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The importance of language to minorities in urban areas : Acadian identity in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Get PDF1 online resource (iv, 85 pages)Includes abstract and appendix.Includes bibliographical references (pages 79-86).This thesis explores how Acadians in Halifax Regional Municipality use French to index
their identity, including the importance of language in doing so. Halifax, Nova Scotia is
home to an English majority as well as immigrants from other provinces and all over the
world. The Acadians are a community held together by their culture, language, historical
context, and shared trauma from the 1755-1763 deportations. This thesis also explores
how Acadians are maintaining their cultural and linguistic identity here and the hurdles
they face in doing so. One such hurdle that this research suggests is that Acadian varieties of French may be at risk when confronted with language ideologies that can lead to assimilation and pressures such as a move towards a standard French. This can be seen in results from qualitative interviews with Acadians in Halifax and in statistics such as the decline in French as a first language which from 1971 to 2016 has gone from 3.5% to
1.7% of the province’s population (Statistics Canada 2017b). This thesis applies linguistic
and anthropological theories of identity to analyze the current situation of the Acadian
community in HRM and to look at the potential situations in the future. This research
suggests that French can be a tool used by Acadians, but it is not the only tool.
Additionally, you can identify as Acadian without having any knowledge of the French
language so it may be a more important tool to some than to others. Finally, this thesis
suggests that the Acadian identity as a whole is not at risk of being lost in the mix of other
minority and majority identities that make up the city
Canadian victim impact statements
Get PDF1 online resource (ix, 272, 6 unnumbered pages) : illustrations, chartIncludes abstract and appendices.Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-189).The most recent Victim Bill of Rights (2015) requires judges to accept and consider VISs during sentencing decisions; however, no regulations exist regarding how these statements
should affect sentencing. Moreover, the lack of research on the impact of VISs creates a gap in understanding whether they have an actual effect on sentencing decisions.
The three separate studies examine VISs from multiple perspectives and angles. These
studies found that stakeholders have differing opinions about VISs. Moreover, an analysis of the
various VIS forms indicates that they differ according to readability, usability, and inclusivity.
Overall, the results of the three studies add to the limited research surrounding Canadian
VISs. The findings also highlighted the uncertainty regarding VIS’s role and the form
procedures
Gender-based violence (GBV) against immigrant women living in Canada : blending big data and critical discourse approaches to news media representations
Get PDF1 online resource (108 pages) : illustrationsIncludes bibliographical references (pages 95-108).Includes abstract.Discussions on the role of gender in migration have increased significantly in the last few years. This study explores the impact of gender-based violence (GBV) on immigrant women living in Canada as reported and constructed by news media. The study was carried out using Big Data, with the aid of several clustering and classifying artificial intelligence (AI) technologies (Machine Learning Tools). After a significant amount of news media data was gleaned through such technologies, critical discourse analysis (CDA) was used to examine how discourse, specifically from Canadian news media, reports and thus constructs GBV against immigrant women living in Canada. Through this critical lens, it was concluded that immigrant women were often viewed as passive victims and never as heroes / survivors / or agents in their lives; they were also presented as ‘other' in Canadian society by news media reflecting stereotypical images of them and exoticizing their GBV experiences. Such constructions, in turn, contributed to aggravating and
perpetuating their GBV experiences as well as magnifying pre-existing inequalities
Charlie Hebdo Cartoons
No full text1 online resource (iv, 77 pages) : colour illustrationsIncludes abstract and appendices.Includes bibliographical references (pages 56-63, 76-77).France was a major European imperialist country and increased its reach by colonizing
many parts of Africa, Asia, North America, and the Caribbean. This brought the French into
contact with different cultures and religions and simplified immigration of the colonists to
France, from the French colonies of North Africa. It is in this way that some non -Christian
religions were imported to France and that Islam was brought to France from North Africa. This
thesis will reflect on the way Islam and its followers were treated by the French satirical
magazine, Charlie Hebdo, while living in France’s secular laïcité’s society. Although
Charlie Hebdo published other cartoons about Islam and Muslims, it was the publishing of the
infamous cartoons depicting Muhammed in an irreverent manner that had deadly consequences,
both within France and internationally. The outcomes were difficult to control and supported
differing global opinions regarding the republishing of the cartoons, terrorism, and the limits of
freedom of speech. Most importantly, the portrayal of the religion of Islam and its Muslim
followers by the magazine promoted a perspective that questions if Muslims could indeed
become genuine members of French society
Concurrent validity study of the conditional reasoning test - workplace psychopathy : subclinical psychopathy, integrity, workplace deviance, and other professional outcomes in the Canadian military
Get PDF1 online resource (144 pages)Includes abstract and appendices.Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-115).A concurrent validity study was conducted using the Conditional Reasoning Test for
Workplace Psychopathy (CRT-WP), with a sample of military members within the Canadian
Armed Forces (CAF). The CRT-WP is a newly developed implicit measure of subclinical
psychopathy which has shown resistance to impression management (Cook & Roulin, 2021).
Higher levels of psychopathy in the workplace have been associated with adverse outcomes such
as toxic leadership, bullying, negative employee wellbeing as well as many other harmful
consequences (Boddy, 2014). The criteria that were assessed against the CRT-WP were integrity
(via personality factors), counterproductive work behaviour, transformational leadership and
organizational citizenship behaviour.
