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Language, Reality And Fiction In The Island Inside (Lenguaje, Realidad Y Ficción En La Isla Interior), Eva NúÑEz-MéNdez Jan 2012

Language, Reality And Fiction In The Island Inside (Lenguaje, Realidad Y Ficción En La Isla Interior), Eva NúÑEz-MéNdez

World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations

La isla interior, la sexta película dirigida por el duo Dunia Ayaso y Félix Sabroso, directores y guionistas canarios, se estrenó en el 2009 y se alzó con el premio Julio Vernes del Festival de Nantes, con el premio al Mejor Actor (para Alberto San Juan, Martín) en el Festival de Valladolid y con reconocimiento en el Festival Internacional de Las Palmas. La película se centra en una familia desequilibrada española y en la reacción de todos sus miembros al suicidio del patriarca. La muerte repentina del padre obliga a todos, a su mujer francesa, a sus dos hijas y …

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A Comparative Linguistic Study Between Sicilian And Spanish (Estudio Lingüístico-Comparativo Del Siciliano Y El Español), Eva NúÑEz-MéNdez, Raven Chakerian Jan 2012

A Comparative Linguistic Study Between Sicilian And Spanish (Estudio Lingüístico-Comparativo Del Siciliano Y El Español), Eva NúÑEz-MéNdez, Raven Chakerian

World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations

This study proposes a linguistic-comparative analysis of both Spanish and Sicilian. While numerous linguistic studies have been done on Romantic languages, very few deal with Sicilian, isolated as a dialect of Italian. According to some linguists, Sicilian, as well as Sardinian (spoken in Sardinia), is not a dialect but an independent language per se. It lost its language status when the Italian parliament decided to assign a national language. This research, independently of Sicilian being a language or a dialect, analyses the most important phonetic, lexical, spelling and morphological differences with his sister-language, Spanish. At the same time, some parallelisms …

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Challenges To Integrating Human And Natural Systems: An Assessment Of The Cache River Watershed, Kristen Bouska, Kimberly Erndt‐Pitcher, Alicia Lloyd, Amanda Nelson, Timothy Stoebner Jan 2012

Challenges To Integrating Human And Natural Systems: An Assessment Of The Cache River Watershed, Kristen Bouska, Kimberly Erndt‐Pitcher, Alicia Lloyd, Amanda Nelson, Timothy Stoebner

Reports

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In Silico Screening Of Antitrypanosomal Natural Products Against Trypanosoma Cruzi Proteins, Stephanie Felker Mcculley Jan 2012

In Silico Screening Of Antitrypanosomal Natural Products Against Trypanosoma Cruzi Proteins, Stephanie Felker Mcculley

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Basic Reading Skills : A Case Study Of An Adult With Treacher Collins Syndrome / Lilly S. Kulanthai., Lilly S. Kulanthai Jan 2012

Basic Reading Skills : A Case Study Of An Adult With Treacher Collins Syndrome / Lilly S. Kulanthai., Lilly S. Kulanthai

Student Works (2010-2019)

Everyone regardless of age and gender should be given an opportunity to learn, especially to read. Literacy improves lives of people in tremendous ways. However, for individuals with cognitive and memory impairment, learning to read has been a great challenge. In response to this challenge, this single subject case study examined the reading ability of an adult with cognitive and memory impairments, using a combination of five reading strategies. These strategies are: improving word recognition, building fluency, improving reading comprehension, using special remedial methods and using computers to teach reading. The five reading strategies were adapted from the teaching strategies …

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Translation Of Malaysian Legal Terminology And Lawyers' Perspectives On Linguistic Borrowing / Phoebe Lim Ian Yee, Phoebe Ian Yee Lim Jan 2012

Translation Of Malaysian Legal Terminology And Lawyers' Perspectives On Linguistic Borrowing / Phoebe Lim Ian Yee, Phoebe Ian Yee Lim

