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The Political Economy of Monetary and Financial System Changes to Support Societal Sustainability
(2013-01-21)The political economy of the current financial system is the context out of which alternatives are being forged. Changes to the privatized debt-based monetary system, expansion of co-operative and publicly owned finance ... -
The Political Imperative: Civil Society and the Politics of Empowerment
(Making Waves, 2004)There's a driving desire in this country right now for deep change to the way we live and govern ourselves. I see it ion the women's movement, the co-op movement, the environmental movement, in labour, in community economic ... -
Politics of Betrayal in Camilla Gibb's "Sweetness in the Belly"
(2009-06-02)Camilla Gibb’s Sweetness in the Belly is a novel with many layers that can be read from different perspectives. Issues of race, language, culture, tradition, religion, and politics are intermingled in the pages of the novel ... -
Pop culture in the classroom: Inspiring students to take action against intimate partner violence
(2013-07-09)Working with families is fraught with complexity, including dealing with issues such as intimate partner violence. Faculty teaching within a family-newborn course with undergraduate nursing students sought innovative ... -
Positive Motion, Inc.
(2007-10-18)The simplicity of flashcards makes them ideally suited for memorizing word lists on small, mobile devices but flashcards are not well suited to subjects that require more sophisticated organizational structure. Legal ... -
The Potential Impacts of Social Media on Social Rersearch and Scholarly Communication
(2010-06-17)Social media has influenced - and in some cases, transformed - how individuals communicate, create and share information. Fundamentally, social media represents a power shift in information control, access, and validation. ... -
The Potluck Café: Navigating the "twilight zone" of social enterprise
(Making Waves, 2004)Since 2001, a small shop in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside has been serving 1000s of meals to some of the city's most sick and isolated residents, while training and employing others in food preparation. Now, after three ... -
The Power of Virtual Professional Networking
(2010-07-14)Research in the business community indicates that virtual professional networks are used to keep internal staff and remote employees connected, to connect with potential clients, and to showcase the skills of the business. ... -
Power Point Presentation for Congress 2008. Sustainability, the Social economy, and the Eco-Social Crisis
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Practitioners as Innovators: Emergent Practice in Personal Mobile Teaching, Learning, Work and Leisure
(2007-10-17)Mobile devices have become commonplace tools serving a wide array of purposes that may include teaching and learning alongside work and leisure, in both formal and informal settings. The project reported on in this paper ... -
Predicting the Asian Currency Crises with Artificial Neural Networks: What Role of Function Approximation?
(2009-08-13)Indicators approach and probit and logit models are the two most widely used early warning systems for currency crisis. Several studies however suggest that despite their strengths these systems have high error rates ... -
Preliminary Profile of the Size and Scope of the Social Economy in Alberta and British Columbia
(2010-09-14)Using existing data, mainly of a statistical nature, this report provides a preliminary profile of the social economy and social economy organizations in the two Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia. Aggregate ... -
Preparing Effective Codes of Ethics in Aboriginal Agency
(2010-07-14)An Aboriginal agency that: (a) conducts business in a cross-cultural setting; (b) employs Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal employees; (c) wants to conduct its operations in keeping with Aboriginal protocols; may wish ... -
Preparing Learners for Online Doctoral Study: Readiness App
(2014-02-06)The origins of the doctoral degree can be traced back to guilds in the Middle Ages in Europe. There are now a variety of doctoral degrees such as professional, applied, practitioner, and clinical. Completion routes may be ... -
Presentation of a paper, entitled "Sarah Bernhardt's Edmonton Apotheosis at the Empire"
(2006-12-14)In January 1913, at the age of 68, Sarah Bernhardt performed the fifth act of Dumas’ La Dame aux Camelias at the second Empire Theatre in Edmonton. She was on tour with Martin Beck’s New York company, providing a tragic ... -
Presented a three-part examination of theory and technique in psychodynamic psychotherapy entitled, “Malan, Winnicott, and the Psychodynamic Treatment of Trauma and Depression
(2010-06-22)This presentation is a three-part examination of theory and technique in psychodynamic psychotherapy. Part one examines Winnicott’s therapeutic consultation (Winnicott, 1971). He would meet with children and their parents ... -
The Primordial Link: HRM and Workplace Learning
(2010-06-23)Purpose: Larger social networks (SN) and greater perceptions of social support (SS) may provide individuals with greater resources and opportunities to be active, instilling a higher sense of control over the behavior. The ... -
The Primordial Link: HRM and Workplace Learning
(2010-06-23)The link between human resource management (HRM) and workplace learning is more often as not ignored if not assumed in the work and learning and adult education literature. The purpose of this paper is to critically examine ... -
Procurement Policy and Market Development for the Social Economy: Expanding the Market Opportunities for Social Enterprise, Co-operatives, and Other Social Economy Businesses
(2009-11-24)This presentation to the 2009 symposium of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) reports on the results of a BALTA research project (C18) examining procurement policy and market development for the social ... -
Program Experiences of Men Completing the Reaching for a Good Life Program
(2014-01-16)This presentation will report the findings of a qualitative investigation into the experiences of thirty-one men completing the Reaching for a Good Life program as well as post-group quantitative measures of executive ...