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Hack, G., and A. Skaburskis. "Lessons from Canada's Housing R&D Experience." Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 10, no. 1 (March 1992): 61–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/c100061.
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In this paper the history of Canadian Housing R&D programs is reviewed and the strengths and weaknesses of these programs are assessed. Government programs that sought to promote innovation directly, subsidy programs for the private sector, and demonstration programs are looked at. Urban development projects as well as small-scale technological innovation dissemination efforts are considered, and the lessons that program administrators have gained from past programs and present guidelines for program design are presented.
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Kok, Sandra, J. Shaw, P. Seto, and D. Weatherbe. "The Urban Drainage Program of Canada’s Great Lakes 2000 Cleanup Fund." Water Quality Research Journal 35, no. 3 (August 1, 2000): 315–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wqrj.2000.022.
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Abstract Since 1990, Canada’s Great Lakes 2000 Cleanup Fund, which is administered by Environment Canada, has been supporting the development and implementation of cleanup technologies to control municipal pollution sources, to clean up contaminated sediments, and to rehabilitate fish and wildlife habitats. These efforts are focused on Canada’s 16 Great Lakes Areas of Concern (AOCs) identified by the International Joint Commission for priority cleanup action and restoration of beneficial uses. Remedial Action Plans (RAPs) developed by federal/provincial teams and the public provide the strategy for restoring the beneficial uses of the AOCs. Impairments in beneficial uses in the AOCs have been, in part, caused by discharges from combined sewer overflows (CSOs), Stormwater and sewage treatment plants (STPs). To assist municipalities in addressing the problems posed by urban drainage (CSOs and Stormwater), the Cleanup Fund’s Urban Drainage Program has been supporting the development and demonstration of innovative, cost-effective technologies and approaches. These projects include high-rate treatment of CSOs, real-time control of CSOs, performance assessment of Stormwater treatment technologies, pollution prevention and control plans, and development of Stormwater management planning tools for urban areas. These projects are carried out in collaboration with the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, municipalities, professional groups, universities and conservation authorities and other Environment Canada’s facilities (National Water Research Institute and Wastewater Technology Centre). The Urban Drainage Program has been instrumental in advancing the state of the art in CSO and Stormwater management in Ontario. Projects supported under the program have quantified pollutant loadings from municipal wastewater sources in several Ontario Areas of Concern, provided hard data on the performance of best management practices for Stormwater treatment, identified and evaluated new cost-effective technologies for CSO reduction and Stormwater treatment, and developed strategies and decision-making tools for Stormwater management The work done through the Urban Drainage Program is making it possible for Great Lakes communities to achieve important environmental objectives at significantly lower cost As a result, the communities should be able to achieve many of these objectives much earlier than they would have if their choices had been limited to more conventional and capital-intensive solutions. Although the program has focused on the needs of Areas of Concern in the Great Lakes basin, the lessons learned there can easily be applied to communities in other parts of the country and around the world.
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Kok, Sandra. "Wet-Weather Flow Management in the Great Lakes Areas of Concern." Water Quality Research Journal 39, no. 4 (November 1, 2004): 319–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wqrj.2004.045.
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Abstract Under the Government of Canada's Great Lakes Program, the Great Lakes Sustainability Fund and its predecessor programs (the Great Lakes Cleanup Fund and the Great Lakes 2000 Cleanup Fund) were established to implement cleanup actions and strategies that would contribute to the restoration of beneficial uses in environmentally degraded areas (known as Areas of Concern) in the Great Lakes basin. The Great Lakes Sustainability Fund is administered by Environment Canada on behalf of eight Government of Canada departments. Contributing to impaired beneficial uses are municipal wastewaters generated from the urban centres in the Great Lakes Areas of Concern. These municipal wastewaters include treated sewage and wetweather discharges of combined sewer overflows and stormwater runoff. This paper provides an overview of the Municipal Wastewater Program of the federal government's Great Lakes Sustainability Fund and highlights the progress made to date under the program towards wet-weather flow management and the Program's role in developing and demonstrating sustainable approaches and technologies in the Great Lakes Areas of Concern.
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Quam, Vern C. "WINDBREAK ESTABLISHMENT THROUGH DEMONSTRATION AND EDUCATION." HortScience 28, no. 5 (May 1993): 563f—563. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.28.5.563f.
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Windbreaks are an essential part of rural and urban living in the northern Great Plains. They provide protection to crops and livestock from wind by modifying windchill factors, lowering soil erosion, and conserving soil moisture. Around farmsteads and cities, benefits include energy conservation, control of snow deposits, and added aesthetic values. In urban centers windbreaks are important as aesthetic screens, living snow fences, noise barriers, and sites of air filtration.Tree establishment on the prairies can be challenging with low rainfall and cold winter temperatures. A windbreak demonstration program began in 1989 across the state of North Dakota. The demonstration program is a joint effort between local soil conservation districts, extension service, and 275 landowners. The demonstrations were designed to compare new and traditional tree establishment techniques. The program goal is to gather data from various demonstration sites and transfer the information to land owners, thereby increasing tree survival and establishment in windbreak plantings.
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Broussard, S. R., S. B. Jones, L. A. Nielsen, and C. A. Flanagan. "Forest Stewardship Education: Fostering Positive Attitudes in Urban Youth." Journal of Forestry 99, no. 1 (January 1, 2001): 37–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jof/99.1.37.
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Abstract Philadelphia middle school students participated in a forestry education program that involved activities in the classroom, an urban forest, and a demonstration forest. A better understanding of forest stewardship, as evidenced by students' increased knowledge and shifting attitudes, was the cumulative effect, but activities and discussions in the demonstration forest proved the most effective educational method for fostering positive attitudes toward forestry.
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Millar, Heather, Lauren Jain, Hanna Goldberg, Chantal Li, Anjali Aggarwal, Lisa Allen, and Rachel F. Spitzer. "Pregnancy Outcomes in a Multidisciplinary Canadian Urban Adolescent Pregnancy Program." Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology 31, no. 2 (April 2018): 202–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpag.2018.02.101.
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Millar, Heather, Lauren Jain, Hanna Goldberg, Chantal Li, Anjali Aggarwal, Lisa Allen, and Rachel Spitzer. "Pregnancy Outcomes in a Multidisciplinary Canadian Urban Adolescent Pregnancy Program." Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada 40, no. 6 (June 2018): 844–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jogc.2018.03.084.
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Weatherbe, Donald G., and I. Griff Sherbin. "Urban Drainage Control Demonstration Program of Canada's Great Lakes Cleanup Fund." Water Science and Technology 29, no. 1-2 (January 1, 1994): 455–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.1994.0694.
