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Too Critical to Fail
In the summer of 2013, just as a small town in Quebec was decimated due to a train derailment, heavy rainfall prompted thirty Alberta communities to declare a state of emergency. Whereas a SWAT team surrounded train conductor Thomas Harding and brought him to court where he was charged with the deaths of forty-seven in Quebec, Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi emerged from the Alberta crisis as a folk hero. As the Lac-Mégantic train derailment and the flood in Alberta demonstrate, political, economic, legal, and cultural climates influence the way disasters are received and managed. In Too Critical to Fail, Kevin Quigley, Ben Bisset, and Bryan Mills identify the social context that shapes the Can...
Keeping Canada Running
The federal government's promises to "build back better" and "build back green" highlight opportunities to reimagine Canadian infrastructure. In this groundbreaking study, authors Bruce Doern, Christopher Stoney, and Robert Hilton provide the first comprehensive overview of Canadian infrastructure policy, examining the impact and implications of the COVID-19 pandemic and rapid technological change as Canada looks to recover and rebuild. Covering more than fifty years across many sectors, the authors identify numerous challenges that have contributed to Canada's growing infrastructure deficit and suboptimal outcomes including political interference in the choice of infrastructure projects; ch...
Analysis of the Risk Regulation Regime in Canada for Controlling Major Incidents Involving Dangerous Chemicals
"This paper reports on the results of a research project designed to identify how Canada regulates risks associated with low-probability/high-consequence events involving the chemical sector, and the contextual factors that influence this risk regulation. In referring to the chemical sector, we mean facilities, both public and private, that manufacture, store or use large quantities of chemicals. We omit from this definition petroleum, or oil and gas companies, as well as nuclear power plants. Although we acknowledge that one might classify these as dangerous chemicals, we have chosen to exclude them from the present study both for reasons of brevity and to align with Public Safety Canada’...
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EGirls, ECitizens
eGirls, eCitizens is a landmark work that explores the many forces that shape girls’ and young women’s experiences of privacy, identity, and equality in our digitally networked society. Drawing on the multi-disciplinary expertise of a remarkable team of leading Canadian and international scholars, as well as Canada’s foremost digital literacy organization, MediaSmarts, this collection presents the complex realities of digitized communications for girls and young women as revealed through the findings of The eGirls Project (www.egirlsproject.ca) and other important research initiatives. Aimed at moving dialogues on scholarship and policy around girls and technology away from established binaries of good vs bad, or risk vs opportunity, these seminal contributions explore the interplay of factors that shape online environments characterized by a gendered gaze and too often punctuated by sexualized violence. Perhaps most importantly, this collection offers first-hand perspectives collected from girls and young women themselves, providing a unique window on what it is to be a girl in today’s digitized society.
Analysis of the Regulatory Regime for Controlling Risks Related to the Canadian Food Supply Chain
"This paper reports on the results of a research project designed to identify how Canada regulates risks associated with low-probability/high-consequence events involving the food supply chain, and the contextual factors that influence this risk regulation. In referring to the food supply chain, we mean “the physical and information systems and processes” employed to deliver food products or services “from one location or entity to another” ... It encompasses the whole range of organizations and individuals involved in the production, distribution and use of food, from primary producers to consumers ... Other terms for this are “food system” ... and “food distribution chain” ... The control mechanism in question includes the various public and private mechanisms designed to regulate these risks, and to ensure access to food in the event of a disaster. Our analysis of the food supply chain focuses primarily on food supply emergencies, or acute crises that present immediate risks to Canadians."--Executive summary.
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