Student Works (2010-2019)

This dissertation studies the translation of legal terminology from the English to the Malay language, in particular borrowings from English. The purpose of this study is to investigate the forms and functions nature of these legal borrowings and their usage among legal professionals. The legislative text of Evidence Act 1950 is used as the study data. Textual analysis is done based on Mashudi Kader’s (1994) categorisations of the source of Malay legal terms with some modification adapted from Newmark (1988) and Haugen (1953). Interviews and questionnaires were also used as instruments to find out lawyers’ reactions towards legal borrowings and …

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A Comparative Study Of English And Myanmar Syntax In A Narrative With A Focus On Sfpca Elements / Mya Tharaphi Wynn, Mya Tharaphi Wynn Jan 2012

A Comparative Study Of English And Myanmar Syntax In A Narrative With A Focus On Sfpca Elements / Mya Tharaphi Wynn, Mya Tharaphi Wynn

Student Works (2010-2019)

This research project examines the similarities and differences between English and Burmese with regard to the functions of SFPCA in clauses. Data for the study come from Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels in simplified English and its Myanmar translation. Analysis of SFPCA elements is based on Bloor and Bloor’s (2004) and Halliday’s (1994) Systemic Functional Grammar theories. Burmese is now officially called Myanmar language which belongs to Burmanic branch of the Tibeto-Burman family, a subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan language family. The English language, on the other hand, belongs to the Indo- European language family. In Myanmar, the kind of grammatical apparatus such …

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Representation Of Olympic Athletes In A Malaysian Online Newspaper / Wardah Hajisama, Hajisama Wardah Jan 2012

Representation Of Olympic Athletes In A Malaysian Online Newspaper / Wardah Hajisama, Hajisama Wardah

Student Works (2010-2019)

The purpose of this study is to investigate how genders are represented in selected sports news during the 2008 Olympics. The sports news of the 2008 Olympics from The Star online newspaper were selected as the corpus of the study, focusing on reports of selected female-appropraite sports. These female-appropriate sports were classified by Vincent et al. (2002) based on categories proposed by Metheny (1965) and Kane (1988). A discourse analysis was conducted to investigate how gender is portrayed in today’s sports media. A concordance software was used to study the data to obtain terms referring to male and female athletes. …

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Eating Green : Customers' Willingness For Adoption Of Ecological Food Consumption Behaviors : A Comparative Study Between Malaysian And Singaporean Consumers / Maryam Kashani Nazari, Maryam Kashani Nazari Jan 2012

Eating Green : Customers' Willingness For Adoption Of Ecological Food Consumption Behaviors : A Comparative Study Between Malaysian And Singaporean Consumers / Maryam Kashani Nazari, Maryam Kashani Nazari

Student Works (2010-2019)

Purpose-This study attempted to examine Malaysian and Singaporean consumers‘ willingness for adoption of ecological food consumption behaviors through inspecting the effect of consumers‘ attitudes and perception on environmentally friendly activities, motives for meat reduction and increasing consumption of seasonal and regional fruits and vegetables and green marketing strategies on encouraging consumers towards consuming green food. Design/methodology/approach-The survey was done in Malaysia and Singapore to identify about consumers‘ willingness for adoption of ecological food consumption behaviors and to investigate the effect of factors such as consumers‘ environmental perception, motives and green marketing strategies on consumers‘ willingness towards green food consumption. It …

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The Impact Of Sign Language Exposure And Use In Deaf Children's Acquisition Of Vocabulary / Chong Vee Yee, Vee Yee Chong Jan 2012

The Impact Of Sign Language Exposure And Use In Deaf Children's Acquisition Of Vocabulary / Chong Vee Yee, Vee Yee Chong

Student Works (2010-2019)