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The Great Lakes Cleanup Fund (CuF) is a component of Canada's Great Lakes Action Plan. Since 1990, the Cleanup Fund has been supporting the development and implementation of cleanup technologies to control municipal pollution sources, to clean up contaminated sediments, and to rehabilitate fish and wildlife habitats. These efforts are focused on Canada's 17 Areas of Concern (AOCs) identified by the International Joint Commission for priority cleanup action and development of remedial action plans (RAPs). The urban drainage program of the CuF is demonstrating new and innovative technologies for controlling urban sources of pollution, and is assisting RAP study teams in developing control options. For combined sewer overflow (CSO) control, demonstrations include high-rate treatment using a vortex separator, and real time operation of a CSO control system. Storm water management demonstrations include development of best management practices, evaluation of control ponds for an industrial catchment, and evaluation of a sewer exfiltration system retrofitted into an existing urban area. Estimates of pollutant loadings to the Great Lakes were made, and overall costs for CSO cleanup were developed for various levels of control. Comprehensive pollution control plans are under development at several AOCs.
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Ladd, Helen F., and Jens Ludwig. "MTO: A residential relocation demonstration program in the United States." Netherlands Journal of Housing and the Built Environment 14, no. 1 (March 1999): 61–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02496541.
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Godoy, Jorge, Joshué Pérez, Enrique Onieva, Jorge Villagrá, Vicente Milanés, and Rodolfo Haber. "A DRIVERLESS VEHICLE DEMONSTRATION ON MOTORWAYS AND IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS." TRANSPORT 30, no. 3 (January 28, 2015): 253–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/16484142.2014.1003406.
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The constant growth of the number of vehicles in today’s world demands improvements in the safety and efficiency of roads and road use. This can be in part satisfied by the implementation of autonomous driving systems because of their greater precision than human drivers in controlling a vehicle. As result, the capacity of the roads would be increased by reducing the spacing between vehicles. Moreover, greener driving modes could be applied so that the fuel consumption, and therefore carbon emissions, would be reduced. This paper presents the results obtained by the AUTOPIA program during a public demonstration performed in June 2012. This driverless experiment consisted of a 100-kilometre route around Madrid (Spain), including both urban and motorway environments. A first vehicle – acting as leader and manually driven – transmitted its relevant information – i.e., position and speed – through an 802.11p communication link to a second vehicle, which tracked the leader’s trajectory and speed while maintaining a safe distance. The results were encouraging, and showed the viability of the AUTOPIA approach.
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Doern, F. E., and D. L. Wotton. "Microanalysis of Airborne Lead Particulates in an Urban Industrial Environment." Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America 43 (August 1985): 112–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0424820100117583.
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IntroductionWeston is a small residential neighborhood in the northwest quadrant of the City of Winnipeg (see Figure 1). The community, in addition to being surrounded by industrial activity, is also unusual in having a secondary lead smelter (Canadian Bronze Co. Ltd.) located within its residential area. There are two other secondary lead smelters in Winnipeg, both of which are also located in the northwest of the city. Concern about high levels of lead found in blood of children from Weston School, located some two blocks from Canadian Bronze and adjacent to moderately heavy traffic, prompted a rigorous air- and soil-sampling program. Following this there was considerable public/political debate and ultimately a sod/soil removal program at the school, and from a number of residential properties in the Weston area. The need to identify the lead source(s) came to the forefront again when lead-in-soil at Weston School was found to be approaching the maximum acceptable level (2600 μg/g for lead in urban soil) within twelve months following the “clean-up” operation.
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Konijnendijk, Cecil, Lorien Nesbitt, and Zach Wirtz. "Urban Forest Governance in the Face of Pulse Disturbances—Canadian Experiences." Arboriculture & Urban Forestry 47, no. 6 (November 1, 2021): 267–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.48044/jauf.2021.023.
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"The sustainable provision of urban forest benefits can be threatened by the occurrence of sudden, major disturbance events, such as forest fires, insect outbreaks, and extreme weather events, which are considered to be “pulse” disturbance events from a socio-ecological systems perspective. Sound urban forestry programs are needed to prepare for these disturbances and reduce their negative impacts. To investigate the role of governance in building more resilient urban forest socio-ecological systems, the relation between pulse disturbances and urban forest governance was studied in 4 Canadian cities. Our study of local urban forestry included expert interviews with local urban forest governance actors, document analysis, and site visits. The Policy Arrangement Approach was applied to structure and analyse urban forest governance. Findings show that all cities had seen a development of their urban forestry programs and governance over time, such as development of staff and formal plans, as well as alliances with key partners. Pulse disturbances seem to have played an important role in the development and sometimes reorientation of urban forestry programs. Although disturbances often had devastating impacts, having a strong urban forestry program in place, including strong alliances with, e.g., industry partners or NGOs, was considered important for handling the aftermath of these events. Efforts had also been made to be better prepared for future disturbances through further professionalization, development of plans, guidelines, and best practices, capacity building through partnerships, and setting up better real-life information systems in support of decision making. Results can inform urban forest governance and urban forestry programs in Canadian cities and elsewhere."
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Wade, Jill. "Wartime Housing Limited, 1941 - 1947: Canadian Housing Policy at the Crossroads." Articles 15, no. 1 (October 21, 2013): 40–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1018892ar.
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Between 1941 and 1947 a federal crown corporation called Wartime Housing Limited (WHL) successfully built and managed thousands of rental units for war workers and veterans. WHL represents a directly interventionist approach to housing problems and demonstrates that the federal government could efficiently meet social needs by participating in housing supply. Though the Advisory Committee on Reconstruction recommended a national, comprehensive housing program emphasizing low-rental housing, the federal government initiated a post-war program promoting home ownership and private enterprise and, in the process, neglected long-range planning and low income housing. In addition, during the late 1940s, WHL's stock of affordable housing was privatized. This market-oriented perspective hindered advances in postwar housing policy in the same way that, for decades, the poor law tradition blocked government acceptance of unemployment relief. This paper reviews the housing record of WHL and examines the federal government's failure to redirect WHL's expertise into a permanent low-rental housing agency at the war's end.
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Donald, Betsy. "Spinning Toronto's Golden Age: The Making of a ‘City that Worked’." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 34, no. 12 (December 2002): 2127–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a34111.
