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Celebration Of Authorship Program 2022-2023
(University of Regina Library, 2023) Abrams, Kelly J.; Afolabi, Taiwo; Ashton, Emily; Battis, Jes; Bazzul, Jesse; Buchko, Denée M.; Coupal, Chelsea; Crivea, Jocelyn; Dupeyron, Bruno; Eaton, Emily; Fay, Holly; Farney, Jim; Farrell, Issac; French, Lindsey; Fuchs, Jesse; Garneau, David; Gerbeza, Tea; Germani, Ian; Gibb, Ryland; Grimard, Celeste; Harnish, Garett; Hoang Trung, Kien; Horowitz, Risa; Hurlbert, Margot; Jeffery, Bonnie; King, Anna-Leah; Knight, Lindsay; Knuttila, Murray; Kyabaggu, Ramona; Lavallie, Carrie; Lloyd, Kiegan; Lonie, Kelsey; Lundahl, Bev; Lylyk, Stephen; Marsh, Charity; McNeil, Barbara; Moat, Olivia; Moasun, Festus Yaw; Nestor, Jack J.; Novik, Nuelle; Owusu, Raymond Karikari; Panchuk, Kristie; Petry, Roger; Petry, Yvonne; Phipps, Heather; Ratt, Solomon; Ricketts, Kathryn; Riegel, Christian; Robinson, Katherine M.; Rocke, Cathy; Rollo, Mike; Safinuk, Corey; Saul, Gerald; Schroeter, Sara; Schultz, Christie; Wanda, Seidlikoski Yurach; Sirke, Kara; Sterzuk, Andrea; Stewart, Michelle; Szabados, Béla; Tremblay, Arjun; Whippler, Ryan; White, Judy; Wihak, Mark; Zimmer, Jonathon
Archer Library is proud to unveil the 2022-23 University of Regina Celebration of Authorship Program booklet. This downloadable publication highlights University of Regina authors/creators of books, edited proceedings, sound recordings, musical scores and film or video recordings published over the last year in any format (print or electronic). We encourage you to take a moment to view the program booklet and extend your congratulations to all of the University of Regina students, faculty, staff, and alumni who are being celebrated this year.
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Comparing Hobbes's Gratitude and Aristotle's Magnanimity
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2018-07) Djoboulian, Taline; Elliott, David; Ward, Lee; Doran, Ryan; Dupeyron, Bruno
Hobbes's natural law of gratitude needs to be brought back into perspective when reading his political works. Often when reading Hobbes, many use his depiction of human nature and natural rights to demonstrate the innate propensity toward unsociability. However, contrary to this presumption, Hobbes presents a collectivist dimension to his argument even within the state of nature. The natural law of gratitude demonstrates the importance of preserving sociability and collectivity. In both On the Citizen and Leviathan, gratitude creates and sustains sociability with utility-based friendships. Gratitude is preserved best in a monarchy, because it secures covenants that rely on gratitude; it secures voluntary action; and is rooted in natural equality. Hobbes's natural law of gratitude was influenced by Aristotle's virtue of magnanimity and friendships that accompany virtue in the Nicomachean Ethics. However, Hobbes would problematize Aristotle’s magnanimous person (or the great-souled man) because they reject gratitude for their benefactions on the account that nothing seems great to them. Furthermore, the great-souled man worries that they may be perceived as a member of the inferior class which lowers their self-esteem that allows for their great benefactions. It will be argued that gratitude is needed to form the collective, and it is best preserved in Hobbes’s monarchy. For monarchy is rooted in natural equality, while timocracy is rooted in inequality.