This research studies the expressive and receptive skills of four Deaf children with the aim of investigating how different linguistic environment, such as the amount of input and practice, will affect their sign language acquisition. The study was conducted through observations of the subjects in the formal learning activity sessions and their regular activities in three different settings: home, church and shopping mall. Interviews were conducted with each of the subjects’ parents to gather background information regarding the linguistic input the subjects have acquired as well as the way the subjects communicate with their parents and the people around them. …

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Using Mouse Embryonic Fibroblast (Mef) As Feeder Cells For Production Of Embryonic Stem Cell (Esc) Line In The Murine And Caprine / Goh Siew Ying, Siew Ying Goh Jan 2012

Using Mouse Embryonic Fibroblast (Mef) As Feeder Cells For Production Of Embryonic Stem Cell (Esc) Line In The Murine And Caprine / Goh Siew Ying, Siew Ying Goh

Student Works (2010-2019)

Embryonic stem cells (ESC) have unlimited potential in the field of biological sciences and regenerative medicine due to their pluripotency and ability to self-renew indefinitely. With the goal to establish, isolate and culture murine (mESC) as well as caprine (gESC) embryonic stem cells, in vivo- and in vitro-derived blastocysts were used as a source in producing mESC and gESC lines. Both mESC and gESC were cultured in vitro using mouse embryonic fibroblast (MEF) as feeder cell layer in this study. The aims of this study were: a) to compare the effects of murine strain, blastocyst stage and inner cell mass …

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Immunomodulatory And Anti-Metastatic Activities Of Selected Zingiberaceae Species / Chew Ann Jee, Ann Jee Chew Jan 2012

Immunomodulatory And Anti-Metastatic Activities Of Selected Zingiberaceae Species / Chew Ann Jee, Ann Jee Chew

Student Works (2010-2019)

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Production Of Cloned-Caprine Embryos In Vitro Obtained From Interspecies Nuclear Transfer Using Bovine Cytoplast And Caprine Karyoplast / Soh Hui Hui, Hui Hui Soh Jan 2012

Production Of Cloned-Caprine Embryos In Vitro Obtained From Interspecies Nuclear Transfer Using Bovine Cytoplast And Caprine Karyoplast / Soh Hui Hui, Hui Hui Soh

Student Works (2010-2019)

Production of cloned-caprine embryos using the intraspecies somatic cell nuclear transfer is limited by low source of caprine oocytes as the recipient cytoplast in Malaysia. Therefore, using the bovine oocytes as recipient cytoplast in interspecies somatic cell nuclear transfer is an alternative approach to produce large number of cloned-caprine embryos and subsequently offspring at a rapid rate. This study was aimed to produce cloned-caprine embryos in vitro by specifically evaluating the interspecies nuclear transfer technique such as enucleation methods, nuclear transfer methods and in vitro culture systems. Briefly, the bovine ovaries were collected from local abattoir and transported to the …

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The Effects Of Hylocereus Polyrhizus And Hylocereus Undatus On Physiocochemical, Proteolysis, Exopolysaccharides Production, And Therapeutic Properties Of Yogurt / Khairul Hazmi Bin Zainoldin, Khairul Hazmi Zainoldin Jan 2012

The Effects Of Hylocereus Polyrhizus And Hylocereus Undatus On Physiocochemical, Proteolysis, Exopolysaccharides Production, And Therapeutic Properties Of Yogurt / Khairul Hazmi Bin Zainoldin, Khairul Hazmi Zainoldin

Student Works (2010-2019)

Yogurt is generally recognized as a healthy and multifunctional food. It is a coagulated milk product obtained from the lactic acid fermentation by the action of Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus. In this present studies, dragon fruit Hylocereus polyrhizus and Hylocereus undatus extract was added in milk and their effects during yogurt fermentation were investigated. The changes in pH and Titratable Acidity (TA) were measured during fermentation and after 14 days of storage at 4°C. The yogurt extracts were subsequently analysed for their syneresis, proteolysis, peptide content, total phenolic content, antioxidant activities, inhibitory activities on α-amylase and α-glucosidase, presence of …

