3,316 research outputs found
Equipping Ourselves in Tough times: Canada's Improved Business Investment Performance
No full textAfter trailing the average performance of G7 countries for 15 years, Canada’s relative business investment performance stands out in a promising light for 2009 and 2010. Amid the recession, new capital spending on tools for workers, in the form of machinery, equipment or buildings, has held up better in Canada than in many other countries, and particularly the United States. Investment per worker in Canada for 2010 should surpass that in other G7 and OECD countries.economic growth and innovation, business investment, capital investment
Colin Humphris
No full text"Colin Humphris 2 Sqdrn. RAAF. 1941 - 1942 Author of - 'Trapped on Timor' (as a result of bombing of Darwin Feb. 19, 1942)".Colin Humphris. 2 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force 1941 - 1942. Author of - 'Trapped on Timor' (as a result of bombing of Darwin February 19, 1942)
Interview with Colin Wilson, part 4, undated
No full textInterview with Colin Wilson, part 4, features an interview with author Colin Wilson in which he discusses his views regarding society and art, his reclusive nature, and the intellectual and fantastical elements of his works, undated
Interview with Colin Wilson, part 2, undated
No full textInterview with Colin Wilson, part 2, features an interview with author Colin Wilson in which he discusses his views regarding society and art, his reclusive nature, and the intellectual and fantastical elements of his works, undated
Off the Mark: Canada's 2008 Fiscal Accountability Ranking (also available in French)
No full textEvery year, legislators in Canada vote for budgets that set out targets for the coming fiscal year. But every year, governments tend to spend more than they promise at budget time. The result: accountability between legislators and voters breaks down. Canadians should demand better.fiscal policy, public accounts, Canadian federal, provincial and territorial governments fiscal accountability rankings
Providence College Faculty Author Series 2017-2018: D. Colin Jaundrill
No full textIn this installment of the Faculty Authors Series, D. Colin Jaundrill (History, Providence College) discusses his newest book, Samurai to Soldier: Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Providence College Faculty Author Series 2017-2018: D. Colin Jaundrill
No full textIn this installment of the Faculty Authors Series, D. Colin Jaundrill (History, Providence College) discusses his newest book, Samurai to Soldier: Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Freeing up Food: The Ongoing Cost, and Potential Reform, of Supply Management
No full textGovernment-mandated cartels in eggs, dairy and poultry products impose high costs on consumers and harm Canada’s standing in international trade. The authors offer compelling evidence of the high costs to Canadian consumers and limited benefits to farmers arising from the supply management system. The study recommends phasing out Canada’s controversial supply management system through sales of new quota for the production and sale of these products.Governance and Public Institutions, Canadian agriculture, supply management policy, agricultural production quotas
Interview with Colin Jerolmack
No full textColin Jerolmack is an Assistant Professor at New York University
in Sociology and Environmental Studies. He is the author of The
Global Pigeon (forthcoming) and an alumnus of the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Program at Harvard
University
Real World Research -3/E.
No full textReal world research is a common responsibility of professionals and practitioners in a wide range of both public and private settings. These include teachers, social workers and health service professionals, managers and specialists in business, architects, designers, criminologists and accountants among many others.
Real World Research provides a clear route-map of the various steps needed to carry out a piece of applied research to a high professional standard. It is accessible to those without a social science background while providing rigorous and fully up-to-date coverage of contemporary issues and debates. It brings together materials and approaches from different social science disciplines, seeing value in both quantitative and qualitative approaches, as well as their combination in mixed-method designs.
Colin Robson\u27s bestselling textbook is essential reading for many higher education courses, at both undergraduate, taught postgraduate and doctoral level, as well as practitioners and others carrying out research as part of their job. A very extensive website, which is closely keyed in to the text, provides additional resources including copious examples of research and further discussion of research issues, links to other useful resources and selected journal articles, annotated lists of further reading and an extensive set of PowerPoint slides
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