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Jackson, Robert J. "The Unreformed Canadian House of Commons." La réforme de la Chambre des communes 26, no. 1 (April 12, 2005): 161–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/042654ar.

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Le Parlement évolue constamment et si l'on veut qu'il soit efficace, il faut que ses pratiques reflètent l'évolution de la société. L'auteur propose des changements dans le processus législatif la surveillance de l'exécutif, la représentation et l'organisation de la Chambre des communes car la société et l'appareil gouvernemental se développent plus rapidement que les mécanismes de cette chambre.
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Franks, C. E. S. "REFORM OF THE CANADIAN HOUSE OF COMMONS." American Review of Canadian Studies 16, no. 4 (December 1986): 399–412. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02722018609480962.

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Weaver, R. Kent. "Improving Representation in the Canadian House of Commons." Canadian Journal of Political Science 30, no. 3 (September 1997): 473–512. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008423900015985.

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AbstractCanada's single-member plurality (SMP) rules for elections to the House of Commons have a number of disadvantages, including their tendency to promote severe underrepresentation of the governing party in some regions, reward regionally concentrated parties, lead to single-region dominance of the governing party caucus and underrepresent women, Aboriginal peoples and visible minorities. Electoral reforms proposed to weaken these effects, especially proportional representation and “mixed-member corrective” systems, generally make single-party majority governments almost impossible. After reviewing alternatives, this article presents a simulation of the effects of a system featuring a limited number of compensation seats designed to award most of these seats to the parties that garner the most votes nationwide. This system could help rectify many of the problems associated with the current SMP system while only modestly lowering the prospects for single-party majority government.
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Stilborn, Jack. "An Alternative Approach to Canadian House of Commons Reform." American Review of Canadian Studies 47, no. 1 (January 2, 2017): 35–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02722011.2017.1292534.

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Smith, Jennifer. "Democracy and the Canadian House of Commons at the miIlennium." Canadian Public Administration/Administration publique du Canada 42, no. 4 (December 1999): 398–421. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-7121.1999.tb02034.x.

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KORNBERG, ALLAN. "The Social Bases of Leadership in a Canadian House of Commons." Australian Journal of Politics & History 11, no. 3 (April 7, 2008): 324–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8497.1965.tb00441.x.

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Crimmins, James E., and Paul Nesbitt‐Larking. "Canadian prime ministers in the house of commons: Patterns of intervention." Journal of Legislative Studies 2, no. 3 (September 1996): 145–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13572339608420479.

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Kerr, Don, and Hugh Mellon. "Demographic Change and Representation by Population in the Canadian House of Commons." Canadian Studies in Population 37, no. 1-2 (December 31, 2010): 53. http://dx.doi.org/10.25336/p6z02f.

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This paper considers Canadian representational debates, including a brief sketch of how electoral districts are defined across geography and population. Electoral boundary commissions in Canada have long differed in terms of the relative importance to be placed on population in decisions relating to the delineation of boundaries of federal electoral districts. As argued in this paper,the traditional understandings and agreements that have shaped decisions relating to electoral districts are increasingly at odds with Canada’s emerging demographic realities. In a nation that is highly reliant on immigration in maintaining its population, the current representational order arguably penalizes regions of the country which are growing most rapidly, and in particular, where new immigrants are most likely to locate. The current paper also considers possible reforms in the manner in which electoral districts are drawn, which at a minimum could involve the use of more up to date and accurate demographic data.
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Tremblay, Manon. "Do Female MPs Substantively Represent Women? A Study of Legislative Behaviour in Canada's 35th Parliament." Canadian Journal of Political Science 31, no. 3 (September 1998): 435–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008423900009082.

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AbstractThis article outlines the pattern of women's participation in the Canadian parliamentary system. The question of interest is whether female members of the House of Commons make a difference in politics and, notably, if they substantively represent women. The basic underlying hypothesis is that women in the Canadian House of Commons make a difference, that is to say, they substantively represent women. However, the impact of women in politics is limited: they do indeed make a difference, but not a drastic one. In this sense, women try to shape the legislative agenda and the legislative discourse in order to promote women's issues more than do men, but their activity in favour of women's concerns remains quite limited from a numerical point of view. To achieve effective results in this study, two methods were employed: a survey given to members of the 35th Canadian Parliament, and a content analysis of the Hansard Index of the House of Commons. Overall, the results presented here provide some support for the substantive argument. On the question of whether women members of the House of Commons make a difference in politics, and, significantly, if they substantively represent women, the answer is generally positive, although it is necessary to qualify this response. Both female and male MPs speak and act to support women's issues in the House of Commons, but these activities remain quantitatively marginal. However, on each aspect considered, the group of female MPs were proportionately more involved in women's issues than their male counterparts.
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Atkinson, Michael M., and David C. Docherty. "Moving Right Along: The Roots of Amateurism in the Canadian House of Commons." Canadian Journal of Political Science 25, no. 2 (June 1992): 295–318. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008423900003991.

