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Making a Case for a Labour Market Intermediary: The Experience of BUILD
Get PDFSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada through the Manitoba Research Alliance grant: Partnering for Change – Community-based solutions for Aboriginal and inner-city poverty. Manitoba Research Alliance. The Canadian CED Network (Le Réseau canadien de DÉC)
YA Narratives: Reading One’s Age
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Rapport final du project Chaque Prof sur l'éducation inclusive des personnes LGBTQ dans les écoles de la maternelle à la douzième année au Canada
Get PDFCe rapport présente les résultats du sondage en ligne effectué dans le cadre du projet Chaque prof sur les perceptions et les expériences des éducatrices et éducateurs canadiens de la maternelle à la 12e année en matière d’« éducation inclusive des personnes LGBTQ ». Le sondage englobait les programmes d’études, les politiques et les pratiques comportant de l’information positive et exacte sur les personnes lesbiennes, gaies, bisexuelles, transgenres, bispirituelles et queers (ou allosexuelles), ainsi que les questions et enjeux reliés à la diversité sexuelle et de genre (aussi appelée « éducation inclusive de la diversité sexuelle et de genre »). Ce type d’éducation est axé sur l’inclusion d’élèves qui, autrement, seraient marginalisés dans des milieux scolaires habituellement hostiles aux élèves lesbiennes, gais, bisexuels, transgenres, bispirituels, queers ou en questionnement quant à leur orientation sexuelle ou leur identité de genre (LGBTQ), ou encore, aux élèves ayant des parents, des amis ou d’autres proches LGBTQ, ainsi qu’aux élèves hétérosexuels cisgenres pouvant être affectés directement ou indirectement par l’homophobie, la biphobie ou la transphobie. Le sondage a été mené auprès de milliers d’éducatrices et d’éducateurs au cours de l’année scolaire qui s’est terminée en juin 2013. La phase du projet portant sur les entrevues et les groupes de discussion du projet Chaque prof fera l’objet d’un rapport en 2016."Nous tenons à souligner l’appui financier que nous avons reçu du Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada (subvention ordinaire de recherche de trois ans no 410-2011— 0845, concours 2010), de la Manitoba Teachers’ Society, de l’Université de Winnipeg et du Legal Research Institute de l’Université du Manitoba. Nous avons également reçu l’appui et des conseils du Fonds Égale Canada pour les droits de la personne, qui avait également financé le premier Sondage sur le climat national sur l’homophobie, la biphobie et la transphobie dans les écoles canadiennes. Nous remercions sa directrice Helen Kennedy, son directeur de la recherche, de la politique et du développement, Ryan Dyck, les membres du Comité de l’éducation Joan Beecroft, Jane Bouey et Miriam Greenblatt, ainsi que sa présidente, Sue Rose.
By Any Other Name: The Street Sex Workers of Winnipeg
Get PDFstudent paper: 18 pp., digital file.Prostitution is a matter that affects many in Winnipeg; most obviously, the women
and girls who are exploited through street work in the north and west end
communities. These women and children are disproportionately of Aboriginal
descent, further marginalizing a group of people who are already disadvantaged in
Winnipeg. With current revision of legislation surrounding prostitution in Canada,
understanding who makes up Winnipeg’s street sex workers, and how these
changes affect our society, becomes the responsibility of every member of the city
Insularity, Omission and Exclusion at Cambridge University Press
Get PDFA review essay of the 2014 book, Shakespeare and the Digital World: Redefining Scholarship and Practice edited by Christie Carson and Peter Kirwan (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
Suffix conjugates for a class of morphic subshifts
Get PDFLet A be a finite alphabet and f: A^* --> A^* be a morphism with an iterative fixed point f^\omega(\alpha), where \alpha{} is in A. Consider the subshift (X, T), where X is the shift orbit closure of f^\omega(\alpha) and T: X --> X is the shift map. Let S be a finite alphabet that is in bijective correspondence via a mapping c with the set of nonempty suffixes of the images f(a) for a in A. Let calS be a subset S^N be the set of infinite words s = (s_n)_{n\geq 0} such that \pi(s):= c(s_0)f(c(s_1)) f^2(c(s_2))... is in X. We show that if f is primitive and f(A) is a suffix code, then there exists a mapping H: calS --> calS such that (calS, H) is a topological dynamical system and \pi: (calS, H) --> (X, T) is a conjugacy; we call (calS, H) the suffix conjugate of (X, T). In the special case when f is the Fibonacci or the Thue-Morse morphism, we show that the subshift (calS, T) is sofic, that is, the language of calS is regular.https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ergodic-theory-and-dynamical-systems/article/suffix-conjugates-for-a-class-of-morphic-subshifts/A531E7B26F382EDAF8455382C9C1DC9
Breast Feeding Practices as Cultural Interventions for Early Childhood Caries in Cree Communities
Get PDFBackground: Breastfeeding is a gift from mother to child and has a wide range of positive health, social and cultural impacts on infants. The link between bottle feeding and the prevalence of early childhood caries (ECC) is well documented. In Aboriginal communities, the higher rates of ECC are linked with low rates of breast feeding and inappropriate infant feeding of high sugar content liquids.
