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Estimating the Economic Cost of Obesity in Canadian Populations
(2016-08)
This study aims to provide a more complete description of who suffers most severely from obesity in terms of both the prevalence of the disease and its associated costs. Literature estimating the cost of obesity is often ...
The Role of NGOs, Non-Profits, and the Government in the Provision of Settlement Services for Canadian Newcomers: A Policy Crisis
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2017-10-27)
The concept of collaboration and consensus building lends itself to the emerging theory of “New Public Governance,” where a shift to horizontal accountability and governance takes over from ideals of vertical power in ...
Julia Miller
(2013-06-19)
Millennium For All Alternative Report on Public Library Security
(LIS Scholarship Archive (LISSA), 2019-09-09)
In response to the airport-style security measures implemented at the downtown Millennium Branch of the Winnipeg Public Library, concerned library users, academics, and library workers came together to prepare a report ...
Remembering the Air India disaster: Memorial and counter-memorial
(Taylor & Francis, 2009-04-20)
Proceedings: Preventing Evictions and Managing Successful Tenancies
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2012-05-17)
On Nov.10 2011, the Institute of Urban Studies conducted a workshop on Managing for Successful Tenancies. The goal of this workshop was to develop an eviction prevention strategy for the Mental Health Commission of Canada's ...
Opening spaces for learning and teaching through community-based teacher education
(University of Aberdeen, 2018-12-21)
Following Nunatsiavut land claims on the Northeast Atlantic coast in Canada, Memorial University and the Nunatsiavut Government partnered to offer a community-based, Inuit-specific Bachelor of Education (IBED). This program ...
Silently Speaking Truth to Power
(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Manitoba (CCPA-MB), 2011)
Defensive dispersal and the nuclear imperative in postwar planning: a study in the sociology of knowledge
(University of Winnipeg, 2001-05-01)
In the aftermath of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the final days of World War II, an urban planning concept known as 'defensive dispersal' came to be advocated by city planners, architects, atomic ...