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Journal articles on the topic "Toronto (Ont.) – Population"
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Namiash, Daphne. "Lilian M. Wells. An Aging Population. The Challenge for Community Action. Toronto: Governing Council, University of Toronto, 1991." Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement 12, no. 1 (1993): 109–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0714980800008333.
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RÉSUMÉCe livre comporte une série d'articles présentés et écrits par des spécialistes canadiens et européens reconnus pour leur connaissance des services communautaires pour les personnes âgées dans la province de l'Ontario et partout ailleurs au Canada. Ces articles ont été préparés en fonction d'ateliers tenus à Toronto en 1988 qui visaient à élaborer de nouvelles politiques et des programmes pour les personnes âgées. Les articles traitaient plus particulièrement des programmes de l'Ontario et du Manitoba et font quelques comparaisons avec d'autre pays. Ils abordent aussi sommairement d'autres programmes extrêmement bien élaborés comme ceux de la Colombie-Britannique ou de la Saskatchewan. Le livre s'adresse aux decideurs politiques, aux planificateurs, aux étudiants ou aux administrateurs du domaine des soins à domicile.
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Podnieks, Elizabeth. "P.L. McDonald, J.P. Hornick, G.B. Robertson, and J.E. Wallace. Elder Abuse and Neglect in Canada. Toronto: Butterworths, 1991, pp. 134." Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement 13, no. 1 (1994): 123–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0714980800006620.
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RÉSUMÉL'ouvrage intitulé Elder Abuse and Neglect in Canada constitue une monographie de référence tant pour les chercheurs, les boursiers, les étudiants, les praticiens et les responsables de politiques que pour les associations de personnes âgées et les intervenants qui s'intéressent à la qualité de vie de la population plus âgée. Les auteurs, qui sont des experts dans leur domaine, ont abordé le sujet du point de vue juridique et social. Ils ont examiné minutieusement l'abondante documentation sur la question et évalué les perspectives théoriques, les services, les programmes et les lois qui existent au Canada. Cette monographic met l'accent sur les droits des adultes plus âgés et conclut que les politiques, les pratiques et les programmes actuels visant à remédier aux abus et à la négligence envers les personnes âgées sont alourdis par les problèmes définitionnels, méthodologiques et théoriques. L'absence de mécanismes de protection «en bonne et due forme» dans les lois canadiennes de protection des adultes est particulièrement évidente, et ces lois doivent être modifiées afin que la liberté individuelle et l'autonomie des adultes plus âgés soient préservées, conformément à la Charte canadienne des droits et libertés.
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Mays, Herbert J. "“A Place to Stand”: Families, Land and Permanence in Toronto Gore Township, 1820-1890." Historical Papers 15, no. 1 (April 26, 2006): 185–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/030857ar.
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Résumé Depuis les dernières années, les historiens du Canada anglais se sont beaucoup intéressés au problème de la famille canadienne au XIXe siècle. La majorité de ces études porte sur les populations rurales et urbaines de l'Ontario et elle se préoccupe surtout des réactions diverses de ces communautés aux changements économiques et sociaux. Deux genres de populations ont été ainsi isolées: une première, flottante et migratoire, qui cherche constamment de nouveaux horizons, et une seconde, résidante et persistante, qui réagit différemment aux changements en tentant d'adapter son mode de vie aux conditions qui existent plutôt que de repartir comme la précédente. C'est ce deuxième groupe qui fait l'objet de cette recherche. L'auteur étudie ici le phénomène de la permanence dans l'Ontario rural, et ce, à travers l'exemple d'un canton particulier du comté de Peel, le Toronto Gore. Il traite, entre autre, de la façon dont on accumule la terre; il s'intéresse à la manière dont on l'administre et il s'arrête assez longuement aux divers modes de la transmission des biens dans la famille. Selon lui, cette étude des ménages permanents — et ils constituent près de la moitié de l'ensemble — tend à démontrer que, d'une part, les liens familiaux contribuent grandement à attacher les individus à un coin de pays et que, d'autre part, l'acquisition d'une terre à l'époque s'avère d'importance primordiale. Nul doute, cet élément de stabilité dans la population mérite beaucoup plus d'attention que l'on ne lui en a accordée jusqu'à maintenant.
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Maxwell, Thomas R. "La population d'origine française de l'agglomération métropolitaine de Toronto. Une étude sur la participation et l'identité ethnique." Articles 12, no. 3 (April 12, 2005): 319–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/055539ar.
