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CED and Social Economy Policy Inventory in B.C. and Alberta (Phase I)
(2008-11-13)This presentation addresses the aims and initial results from BALTA's Research Project C9. Objectives of this project are: To conduct an inventory of federal and provincial legislation, policies, programs and initiatives ... -
Centre for Distance Education Research Activities - Part 1
(2011-03-09)Drs. Terry Anderson, Susan Moisey, Jon Baggaley, Rick Kenny, and Mita Bhattacharya, will make a presentation covering the following topics: Social Software and Independent Study, Distance Education for learners with ... -
Centre for Distance Education Research Activities - Part 2
(2011-03-09)Drs. Tom Jones, Pat Fahy, Debra Hoven, Marti Cleveland-Innes, Marguerite Koole, and Mohamed Ally will cover the following topics: Distance Education Potential for a Canadian Rural Island Community and on-line learning and ... -
The Challenge In Designing Government Programs For CED
(Making Waves, 2002)The often sorry record of government in community economic development has important lessons for future CED program designers. Ingrained socio-economic distress requires long-term, multidimensional action. Local people ... -
Challenges & Rewards of Rural Professional Practice
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Challenges to Connection- Changes in the Land and in Ways of Life in Kaska Dena Territory
(2012-11-15)The relationship to land is crucial for the well being of Kaska people. To maintain connection to the land, skills and language are both needed. Much knowledge about the land and how to live well on the land and with other ... -
Challenging the Toxic Footprint of Chemical Fertilizers, Soil Amendments and Sewage Sludge
(2010-06-22)While is a growing awareness of the environmental health impacts of pesticide exposure, many people around the world are unaware of the contaminants that are added to farmland. This is a serious food sovereignty issue and ... -
The Changing North American Family.
(2011-03-29)There is a popular belief that changes in the family over the past century (away from the traditional form of two biological parents with father as breadwinner and mother as homemaker) are responsible for declines in moral ... -
Chaos and Organizational Emergence: Towards Short Term Predictive Modeling to Navigate a Way Out of Chaos
(2011-11-03)Organizational emergence from chaotic events has often been described as unpredictable and random, at least when observed over the long term. Through a literature review this paper paves the path for the possible development ... -
Child Labour in Alberta; Incidence and Regulation
(2011-03-30)Significant numbers of children (9-11) and adolescents (12-14) in Alberta are employed. Many of these children and adolescents work in prohibited occupations and/or face violations of minimum statutory requirements for ... -
Chunking and Extracting Text Content for Mobile Learning: A Query-focused Summarizer Based on Relevance Language Model
(2013-03-05)Millions of text contents and multimedia published on the Web have potential to be shared as the learning contents. However, mobile learners often feel it difficult to extract useful contents for learning. Manually creating ... -
Circumscribing Regulation or Reforming the Regulatory Process
(2009-07-30)ABSTRACT In Canada, environmental regulation is circumscribed by several directives, framework documents and guidelines such as “The Cabinet Directive on Streamlining Regulation,” the “Canadian Cost-Benefit Analysis Guide,” ... -
Close your eyes with holy dread: Reckonings, retribution, revenge and redemption in the new Old West
(2011-03-29)This presentation formalizes some preliminary work on a larger research project that will investigate the western genre in film and will eventually include western literature, post 1990. There has been much work done on ... -
Cloud Computing-based IT Solutions For Organizations with Multiregional Branch Offices
(2011-05-05)One of the most significant phenomena of the new century is globalization. As business goes global, multiregional branch offices are needed and networked computing and information services must then be established for those ... -
Co-op Elder Care in Canada: A Call to Action
(British Columbia Co-operative Association, 2008-06)This report is the result of the work of a two year National Task Force on Co-op Elder Care that was established by the Canadian Co-operative Association. It explores the state of co-op elder care in Canada, considers the ... -
Co-op Housing Futures: A Spatial Design Research Approach
(2010-08-10)This proposal/plan document outlines a research project of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). The project explores the potential impact of a participatory action research process using an environmental ... -
Co-op Survival Rates in Alberta
(2011-11-04)This is the final report of the Alberta component of research that was conducted by the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA), the Alberta Community and Co-operative Association (ACCA) and the British Columbia ... -
Co-op Survival Rates in British Columbia
(British Columbia Co-operative Association, 2011-06)This is the final report of the British Columbia component of research that was conducted by the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA), the Alberta Community and Co-operative Association (ACCA) and the British ... -
Co-ops, the social economy, and CED in Quebec
(Making Waves, 2001)Understanding the relationship between CED and the co-operative movement in Quebec