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Format: 2024

Wage Earner Protection Program [Employment and Social Development Canada, ESDC]

Publisher: 
Service Canada
Year of publication: 
2011

The Wage Earner Protection Program (WEPP) compensates eligible workers for unpaid wages, vacation, severance and termination pay they are owed when their employer declares bankruptcy or becomes subject to a receivership under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act.

Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships Program - Master's Scholarships [Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, SSHRC]

Publisher: 
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Year of publication: 
2012

The Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships Program - Master’s Scholarships provides funding to students who are pursuing full-time studies at the master's level in the social sciences and humanities field.

Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships (CGS) Program - Doctoral Scholarships [Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, SSHRC]

Publisher: 
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Year of publication: 
2012

The Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships (CGS) Program - Doctoral Scholarships provides scholarships to doctoral students who have achieved academic excellence in their undergraduate and graduate studies in the field of social sciences and humanities.

EDC International Business Scholarship Program [Service Canada]

Publisher: 
Service Canada
Year of publication: 
2012

Export Development Canada (EDC) created the International Business Scholarships because International trade is critical to Canada's economic prosperity and EDC is dedicated to helping the next generation of business leaders succeed.

Canadian Pension Plan Disability Vocational Rehabilitation Program [Government of Canada]

Publisher: 
Government of Canada
Year of publication: 
2012

The Canada Pension Plan Disability Vocational Rehabilitation Program offers vocational counselling, financial support for training, and job search services to recipients of Canada Pension Plan (CPP) Disability Benefits to help them return to work.

Degrees and Programs: Bachelor of Science Community Studies (BScCS) Integrative Science [Cape Breton University, CBU]

Publisher: 
Cape Breton University (CBU)
Year of publication: 
2012

Integrative Science brings together scientific knowledges and ways of knowing from Indigenous and Western world views to provide science education. This “bringing knowledges together” is known as Toqwa’tu’kl Kjijitaqnn in the Mi’kmaq language and as “Two-Eyed Seeing” in the words of Mi’kmaw Elder Albert Marshall. “Two-Eyed Seeing” is more than a label ...

Ethnographies of Selected Reserves [Cape Breton University, CBU]

Publisher: 
Cape Breton University (CBU)
Year of publication: 
2012

The following ethnographies were researched and compiled by Mi'kmaw students hired through Aboriginal L.I.N.K.S. Each is a compendium of information about Nova Scotia reserves with regard to physical description including size, location, and proximity to other towns or villages; what businesses and other concerns comprise the reserves, including private businesses and band operated businesses; services and facilities available in the communities; and the names of the people who make up the band councils, administration, and educational institutions.

Impact of Delgamuukw Guidelines in Atlantic Canada [Cape Breton University, CBU]

Publisher: 
Cape Breton University (CBU)
Year of publication: 
1999

In Delgamuukw v. British Columbia, the Supreme Court of Canada affirmed the inherent meaning of Aboriginal tenure (or title) and acknowledged its role in constitutional analysis. The message from the modern framers of the constitution of Canada and the Lamer Court is that Aboriginal law, tenure and rights as well as treaty rights constitute a distinct constitutional order in s. 35(1) of the Constitution Act, 1982, with its own implicate architecture, sources, traditions, and texts, that require constitutional equality with the other parts.

Historical Overview: Mi'kma'ki - Mi'kmaw Homeland [Cape Breton University, CBU]

Publisher: 
Cape Breton University (CBU)
Year of publication: 
2012

Mi'kmaw people depended on the land for their sustenance and as such were a nomadic people who lived and travelled throughout Mi'kma'ki according to the time of year and the seasonal pattern. Mi'kma'ki was divided into seven districts:Kespukwitk, Sipekni'katik, Eskikewa'kik, Unama'kik, Epekwitk aq Piktuk, Siknikt, and Kespek. Consequently, in an effort to maintain orderly conduct and good relationships between families, travel throughout Mi'kma'ki was based on respect for those whose hunting territory one may be travelling through.

University College Entrance Preparation Program (UCEP) [Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada]

Publisher: 
Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada
Year of publication: 
2012

The University College Entrance Preparation Program (UCEP) provides financial assistance for the equivalent of one year to eligible First Nation and Inuit students to enable them to attain the academic level required for admittance to post-secondary education programs.

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