk, and it must contain an objective basis grounding the various policy options considered within it. This work aims to develop a methodology to generate that objective policy basis, leveraging seismic risk modelling outputs to detail the benefits of various policy […]

Canada’s Private Sponsorship of Refugees (PSR) program has gained a lot of international attention from countries around the world. Since the program’s inception, emerging literature has appropriately captured the increasing shift from the ‘welcoming the stranger’ model to ‘kin-linked’ based sponsorships. Today, linked-sponsorships make up the majority or private sponsorships. Further, in the Fall of […]

Designing the most effective and efficient source of revenue is one of the leading policy challenges in the municipal sector today. Generally speaking, municipalities own and operate 60% of the built public infrastructure in the country, but are limited to approximately 8% of the aggregate tax revenue generated in the country by all three orders […]

The project goal is to complete a community-wide vulnerability capacity assessment to gain a deeper understanding of the populations that require access to Emergency Social Services (ESS) during a large scale emergency, including the potential impacts of emergencies on these populations. This will aid in resource allocation and priority setting to better prepare for and […]

Bird populations in North America have been in decline since mid-1900s due to a multitude of stressors including pesticide use, habitat loss, predation by cats, as well as window and vehicle collisions. Tommy Thompson Park is a constructed wilderness park in Toronto (Ontario) that is along the migratory path for many species that are exhibiting […]

The Town of Vermilion, in cooperation with Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) propose to take a student team of one Bachelor of Applied Information Systems Technology and one Bachelor of Business Administration to complete a total of four business process innovation projects. 1) Modernization of building security including electronic monitoring equipment and keyless entry […]