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AbstractIt has been argued that rapid membership turnover in the Canadian House of Commons robs the institution of a dedicated and experienced group of MPs and produces a Parliament stocked with political amateurs. Both electoral defeat and voluntary retirement have been seen to play a role in the amateurism phenomenon. The authors explore the roots of amateurism and critically examine the argument that a frustrating career structure in the House of Commons encourages voluntary vacancies. Using a random sample of former MPs, the authors find support for both a “frustration” and an “exhaustion” model of career choice. The article concludes that while amateurism—in the sense of short political careers—may be problematic, not all MPs are amateurs and the problem of amateurism cannot be addressed simply by satisfying frustrated ambition.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Canadian House of Commons"

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Snagovsky, Feodor. "Party Switching in the Canadian House of Commons." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32510.

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This thesis seeks to explain the phenomenon of party switching (or floor-crossing) in the understudied case of the Canadian House of Commons. It uses Müller and Strøm’s “Policy, Office or Votes?” framework at the individual level of analysis and a mixed methods approach that combines document analysis and econometrics to assess the effects of individual and institutional variables on the decision to switch parties. The results inform a wider discussion regarding individual political behavior as well as the role, influence and evolution of political parties in the Canadian state. The research demonstrates that the electorate is adept at recognizing opportunism and tends to respect MPs who switch parties on principle while punishing those that switch for more self-centered reasons.
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Bernhardt, Peter. "The contempt power of the Canadian House of Commons: The case for reform." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/7761.

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McAndrews, John Russell. "Representation and lawmaking in the United States Congress and the Canadian House of Commons." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/59099.

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This dissertation considers two aspects of legislative representation: (1) how citizens use information about legislative activities and outcomes to assess the performance of the US president and the congressional majority party, and (2) why Canadian MPs debate government bills—even when the government controls the outcome. An investigation of these questions is divided into three principal chapters. First, I examine the effects of legislative outcomes on citizens’ assessment of the president and the majority party in Congress. Prominent theories of legislative behavior argue—and media pundits often assert—that Americans reward these actors if they succeed in passing their bills. But what if the bill is divisive, as is likely the case with well-publicized legislation? Using survey experiments, I show that, on average, citizens still express greater approval for the president and the majority party if Congress passes their ideologically contentious bills—compared with if Congress does not pass them. However, I also find that this reward is typically concentrated among those who already favor the underlying policy change; among policy opponents, the effect is often statistically indistinguishable from zero. Second, I investigate the sophistication of citizens’ judgments of legislative performance. Specifically, do inferential biases—common in other domains—interfere with how citizens evaluate the president and the congressional majority party in light of bill failure? Again using survey experiments, I find that citizens avoid the serious inferential mistake of treating these actors as if they had performed poorly. Instead, I show that their assessments—even in the absence of diagnostic information about those involved—are broadly consistent with realistic beliefs about legislative performance and the obstacles to success in Congress. Third, I explore why Canadian MPs debate government bills. Whereas recent research tends to emphasize legislative speech as a means of communicating with the electorate, the particular rules of government bill debate—coupled with the relatively low visibility of such deliberations—suggest alternative motivations. Using an original dataset of 53 debates, I find no evidence of personal vote seeking; instead, I find patterns of debate participation consistent with attempted obstruction by bill opponents and attempted persuasion by bill proponents.
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Barratt, Shane G. "The Canadian government and peacekeeping : an analysis of the House of Commons debates concerning involvement in United Nations peacekeeping operations." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1996. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq23215.pdf.

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Dumoulin, Jennifer. "Canada's House of Commons and the Perversion of the Public Sphere." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20162.

