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Biodiversity research in megadiverse countries: strategies for scientific and technical alliances
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Bite Me: Abjection, Eroticism and the Breaking of Skin in True Blood
(2012-05-07)Through the relationship between vampires and humans on the television show True Blood, the abject image of biting skin and sucking blood becomes highly eroticized and romanticized. True Blood takes the image of the ... -
Blood-Red Relations in and Out of Place: Women's Self-Harm and Supernatural Crime in the Moth Diaries
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2022)In Canadian filmmaker Mary Harron’s The Moth Diaries (a Canadian/American/Irish co-production), exploring adolescent girls’ friendships and self-harm in a boarding school setting, blood is out of place. It drips from the ... -
The Brachistochrone Problem: Mathematics for a Broad Audience via a Large Context Problem
(Montana Council of Teachers of Mathematics & Information Age Publishing, 2008)Large context problems (LCP) are useful in teaching the history of science. In this article we consider the brachistochrone problem in a context stretching from Euclid through the Bernoullis. We highlight a variety of ... -
Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges
(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Manitoba (CCPA-MB), 2012) -
Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: State of the Inner City Report 2012
(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), 2012) -
Breast Feeding Practices as Cultural Interventions for Early Childhood Caries in Cree Communities
(BMC, 2015-04-09)Background: Breastfeeding is a gift from mother to child and has a wide range of positive health, social and cultural impacts on infants. The link between bottle feeding and the prevalence of early childhood caries (ECC) ... -
Breeding Ecology of Wild and Captive-released Burrowing Owls (Athene cunicularia) in Southwestern Manitoba
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2016)Burrowing Owls (Athene cunicularia) once occupied grassland ecosystems in the western Provinces of Canada, as far east as Winnipeg, Manitoba, and west into the southern interior of British Columbia (B.C.). No single factor ... -
Briefing Note: Community Forestry in Canada
(Centre for Forest Interdisciplinary Research, University of Winnipeg, 2016)Global economic instability, the need for local adaptation to climate change impacts, and Supreme Court rulings over Aboriginal and Treaty Rights have drawn attention to community dissatisfaction with centralized approaches ... -
Budget 2012: Deficit budget creates a surplus of spin
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Budgeting and the prairie city : a commentary
(Institute of Urban Studies, 1995) -
Building a Federal Policy Framework and Program in Support of Community Economic Development
(2011)This report will provide an overview and analysis of the Province of Manitoba’s CED Policy Framework and Neighbourhoods Alive! program. The report will conclude by recommending, based on the Manitoba experience, how a ... -
Building a Legend: The 'Skinny' on the Slender Man
(2013-04-18)This paper explores folklorist Richard Dorson's distinction between folklore and 'fakelore'—that is, folklore-like material that has been created deliberately and mass-disseminated, often for monetary or ideological purposes. ... -
Building Community Capacity in Winnipeg's Inner City: Exploring The Learning and Resource Needs of Volunteer Boards of Directors in Non-Profit Organizations, Community Summary
This report explores community development and adult education with inner city residents who sit on boards of directors of non-profit organizations - in particular licensed childcare facilities, women’s centers and family ... -
Building Community Capacity in Winnipeg's Inner City: Exploring The Learning and Resource Needs of Volunteer Boards of Directors in Non-Profit Organizations, Research Report
This report explores community development and adult education with inner city residents who sit on boards of directors of non-profit organizations - in particular licensed childcare facilities, women’s centers and family ... -
Building On Our Strengths: Inner-city priorities for a renewed tri-level development agreement
(2002-04)The purpose of the study is to develop a mandate from the inner city community on which a renewed, tri-level inner city revitalization agreement could be based, and to identify the principles, priorities and preferred ... -
Building the Economy on Community Capacities: the Spence Neighbourhood
The objectives of the Capacity Inventory Project were to identify capacities of residents of the Spence Neighbourhood; to develop a system connecting the capacity of residents and community- based organizations to organizations ... -
Building the System: Follow-up, monitoring & adaptive management
(University of Winnipeg, 2020-04-08)Does impact assessment (IA) end when the license has been granted? While societal resources tend to focus on rigorous project approvals, what happens to the project, to the public and to the environment once approval is ... -
By Any Other Name: The Street Sex Workers of Winnipeg
(2015-03-25)Prostitution is a matter that affects many in Winnipeg; most obviously, the women and girls who are exploited through street work in the north and west end communities. These women and children are disproportionately of ...
