Year: 2017, 2017
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>This thesis builds on scholarship that highlights how expected gender roles serve to both normalize and obscure forms of violence and hostility in health care workplaces. An analysis of 25 labour arbitrations involving cases of bullying reveals how gender relations is a factor in these grievances and relevant policies in Ontario health care facilities. Reinforced by underlying… more Full Text: WORKPLACE BULLYING IN ONTARIO HEALTHCARE SETTINGS: EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BULLYING, GENDER, AND POLICY A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the …
Year: 2017, 2017
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>Since 1984, poetry slams have emerged as a politicized expressive movement of performing the personal and political through poetry competitions. Slams are also discursively spatialized, often represented as "spaces" that are "safe," "inclusive," etc. In this thesis, I investigate how, why, and to what effect the Peterborough Poetry Slam produces,… more Full Text: “THIS IS WHERE THE POETRY COMES OUT”: EXAMINING THE PETERBOROUGH POETRY SLAM AS RESISTANT SPACE-MAKING Melissa Baldwin (c) Copyright by Melissa Baldwin 2017 Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies M.A. Graduate Program Trent University Nogojiwanong …
Year: 2017, 2017
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>Background: Ontario's Ministry of Health and Long Term Care (MOHLTC) claims people with mental illnesses/addictions need improved care/overuse emergency departments. MOHLTC expects Coordinated Care Planning (CCP, teams of mental/physical health professionals, social workers and informal caregivers) to improve care and lower emergency department returns/healthcare costs. CCPs are… more Full Text: THE RELATIONSHIP OF POLICY AIMS AND IMPLEMENTATION: ONTARIO COORDINATED CARE PLANNING FOR PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTIONS ISSUES A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of …
Year: 2017, 2017
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>Canada prides itself on being a multicultural nation, but the stories of people who are not "Canadian-Canadians," as defined by Eva Mackey, are underrepresented in archives. This project investigates three local archives and one online archive in Peterborough, Ontario, employing Rita Dhamoon's practice of "accounts of meaning-making" to understand how archives… more Full Text: MY CANADIAN STORY: MULTICULTURALISM AND MEANING-MAKING IN LOCAL ARCHIVES A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT UNIVERSITY …
Year: 2017, 2017
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>The Places to Grow Act (2005) and the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe (2006) are two pieces of legislature passed by the Government of Ontario to help govern and limit urban sprawl in major cities across Ontario through to 2041. These policies are framed around the development and maintenance of large-scale cities. While there are some provisions within these policies for… more Full Text: Growth and Revitalization in Peterborough ON: Myth or Reality? A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences TRENT UNIVERSITY …
Year: 2017, 2017
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>This thesis is an attempt to provide a critical history of the Communist Party of Canada (CPC) during the Popular Front era, roughly November 1935 to September 1939. This study contains a detailed examination of the various stages of the Popular Front in Canada (the united front, the height of the Popular Front, and the Democratic front), with special attention paid to the CPC's… more Full Text: CLASS STRUGGLE, THE COMMUNIST PARTY, AND THE POPULAR FRONT IN CANADA, 1935-1939 A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT …
