scholarly journals Thunder Bay: Local news is important for conversations on reconciliation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
April Lindgren
Keyword(s):  
Hate Crimes ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Systemic Racism ◽  
Indigenous Students ◽  
Thunder Bay ◽  
Police Investigations ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Previous Decade ◽  
The City ◽  
Northern City

[Paragraphs 1 to 3] The Ontario city of Thunder Bay is in the headlines these days for all the wrong reasons. Canada’s highest rates of murder and violent crime. The highest number of hate crimes per capita. Systemic racism embedded in shoddy police investigations. The deaths — many unexplained — of Indigenous students who come to the city for education not available in their remote northern communities. For years these troubles and the inequitable relationship between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations in the city festered. Then in the spring of 2011, the Toronto Star began publishing reporter Tanya Talaga’s stories about the deaths of seven young Indigenous students over the previous decade. What had been a local story vaulted into national headlines. Talaga’s reporting became the basis for her 2017 award-winning book Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death and Hard Truths in a Northern City.

scholarly journals Thunder Bay: Local news is important for conversations on reconciliation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
April Lindgren
Keyword(s):  
Hate Crimes ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Systemic Racism ◽  
Indigenous Students ◽  
Thunder Bay ◽  
Police Investigations ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Previous Decade ◽  
The City ◽  
Northern City

[Paragraphs 1 to 3] The Ontario city of Thunder Bay is in the headlines these days for all the wrong reasons. Canada’s highest rates of murder and violent crime. The highest number of hate crimes per capita. Systemic racism embedded in shoddy police investigations. The deaths — many unexplained — of Indigenous students who come to the city for education not available in their remote northern communities. For years these troubles and the inequitable relationship between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations in the city festered. Then in the spring of 2011, the Toronto Star began publishing reporter Tanya Talaga’s stories about the deaths of seven young Indigenous students over the previous decade. What had been a local story vaulted into national headlines. Talaga’s reporting became the basis for her 2017 award-winning book Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death and Hard Truths in a Northern City.

THE FIRST RECORDS OF DOLOMEDES STRIATUS GIEBEL IN ALBERTA AND SASKATCHEWAN (ARANEIDA: PISAURIDAE)

1987 ◽  
Vol 119 (12) ◽  
pp. 1143-1144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Leech ◽  
Donald J. Buckle
Keyword(s):  
First Record ◽  
The South ◽  
Natural Area ◽  
South Side ◽  
Thunder Bay ◽  
Dolomedes Triton ◽  
Area 6 ◽  
The City

During the summer of 1985, an intensive effort was made to collect the invertebrates, particularly insects and spiders, of the Wagner Natural Area. This is a 162-ha area 6 km west of the city limits of Edmonton, Alta., on the south side of Highway 16X.An examination of the spiders collected in the pitfall pans revealed two species of pisaurids, Dolomedes striatus Giebel, 1869, and Dolomedes triton (Walckenaer, 1837). This is the first record of Dolomedes striatus for Alberta. The previous known western limit of its distribution was more or less between Lake Nipigon and Thunder Bay, Ont. (Carico 1973).

Moose Jaw’s Tunnel Vision: Mystery, History, and the Construction of “Canada’s Most Notorious City”

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-83
Author(s):  
Ashleigh Androsoff
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Tourist Attraction ◽  
Tunnel Vision ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The City ◽  
Incorrect Information

The Tunnels of Moose Jaw is a tourist attraction that presents an award-winning but highly problematic interpretation of Moose Jaw’s early 20th-century history. This article explains how the Tunnels of Moose Jaw constructed a successful and compelling presentation of local legends centered around the claim that “notorious” Chicago-based gangster Al Capone hid out beneath Moose Jaw during Prohibition. With scant evidence to prove this and other claims, the attraction has blurred the lines between “history” and “legend.” Unfortunately, the attraction’s focus on incorrect information has made it difficult for Moose Jaw’s residents and visitors to understand what aspects of the city’s history are truly noteworthy. This article argues that the Tunnels of Moose Jaw and its many local supporters successfully boosted the city’s economy, confidence, and reputation at a crucial turning point in the late 20th century, but did so by presenting the city and its history as something other than what it really is.

