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The Jury Strikes Back: Enhancing the Viability of the Civil Jury System in a Post-Pandemic Ontario
No full textOntario’s civil jury system has been the topic of many discussions about reform. However, none of these explorations contemplated the drastic effects of ever-evolving public health emergency. The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened Ontario’s access to civil justice crisis through extensive pandemic delays, while simultaneously challenging the role of civil jury in administering justice. Ontario consequently provides a ripe case study to explore how the pandemic has affected civil jury trials and to explore ways of enhancing their viability in a post-pandemic Ontario.
This this article is concerned with advancing measures that can not only enhance the viability of civil jury trials going forward, but advance access to civil justice more generally. The purpose of this article is twofold. First, to examine how the pandemic has fundamentally challenged the viability of civil jury trials while exacerbating existing impediments to accessing civil justice. And second, to outline a multifaceted approach to reforming the jury trial to ensure it remains a viable vehicle for civil justice consistent with enhancing access to justice through the pandemic. The hope is that this article will inspire much needed exploration into Ontario’s civil justice system to address the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and future emergencies
Music of Contingency: A Musical Topic of Cosmic Horror in Depictions of “The Music of Erich Zann”
No full textH.P. Lovecraft was a twentieth-century American writer whose short story “The Music of Erich Zann” has inspired musical works in several genres. This story was written within Lovecraft’s aesthetic of cosmic horror, an aesthetic which portrays the disintegration of a subject following exposure to the unknown terrors of reality. While cosmic horror shares some characteristics with Immanuel Kant’s and Edmund Burke’s sublime, it differs in that it denies the objective distance and foundation of reason required by Kant and Burke to allow the subject to gain pleasure from the experience. Considering two musical responses to “The Music of Erich Zann” by composers Raymond Wilding-White and Alexey Voytenko, this paper finds a similar distinction between musical expressions of the sublime and cosmic horror. Both compositions use some techniques from the musical topics of ombra and tempesta that scholar Clive McClelland describes as musical emanations of the sublime; however, both also present techniques beyond these topics that deny the listener a foundation in familiarity and any single musical frame. As a result, this paper argues that these compositions exemplify a musical topic of cosmic horror that is similar to but distinct from the topics of musical sublimity. This ‘music of contingency,’ titled in reference to philosopher Quentin Meillassoux’s work, emerged to express the new anxieties and pluralities of the twentieth century
Modeling road surface potholes within the macroscopic flow framework
No full textThe continual wearing of road surfaces results to crack and holes called potholes. These road surface irregularities often elongate travel time. In this paper, a second-order macroscopic traffic model is therefore proposed to account for these road surface irregularities that affect the smooth flow of vehicular traffic. Though potholes do vary in shape and size, for simplicity the paper assumes that all potholes have conic resemblances. The impact of different sized potholes on driving is experimented using fundamental diagrams. Besides, the width of these holes, driver reaction time amid these irregularities also determine the intensity of the flow rate and vehicular speed. Moreover, a local cluster analysis is performed to determine the effect of a small disturbance on flow. The results revealed that the magnitude of amplification on a road surface with larger cracks is not as severe as roads with smaller size holes, except at minimal and jam density where all amplifications quickly fade out
Alternatives to antibiotic prophylaxis for UTIs
No full textConcerns regarding antibiotic resistance are rising. As urinary tract infections (UTIs) are prevalent, reducing the incidence of these infections and using non-antibiotic methods of prophylaxis have gathered increasing attention
Why are Indigenous Affairs Policies Framed in ways that Undermine Indigenous Health and Equity? : Examining Australia’s Northern Territory Emergency Response
No full textThe 2007 Australian Northern Territory Emergency Response policy was harmful to the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We thematically analysed 72 speech acts and reports from the three prominent perspectives: a Northern Territory government inquiry report, the Federal government, and an Aboriginal civil society coalition to examine how framings during the policy agenda setting phase constrained or supported scope for equitable health outcomes. The report authors and the coalition emphasised colonisation and other social determinants of Indigenous health. The Federal government used a discourse of pathology and white sovereignty. Our findings highlighted the need for Indigenous voice in policy making, and the need to address colonial assumptions underpinning policy framings to achieve Indigenous health equity
An Age of Petroleum: Anglo-American Foreign Policy and the Rise of Nationalism in Iran
No full textThis essay explores the growing reliance on oil as a commercial and military resource. It evaluates the importance of oil in military operations and how the Persian Gulf represented a crucial region for oil supplies shaping American and British foreign policy in the postwar petroleum order. To exemplify the effect of Anglo-American policy, the Iranian oil crisis of 1951-1953 will be used as a case study in this essay
Morality, Gender, and Politics: Pronatalist Dichotomies of Abolitionists and British Caribbean Planters, 1775-1825
No full textAbstract of paper: The period between 1775 to 1825 saw the beginning of an abolitionist and planter movement that was strictly “pronatalist”; both planters and abolitionists made great strives to promote slave women’s fertility in the face of population decline. This essay will focus on how pronatalism was regarded as crucial for economic prosperity and the extent to which this valuation intensified during the nineteenth century. It then explores the racialized narratives constructed of slave women’s deviation from the white British metropole ideal, namely slave women’s ‘promiscuity’ and maternal deficiency, to explain the population decline. The emergence of amelioration and Christian marriage proposals were subsequently implemented to improve the moral condition of slave women. This paper thus traces reproductive campaigns during the age of abolition and argues that British abolitionists and planters -two groups diametrically opposed to each other- equally attempted to reform colonial slave women into the British metropole ideal as a means to secure economic stability
The art of algorithmic guessing in gfun
No full textThe technique of guessing can be very fruitful when dealing with sequences which arise in practice. This holds true especially when guessing is performed algorithmically and efficiently. The ideal tool for it exists as a package named gfun in the software Maple. In this text we explore and explain some of gfun's possibilities and illustrate them on two examples from recent mathematical research by the author and his collaborators