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Jürgen Habermas’ The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere has been described as outdated and incompatible with 21st century democracies. Among other things, Habermas’ initial formulation excluded the state from the public sphere. Recently, a revised model of the public sphere has emerged that positions the state and other law-making bodies at its centre. Although some theorists have embraced this revised model, others continue to exclude the state or oversimplify its role. While some research has examined how parliaments fit into this revised model, no research has been published on this in a Canadian context. This thesis attempts to fill this gap by answering the research question: Does the Canadian House of Commons constitute a form of the public sphere? To answer this question, the Canadian House of Commons is explored along three dimensions of the public sphere – structure, representation, and interaction. This system of classification conforms to the essential function and institutional criteria of classical theory and also accounts for revised models of the public sphere. Ultimately, this work argues that the Canadian House of Commons satisfies the structural and representational dimensions of the public sphere. Its interactional dimension, however, is found to be inconsistent with public sphere theory due to a lack of real deliberation and the pervasiveness of party politics.
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Garner, Christopher. "Managing behaviour : intra-party dissent in the British and Canadian Houses of Commons." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.432101.

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Pender, J. W. (James William), and n/a. "Parliamentary administration in traditional Westminister [sic] parliaments : reflections on the role of procedure and management." University of Canberra. School of Management, 1990. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20041206.133427.

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McColl, Heidi. "Men in Power: The Significance of the Representation of Women in terms of Gender Equality in the National Legislatures of Sweden and Canada." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Management and Economics, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-2726.

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The representation of women in numbers in national legislatures is an issue of great importance to Feminist researchers around the world. While the representation of women is an accomplishment in its own right, what remains to be said is whether or not the representation of women in national parliaments affects the level of gender equality present to a great extent. In this paper, gender equality is measured in terms of general working conditions in parliament, such as the distribution of women among standing parliamentary committees, and the attitudes of parliamentarians towards the issue of gender equality. In this multi-strategy research design a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods is used in the form of questionnaires, interviews and statistical analyses in order to establish the significance of the representation of women in the national legislatures of Sweden and Canada. The national legislatures in Sweden, the Riksdag, and Canada, the House of Commons, were compared as the Riksdag represents a progressive case in terms of the presence of women with 45 percent women, while the House of Commons represents a less progressive case with only 21 percent women. The Politics of Presence theory represents the theoretical framework for this study and is tested in order to determine whether the presence of women truly matters.

In this study it is found that the presence of women in national legislatures does not signify gender equality as conditions of gender inequality are found in the attitudes and working conditions in the Canadian House of Commons and in the working conditions of the Swedish Riksdag. It is concluded that the representation of women does not matter with regards to gender equality as situations of gender inequality exist in both national legislatures investigated.

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John, Shirley Diane. "The analysis of House of Commons' division list data." Thesis, University of Bath, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.235796.

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Bird, Karen. "Feminizing the Commons? : the significance of sex and gender in the British House of Commons, 1997-2001." Thesis, University of Essex, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.425845.

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Books on the topic "Canadian House of Commons"

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Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Guide to the Canadian House of Commons. 2nd ed. [Ottawa]: Office of the Speaker of the House of Commons, 2002.

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Levy, Gary. Speakers of the Canadian House of Commons. Ottawa: Library of Parliament, 1996.

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Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. and Canada. Parlement. Chambre des communes., eds. Guide to the Canadian House of Commons =: Guide de la Chambre des communes du Canada. 2nd ed. Ottawa, Ont: Office of the Speaker of the House of Commons = Bureau du Président de la Chambre des communes, 2002.

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R, Robertson James, ed. Oaths of allegiance and the Canadian House of Commons. [Ottawa]: Library of Parliament, Research Branch, 1991.

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Parliament, Canada Library of. Oaths of allegiance and the Canadian House of Commons. Ottawa: Library of Parliament, 1990.

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Robertson, James R. Oaths of allegiance and the Canadian House of Commons. Ottawa, Ont: Library of Parliament, Research Branch, 2005.

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Commons, Canada Parliament House of. Hansard: House of Commons debates. Nepean, Ont: Public Works and Government Services, 1994.

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Macphail, Agnes Campbell. Agnes Macphail: Letters from the commons. Owen Sound: Ginger Press Inc., 1992.

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Levy, Gary. Speakers of the House of Commons. Ottawa: Library of Parliament, 1988.

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Levy, Gary. Speakers of the House of Commons. Ottawa: Library of Parliament, 1996.

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Book chapters on the topic "Canadian House of Commons"

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Thornton, Martin. "The Naval Aid Bill Reaches Closure in the House of Commons." In Churchill, Borden and Anglo-Canadian Naval Relations, 1911–14, 99–110. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137300874_7.

