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The number of students with disabilities in post-secondary institutions and in nursing programs is on the rise. With limited clinical placements, nursing programs and clinical instructors are asking how to reasonably accommodate students who identify with disabilities in clinical placements. The purpose of this paper is to explore what we know about the experiences of nursing students who identify with a disability and of instructors in nursing clinical practice. Guided by Arksey and O’Malley’s (2005) scoping review methodology, a total of 27 papers published between 1999 and 2018 were selected. Three overarching themes emerged. While students who identify with a disability experienced (a) feeling labeled and excluded they responded by (b) masking their disability and accommodation (including assisted technology accommodation) during clinical placement and (c) suggesting better policy support to highlight their strengths rather than their disability. Most surprisingly to us was the limited Canadian studies. Further education and research implications will be discussed.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of a shopping companion on mall brand experience. Design/methodology/approach The quantitative multi-group structural equation model study contrasts three shopper types: those shopping alone; those shopping with friends; and those shopping with family. Two categories are shoppers in a group. Nine hypotheses evaluate the impact of shopping with a companion. Findings The results show that companions enhance the emotional brand experience. Further, shoppers with family companions are most able to enhance brand evaluation from mall brand experience. Shopping companions help co-create the shopping brand experience. Research limitations/implications The findings are limited to Australian shoppers and contrast with Canadian studies, emphasizing friends. Alone shoppers place priority on price and only the alone shoppers are price-sensitive. The findings help address the gap in the literature, namely, understanding focal retail consumers in a group situation. Practical implications Retailers and mall managers in planned shopping centers could consider developing different retail strategies and brand experiences, which address the specific types of customer groups or alone shoppers. Social implications The paper is explicitly about social influences. Originality/value This original research contributes new perspectives to understanding the role of companion shoppers as co-creators of the focal shopper’s mall brand experience.

This paper reads the recent Ontario fertility program as a pro-natalist neo-eugenics project that is enacted through the logic of homonationalism in Canada. It demonstrates that the program’s use of pinkwashing through an emphasis on LGBTQ+ people obscures not only the inaccessibility of fertility treatment both on individual and structural levels particularly to Indigenous people, people of colour and poor people, but also to other minoritized populations, who have survived but continue to face a genocidal government. The paper moves past questions of inclusion to question the nation-state’s priorities with regard to the allocation of $50 million to facilitate the reproduction of primarily white people in the context of suicide crises on reserves and Black youth experiencing alarming rates of police violence. When the nation-state is positioned in terms of these factors, it becomes clear that it is using coded strategies to foster the building of a wealthy white citizenship.

This article focuses on “appropriation of voice” or “cultural appropriation” in the Canadian Studies classroom. It is aimed at instructors who teach Canadian Literature outside Canada, in p...

This paper proposes to use inter-Asian methodologies to reread Asian Canadian Studies. As an intellectual and political project, Asian Canadian Studies has largely been constituted through ...

本稿では、「Moodle」という名前のコース管理システム（CMS）アプリケーションを使用して、「Canadian Studies」というオンライン大学コースを構築する方法について説明します。, This paper describes how a Course Management System (CMS) application named “Moodle” was used to construct an online university course titled “Canadian Studies.”

