The proposed research project will result in the development of a background and scoping document to inform and assist climate change adaptation planning for the City of Peterborough and Peterborough County. It will be directed with the involvement and guidance of a municipal working group. The project will involve a literature review of relevant articles […]

Le projet vise à doter le Réseau Mentorat d’un outil innovant d’aide au jumelage entre mentors et mentorés et basé sur la personnalité des individus afin d’augmenter leur performance et leur permettre d’affronter des contextes tels que la COVID-19. Le Réseau Mentorat souhaite offrir l’outil aux cellules afin de bonifier les pratiques de jumelage en […]

Le réseau routier favorise la mobilité des personnes et des marchandises, et est vital pour l’économie aussi bien à l’échelle nationale que municipale. Les villes sont confrontées à un budget limité pour maintenir les routes dans un état acceptable et le développement d’un système pour aider les municipalités à mieux administrer leurs actifs est crucial. […]

The County of Lennox & Addington is an upper tier municipality located in Eastern Ontario. Their offices are located in Napanee, ON. The Lennox and Addington Economic Development Office is a team of Economic Development professionals who focus on improving the economy of the County. They provide business coaching to help their businesses succeed, encourage […]

The purpose of this project is to identify bees and evaluate plant-pollinator networks based on the biomonitoring surveys conducted at the Meadoway in 2020 in partnership with the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA). The aim of these surveys is to develop a baseline understanding of bee diversity in the Meadoway and evaluate the impacts […]

In 2009, the Tsawwassen First Nation (TFN) signed a self-governance treaty with the Canadian and British Columbia governments, the first to do so under the Federal-Provincial treaty process. The impact of obtaining self governance outside the Indian Act is, therefore, something that is important, not only for TFN, but as an example for other First […]

Covid-19 has impeded many brick-and-mortar businesses, especially the SMEs in Northwest Ontario. The challenging environment calls for change in the business practice to respond to the impact and rejuvenate businesses. Going online is one of the possible solutions supported by technology and market readiness for those businesses. Digital Main Street (DMS), a program and service […]

This project is a COVID-19 research project which will see the Intern working on a number of tasks supporting the adoption of Forrestgreen Police Solutions. The solution provides a faster and cheaper way to get your Police background check completed online. COVID-19 has caused rapid growth for Forrestgreen in this area, and the Intern will […]

The Etobicoke Creek watershed is heavily urbanized with erosion issues due to the high amount of impervious cover and creek channelization. This research will help to better understand the current erosion sensitivities and risks within the watershed for inclusion in a comprehensive watershed plan that will inform municipal land use and infrastructure planning.

This proposal aims to establish a collaborative research project between the City of Oshawa and the University of Toronto. It is part of the Teaching City Initiative. The immediate objective of this proposal is to use data collected over the last seven years to update pavement deterioration curves. The new dataset is larger (11700 data […]

The liver is considered as one of the organs that are highly susceptible to drug-induced toxicity, leading to a diverse set of responses such as acute liver injuries, black-box warnings, and possible market withdrawal of medications in spite of having first appeared non-toxic and effective in animal and clinical studies. Over the last few decades, […]

Traffic accident data aggregation relates with boundary issues is OTS’s first project with University of Calgary. Several years of collision data, traffic network and neighborhood will be collected from OTS. This project contains implicit knowledge to improve the data aggregation method which has significant impact of data sharing on neighborhood boundaries. The first part of […]