Making Humanitarian Action Possible
Andrew Gilbert
James Gillett
The Political Lives of Migrants
Peter Nyers
Leyla Soleymani
Using Technology to Manage Health
Norm Archer
Listening to the Brain When the Body Cannot Speak
John Connolly
Jiaping Qiu
Chris Sinding
Navigating the Ethics of River Tourism in the Canadian Arctic
Nancy Doubleday
Sonia Anand
Literary History of Six Nations of the Grand River
Rick Monture
Aboriginal Healing Through Community Building
Bonnie Freeman, L. William Lee
Serious Fun at a Jewish Summer Camp
Celia Rothenberg
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Navigating the Ethics of River Tourism in the Canadian Arctic
Nancy Doubleday
Researchers worked with tourists and Indigenous groups to explore how these communities create the “nature” of a Canadian Arctic riverscape through distinct perspectives and practices, as a way to foster understanding and mutual respect for diverse...
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A Genomic Analysis of the Plague of Justinian
Hendrik Poinar
Yersinia pestis is responsible for at least three devastating human pandemics, but little is known about the first pandemic, the Plague of Justinian. DNA from individuals who died during the first plague indicates that a Y pestis lineage (extinct...
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Difficult Inheritances: Placing Memorials of Vancouver's Disappeared Women in Context
Amber Dean
Engaging readers in a thoughtful analysis of the public representations and activist strategies that seek to remember and retell the stories of Vancouver’s disappeared women, this research reflects on the enduring historical contexts of injustice...
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Indigenous Place-Thought and Agency Amongst Humans and Non-Humans
Vanessa Watts
Euro-Western thought has made many important efforts to understand and embrace all components of Indigenous histories. However, these attempts are often still processed through very Western beliefs which view Indigenous histories as stories rather...
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The Gospel of Mark and the Self-Sacrifice of Rulers
Matthew Thiessen
Though the “many for one” political ideology was widespread in the first century CE, the Gospel of Mark, passage 10:45, rejects this ideology. Instead, this type of rule is contrasted with Jesus’s own as the servant king, sacrificing himself (the...
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Postsecondary Pathways of High School Students with Special Education Needs
Karen Robson
While the Ontario government is pushing for an even bigger increase in postsecondary enrollment, access to these institutions is still unequal. High school students with special education needs have more complicated pathways to postsecondary...
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The History of Infant and Maternal Public Health Care in the British Caribbean
Juanita De Barros
Following the end of slavery in 1834, colonial governments in the British Caribbean unfolded a set of public health policies focused on women and children that were designed to “uplift the race,” including midwife training and baby-saving leagues.
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Using Recuperative Thickening Technology to Boost Biogas Production
David Latulippe
Wastewater treatment is complex, expensive, and uses a lot of energy. High performance technologies, such as recuperative thickening techniques, can help wastewater treatment facilities reduce their energy consumption on-site by generating biogas, a...
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Literary History of Six Nations of the Grand River
Rick Monture
This research tells the history of the Grand River Six Nations, documenting the community’s own understanding of its nationhood and culture through study of the spiritual and political philosophies, oral stories, and writings of its members.
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Raising Awareness of Human Interconnections with the Sea
Chris Myhr
This artistic research produced a film and exhibition titled Approaches to Erg which recreated the effect of being underwater in the Halifax Harbour to draw our attention to the dynamic relationships that connect us to the large bodies of water...
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The Context of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Qumran Library
Daniel Machiela
The Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls comprise a new source of information for ancient Judaism from the fourth to first centuries BCE. These scrolls exhibit a number of characteristics that distinguish them from the Hebrew literature found in the Dead Sea...
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Listening to the Brain When the Body Cannot Speak
John Connolly
Researchers have combined brainwave-imaging technology with language-based tests to see conscious brain activity among people who are unable to communicate in typical ways, giving doctors the information needed to provide critical health care...
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Effects of Changing Lake Temperatures on Developing Fish Embryos in Lake Huron
Joanna Wilson
Many industries use lake water to cool their plants and water that returns to the lake can be warmer than the typical lake temperature. In Ontario, Bruce Power’s nuclear generation station uses water from Lake Huron for cooling; the water that is...
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The Importance of Including Older People in Canadian Strategies on Homelessness
Amanda Grenier
The number of older people who are homeless is expected to increase across Canada. Strategies to combat homelessness tend to neglect this group and this can be problematic as older homeless people have unique needs.
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Making Humanitarian Action Possible
Andrew Gilbert
Delivering humanitarian aid in postwar societies can be difficult in the face of political pressures and great demand for limited resources. In order for aid to be effective, the criteria for what constitutes legitimate humanitarian action must be...