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Thornton, Martin. "The Naval Aid Bill and the Canadian House of Commons: The Long Debate Begins." In Churchill, Borden and Anglo-Canadian Naval Relations, 1911–14, 76–98. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137300874_6.

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Forman, F. N. "The House of Commons." In Mastering British politics, 148–67. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11203-6_11.

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Forman, F. N. "The House of Commons." In Mastering British Politics, 153–70. London: Macmillan Education UK, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17778-3_11.

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Forman, F. N., and N. D. J. Baldwin. "The House of Commons." In Mastering British Politics, 244–67. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-02159-5_11.

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Dorey, Peter. "The House of Commons." In The Labour Party and Constitutional Reform, 49–99. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230594159_3.

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Jones, Bill. "The House of Commons." In British politics, 205–18. Second edition. | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. | Series: The basics: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429199509-18.

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Forman, F. N., and N. D. J. Baldwin. "The House of Commons." In Mastering British Politics, 209–36. London: Macmillan Education UK, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13493-9_11.

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Forman, F. N., and N. D. J. Baldwin. "The House of Commons." In Mastering British Politics, 259–88. London: Macmillan Education UK, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15045-8_11.

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James, Robert Rhodes. "In the House of Commons." In Edward Boyle, 91–94. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11103-9_8.

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Conference papers on the topic "Canadian House of Commons"

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Fast, Paul, and Robert Jackson. "Case Study: University of British Columbia's 18-storey TallWood House at Brock Commons." In IABSE Symposium, Vancouver 2017: Engineering the Future. Zurich, Switzerland: International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/vancouver.2017.2322.

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Qela, Blerim, and Hussein Mouftah. "Simulation of a house heating system using C# — An energy conservation perspective." In 2010 IEEE 23rd Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering - CCECE. IEEE, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ccece.2010.5575176.

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Rahaman, Habibur, Rabbani Rasha, and M. Tariq Iqbal. "Design and analysis of a solar water heating system for a detached house in newfoundland." In 2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE). IEEE, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ccece43985.2019.8995175.

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Chu, Jenny, Cynthia A. Cruickshank, Wilkie Choi, and Stephen J. Harrison. "Modelling of an Indirect Solar-Assisted Heat Pump System for a High Performance Residential House." In ASME 2013 7th International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the ASME 2013 Heat Transfer Summer Conference and the ASME 2013 11th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2013-18222.

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Heat pumps are commonly used for residential space-heating and cooling. The combination of solar thermal and heat pump systems as a single solar-assisted heat pump (SAHP) system can significantly reduce residential energy consumption in Canada. As a part of Team Ontario’s efforts to develop a high performance house for the 2013 DOE Solar Decathlon Competition, an integrated mechanical system (IMS) consisting of a SAHP was investigated. The system is designed to provide domestic hot water, space-heating, space-cooling and dehumidification. The system included a cold and a hot thermal storage tank and a heat pump to move energy from the low temperature reservoir, to the hot. The solar thermal collectors supplies heat to the cold storage and operate at a higher efficiency due to the heat pump reducing the temperature of the collector working fluid. The combination of the heat pump and solar thermal collectors allows more heat to be harvested at a lower temperature, and then boosted to a suitable temperature for domestic use via the heat pump. The IMS and the building’s energy loads were modeled using the TRNSYS simulation software. A parametric study was conducted to optimize the control, sizing and configuration of the system. This paper provides an overview of the model and summarizes the results of the study. The simulation results suggested that the investigated system can achieve a free energy ratio of about 0.583 for a high performance house designed for the Ottawa climate.
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Wong, Wing-Keat (Wayne), Brad Wiebe, Curtis Treen, and John Richmond. "Preserving Pipeline Integrity With Large Diameter Stone Columns at Dead Horse Creek Crossing, Southern Manitoba, Canada." In 2018 12th International Pipeline Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2018-78651.