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The End of the Policy Analyst? Testing the Capability of Artificial Intelligence to Generate Plausible, Persuasive, and Useful Policy Analysis
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2021-10) Safaei, Mehrdad; Longo, Justin; Dupeyron, Bruno; Phillips, Peter; Savard, Jean-Francois
Public servants provide support for decision makers through synthesis documents such as briefing notes. To develop recommendations for dealing with the problem, they use a variety of sources for research and analysis. This current research seeks to assess opportunities and challenges regarding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in public sector administration and policy development, focusing on whether AI can serve as a supplement and potential replacement for human policy analysts. The research questions focus on whether AI can plausibly ‘do’ policy analysis, support what human policy analysts currently do, and—based on those assessments—whether academia and governments need to reconsider what it means to teach and undertake policy analysis. This research tests these questions empirically by first creating briefing notes in three categories: AI generated; AI supported; and human created. Two panels of experts made up of retired senior public servants were then asked to judge the briefing notes from the perspective of a senior public sector decision maker (e.g., Deputy Minister) using a heuristic evaluation rubric to grade each note. I report on their evaluations as a basis for assessing whether current NLP technology is capable of generating plausible, persuasive, and useful policy analysis.
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Étsxe, on the Path of, Revitalizing Secwepemc Ways of Caring for Children and Families: A Community-Based Model of Child Care
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2016-05) Jules, Rebecca L.; McNutt, Kathy; Coates, Ken; Dupeyron, Bruno; Bourassa, Carrie
This research project employs Indigenous and Secwépemc methodologies to give power and voice back to the family and community, while bringing forward Secwépemc culture, ways of knowing, being, and doing as a foundation for child welfare policy and practice. It explores the history of legislation, policies, and practices and uses a Social Determinants of Health approach to illustrate the impact of service structure on Aboriginal children and families and identifies the need for a new approach to more effectively address the growing over representation of Aboriginal people at all levels of child welfare services. This research endeavors to answer this question: how can Indigenous knowledge be used to inform policy, enhance services, and change the story for Indigenous/Secwépemc children and families? Through Secwépemc Stsptekwle, narrative and experience, Secwépemc child and family caring practices were identified to inform the design and delivery of K̓wseltktnéws, a community-based framework. Essential elements of the framework include: the strength, structure and support of the family circle; principles of child development; life stages and ceremony; governance, guardianship, and decision making through Elder/Grandparent monitoring and teachings. Interconnecting K̓wseltktnéws with current child welfare policies, the research examined ways in which the models are consistent, coherent, and where they diverged, what were possible challenges. The study found two central themes: the conflict within the mandated goals for child welfare services between protective and preventative services; and the inherent right of Indigenous people to self-govern, and to lead, direct, and evaluate the policy development process. The study’s findings and analysis serve as a reminder that services must move beyond simply removing children from circumstances towards supporting child development into strong, healthy members of a family and community. Accepting the validity of cultural knowledge allows for it to be used as a foundation for policy and practice. Future research and policy development must ensure new initiatives, legislation, and programs provide a clear framework for services that are founded on Indigenous knowledge and ways of caring for children and families, one that addresses fiscal responsibilities, funding formulas, supports ‘prevention’ services, and clearly defines measurable performance indicators. Keywords: Indigenous, Secwépemc, Storytelling, Children and Families, Aboriginal Child Welfare, Aboriginal Policy
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The European Union at the Crossroads: A Look at the European Union’s Challenges through Romania’s Lenses
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2018-03) Costa-Muresan, Lidia Vasilica; Onder, Nilgun; Zhu, Yuchao; Hewson, Martin; Dupeyron, Bruno
“A crisis does not fall from the sky; political crises are not unforeseeable natural catastrophes, which one stands helpless in the face of. They build gradually, accumulating explosive power piece by piece, and then after years of negligence, they are detonated. The heads of state and government behaved nonchalantly as the crisis mounted; they made no attempt to comprehend the dark that gathered over the European pathways.” (Junker, 2005, para. 6-7) For the first time in sixty years the European Union (EU) is at the crossroads. There are both internal and external forces that are tearing the European Union apart. The challenges the EU is facing are foundation flaws found in its widening and deepening policies, the spread of terrorism, mass migration, global economic recession, the rise of nationalism, and hybrid democracies even oligarchies. Analyzing Romania’s accession and integration in the European Union and the aftermath in comparison to other countries in the EU can provide insights into the underlying problems troubling the EU. European Union members believed receiving membership status would provide them state security, economic prosperity through free trade, a sense of belonging, and no state borders as EU policymakers advocated. However, the actual effects of accession were: loss of state protection against outside forces; free trade as shaped by the whims of EU policymakers; lack of national identity, sovereignty, and independence. The EU’s inability to recommend effective policies on how to deal with political, cultural, social and economic challenges caused division amongst its members. The fallout has created a ‘two-speed’ Europe with two emerging sides – the East versus West. With a divided Eurozone and a crisis that seems to never end the future of Europe is more uncertain than ever before with all the ingredients required for the dismantling of the Union.