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Dans toute agglomération polyethnique, l'impact de la participation sociale sur l'identité du groupe s'avère être un facteur critique dans la survivance d'une minorité ethnique. Puisque l'identité est formée et maintenue par un processus d'interaction, la participation sociale, qu'elle se situe à l'intérieur ou à l'extérieur des limites ethniques, peut favoriser la conservation ou la dissolution de l'identité ethnique. L'image du Soi est façonnée par ces personnes et ces groupes avec lesquels les membres d'une minorité ethnique « participent fréquemment et partagent d'étroites similitudes de comportement ». D'autres ont déjà appelé ce processus, « l'identification participationnelle ». L'appartenance à un groupe qui s'identifie lui-même comme tel et qui est identifié de la même façon par les autres caractérise le groupe ethnique. Une telle identité ethnique comprend non seulement la conscience de la communauté d'origine, de tradition, de langue et de culture, mais aussi une conception de ce qu'on représente aux yeux de la population environnante. Quoiqu’éprouvée d'une manière subjective, la conscience d'une identité ethnique ne se développe que par l'interaction sociale à l'intérieur des structures institutionnelles et des organisations communautaires de la société d'origine. La conscience d'une identité commence au sein de la famille ; elle est ensuite renforcée par l'interaction sociale à l'intérieur du contexte plus vaste de la communauté et se maintient grâce à une participation soutenue dans les structures sociales communautaires. Les modèles de participation traduisent l'ensemble des croyances, des valeurs et des buts communs aux membres de la communauté ou de la société et se manifestent extérieurement dans les rôles et statuts sociaux qui constituent le genre de vie particulier de la société. Une telle participation est un phénomène social essentiel à la formation et au maintien de l'identité ethnique.
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Pitsula, James M. "The Treatment of Tramps in Late Nineteenth‑Century Toronto." Historical Papers 15, no. 1 (April 26, 2006): 116–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/030853ar.
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Résumé Pendant les deux dernières décennies du XIXe siècle, le problème du vagabondage devint à ce point crucial que certains le considéraient comme une menace pour l'ordre social existant. Le clochard était perçu comme possédant tous les vices — paresse, intempérance et instabilité — éminemment nuisibles au bon fonctionnement d'une société établie. On s'empressa donc, et ce, dans la plupart des villes nord-américaines où le problème sévissait, de trouver des moyens de diminuer le vagabondage à défaut de pouvoir l'enrayer totalement. L'auteur se penche ici sur les moyens qui ont été utilisés à Toronto pendant les années 1880 et 1890. C'est surtout l'Associated Charities of Toronto, un organisme fondé en 1880, qui se préoccupa de trouver une solution au problème du vagabondage dans la ville. Elle tenta d'abord de fournir du travail aux clochards en ouvrant une carrière et une cour à bois mais ces deux initiatives n'apportèrent pas les succès escomptés. Elle s'appliqua ensuite à faire pression auprès des institutions qui s'occupaient des clochards pour qu'elles imposent une certaine somme de travail à quiconque demandait soupe et asile en guise de compensation pour les services rendus. L'association obtint finalement gain de cause et le système qu'elle préconisait fut mis en vigueur en 1889. Certes, l'application du principe du "labour test" a apporté quelques résultats tangibles à l'époque; cependant, l'événement tire toute son importance du fait qu'il témoigne du climat d'une époque où des gens qui se disaient philanthropes se sont révélés comme étant surtout préoccupés de maintenir tant l'ordre social qu'ils avaient instauré que l'éthique du travail sur lequel ils l'avaient établi. Dans cette perspective, une réalité aussi pénible que celle du chômage et de la population vagabonde qu'il engendre tend à disparaître bien vite derrière l'image d'un clochard paresseux et instable qui ne peut être qu'indigent et sans travail.
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Kwan, M. Y., K. P. Arbour-Nicitopoulos, E. Duku, and G. Faulkner. "Profils de multiples comportements à risque pour la santé des étudiants universitaires et leurs liens avec la santé mentale : utilisation de l’analyse des classes latentes." Promotion de la santé et prévention des maladies chroniques au Canada 36, no. 8 (August 2016): 183–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.24095/hpcdp.36.8.03f.
