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 [...]

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 [...]

Drug Laws and Incarceration in Canada

Organization: ReCon Project description: Already there is substantial body of literature which addresses the impact of U.S. drug laws on incarceration. Much less has been written on the issue in Canada. As penal institutions, parole officers, and police “toughen up” their responses to drug infractions, it is crucial that Canadians know how drug laws affect [...]

Recidivism Within the Confines of the Life Sentence

Organization: Re-Con Project description: Recently, federally life-sentenced prisoners (lifers) in Canada have been facing both longer sentences and tightening parole conditions. Although the government frames these increasingly restrictive sentencing policies as being responses to high recidivism rates, the direction of causation between recidivism and policy remains unclear. Some preliminary questions which need answering are: 1) [...]

Demystifying the Life Sentence in Canada

Organization: Re-Con Project description: The life sentence in Canada replaced the death penalty after its abolition in the 1970s. Many Canadians still know little about what a “life sentence” really means and what it entails for the person sentenced. A lack of accessible information makes it particularly difficult for life-sentenced prisoners (lifers) and their families [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Dangers of Domestic Work

For the last several years, Pinay has been leading a campaign in Quebec to have domestic workers (many of whom are of Filipino origin) covered under the provincial CSST program (worker’s compensation). Up until now, they have not been included under the CSST program because the Quebec government does not consider domestic workers to be [...]

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