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Enzyme Production Using Organic By-Products As Substrate In Solid State Fermentation / Nithiya Arumugam, Nithiya Arumugam Jan 2012

Enzyme Production Using Organic By-Products As Substrate In Solid State Fermentation / Nithiya Arumugam, Nithiya Arumugam

Student Works (2010-2019)

Brewery spent grain (BSG) which was used as the main organic material in this research is the by-product of brewing industries. Every 100 liter of beer generates 20kg of BSG. A Malaysian brewery (Carlsberg (M) Sdn. Bhd) alone generates 31,000 tonnes of BSG yearly. Almost all the BSG are being dumped into landfills, since there is no proper and separate guideline for industrial organic waste management in Malaysia. BSG materials are rich in nutrients and high in fermentable sugar as well as lignin, cellulose and hemicellulose. Dumping this high nutritional substrate into the landfills could contribute to adverse environmental impacts, …

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Antioxidant, Genoprotective And Hepatoprotective Activities Of Panus Giganteus (Berk.) Corner / Wong Wei Lun, Wei Lun Wong Jan 2012

Antioxidant, Genoprotective And Hepatoprotective Activities Of Panus Giganteus (Berk.) Corner / Wong Wei Lun, Wei Lun Wong

Student Works (2010-2019)

Panus giganteus, a culinary and medicinal mushroom consumed by selected indigenous communities in Malaysia is currently being considered for large scale cultivation. This study was performed to investigate the medicinal potential of P. giganteus fruiting bodies and wheat grains fermented by P. giganteus including antioxidant, genoprotective and hepatoprotective properties. Ethanol extracts of P. giganteus fruiting bodies, wheat grains fermented by P. giganteus and unfermented wheat grains exhibited moderate antioxidant properties by virtue of DPPH free radical scavenging activity, reducing power, antioxidant capacity and inhibition of lipid peroxidation. The extracts also contained moderate amounts of phenolic compounds. Fruiting bodies were more …

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Acute Toxicity, Antioxidant And Wound Healing Potential Of Ethanolic Extract Of Goniothalamus Umbrosus In Rats / Wasan Mj Hussain Al-Kadmi, Wasan Mj Hussain Al-Kadmi Jan 2012

Acute Toxicity, Antioxidant And Wound Healing Potential Of Ethanolic Extract Of Goniothalamus Umbrosus In Rats / Wasan Mj Hussain Al-Kadmi, Wasan Mj Hussain Al-Kadmi

Student Works (2010-2019)

This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of topical application of an ethanol extract of Goniothalamus umbrosus on the rate of skin wound healing closure and the histology of healed wound. The animal groups were topically treated with 0.2 ml of each vehicle (gum acacia), Intrasite gel, 100 and 200 mg/ml of ethanol leaf extract, respectively. An area of uniform wound 2.00 cm in diameter was excised from the nape of the dorsal neck of all rats with the aid of round seal using circular stamp.Macroscopically, skin wound dressed with rhizomes extract and Intrasite gel showed significantly healed earlier …

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Biodiversity Of Malaysian Mangrove Fungi And Phylogeography Of Verruculina Enalia From Selected Southeast Asian Countries / Siti Sarah Sharuddin, Siti Sarah Sharuddin Jan 2012

Biodiversity Of Malaysian Mangrove Fungi And Phylogeography Of Verruculina Enalia From Selected Southeast Asian Countries / Siti Sarah Sharuddin, Siti Sarah Sharuddin

Student Works (2010-2019)

Mangroves are important to the ecosystem as it protects the coastline from erosion, act as a nursery ground for the young sea life creatures and become a habitat for many organisms including hundreds of species of birds (both migratory and resident),monkeys, and lizards. Mangroves also provide a wide variety of substrates for fungi to grow. However, this study will focus on the lignocellulosic material only. Biodiversity of lignicolous mangrove fungi were sampled from three study sites of the Peninsular Malaysia mangrove forest. Cape Rachado (a sandy mangrove forest dominated by Rhizophora apiculata), Telok Pelandok (rocky shores with sandy mangroves dominated …

