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This paper addresses the decolonizing potential of Indigenous counter-mapping in the context of (what is now called) Canada. After historicizing cartography as a technique of colonial power, and situating Indigenous counter-mapping as an assertion of political and intellectual sovereignty, we examine the digital map ofAmiskwaciwâskahikan(Plains Cree for Edmonton, Alberta) produced by the Pipelines Collective, which overlays Treaty 6 Indigenous maps onto ‘conventional’ maps to denaturalize and challenge colonial renderings of city space. We then discuss the expanding trend of guerrilla mapping techniques engaged in by Indigenous groups, emphasizing theOgimaa Mikanaproject in Toronto, wherein Anishinaabemowin names were stickered over settler street names. Expanding the spatial theories of Michel de Certeau and Gilles Deleuze, and drawing on the research and insights of Indigenous scholars Jodi Byrd and Mishuana Goeman, our paper considers how emerging digital counter-mapping efforts offer ambivalent possibilities for Indigenous peoples to assert their presence in material ways. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Investor returns in new Australian Real Estate Investment Trust (A-REIT) listings appear to have underperformed the market on average by 30% over a three-year investment period. We examine whether certain firm and market characteristics help to explain the long-term performance of A-REIT initial public offerings (IPOs). The analysis is structured to test whether those variables known to investors prior to listing (publically available in prospectuses), could help predict the abnormal long-term return performance. Additionally, models utilizing after listing variables allowed for a comparative insight into long-term performance. The findings indicate that on average, larger A-REIT IPOs appear to perform better at the one-year performance period, while stapled A-REIT IPOs (those generally involved in property development activities) appear to per form more poorly at the three-year period. On average, larger A-REIT IPOs appear to perform better at the end of first year following listing. Furthermore, the Global Financial Crisis had a clear negative effect on the long-term return of newly listed A-REITs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The authors comment on Aboriginal bioethics as ethics of virtue in narrative conditions. They stress the ethical role of storytelling, as well as the relationship of character and habit to ethnos, ethnicity and to one's community. They discuss the condition of the ethics of virtue for a community to share and communicate the values and habits that inform ethical life, and the role of hermeneutic bioethics in the dialogical exchange of reasons and arguments.