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In this paper I explore the key elements of the mode of regulation operating at the urban scale in Toronto's postwar period to learn what it was that inspired an entire generation of scholars to call Toronto the ‘city that works' in this period. Despite the significant amount of literature discussing the general character of regulation operating at the city-region scale in the Fordist or managerial period of urban development, it is argued that surprisingly little empirical research has actually documented what allegedly made these Fordist metropolitan regions ‘work‘. Drawing on archival research in addition to insights from Canadian applied regulation theory and from an analysis of Canada's changing fiscal federalism, I argue that, although Toronto did develop within the context of a Fordist regime of accumulation, the particular elements of the mode of regulation it developed at the urban scale were distinctive and important in providing the conditions underlying the economic success of the region. Toronto may have benefited disproportionately from national regulatory policies. However, its economic dynamism also constituted one of the cornerstones of the nation's economic and social viability. Further, its more localized regulatory structures and social context had a specific institutional and cultural richness, which, in concert with its highly developed economic structure, served to stave off many of the crisis tendencies being felt by other industrial regions in the 1970s and 1980s. One of the principal and unique institutional innovations was the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto (’Metro'), which can be regarded as a key (although hitherto underemphasized) component of the Canadian Fordist regime of accumulation. More than just a conduit through which nationally driven Keynesian welfare programs were delivered, Metro was also an innovator of unique urban-based postwar development policies. I conclude by demonstrating what this story of postwar Toronto can tell us more generally about urban government and governance under Fordism, and about the managerial paradigm and the regulation approach.
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Pagano, Anthony M., and JoAnn Verdin. "Employee Trip Reduction Without Government Mandates: Cost and Effectiveness Estimates from Chicago." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1598, no. 1 (January 1997): 43–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1598-07.
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Employee trip reduction demonstration projects were organized by the Chicago Area Transportation Study, the metropolitan planning organization in the Chicago area. This paper is based on an independent evaluation of the demonstration projects. The primary source of data for this evaluation was a series of interviews conducted with program administrators and employee trip coordinators at each organization that participated in the demonstration. Voluntary costs, which are costs incurred to implement an employee trip reduction program without the necessity to comply with government regulation, are estimated. The average demonstration organization was able to reduce solo driving rates by 5.5 percentage points. This reduction was attained at an average annual voluntary cost per employee of $34.38. The average voluntary cost per car removed for organizations that actually reduced the solo driving rate was $473. Each $10 expenditure per employee is associated with a 1 percent reduction in the solo driving rate. Every $ 10 increase in annual incentive costs per employee was found to be associated with a 1.3 percent decrease in the solo driving rate. It also was found that elimination of government mandates has reduced the cost of implementing an employee trip reduction program by one-half. Tax incentives should be established to encourage organizations to begin voluntary programs. Such a tax-incentive scheme, combined with an aggressive education program, may be able to achieve substantial reductions in pollution and congestion in urban areas.
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Santiago, Roger, and Jean-Pierre Pelletier. "Contaminated Sediment Management: the Canadian Experience." Water Quality Research Journal 36, no. 3 (August 1, 2001): 395–411. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wqrj.2001.024.
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Abstract Since the beginning of North America's industrialization, the Great Lakes have been negatively impacted by the discharge of industrial, agricultural and municipal pollutants. The governments of Canada and the United States have recognized that the accumulation of pollutants within the bottom sediment and the water column has had a detrimental effect on the Great Lakes ecosystem. In 1972, Canada and the United States signed the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, which established common water quality objectives and commitments to programs and other measures to achieve these objectives. This included measures for the abatement and control of pollution from dredging activities. By 1985, the International Joint Commission, a body established by the two countries to provide advice on boundary water issues, identified 43 Areas of Concern where impaired water quality prevented full beneficial use of rivers, bays, harbours and ports. The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, amended in 1987, committed both countries to concentrate remediation efforts in these 43 Areas of Concern. This led to the development of Remedial Action Plans to assess and remediate contamination problems. Contaminated sediment was identified in all of these Areas of Concern. In 1989, the Canadian government created the 5-year $125-million Great Lakes Action Plan in support of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. Of this, $55 million was allocated to the Great Lakes 2000 Cleanup Fund for the 17 Canadian Areas of Concern. A portion of the Cleanup Fund was designated for the development and demonstration of technologies for assessment, removal and treatment of contaminated sediment. Since its creation, the Remediation Technologies Program, established under the Cleanup Fund, has successfully performed 3 full-scale remediation projects, 11 pilot-scale technology demonstrations and 29 bench-scale tests. In addition to these projects, the program also evaluated existing sediment management practices and processes.
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Eboreime, Ejemai, Arto Ohinmaa, Benjamin Rusak, Keri-Leigh Cassidy, Jason Morrison, Patrick McGrath, Rudolf Uher, et al. "The Text4HealthyAging Program: An Evidence-Based Text Messaging Innovation to Support Healthy Urban Aging in Canada and Australia." Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine 8 (January 2022): 233372142210813. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23337214221081378.
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Age-friendly cities are crucial to achieve the WHO goal of healthy aging. Such cities promote opportunities for health, participation, and security, thus enhancing quality of life as people age. Older people commonly experience psychosocial challenges such as anxiety, depression, substance abuse, loss of autonomy, grief, fear, and loneliness. Australian and Canadian cities continue to seek innovation to improve healthy urban aging and create more age-friendly environments for older adults. There is increasing evidence on the effectiveness and feasibility of mobile technology in health promotion and closing psychological treatment gaps. Older adults have been demonstrated to engage frequently with mobile devices, particularly text messaging. In this article, we conceptualize the Text4HealthyAging, an evidence-based text messaging innovation to support healthy urban aging in Canadian and Australian cities.
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Thambimuthu, K. V., H. Whaley, A. Bennett, and K. A. Jonasson. "Development of a 16-MWth Coal-Water/Heavy Oil Burner for Front-Wall Firing." Journal of Energy Resources Technology 112, no. 2 (June 1, 1990): 136–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.2905720.
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The Canadian program of coal-water fuel (CWF) technology development has included the demonstration of “commercial” burners for CWF in both coal and oil-designed utility boilers. The demonstrations clearly showed that these burners were prototypes, and were, in fact, modified oil burners that were mismatched to the rheological properties of the CWF. As the demonstrations were proceeding, a simultaneous research program was undertaken by the Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology (CANMET) of Energy, Mines and Resources (EMR) Canada in which the basic principles governing atomization and combustion of CWF were studied. Key results from the fundamental studies which led to the development of a novel prototype dual fuel CWF/oil burner are described. In the various stages of development, the burner was scaled up from 1.5 MWth to an industrial scale of 16MWth for demonstration in a 20-MW(e) oil-designed industrial utility boiler and for a single-burner commercial operation in an oil designed package steam boiler. A brief summary of the burner performance in these demonstrations is also given in this paper.
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Schmidtke, Oliver. "The Civil Society Dynamic of Including and Empowering Refugees in Canada’s Urban Centres." Social Inclusion 6, no. 1 (March 29, 2018): 147–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/si.v6i1.1306.
