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Report: Public Trust in Higher Education and A Media Review of Press Articles in California
Fox, Warren H.; Earl-Novell, Sarah L. - Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley - 2004
The purpose of this report is to better determine the level of general public trust in public higher education and the content of published articles in the press that may influence and reflect public confidence. By conducting a six-month media scan of four California newspapers, an overview is...
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Nunavik, Arctic Quebec: where cooperatives supplement entrepreneurship
Dana, Leo Paul - In: Global Business and Economics Review 12 (2010) 1/2, pp. 42-71
Prior to contact with Europeans, Ungava Inuit who inhabited the Quebec-Labrador Peninsula was self-sufficient, with a … Ungava and now known as Nunavik; yet, the Inuit have retained their language, a strong sense of identity, and community … values. In this context, cooperatives have dominated the business realm since their introduction in the late 1950s. Non-Inuit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010691688
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“From this place and of this place:” Climate change, sense of place, and health in Nunatsiavut, Canada
Cunsolo Willox, Ashlee; Harper, Sherilee L.; Ford, James D. - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 3, pp. 538-547
-year community-driven case study situated in the Inuit community of Rigolet, Nunatsiavut, Canada. Data informing this paper were … climate change, a changing sense of place, and health in an Inuit context, this research draws data from a multi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011042194
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Lived experience of acute gastrointestinal illness in Rigolet, Nunatsiavut: “Just suffer through it”
Harper, Sherilee L.; Edge, Victoria L.; Ford, James; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 126 (2015) C, pp. 86-98
severity, perceived causes, and healthcare seeking behaviors of AGI in the small Inuit community of Rigolet, Canada. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011189695
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Racism in Canadian Elementary School History and Social Studies Textbooks
Ilyniak, Natalia - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014
Do Manitoba elementary schools’ history and social studies textbooks contain racist knowledge towards Indigenous … peoples in Canada? Data is collected from a range of textbooks that are published between 1960 and 2013; all were found in … people to live in Canada. More recent textbooks move away from this open racism towards a new subtle racism that blurs the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011209996
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Religions, secularity and democracy in Europe: for a new Kelsenian pact
Ferrari, Alessandro - Jean Monnet Chair - 2005
Abstract: In Europe the public role of the religions appears to be directly proportional to the fall in trust in the procedural mechanisms at the basis of the liberal democracies. Compared to the strong identities attributed to the United States and to the Islamic world Europe is accused of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611136
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In the Shadow of the Constitution: Common Foreign and Security Policy/European Security and Defence Policy Adapting to a Changing External Environment
Nickel, Dietmar; Quille, Gerrard - Jean Monnet Chair - 2007
Abstract: The European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) is understood as an important new "instrument" in the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) "toolbox", designed to respond to the contemporary security environment as well as to overcome the inaction and hesitancy of the past....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611148
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Profit and the legitimacy of the Canadian banking industry
Breton, Gaétan; Côté, Louise - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 19 (2006) July, pp. 512-539
Purpose – Legitimacy is defined as the ability to exercise authority without resorting to open coercion. It is an essential asset for firms seeking to reach and maintain profitability. In this context, the purpose of this paper is to present the case of the Canadian banking industry, which has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009350721
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Multi-platform production :full speed ahead. The case of the Canadian company Québécor, 1995-2010
Demers, François FD; Le Cam, Florence - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2012
strongly committed actor in multiplatform production in Quebec – and beyond in English Canada. It has also become an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011011449
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Time use research in Canada – History,critique, perspectives
Zuzanek, Jiri - In: electronic International Journal of Time Use Research 6 (2009) 2, pp. 178-192
The article examines methodological and substantial problems faced by Canadian time use research. It assesses the gains and the limitations of this research from a historical and comparative perspectives.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008465199