Introduction Applications of structural anthropometric measurements include user-centered design, health risk appraisal and assessment of biological maturity. It is important that anthropometric normative-reference standards are current, comprehensive, and population specific. Previous work by Pheasant (1996) included thirty-six anthropometric measurements to create a comprehensive and comparable list of data. However, Canadian studies have included nineteen or less body dimensions, and relatively small sample sizes. The aims of this investigation were to create current and comprehensive anthropometric normative-reference standards for a young Canadian adult population and to analyze the differences in anthropometric data between subjects in this study and those of a previous study on a similar population. Methods Thirty-six structural body dimensions were manually measured on a sample size of 197 male and 204 female Ontario, Canada university-aged subjects. Descriptive statistics were reported based on sex and independent samples t-tests were used to compare the anthropometric dimensions of the current study with that of a similar, previous study on Nova Scotia, Canada university-aged subjects. Results Percentiles and standard deviations of the subjects' 36 body dimensions were tabulated and are reported based on sex. For example, male and female 50th percentile values for stature are 1783 mm and 1641 mm, respectively. All differences in body dimensions between both male populations were statistically significant at p Discussion & Conclusions The current study was able to present anthropometric normative-reference standards of a large Canadian sample that are more comprehensive and current than known to exist. Moreover, as there were many significant differences between the current (Ontario) and previous (Nova Scotia) populations' anthropometric data, it is suggested that a Canada wide study be investigated. Relevance to industry As the most comprehensive Canadian data available, the reported anthropometric measurements may be used as a relevant consideration in product and environment design. Interpretation of findings from the comparison of anthropometric data between geographic regions within Canada also suggest that ergonomic design using province specific anthropometric data may result in improved workplace safety and productivity.

Numerous studies have documented that youth in foster care are at a significant disadvantage in terms of high school completion. Nevertheless, few Canadian studies have explored issues from the perspective of youth in care themselves. To address this knowledge gap, this study involved a comprehensive literature review, an environmental scan, and interviews with 20 former youth in care focusing on what helps and hinders youth in care to graduate from high school. As means to highlight the voices of youth in care, this article focuses on findings from the study's interviews with former youth in care. Findings offered strong evidence regarding the value of school as a normative experience providing normalcy and predictability. Findings also highlighted the importance of a relationship-based approach, including someone who tracks and supports attendance; stability in schools, placements and community; wrap-around model; and extracurricular programs.

The training and roles of pharmacists around the world are undergoing drastic changes. In the hospital environment, pharmaceutical care services must incorporate hospital pharmacy management necessities, which must consider the constant technological and process innovations. However, there is a scarcity of studies exploring how pharmacy residency programs real experiences in hospitals can improve these essential competencies. This scoping review allowed an overview of the pharmacy residency programs' competency framework's scientific production in the world. These documents review about training programs in the world showed that U.S. programs have teaching processes that evaluate resident's development to certify the program structure to qualify them. Australian and Canadian studies demonstrated advances in the search for pharmacy residents' qualifications with competency-based curricula. It highlighted that a structured and evidence-based approach to these programs' curricula is required and still has ample space in several countries to improve hospital pharmacists' training through residency programs. The most appropriate is that the programs are evaluated in terms of educational results by measuring residents' involvement by considering the course, tutors, and other program components. La formación y las funciones de los farmacéuticos de todo el mundo están experimentando cambios drásticos. En el ámbito hospitalario, los servicios de atención farmacéutica deben incorporarse a las necesidades de gestión de la farmacia hospitalaria, que debe tener en cuenta las constantes innovaciones tecnológicas y de procesos. Sin embargo, hay una escasez de estudios que exploren cómo las experiencias reales de los programas de residencia en farmacia hospitalaria pueden mejorar estas habilidades esenciales. Esta revisión de alcance permitió una visión general de la producción científica de las matrices de competencias de los programas de residencia en farmacia en el mundo. La revisión de los documentos de los programas de capacitación en todo el mundo ha demostrado que los programas de Estados Unidos tienen procesos de enseñanza que evalúan el desarrollo de los residentes para certificar la estructura del programa para calificarlos. Los estudios australianos y canadienses han demostrado avances en la búsqueda de calificaciones para residentes de farmacia con planes de estudio basados en competencias. La revisión destacó que se necesita un enfoque estructurado y basado en evidencia para los planes de estudio de estos programas y todavía hay un amplio margen en varios países para mejorar la capacitación de los farmacéuticos hospitalarios a través de programas de residencia. Lo más adecuado es que los programas se evalúen en términos de resultados educativos, midiendo la implicación de los residentes a través de la evaluación del curso, tutores y otros componentes del programa. O treinamento e as funções dos farmacêuticos em todo o mundo estão passando por drásticas mudanças. No ambiente hospitalar, os serviços de cuidado farmacêutico devem ser incorporados às necessidades da gestão da farmácia, que deve considerar as constantes inovações tecnológicas e de processos. No entanto, há escassez de estudos que explorem como experiências reais de programas de residência em farmácia hospitalar podem melhorar essas competências essenciais. Esta revisão de escopo permitiu uma visão geral da produção científica das matrizes de competências de programas de residência em farmácia no mundo. A revisão dos documentos mostrou que programas de residência dos EUA possuem processos de ensino que avaliam o desenvolvimento dos residentes para certificação da estrutura do programa para qualificá-los. Estudos australianos e canadenses demonstraram avanços na busca por qualificações de residentes de farmácia com currículos baseados em competências. A revisão destacou que uma abordagem estruturada e baseada em evidências para os currículos desses programas é necessária e ainda há amplo espaço em diversos países para melhorar o treinamento de farmacêuticos hospitalares por meio de programas de residência. O mais adequado é que os programas sejam avaliados em termos de resultados educacionais, através da medida do envolvimento dos residentes por meio da avaliação do curso, tutores, preceptores e outros componentes do programa.