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Introduction Les campus universitaires et collégiaux sont sans doute les derniers milieux au sein desquels il est possible d’aborder de façon globale la question de la santé d’une grande proportion de la population de jeunes adultes. Il est important que les promoteurs de la santé saisissent en quoi consistent les difficultés collectives auxquelles font face les étudiants et qu’ils comprennent mieux les modèles plus larges de comportements liés au mode de vie qui se manifestent au cours de cette période de la vie. L’objectif de notre étude a été de déterminer des catégories de comportements à risque pour la santé modifiables et d’étudier la relation entre ces catégories et divers paramètres relevant de la santé mentale au sein d’un vaste échantillon d’étudiants universitaires canadiens. Méthodologie Des étudiants de premier cycle (n = 837, âge moyen = 21 ans) de l’Université de Toronto ont répondu à l’enquête National College Health Assessment (NCHA) (évaluation nationale de la santé dans les collèges) qui comprend environ 300 éléments, dont des évaluations de l’état de santé, de la santé mentale et des comportements à risque pour la santé des étudiants. Nous avons réalisé une analyse des classes latentes pour relever des profils en fonction de huit comportements à risque pour la santé connus (consommation de marijuana, consommation d'autres drogues illégales, rapports sexuels à risque, tabagisme, excès occasionnel d’alcool, mauvaise alimentation, inactivité physique, manque de sommeil). Résultats Nous avons obtenu un modèle à trois catégories axé sur les profils de comportement des étudiants : étudiants « typiques », « à risque élevé » et « relativement en bonne santé ». Nos résultats ont par ailleurs montré que les étudiants à risque élevé ont déclaré souffrir d’un niveau de stress considérablement plus élevé que celui des étudiants typiques (χ2 [1671] = 7,26; p < 0,01). Conclusion Les étudiants les plus susceptibles d’adopter de multiples comportements à risque pour la santé ont fait état d’une moins bonne santé mentale, particulièrement en ce qui concerne le stress. Bien que l’on doive interpréter ces conclusions avec prudence en raison du taux de réponse de 28 %, celles-ci suggèrent néanmoins que l’on pourrait envisager des interventions ciblées auprès de groupes d’étudiants ayant des profils similaires de multiples comportements à risque pour la santé.
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Minaker, Leia M., Meghan Lynch, Brian E. Cook, and Catherine L. Mah. "Analyse de données sur les ventes lors d'une intervention axée sur un dépanneur santé de Toronto : le projet FRESH sur l'environnement de la vente d’aliments au détail comme déterminant de la santé." Promotion de la santé et prévention des maladies chroniques au Canada 37, no. 10 (October 2017): 383–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.24095/hpcdp.37.10.04f.
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Introduction Les interventions en santé de la population dans le secteur de l’alimentation de détail, comme celles réalisées dans les dépanneurs, visent à transformer le type de signaux envoyés aux consommateurs afin qu'ils choisissent des aliments plus sains. Peu de recherches abordent les aspects financiers des interventions réalisées dans le milieu de la vente au détail, en particulier les mesures de résultat comme les ventes en magasin, pourtant au centre du processus décisionnel de la vente au détail. Cette étude examine l'évolution des ventes en magasin et les ventes par catégories de produits dans le cadre d’une intervention axée sur un dépanneur santé situé dans un quartier à faible revenu de Toronto (Ontario). Méthodologie Les données sur les ventes effectuées entre août 2014 et avril 2015 ont été regroupées par catégories de produits et par jour. Nous avons utilisé des tableaux croisés dynamiques Excel afin de résumer et de présenter visuellement les données sur ces ventes. Nous avons mené des tests t afin d’étudier les différences au niveau des ventes de chaque catégorie de produits en fonction des jours de vente « de pointe » (jours d’affluence) par rapport aux autres jours de vente. Résultats Les ventes globales du magasin culminaient les derniers jours de chaque mois, soit à la période à laquelle les prestations d’assistance sociale sont versées. La hausse des revenus lors des jours de pointe était principalement imputable aux ventes de laissez-passer de transports en commun. La moyenne des ventes de collations non nutritives et de cigarettes était légèrement plus élevée lors des jours de pointe par rapport aux autres jours. Les stratégies novatrices employées pour augmenter les ventes de fruits et légumes frais ont semblé accroître considérablement les revenus générés par ces catégories de produits. Conclusion Les données sur les ventes en magasin constituent un paramètre important de mesure du succès des interventions en environnement alimentaire. De plus, les prises de décision des détaillants fondé sur ces données peuvent se révéler déterminantes lors de l’adaptation des interventions. Les responsables des recherches et des interventions futures devraient envisager d’établir des partenariats et d’utiliser d'autres indicateurs de rendement lors des interventions ciblant l'environnement de la vente au détail d’aliments dans divers contextes canadiens.
