The Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History Project

Everybody loves a murder mystery. Of all the historical situations researchers encounter nothing has quite the same impact as discovering an innocent person hanged, a guilty person going free. Co-directors of the GREAT UNSOLVED MYSTERIES IN CANADIAN HISTORY project located at the University of Victoria, John Lutz (Department of History, University of Victoria) and Ruth Sandwell (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto), have just received funding from the Canadian Content Online Program (CCOP) of the Canadian Heritage Ministry to move ahead with phase two including two new mysteries “What happened to Aurore Gagnon?” (Peter Gossage, Research Director) and “Nobody Knows His Name: Klatssasin and the Chilcotin Massacre” (John Lutz, Research Director) to complement the pilot “Who Killed William Robinson?”

Identification and prioritization of critical success factors in faith-based and non-faith-based organizations’ humanitarian supply chain

In the last few decades, an exponential increase in the number of disasters, and their complexity has been reported, which ultimately put much pressure on relief organizations. These organizations cannot usually respond to the disaster on their own, and therefore, all actors involved in relief efforts should have end-to-end synchronization in order to provide relief effectively and efficiently. Consequently, to smoothen the flow of relief operation, a shared understanding of critical success factors in humanitarian supply chain serves as a pre-requisite for successful relief operation. Therefore, any member of the humanitarian supply chain might disrupt this synchronization by neglecting one or several of these critical success factors. However, in this study, we try to investigate how faith-based and non-faith-based relief organizations treat these critical success factors. Moreover, we also try to identify any differences between Islamic and Christian relief organizations in identifying and prioritizing these factors. To achieve the objective of this study, we used a two-stage approach; in the first stage, we collected the critical success factors from existing humanitarian literature. Whereas, in the second stage, using an online questionnaire, we collected data on the importance of selected factors from humanitarian relief organizations from around the world in collaboration with World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations (WANGO). Later, responses were analyzed to answer the research questions using non-parametric Binomial and Wilcoxon Rank-Sum tests. Test results indicate that for RQ1, two but all factors are significant for successful relief operation. For RQ2, we found significant differences for some CSF among faith-based and non-faith-based relief organizations. Similarly for RQ3, we found significant differences for some CSF among Islamic and Christian relief organizations

Ask the experts: is there an engaging way to teach history to today's students?

Video series produced by the Education Commons, OISE/UTIs there an engaging way to teach history to today's students? Yes, but instructors need to inverse traditional logic and begin by supplying students with the raw evidence so that they may come to their own conclusions. Instead of telling students what happened in the past, invite them to become detective historians

Pedagogies of the Unimpressed : Re-Educating Ontario Women for the Modern Energy Regime, 1900-1940

In the early decades of the twentieth century, Ontario homemakers were targets of a multi-faceted educational campaign in which a range of corporate and social reform groups sought to change the ways women cooked, cleaned and heated their homes. This article explores these highly gendered pedagogies of modernity and resituates them within the context of Canadian energy history, focusing on household electrification to highlight Ontario women’s resistance, in terms of their day-to-day household practices, to this educational campaign. It argues that women remained largely unimpressed by the promise of electrification into the 1940s, not only because of the problems inherent in the new, centralized supply of energy itself, but because of the deeply gendered cultural practices and preferences that continued to define women’s life and work within the older energy regime of the Ontario home.Dans les premières décennies du XXe siècle, les ménagères ontariennes furent visées par une campagne éducative organisée par des corporations et des groupes de réforme sociale, qui cherchait à changer les façons dont les femmes cuisinaient, nettoyaient, et chauffaient leurs maisons. Cet article étudie cette pédagogie de la modernité dans le contexte de l’histoire de l’énergie au Canada. En examinant plus particulièrement l’électrification domestique, l’article met en lumière la résistance des Ontariennes, dans leurs pratiques ménagères, à cette campagne éducative. Il soutient que les femmes furent très peu impressionnées par la promesse de l’électrification, non seulement à cause de problèmes inhérents à la distribution de cette nouvelle forme d’énergie, mais à cause de pratiques et préférences culturelles qui avaient toujours défini leur vie et leur travail dans le ménage ontarien

A systematic review of humanitarian operations, humanitarian logistics and humanitarian supply chain performance literature 2005 to 2016

© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media New York. The purpose of this manuscript is to explore methodologies for conducting comprehensive literature review. The manuscript objectives are twofold: one is to identify a suitable methodology for conducting comprehensive literature review and two is to enable the identification of main research themes and clusters obtained from the literature. The domain of humanitarian operations, logistics and supply chain performance is selected as the review context. The main strength of a systematic literature review from other styles of literature review is that it provides a much higher level of methodology to the process. It further provides a rapid comprehensive identification of main research themes and clusters as illustrated from the humanitarian operations and logistics performance domain