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Muzzles And Mixed Messages: Issues Between Science And The Federal Government In Canada’S Past And Present, Katherine Richter

The Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History

This paper will examine the historical relationship between the federal government of Canada and the scientists it has employed over the past few decades. It will compare science policy and practices from leaders such as Diefenbaker and Trudeau to the policies currently followed by Stephen Harper's government. It will then ask what might be achieved by following those policies, despite the criticism received by the science community. The paper will ultimately argue that the federal government and scientists have often had a contentious relationship, and the policies the Conservative government is currently implementing are not new. It will also argue …

From Man Vs. Nature To Environment Vs. Budget - The Shifting Battles In The History Of Pollution And Toxicity In Hamilton Harbour, Sara N. Giglia

The Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History

Hamilton Harbour is the principle port serving South Western Ontario and the Niagara Peninsula region with two of Canada’s largest steel manufacturers occupying the waterfront. As early as the 1860s fishery inspectors in Hamilton noted the fish tasted of coal, that there were dead ducks and small animals that were coated in oil from refineries. In the 1950s the Hamilton Harbour was deemed unfit for recreational use and although the state of the harbour may be slowly improving, it is far from being delisted from the International Joint Commission’s Area of Concerns designations list. This paper will first look at …

At War With The Machine: Canadian Workers’ Resistance To Taylorism In The Early 20th Century, Sean Antaya

The Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History

This essay looks at the ways Frederick Winslow Taylor's distinctly modern theories of scientific management (i.e. Taylorism) transformed Canadian workplaces in the early 20^thcentury. In particular, it shows how Taylorism negatively impacted Canadian workers' lives, and examines the various ways that workers consequently resisted Taylorist methods. The essay argues that though workers were unable to stop the widespread implementation of Taylorism and its normalization in Canadian workplaces, their resistance to Taylorism still played an important role in unionist and radical political movements which gradually gained important concessions and rights for Canadian workers during the first half of the …

Editor's Introduction, Sarah M. Pennington

The Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History

Editor's Introduction, Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History, Vol 3.

Placing "Rights And Liberties In Pawn Until The Defeat Of Hitlerism”: Canadian Intelligence Gathering In The Second World War, Austin M H Williams

The Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History

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A monograph regarding the history of Canada’s intelligence gathering apparatus has not been published, leaving a gap in modern historiography. In an attempt to partially fill this academic void, this essay examines RCMP intelligence Bulletins drafted during World War Two that have been declassified under the Access to Information Act. Analysis of the Bulletins clearly indicates the Canadian intelligence gathering apparatus underwent a massive expansion of scope during the war. The RCMP began investigating people and organizations based upon their race, religion, political affiliation or nationalist beliefs. Disregard of human rights and privacy during the period was so …

Cesarean Section And Religious Hierarchies In Fifteenth- Century Europe, Isobel Mouat

The Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History

Cesarean section in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth century was entangled in a web of legal, political, religious, medical, and ideological tensions. An act of desperation to save the child after the mother died, the procedure was embedded in the popular imagination and imbued with symbolic power. While it was promoted by the Catholic Church to save the souls of the infants through baptism, Jewish communities viewed the procedure with wariness due to its perceived unnaturalness. The coupling of divergent religious views on the procedure, a strained religious environment, and changes in the occupational landscape of obstetrics resulted in …

The Cost Of A Telegram: The Evolution Of The International Regulation Of The Telegraph, Alan J. Richardson

Odette School of Business Publications

The telegraph was the first practical use of electricity. It revolutionized commercial communication and facilitated the globalization of business. As the telegraph developed as a medium of international communication, regulation was needed to overcome administrative and technical issues, and, importantly, to establish accounting procedures for the distribution of the revenue to multiple national partners. This paper traces the evolution of revenue allocation models through three international organizations that ultimately lead to the creation of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in 1932. The shifts in revenue allocation methods are consistent with a shift in focus of regulation from growth to efficiency …

The Lance: School Year 2014-2015, University Of Windsor

The Lance

School Year 2014-2015

Vol. 87: no. 1 (2014: Aug. 28) 16p.
Vol. 87: no. 2 (2014: Sept. 11) 16p.
Vol. 87: no. 4 (2014: Sept. 25) 12p.
Vol. 87: no. 6 (2014: Oct. 9) 16p.
Vol. 87: no. 8 (2014: Oct. 23) 16p.
Vol. 87: no. 10 (2014: Nov. 6) 12p.
Vol. 87: no. 12 (2014: Nov. 20) 16p.
Vol. 87: no. 14 (2014: Dec. 4) 16p. On cover: mis-numbered as no. 12
Vol. 87: no. 16 (2014: Dec. 18) 16p.
Vol. 87: no. 17 (2015: Jan. 15) 16p.
Vol. 87: no. 18 (2015: Jan. 29) 16p. On cover: misdated …

Making A Third Space For Student Voices In Two Academic Libraries, James Elmborg, Heidi Lm Jacobs, Kelly Mcelroy, Robert L. Nelson

History Publications

The article examines initiatives including an activity Secrets Wall in which students secretly write secret during exam times and "and History on the Web, librarian and historian team-taught course. Topics discussed include creation of third space for student voices, secrets wall offered at the University of Iowa Main Library to help students in final exam and secret wall as a third space for students to offer outlet for authentic self-expression and dialogic information.