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Frenette, Yves. "L’Ontario français du Centre et du Sud-Ouest, 1940-1970." Cahiers Charlevoix 7 (April 10, 2017): 143–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1039325ar.
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C’est des régions du Centre et du Sud-Ouest, réunies en raison de leur identité commune et fragmentée, et d’une conscience régionale en voie d’éclosion, que traite l’étude d’Yves Frenette. Par la relecture de documents divers (entrevues, témoignages, recensements et études), il brosse un portrait concret de la vie française de ce coin de l’Ontario pour la période 1940-1970. En retraçant les courants migratoires qui ont amené des populations françaises dans ces régions, il sonde leurs motivations, indique les zones d’attraction (Détroit-Windsor, Sarnia, baie Georgienne, Toronto, Hamilton, Welland) et les îlots de peuplement, et parle de leur adaptation au milieu à la faveur du réseau institutionnel chargé de les encadrer. Mais les migrants durent réagir aux préjugés qu’entraînait leur minorisation et qui eurent des effets sur la place de ces nouveaux Franco-Ontariens. Aussi, les problèmes d’anglicisation les confrontèrent-ils très tôt et les divisèrent : sympathie ou trahison des clercs, apathie de plusieurs, incompréhension et rivalités entre groupes francophones (Québécois et Acadiens, Canadiens français et Français) contribuèrent à de nombreux transferts linguistiques. Malgré une assimilation galopante, qui inquiète l’élite, l’école et la progression du réseau institutionnel auraient commencé à freiner l’assimilation.
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Tobin, Swanee, Joyce Fenuta, Julie Kruchowski, and Lisa K. Hicks. "High-needs hematology/oncology patients: A quality improvement project." Journal of Clinical Oncology 31, no. 31_suppl (November 1, 2013): 197. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jco.2013.31.31_suppl.197.
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197 Background: St. Michael’s Hospital (SMH) is an academic, inner-city hospital in Toronto, Canada. In the hematology/oncology (hem/onc) program, a small number of patients appeared to contribute disproportionately to hospital admissions and emergency department (ED) visits. We hypothesized that high needs hem/onc patients could be recognized early in their care and that ED visit and admission rates among these patients could be decreased through targeted interventions. Methods: Members of the hem/onc team were interviewed regarding characteristics, which they felt predicted higher needs and greater liklihood for hospital admission/ED visit. A list of high risk features was generated. ED visit and admission rates for a prospectively identified high needs cohort were compared to rates for the entire hem/onc clinic. An intervention targeting high needs hem/onc patients is on-going. Pre and post-intervention ED visit and admission rates will be compared. Results: Interviews with 3 nurses, 1 social worker, 1 discharge planner, and 4 physicians identified 10 factors that the hem/onc team believed were predictive of higher needs and subsequent higher ED visit and admission rates. Between December 1, 2012, and February 28, 2013, 42 high needs hem/onc out-patients were prospectively identified. The ED visit and admission rates for this cohort were retrospectively compared to those of the entire hem/onc clinic and found to be dramatically higher (Table). Begininng in June 2013, hem/onc patients identified as “high needs” were offered enrollment in a NP-based program offering telephone assessments following ED visits, hospital admissions or discharges. Assessment of the impact of this intervention is ongoing. Conclusions: It is possible to prospectively identify hem/onc patients who are at risk of higher than usual ED visit and admission rates. Identifying this population may provide an opportunity to decrease their ED visit and admission rates. An evaluation of an intervention targeting high needs hem/onc patients is ongoing. Preliminary data will be presented. [Table: see text]
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Campigotto, Aaron, Matthew P. Muller, Linda R. Taggart, Reem Haj, Elizabeth Leung, Jeya Nadarajah, and Larissa M. Matukas. "Cumulative Antimicrobial Susceptibility Data from Intensive Care Units at One Institution: Should Data Be Combined?" Journal of Clinical Microbiology 54, no. 4 (January 20, 2016): 956–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jcm.02992-15.