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This article addresses the critical role that civil society at the urban level plays in integrating and empowering immigrants and minorities in Canadian society. From a place-based approach, it investigates how key agencies in the local community have been instrumental in including immigrants in general and refugees in particular into the fabric of Canadian society. Empirically the analysis focuses on Neighbourhood Houses in Greater Vancouver and the Privately-Sponsored Refugee program in Canada. With the interpretative lens on the urban context, the article shows how immigrants and refugees have gained agency and voice in the public arena through place-based communities. The insight into these two empirical cases provides the basis for conceptualizing the socio-political dynamics of immigrant settlement and integration in terms of the effects generated by urban governance structures.
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FOURNIER, PIERRE, TRACY SMITHSON, and DANIEL ST-GERMAIN. "AIRIS — THE CANADIAN HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGER: CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS." International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems 18, no. 03 (September 2008): 545–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0129156408005552.
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The Defence Research and Development Canada Agency has successfully completed a Technology Demonstration Program to assess the military utility of airborne hyperspectral Imagery. This required developing a sensor, the Airborne Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AIRIS), and collecting in-flight imagery data. AIRIS was designed as a flexible instrument using a Fourier Transform spectrometer with a spectral resolution ranging from 1 to 16 cm−1, wide spectral coverage (2 to 12 microns), and different optical configurations. This paper provides a description of AIRIS and discusses examples of the spectral images collected during one air-trial. Emphasis is put on images of sub-pixel targets. Processing AIRIS data is labor intensive and can only be performed during post-trial analysis. Hardware and software modifications to AIRIS will implement a real-time processing capability over the next three years. These modifications will enable the instrument to output radiometrically calibrated digital spectrograms. These spectrograms will then be processed in real-time to output target detection and identification for selected target types.
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Brubacher, Jeffrey R., Amy Mabie, Michelle Ngo, Riyad B. Abu-Laban, Jan Buchanan, Tom Shenton, and Roy Purssell. "Substance-related problems in patients visiting an urban Canadian emergency department." CJEM 10, no. 03 (May 2008): 198–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1481803500010101.
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ABSTRACTObjective:For many patients with addiction and other substance problems, the emergency department (ED) is the sole provider of medical care. This study sought to determine the prevalence and characteristics of substance-related medical problems in ED patients, as defined by documentation in the medical record. We also sought to compare the ED resource use (length of ED stay and number of revisits) of patients with and without substance problems.Methods:Trained evaluators using explicit criteria reviewed all ED charts during a 6-week period at a Canadian tertiary care teaching centre. Data was collected on demographics, documentation of problematic substance use and whether the ED visit was due to substance problems. Using a computerized database, we determined how many patients with and without substance problems had 1 or more subsequent ED visits during the 1-year period from Sept. 1, 2002, to Aug. 31, 2003.Results:Of 6064 visits made by 5194 patients, 6026 visits (99.4%) representing 5188 patients (99.9%) were captured for review. Of those visits, 674 (11.2%, 95% confidence interval [CI] 10.4%–12.0%), made by 600 patients, had documentation of problematic substance use and 521 visits (8.6%, 95% CI 7.9%–9.4%) by 469 patients were caused by substance problems. The mean age of patients with a visit due to a substance problem was 39.2 years, compared with 48.5 years for those with other visits (p< 0.001). The admission rate for substance-related visits was 25.3%, compared with 17.6% for other visits (p< 0.001). For discharged patients, the median length of the ED visit owing to substance-related problems lasted 232 minutes (IQR [interquartile range] 267 min), compared with 164 minutes (IQR 167 min) for other visits (p< 0.001). In 1 year of follow-up, 161 of 600 patients (26.8%) with a substance problem made 466 revisits (mean 0.78 revisits/patient), compared with 975 of 4588 patients (21.3%) without a substance problem who made a total of 2150 revisits (mean 0.47 revisits/patient,p< 0.001).Conclusion:Substance problems contribute significantly to ED visits, hospital admissions and duration of ED stay at a tertiary centre. It is likely that our methodology underestimates the scope of the problem and that a universal screening program would find a higher prevalence. The magnitude of this problem supports the need for an interdisciplinary identification and intervention program for ED patients with substance-related issues.
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Neufeld, Jerry, Marilyn G. Smith, Harvey Estes, and George C. Hill. "Rural After-School Child Care: A Demonstration Project in a Remote Mining Community." Rural Special Education Quarterly 14, no. 3 (September 1995): 12–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/875687059501400304.
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Residents of rural northeast Nevada lack many of the social services available in the urban parts of Nevada and the nation. One of the services lacking in Battle Mountain, Nevada is quality after-school child care. The University of Nevada Cooperative Extension and the Lander County School District collaborated to develop and administer an after-school program for at-risk elementary students, which addressed this need. The program was designed to provide an educational experience while at the same time providing students with some of the protective factors needed to help them lead more productive lifes. This paper details how the program was carried out and shows the results of the program's evaluation. In lean economic times, a collaborative effort such as this may be one way to address youth needs in rural areas. The result was increased community support for quality after-school child care.
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Foerster, Amy. "“Progress and Perfectability”: Urban Policy, Model Cities, and Community Control in the Shadow of Newark." City & Community 18, no. 3 (September 2019): 915–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cico.12432.
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Positioning itself against arguments that claim that the Model Cities program (initially known as the 1966 Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act) was either an unmitigated failure, an attempt to co–opt activists, or an effort to introduce the “carceral state” nationwide, this paper examines the implementation of Model Cities in a historically integrated suburb and argues that while the program was assuredly only a “limited success,” it did provide both funding and social space in which residents could forge intergenerational and cross–racial alliances, as well as launch challenges to federal urban renewal policy and notions of community control. As such, this case is illustrative of the role of federal monies in responding to urban dislocation and unrest, and exemplifies the ways in which urban residents can forge bonds of solidarity even in the face of bureaucratic regulations and political obstructions meant to discourage citizen participation.
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Chisholm, Stewart. "The growing role of citizen engagement in urban naturalization: The case of Canada." Ekistics and The New Habitat 71, no. 424-426 (June 1, 2004): 35–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.53910/26531313-e200471424-426219.
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The author (MA, MCIP, RPP) co-manages Evergreen's Common Grounds program which focuses on the protection and restoration of public lands in urban areas. He has a Master's degree in urban planning from the University of Waterloo, a Bachelor's Degree in resource geography from the University of Victoria , and he is a full member of the Canadian Institute of Planners. Over the past five years, he has developed urban greening resources for land use professionals and community groups including a national grant program, guidebooks, research reports, municipal policy guidelines and case studies. He has also developed and led professional training workshops for public land managers and other municipal officials on partnership approaches for protecting and stewarding urban green spaces. Prior to joining Evergreen, Stewart worked in the private and public sectors leading a variety of land-use planning, environmental assessment and resource conservation projects. Mr Chisholm has written journal articles and presented papers at national and international conferences including the Canadian Institute of Planners (2002) and the Society for Ecological Restoration (2001). The paper that follows is based on a presentation that he gave at the international symposion on "The Natural City," Toronto, 23-25 June, 2004, sponsored by the University of Toronto's Division of the Environment, Institute for Environmental Studies, and the World Society for Ekistics.
