Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS): Crime & Impunity

  This project will compile information on criminal and scandalous activities of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) from its founding in 1984 to the present. It will attempt to track the consequences for CSIS of each scandal which has come to light. Finally, it will analyse the data according to a set of questions [...]

The collective is just as important as the cooking: Organizing student and youth based collective kitchen groups

THE COLLECTIVE IS JUST AS IMPORTANT AS THE COOKING Organizing student and youth based collective kitchen groups Group: Réseau D’Entraide De Verdun  Issues addressed: The project is based on community organizing and food solidarity. It addresses issues such as poverty, food insecurity, isolation, marginalization, class, gender and race. Size of project: We would like to have [...]

Queer McGill: A History

Organization: Queer McGill Project description: Queer McGill has operated at McGill in various forms since the early 1970’s, and has played its own particular role in queer history. Being able to access and reflect on this aspect of our local queer history would be incredibly meaningful to present and future generations of queers and activists. [...]

Trans Access to Shelter in Montreal

This project will consist of a qualitative and quantitative systemic examination of the Montreal shelter system to determine the state of access for transsexual, transgender and gender-variant people in need of shelter and housing (with a possible specific focus on women`s shelters). Furthermore, the research will look at other cities which have successfully adapted their [...]

Research and Writing project – Montreal Media Co-Op

The Montreal Media Co-op is looking for a student, preferably in Journalism or Communications, to undertake a research and writing project for the upcoming semester. The student would be expected to work with members of the MMC is researching one or several topics through various means, including Access to Information Requests, archival research and interviews. [...]

A Brief History of Incarceration in Canada

We are seeking an overview as to how public policy has influenced incarceration levels in Canada over the past fifty years to help us contextualize other work we are doing on HIV prevention in prisons. This request does not entail primary research but rather the collection and synthesis of a broad range of information on [...]

Mailroom Policy and Sexual Censorship at Canadian Prisons

Organization: Prisoner Correspondence Project The student completing this project will conduct primary research compiling the mailroom policies of Canada’s 58 federal prisons (i.e. what is permitted in), with particular attention paid to pornography, erotica, and queer content. The information will be provided to prospective penpals, as well as used by the Prisoner Correspondence Project to [...]

Trans Health Network – Building Institutional Memory

Organization: Trans Health Network The Trans Health Network (THN) is a coalition of groups who have come together to fight for better access to health care services for transgender, transsexual and gender-variant people in Montreal and throughout Quebec. The network has been together for around five years and currently includes Project 10, Stella, Action Santé [...]

Smut on the Airwaves: Broadcast Policies on Profanity and Smut

Organization: CKUT Radio Project description: When does radio broadcasting content that is sexual in nature become labelled as profane? What are the policies/procedures in place that protect the content broadcast on Campus/Community (C/C) radio from complaints relating to profanity/smut/sexual content? CKUT is interested in research into the policies that address profanity and sexual content on [...]

Survey à travers l’Estrie et rapport détaillé des résultats de la recherche – S.O.S. Grossesse

Organization: S.O.S. Grossesse Description du projet: Survey : S.O.S. Grossesse à travers l’Estrie et rapport détaillé des résultats de la recherche. Utiliser le(s) outil(s) auprès des résidents des différentes MRC de l’Estrie afin de mesurer leur connaissance de l’organisme, leurs besoins, leur satisfaction par rapport à nos services, en fonction de leur groupe d’âge, leur [...]

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