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Given that our urban centres have been dominated by the private car for a hundred years, this paper asks what is next for Canadian cities. Previous research on the future of urban mobility, and specifically city planning and autonomous vehicles, has been from an American or Australian context. Working from a uniquely Canadian perspective, this paper fills a gap in the research by analyzing data from twenty-six semi-structured interviews with Canadian planning professionals from Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg and Toronto. The interviews discuss how Canadian planners are preparing for new technologies, including autonomous vehicles, and increased privatization. We recommend that large cities move forward with autonomous vehicle research with a goal of improving mobility for all, while ensuring a strong agreement framework with all for-proft mobility providers is in place that requires robust data sharing agreements and appropriate consultation with municipalities before, during, and after launching. Further, planners should further embrace the political realities of their positions and advocate for equitable mobility for all residents both in their day-to-day work and in public engagement settings. Keywords: mobility, autonomous vehicles, city planning, advocacy, Canada Vu que nos centres urbains sont domines depuis une centaine d'annees par la voiture privee, le present article s'interroge sur ce qui s'ensuit pour les villes canadiennes. Jusqu'a date, la recherche sur le futur de la mobilite urbaine et, plus particulierement, sur l'urbanisme et les vehicules autonomes, s'est effectuee dans un contexte americain ou australien. Le present article vise a remedier a cette lacune d'une perspective uniquement canadienne en analysant les donnees ressorties de vingt-six entrevues semi-structurees avec des professionnels canadiens de l'urbanisme de Vancouver, d'Edmonton, de Calgary, de Winnipeg et de Toronto. Les entrevues cherchent a savoir comment leur planification tient compte des nouvelles technologies, dont les vehicules autonomes, et de la privatisation grandissante. Nous recommandons que les grandes villes entament des recherches sur les vehicules autonomes, dans l'optique d'une amelioration de la mobilite pour tous, en assurant en meme temps qu'une forte structure d'accord avec tous les fournisseurs de mobilite a but lucratif soit en place qui necessite des accords robustes de partage de donnees et une consultation appropriee avec les municipalites avant, durant et apres le lancement. En plus, les planificateurs devraient saisir pleinement les realites politiques de leurs positions et promouvoir une mobilite equitable dans leur travail quotidien et a travers leur engagement publique pour tous les citoyens. Mots-cles : mobilite, vehicules autonomes, urbanisme, planification urbaine, plaidoyer, Canada, Introduction In 1903, the President of Michigan Savings Bank warned his client against an investment in Henry Ford's newly-formed motor company, saying, 'The horse is here to stay but the [...]

This study describes the formation of nutrition gardening and pond fish farming communities of practice (CoPs) among small-scale farmers of the Malayalis tribe living in the Kolli Hills region of Tamil Nadu, India. We examine the factors that have shaped the formation of these CoPs, their purpose and function, who is involved, what activities hold these communities together, and their role in strengthening sustainable food production and consumption practices. Data were obtained through participatory rural appraisals (PRAs), key stakeholder interviews, and participant observations during four months of fieldwork. The primary motivations that led the nutrition gardeners and pond fish farmers to become part of CoPs were to improve the health and nutrition of their families and to obtain expert advice in sustainable food production practices. Both CoPs are in the early stages of development and differ not only in the types of food they produce and the skills and tools needed for their success, but also in their structure; nutrition gardening takes place at the individual and/or household level, whereas pond fish farming operates at the group and/or community level. The ways in which members experience being in a community also differs. Nutrition gardeners rely on open-ended conversations and community creation through relationship building; in contrast, fish farmers find that group meetings and maintaining transparent record-keeping are most important. Sustainability of these practices and the CoPs depended on factors internal to the communities (e.g., leadership, knowledge mobilization) as well as external factors (e.g., rainfall and market potential). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents survey data from households in Alberta, Canada, examining the relationship between income and carbon footprint. Using multivariate statistics to scrutinize the role of income, the data demonstrate substantial disproportionality in the composition and size of household carbon footprints. Results show that household energy consumption (heating, cooking, cooling) comprises half of the average footprint, with automobile transportation contributing 30% and air travel another 15%. In a linear multiple regression model, the size of household carbon footprints is positively associated with income, in addition to other variables. The highest income quintile has household carbon footprints 2.2 times greater than the lowest income quintile. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article examines qualitative research practices in feminist scholarship. The authors report on a content analysis which investigated epistemological and methodological trends in academic feminist literature in the social sciences. It is suggested that while feminist researchers have benefited from a wide range of theories, methodologies, and epistemologies, many scholars employ research strategies that are less inherently feminist than others that are available to them. The authors note that interviews and focus groups are predominant in feminist qualitative research, while other methods such as institutional ethnography and participatory action are less widely used. Narrative and discourse-centered research methodologies are also discussed.

Though professional development of language teachers has received increasing attention over the past decade, there is a lack of research on development of language teachers' teaching competencies in research universities. Informed by the institutional perspective and the framework of Scholarship of Teaching, this study investigates the development of 16 language teachers' teaching competencies in Beijing research universities. The findings show that language teachers' teaching competencies include English proficiency, professional ethics, pedagogical content knowledge, reflective thinking, and research-informed teaching. Factors influencing language teachers' teaching competencies range from the department level to the university level and the academia level. Pathways are proposed from the cultural-cognitive perspective, the normative perspective, and the regulative perspective to develop teaching competencies of language teachers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study draws upon 63 semi-structured interviews with rural women in central Uganda to elicit women's health problems, coping mechanisms, and recommendations for improved health services. The health problems most commonly reported by the women were sexually transmitted diseases, especially syphilis, abdominal pain, genital sores, and mental stress. Women indicated several barriers to obtaining health care, such as inaccessibility to health-care facilities, lack of time and money, and dependence on men for permission to leave the home. In response, they had devised several coping strategies for addressing their health problems, including ignoring the problem, self-care/medication, use of herbal/traditional medicine, and secret use of family planning services. The women indicated a need for medical laboratory services; family planning services; antenatal, maternity, and gynaecological services; and health counselling. They recommended health education for both genders, particularly for men regarding family planning.