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Emergency preparedness for vulnerable populations
No full textThis paper seeks to understand the current relationship between emergency preparedness and vulnerable populations. Vulnerable populations refer to individuals with physical, cognitive, or sensory disadvantages as well as individuals in low-income housing/poverty, unique family situations, or other similar issues. Various studies reveal that vulnerable populations are at a severe disadvantage in disaster management due to the lack of policy, guidance, awareness, and communication presently provided by emergency service groups and organizations. The disadvantages stem from a lack of education provided to these groups of the population and those outside these groups lacking the tools to assist and promote effective emergency preparedness. The findings of the studies reviewed in this paper present evidence suggesting a lack of research and recorded data on vulnerable population groups in disasters as well as the general disconnect between these groups and emergency management policy. Policy adjustments incorporating specific legislation and strategies for these groups and educating the public/spreading awareness of their needs are necessary adjustments to improve the relationship between emergency managers and vulnerable populations. Furthermore, making accommodations with local health facilities with preparations for uninsured low-income groups, and the handling of special needs care under each of the pillars of emergency management can contribute to altering the discourse between vulnerable populations and emergency handlers and professionals.emergency management; vulnerable populations; preparedness; pillars; polic
Episode 38: How to Overcome the Challenges of Housing & Inflation
No full textIn this episode of Innovation Fuel, Toby Chu, Chairman & CEO of CIBT Education Group Inc., joins host Dave Keighron and Dr. Gelareh Farhadian to talk about how to set up international students for success when they come to Canada to study. The discussion centers around how challenging it is for international students to find homes amid a housing crisis in this ever-changing world with high living costs and rising inflation
Role of saturated covers as oxygen buffers in cold climates
No full text[T]his report explores a hybrid-applied solution: the use of saturated covers, which involve lifting an elevated water table into a tailing impoundment that maintains saturation within the tailing profile without allowing excess water directly along the surface of the embankment. The objective of this project is to evaluate the efficacy of saturated covers in Northern regions by testing oxygen diffusion in a series of experiments with two levels of saturation using an instrumented column. While there has been some research detailing the beneficial use of saturated covers, such as in the Oxygen diffusion in saturated covers methodology and literature review (Gagne Turcotte et al., 2020) completed prior to this lab scale study, the methodology used within this study relied heavily on prediction variables/models: De and Kr, but
these proved to be more complicated than expected (Gagne Turcotte et al., 2020). Additionally, mine tailings by nature are rather unique and each sample of tailings has its own unique characteristics that need to be accounted for. Thus, the creation of this methodology occurred, with a specific emphasis on applied methods.--from IntroductionPublication is a an outcome of the oxygen diffusion in saturated covers project
Incorporating activism into climate change curriculum
No full textPresented at the Research Café on March 3, 2023
Entering Canadian long-term care with obesity: Exploring initial assessment data
No full textThe Canadian population is aging, and rates of obesity are also on the rise. These demographic changes have implications for the long-term care (LTC) system in Canada that need to be better understood, yet little is known about the population with obesity in Canadian LTC. In this thesis, an exploratory analysis of residents newly entering LTC between 2010 and 2020 is provided. Cross-tabulations and chi-squared statistical testing (p≤0.001) were employed to analyze retroactive, consecutive cross-sectional initial assessment data (N=350,348) from the Canadian Institute for Health Information’s (CIHI) Community Care Reporting System (CCRS) to explore the levels of obesity, demographic characteristics (age, sex, primary language, rural or urban previous residency), rates of health conditions, and independence and assistance levels of activities of daily living (ADLs). Over the full study period, the rate of obesity for the population entering LTC was 19%, and 7% entered with at least class II obesity (≥35 kg/m2). Rates of obesity and BMI obesity categories tended to increase incrementally over the course of the study period. Those entering LTC with obesity were more likely to be younger, female, English/French speaking, and arriving from rural areas. Individuals with obesity had lower rates of dementia and higher levels of independence when performing ADLs. They also exhibited higher rates of diabetes and a greater need for two+ person assistance for ADLs. This thesis begins to fill in the gap in our understanding of the population with obesity in LTC, providing a broad picture of the heterogeneous nature of the population, including important differences in health and ADL profiles across the three obesity BMI categories (i.e., classes I-III)
Chrysalis
No full textThe story of a young transgender girl who runs away from home into the woods, where she encounters a fae friend. Going with them, she is able to claim a new life
Transformative drivers of environmental sustainability in contemporary organizations [2017-2020]
No full textSeventy-one percent of global emissions are attributed to just 100 companies, which are all from the fossil fuel sector. The world’s current trajectory of exponential population growth is yielding widespread environmental degradation, highlighting the need for transformation in the usual business models and substantial action towards environmentally responsible initiatives. For global collaboration on combatting climate change, the United Nations introduced international climate treaties, the most recent and notable example being the Paris Agreement, which aims to keep the global temperature rise below 2℃, and ideally within 1.5℃ relative to pre-industrial levels.
Using a bottom-up approach, this research explores the emissions reduction efforts of for-profit companies. Towards this end, it draws upon extensive datasets for the 2017-2020 period from the Carbon Disclosure Project, on over 100 large corporations across eleven industries in the U.S. and Europe. It aims to address whether the Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement may have influenced corporate strategy, which in turn would affect changes in corporate governance, risk management, and targets and performance, thereby translating to lowered emissions and/or energy intensity reductions. Additionally, a modified version of the IPAT model is applied at the corporate level to assess drivers of environmental impact, which helps identify areas needing change. The IPAT also helps track changes in emissions, revenue, and use of renewable versus non-renewable energy in these 100+ corporations, both before and after the COVID-19 pandemic came into play.
The thesis found that over the four-year period of 2017-2020, these 102 European and U.S. companies represented 5.5% of the 2021 global CO2 emissions. For both regions, the highest-emitting industries are in exactly the same order: Power Generation, Airlines, and Fossil Fuels. In the three-year period of 2017-2019, prior to COVID-19, emissions dropped in both regions and most sectors due to a joint improvement in energy and carbon efficiency. Moreover, the pandemic’s impact in 2020 was just as significant as that of technology’s impact over three years.
A notable finding was that COVID-19 lockdowns reduced emissions significantly more in the U.S. than policies and business strategies could before the pandemic year of 2020. Interestingly, the research also saw that emissions can be reduced with increasing revenue and possible profitability, depending on cost increases.
This thesis demonstrates that corporations in advanced industrialized nations have the potential to play an instrumental role in reducing emissions through improving both energy and carbon efficiency, and by making robust efforts. These corporations can set an example for their counterparts in developing nations, proving that it is possible to reduce emissions while increasing revenue. Ultimately, this can create a pathway toward stabilizing climate change.Carbon Disclosure ProjectIPATChange ManagementClimate ChangeCorporate StrategyCorporate Social ResponsibilityGHG EmissionsKyoto ProtocolParis AgreementCOVID19Net-ZeroSustainabilit
Why redo residency
No full textThis zine emerged from an assignment in an English Language Learning and Acquisition class (ELLA 0120-001) with Douglas College instructor Tina Fusco. Students were prompted to create zines inspired by their experiences of coming to Canada and their perceptions of Canadian culture.Not peer reviewedresidencyprofessional challengeszine