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Filion, Pierre. "The Neighbourhood Improvement Plan." Articles 17, no. 1 (August 7, 2013): 16–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1017698ar.
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During the late 1960s and early 1970s the Canadian government effected a turnabout in its urban renewal policy, which culminated in the launching of the Neighbourhood Improvement Program in 1973. This program differed from prior forms of renewal by emphasizing the preservation of the built environment and citizen participation in neighbourhood planning. This article is concerned with examining the difference in the attitudes the city administrations of Montreal and Toronto took toward the federal program, and the impact of this difference on the results in the two cities. It appears that Toronto's mode of implementation was in the spirit of the federal policy revision while Montreal endeavoured to pursue traditional urban renewal objectives through its use of the program. These two approaches to the Neighbourhood Improvement Program are depicted respectively as expressions of a participatory and a centralized mode of policy making at the local level.
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Byrd Clark, Julie. "Representations of Multilingualism and Conceptions of Citizenship in an urban, globalized world." Recherches anglaises et nord-américaines 42, no. 1 (2009): 113–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/ranam.2009.1375.
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Representations of multilingualism and monceptions of citizenship in an urban, globalized world In this article, I demonstrate how four self-identified multi-generational Italian Canadian youth socially construct their identities and invest in language learning while participating in a French teacher education program in Toronto, Canada. In doing so, I draw upon critical ethnography and discourse analysis (Fairclough, 1995), using multiple field methods to highlight the different conceptions of what being Canadian, multilingual and multicultural means to these youth and the ways in which they position themselves vis-à-vis the acquisition of French as official language. I furthermore illustrate how some of their lived social and linguistic practices problematize social categories and labels. This work acknowledges the creation of social spaces for overlapping identities, which could possibly challenge the status quo, crossing both societal and social borders in Canada and beyond.
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Wright, Robin, Lindsay John, and Julia Sheel. "Lessons Learned from the National Arts and Youth Demonstration Project: Longitudinal Study of a Canadian After-School Program." Journal of Child and Family Studies 16, no. 1 (August 23, 2006): 48–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10826-006-9067-4.
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Chen, Greg. "A Study of Healthcare Reform in China in Light of the USA and Canadian Systems." Chinese Public Administration Review 4, no. 1-2 (September 1, 2006): 21–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1539675407004001-201.
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This article describes and examines the newly implemented basic medical insurance system for urban employees in China. The insurance system was built on two distinct concepts, individual providence and social insurance, and was characterized by national government mandates, local government administration, and employer/employee contributions. The study found that the Chinese basic medical insurance program for urban employees was implemented in all major urban areas. About 130 million people were covered under the scheme as of May 2005. The program benefits are limited with relatively low ceilings on reimbursable expenses and high cost sharing from the insured. The procedure for reimbursement is complicated and time consuming. China can learn from the U.S. and Canadian systems in both financing and providing healthcare. The U.S. system arguably supplies the best medical services in terms of quality and accessibility for those who are insured and those who can pay out of pocket. But the huge costs may not work well with China at present. The Canadian system, which is relatively effective, efficient, and equitable, although not as accessible, may fit China better. The study also suggests that the U.S. employer-based healthcare insurance system requires a major overhaul. It puts U.S. companies at a disadvantaged position in the increasingly competitive global marketplace.
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Chen, Greg. "A Study of Healthcare Reform in China in Light of the USA and Canadian Systems." Chinese Public Administration Review 10, no. 2 (December 2019): 18–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.22140/cpar.v4i1.2.71.
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This article describes and examines the newly implemented basic medical insurance system for urban employees in China. The insurance system was built on two distinct concepts, individual providence and social insurance, and was characterized by national government mandates, local government administration, and employer/employee contributions. The study found that the Chinese basic medical insurance program for urban employees was implemented in all major urban areas. About 130 million people were covered under the scheme as of May 2005. The program benefits are limitedwith relatively low ceilings on reimbursable expenses and high cost sharing from the insured. The procedure for reimbursement is complicated and time consuming. China can learn from the U.S. and Canadian systems in both financing and providing healthcare. The U.S. system arguably supplies the best medical services in terms of quality and accessibility for those who are insured and those who can pay out of pocket. But the huge costs may not work well with China at present. The Canadian system, which is relatively effective, efficient, and equitable, although not as accessible, may fit China better. The study also suggests that the U.S. employer-based healthcare insurance system requires a major overhaul. It puts U.S. companies at a disadvantaged position in the increasingly competitive global marketplace.
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Chen, Greg. "A Study of Healthcare Reform in China in Light of the USA and Canadian Systems." Chinese Public Administration Review 10, no. 2 (December 20, 2019): 18. http://dx.doi.org/10.22140/cpar.v10i2.203.
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This article describes and examines the newly implemented basic medical insurance system for urban employees in China. The insurance system was built on two distinct concepts, individual providence and social insurance, and was characterized by national government mandates, local government administration, and employer/employee contributions. The study found that the Chinese basic medical insurance program for urban employees was implemented in all major urban areas. About 130 million people were covered under the scheme as of May 2005. The program benefits are limited with relatively low ceilings on reimbursable expenses and high cost sharing from the insured. The procedure for reimbursement is complicated and time consuming. China can learn from the U.S. and Canadian systems in both financing and providing healthcare. The U.S. system arguably supplies the best medical services in terms of quality and accessibility for those who are insured and those who can pay out of pocket. But the huge costs may not work well with China at present. The Canadian system, which is relatively effective, efficient, and equitable, although not as accessible, may fit China better. The study also suggests that the U.S. employer-based healthcare insurance system requires a major overhaul. It puts U.S. companies at a disadvantaged position in the increasingly competitive global marketplace.
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Chen, Greg. "A Stuy of Health Care Reform in China in Light of the USA and Canadian Systems." Chinese Public Administration Review 4, no. 1/2 (November 5, 2016): 21. http://dx.doi.org/10.22140/cpar.v4i1/2.71.