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Cumulative susceptibility test data (CSTD) are used to guide empirical antimicrobial therapy and to track trends in antibiotic resistance. The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute recommends reporting CSTD at least annually and sets the minimum number of isolates per reported organism at 30. To comply, many hospitals combine data from multiple intensive care units (ICUs); however, this may not be appropriate to guide empirical therapy because of variations in patient populations. In this study, susceptibility data for two different ICUs at a tertiary care hospital in Toronto, Canada, were used to create a traditional CSTD report, which combined data from different ICUs, and a rolling-average CSTD report, which pooled 2 years of data for each ICU separately. For simplicity, data for only the most common Gram-negative organisms (Escherichia coli,Pseudomonas aeruginosa) and the most relevant antibiotics (ciprofloxacin, piperacillin-tazobactam) were examined. With the rolling-average method, significant differences in susceptibility were seen between the ICUs in 50% of the organism-antimicrobial combinations. Furthermore, the 3% median year-over-year difference in susceptibilities seen for the 16 organism-antibiotic combinations by using the traditional method was lower than the 14% median difference seen for the 20 between-ICU within-year comparisons obtained using the rolling-average method. Changes in our selection of empirical antibiotics resulted from this revised approach, and our results suggest that pooling data from ICUs with different patient populations may not be appropriate. A rolling-average method may be an appropriate strategy for the creation of individual-unit CSTD reports.
Books on the topic "Toronto (Ont.) – Population"
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Canada, Statistics. Profile of census tracts in Toronto. Ottawa: Statistics Canada, 1996.
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Canada. Statistics Canada. 1991 Census. Profile of census tracts in Toronto: part A. Ottawa: Statistics Canada, 1994.
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Canada, Statistique, ed. Profile of census tracts in Toronto, part A =: Profil des secteurs de recensement de Toronto, partie A. Ottawa, Ont: Industry, Science and Technology Canada = Industrie, sciences et technologie Canada, 1993.
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Martin-Downs, Deborah. Don River biological inventory past, present and future evaluation: A report of the Toronto Area Watershed Management Strategy Steering Committee. [Toronto?: s.n.], 1988.
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Heroux, Gaetan, and Bryan D. Palmer. Marching under Flags Black and Red. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038174.003.0002.
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This chapter takes a close look at turn-of-the-twentieth century Toronto, offering an account of mass distress that considers how the poor, waged and unwaged, were subjected to state-based regimes of disciple and how they struggled to fight back. By the time Toronto had embarked on its Age of Industry in the 1870s and 1880s, major enterprises employed almost thirteen thousand workers in a population of roughly eighty-five thousand. Decades of socioeconomic differentiation and dislocation had served as the primitive accumulation that fueled the Queen City's material development. Economic crises, devastating in their human toll, punctuated the 1830s, the 1850s, and the 1870s, and would close the century in the 1890s.
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Thackeray, David. Forging a British World of Trade. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198816713.001.0001.
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Brexit is likely to lead to the largest shift in Britain’s economic orientation in living memory. Some have argued that leaving the EU will enable Britain to revive markets in Commonwealth countries with which it has long-standing historical ties. Their opponents argue that such claims are based on forms of imperial nostalgia which ignore the often uncomfortable historical trade relations between Britain and these countries, as well as the UK’s historical role as a global, rather than chiefly imperial, economy. This book explores how efforts to promote a ‘British World’ system, centred on promoting trade between Britain and the Dominions, grew and declined in influence between the 1880s and 1970s. At the beginning of the twentieth century many people from London, to Sydney, Auckland, and Toronto considered themselves to belong to culturally British nations. British politicians and business leaders invested significant resources in promoting trade with Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa out of a perception that these were great markets of the future. However, ideas about promoting trade between ‘British’ peoples were racially exclusive. From the 1920s onwards colonized and decolonizing populations questioned and challenged the bases of British World networks, making use of alternative forms of international collaboration promoted firstly by the League of Nations and then by the United Nations. Schemes for imperial collaboration amongst ethnically ‘British’ peoples were hollowed out by the actions of a variety of political and business leaders across Asia and Africa who reshaped the functions and identity of the Commonwealth.
Book chapters on the topic "Toronto (Ont.) – Population"
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Polèse, Mario. "Diverging Neighbors." In The Wealth and Poverty of Cities, 111–40. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190053710.003.0005.
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This chapter compares Buffalo, New York, and Toronto, Ontario, two urban areas located on the Great Lakes with similar populations (one million) in 1950. Toronto has since passed the six million mark, while Buffalo seems trapped in a seemingly irreversible cycle of economic decline. The diverging destiny of the two cities has many roots (e.g., the St. Lawrence Seaway, the collapse of Big Steel) but invariably sends us back to the different political cultures of the United States and Canada. The government of Ontario stepped in early in the urbanization process to impose a model of metropolitan governance on the Toronto region, with the explicit aim of deterring the emergence of deep social divides, specifically between city and suburb, and ensuring the maintenance of a strong central core. The state of New York did no such thing in Buffalo, for which Buffalo continues to pay a price.