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Salvadoran Families Negotiate Adolescence in a Canadian Context
Mirna Carranza
Adolescence can be a challenging transition period for all parents and children, including immigrant families who must use resourcefulness and resilience to navigate between cultures and keep families together. Canadian immigrant Salvadoran mothers...
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More Protein Combined With Exercise May Lead to Weight Loss and Muscle Gain
Stuart Phillips
Ideally, weight loss involves a loss of body fat and the maintenance or a gain of muscle or lean body mass. This randomized control trial demonstrates that a low-calorie, high-protein diet combined with intense exercise helps promote a loss in fat...
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How Indigenous Elder-Youth Relationships Influence Health and Well-Being
Chelsea Gabel
Intergenerational relationships play an integral role in maintaining cultural continuity through the process of storytelling and knowledge transmission. These processes also have positive implications for the health and well-being of Indigenous...
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Northern Peatland Vulnerability to Wildfires
James Michael Waddington
In a drying global climate, northern peatlands (particularly those that have been mined or drained) are at risk for experiencing high-frequency fires and degrading carbon stocks. Mitigating the risk of deep burning through restoration efforts such...
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Indian Buddhist Monastic Law (Vinaya) Texts in the Gilgit Manuscripts: High-Resolution, Colour Images with Scholarly Appendices
Shayne Clarke
This is the first volume in a new series of books providing unparalleled access to the Buddhist Gilgit manuscripts in their correct order with detailed concordances and bibliographical surveys. The high-resolution, colour images of the Vinaya...
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Preventing Obesity and Diabetes in Mice by Blocking the Production of Peripheral Serotonin
Gregory Steinberg, Waliul Khan
Peripheral serotonin plays an important role in metabolism. Inhibiting the production of peripheral serotonin in mice on a high-fat diet helps prevent weight gain, insulin resistance, and the accumulation of fat in the liver by enhancing the...
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The Role of Time in Shaping the Caregiving Experiences of Chinese Grandparents and Skilled Immigrant Mothers in Canada
Rachel Zhou
When Chinese skilled immigrant mothers cannot balance care time and work/settlement time, grandparents often assume the caregiving role despite how it disrupts their traditional experiences of aging. From a temporal perspective, these childcare...
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Gender, Race and chances of Promotion
Rochelle Wijesingha
Achieving tenure and promotion are significant milestones in the career of a university faculty member. However, research often indicates that racialized and female faculty do not receive tenure and promotion at the same rate as their non-racialized...
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Employment services in Rural and Urban Contexts
Jessica Braimoh
Despite offering the same services on paper, there is a difference in how Employment Service is delivered across urban and rural social service organisations. Compared to the urban site, the rural setting has fewer resources that can be used to...
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Using a National Framework in Developing a Child and Youth Mental Health Plan in Yukon
Gillian Mulvale
Many of Canada's provinces and territories do not have explicit child and youth mental health policies or plans in place. A case study exploring the development of Yukon's child and youth mental health framework illuminates the benefits,...
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Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities Critique and Take Control of their Media Images
Ann Fudge Schormans
From the perspective of people with intellectual disabilities, the media inappropriately portrays them in public photographic imaging by conveying them as ‘other’, and as incompetent and lacking power. This project gave people with intellectual...
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Early Humans in the Aegean Basin
Tristan Carter
This McMaster project is helping to rewrite the migration routes early humans took to reach Europe, with archaeologists’ discoveries at the site of Stélida on the Cycladic island of Naxos (southern Greece) suggesting that our early ancestors were in...
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Fight Childhood Obesity with Government-Funded School Meal Programs
Christina Moffat
School meal programs that provide every child with a lunch may be an appropriate long-term strategy to tackle the rising rate of childhood obesity. These government-funded programs do this by addressing household food insecurity and promoting food...
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What factors influence immigration visa decisions?
Victor Satzewich
When visa officers issue visas to enter Canada, administrative logic may cause individuals from certain regions to be at a systematic disadvantage. Organizational culture, efficient client processing, and understandings of motivations to migrate...
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Shifting the Burden: Childhoods, Resilience, Subjecthood
Marshall Beier
When the dominant view that children are weak and need protection is combined with resilience thinking (a view that children can autonomously adapt to their circumstances and overcome adversity), even the most well conceived social interventions to...
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The impact of neighborhood composition on work-family conflict and distress
Marisa Young
Work-family conflict is a modern mental health risk resulting from the inability to balance paid work and familial obligations. Similarities between neighbours, like family type, age, income, and ethnicity, reduce the consequences of work-family...