The growing presence of historical revisionim today that plagues the Historical academic community has its roots in the past works of Historical writers and the steps taken to give greater perspective and context to misinterprated events by modern History writers is often undermined by the continued presence of misinformation and its rapid spread through the public and political sphere. This historical review looks at Harry Elmer Barnes who was a 20th century historical writer and known revisionistand holocaust excuser and sometimes even denier. The way in which prediction but speculative analysis can lead to revisionist talking points will also be examined using his works. A detailed synopsis of his career, examination of his article Europes War and Our Democracy, and his later correspondences will be given in order to show the way in which historical revisionism can effect even those academics held in high esteem within the Historical faculty.

In this essay I discuss the subject of violence and how toys and sporting equipment were used to teach young boys masculine behaviours that were aligned with the heterosexual ideologies of the first half of the 20th century in Canada.

I "American studies" in the United Kingdom have a long tradition. The name itself is misleading, however, since in the U.K. it has usually refereed to the study of the United States. With a few exceptions Canada tends to be left out: together with other former British possessions in the Caribbean and the mainland, it had been integrated into studies of the Commonwealth, though Canadian Studies also took a path of its own since the 1970s . Latin American Studies in turn have encompassed the co...

Suicide accounts for approximately 4000 deaths a year in Canada, of which about 16% of those are suicide using a firearm. Canada has undertaken legislative efforts to regulate and control firearms, Bill C-51 in 1977 and Bills C-17 and C-68 in 1991 and 1995. Regulatory approaches that decrease the availability of firearms are hypothesized to reduce suicide by firearm however the substitution effect suggests it is possible that people may substitute other methods of suicide in place. Canadian studies on associations between legislation, regulation, and suicide rates have been published over the last three decades, and a search revealed thirteen that met the criteria. Seven studies examined the association between Bill C-51 and suicide rates and found that while rates of suicide by firearm appeared to have declined in association with regulations, there appears to be a substitution effect into other methods and no overall change in suicide rates. Six studies examining the effects of Bill C-17 and C-68 revealed a decrease in the rates of suicide by firearms, with a corresponding increase in non-firearms suicide rates and no decrease in overall suicide rates. One study even suggested no associated decrease in firearm suicide rates with an increasing rate of suicide by hanging possibly due to changes in preferences. These results suggest legislation has mixed effects on firearm suicide rates and may not alone reduce overall suicide in Canada.