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Hartt, Maxwell, Natalie S. Channer, and Samantha Biglieri. "Aging in suburban Canada." In Aging People, Aging Places, 81–88. Policy Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447352563.003.0007.
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This chapter talks about Canada's built environment and population growth that predominantly occurs on the urban fringe. It describes Canada as a suburban nation and its largest metropolitan areas, which include Vancouver, Montréal, and Toronto with the suburban residents that exceed 80 percent. It also distinguishes traditional forms of suburban locations that can be characterized by a variety of factors, such as the proportion of single-family housing, car-commuting patterns, population density, and home-ownership rates. The chapter recognizes that the modern suburban landscape is complex and diverse and that there is no single perfect operational definition of suburban. It examines suburban Canada's population that is relatively heterogeneous, compared to rural locations, but is still significantly less diverse than urban Canada.
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Thompson, Jeffrey Kurt Orlando, and Richard C. Thompson. "Racial Diversity in Publicly Traded Companies." In Research Anthology on Empowering Marginalized Communities and Mitigating Racism and Discrimination, 1005–25. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8547-4.ch047.
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This article shares some of the results of a thesis investigating the relationship between the racial diversity of the board of directors in Canadian companies that traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX). The central question addressed was how organizational factors affect the racial diversity of board membership. The thesis expanded on a prior study that modelled gender diversity on boards of directors by focusing on the recommended area of racial diversity in the Canadian environment. Though many companies do not share their diversity details, using multiple regression analysis, the results showed that there was more racial diversity on larger boards. From a population of about 3,000 companies, the researchers identified a sample of 148 companies, with all the required parameters. This sample contained 1,246 board members, where 9.4% (117 board members) were visible minorities. The ANOVA analysis of the model demonstrated that it was a suitable tool to conduct the investigation. However, the variables did not show any strong significance.
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Biglieri, Samantha, Maxwell Hartt, and Natalie S. Channer. "Aging in urban Canada." In Aging People, Aging Places, 15–26. Policy Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447352563.003.0002.
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This chapter looks at Statistics Canada and the academic literature to present some stylized facts and figures regarding urban older adults and a synthesis of the challenges and opportunities of aging in urban environments. It provides a snapshot of Canadian urban demographic trends and an overview of the state-of-the-art thinking on urban aging. It also describes Canada as a predominant nation of rural spaces as urban locations occupy only 0.25 percent of Canada's 9.9 million square kilometres. The chapter focuses on the three largest metropolitan areas: Toronto, Montréal, and Vancouver, which are home to more than a third of all Canadians with a combined population of 12.5 million. It refers to urban Canada, which evokes the images of being big, bustling conurbations with dense downtowns, skyscrapers, and expensive housing.
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Linares, Deborah, and Kaveri Subrahmanyam. "E-Health Behaviors." In Encyclopedia of Cyber Behavior, 649–60. IGI Global, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0315-8.ch055.
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E-health (eHealth) is an emerging field of health communication encompassing medical informatics, public health, and business where health information and services are exchanged through electronic processes. The current leading researchers in e-health include: Dr. Gunther Eysenbach from University of Toronto on health information and decision-making; Dr. David Gustafson from University of Wisconsin, Madison on interactive support systems; The Pew Internet and American Life Project on chronicling e-health use; Dr. Neil Coulson from University of Nottingham on online support group communication, and Dr. Elizabeth Murray from University College London, who develops online treatments. This entry summarizes research on e-health behaviors: seeking health information online, the impact of patient-to-patient communication on health, and receiving treatment online. Future directions for research on e-health behaviors include exploring the disadvantages of online support groups, research on minority populations, development of online randomized controlled trial methodology, and longitudinal research examining e-health behaviors over time.
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Beinart, William, and Lotte Hughes. "The Post-Imperial Urban Environment." In Environment and Empire. Oxford University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199260317.003.0023.