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This article describes and examines the newly implemented basic medical insurance system for urban employees in China. The insurance system was built on two distinct concepts, individual providence and social insurance, and was characterized by national government mandates, local government administration, and employer/employee contributions. The study found that the Chinese basic medical insurance program for urban employees was implemented in all major urban areas. About 130 million people were covered under the scheme as of May 2005. The program benefits are limited with relatively low ceilings on reimbursable expenses and high cost sharing from the insured. The procedure for reimbursement is complicated and time consuming. China can learn from the U.S. and Canadian systems in both financing and providing healthcare. The U.S. system arguably supplies the best medical services in terms of quality and accessibility for those who are insured and those who can pay out of pocket. But the huge costs may not work well with China at present. The Canadian system, which is relatively effective, efficient, and equitable, although not as accessible, may fit China better. The study also suggests that the U.S. employer-based healthcare insurance system requires a major overhaul. It puts U.S. companies at a disadvantaged position in the increasingly competitive global marketplace.
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Coyne-Foresi, Melissa. "Wiz Kidz: Fostering School Connectedness through an In-School Student Mentoring Program." Professional School Counseling 19, no. 1 (September 2015): 1096–2409. http://dx.doi.org/10.5330/1096-2409-19.1.68.
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This study explores a student mentoring program called the Wiz Kidz, located within a Canadian urban elementary school of 420 students. The Wiz Kidz participants, their teachers and parents, and a student comparison group provided data on student connectedness to school, peers, and teachers. Overall findings suggest the students involved in the Wiz Kidz program enjoyed participating and reported increases in connectedness at the end of the year, with statistical significance observed for mentors’ connectedness to school.
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AUSTIN, JULIET B., and JUERGEN DANKWORT. "The Impact of a Batterers' Program on Battered Women." Violence Against Women 5, no. 1 (January 1999): 25–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10778019922181130.
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Twenty-five in-depth interviews were conducted with battered women whose partners had completed a batterers' intervention program (BIP) that was administered by a women's shelter in a Canadian urban setting. Interview questions broadly explored women's experiences with the BIP, including what, if any, differences they perceived after their partners completed intervention, and how the women accounted for such changes. Respondents reported a variety of experiences, most of which appeared beneficial for them. Major themes were (a) feelings of enhanced safety, (b) a sense of enhanced personal well-being, (c) feeling validated by program counselors, and (d) increased knowledge regarding abusive behaviors.
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Friedman, S., D. Porplycia, J. Lexchin, K. Hayman, S. Masood, E. O'Connor, E. Xie, et al. "LO11: STAR-EM: An innovative summer research program for medical students in an urban Canadian academic emergency department." CJEM 22, S1 (May 2020): S10—S11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cem.2020.67.
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Innovation Concept: Research training programs for students, especially in emergency medicine (EM), may be difficult to initiate due to lack of protected time, resources, and mentors (Chang Y, Ramnanan CJ. Academic Medicine 2015). We developed a ten-week summer program for medical students aimed at cultivating research skills through mentorship, clinical enrichment, and immersion in EM research culture through shadowing and project support. Methods: Five second year Ontario medical students were recruited to participate in the Summer Training and Research in Emergency Medicine (STAR-EM) program at University Health Network, Toronto, from June - Aug, 2019. Program design followed review of existing summer research programs and literature regarding challenges to EM research (McRae, Perry, Brehaut et al. CJEM 2018). The program had broad emergency physician (EP) engagement, with five EP research project mentors, and over ten EPs delivering academic sessions. Curriculum development was collaborative and iterative. All projects were approved by the hospital Research Ethics Board (REB). Curriculum, Tool or Material: Each weekly academic morning comprised small group teaching (topics including research methodology, manuscript preparation, health equity, quality improvement, and wellness), followed by EP-led group progress review of each student's project. Each student spent one half day per week in the emergency department (ED), shadowing an EP and identifying patients for recruitment for ongoing mentor-initiated ED research projects. Remaining time was spent on independent student project work. Presentation to faculty and program evaluation occurred in week 10. Scholarly output included one abstract submitted for publication per student. Program evaluation by students reflected a uniform impression that course material and mentorship were each excellent (100%, n = 5). Interest in pursuing academic EM as a career was identified by all students. Faculty researchers rated the program as very effective (80%, n = 4) or somewhat effective (20%, n = 1) in terms of enhancing productivity and scholarly output. Conclusion: The STAR-EM program provides a transferable model for other academic departments seeking to foster the development of future clinician investigators and enhance ED research culture. Program challenges included delays in REB approval for student projects and engaging recalcitrant staff to participate in research.
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Wang, Qiao, and Hongtao Yi. "New energy demonstration program and China's urban green economic growth: Do regional characteristics make a difference?" Energy Policy 151 (April 2021): 112161. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112161.
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Smallwood, Frank. "Federal-provincial governance and the future status of Canadian cities." Ekistics and The New Habitat 71, no. 424-426 (June 1, 2004): 138–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.53910/26531313-e200471424-426242.
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The author is the Nelson A. Rockefeller Professor of Government Emeritus and the past Chair of the Urban Studies Program at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. He received his Masters and Ph. D degrees from Harvard University. In 1968 he worked with Constantinos A. Doxiadis and Panayis Psomopoulos in Athens, and he joined the World Society for Ekistics at that time. His publications include books on metropolitan government, as well as many studies of the Politics of Policy Implementation. He retired to Shelburne, Vermont, USA, in 2002.
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Walter, Rebecca J., Gregg Colburn, Anaid Yerena, Melony Pederson, Rachel Fyall, and Kyle Crowder. "Constraints and opportunities for innovation in the Moving to Work Demonstration Program." Housing and Society 47, no. 1 (December 23, 2019): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08882746.2019.1706067.
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Kumkun, Chanakarn, Supat Chupradit, and Pornpen Sirisatayawong. "A pilot study of Resilience Programme through Group Dynamics on Academic Problems among the Matthayom Suksa 1 Students of Chiang Mai University Demonstration School." Journal of Experimental Biology and Agricultural Sciences 10, no. 3 (June 26, 2022): 539–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.18006/2022.10(3).539.543.
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The objective of this study was to develop a Resilience Programme through Group Dynamics on Academic Problems among Matthayom Suksa 1 Students at Chiang Mai University Demonstration School. For this, four junior high school students were selected as respondents. The effect of the resilience program was evaluated through a general questionnaire, the Canadian Occupational Performance Measures (COPM), and Resilience Inventory. Further, the resilience program was developed by using cognitive behavioral therapy combined with acceptance and commitment therapy, group dynamics, and resilience according to the concept of Grotberg. The total period of the program was 11 weeks, with 1 session per week lasting for 60 minutes. Results of the study revealed that all the selected respondents had higher academic performance and most of them (75%) had higher academic satisfaction and resilience score. After participating in this program, the samples had a higher average resilience score (114.5) as compared to those before participating in the program (107.5). The results of this study can be concluded that the newly developed resilience program can improve the resilience component in almost all the students. Hence, it can be practiced in junior high school students to manage their academic problems. This program can also be a prototype for developing future resilience programs.
