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The Urban Aboriginal Strategy: Community Consultations
(2008-04-28)
The Urban Aboriginal Strategy (UAS) has three broad national priorities that touch on
life skills; promoting jobs, training, and entrepreneurship; and providing support for
women, children and families. This report ...
'Global English': Linguistic Imperialism or Practical Lingua Franca?
(Studies in Language and Capitalism, 2006)
Despite its obvious political significance, political theory has not played a prominent role in the debates around the spread of 'global English'. Given the explosion of literature within political science and political ...
Rooming House: Tenant-Landlord and Community Cooperation, Spence Neighbourhood
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2005-03-01)
This project examined the potential for adapting the existing West Broadway TLC principles and practices to the rooming house stock in the Spence neighbourhood.
Residential back taxes and revitalization: a study of Winnipeg's Spence neighbourhood
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2002-01-01)
The City of Winnipeg considers the Spence neighbourhood a Major Rehabilitation Area.
Socio-economic conditions have deteriorated and the number of boarded-up and
abandoned homes has increased. Community groups are calling ...
The Long and Short of IT: The International Development Research Centre as a Case Study for a Long-term Digital Preservation Strategy
(University of Manitoba & University of Winnipeg, 2007)
This thesis is a contribution to the study of the challenges facing archivists and record managers working on the long-term management and preservation of digital records. This thesis discusses the International Development ...
Conference Report: German-American Encounters After World War II and the Holocaust. Conference at the GHI, September 26-28, 2002
(German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, 2003)
Conference at the German Historical Institute, September 26–28, 2002. Conveners: Alexander Freund (GHI/AICGS/University of Winnipeg), Atina Grossmann (Cooper Union), Raimund Lammersdorf (GHI), Annette Puckhaber (GHI). ...
Cities within Cities
(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Manitoba (CCPA-MB), 2009-08-11)
Workfare in Manitoba
(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba (CCPA-MB) and Fernwood Publishing, 2000)
Aboriginal Female Lone Parents in Four Cities: Exploring Strengths and Challenges
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2007-01-01)
The research project pertaining to the exploration of the strengths and challenges facing Aboriginal single mothers in four Western Canadian Cities achieves two goals. First, it documents the development of the research ...
Counting endomorphisms of crown-like orders
(Springer, 2002-12)
The authors introduce the notion of crown-like orders and introduce powerful tools for counting the endomorphisms of orders of this type.
An Energy-Based Body Temperature Threshold between Torpor and Normothermia for Small Mammals
(The University of Chicago, 2007-09-05)
Field studies of use of torpor by heterothermic endotherms suffer from the lack of a standardized threshold differentiating torpid body temperatures (T_b) from normothermic T_b's. This threshold can be more readily observed ...
Sustainable Financing for the Social Economy, Phases 1 and 2
(2008-01-01)
This 2 phase project intends to assist organizations involved in financing social enterprises to develop and deliver financial products and services that meet the various long- and short-term financing needs of this client group.
Least Periods of Factors of Infinite Words
(EDP Sciences, 2009)
We show that any positive integer is the least period of a factor of the Thue-Morse word. We also characterize the set of least periods of factors of a Sturmian word. In particular, the corresponding set for the Fibonacci ...
The fraudulent Coligny-Rapalje descent
(Annals of Genealogical Research, 2006)
Jerome B. Holgate, in his American Genealogy (fictitiously dated 1848), derives the Rapalje family from an alleged Gaspard Colet de Rapalje "born in France, at Châtillon, sur Loire, in 1505." We suggest that this personage ...
Winnipeg's Inner City: Invest in Prevention, Not Detention
(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Manitoba (CCPA-MB), 2005., 2005-10-27)
Communism and Labor Unions: The Changing Perspectives of Mennonites in Canada and the United States
(2009)
Mennonite political theology, at least as manifested by church pronouncements on communism and labor unions, has been both more and less progressive than the ideology of the broader North American society. When the United ...
Mennonites, Children and Communion
(University of Winnipeg, 2007-08)
This research thesis on Mennonites, Children and Communion has been authored by one who is deeply rooted in the tradition, faith and life, and practical theology of the North American Mennonite community. The research ...
Immigrant and Refugee Serving Organizations in a Canadian City: An Exploratory Study
(Prairie Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Integration, 2006)
Government-initiated immigrant and refugee-related programs seem to have encountered problems that are, at least in part, due to a lack of research on the critical functions of immigrant and refugee serving non-governmental ...
The ver Veelen family in Cologne and Amsterdam
(New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2004)
Non-Repetitive Tilings
(The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 2002-07-03)
In 1906 Axel Thue showed how to construct an infinite non-repetitive (or square-free) word on an alphabet of size 3. Since then this result has been rediscovered many times and extended in many ways. We present a two-dimensional ...