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Aboriginal Women and Urban Housing: Realizing the Community Benefits
(2014-06-27)
Aboriginal women's housing issues profoundly affect the safety, health, and wellbeing of entire families. For low-income women who occupy marginal positions within the city, there is a particular urgency to access safe and ...
Variability in spring snowpack and winter atmospheric circulation pattern frequencies in the Peace River Basin
(1997)
Prior to its regulation in 1968, the Peace River had historically been a significant
contributor to ice-jam flooding of the Peace-Athabasca Delta. Following regulation,
however, there has been a twenty-two year period, ...
Local capacity to implement a source water protection plan in the South Saskatchewan River watershed
(2012-04-27)
Following a number of waterborne disease outbreaks in Canada, the water resource management literature draws attention to source water protection (SWP). Source water protection is a drinking water management approach that ...
Migration of African-trained physicians abroad : a case study of Saskatchewan, Canada
(2009)
Several factors inform health professionals’ decisions to migrate from developing to developed countries to practice their profession. This study explores the “Push” and “Pull” factors that informed African-trained physicians’ ...
The capacity of Montreal Lake, SK to provide safe drinking water
(2008)
Recent waterborne disease outbreaks in Canada have brought national awareness to drinking water safety. In particular, the long history of poor water quality plaguing First Nations communities has received substantial ...
From reserves to cities (and back) : the significance of reserves in Registered Indian women's migration
(2010-01)
The migration of Registered Indian people to and from their reserves has attracted much scholarly attention over the decades. A significant theme in early literature suggested Indian people migrated back and forth between ...
Cumulative Effects on Human Health within the Hydroelectric Sector: A Case Study of Manitoba Hydro
(2016-02-02)
The construction and operation of hydroelectric projects consist of multiple activities in a single watershed, which can generate significant impacts on the surrounding biophysical environment and on the health and well-being ...
Satellite image classification and spatial analysis of agricultural areas for land cover mapping of grizzly bear habitat
(2008)
Habitat loss and human-caused mortality are the most serious threats facing grizzly bear (Ursus arctosi L.) populations in Alberta, with conflicts between people and bears in agricultural areas being especially important. ...
Modeling grassland productivity through remote sensing products
(2008)
Mixed grasslands in south Canada serve a variety of economic, environmental and ecological purposes. Numerical modeling has become a major method used to identify potential grassland ecosystem responses to environment ...
Acoustic sounding of snow water equivalent
(2007)
An acoustic frequency-swept wave was investigated as a means for determining Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) in cold wind-swept prairie and sub-alpine environments. Building on previous research conducted by investigators who ...