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Live From New York, It's The Fake News! Saturday Night Live And The (Non)Politics Of Parody, Amber Day, Ethan Thompson Jan 2012

Live From New York, It's The Fake News! Saturday Night Live And The (Non)Politics Of Parody, Amber Day, Ethan Thompson

English and Cultural Studies Journal Articles

Though Saturday Night Live's “Weekend Update” has become one of the most iconic of fake news programs, it is remarkably unfocused on either satiric critique or parody of particular news conventions. Instead, the segment has been shaped by a series of hosts who made a name for themselves by developing distinctive comic personalities. In contrast to more politically invested contemporary programs, the genre of fake news on Saturday Night Live has been largely emptied to serve the needs of the larger show, maintaining its status as just topical, hip, and unthreatening enough to attract celebrities and politicians, as well …

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Echoes From The Hill, Southwestern Oklahoma State University Office Of Institutional Advancement And Alumni Jan 2012

Echoes From The Hill, Southwestern Oklahoma State University Office Of Institutional Advancement And Alumni

Echoes from the Hill

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Pryor Mountain Mustangs: On The Range Or On The Bring?, Monica Gokey Jan 2012

Pryor Mountain Mustangs: On The Range Or On The Bring?, Monica Gokey

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

At the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range straddling the Montana-Wyoming border, the fate of a herd of mustangs rests with the Bureau of Land Management and local horse conservationists. Nationally, the two sides are generally pitted against each other in the ugly world of horse politics. But in the Pryors, advocates and government have forged a tenuous partnership. Both sides want to see healthy horses on healthy range. And there could hardly be a better herd to benefit from such a truce. The Pryor Mountain mustangs have a unique genetic heritage at stake. The horses are some of the last …

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The Ecology Of Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever In Western North America, Tammi Lynne Johnson Jan 2012

The Ecology Of Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever In Western North America, Tammi Lynne Johnson

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

In North America the primary cause of tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF) is the spirochete Borrelia hermsii that is vectored by the tick Ornithodoros hermsi. Ecological investigations were combined with mathematical modeling and genetics to gain a clearer understanding of the interactions and mechanisms responsible for disease maintenance, distribution, and genetic diversity. The objectives of this research were to: 1) identify mammals associated with B. hermsii and O. hermsi by determining active infection and antibody presence, 2) develop a deterministic model to ascertain ecological and epidemiological parameters essential for disease persistence, 3) resolve the phylogeographic structure of B. hermsii and …

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The Effect Of Spillover Onto Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors At The Schaffer-Ca1 Synapse In Hippocampal Slice, Katie Marie Hoffman Jan 2012

The Effect Of Spillover Onto Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors At The Schaffer-Ca1 Synapse In Hippocampal Slice, Katie Marie Hoffman

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Glutamate is the major excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain and is crucial for processes such as learning and memory. Due its importance as a signaling molecule, the extracellular glutamate concentration is tightly regulated, largely by the excitatory amino-acid transporters (EAATs). In these studies, we investigated the role of EAAT1-3 in synaptic transmission at the Schaffer-CA1 synapse in acute hippocampal brain slices. My results demonstrated that transport block by L-TBA resulted in glutamate spillover and activation of NMDARs. Further investigation showed that L-TBA-mediated activation of NMDARs was facilitated by the Mg2+ unblock of the receptor. Furthermore our data indicate that NMDAR …

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Internet Law Reader 2012, Eric Goldman Jan 2012

Internet Law Reader 2012, Eric Goldman

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

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Table Of Contents Jan 2012

Table Of Contents

Georgia Law Review

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Electric Field Exposure Triggers And Guides Formation Of Pseudopod-Like Blebs In U937 Monocytes, Mikhail A. Rassokhin, Andrei G. Pakhomov Jan 2012

