Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Subject "Canada"
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Economic Determinants of Obesity in Canadian Adults
(2012-08-30)This paper examines how socioeconomic status and economic insecurity relate to obesity in working-age Canadians between 2000 and 2010. First, I attempt to explain the gender specific gradients in body mass. Second, I test ... -
The Effect of Cognitive Skills on Aboriginal People's Employment Outcomes
(2014-08-22)This paper uses the 2012 Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (2012 PIAAC) and examines how cognitive skills affect the labour market outcomes of Aboriginal people in Canada. The results show ... -
THE EFFECTS OF PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH STATUS ON FUTURE LIVING ARRANGEMENTS OF MIDDLE-AGED AND OLDER CANADIANS - A LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS
(2012-08-21)Canada’s population is aging rapidly, and understanding living arrangements and their determinants plays a critical role in supporting healthy aging. This thesis examined, using a population-based longitudinal survey, the ... -
Elasmobranch Bycatch in the Canadian Northwest Atlantic and Arctic Adjacent Seas: Composition, Biogeography, and Mitigation
(2015-03-31)BACKGROUND: Industrial fishing has profoundly changed the biological state of oceans and seas. While the direct impacts of overfishing on target stocks are being increasingly addressed, unwanted bycatch and discarding of ... -
EMPTY COMMITMENTS? THE INDIGENOUS WATER CRISIS IN CANADA AND THE COMMITMENT TO ENDING ALL DRINKING WATER ADVISORIES ON FIRST NATION RESERVES
(2022-04-12)In 2016 the Government of Canada (GoC) committed to ending all long-term drinking water advisories (DWAs) in First Nation communities by March 2021. By not fulfilling the 2016 commitment the GoC fails to fulfill its promise ... -
Enhancing The Privacy Framework: An analysis of Privacy in Canadian and Brazilian health care
(2014-12-23)In the last decade, with organizations’ increased reliance on digital storage of information, privacy laws have been implemented and updated to help govern the collection, use, disclosure, storage and destruction of personal ... -
Exploring Risk and Resilience Concepts: A Social-Ecological Coastal Community Case Study from Southwest New Brunswick, Canada
(2019-12-20)Social-ecological systems (SES) are integrated systems of nature and society, with reciprocal feedbacks. The goal of this research was to better understand risk and resilience concepts, and their interactions, in a coastal ... -
Hockey Talk: A Textured Description of Morality and Ethics in a Sporting Context
(2021-04-08)Across societies, morality and ethics manifest in many social arenas. Sports, and especially national sports such as ice hockey in Canada, are no exception. There is little consensus on the meaning of on- and off-ice ... -
Just the Tip of the Iceberg: Southern Media Depictions of Canadian Sovereignty in the Arctic
(2016-08-24)As climate change opens up the Arctic, Canada’s sovereignty in the region has received increasing attention in both federal politics and the media. Meanwhile, Inuit have lived in the Arctic since time immemorial. Many ... -
L'Acadie Trouvée: Mapping, Geographic Knowledge, and Imagining Northeastern North America, 1710-1763
(2010-08-30)From the British capture of Port Royal in 1710 to the end of the Seven Years’ War, imperial borders in northeastern North America were highly uncertain and vigorously contested. The British “conquest” of Acadia was not ... -
LED OUT INTO A LARGER PLACE: REV. ERNEST CROSSLEY HUNTER AND THE PREACHING OF JEWISH~CHRISTIAN BROTHERHOOD INTO CANADA, 1928-1939
(2020-08-28)This thesis explores the preached theology of Rev. Ernest Crossley Hunter between 1928 and 1939 as a significant contribution to The United Church of Canada's efforts to respond to Canada's barring of Jewish refugees from ... -
LEST LAW FORGET: Locke's Toleration and Religious Freedom
(2018-12-14)The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees every person in Canada freedom of conscience and religion. I contend that the concept of religious freedom was born out of a history of religious suffering and originally ... -
THE LIVING AMONGST THE DEAD: THE ROLE OF HALIFAX CEMETERIES AS GREENSPACE AND THEIR POTENTIAL FOR EXPANSION OF THE URBAN FOREST
(2019-08-30)Urban forests provide cities with a multitude of benefits but face many survival challenges. This thesis sought to determine the potential for cemeteries to expand the urban forest in Halifax, Nova Scotia through tree ... -
MAIDS, MEDIA, AND MIGRATION: FILIPINO NEWS MEDIA IN MONTRÉAL AND THE TRANSNATIONAL LIVES OF LIVE-IN CAREGIVERS
(2011-05-05)This thesis explores the role of media in the lives of live-in caregivers in Montréal by looking at two Filipino newspapers and mainstream news coverage on Filipinas and the Philippines. While Filipino newspapers elaborate ... -
Maternal Influenza Vaccination and the Effect of Provincial Immunization Programs in Canada
(2015)With evidence suggesting the importance of influenza vaccination of pregnant women, Canadian provinces have started to implement different publicly funded immunization programs to encourage vaccination of pregnant women. ... -
Mismatched: A Quantitative Evaluation of Thinking Versus Doing Masculinity in Canadian Sport
(2017-09-01)Increasing pressure and activism for social justice is challenging the primacy of hegemonic masculinity. As a result, inclusive masculinities, signified by stereotypically feminine traits are argued to exemplify the current ... -
Modernizing Pakistan's Blasphemy Law as Hate Speech
(2016-04-29)It is difficult to define blasphemy. What is regarded as blasphemous will depend on the values prevalent in a given society. In general, it includes denigrating and insulting expressions targeted toward God and other aspects ... -
Monsters in our Midst? Examining the Construction of Sex Offenders in Canadian Policy and Media
(2021-06-02)In Canada, like elsewhere, surveillance tools have been increasingly used by the state to keep track of sex offenders. One such tool in Canada is the National Sex Offender Registry (NSOR). Understanding the complexity of ... -
Narrative City: Latin American Home-City Landscapes in Halifax, Nova Scotia
(2023-08-22)Storytelling lies at the center of cultural production and exchange. In smaller immigrant communities without dedicated cultural infrastructure and established networks of gathering spaces, oral storytelling functions ... -
Nova Scotia and the Conscription Election of 1917
This study traces the course of .federal politics in Nova Scotia from the time of the federal government's announcement of a policy of military conscription in early 1917, through the period of the formation of Union ...