407 research outputs found
La nationalisation partielle de l'amiante au Québec au regard du droit international public
No full textOtis Ghislain. La nationalisation partielle de l'amiante au Québec au regard du droit international public. In: Revue Québécoise de droit international, volume 1, 1984. pp. 117-162
The Tutor's Role
No full textThis chapter addresses three questions about being an effective online tutor: 1. Why do we still think that online tutoring can principally draw its basis from face-to-face group processes and dynamics or traditional pedagogy? 2. Does the literature tell us anything more than we would make as an intelligent guess? 3. Do we really know what an ‘effective’ online tutor would be doing? The OTiS participants have gone some way to answering these questions, through the presentation and discussion of their own online tutoring experiences. Literature in this area is still limited, and suffers from the need for timeliness of publication to be useful. Intelligent guesses are all very well, but much better as a source of information for online tutors are the reflections and documented experiences of practitioners. These experiences reveal that face-to-face pedagogy has some elements to offer the online tutor, but that there are key differences and there is a need to examine the processes and dynamics of online learning to inform online tutoring
Letter from George Otis Smith, U.S. Geological Survey to Carl Hayden
No full textLetter from George Otis Smith to Carl Hayden regarding mining rights in the Grand Canyon
Letter from George Otis Smith, U.S. Geological Survey to Carl Hayden
No full textLetter from George Otis Smith, U.S. Geological Survey to Carl Hayden regarding asbestos mining prospects in the Grand Canyon
Range of the Thermometer at Denton: 1858
No full textBooklet containing information about the temperature, wind, and weather in Denton, Texas from July to December 1858. Otis G. Welch was the author and illustrator of this book. He recorded his observations at sunrise, noon, 3 p.m., and sunset. Mr. Welch also made notes about the wind, weather, and clouds. We debated about the artwork on the cover and - with the help of the staff of the Fort Worth Botanical Research Institute of Texas - decided that it is either a bent angle Curie Thermometer OR a "flowering grass culm with two rows of seed heads along the central axis of sideoats grama (Bouteloua curtipendula).
Four Year's Relics Volume 1
No full textFirst volume "Four Year's Relics" from the papers of Henry Otis Dwight, consisting of original drawings, documents, maps, and a partial narrative of 1st Lieutenant Dwight's service in the Ohio Volunteer Infantry 20th Regiment. The drawings and narrative depict camp life and fellow officers during the Civil War. Henry Otis Dwight was born in Constantinople, Turkey, to missionary parents. He traveled to the United States to attend college at Ohio Wesleyan in Delaware, Ohio, and while there in September 1861 enlisted as a private in Delaware's "Lenape Greys" and subsequently mustered as Company D, 20th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He rose through the ranks to brevet Captain before mustering out in July 1865. For four years of campaigning with Union armies in the west, he made notes and sketched. In November 1864 Harper's Magazine published an account he wrote on the Atlanta campaign. After the war he married and then returned to Turkey where he had a long and distinguished career as a missionary and author
Chapter 2: The Tutor's Role
No full textThe OTiS (Online Teaching in Scotland) programme, run by the now defunct Scotcit programme, ran an International e-Workshop on Developing Online Tutoring Skills which was held between 8–12 May 2000. It was organised by Heriot–Watt University, Edinburgh and The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK. Out of this workshop came the seminal Online Tutoring E-Book, a generic primer on e-learning pedagogy and methodology, full of practical implementation guidelines. Although the Scotcit programme ended some years ago, the E-Book has been copied to the SONET site as a series of PDF files, which are now available via the ALT Open Access Repository. The editor, Carol Higgison, is currently working in e-learning at the University of Bradford (see her staff profile) and is the Chair of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT)
Les sources des droits ancestraux des peuples autochtones
