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Canada’s Most Decisive Victory: An Analysis of Canada’s Role in the Hundred Days Offensive, 8 August - 11 November 1918
Get PDFOf Canada’s long military history, Vimy is the one battle that most Canadians will know. Some will be familiar with Passchendaele, D-Day or the disasters at Hong Kong and Dieppe. Canadians should know the Hundred Days because the battles that constitute that offensive were almost certainly the most important victories ever won by Canadian soldiers. This article analyses the various reasons for the stunning Canadian successes of that war-winning offensive: chiefly the Canadian experience and doctrine; the state of the enemy and the Allies; artillery and counter-battery fire (the most important tactical arm); and logistics and administration. Ultimately, as the Hundred Days’ spearhead with replenishable manpower and with near unmatched firepower, experience, ingenuity, organisation, leadership, reputation and material resources, the Canadian Corps was the decisive war-winning formation on the Western Front
Canadian Lutheran History Sources and Resources Presentation: Remembering for the Sake of the Gospel
Get PDFThis Article is from a three-part presentation delivered in Webinar 2 (November 15, 2022) of the Webinar Series “For the Sake of the Gospel” hosted by the Remembering Today for the Church of Tomorrow Project in partnership with Martin Luther University College and Lutheran Theological Seminary. The presentation featured images, some of which are presented herein
Remembering Canadian Lutheran World Relief - Relationships: Coastal Compassion, A Propositional History
Get PDFThis story-telling presentation was prepared by Karen Kuhnert for Webinar 2 (November 15, 2022) of the Webinar Series “For the Sake of the Gospel” hosted by the Remembering Today for the Church of Tomorrow Project in partnership with Martin Luther University College and Lutheran Theological Seminary. For more on “Propositional History” see the Foreword of this issue
The Summer of the Pivot: Prioritizing Equity in Remote Instruction through a Multidisciplinary Community of Practice Initiative at a Canadian University
Get PDFThis article is about the multidisciplinary Community of Practice (CoP) initiative that was implemented in the summer of 2020- summer of the pivot- at a Canadian post-secondary institution to prepare faculty, staff, and students for remote teaching and learning while navigating pandemic conditions created by COVID-19. The CoP as a case study using Critical Theory as a theoretical framework examines the experiences of a collective group of faculty and staff from different disciplines leading a multidisciplinary university-wide initiative and the implications of the approach for promoting effective pedagogies for teaching and learning remotely. Findings based on feedback from workshop attendees, reflections from the CoP facilitators, and comments forwarded to senior administrators about the impact and the effectiveness of the program indicate positive results. It is recommended that although the CoP initiative was originally conceived as a response to the summer of the pivot, it should become an integral approach to promoting dialogue and innovative strategies to advance equitable practices in higher education by cultivating community networks. The findings serve to continue constructive dialogues and discussions about how universities can transition, pivot, and mobilize innovatively and creatively to prioritize equitable teaching and learning conditions that challenge the status quo. This requires a long-term commitment by higher education institutions to break away from historically normalized practices and invest in innovative ways to identify and meet the needs of various stakeholders
No. 56: Towards a New Food Security Index for Urban Household Food Security
Get PDFThe multidimensionality of food security can confound both statistical modelling and clear policy narratives. That complexity can become amplified in urban areas where food security is often a function of both local and global factors. Rather than focusing on one dimension of food security metrics, this investigation proposes a method for building an index of urban household food access, utilization and stability. The performance of this index is compared across three aggregation methods using household surveys collected from five cities around the world. The findings indicate that each aggregation method was internally consistent, although one of the aggregation methods, relying on geometric means, was likely to be more methodologically sound among the options. This method provides a means of capturing the multidimensional nature of food security in a way that is amenable to statistical modelling and clear policy narratives
Inspirational Bullshit: The Good, the Bad, and the Vacuous