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An Examination of the Impacts of the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act on Community-Based Organizations
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2016-07-29) Hiatt, Daniel; Dupeyron, Bruno; Beland, Daniel; Hurlbert, Margot; Marshall, Jim
In Canada (AG) v. Bedford (Bedford Ruling), the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) ruled that three of the provisions included in Canada’s Criminal Code, ones that criminalized certain acts related to prostitution, violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms (the Charter). The SCC determined that the Government of Canada (GoC) needed to make some fundamental legislative changes in order to bring Canada’s prostitution laws into harmony with the Charter. If the GoC failed to make legislative changes within one calendar year, the provisions in question would have been stricken from the record. The GoC successfully made legislative changes within the designated timeline by passing The Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act (PCEPA). Little research exists that shows the impacts of the PCEPA on the Community-Based Organizations (CBO) who were actively involved with the consultation phases of both the Bedford ruling and the development of the PCEPA. This thesis seeks to fill this gap by offering a qualitative exploration of how the operations of sex worker-focused CBOs were impacted by the implementation of the PCEPA. To accomplish this, the researcher used qualitative research methods to explore whether or not participants’ day-to-day operations, funding streams, and delivered programs and services changed to conform to the PCEPA. The conclusion is reached that the PCEPA is a problematic response to the SCC’s ruling, one which potentially made the assisting sex workers more difficult for CBOs. The PCEPA has undermined the field of Canadian sex work advocacy, eroded the forms of capital available to CBOs, and created an environment of anxiety, and legal uncertainty.
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Exploring Social Learning in Yorkton Following the 2010, 2014 and 2016 Floods
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2021-06) Salman, Alida; Hurlbert, Margot; Dupeyron, Bruno; Warren, James; Mou, Haizhen; Dolter, Brett
The objective of this study is to explore whether social learning has occurred in Yorkton following the flood events that the City experienced in 2010, 2014 and 2016. The study also aims to understand the factors that impacted social learning’s occurrence, its interrelation with the window of opportunity, and the outcomes that it produced. The data for this study came from 15 semi-structured interviews and 110 newspaper articles on the flood events and the infrastructure upgrades. The data showed that the flood experience and the interactions and communications between the City, the Council and the public have produced social learning. However, this learning has been mainly single-loop learning, with some indicators exhibiting double loop learning. While the data revealed no explicit barriers to social learning, the perception that the public cannot contribute to stormwater management issues may have inhibited the degree of social learning that was achieved in Yorkton. In addition, the 2010 flood opened a window of opportunity for change, allowing the City and the Council to introduce a number of expensive upgrades. The subsequent floods contributed to keeping the window open. Furthermore, the data showed that social learning and the window of opportunity are interrelated. As a result of social learning and the policy window that opened after the flood, Yorkton is now more prepared to deal with future events, both in terms of prevention as well as emergency response. However, it was found that social learning is diminishing as a result of the passage of time and the false sense of safety that the infrastructure upgrades created. The diminishing of social learning has policy implications for Yorkton as the city has not yet implemented all the proposed upgrades.
