• Erasing the Line: Mapping Indigenous Community across the US-Canada Border 

  Herb, Guntram H.; Falardeau, Vincent; Talano, Kathryn (2023-05-30)

  North American settler colonialism is not a historical event, but an ongoing process that strives to silence the continued presence of the original Indigenous inhabitants in the United States and Canada. The map, Erasing ...
• From crisis to adaptation: Assessing disaster preparedness and response strategies among Toronto nonprofit organizations during COVID-19 

  Larkins, Cora (2023-05-15)

  Framed by social capital theory and the social constructionist theory of disasters, this master’s research project examines the factors influencing the ability of social service nonprofit organizations in Toronto to endure ...
• Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy policy tools in western Canada 

  Masai, Salim Musa (2023-05-08)

  Canada’s four western provinces largely converged in implementing Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy and uptake policy tools. This thesis analyzes these tools and focuses on vaccine mandates, vaccine passports, and related ...
• First Nations Health Governance in British Columbia: Strategic Planning and Performance Reporting in the First Nations Health Authority 

  Cheema, Hardeep (2023-05-04)

  The low health status of First Nations people in the Province of British Columbia and persistent gaps in health outcomes as compared with other provincial residents led to the founding of the First Nations Health Authority ...
• Beyond Legal: A Feminist Intersectional Analysis of the Policy Landscape Shaping Indigenous Women’s Access to Abortion Services in Canada 

  Miller, Danielle (2023-05-04)

  This thesis locates proven barriers in access to abortion services for Indigenous women in Canada within the policy landscape. It points to opportunities for policy reform to improve access and ultimately, reproductive ...
• Remote Work in Early Career: Examining the Federal Public Service 

  Kerr, Samuel (2023-05-01)

  The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted how Canada’s federal public service worked in a significant manner. In March 2020, hundreds of thousands of public servants transitioned to remote work in the National Capital Region and ...
• Neighbourliness Builds Community Resilience: Neighbourhood Networks in Edmonton During the COVID-19 Pandemic 

  Harvey, Anne (2023-04-24)

  Research shows that the place-based nature of neighbourhood networks makes them viable places to build social capital and community resilience. Neighbourliness is key to people’s resilience and readiness to cope with and ...
• How Service Canada can improve service delivery to urban Indigenous Peoples: Literature Review and Recommendations 

  Piette, Vincent (2023-04-14)

  The purpose of this project is to examine research on effective urban Indigenous service delivery and leverage what is known about current practices to better inform Service Canada’s service delivery models when designing ...
• All hands on deck: Agricultural labour in British Columbia and Nova Scotia 

  Leclerc, Amanda Lynn (2023-04-04)

  Canada is experiencing an agricultural labour shortage that will contribute to economic and food-security challenges if left unchecked. This qualitative study explores how horticultural farm owners and operators in British ...
• Mapping Food Citizenship Within Edmonton’s Local Food System 

  Penney, Claire (2023-02-07)

  This master’s project analyzes how COVID-19 has affected food citizenship within Edmonton’s local food system by identifying Edmonton food citizenship stakeholders and groups affected by the pandemic. Further, it evaluates ...
• The ‘Rules of the Game’ in Public Sector Collaboration 

  Pollard, Ben (2023-02-01)

  This dissertation explores the role of institutions (as ‘the rules of the game’) in attempts to foster public sector collaboration to address cross-cutting policy issues in agencified jurisdictions. The dissertation develops ...
• Queering food sovereignty: “it feels like building community; to joyfully gather around food” 

  Williamson, Connor I (2023-01-30)

  This thesis seeks to fill the current gap in food sovereignty literature by bringing queer farmers perspectives and voices into the academic discourse. The focus of the analysis is if queer farmers in Canada are practicing ...
• Community Engagement to Develop a Volunteer Framework for Independent Action 

  Barnett, Lindsay (2023-01-10)

  This report explores concepts of independent volunteerism through a case study of the Save BC Wolves (SBCW) Community. Consisting of more than 3,000 members, SBCW is opposed to the controversial BC wolf cull policy where ...
• “Not the first-year you expected”: supporting new university students through peer-to-peer mentorship programming during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond 

  Ross, Angela (2023-01-09)
• Understanding the relationship between income inequality and carbon dioxide emissions: the Canadian context 

  Conrad, Noah O. (2022-12-05)

  This thesis examines the evolution of income inequality in Canada from 1997 to 2019 through the Gini coefficient and the share of income of the top 10% of income earners. These metrics are then used to evaluate whether ...
• The Cost of a Free Lunch: Transforming Food Aid Fundraising Towards Leveraging Systems Change 

  Barrie, Emily (2022-12-02)

  This project explores opportunities to support systemic change through the unique lens of fundraising, focusing specifically on donor relations practices, power imbalances, and the impact language has on the charitable ...
• The Relative Effect of Supportive and Transformational Leadership on Emotional Exhaustion and Turnover Intention in Front-line Homeless Sector Workers 

  Wilson, Scott (2022-09-28)

  The front-line homeless-sector workforce provides an essential service in an often emotionally-taxing environment that leads to high turnover. However, there has been limited research focused on front-line homeless sector ...
• Developing the Program Evaluation Framework for Investment Agriculture Foundation of British Columbia 

  Ali, Zulfiqar (2022-09-27)

  This thesis aimed to gain an in-depth understanding of effective program evaluation frameworks, particularly in the agriculture sector. Specifically, the analysis was focused on assessing monitoring and evaluation of public ...
• The Need for a Multiple Accounts Cost-Benefit Analysis of COVID-19 Response Measures in British Columbia 

  De Almeida, Steven (2022-09-22)

  By reviewing pre-existing academic literature, research, and data (both international and domestic), this report examines information from a variety of sources to contextualize the threat of COVID-19 against the negative ...
• Prospects for Endogenous Development: Understanding Community Capacity in the Keremeos Area of British Columbia 

  Shemilt, Jeff (2022-09-20)

  This study explores how local community economic development actors in rural settings view prospects for bottom-up (i.e., endogenous) development through a case study of the Keremeos area in British Columbia. The study ...

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