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Marsalek, Jiri, and Harold Schroeter. "Annual Loadings of Toxic Contaminants in Urban Runoff from the Canadian Great Lakes Basin." Water Quality Research Journal 23, no. 3 (August 1, 1988): 360–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wqrj.1988.026.
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Abstract Frequencies of detection, concentrations and annual loadings of 50 selected toxic chemicals have been studied in urban runoff from the Canadian Great Lakes Basin. The mean concentrations of these chemicals in stormwater and street sediment were determined in a field program conducted in 12 urban centres in the study area. Using these mean concentrations and the computed runoff volumes and sediment yields, annual loadings of toxic chemicals in urban runoff from the study area were estimated within an order of magnitude. The highest basin loadings were computed for zinc (300 t/yr), lead (100 t/yr), and some other inorganics. Among organic substances, the highest individual loadings were computed for several poly-nuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (e.g., fluoranthene - 200 kg/yr), followed by PCBs (80 kg/yr), some chlorinated benzenes (1,2-dichlorobenzene - 30 kg/yr), and organochlorine pesticides (alpha-BHC - 12 kg/yr). Such loadings do not include possible contributions from combined sewer overflows or illicit point source discharges into storm sewers.
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Boyd, Noni. "Sunny flats will replace…A congested slum block: Sydney’s post war housing improvement schemes." Housing for All, no. 65 (2021): 78–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.52200/65.a.nju1he8e.
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The present text traces the post war slum clearance program in Sydney, Australia, that saw the construction of modern blocks of flats drawn from international examples of rehousing schemes. This State-funded urban renewal program continued from the late 1940s until the 1980s. Many of the blocks of flats are slated for demolition, yet no overall assessment of their design quality or detailed discussion of the range of building forms or apartment layouts has been undertaken. There is a danger that these well-designed blocks will vanish rather than be retrofitted and that this unparalleled demonstration of modern housing progress by the State of New South Wales will be incomplete.
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Scherer, Jay, Jordan Koch, and Nicholas L. Holt. "The Uses of an Inner-City Sport-for-Development Program: Dispatches From the (Real) Creative Class." Sociology of Sport Journal 33, no. 3 (September 2016): 185–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2015-0145.
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As a result of a rapidly changing global political economy, deindustrialization, and neoliberalism, a new form of racialized urban poverty has become concentrated in the inner cities of innumerable North American urban centers. In response to these material conditions, various nonprofit organizations, corporate-sponsored initiatives,and underfunded municipal recreation departments continue to provide a range of sport-for-development programs for the ‘urban outcasts’ of the global economy. While sport scholars have widely critiqued these initiatives, little is known about how people experience these programs against the backdrop of actually existing neoliberalism (Brenner & Theodore, 2002) and the new conditions of urban poverty. As part of a three-year urban ethnography in Edmonton, Alberta, this paper examines how a group of less affluent and often homeless young men experienced and made use of a weekly, publicly funded floor-hockey program. In so doing, we explore how this sport-for-development program existed as a ‘hub’ within a network of social solidarity and as a crucial site for marginalized individuals to negotiate, and, at times, resist conditions of precarious labor in a divided Western Canadian city.
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Sullivan, R., J. Jones, C. Williams, E. Kilfoil, D. MacIntosh, and M. Stewart. "A157 FIT-POSITIVE COLONOSCOPY FINDINGS IN NOVA SCOTIA STRATIFIED BY SEX, RACE, AND REGIONAL POPULATION DENSITY." Journal of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology 6, Supplement_1 (March 1, 2023): 6–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jcag/gwac036.157.
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Abstract Background Population-based colorectal cancer (CRC) screening programs aim to minimize disparities in CRC rates through universal access. However, Canadian CRC mortality rates remain inversely associated with socioeconomic status and rural residence. In the United States some racialized groups have higher rates of advanced adenomas and CRC. Little is known about pre-cancerous findings or CRC mortality amongst racialized groups in Canada because race and ethnicity data are not routinely collected. Purpose To determine whether FIT-positive colonoscopy incident adenomas and CRC differ on the basis of sex, race, and regional population density in a provincial CRC screening program. Method In this retrospective cohort study drawn from the Nova Scotia Colon Cancer Prevention Program database, we identified adults who had a positive FIT from 2011 to 2021. This report describes incident adenomas and CRC, stratified by sex, race (white vs. racialized groups), and regional population density (urban vs. rural). Racialized groups included those who self-identified as Black/African Canadian, Asian, Middle Eastern and Indigenous. Urban was defined as population centers with more than 5000 individuals. Colonoscopy findings were categorized as no findings, low-risk adenoma (LRA), high-risk adenoma (HRA), or CRC. Comparison between categorical variables was performed with a chi-square test and a t-test for continuous variables. P-value <0.05 was considered significant. Result(s) 41,209 adults (mean age 63.9) had a positive FIT and 34,636 went on to have a colonoscopy offered by the screening program. The FIT-positive colonoscopy participation rate was 84%. Of the 16% overall with a positive FIT but no screening program colonoscopy, 83% had a program consultation but did not proceed with endoscopy for unspecified reasons, 9% declined, and 8.2% are unknown. The overall rate of CRC was 2.4% (n=825) and the adenoma-detection rate was 60.4% (n=20,932). CRC (mean age 65.4) and HRA (mean age 64.6) were associated with older age (p <0.01). Males were more likely to have HRA (38.4% of males) or LRA (26.6% of males) identified compared to females, and females were more likely to have no colonoscopy findings (47.8% of females). CRC was more likely to be identified in urban (2.8%) than rural sub-populations (2.0%). No difference in adenomas or CRC incident rates were noted between white and racialized sub-groups. Image Conclusion(s) This analysis of a provincial CRC screening program suggests that males and urban sub-populations had more high-risk findings during FIT-positive colonoscopies. In the first reported Canadian data, incident rates of adenomas and CRC were similar in white and racialized sub-groups. Please acknowledge all funding agencies by checking the applicable boxes below None Disclosure of Interest None Declared
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Ghosh, Dave, and Shao Hong Wu. "Developments of Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Technology at NRC's Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation." Materials Science Forum 539-543 (March 2007): 74–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.539-543.74.