Electric Field Exposure Triggers And Guides Formation Of Pseudopod-Like Blebs In U937 Monocytes, Mikhail A. Rassokhin, Andrei G. Pakhomov

Bioelectrics Publications

We describe a new phenomenon of anodotropic pseudopod-like blebbing in U937 cells stimulated by nanosecond pulsed electric field (nsPEF). In contrast to "regular," round-shaped blebs, which are often seen in response to cell damage, pseudopod-like blebs (PLBs) formed as longitudinal membrane protrusions toward anode. PLB length could exceed the cell diameter in 2 min of exposure to 60-ns, 10-kV/cm pulses delivered at 10-20 Hz. Both PLBs and round-shaped nsPEF-induced blebs could be efficiently inhibited by partial isosmotic replacement of bath NaCl for a larger solute (sucrose), thereby pointing to the colloid-osmotic water uptake as the principal driving force for bleb …

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The Use Of An In Vitro 3d Melanoma Model To Predict In Vivo Plasmid Transfection Using Electroporation, Benadette Marrero, Richard Heller Jan 2012

The Use Of An In Vitro 3d Melanoma Model To Predict In Vivo Plasmid Transfection Using Electroporation, Benadette Marrero, Richard Heller

Bioelectrics Publications

A large-scale in vitro 3D tumor model was generated to evaluate gene delivery procedures in vivo. This 3D tumor model consists of a "tissue-like" spheroid that provides a micro-environment supportive of melanoma proliferation, allowing cells to behave similarly to cells in vivo. This functional spheroid measures approximately 1 cm in diameter and can be used to effectively evaluate plasmid transfection when testing various electroporation (EP) electrode applicators. In this study, we identified EP conditions that efficiently transfect green fluorescent protein (GFP) and interleukin 15 (IL-15) plasmids into tumor cells residing in the 3D construct. We found that plasmids …

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The Constitution Of Criminal Justice In Canada, Benjamin L. Berger, James Stribopoulos Jan 2012

The Constitution Of Criminal Justice In Canada, Benjamin L. Berger, James Stribopoulos

The Supreme Court Law Review: Osgoode’s Annual Constitutional Cases Conference

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Section 7 Of The Charter And The Principled Assignment Of Legislative Jurisdiction, Alana Klein Jan 2012

Section 7 Of The Charter And The Principled Assignment Of Legislative Jurisdiction, Alana Klein

The Supreme Court Law Review: Osgoode’s Annual Constitutional Cases Conference

This paper argues that in deciding whether state action is arbitrary, overbroad or disproportionate, contrary to section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, courts should look beyond the relationship between the means and ends of state action and toward broader considerations about the democratic context in which such action occurs. The case of Canada (Attorney General) v. PHS Community Services Society is taken as the paper’s starting point. The re, the Supreme Court of Canada overturned the federal Minister of Health’s decision to deny Insite — a provincially supported safe injection site — an exemption from drug …

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Assessing The Impact Of The Ancillary Powers Doctrine On Three Decades Of Charter Jurisprudence, Vanessa Macdonnell Jan 2012

Assessing The Impact Of The Ancillary Powers Doctrine On Three Decades Of Charter Jurisprudence, Vanessa Macdonnell

The Supreme Court Law Review: Osgoode’s Annual Constitutional Cases Conference

This paper seeks to better understand the factors that may have led the Supreme Court of Canada to assume a role in articulating new police powers since the advent of the Charter in 1982. It also attempts to situate the Court’s ancillary powers cases within the context of a larger jurisprudential trend of balancing individual rights against “societal interests” outside of section 1 that has emerged in the Charter case law. The paper suggests that courts may be disposed to create new common law police powers because in some cases, the police have infringed the Charter rights of suspects in …

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