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Staging history for Thailand’s far south: fantasy for a supposedly pliant Muslim community
Kee Howe Yong
By developing an “official” history of its land, the Thailand's government tries to ignore internal problems in its Muslim-dominant far south provinces. Moreover, the absence of any serious attempt to interpret the resurgence of violence and to...
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A Comparison of Craft Learning in the Lake Titicaca Basin
Andrew Roddick
The ceramic making practices contribute to and reflect political and economic processes. In addition, these practices around the Southern Lake Titicaca Basin were not confined but spread to other regions through various sociopolitical means.
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The Benefits and Risks of Impact Benefit Agreements
Suzanne Mills
By negotiating Impact Benefit Agreements (IBA), private agreements between Indigenous governments and corporations, Indigenous governments and organizations have been able to mandate employment practices such as hiring, promotion and workplace...
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How Politics Shape Reputation—A Case Study of George Soros
Neil McLaughlin
When ideas make their way around the globe, they are interpreted at a local level. This is exemplified in the case study of George Soros, a well-known philanthropist, who has different reputations in Lithuania, Russia, and the USA.
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Female Employment and Escape from Poverty Among Recent Immigrants
Lisa Kaida
The employment of recently-arrived immigrant women makes a significant contribution to lifting their family out of poverty. European immigrants have a higher probability of exiting poverty, explained by their higher female employment rates than...
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The Relationship Between Neoliberalism and the Social Economy
Peter Graefe
New social policy domains like the social economy have complex relationships with large governing rationalities like neoliberalism. Studies need to develop political analysis that more closely traces how competing policy projects are taken up by...
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Do Pay-For-Performance (P4P) Incentives for Physicians Improve the Quality of Health Care?
Jeremiah Hurley
Pay-for-Performance (P4P) in Ontario caused primary care physicians to increase, though only modestly, the provision of some effective medical services but not others. Therefore, policymakers should be cautious about using P4P to improve the quality...
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What makes Canada's anti-polygamy laws constitutional?
Melanie Heath
In 2011, the Supreme Court of British Columbia ruled that polygamy (the practice of having more than one wife or husband at the same time) is harmful to women, children, and society and for this reason should be unlawful. However, the way the...
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Which Tax is More Environmentally Friendly: Fuel Tax or Car Product Tax?
Laura Grigolon
Despite European consumers' moderate undervaluation of future fuel costs, fuel taxes are more effective at encouraging consumers to purchase fuel efficient cars than product taxes based on the fuel economy of cars. These results hinge on the...
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More Research and Action is Necessary to Combat Homelessness Among Older People in Canada
Amanda Grenier
Homelessness among older people in Canada is a growing problem. However, inadequate understanding of this issue prevents the development of effective policies, strategies, and services that target homelessness among older people. More research is...
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Mothering with HIV : Experiences of Health and Social Surveillance of Mothers living with HIV
Saara Greene
Pregnancy and motherhood for women living with HIV in Canada is a success story. At the same time, these women continue to experience HIV-related stigma in a number of health and social care settings, as well as a complicated legal context given the...
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The threat of job loss affects worker health
Paul Glavin
Prolonged exposure to the threat of job loss is associated with the most adverse health consequences for middle-aged workers. Young workers, in contrast, report fewer health penalties in response to job insecurity. Short-term job insecurity has...
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What Determines Persistence and Academic Success in University?
Martin Dooley
Students with similar high school GPAs, but who are from neighbourhoods and high schools of varying characteristics, have similar chances of success in university. Students’ high school GPAs are by far the best predictors of persistence and academic...
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Outcomes of Contact Between White and Indigenous People in Canada, a Case Study
Jeffrey Denis
Intergroup contact between white and Indigenous people in a small-town settler-colonial context reduces overt racism but often reinforces the sense of white superiority. Avoiding public discussions of racism, befriending those with similar racial...
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The Impact of Childhood Trauma on Adult Chronic Homelessness
Stephanie Baker Collins
Adverse childhood events significantly contribute to the state of being of chronically homeless adults. Society's response to homelessness among youth and adults must address the impact of trauma inflicted by those negative childhood events.
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“We are Not an Ethnic Vote!” Representational Perspectives of Minorities in the Greater Toronto Area
Karen Bird
Minorities from different ethnic groups have different preferences for how they would like to be represented by elected officials. These preferences depend on various contexts and are influenced by the minority groups’ historical experiences,...
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Temporary, Insecure Employment Harms Canadians and Their Communities
Wayne Lewchuk
The prevalence of precarious (or, temporary and insecure) employment is increasing in our society. This form of employment negatively impacts the workforce and hinders people from realizing their full potential within their employment and in their...
