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Inuit parent perspectives on sexual health communication with adolescent children in Nunavut: “It's kinda hard for me to try to find the words” [PDF]

International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2014
Background: For Inuit, the family unit has always played a central role in life and in survival. Social changes in Inuit communities have resulted in significant transformations to economic, political and cultural aspects of Inuit society.
Gwen Healey
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The magnitude and economic replacement value of wild meat obtained from ‘recreational’ big game hunting in the United States

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Meat production has notable benefits for food security, nutrition and various production economies, but has elicited substantial negative environmental impacts. Recreational hunting provides an alternative to agricultural meat production for over 24 million hunters worldwide.
Shane P. Mahoney, Richard D. Honor
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Forensic psychiatry in the arctic – a comparative study of patient characteristics, health care system and legislation in greenland and nunavut

European Psychiatry, 2021
Introduction Greenland and the Canadian territory of Nunavut appear to have a different prevalence of forensic psychiatric patients, despite their comparable population and landmass sizes.
C. Upfold, C. Jentz, G. Chaimowitz, P. Heilmann, N. Nathanielsen   +4 more
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Using dendroclimatic analysis of exotic deciduous conifers in an arboretum to document tree growth in response to climate change, Northeast Ohio, USA

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Rising temperatures and wetter conditions in the Midcontinent of North America are influencing climate responses in trees. Dendroclimatological analyses of four exotic deciduous conifer species from Secrest Arboretum, Northeast Ohio help identify past, present and future climate‐tree interactions.
Gregory Wiles, Nicholas Wiesenberg, Srushti Chaudari, Wenshuo Zhao, Mazvita Chikomo, Benjamin Gaglioti, Meagen Pollock   +6 more
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Implementing the 1993 Nunavut Land Claims Agreement

Arctic Review on Law and Politics, 2011
Following more than 20 years of research and negotiation, the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement (NLCA) was ratified by Inuit and the Government of Canada in 1993.
Alastair Campbell, Terry Fenge, Udloriak Hanson   +2 more
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Accomplishing Ethics‐Work as a Generic Social Process

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Existing systems of university research ethics are often criticized by those in the qualitative research tradition. A common thread is that ethics cannot be fully anticipated before the research begins, as is expected by most institutional review boards.
Deana Simonetto, Antony Puddephatt
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“Working Together”: The Dynamics of Multilevel Governance in Nunavut

Arctic Review on Law and Politics, 2017
Aboriginal self-government is changing the governance landscape in Canada. This paper focuses on a little-studied aspect of aboriginal self-government arrangements, namely the horizontal dispersion of power among non-governmental institutions in the ...
Thierry Rodon
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Commentary: The Canadian Accounting Hall of Fame—An Analysis of Early Inductees and Immanent Critique*,†

Accounting Perspectives, Volume 24, Issue 1, Page 251-274, March 2025.
ABSTRACT The Canadian Accounting Hall of Fame (CAHF) has inducted 31 members during its first three years of operation, with the stated intent of establishing a critical mass of inductees “who have made significant contributions to the development of the Canadian accounting profession” and of creating “a curated biographical history of accounting in ...
Alan J. Richardson
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Permafrost characterization, mapping, modelling, and knowledge sharing in support of construction of community roads and trails over sensitive tundra. Kugluktuk, Nunavut, Canada

Arctic Science
As part of an Inuit-led initiative, a collaborative research project combined scientific methods and Inuit knowledge to design an environmentally friendly and climate change-resilient access route from the community of Kugluktuk to Kugluk Territorial ...
Michel Allard, Stephanie Coulombe, Marc-André Ducharme, Samuel Bilodeau, Larry Adjun, Leesee Papatsie, Gerry Attatahak, Samuel Gagnon   +7 more
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Fertility incentives in Canada: Period and cohort perspectives

Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.
Abstract We study the fertility effects of the 1997 Quebec Family Policy using two complementary approaches: (i) a period‐based repeated cross‐sectional analysis that examines the impact on period fertility (i.e., fertility rates in a given calendar year, such as births per 1,000 women age 15 to 49), and (ii) a cohort‐based panel analysis that examines
Siha Lee, Sitian Liu
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