• The Beauty Underneath: Revitalizing Indigenous Shellfish Harvest in Semiahmoo Bay 

  Juteau, Christy (2023-10-04)

  North American coastal Indigenous communities have feasted from the tidelands since time immemorial. Abundant clams, oysters, mussels, seaweed and other marine resources provided seasonal sustenance, opportunity for ...
• Good Roads 2.0: An Analysis of the Impacts of Rail-Trail Organizations on Strategic Planning, Community-Building and Economic Revitalization 

  Mihell, Natasha (2023-09-13)

  Friends of Rails to Trails Vancouver Island (“FORT-VI”) seeks to develop a 224km rail-trail corridor from Victoria, British Columbia (“BC”) to Courtenay, BC, with an additional spur from Parksville to Port Alberni. To ...
• Getting the Job Done: Understanding Barriers and Enablers to Municipal Climate Action in Greater Victoria 

  Masemann, Charlotte Emilia (2023-09-13)

  Municipalities in Greater Victoria are dedicated to climate action and municipal officials deal with both barriers and enablers in implementing climate solutions. Focus groups held with municipal staff members in the ...
• Executive Women: Designing Quality of Work Life in the Public Service 

  Confreda, Sara (2023-09-07)

  The purpose of this report is to gain a deeper understanding of quality of work life (QWL), particularly for women executives in the public service. The study is exploratory, focused on identifying factors that contribute ...
• Perception of Professionalism and Impacts on Health Human Resource Decision-Making 

  Bilinski, Julia (2023-08-29)

  Health human resources have been strained due to global health emergencies and previous decisions that shape care policies and delivery today. This thesis explores the perception of professional legitimacy of healthcare ...
• Approaches to Treat Opioid Use and Concurrent Mental Health Disorders in Canada: An Exploratory Analysis of Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy 

  Johl, Jasmine (2023-08-10)

  The opioid crisis is one of the most significant public health and policy challenges facing Canadians today, with 94% of opioid overdose deaths occurring by accident, impacting not only individuals, but families, friends ...
• An Evaluation of the “What Matters to You” Initiative 

  Tian, Xintong (2023-08-10)

  The purpose of this evaluation is to evaluate the operation and outcomes of the WMTY initiative, identify challenges and successes, and provide enhancements to the project. WMTY is an initiative-based program that advocates ...
• A cross-country comparative analysis of congestion pricing systems to achieve decarbonization goals 

  Veitch, Erica (2023-07-11)

  Alongside national and sub-national climate action, local governments play a particularly important role in implementing climate change mitigation policy. While substantial efforts are being taken to reduce GHG emissions ...
• Local government animal bylaws in British Columbia: current state analysis and emerging practices 

  Trux, Luisa M (2023-07-11)

  This research presents an exploration of the current state of animal bylaws across the 25 most populated municipalities in B.C. and the identification of emerging practices for animal bylaws. The focus is on the duties ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 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 ...

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