No full textDans la présente étude, l'auteur se penche sur différentes questions relatives aux sources des droits ancestraux des peuples autochtones. Il relève d'abord l'incertitude persistante quant à la source de ces droits au Québec. Il étudie ensuite la jurisprudence de la Cour suprême du Canada dans le but de circonscrire le rôle joué par les régimes juridiques autochtones d'origine précoloniale dans la définition des droits ancestraux reconnus par la common law et l'article 35 (1) de la Loi constitutionnelle de 1982. Il ressort de son analyse que, même si la plus haute juridiction canadienne affirme que les droits ancestraux tirent leur origine en partie des régimes autochtones préexistants, elle n'applique pas le principe de continuité selon lequel le droit étatique ne ferait que maintenir en vigueur le droit autochtone précolonial. Ainsi, lorsqu'elle définit le contenu des droits ancestraux et leurs conditions d'existence, la Cour suprême ne donne pas simplement effet aux prescriptions du droit coutumier autochtone, mais elle élabore plutôt un ensemble de règles qu'elle présente comme le produit d'un métissage des cultures juridiques occidentale et autochtone. En revanche, le groupe autochtone étant titulaire lui-même d'un droit ancestral, il lui revient d'en établir les conditions et modalités d'exercice. Le droit autochtone issu de cette autonomie normative constitue la source exclusive des droits individuels des membres de la communauté. Si le groupe exerce ainsi un pouvoir considérable sur l'individu, il ne peut aller à l'encontre des droits fondamentaux de la personne qui sont une dimension essentielle de l'organisation juridique étatique.The author examines various issues pertaining to the sources of aboriginal rights in Canada. Professor Otis first underlines the persistent uncertainty regarding the source of these rights in Quebec. He then reviews Supreme Court case law in order to ascertain the role played by preexisting aboriginal legal systems for defining the nature and content of a boriginal righ ts recognized a t common la w and under section 35(1) of the Constitution Act, 1982. Based on this analysis, the author takes the view that the Court does not apply the doctrine of continuity by which the state's legal system would serve only to incorporate aboriginal laws derived from pre-colonial aboriginal legal systems. Instead of defining aboriginal rights in terms of aboriginal customs and laws, the Court purports to develop a body of "intersocietal" law depicted as a crossbreeding of western and aboriginal legal cultures. On the other hand, because aboriginal rights are held communally, individual interests regarding access to and exercise of such rights within the community will be derived solely from aboriginal laws. The author argues, however, that the group's normative autonomy is not unlimited since it cannot be used in a way that would infringe upon an aboriginal person's basic rights or freedoms
Le titre aborigène : émergence d’une figure nouvelle et durable du foncier autochtone ?
No full textL’auteur analyse dans l’article qui suit les principales questions soulevées par la reconnaissance du titre aborigène ou ancestral des peuples autochtones par le droit étatique. Il examine successivement les sources du titre aborigène, ses conditions d’existence et ses attributs en tentant d’offrir des réponses aux nombreuses questions encore irrésolues. S’agissant des sources du titre, l’auteur fait ressortir l’approche stato-centrique de la jurisprudence dans la défnition des droits ancestraux et avance notamment que la doctrine de continuité du droit précolonial revêt un sens métaphorique plutôt qu’opérationnel. Quant aux conditions d’existence du titre, l’auteur conclut qu’elles restent encore suffsamment indéterminées pour créer une situation d’insécurité foncière et permettre aux juges d’opérer, sous le couvert d’une appréciation du dossier historique, des arbitrages socioéconomiques contemporains entre autochtones et non-autochtones. Finalement, l’étude des attributs du titre aborigène met en exergue l’incertitude qui perdure relativement à plusieurs enjeux fondamentaux, dont l’identité même du détenteur du patrimoine ancestral. Cette indétermination du droit, ainsi que la difficulté qu’éprouve la Cour suprême du Canada à inscrire la tenure autochtone dans la modernité foncière, laissent également planer le doute sur la capacité des autochtones de mettre en valeur leurs terres en fonction de leurs priorités de développement.In the following paper, the author analyzes the central issues raised by the recognition of aboriginal title under State law. He offers answers to the many unresolved issues concerning the sources of aboriginal title, its conditions of existence and attributes. Concerning the sources of aboriginal title, the author highlights the Supreme Court’s stato-centric approach to the defnition of aboriginal rights and argues, in particular, that the doctrine of continuity of pre-colonial law has more of a metaphoric rather than operational meaning. As for the conditions of the title’s existence, the author concludes that they still remain sufficiently undetermined as to generate legal insecurity and allow judges to conduct, under the guise of an assessment of the historical record, contemporary socio-economic arbitrations between indigenous peoples and the non-indigenous majority. Finally, the analysis of the attributes of aboriginal title brings to light the uncertainty which persists with regard to several fundamental issues, such as, for example, the identity of the holder of title. This uncertainty of the law, as well as the failure of the Supreme Court of Canada to reconcile aboriginal title with modernity, cast doubt on the capacity of indigenous peoples to develop their lands according to their contemporary priorities
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