The CRT-WP was found to relate with personality and behavioural factors relevant to
integrity which were in line with tendencies typically observed in those higher in psychopathy. It
was also able to predict acts of counterproductive work behaviour and abuse. It should be noted
that all observed significant relationships achieved small effect sizes. Most notably the CRT-WP
displayed incremental validity over integrity measures being investigated within the Canadian
Military, in assessing workplace deviance and abuse and was deemed to be important in
predicting abusive workplace behaviours. The results of this study give more support for the
CRT-WP’s viability in selection settings as this implicit measure has shown promise to predict
abusive acts, conduct associated with many detrimental impacts for employees
Confronting the contagion
Get PDF1 online resource (52, 5 unnumbered pages) : graphsIncludes abstract and appendices.Includes bibliographical references (pages 40-50).Much has been said about the structure of the Cuban biotechnology sector in development literature. The collaborative and integrated structure of the Cuban sector has facilitated development and widespread distribution of Cuban vaccines for decades. There is some research on the Cuban biotechnology sector in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, in which the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been rampant. However, there is little analysis into its collaborative and integrated structure, and its effect on the development of five Cuban vaccines against the virus. In the historical analysis that is provided in this thesis, the origin and evolution of the Cuban sector was examined, which has brought forth the collaborative and integrated elements of the structure. A comparative analysis of biotechnology sectors between Cuba and the United States has demonstrated a stark discrepancy in their respective structures and in the amount of the population that has been vaccinated. This thesis finds that the collaborative and integrated structure of the Cuban biotechnology sector has facilitated the effective and efficient development and distribution of vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus
2022-01-21 Senate Minutes and Agendas
No full textMinutes and agenda for the January 21st, 2022 meeting of Saint Mary's University Senate
Assessing the effects of whaling on the genetic diversity of North Atlantic blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus)
Get PDF1 online resource (31 pages) : graphsIncludes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (pages 28-31).Industrial whaling in the early to mid 20th century severely depleted the population of blue
whales in the North Atlantic. Due to this reduction in population it is likely that the current
population of blue whales in the North Atlantic have low genetic diversity. Blue whales are an essential part of the oceans ecosystem and are currently considered endangered. Our research looks to assess the levels of genetic diversity amongst the contemporary North Atlantic blue whale population compared with the ancient pre-whaling population. The ancient samples were collected by archaeologists from ancient Viking sites found in Iceland. The contemporary samples were collected from various blue whale carcasses that had washed ashore across the eastern coast. The mitochondrial DNA of the samples were extracted, amplified and sequenced. The DNA of the ancient samples was already extracted and sequenced. Various measurements of genetic diversity were calculated and compared between the ancient and contemporary samples. Preliminary findings suggest a decrease in genetic diversity of contemporary blue whales compared to their pre-whaling ancestors. Thirteen haplotypes were found to be unique to the ancient samples, one haplotype was found to be unique in the contemporary samples, and three haplotypes were shared between the ancient and contemporary samples. A haplotype is the group
of alleles that is inherited together from one organism to another from a single parent. This
makes haplotypes a useful tool for examining evolution and genetics of a species
Poetry and healing : addressing trauma through creative-writing workshops
Get PDF1 online resource (158 pages) : illustrationsIncludes abstract and appendices.Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-129).This thesis examines the efficacy of reading and writing poetry as a way of healing from sexual violence trauma. Utilizing a version of the creative-writing workshop, this thesis
presents the resources required to facilitate creative-writing workshop sessions for
participants who have experienced sexual violence. Informed by fields of art therapy,
creative-writing pedagogy, feminist poetics, and trauma-informed care, this thesis questions
how poetry can lend to a space of healing and community. The theoretical framework of
feminist post-structuralism illustrates how poetic language can guide self-expression, agency,
and power. The method of poetic inquiry is used to present participants’ poetry and feedback
surveys, with this presentation acting as an amalgamation of the data and analysis sections.
This thesis also calls into question traditional knowledge-production in academic spaces,
using autobiography to advocate for increased value on lived experience and arts-based
research methods. This thesis concludes with relevant contributions, limitations, and
directions for future research
Joseph Howe and Edward Jordon : loyalty, press freedom, and reform in 1830s Nova Scotia and Jamaica
Get PDF1 online resource (vii,1 unnumbered, 105 pages) : colour illustrationsIncludes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-105).This is a comparative study of two journalists in Nova Scotia and Jamaica respectively in
the 1830s. As editors of colonial newspapers, Joseph Howe (1804-73) and Edward Jordon (1800-69) were tried for publishing seditious writings. Both were acquitted, however, in part due to their rhetoric of loyalty to Britain. Such rhetoric undermined the charges of sedition made against them and allowed them to contrast their loyalty with the apparent disloyalty of colonial elites. It also shows their place within a transatlantic network of reform. These journalists expertly manoeuvred through the complex divisions of power in Britain’s Atlantic Empire, yet their success was also contingent on their powerful position within their respective societies. In the twentieth century, Howe and Jordon were remembered for their combination of loyalty and advocacy for reform. However, this remembrance changed and faded as the British Empire receded