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Pipeline integrity has been threatened at the Dead Horse Creek pipeline crossing in southern Manitoba by a slow-moving slope failure with a potential for crest retrogression. The movement zone extends from the slope crest to the bottom of the creek, a vertical distance of about 25 m and is approximately 80 m long from toe to scarp and 100 m wide along the creek. The slope has degraded over time and is controlled by the combination of local geology, which consists of weak colluvium overlying high plastic clay shale, and creek bank erosion and channel degradation. Saturated soil conditions, a function of poor drainage and elevated seasonal precipitation, have exacerbated the problem over the years. The slope movements have been monitored on a regular basis since 2008 and presented an increasing risk to the integrity of multiple pipelines located in two rights-of-way (ROWs) situated within and immediately adjacent to the failing soil mass. The site is surrounded by various infrastructure and recreational areas that are key to the community, and therefore is considered a high consequence area with respect to potential pipeline failures. To manage the risk and protect pipeline integrity, various stress relief and other mitigating measures have been implemented since 2013 [1], culminating in a major slope rehabilitation project undertaken in 2015, which comprised earthworks, drainage and watercourse improvements, and slope stabilization using stone columns. While the use of stone columns to stabilize embankments is not a new technique, it is not commonly used in the pipeline industry and represents another option for geohazard stabilization in the right situations. This paper presents the slope stabilization techniques employed and discusses the challenges of working on an active moving slope confined by a watercourse and live pipeline assets. The positive benefits of the stabilization measures are illustrated through the use of 2D and 3D numerical modelling, and confirmed through an ongoing geohazard management program that includes site inspection and instrumentation monitoring which continues to show improvements in slope performance post construction.
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Wilsoncroft, Charles. "NEC3: Managing Change." In ASME 2009 12th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2009-16380.

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The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has endorsed the use of NEC for all public sector contracts. The reason being is that it stimulates effective project management and enables the parties to manage risk and change more efficiently, which in turn serves to mitigate the cost and time effects of any risk event should it arise under the contract. In essence it facilitates a more collaborative working culture between the parties. The NEC3 contract is gaining in popularity and has been adopted for use in the decommissioning of nuclear power stations and the London Olympics, it also recently received support in the Tenth Special Report on Construction Matters by the House of Commons. It has strict time limits for the notification of compensation events as set out in the core clause 61.3 whereby the Contractor’s contract administration team needs to notify the project manager within an eight week period of becoming aware of the event. The contract also provides for an early warning procedure whereby the Contractor and the project manager will cooperate and proactively discuss how issues can be overcome in a collaborative manner. This NEC3 contract requires both the Contractor and the Employer to act positively and is welcomed as a possible solution to the entrenched disputes which have regularly occurred on major energy projects and if properly administered will hopefully result in an earlier and less fraught final account settlement process for both parties.
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Thurston, David F. "A Systems Approach for the Evaluation and Rebuilding of the Rogers Pass Systems on Canadian Pacific." In 2021 Joint Rail Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/jrc2021-58468.

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Abstract In the 1980’s, Canadian Pacific (CP) constructed one of the most ambitious projects since the original completion of the railway in 1885. The Rogers Pass project was initiated at CP in the early 1980’s to allow for increased capacity and efficiency by installing a second main track within the Rogers Pass area. Completed in 1988, the Rogers Pass Project included the construction of a new line with significantly lower westbound grades and two tunnels with a combined length of over ten miles. Several other systems were required to complete the project that will be discussed I this paper. Recently, CP has started a new Multi-Year Plan to rebuild virtually all of the tunnel systems infrastructure that will not only prolong the life of these systems, but will introduce technology not known at the time of construction. These new systems will enable CP to greatly reduce maintenance cost while improving reliability. These systems include a high voltage transmission line that feed the ventilation house, a sophisticated ventilation system that allows fresh combustion air to reach the locomotives working the uphill grades, as well as process controllers that automate all of these systems. As all of the systems are reaching the end of their useful life, CP’s rebuilding will also increase overall system capacity.
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Klementis, Jennifer D., Shenwei Zhang, Jonathan Law, Maria Pino, and Jason Yan. "Practical Improvements to Surface Loading Assessment: Building Accuracy, Efficiency and Transparency." In 2018 12th International Pipeline Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2018-78633.

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This paper presents a tool for surface loading stress analysis that was developed in-house by TransCanada (TCPL). This tool utilizes fundamentals of the surface loading assessment method developed by Kiefner & Associates Inc. (KAI) for Canadian Energy Pipeline Association (CEPA), but incorporated many advanced functionalities to improve the accuracy, efficiency and transparency of the analysis. The new functions of the tool include the batch analysis, multiple angle analysis, generic/site-specific loading analysis, graphical display of stress distributions for refined assessment, user-defined impact factor and automated reporting for documentation of surface loading calculations. This tool also incorporated the improved numerical algorithm for longitudinal global bending stress considering the actual live load pressure distribution over a certain length of pipeline. The accuracy of the developed tool was validated by comparing it to the KAI tool. The improved algorithm for longitudinal global bending stress calculation reduces the conservatism of the longitudinal global bending stress compared to the original simplified method but does not sacrifice safety, which has been demonstrated by comparison with the experimental results. The new functionalities improved the business efficiency and maintains safety and regulatory compliance.
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Cuanang, Jonas, Constantine Tarawneh, Martin Amaro, Jennifer Lima, and Heinrich Foltz. "Optimization of Railroad Bearing Health Monitoring System for Wireless Utilization." In 2020 Joint Rail Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/jrc2020-8060.