IntroductionNotwithstanding Canada’s exceptional longitudinal health data and research centres with extensive experience transforming data into knowledge, many Canadian studies based on linked administrative data have focused on a single province or territory. Health Data Research Network Canada (HDRN Canada), a new not-for-profit corporation, will bring together major national, provincial and territorial health data stewards from across Canada. HDRN Canada’s first initiative is the $81 million SPOR Canadian Data Platform funded under the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR). Objectives and ApproachHDRN Canada is a distributed network through which individual data-holding centres work together to (i) create a single portal and support system for researchers requesting multi-jurisdictional data, (ii) harmonize and validate case definitions and key analytic variables across jurisdictions, (iii) expand the sources and types of data linkages, (iv) develop technological infrastructure to improve data access and collection, (v) create supports for advanced analytics and (vi) establish strong partnerships with patients, the public and with Indigenous communities. We will share our experiences and gather international feedback on our network and its goals from symposium participants. ResultsIn January 2020, HDRN Canada launched its Data Access Support Hub (DASH) which includes an inventory listing over 380 datasets, information about more than 120 algorithms and a repository of requirements and processes for accessing data. HDRN Canada is receiving requests for multi-province research studies that would be challenging to conduct without HDRN Canada. Conclusion / ImplicationsThus far, HDRN Canada services and tools have been developed primarily for Canadian researchers but HDRN Canada can also serve as a prompt for an international discussion about what has/has not worked in terms of multi-jurisdictional research data infrastructure. It can also present an opportunity for the development of metadata, standards and common approaches that support more multi-country research.

When Margaret Atwood celebrated her 80th birthday in November 2019, there was a feeling that the occasion called for a burst of applause – figuratively speaking. Around Europe, many Canadian scholars and Canadian Studies Associations responded with a range of activities. Slovenia contributed handsomely: first, with an event at the Univerzitetna knjižnica Maribor – Fourscore and More: Margaret Atwood at Eighty – and second, with this special issue dedicated to Atwood’s recent work.

Canada and Cuba have a long historical relationship, in governmental and non-governmental realms alike. While hundreds of Canadian students take part in educational exchanges from a variety of Canadian universities, Canadian/Cuban scholarly ties are not as strong as they are in the US or even the UK. There are a handful of internationally recognized Cuba scholars who have been working in Canada for some decades, among them John M. Kirk, Hal Klepak and Keith Ellis. Cuban scholarship in Canada is still notably scant and it cannot really be classified in generational terms. However it is clear that the work of these senior scholars is bearing fruit, as other scholars located in Canada are increasingly working in Cuban Studies, in both teaching and research. A few of these scholars came together recently to discuss their experiences. This isn’t an exhaustive or representative group. The participants in this roundtable conversation include those trained as Cubanists, trained in other fields but with more recent research and/or teaching ties to Cuba, and a Cuban educated in Canada. We came together to discuss what we see as the state of the field in Cuban/Canadian studies today and in the future.

Introduction: If integrated care approaches are to be properly adapted to local contexts, a better understanding is required of key determinants of implementation and how these might be appropriately supported. Purpose: This study applied the Canadian Context and Capabilities for Integrating Care (CCIC) Framework to investigate factors influencing the implementation and outcomes of a complex integrated care change programme in Torbay and South Devon (TSD) and, more specifically, in one of five sub-localities, Coastal. Methods: A case study method using embedded ‘Researchers in Residence’ to conduct action-based participatory research and deploying mixed qualitative methods. Results: The relative importance of some domains differ between the English and Canadian studies. In this case study, physical features (structural and geographic) were found to be very pertinent to the relative success of the Coastal Locality, as were empowered clinical leadership, with readiness for change being expressed through processes and cultures that were risk-enabling, strengths-based, person-/outcome-focused. Conclusions: The CCIC Framework provided a useful tool capturing key elements of complex system change with key domains being transferable across settings, while also finding local variation in the UK. This would encourage its wider application so that further comparisons can be made of the ways in which different contextual and implementation properties impact upon delivery and outcomes.