Methods: The Baby Teeth Talk Study (BTT) is one project that is exploring the use of four interventions (motivational interviewing, anticipatory guidance, fluoride varnish and dental care to expectant mothers) for reducing the prevalence of ECC in infants within Aboriginal communities. This research explored cultural based practices through individual interviews and focus groups with older First Nations women in the community.
Results: Participants in a First Nations community identified cultural based practices that have also been used to promote healthy infant feeding and good oral health. A wide range of themes related to oral health and infant feeding emerged. However, this paper focusses on three themes including: breastfeeding attitudes, social support for mothers and birthing and supporting healthy infant feeding through community programs.
Conclusions: The importance of understanding cultural health traditions is essential for those working in oral public health capacities to ensure there is community acceptance of the interventions."This was funded through the New Investigator Award for Aboriginal scholars through the Network Environment for Aboriginal Health Research (Canadian Institute of Health Research). Funding was also provided through Northern Scientific Research Program."https://bmcoralhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12903-015-0027-
Rooming Houses Community Update
No full textSummary: 1p; ill. Digital FileIn May 2014, five concerned organizations partnered to talk about the state of Rooming Houses in Winnipeg's Inner-City. Together we released two reports: Winnipeg's Vanishing Rooming Houses and Rooming Houses to Rooming Homes. These reports found that rooming houses were vanishing due to market pressures, neighbourhood change, fires, and uncoordinated policy and regulatory frameworks.West Broadway Community Organization (WCBO); Spence Neighbourhood Association (SNA); Daniel McIntyre/St.Matthews Community Association (DMSMCA); Resource Assistance for Youth (RAY); Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Manitoba (CCPA-MB); Insitute of Urban Studies
Re-activation of Human Endogenous Retrovirus-K in Neuroinflammatory Disease
Get PDFA thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Science degree. Department of Biology, Master of Science in Bioscience, Technology, and Public Policy program, The University of Winnipeg.A new appreciation of the microbiome is changing the way we perceive human health and disease. The holobiontic nature of humans is even etched into our DNA in the form of viral symbionts. Empirical evidence for the presence of endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) in the human genome and their activity in homeostatic and pathological states has accumulated; however, no causal relationship with human disease has been established to date. In this review, we will focus on the role of endogenous retrovirus-K in neurological disease. Specifically, we will attempt to reconcile the pathological contribution of ERVK in disparate neurological diseases by providing evidence as to inter-individual differences in ERVK genotypes, addressing the molecular regulation of ERVK, and providing detailed examples of ERVK-mediated processes in nervous system diseases.ALS Association, Canada Foundation for Innovation, Manitoba Medical Service Foundation, Manitoba Health Research Council, University of Winnipeg, CIHR Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship, and Manitoba Graduate ScholarshipMaster of Science in Bioscience, Technology, and Public Polic