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In this chapter we turn to themes of race, space, environmental justice, and indigenous reassertions in the post-colonial city. We will use as examples: services and urban planning in Singapore; riots in Sydney; and a comparative discussion of parks and public symbols. Although the location of cities had largely been fixed in the colonial period, they were undergoing rapid change by the mid-twentieth century as communities from the surrounding countryside poured into the urban areas. At the beginning of the twentieth century, one tenth of the world’s population lived in cities; by its end more than half did so. In 1900 the ten largest cities were located in Europe and the US, with the exception of Tokyo at seventh. By the early twenty-first century no European urban agglomerations were in this league. The balance shifted from the West to the rest, especially after 1950. Of former colonial cities, Greater Mumbai with about 16 million people, Kolkata (13 million), and Delhi (13 million) were in this group. Mumbai had housed around one million people in 1911. Cities in non-settler states became increasingly dominated, demographically, by the descendants of rural communities from their hinterlands. While English often served as a common medium of communication, regional languages also urbanized with their speakers. Overall, urbanization was linked with rising living standards. But, especially in mega-cities, the gap increased between the rich and overwhelming numbers of urban poor, most of whom were not able to make it into formal employment. Rates of growth in former settler cities were usually less sudden, but they also became increasingly culturally diverse. Canadian cities are one example. The small migrations of indigenous people were only one reason for this. Their increasing multi-ethnicity resulted largely from new sources of global migration: for example, the movement of people from non-British parts of Europe, from the Caribbean, as well as African Americans, Indians, and East Asians. Post-colonial conflict created new diasporas: some of the 80,000 Ugandan Asians expelled by Idi Amin in 1972 went to Canada, and Toronto became home to the single largest population of expatriate Somalis.
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Tammemagi, Hans. "Case Histories." In The Waste Crisis. Oxford University Press, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195128987.003.0014.
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Theory is fine, but practical experience is the heart of real learning. This chapter provides—as much as a book can—some real-life experience through seven case histories of how wastes are managed. The case histories describe a state-of-the-art materials recycling facility, five waste disposal facilities in three different countries (the United States, Canada, and Sweden), and a large mass-burn incinerator. Choosing which of the many thousands of landfills in existence to include was a difficult task. Three municipal solid waste landfills are described. The first, Fresh Kills landfill in New York City, was constructed in 1948 and represents older landfill technology. The second, a new landfill in East Carbon County, Utah, was built in 1992 and incorporates the latest engineered barriers and features of a modern landfill. The third is being developed in a large, abandoned open-pit mine in California. In addition, we discuss a landfill and treatment center for hazardous waste, located in Swan Hills, Alberta. A unique Swedish facility for disposing radioactive wastes rounds out the suite of landfill case histories; this facility takes a very innovative approach to waste disposal and is included to provide a different perspective on this topic. Materials recovery facilities (MRFs) are the vital heart of modern integrated municipal waste management systems. Without MRFs, recycling on any practical scale would not be possible; it is here that recyclable materials are collected and made ready for sale to secondary markets. One of the most innovative recycle centers in North America has recently been constructed in the city of Guelph in southern Ontario (Guelph, n,d.). It offers good insight into what can be achieved through recycling, and the equipment that is involved. The city of Guelph, with a population of 95,000, is situated about 60 kilometers west of Toronto. In the mid-1980s, the city began studying ways to reduce the amount of waste being placed in its landfill. These studies received a major impetus in 1991, when the province of Ontario developed a waste reduction plan that required municipalities to reduce the amount of garbage being placed in landfills by 50% by the year 2000. A number of pilot studies were conducted before the present approach was selected.
Conference papers on the topic "Toronto (Ont.) – Population"
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DeMets, Sydney, Amanda Ziemann, Carrie Manore, and Curtis Russell. "Improving mosquito population predictions in the Greater Toronto Area using remote sensing imagery." In 2020 IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation (SSIAI). IEEE, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ssiai49293.2020.9094591.
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Asgary, Ali, Alireza Ghaffari, and Albert Kong. "Automated Intelligent Emergency Assessment of GTA Pipeline Events." In 2010 8th International Pipeline Conference. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2010-31006.
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The risks to the local population, infrastructure and the environment posed by fluid spills associated with oil and gas pipelines running throughout the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) are evaluated using fuzzy inference rules encoded using JESS and fuzzy J. The evaluation uses data obtained in real time from web services, such as weather, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), for example, distances of event from emergency services and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, where available. These risks are diverse depending on the local infrastructure or lack thereof (in the case of the environment) indicated by the zoning of the area of the spill, population densities and other factors. The application uses an advanced Human Machine Interface (HMI) accessible via Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) from anywhere on the Web. It is intended to support decision making in emergency response scenarios.
