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Risk Points That Force Institutionalization: A Map of Ontario Programs Through the Lifespan of People with Disabilities
No full textThe purpose of this research is to identify and describe information related to individuals with complex needs in Ontario, across the lifespan, and the challenges in navigating the available programs and services. A narrative and holistic approach is used to describe and synthesize findings on the lived experiences of people with disabilities in Ontario. Disabled people with high and complex care needs are still at risk of institutionalization in Canada, which restricts their agency and quality of life. Ongoing research suggests that access to timely and reliable programs and services contribute to the wellbeing of individuals with complex needs and support them to live safely in their own homes. This is especially true for those who depend on government support due to financial constraints. This research project builds on academic literature, reports from government and non-governmental organizations, advocacy groups and knowledge produced and shared by people with disabilities in Ontario
Midwifery Access for Indigenous and Racialized Women in Rural Alberta: A Rapid Review
No full textThe purpose of this capstone is to examine barriers to rural midwifery access in Alberta and to identify equity-centred, evidence-informed policy strategies that the provincial government can implement. This project is guided by the research question: What policy strategies can the Alberta Government implement to improve equitable access to midwifery care in rural Alberta, for Indigenous and racialized communities?
Using a rapid review methodology, the paper synthesizes findings from peer-reviewed and grey literature to highlight system-level barriers and policy opportunities. This methodology employs a critical rural equity lens that regards race and place as intersecting, rather than parallel, determinants of access to health services. Preliminary findings suggest that effective strategies include targeted funding models for rural midwifery, Indigenous midwifery models, expansion of Indigenous-led and community-based training programs, reforms to professional scope and billing practices, and stronger provincial accountability for equitable service distribution. These findings are anticipated to support the development of an inclusive and sustainable rural midwifery strategy in Alberta. This capstone contributes to policy discussions on maternal healthcare equity by emphasizing the importance of addressing rural midwifery access not only geographically but through an intersectional lens that considers the specific experiences of Indigenous and racialized communities in rural Alberta
The cost of family law legal services in Canada: a historical and critical analysis of lawyers' business decisions
No full textThis is a study of lawyers' business decisions and the implications of those decisions for access to legal advice and representation in family law. Changes to law office management and the adoption of hourly billing practices, occurred just as family law became a specialized practice area following the enactment of the Divorce Act in 1968. This analysis of the history of pricing legal services in the 1960s and 1970s demonstrates that the high cost of legal services today is the result of choices made by members of the legal profession in the past.Today, one of the central themes in the "access to justice" scholarship in Canada – client-centered justice – glosses over the importance of lawyers' agency. Concurrently, the scholarship on the legal marketplace or the "business of law" primarily addresses large, elite corporate firms, excluding the business practices of many lawyers who provide personal legal services, such as family lawyers.The Canadian organized bar's current approach to legal expense insurance for family law is illustrative of the problem with ignoring the agency of lawyers. The organized bar has not adequately educated lawyers on entering into a relationship with the legal expense insurance industry as an intermediary in billing between lawyer and client. Instead, the focus has been on educating the public to create demand for legal expense insurance.Cette étude analyse les décisions d'affaires d'avocats et les conséquences de ces décisions en matière d'accès à la justice en droit familial. Des changements dans l'administration des bureaux d'avocats, comme par exemple la tarification horaire, ont eu lieu juste au moment où le droit familial devenait une pratique spécialisée suite à l'adoption de la Loi sur le divorce, 1968. Une analyse historique de la tarification des services juridiques dans les années 1960 et 1970 démontre que le prix élevé des services juridiques aujourd'hui résulte de choix faits par les membres de la profession juridique dans le passé.Aujourd'hui, l'un des thèmes principaux abordés dans la littérature concernant l' «accès à la justice», soit la justice centrée sur la personne ou le client, ignore l'importance du rôle de l'avocat. Concurremment, la littérature sur le marché juridique ou la profession juridique concerne principalement les grands cabinets d'avocats spécialisés en droit corporatif, et exclut les pratiques d'affaires des avocats offrant des services juridiques personnels, tels que le droit familial. L'approche actuelle du Barreau canadien en matière d'assurance frais juridiques pour des services de droit familial constitue un exemple qui illustre le problème qui surgit quand on ignore le rôle de l'avocat. Le Barreau n'éduque pas les avocats à propos de la possibilité de faire affaires avec des compagnies offrant l'assurance frais juridiques en tant qu'intermédiaire dans la facturation entre l'avocat et le client. L'accent est plutôt mis sur l'éducation du public afin de créer une demande
Planning Law and Accessibility: Third Party Permit Appeals by Persons with Disabilities
No full textA physical obstacle, such as a step at the entrance of a building, is the product of the interplay of regulations that govern what and we build. The human rights complaint process can provide a remedy to people with disabilities when they are excluded from public spaces. But there are limits to what can be accomplished by way of a human rights complaint. Human rights commissions and tribunals are not competent to mediate or adjudicate complaints about accessibility before construction commences, because any alleged discrimination is only hypothetical. But just because human rights law is limited in this way should not mean that people with disabilities must wait to encounter inaccessibility before they can influence what and how we build. Planning law legislation in Canada mandates public consultation and it also gives members of the public the right to contest planning decisions by way of an appeal. For people with disabilities, this would mean challenging development and building permits that have already been issued if the proposed development is not accessible. After a municipality issues a development permit, most jurisdictions in Canada allow for an appeal by a third party. There are also some jurisdictions that also allow for this type of appeal after the municipality issues a building permit. If successful in an appeal, members of the public who are opposed to a project, or some of its aspects, may block construction altogether or require modifications. These appeal processes could offer an opportunity for people with disabilities to have a direct impact on how we construct the built environment. An appeal at the permit stage is a promising complement to a human rights complaint, because it is prospective rather than retroactive.Les obstacles physiques, comme les marches à l’entrée d’un immeuble, découlent de l’interaction des règlements qui régissent ce que l’on construit. Le processus de plainte en matière de droits de la personne peut offrir un recours aux personnes handicapées lorsqu’elles sont exclues des espaces publics. Cependant, ce processus n’est pas une panacée à tous les problèmes. Les commissions et tribunaux des droits de la personne ne sont pas compétents pour agir comme médiateurs ou arbitres à l’égard de plaintes sur l’accessibilité déposées avant le début des travaux de construction, car toute discrimination alléguée n’est qu’hypothétique. Cependant, cela ne signifie pas pour autant que les personnes handicapées doivent attendre que le problème d’accessibilité se pose avant de pouvoir exercer une influence sur ce que nous bâtissons et sur le mode de construction que nous choisissons. Les lois canadiennes en matière d’urbanisme et d’aménagement du territoire imposent la consultation publique et permettent aux membres du public de contester les décisions prises dans ce domaine en interjetant appel. Dans le cas des personnes handicapées, elles pourraient contester les permis de construction et d’aménagement qui ont déjà été délivrés, si le projet proposé n’est pas accessible. La plupart des provinces et territoires canadiens permettent à de tierces parties d’interjeter appel une fois que la municipalité a délivré un permis d’aménagement. Certains d’entre eux permettent également ce type d’appel après la délivrance d’un permis de construction. S’ils ont gain de cause en appel, les membres du public qui s’opposent à un projet ou à certains de ses aspects peuvent carrément empêcher la construction ou exiger des modifications. Ces processus d’appel pourraient permettre aux personnes handicapées d’exercer une influence directe sur la façon dont nous aménageons l’environnement bâti. En raison de sa nature prospective plutôt que rétroactive, l’appel à l’étape du permis représente un complément prometteur de la plainte en matière de droits de la personne
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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