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Every Class in Every School: Final Report on the First National Climate Survey on Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia in Canadian Schools. Written by Catherine Taylor (University of Winnipeg) and Tracey Peter (University of Manitoba). Published by Egale Canada Human Rights Trust. 2011.
The report Every Class in Every School seeks to provide a solid Canadian evidence base for understanding the experiences of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, Two Spirit, queer, or questioning) teens in high-schools. Over an 18 month period between December 2007 and June 2009, data was collected from 3700 high school students across Canada through an open-access online survey and controlled-access in-class sessions. The surveys asked students to provide their demographic information, their experiences facing homophobic and transphobic incidents and the institutional response to those experiences.
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Who Pays, When, and How? Government-Assisted Housing in the Northwest Territories and the Role of the Federal Government. By Nick Falvo. Taken from How Ottawa Spends, 2011-2012: Trimming Fat or Slicing Pork. Edited by G. Bruce Doern and Christopher Stoney.
Released in the 2011-2012 edition of How Ottawa Spends, this chapter provides an overview of the housing situation in the North West Territories (NWT) and the role of the federal government in administering housing in the region. Special consideration is given to the territory’s low-income population.
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Socioeconomic Status and the Incidence of Cardiac Arrest. Kyndaron Reinier, Elizabeth Thomas, Douglas L. Andrusiek, Tom P. Aufderheide, Steven C. Brooks, Clifton W. Callaway, Paul E. Pepe, Thomas D. Rea, Robert H. Schmicker, Christian Vaillancourt, Sumeet S. Chugh and the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium Investigators. Published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (Volume 183, Issue 15).
This report discusses the possible link between low socioeconomic status and an increased risk of suffering from cardiac arrest. Researchers collected data on out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrests that occurred in the individual’s home or a residential institution in seven North American cities (three of them being Canadian) from April 1st , 2006 to March 31st, 2007. Researchers found that in the Canadian sites, the incidence of sudden cardiac arrest is three times greater in the lowest quartile in median household income in comparison to those living in the highest quartile.
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