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Abstract In the railroad industry, systematic health inspections of freight railcar bearings are required. Bearings are subjected to high loads and run at high speeds, so over time the bearings may develop a defect that can potentially cause a derailment if left in service operation. Current bearing condition monitoring systems include Hot-Box Detectors (HBDs) and Trackside Acoustic Detection Systems (TADS™). The commonly used HBDs use non-contact infrared sensors to detect abnormal temperatures of bearings as they pass over the detector. Bearing temperatures that are about 94°C above ambient conditions will trigger an alarm indicating that the bearing must be removed from field service and inspected for defects. However, HBDs can be inconsistent, where 138 severely defective bearings from 2010 to 2019 were not detected. And from 2001 to 2007, Amsted Rail concluded that about 40% of presumably defective bearings detected by HBDs did not have any significant defects upon teardown and inspection. TADS™ use microphones to detect high-risk bearings by listening to their acoustic sound vibrations. Still, TADS™ are not very reliable since there are less than 30 active systems in the U.S. and Canada, and derailments may occur before bearings encounter any of these systems. Researchers from the University Transportation Center for Railway Safety (UTCRS) have developed an advanced algorithm that can accurately and reliably monitor the condition of the bearings via temperature and vibration measurements. This algorithm uses the vibration measurements collected from accelerometers on the bearing adapters to determine if there is a defect, where the defect is within the bearing, and the approximate size of the defect. Laboratory testing is performed on the single bearing and four bearing test rigs housed at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV). The algorithm uses a four second sample window of the recorded vibration data and can reliably identify the defective component inside the bearing with up to a 100% confidence level. However, about 20,000 data points are used for this analysis, which requires substantial computational power. This can limit the battery life of the wireless onboard condition monitoring system. So, reducing the vibration sample window to conduct an accurate analysis should result in a more optimal power-efficient algorithm. A wireless onboard condition monitoring module that collects one second of vibration data (5,200 samples) was manufactured and tested to compare its efficacy against a wired setup that uses a four second sample window. This study investigates the root-mean-square values of the bearing vibration and its power spectral density plots to create an optimized and accurate algorithm for wireless utilization.
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Lukaniuk, Coral, and Chris Coupal. "Accelerating Industry Performance Through Collaborative Continual Improvement." In 2018 12th International Pipeline Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2018-78285.

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CEPA Integrity First® (Integrity First), led by the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association (CEPA) and a condition of membership, acts as a foundation for continual improvement, bringing our members together to share and implement leading practices in the areas of safety, environment and socio-economics. Integrity First includes three principles and ten priority areas (such as emergency management, pipeline integrity and water protection) where members collaborate, share leading practices and hold each other accountable. Integrity First is a management systems approach designed by CEPA members for industry to achieve collaborative continual improvement. It supports the collective setting of priorities, plans, assessments and improvements. While spreadsheets enabled the first rounds of assessments, CEPA required a solution that engaged multiple stakeholders over a complex timeline, coordinated activities clearly and precisely, while keeping the process transparent and efficient. The information generated is sensitive, so it must be kept secure while still being available for aggregation, reporting and reference. It needed to house communication tools so members could easily pull information and lastly, it needed to be easy to use. In August of 2015, CEPA established a partnership with SPAN Consulting (SPAN) to address these challenges through its software as a service (SaaS) offering called Octane™. This paper will review how CEPA designed and implemented a technical, web-based solution to enable an efficient, effective and transparent Integrity First with transformative impact. Specifically, through the use of this technology, there are now stronger communities of practice across industry with increased focus and effort on the opportunities to improve through real-time self-serve access to industry’s overall benchmarked performance, leadership and leading practices. CEPA’s commitment to enabling Integrity First is resulting in better adoption and improved performance.
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Reports on the topic "Canadian House of Commons"

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Grundfossen, Peter. A study of the arguments for and against the Factory Act of 1833 used by members of Parliament in the House of Commons. Portland State University Library, January 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/etd.212.

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