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The Impact of Governance and Remuneration Reform on Primary Mental Health Care: A Comparative Analysis of Three Canadian Provinces
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2014-01) Brown, Miranda Elisha; Marchildon, Gregory; Dupeyron, Bruno; Beland, Daniel; Novik, Nuelle
Introduction: The quality of general practitioner-delivered primary mental health care (PMHC) is a concern for Canadian policy-makers. To improve quality, policy reforms must target the length of consultations, interdisciplinary collaboration, and system coordination. PMHC governance and physician remuneration are structural barriers that impede quality improvement efforts. Purpose: The purpose of the research is to determine which PMHC governance and mode of physician remuneration policy reforms can most effectively facilitate greater system coordination, interdisciplinary coordination, and longer, more involved consultations in Canadian PMHC. Methods: A comparative case study of three Canadian provinces, specifically British Columbia, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan, was completed. These cases represent the range of Canadian PMHC policy reforms. To evaluate progress and performance, reforms were ranked on a PMHC best practices ordinal scale. New Zealand and Australia were selected for comparison with the Canadian cases. Ultimately, the integration of international cases in the comparative case study supplied policy lessons on revolutionary and evolutionary PMHC. Results: In Canada, governance and remuneration PMHC reforms are incremental. In fact, British Columbia and Manitoba physician remuneration policy reforms demonstrate some progress towards improving physician-delivered PMHC remuneration structures. While governance was not a component of the PMHC reforms implemented by British Columbia, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan, PMHC reforms in Australia and New Zealand demonstrated evolutionary and revolutionary options to reform governance and physician remuneration to improve PMHC quality. Conclusion: PMHC quality improvement requires governments to address the structural barriers imposed by governance and physician remuneration. The legacies of these barriers influence the capacity of health systems to support high quality, innovative, and more collaborative primary mental health care. Key Words: primary mental health care, physician remuneration, governance.
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Playing the (Policy) Fields: The Lesbian and Gay Movement and the Development of the Modernization of Benefits and Obligations Bill
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2016-12) Boiteau, Meaghen Johanna; Dupeyron, Bruno; Carter, Claire; Zarzeczny, Amy; Beland, Daniel
The lesbian and gay rights movement in Canada has a rich history comprised of numerous groups and individuals that worked tirelessly for decades to promote lesbian and gay rights and champion for protections to the community at a number of levels. One of the primary challenges that occurred was in relation to relationship recognition. Throughout the 1970s, 80s, and 90s in Canada, the lesbian and gay movement worked to achieve relationship recognition, challenging the criminal code, human rights protections, and finally full relationship recognition through the Modernization of Benefits and Obligations Act in 2000. Using the theory of fields as outlined by Fligstein and McAdam (2012), this thesis will provide a comprehensive view to understanding select challenges that occurred to key policy fields in order to create the conditions which allowed for the passing of Bill C- 23 in Canada. I address the question of how the lesbian and gay community worked to challenge the policies that supported the Criminal Code and Human Rights frameworks – both of which inform understandings of ‘relationship politics’ – in order to re-define the underlying logic within the strategic action field of ‘relationship politics’, leading to a reconceptualization of it through the passing of Bill C-23 in 2000. In Chapter One, I introduce the lesbian and gay movement in Canada, presenting key achievements the movement made throughout the late-20th century. In Chapter Two, I provide a comprehensive overview of the ‘theory of fields’ as conceptualized by Fligstein and McAdam (2012), specifically how I will utilize their theory in order to explain the ways in which challenger groups and incumbent groups worked to effect change, or maintain the status quo, in relation to the various policy fields that were impacted leading to Bill C-23. In Chapter Three I introduce the field of ‘relationship politics’ that will provide the overview of my primary analysis, situating it in the context of the lesbian and gay movement. In Chapter Four I explore the lesbian and gay movement as a challenger group to ‘relationship politics’, paying close attention to the community mobilization and specific ‘shocks’ to ‘relationship politics’ that the movement was able to take advantage of, which opened up both the policy fields of the criminal code and human rights to lead to Bill C- 23. Finally, in Chapter Five I will focus on the incumbent group, Members of Parliament who were most in control of those policy fields that served to reinforce ‘relationship politics’. I will look at how the incumbent group worked to assert their views of ‘relationship politics’ when debating challenges that came forward, providing a deeper analysis around the specific episodes of contention to the main fields within my analysis. This analysis, while being somewhat unique to the lesbian and gay movement, will provide a framework for understanding how other social movement groups, through collective action and understanding the logic and composition of a variety of policy and public fields, may be able to affect change on a broad scale. The challenge for relationship recognition is somewhat unique in terms of the relative speed with which it came to be implemented, happening within a period of about 30 years. Understanding the numerous spaces through which change occurred, where challenges emerged, and how both challengers and incumbents worked to assert their relative positions, can allow for an understanding as to how other social movements may succeed – or, alternatively, fail – to achieve substantive social and policy change.
