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Evaluating “Effectiveness” under the Policy on Results
Abstract Evaluation units provide essential information for administrators of public programs. Canada's 2016 Policy on Results emphasizes evaluating “effectiveness,” with a focus on outcomes. However, it is unclear if evaluation units use this or more implementation‐oriented definitions in practice, which has implications for the information ...
Ardyn Nordstrom
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ABSTRACT Climate change, with its links to an intensified water cycle, heavier rainfall, and potentially higher flood peaks, raises concerns about the adequacy of current flood risk management. The devastating July 2021 floods in western Europe underscored these concerns, highlighting the need for transboundary cooperation and shared expertise in ...
Elena Macdonald +8 more
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RCMP: Enabling Efficient Recomputation Based Failure Resilience for Big Data Analytics [PDF]
Data replication, the main failure resilience strategy used for big data analytics jobs, can be unnecessarily inefficient. It can cause serious performance degradation when applied to intermediate job outputs in multi-job computations.
Florin Dinu +3 more
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Abstract Research Summary This qualitative study examines how frontline police officers in British Columbia experienced and adapted to Canada's first formal drug decriminalization policy 1 year after implementation. Drawing on 30 semi‐structured interviews and using thematic analysis with a policy alienation and street‐level bureaucracy lens, we ...
Sarah Ferencz +2 more
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Policing Protest Through Financial Sanctions: Canada and the ‘Freedom Convoy’
ABSTRACT For 3 weeks in early 2022, the so‐called ‘Freedom’ Convoy took over the downtown of Canada's capital, fuelled by frustrations with the federal government over strict vaccine policies and frequent lockdowns. In response, the Prime Minister declared a national crisis and invoked the Emergencies Act.
Emily Gilbert
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Photograph - A loaded sled belonging to Richard Smith and Mark Champagne on a trip to retrace an RCMP patrol route from Athabasca to Fort McMurray ...
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Air‐Tolerant Reversible Complexation Mediated Polymerization (RCMP) Using Aldehyde
An air-tolerant reversible complexation mediated polymerization (RCMP) technique, which can be carried out without prior deoxygenation, is developed. The system contains a monomer, an alkyl iodide initiating dormant species, air (oxygen), an aldehyde, N ...
Tay, Xiu Ting +9 more
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Ping-pong Asylum: Renegotiating the Safe Third Country Agreement
From January 2017 to February 2019, approximately 42,000 asylum seekers have been intercepted by the RCMP while crossing the Canada-U.S. border. Asylum seekers intercepted by the RCMP represented just over one third of all asylum claims over this period.
Robert Falconer
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Police Implementation of Supreme Court of Canada Charter Decisions: An Empirical Study
Little empirical research has been done on the Charter's impact on the public policy process. This paper presents the results of an empirical research study designed to fill that gap.
Kathryn Moore
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