Get PDFThere are myriad methods offered in the “self-help industry” and on social media promising to improve happiness. Some messages are evidence-based, often drawn from positive psychology research, and suggest actions requiring time and effort, while other messages may offer feel-good platitudes that are devoid of meaningful guidance; we label this latter type of content “inspirational bullshit.” Across two manuscripts, we investigate the predictors of liking different kinds of positive self-help content, from meaningless randomly-generated phrases to vacuous positivity to evidence-based advice. In the first manuscript, across three studies, bullshit receptivity (a tendency to judge pseudo-profound statements as profound) and people’s lay theories about the controllability of happiness predicted attraction to positive self-help advice, but with differential preference for distinct types. Using multi-level modelling analysis, we found that receptivity to bullshit predicts attraction to any inspirational content with a lack of discernment between randomly generated “inspirational bullshit” and vacuous “feel good” advice compared to evidence-based advice. A belief that happiness is controllable also predicted greater attraction to happiness advice, but with more discernment favouring meaningful advice rather than empty inspirational content. Although this research may suggest that people are taken in by inspirational bullshit, it is also possible that these messages act as a springboard for people’s own creative interpretation. In the second manuscript, across two studies, we sought to understand what people are thinking about when they see positive self-help content, by asking people to provide their own interpretations of random, vacuous, or evidence-based content. At least for some people (including those high in bullshit receptivity), the “inspirational bullshit” phrases appear to provide a blank canvas that prompts deeper creative reflection. People higher in bullshit receptivity report considering their own beliefs, experiences and knowledge about happiness to derive meaning from inspirational bullshit. Since people higher in bullshit receptivity also report higher well-being, we suggest that dismissing empty inspiration as merely bullshit could be premature
No. 10: Linking Food Security with Development, Inequality and South-South Migration
No full textIn this paper, we draw attention to the ignored linkages between food security, inequality, and development with respect to South-South migration. Building on core arguments reflecting on these ties and empirical studies from diverse sending and receiving contexts, we outline five distinctive ways in which these multidimensional relationships and interactions operate. The first aspect assesses how inequality of opportunities and outcomes affects food security to shape migration aspirations and movements. The second aspect discusses how food insecurity in a variety of conflict and crisis circumstances acts as the main determinant and precipitant of forced migration. The third aspect addresses migrant remittances and their contribution to the food security of sending and recipient households. A fourth aspect highlights the activities of migrants in the food systems of the receiving countries. The final aspect examines the food security circumstances of various categories of migrants and connects them with migrant precarities at the transit and destination sites. In a broad sense, our analysis identities existing research gaps on this topic and problematizes selected buoyant framings of the migration-development nexus
No. 05: Migrant Women’s Food Insecurity Experiences in the Breadbasket of Ghana
No full textMigration has become a safety net for smallholder farmers across Africa in response to rapidly deteriorating climatic conditions and the resulting low agricultural productivity. In semi-arid northern Ghana, especially the Upper West Region, many people migrate to rural farming communities in the Middle Belt of the country – popularly referred to as Ghana’s breadbasket – to meet their food security needs. In recent times, there has been an increase in the involvement of women in these migration patterns. This notwithstanding, many studies on migration and food security in Ghana continue to focus on the experiences of households or male migrants, leading to a dearth of knowledge about migrant women’s food insecurity experiences. Using a cross-sectional study design and northern Ghana as a survey case study (n=504), we employed generalized linear latent and mixed models (gllamm) in this paper to examine the key determinants of the food insecurity experiences of migrant women with emphasis on their length of stay. Food insecurity was measured using a modified version of the Household Food Insecurity and Access Scale (HFIAS). Our findings demonstrate that, even after migrating, women face several barriers that continue to predispose them to food insecurity, including lack of social support and autonomy. Given the general lack of empirical evidence on the food security experiences of women migrants, this analysis generates insights on the correlates of food insecurity among women migrants and, more broadly, the value of migration as a fallback strategy for navigating food security among women