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Reducing Provincial Drug Plan Costs Through Regional Pooled-Purchasing Agreements
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2012-10) Jurczak, Matthew Stephen; Marchildon, Gregory P.; Dupeyron, Bruno; Lockhart, Wallace
Canada’s provincial health ministries are facing rising provincial drug plan costs that can be attributed to rising medication costs and increasing drug plan claims. Provinces currently employ a collection of policy tools that have not proven to be effective in reducing the cost of these essential programs. Current policy tools are generally designed and implemented unilaterally and are not conducive to inter-provincial collaboration. The result is that small provinces are hampered in their ability to lower drug costs as manufacturers will first attempt to set price levels in larger provinces. A new policy tool is needed that will enable both large and small provinces to reduce drug costs as drug plan utilization continues to increase. Creating purchasing pools with multiple provincial participants could be a promising model that would enable members to maximize supplementary volume rebates from manufacturers. New Zealand’s national purchasing pool lowered drug prices between 21% and 79% less than prices paid in British Columbia for the same products in 2005. Purchasing pools in the United States designed to reduce the cost of state-funded Medicaid pharmacy programs have delivered supplementary rebate rates to their members between 15% and 25%. Assuming that these rebate rates could be applied to purchasing pools in Canada through regional purchasing pools in Western and Atlantic Canada, approximately $562 million could be saved in Canada every year. Canadian agreements, similar to American purchasing pools, would preserve provincial autonomy over the formulary listing process and drug plan administration. In addition, regional purchasing pools in Canada could be integrated with existing federal and provincial drug regulatory bodies. Regional purchasing pools in Western and Atlantic Canada could form the foundation of a new prescription drug pricing and negotiation regime that could stabilize drug prices in participating provinces. The purchasing pools could also improve transparency and accountability by aligning the commitment to cost control of participating provinces.
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Responding to Urban Regulation: How Policies of Public Spaces Affect the Lifeworld of the Chronically Homeless in New Zealand and Alberta, Canada
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2018-08) Callan, Derrick; Dupeyron, Bruno; Hawkins, Robert; Beland, Daniel; Hunter, Garson
Public spaces are central places in a community where people will gather to socialize and discuss politics or other community matters. Formal regulations on public spaces, where bylaws can be seen as a way to control for desired behaviour, have been used extensively in many cities. These regulations have actively excluded certain individuals from urban settlements and they continue to do so to create a clean space that is safe. This thesis uses urban comparison to contrast the four different local authorities of Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand and Calgary and Red Deer, Alberta, Canada using the response of homeless individuals to inform how different factors impact chronically homeless individuals in highly valued spaces. Interviews with homeless individuals, public servants, and enforcement officers can provide knowledge surrounding the regulation of these prime spaces. All of the chosen local authorities contain varying degrees of bylaws that impact the homeless lifeworld. Wellington has the fewest bylaws with Calgary and Red Deer having the most. It was found that the enforcement of those bylaws was a larger factor in how chronically homeless individuals respond to the bylaws. Enforcement of bylaws in Red Deer are the most severe out of all local authorities. Homeless individuals utilize different responses to remain in a lucrative space to counter the exclusion they face from the bylaws. Red Deer was seen more unlikely to be nonconfrontational because it was more likely to use persistence and voice. Through the most similar systems design, the factors that contribute to how homeless individuals respond to the regulation of prime spaces are discussed. It was found that a nonconfrontational response is more unlikely when there were more bylaws, enforcement was stricter, and the downtown core was not stable. Red Deer has been growing their downtown core to provide incentive for the global market to enter that local authority. This conscious growth increases the value the space holds. The research shows that the factors of downtown stability, the number of bylaws, and the enforcement of bylaws, all contributes to how homeless individuals respond to being excluded from prime spaces.