Of slurs and soccer

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 320-342
Author(s):  
Blenda Femenías
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
Simultaneous Application ◽  
Sports Teams ◽  
National Imaginary ◽  
White Majority ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
The City ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

Abstract Since the late twentieth century, Buenos Aires has been widely publicized outside Argentina as a “gay-friendly” destination. This period has also seen increasing immigration to the city from other parts of South America, especially neighboring countries and others with sizeable indigenous populations. An ongoing popular national narrative highlights hyper-masculinity as a preeminently Argentine characteristic. Distinct discourses characterizing Argentina as racially white-majority and anti-foreign and anti-indigenous, overinvested in machismo, and at the same time welcoming to nonheterosexual foreigners seem, on the surface, to be at odds. In this essay I explore intersections among race, gender, sexuality, and foreign origin as cross-cutting planes of discourse, which are all subsumed within and constitutive of the Argentine national imaginary. While these distinct domains of reference can isolate and contain different sectors of Argentine society, I argue that it is the overlapping, simultaneous application of raced-sex terms that necessarily denies masculine superiority to others and promotes it among Argentine men. Ultimately, therefore, a “permissive” atmosphere cannot challenge heteronormativity. I consider the ways that racial and sexual epithets (including maricón and puto “fag,” boliguayo “Bolivian + Paraguayan alien” or “Indian,” and brasileño, literally “Brazilian” but code for “Afro-heritage/black”) are differently used in conversational settings and media reports about sports teams and sporting events, especially soccer, as well as during those events.

scholarly journals Effects of the COVID-19 Lockdown on Urban Mobility: Empirical Evidence from the City of Santander (Spain)

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 3870 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfredo Aloi ◽  
Borja Alonso ◽  
Juan Benavente ◽  
Rubén Cordera ◽  
Eneko Echániz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Environmental Sensors ◽  
Daily Mobility ◽  
Private Car ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City ◽  
Northern City

This article analyses the impact that the confinement measures or quarantine imposed in Spain on 15 March 2020 had on urban mobility in the northern city of Santander. Data have been collected from traffic counters, public transport ITS, and recordings from traffic control cameras and environmental sensors to make comparisons between journey flows and times before and during the confinement. This data has been used to re-estimate Origin-Destination trip matrices to obtain an initial diagnostic of how daily mobility has been reduced and how the modal distribution and journey purposes have changed. The impact on externalities such as NO2 emissions and traffic accidents have also been quantified. The analysis revealed an overall mobility fall of 76%, being less important in the case of the private car. Public transport users dropped by up to 93%, NO2 emissions were reduced by up to 60%, and traffic accidents were reduced by up to 67% in relative terms.

Majdi Bou-Matar’s Impact

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 102-117
Author(s):  
Andrew Houston
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Home Town ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City ◽  
Intercultural Analysis

The IMPACT Festival is an event dedicated to theatre that centralizes marginalized voices to address social issues, and in the process, works to constitute a vibrant intercultural community. At once a festival, a conference, and an opportunity for artists, scholars, and other cultural commentators—from international to local—to meet and engage with one another, IMPACT has happened biannually in Kitchener, Ontario since 2009. Yet despite its award-winning status among scholars and artists, the IMPACT Festival has struggled to be embraced by either the City of Kitchener or the citizens of the Region of Waterloo. Beginning with interviews with local theatre creators, and drawing on the intercultural analysis of Ric Knowles and Bruno Latour, among others, this article is an attempt to understand why the IMPACT Festival has encountered obstacles to sustainable success in its home town.

scholarly journals SATISFAÇÃO NO ATENDIMENTO E PRESTAÇÃO DE SERVIÇO DO PRÓ-CIDADÃO DO MUNICÍPIO DE LONDRINA

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (15) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
João Francisco MOROZINI ◽  
Silvio Roberto STEFANO ◽  
Lucinea Cristina RAMAZOTTI
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Emergency Care ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Satisfaction Survey ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Quantitative Manner ◽  
The City ◽  
Northern City ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

RESUMO Este estudo foi baseado em uma pesquisa sobre a satisfação dos usuários do pronto atendimento ao cidadão (Pró-Cidadão), ponto de atendimento da prefeitura de Londrina instalado na zona norte da cidade. A pesquisa visou analisar o nível de satisfação dos usuários com relação ao atendimento e serviços disponibilizados. Com intuito de atingir os propósitos do estudo, a metodologia desse trabalho foi  exploratória, por meio de levantamentos bibliográficos, seguida pela pesquisa de campo que envolveu a coleta de dados de forma quantitativa por meio da aplicação de questionário estruturado com uma amostra de 183 usuários do Pró-cidadão, durante duas semanas no mês de abril de 2012. As análises dos resultados foram apresentadas em tabelas e gráficos, sendo possível verificar dentre os itens analisados que o principais  pontos  positivos  foram os serviços disponíveis e a cordialidade do atendente, sendo os principais pontos negativos a quantidade de atendentes e infra-estrutura do local. O nível geral de satisfação dos usuários apresentou-se de forma positiva. Palavras-chave: Satisfação do usuário, cliente-cidadão, atendimento, serviços. ABSTRACT This study was based on a satisfaction survey of users of emergency care to citizens (Pro-Citizen), a square of attendance from the City of Londrina installed in the northern city. The research aimed to analyze the level of user satisfaction with respect to care and services provided. In order to achieve the purposes of the study, the methodology of this study was exploratory way through literature surveys followed by field research that involved collecting data in a quantitative manner through a structured questionnaire with a sample of 183 users pro-citizen for two weeks in April 2012. The analysis results are presented in tables and graphs, and can verify that among the items discussed were the main strengths of the services available and the warmth of the attendant, the main drawbacks being the number of attendants and infrastructure of the site. The overall of satisfaction of user is presented in a positive way. Key words: People satisfaction, customer-citizen, care, services.