У міжнародній колективній монографії вміщено найновіші українсько-канадські соціальні, освітні та філологічні дослідження в галузі сучасного канадознавства. Це третій випуск серії “Канадознавство”, заснованої у 2018 р. Центром канадознавства Східноєвропейського національного університету імені Лесі Українки (м. Луцьк). Для науковців, викладачів, докторантів, аспірантів, студентів факультетів міжнародних відносин, іноземної філології, історії, політології та національної безпеки, філології й журналістики, педагогічної освіти й соціальної роботи, для працівників осередків канадознавста в Україні, авторів українських студій у Канаді, а також усіх, хто цікавиться канадознавством, українсько-канадською співпрацею в різних сферах.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe how recent immigrants and refugees to Canada (“newcomers”) use the facilities of a large, urban public library. As the library previously surveyed the general user population, the responses to the two surveys can be compared. Design/methodology/approach Questionnaires were administered as patrons were leaving Surrey Libraries Branches to adult public library members who self-identified as newcomers who arrived in Canada within the previous ten years. Findings The pattern of library use by newcomers differed from that of the general population. They visited more frequently and stayed longer. Newcomers were heavier users of library services and used a wider range of services. They used the library branch as a public place. The library provided them with a place to study, read or meet other people. Research limitations/implications The study was exploratory. The small sample size and the data collection process do not allow extrapolation to the underlying population. Practical implications Recent newcomers often have similar informational, psychological and social needs. Public libraries can play a role in assisting newcomers during their adjustment process. Originality/value Researchers worked closely with library management to develop questions based on decision usefulness. An earlier in-house study allowed comparisons to be made between branch use by newcomers and general library users. Canadian studies into government policy, along with immigrant and refugee studies, provide context for the survey results.

On Canada Day 2017, author Helene Vosters hosted a Stitch-by-Stitch Unsettling Canada 150 sewing circle and picnic. Despite intermittent thundershowers, with umbrellas and soggy red thread in hand, a group of twenty to thirty intrepid stitchers embroidered text from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s (TRC) 94 Calls to Action onto Canadian flags. By the time Canada 150 reached its Canada Day zenith, Vosters asserts, it had already become increasingly apparent that the story of a beneficent Canadian nation committed to equity and multicultural inclusivity that the celebrations sought to engender had been significantly eclipsed in mainstream and social media by critiques of the sesquicentennial’s ahistorical premise and its disregard for the ongoing violent effects of settler-colonialism. Against this backdrop, Vosters weaves reflections of the sewing circle as a labour of reinscription with an inquiry into the value (and pitfalls) of embracing what Stó:lō scholar Dylan Robinson and settler scholar Keavy Martin call everyday “aesthetic actions.”

The popularity of the Internet and the explosion of information are two major factors for the Librarians to face new challenges to look for new ways to meet the Patron’s expectations and new demands. Many innovative services can be possible by adopting new technology with traditional library information services to bring information to various Patrons. Foreign Language Study demands more information, Literature with more Information Services. This article explores how Library can be played Important Role to enhance Canadian Studies in India with information pushing programs, various innovative Service to maximize the related resources and services.

Purpose Many families in the developed world hire live-in caregivers to meet their childcare and elder care needs. Given the spatial arrangements – i.e., that the caregiver lives with her employer – relationships between employers and live-in caregivers can develop into family-like relationships. The purpose of this paper is to draw on data from two Canadian studies to examine the relationships between migrant live-in caregivers and their employers. Design/methodology/approach The first study focused on the live-in caregivers in Canada. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 Filipina nurses who migrated to Canada through the Live-in Caregiver Program. The second study was a pilot descriptive study that included interviews of recruiter groups and employers of live-in caregivers. Data were thematically analyzed, aided by NVivo software. Findings The studies indicate that some live-in caregivers prefer to be treated as one of the family, while others prefer to have a strictly professional employer/employee relationship. Their employers are similarly divided. The authors identify reciprocity and respect as important ingredients for healthy relationships between live-in caregivers and their employers. Without these key ingredients, relationships between employers and live-in caregivers can be exploitative, especially given the unequal power inherent in the relationship. Research limitations/implications Further studies are needed to better understand how these relationships evolve over time and in space. Practical implications There is a need to create policies to further prevent exploitation of live-in caregivers within an unfavorable employee or familial relationship. Originality/value This study provides useful insight into the development of knowledge on relationships between live-in caregivers and employers.

