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Review of “The Oxford Companion to Canadian Military History” by J.L. Granatstein and Dean F. Oliver
No full textReview of The Oxford Companion to Canadian Military History by J.L. Granatstein and Dean F. Olive
Review of “Boys and Girls in No Man’s Land: English Canadian Children and the First World War” by Susan R. Fisher
No full textReview of Boys and Girls in No Man’s Land: English Canadian Children and the First World War by Susan R. Fishe
Review of “The Other Cold War: Canada’s Military Assistance to the Developing World 1945–1975” by Christopher R. Kilford
No full textReview of The Other Cold War: Canada’s Military Assistance to the Developing World 1945–1975 by Christopher R. Kilfor
Review of “Cold War Fighters: Canadian Aircraft Procurement, 1945–54” by Randall Wakelam
No full textReview of Cold War Fighters: Canadian Aircraft Procurement, 1945–54 by Randall Wakela
Review of “A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland During the First World War” edited by Sarah Glassford and Amy Shaw
No full textReview of A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland During the First World War edited by Sarah Glassford and Amy Sha
We Are All Strays Now (Now)
Full text linkDrawing on ideas of kinship and straying, this piece of creative non-fiction considers my relationship with a neighbourhood cat, dying from a coronavirus, just prior to the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. It addresses how we make kin with strays, and the ways in which animals insert themselves into human lives
Video Poem: What Remains
Full text linkWhat Remainsis a three-minute poetry film I created to address the issue of “becoming-with” (Wright 2014). In the film, I document two large-scale, public-art spectacles I witnessed in Toronto, as historical markers of collective becoming-with. I contrast super-8mm film footage of the 1984 outdoor public performance “Shibola” at the Bell Trinity Square building in Toronto, by the Japanese Butoh dance group Sankai Juku, with digital video of “A Tribute to Toronto,” Judy Chicago’s 2022 Smoke Sculpture on the Toronto waterfront. I then intercut these images with digital recordings of ruins and relics, both ancient and modern, merging as evidence of life, labour, and loss, embedded with the residue of centuries of human material engagement in the world.
What Remains was first presented in a theatrical context in April 2024, at the 11th annual International Video Poetry Festival in Athens, Greece, and in July 2024, at the Female Eye Film Festival in Toronto, Canada
Environmental, Governance, and Bibliometric Research on Corporate Tax Avoidance
Full text linkThis dissertation is composed of a literature review and three essays positioned in the corporate tax avoidance (CTA) space. The literature review summarizes the relationship between CTA and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors. Although there are mixed findings within each of the E-S-G categories in the CTA literature, in general, better environmental circumstances are negatively associated with CTA, social performance displays an inverse relationship with CTA, and governance factors also display an inverse relationship with CTA. The first essay is an empirical archival investigation of the relationship between CTA and an environmental factor – the risk of environmental hazards faced by a firm. Using a sample of approximately 5,000 publicly traded firms in the U.S. and more than 30,000 firm-year observations, I find that firms facing a higher risk of environmental hazards engage in greater CTA behaviour. I further show that this relationship is driven by relatively severe hazards. The second essay is an empirical archival investigation of the relationship between CTA and a potential governance factor – pay dispersion. Specifically, I examine director pay dispersion and executive pay dispersion. Using equity theory, I argue that higher pay dispersion manifests as weaker corporate governance. Using a sample size of more than 15,000 firm-year observations, I document a positive relationship between director pay dispersion and CTA as well as a positive relationship between executive pay dispersion and CTA. The third essay is a bibliometric analysis of all CTA literature published in scholarly journals. I identify emerging trends in the CTA space, and areas of CTA research that require further study using performance analysis and science mapping techniques
Timing of migration and seasonal movements of Arctic grayling (Thymallus arcticus) in relation to water temperature in the Kakisa River and Upper Mackenzie River, NWT: Results from an acoustic telemetry study.
Full text linkArctic grayling (Thymallus arcticus) are a cold-water salmonid that inhabit waterbodies throughout the circumpolar regions of the northern hemisphere. In the last decade, Ka\u27a\u27gee Tu First Nation members as well as local sport fishers, have observed lower catches of Arctic grayling during their annual spawning run in the Kakisa River, NWT. Many potential causes of this decline have been hypothesized including climate change and over harvesting. Outside of the general annual spawning activity in the headwaters of the Kakisa River, the ecology of the population, including post-spawn habitat use and migratory patterns, remained understudied. To address these knowledge gaps, acoustic transmitting tags were surgically implanted into 76 adult Arctic grayling in the spring of 2022. An acoustic receiver array of 27 receivers were deployed throughout the Kakisa River and Beaver Lake, a wide section of the Mackenzie River. In addition, three receivers deployed in southwest Great Slave Lake, part of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans’ (DFO) ongoing fisheries monitoring programs, were also incorporated into the study. Tagged adults were monitored between April 2022 and October 2023. The recovered array of eight receivers captured 10,015 detections of 65 grayling over the study period, providing new insight into the migration patterns, timing of seasonal movements and thermal habitats of adult Arctic grayling in the upper Mackenzie region. The telemetry data revealed new information previously undocumented about grayling movements in the watershed including the dates, water temperatures and ice conditions of entry and exit by grayling into the Kakisa River from Beaver Lake, as well as data on how long grayling remained in the Kakisa River post spawn. Prior to the study, relatively little was known about the migration destination of Kakisa River grayling. The telemetry study found that a number of iii individuals occupied Beaver Lake throughout the summer and fall presumably to carry out summer feeding activities post spawn. In addition, several individuals were found occupying and migrating through Beaver Lake during the winter. Individuals were also tracked migrating to Great Slave Lake, indicating that some grayling travel over 70 km from their natal spawning grounds to reach summer and overwintering habitats. The study provides new information on the post spawn migratory behaviour, particularly with respect to summer feeding and overwintering ecology. The information gathered as part of this study, along with future work on Arctic grayling in the upper Mackenzie River, will be important for predicting and managing the potential impacts of climate and other stressors on this ecologically, socially and culturally important fish species
How We Judge Victims in a Social Context
Full text linkThis study examines the role of situational context and judgements of the victim on social reintegration of a victim based on their forgiveness decision after a transgression. In this 2x2 experimental study, participants read a fictitious scenario about a victim who either forgave or did not forgive a transgression, with additional contextual information either provided or withheld. A total of 162 participants completed a questionnaire including both quantitative and qualitative responses. The analysis showed significantly higher levels of agreement with forgiveness decisions when the victim did not forgive, and significantly higher levels of agreement for either forgiveness decision when context was present. The analysis also suggested a correlation between communion judgements and the victim granting forgiveness. These findings suggest that situational context is helping in mediating strong negative opinions about the victim’s forgiveness decision