scholarly journals ANALISA MOTIVASI WISATA BELANJA PADA FACTORY OUTLETDI KOTA BANDUNG

IKONOMIKA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 183
Author(s):  
Damayanti Octavia ◽  
Sinta Aulia Utami
Keyword(s):  
Probability Method ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Cross Tabulation ◽  
Shopping Motivation ◽  
Hedonic Shopping ◽  
The City

Abstract - The existence of potential of Bandung as the city’s services have made the city of Bandung, the award winning “tourism award 2011 as the most favorite city and the best service quality city”. Bandung try to become city services in the fields of fashion, food, and the arts. Even the fashion industry became one of the leading industrial sectors developed by the city of Bandung as the originator of the establishment of the factory outlet. The method used in this research is quantitative and descriptive. The studied samples were processed by non-probability method namely purposive sampling with the total sampling of 400 respondents. Data analysis techniques used was cross tabulation and chi-square.The conclusions of this research are there is a different between the shopping tourist and the tourist shopper, while the shopping tourist have hedonic shopping motivation higher.

The Iberian Peninsula

2019 ◽  
pp. 583-602
Author(s):  
José Luis López Castro
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Ninth Century ◽  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Julius Caesar ◽  
City States ◽  
Punic Wars ◽  
The City

The initial Phoenician presence in the Iberian Peninsula dates to the ninth century bce with the foundation of small settlements along the southern coast. During the eighth and seventh centuries bce, the number of colonial settlements along the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts of Iberia began to increase rapidly. Phoenicians traded with indigenous populations, exchanging high-quality artisanal products for metals from Iberia. In addition, colonial settlers exploited their surrounding territory for agriculture and animal husbandry. They also took advantage of marine resources such as fishing. The colonial population was socially stratified and included individuals of indigenous origin who worked in the various industries, as well as women who intermarried with foreigners. Around the beginning of the sixth century bce, the colonial population was restructured: the western Phoenicians organized themselves into city-states, a process that is recorded in the ancient written sources. They maintained commercial relations with the indigenous Iberians and with Carthaginians, Greeks, and Etruscans. In the final part of the third century bce, these cities allied with Carthage in the fight against Rome. Following Rome’s success in the Punic Wars and conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, the cities were required to pay tribute to Rome, except the city of Gades/Gadir (Cádiz), which maintained a foedus. The elite Phoenician citizens underwent a process of integration with the Roman Empire, eventually obtaining municipal status for their cities, some under Julius Caesar and others later during the Flavian period.

Special Schooling for Indigenous Students: a New Form of Racial Discrimination?

2006 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 44-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loretta de Plevitz
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Indigenous Education ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
Systemic Racism ◽  
Indigenous Students ◽  
New Form ◽  
Special Classes

AbstractRecent reports on Indigenous education have revealed that high proportions of students have been placed in special classes for intellectual disability or behaviour disorders. This is not an isolated phenomenon. Indigenous students in Canada and Romani children in Europe are also disproportionately represented in special schooling. This paper asks whether systemic racism, which fails to perceive cultural differences between the ethos of Australian educational systems and the experiences and abilities of Indigenous students, is the catalyst for placing many Indigenous students in special schooling, away from the mainstream. The paper applies an analysis based on anti-discrimination law to argue that while allocation on the basis of intellectual disability or behaviour disorders may not be deliberate racism, the criteria developed for the allocation may be measuring conformity to the dominant culture. If the policies underlying this segregation are unreasonable in the circumstances, they could constitute indirect racial discrimination against Indigenous students. Educational authorities could be liable in law, even though the effect on Indigenous students is unintentional and said to be for the students’ “own good”.

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