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National Research Council (NRC) as the premier research and development organization within the government of Canada has the mandate of providing vital scientific and technological services to research and industrial communities. The NRC Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation (IFCI) is leading NRC’s National Fuel Cell Program and is working closely with academic, government, and industrial organizations to support fuel cell cluster in Vancouver and across Canada and to fulfill the innovation needs of Canadian fuel cell companies. The key programs at IFCI include: Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFC), Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC), Hydrogen generation and infrastructure, and technology demonstration. NRC-IFCI’s impact on the fuel cell industry can be seen through the development and transfer of targeted and collaborative research projects addressing strategic and current technical gaps and providing infrastructure for research, development and demonstration. IFCI has been a catalyst in the coordination of industry’s responses to current commercialization barriers. This paper presents the latest research and development activities as well as demonstrations at NRC-IFCI.
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McGregor, Gail, Cynthia M. Janssen, Lawrence A. Larsen, and Winifred L. Tillery. "Philadelphia's Urban Model Project: A System-Wide Effort to Integrate Students with Severe Handicaps." Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps 11, no. 1 (March 1986): 61–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/154079698601100108.
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School systems across the country are at different stages in the integration of students with severe handicaps into regular schools. As part of a settlement agreement arising from a lawsuit filed against the School District of Philadelphia, placement of students with severe handicaps was among a list of conditions ordered to improve the services provided to this population. This report describes the activities and accomplishments of Philadelphia's Urban Model Project, a federally funded model demonstration program designed to effect changes in services for students with severe disabilities. As a result of this project, a majority of these students are currently attending regular schools along with their chronological age peers.
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Paquet, Jacquelyn, Vincent I. O. Agyapong, Pamela Brett-MacLean, and Katharine Hibbard. "Interest in Rural Training Experiences in a Canadian Psychiatry Residency Program." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 21 (November 4, 2022): 14512. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192114512.
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Background: With the large majority of mental health professionals concentrated in urban settings, people living in rural and remote areas face significant barriers to accessing mental health care. Recognizing that early exposure is associated with future practice in rural and remote locations, we sought to obtain baseline data regarding interest in expanded rural residency training opportunities and academic teaching. Methods: In March 2021, all psychiatry residents at the University of Alberta (UofA) were invited to complete a 19-question survey that included both closed-ended (age, gender, year of study, rural experience, interest in rural training, etc.) and open-ended questions (challenges, barriers, academic training, and other comments). A reflexive thematic analysis using an inductive and semantic approach was completed on the comments. Results: 36 residents completed the survey (response rate, 75%). Significant associations were identified between previous rural training experience and interest in rural psychiatry training and practice. Female residents and junior residents were significantly more interested in rural training experiences than their counterparts. Thematic analysis noted concerns with the financial costs of accommodation and transportation, high service burden, continuity of care and isolation from their cohort. Many were interested in academic sessions on the realities of rural practice; approaches to collaborative care; and strategies on culturally relevant care; specifically Indigenous health. Conclusions: The University of Alberta has highlighted a focus on improving equity and accountability; and with a large rural catchment region; the residency program is well positioned to make training adjustments to diversify training. Based on our findings we have incorporated rural rotations for incoming residents and have developed further rural academic content to support our responsiveness and accountability to the rural and northern communities we are committed to serving. Future research should review the impact of rural training exposure in medical specialties on recruitment and retention as well as on healthcare outcomes.
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Ikebuchi Ketchell, Shelly. "Carceral Ambivalence: Japanese Canadian ‘Internment’ and the Sugar Beet Programme during World War II." Surveillance & Society 7, no. 1 (October 13, 2009): 21–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.24908/ss.v7i1.3305.
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Liberty is a fundamental marker of citizenship. During World War II, for Japanese Canadians in prisoner-of-war camps the stripping of their liberty was a sure sign of their loss of citizenship. However, for others the distinction between liberty and incarceration was not as clear. Despite the fact that many Japanese Canadians enjoyed the appearance of relative freedom during World War II, for many citizenship was uncertain and liberty was tenuous at best. Ambivalence infused discussions surrounding the relocation of Japanese Canadians to Alberta and Manitoba. This paper highlights the multiple and diverse processes of incarceration that took place amidst this ambivalence. I begin with Foucault’s (1995) definition of the ‘carceral’ as an incorporation of “institutions of supervision or constraint, of discreet surveillance and insistent coercion” (299). Using newspaper articles from a one year period, I apply this definition to Japanese Canadian ‘relocation’ to Alberta and Manitoba as part of the government sponsored Sugar Beet Programme. This program offers a unique perspective, as it was framed as a ‘self-support’ program, thus implying a greater range of freedoms. However, despite illusions of freedom, I argue that what made these sites carceral was a combination of state and civic mediations.
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Allan, John. "Lawn Road Flats (The Isokon) – A New Vision of Urban Living." Louis I. Kahn – The Permanence, no. 58 (2018): 78–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.52200/58.a.tnh2mpco.
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So much of modern architecture’s early history depended on a handful of courageous pioneers. One of the first Modern Movement buildings in England was the achievement of an unlikely trio — a plywood salesman and his psychotherapist wife, and a Canadian part-time journalist turned architect. This article and the accompanying text by Magnus Englund tell the extraordinary story of the Lawn Road Flats in Hampstead, London – their origins and heyday, the linked program of furniture design, their declining postwar fortunes and ruination, and then their recent and remarkable rescue and restoration to become a beacon of modern heritage and the epitome of progressive 21st century urban living.
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Hanlon, James. "The Origins of the Rental Assistance Demonstration Program and the End of Public Housing." Housing Policy Debate 27, no. 4 (February 9, 2017): 611–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10511482.2016.1262445.
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Hernández, Diana, Tiana Moore, Sarah Lazzeroni, and Uyen Sophie Nguyen. "“The ‘Projects’ Are Nice Now”: Resident Perspectives on the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) Program." Housing Policy Debate 29, no. 6 (May 23, 2019): 853–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10511482.2019.1586746.
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Tagliamonte, Sali A., and Alexandra D'Arcy. "The modals of obligation/necessity in Canadian perspective." English World-Wide 28, no. 1 (March 23, 2007): 47–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.28.1.04tag.
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The modal verbs of English have been undergoing change since the Late Old English and Early Middle English periods. Recent research suggests dramatic recent developments, particularly in American English. In this paper, we focus on the encoding of obligation/necessity, which involves the layering of must, have (got) to, got to, and need to. Building on a longitudinal research program on (spoken) English dialect corpora, the present investigation examines data from a 1.5 million word corpus of the indigenous population of Toronto, Canada, the country’s largest urban centre. Variation analysis reveals that the system of obligation/necessity in this community has undergone nearly complete specialization to have to. Moreover, a comparison of these results with earlier studies suggests that the underlying system is organized differently than elsewhere. We argue that while change is sensitive to the social evaluation of forms, internal (grammatical) constraints may differ across major varieties. Canadian English appears to be on the forefront of change.