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The hidden triad of cannabis influence
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2024-07) Bojkovsky, Cynthia Dawn; Dupeyron, Bruno; Zarzeczny, Amy; Camillo, Cheryl; Mou, Haizhen; Novotna, Gabriela; Bear, Daniel
Description of the Problem In October 2018, the Government of Canada became the second country in the world to legalize non-medical cannabis, with the goal to promote better health and well-being amongst Canadians. To date, the ways in which young adults in Canada perceive and experience cannabis in this new legal context have been minimally explored and are not well understood. This research contributes important insights into how young adults in Saskatchewan perceive and understand their own health and well-being in relation to cannabis in a context of legal non-medical use. These findings are relevant for future policy and program developments in this area. Methods The objective of this study was to answer the primary research question “How do young adults perceive and experience cannabis use, in particular from a health perspective, in the context of Canada’s current policy frameworks?” This study applies constructivist grounded theory data collection and analysis techniques, guided by the work of Kathy Charmaz (2014). Data was collected through 10 in-depth interviews with young adults in Saskatchewan. The information was transcribed and thoroughly analyzed to transition from analytical findings to theoretical understanding. Secondary research questions addressed the relationship between cannabis related perceptions and experiences, influences shaping those perceptions and experiences, and the policy implications. Findings The main outcome from this study is entitled “The Hidden Triad of Cannabis Influence”, a grounded theory that explains how young adults perceive and experience cannabis within a legal non-medical and medical cannabis policy framework and an illicit market. Although the young adults who participated in this research tended not to outwardly identify policy and market factors as influencing their health and well-being, this theory substantiates the presence of these influences. The four main policy considerations emerging from this study include: • evaluate the short-term outcomes of non-medical cannabis legalization, including but not limited to input from young adults and qualitative research findings • develop a robust health literacy approach to promote public health objectives related to non- medical and medical cannabis use by young adults • improve supports in the health care system for medical use and misuse of cannabis to promote harm reduction • take additional measures to mitigate the illicit market for cannabis The results of this study offer preliminary evidence about how young adults perceive and experience their own health and well-being within a context of legal non-medical cannabis. Keywords Cannabis; marijuana; legalization; young adults; grounded theory; health policy; perceptions
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Western Policy Analyst Quarterly Volume 3 Issue 1
(2012-02) Dupeyron, Bruno; Fulton, Murray; Çule, Monika; Marshall, Jim; Marchildon, Gregory P.
Immigration and Integration – 1; Port Access and Regulation in a Post-Canada Wheat Board Monopoly World – 6; Private and Public Investment Intentions, 2012 – 8; Underlying Health Care Cost Drivers in Western Canada – 10
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Western Policy Analyst Quarterly Volume 3 Issue 2
(2012-06) Elliott, Doug; Fulton, Murray; Olfert, Sara; Marshall, Jim; Dupeyron, Bruno
Aging Patterns in the West – 1; The Changing Face of Agriculture – 4; Crime, Probation, and Incarceration Rates – 6; Labour Market Experiences of Immigrants – 8