Reports on the topic "Toronto (Ont.) – Population"
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Huynh, Tai, Nathalie Sava, Shoshana Hahn-Goldberg, Jen Recknagel, Isaac I. Bogoch, Kevin A. Brown, Vinity Dubey, et al. Mobile On-Site COVID-19 Vaccination of Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities by Neighbourhood Risk in Toronto. Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table, March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.47326/ocsat.2021.02.14.1.0.
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Naturally occurring retirement communities (NORCs) are apartment, condo, co-op and social housing buildings that while not purpose-built for older adults, have become home to a high number of them. In Toronto, there are 489 residential buildings that are NORCs. Of these, 256 are located in neighbourhoods with the highest cumulative incidence of SARS-CoV-2, and are home to 40,955 older adults 65 years of age and above, including 18,144 older adults 80 years of age and above. Prioritizing COVID-19 vaccination by both age and neighbourhood of residence is an effective strategy to minimize deaths, morbidity, and hospitalization. Targeting people living in NORCs in high-risk neighbourhoods for early vaccination is a practical application of that strategy, which will also address barriers to vaccination in this population.
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Rezaie, Shogofa, Fedra Vanhuyse, Karin André, and Maryna Henrysson. Governing the circular economy: how urban policymakers can accelerate the agenda. Stockholm Environment Institute, September 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.51414/sei2022.027.
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We believe the climate crisis will be resolved in cities. Today, while cities occupy only 2% of the Earth's surface, 57% of the world's population lives in cities, and by 2050, it will jump to 68% (UN, 2018). Currently, cities consume over 75% of natural resources, accumulate 50% of the global waste and emit up to 80% of greenhouse gases (Ellen MacArthur Foundation, 2017). Cities generate 70% of the global gross domestic product and are significant drivers of economic growth (UN-Habitat III, 2016). At the same time, cities sit on the frontline of natural disasters such as floods, storms and droughts (De Sherbinin et al., 2007; Major et al., 2011; Rockström et al., 2021). One of the sustainability pathways to reduce the environmental consequences of the current extract-make-dispose model (or the "linear economy") is a circular economy (CE) model. A CE is defined as "an economic system that is based on business models which replace the 'end-of-life' concept with reducing, alternatively reusing, recycling and recovering materials in production/distribution and consumption processes" (Kirchherr et al., 2017, p. 224). By redesigning production processes and thereby extending the lifespan of goods and materials, researchers suggest that CE approaches reduce waste and increase employment and resource security while sustaining business competitiveness (Korhonen et al., 2018; Niskanen et al., 2020; Stahel, 2012; Winans et al., 2017). Organizations such as the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and Circle Economy help steer businesses toward CE strategies. The CE is also a political priority in countries and municipalities globally. For instance, the CE Action Plan, launched by the European Commission in 2015 and reconfirmed in 2020, is a central pillar of the European Green Deal (European Commission, 2015, 2020). Additionally, more governments are implementing national CE strategies in China (Ellen MacArthur Foundation, 2018), Colombia (Government of the Republic of Colombia, 2019), Finland (Sitra, 2016), Sweden (Government Offices of Sweden, 2020) and the US (Metabolic, 2018, 2019), to name a few. Meanwhile, more cities worldwide are adopting CE models to achieve more resource-efficient urban management systems, thereby advancing their environmental ambitions (Petit-Boix & Leipold, 2018; Turcu & Gillie, 2020; Vanhuyse, Haddaway, et al., 2021). Cities with CE ambitions include, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Paris, Toronto, Peterborough (England) and Umeå (Sweden) (OECD, 2020a). In Europe, over 60 cities signed the European Circular Cities Declaration (2020) to harmonize the transition towards a CE in the region. In this policy brief, we provide insights into common challenges local governments face in implementing their CE plans and suggest recommendations for overcoming these. It aims to answer the question: How can the CE agenda be governed in cities? It is based on the results of the Urban Circularity Assessment Framework (UCAF) project, building on findings from 25 interviews, focus group discussions and workshops held with different stakeholder groups in Umeå, as well as research on Stockholm's urban circularity potential, including findings from 11 expert interviews (Rezaie, 2021). Our findings were complemented by the Circular Economy Lab project (Rezaie et al., 2022) and experiences from working with municipal governments in Sweden, Belgium, France and the UK, on CE and environmental and social sustainability.