This article argues that a queer perspective on Asian Canadian studies can open new inquiries and simultaneously trouble the centrality of family, generation, and community in documenting and examining racialized minority and diasporic groups. By rethinking these analytical concepts through queer possibilities and interventions, research into Asian Canada can become more inclusive and transgressive, and can foreground alternative queer kinships which exceed heteropatriarchal bloodlines, filial relations, and co-ethnic singularities. Putting forth counter-histories of racialized and diasporic sexualities, this article builds upon and complements archival research on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Asian Canadians, and turns to artists and cultural workers who offer rich historical and contemporary representations of queer Asian Canada. In particular, it examines the 2015 filmIt Runs in the Familyby Joella Cabalu, the 2016 filmRe:Orientationsby Richard Fung, and the 2016 exhibitionNot a Place on a Map: The Desh Pardesh Projectcurated by Anna Malla.

BACKGROUND: Although many Canadian studies have provided disease-specific or patient group–specific utility scores, the utility score norms currently available for the general Canadian population are outdated. Canadian guideline recommendations for the economic evaluation of health technologies advocate for utilities reflecting those of the general population and for stratified analyses when results are heterogeneous; as such, there is also a need for age-, sex- and jurisdiction-specific utility score norms. METHODS: We used data from the 2013–2014 Canadian Community Health Survey. We used the Health Utilities Index Mark 3 to calculate utility scores. We estimated means (with 95% confidence intervals [CIs]) and medians (with interquartile ranges [IQRs]) for utility scores. In addition to Canadian-level measures, we stratified all utility score norms by respondents’ age, sex, and province or territory of residence. We weighted respondents’ answers and computed 95% CIs using sampling weights and bootstrap weights provided by Statistics Canada to extrapolate the study findings to the Canadian population. RESULTS: Respondents to the 2013–2014 Canadian Community Health Survey represented 30 014 589 community-dwelling Canadians 12 years of age and older (98% of the Canadian population); half of the respondents were female (50.6%), and the weighted average age was 44.8 (95% CI 44.7–44.9) years. The mean and median self-reported utility scores for Canadians were estimated at 0.863 (95% CI 0.861–0.865) and 0.927 (IQR 0.838–0.972), respectively. INTERPRETATION: This study provides utility score norms for several age-, sex-and jurisdiction-specific strata in Canada. These results will be useful for future cost–utility analyses and could serve as benchmark values for comparisons with future studies.

RÉSUMÉLes personnes âgées dont la capacité de prise de décision est réduite et qui n’ont pas de soutien familial ou d’amis pour les aider à compenser ces déficits sont dites « solitaires » et nécessitent un tuteur public. Le but de cette étude était de recenser les publications avec comités de pairs et la littérature grise afin d’examiner la portée des travaux de recherches réalisés jusqu’à ce jour concernant les personnes âgées solitaires au Canada et aux États-Unis. Nous n’avons recensé que peu d’études sur ce sujet. Aucune étude ou rapport canadien n’a été trouvé. Les personnes âgées solitaires étaient plus avancées en âge, sans enfants ou avec peu d’enfants, et leurs troubles cognitifs étaient plus sévères, comparativement aux personnes âgées non solitaires. Ces résultats démontrent une rareté des études sur les personnes âgées solitaires. Il est urgent que davantage de recherches soient réalisées avec des collectes de données standardisées concernant la tutelle chez les personnes âgées solitaires afin de faciliter la réalisation d’études sur la prévalence de la tutelle publique au Canada.